October 2011 Issue - Costa Calida Chronicle
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<strong>Costa</strong><br />
Cálida<br />
<strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
The Longest Established hed<br />
FREE Magazine<br />
in Murcia<br />
www.costacalidachronicle.com<br />
Date: <strong>October</strong> <strong>2011</strong> <strong>Issue</strong>: 11 Volume: XI<br />
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by Drew Ryder<br />
Hello and welcome to a new column here in<br />
the <strong>Costa</strong> <strong>Calida</strong> <strong>Chronicle</strong>. In this column<br />
I shall be looking at different `alternative<br />
or complementary therapies´, with the<br />
object of making them easier to understand<br />
and why they could be of great benefi t to<br />
you.<br />
Firstly I would like to explain that calling<br />
these therapies `alternative´ or<br />
`complementary´ can be argued as<br />
misrepresentation. To explain; orthodox,<br />
or modern medicine as it is known, has<br />
its roots in these therapies, and whereas<br />
alternative or complementary therapies<br />
have their roots steeped in history and<br />
traditional folklore spanning every culture<br />
and country, (for example, refl exology<br />
goes back to 2500-2330 B.C. to Egyptian<br />
times with a pictographic evidence in the<br />
tomb of Ankmahor at Saqqara), modern<br />
medicine does not. Rather, it has evolved<br />
as a science and has become somewhat<br />
mechanical, looking at life as purely a<br />
chemical phenomenon.<br />
The human body has become to be<br />
regarded as a machine made up of a<br />
complex collection of parts. Whilst noone<br />
can deny that modern medicine and<br />
the modern technology that accompanies<br />
it has many benefi ts, it comes at a price.<br />
That is to say, the human element is often<br />
lost. The human body is far more than just<br />
a collection of working parts; it is a highly<br />
sophisticated organism instilled with the<br />
essential dimensions of body, mind and<br />
spirit. Most modern doctors are not always<br />
trained to recognize problems beyond the<br />
physical, whereas most therapists recognise<br />
that physical imbalance seldom occurs in<br />
isolation.<br />
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This raises the question, “What then is<br />
the answer?”<br />
Simply put, the answer is to use<br />
‘alternative or complementary’<br />
therapies in conjunction with modern<br />
science and medicine. Alternative and<br />
complementary therapies are safe, natural<br />
forms of treatment and as the aim with both<br />
alternative and orthodox medicine is to cure<br />
disease and be of assistance to the human<br />
race, the most positive prognosis would be<br />
that both recognise their place in health<br />
care and to work together for the benefi t of<br />
all. To quote a World health Organisation’s<br />
report: “For too long, traditional systems of<br />
medicine and `modern´ medicine have gone<br />
their separate ways in mutual antipathy. Yet<br />
are their goals not identical – to improve the<br />
health of mankind and thereby the quality of<br />
life? Only the blinkered mind would assume<br />
that each has nothing to do with the other.”<br />
On that note I would like to introduce<br />
you to Refl exology.<br />
Refl exology is a gentle art; a fascinating<br />
science and an extremely effective form<br />
of therapeutic foot massage. Not to<br />
be confused with basic foot massage,<br />
refl exology uses a specifi c pressure<br />
technique that works on precise points on<br />
the feet know as refl ex points. The feet<br />
represent a microcosm of the body; that<br />
is to say, they mirror the body and the<br />
workings of the body. This means that the<br />
whole of the body can be accessed. For<br />
example, the skeletal system, glands and<br />
organs etc., and Refl exology is therefore a<br />
non-invasive therapy.<br />
The body’s own healing potential is<br />
phenomenal; using a fi rm pressure that is<br />
applied to relevant refl ex areas using both<br />
fi nger and thumb techniques, physiological<br />
changes take place within the body<br />
stimulating this potential. The simplicity of<br />
Refl exology belies its effectiveness.<br />
Refl exology does not discriminate; there<br />
are no boundaries or limitations. People of<br />
any age, whether old or young, can obtain<br />
very positive benefi ts through Refl exology<br />
treatments. For example, older people<br />
with stiff joints and circulatory problems<br />
can benefi t greatly. Indeed, older people<br />
with no specifi c complaint can benefi t from<br />
a couple of courses of treatment per year<br />
to keep bodily functions toned and in good<br />
shape. It is a safe and effective treatment<br />
for all ages and ailments and works well<br />
alongside modern medicine.<br />
Refl exology can be used for a number of<br />
symptoms such as constant headaches,<br />
sinusitis, joint pain, moods swings, fatigue,<br />
stress, and constipation to name but a few.<br />
In next month’s article I shall explain how<br />
it works.<br />
In the meantime if you require any further<br />
information, or would like to book a<br />
treatment please call Drew on 968978876<br />
or 660326194 to arrange a confi dential<br />
consultation.<br />
This article has been written and compiled<br />
by Body and Mind Therapist, Drew Ryder<br />
BSc. Psychol Hons, IIHHT, MICHT, ThAT<br />
He also holds Diplomas in Aromatherapy,<br />
Swedish Massage, Anatomy and Physiology,<br />
Refl exology, Indian Head Massage and<br />
a Post Graduate Certifi cate in Hopi Ear<br />
Candling. He is also a Reiki Healer level 2<br />
and is currently working towards his Masters<br />
Certifi cate. Drew is available for private<br />
consultations on 968978876 or 660326194.<br />
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It is diffi cult to believe that our next<br />
issue will be the November one and it is<br />
time again to remember our Veterans<br />
and War Heroes. We will be once again<br />
offering our advertisers and readers the<br />
chance to contribute to this most worthy<br />
cause. If you are an advertiser and would<br />
like to have a poppy on your advert for a<br />
minimum donation of €5 please let us know<br />
as soon as possible. If you are a reader<br />
and would like to contribute the same we<br />
would be happy to list those individuals in<br />
a “thank you” page the following month.<br />
“The Ex-Servicemen’s Association<br />
of Mazarrón District is now in receipt<br />
of the materials for this year’s Poppy<br />
Appeal. Any radio stations, bars, shops,<br />
restaurants, etc. in the area who are willing<br />
to sell poppies, are requested to contact<br />
the Ex-Servicemen’s Association of<br />
Mazarrón District, preferably by email,<br />
at esamd_espana@yahoo.co.uk or Ian<br />
Wilson on 629818611 - stating quantity of<br />
collection tins required. They will also be<br />
looking for volunteers again this year for<br />
the distribution and collection of boxes,<br />
etc. Any volunteers please respond to the<br />
email address above.<br />
In order to ensure they have enough<br />
ancillaries, would members please let Ian<br />
know if they require any of the following:<br />
All-year-round boxes, Home plastic<br />
collection boxes, Stickers, Wooden crosses<br />
and Car poppies<br />
SPECIAL PAGES<br />
Camposol 76-80<br />
Energy Saving Week 51-54<br />
Mar Menor 25-31<br />
Northwest Murcia 59-63<br />
What’s On 90-93<br />
ADVERTORIAL<br />
ADS Locksmith 66<br />
Alternative/complementary Therapies 4<br />
Camping Pueblo 25<br />
Compusurf 106<br />
Face & Body 106<br />
Inheritance Tax 32<br />
Jane’s Salon 13<br />
The Beauty Palace 84<br />
ANIMALS<br />
Doggy Tips 35<br />
Dog Show 38<br />
CHARITY<br />
ADAPT 29<br />
Age Concern 38&50<br />
Andrea’s Charity 16<br />
Easy Horse Care 30<br />
Galgos del Sol 81<br />
GO maD 44<br />
Helping Hands 106<br />
JJ’s Puppies 40<br />
John Kemp’s Dogs 38<br />
MABS Mar Menor 28<br />
MABS Mazarrón 48<br />
MABS NW Murcia 60<br />
MAMAS 84<br />
MARA 59<br />
Noah’s ARC 70<br />
PALS 72<br />
Also, for those out in more remote locations<br />
- are there any shops, bars or restaurants<br />
that would be willing to have Poppies this<br />
year and may be also an ‘All-year-round’<br />
box - to be held until the Poppy Appeal<br />
commences the following year?<br />
Ex-Servicemen’s Association of<br />
Mazarrón District [ESAMD] is<br />
Registered in the Community of Murcia<br />
with the number 8.694-1a.<br />
We are pleased to welcome the<br />
following new advertisers:<br />
Yoga Classes in Bolnuevo<br />
Dragon Tours Travel Agency<br />
Drew Ryder- Mind and Body Therapist<br />
Easy Flat Packs (Ikea Delivery)<br />
Me & My Buddy Villa Care<br />
Restaurante Buen Descanso- Tallante<br />
Simple Telecoms<br />
Centro Ocio (Bowling Alley) Totana<br />
Welcome Back to:<br />
Kevin’s Aluminium Services<br />
Steve Maquina<br />
Colair<br />
The Steak-Out Restaurant<br />
The Care Agency<br />
UK Wool Shop<br />
Mar Menor Removals<br />
Delmonte Catotel<br />
from all at<br />
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Ma Millbank 87<br />
HEALTH<br />
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Ask Jennifer 42<br />
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LEISURE<br />
Art Exhibition 18<br />
Astrology 44<br />
Author Review 24<br />
Charities & Groups 67<br />
Gardening 88<br />
Los Canovas Players 46<br />
META 84<br />
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Wellspring<br />
SPORT<br />
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Nature<br />
ESpuñaTrails –<br />
Easy Social (NONsporty)<br />
Walks<br />
The next walk in<br />
<strong>October</strong> will, as<br />
usual, be a very easy<br />
walk – this is what<br />
NEST is known for<br />
and the reason it<br />
exists – EASY walks<br />
to enjoy the scenery<br />
and for friendly<br />
chat at the same<br />
time - we don’t do anything diffi cult - we like<br />
to relax without worrying about getting left<br />
behind, falling or perilous heights etc. That<br />
is NEST’s speciality! If you can walk around<br />
a market for a morning you can do a NEST<br />
walk, but please wear solid suitable footwear<br />
and bring some water in case you’re thirsty!<br />
It’s never long before we’re eating delicious<br />
food in a restaurant though! (Optional)<br />
Friday 28 th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2011</strong> – Amazing<br />
Moonscapes of Gebas<br />
Meet 10.30 a.m. in El Berro car park<br />
opposite Camping Sierra Espuña.<br />
El Berro is a tiny village about 25mins from<br />
Alhama de Murcia. If you haven’t been<br />
before, there are detailed directions on the<br />
NEST website at www.nestwalks.info<br />
This is a very easy short walk along dazzling<br />
white tracks that are literally out of this world!<br />
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You’ve probably never seen anything like it if<br />
you haven’t already been, and it really is like<br />
another planet. An ideal walk for a strong<br />
dose of refl ected sunshine and a big dose<br />
of Vitamin D to boost your immunity on this<br />
light-fi lled walk. Afterwards we’ll experience<br />
the pine-clad, green Sierra Espuña for our<br />
meal, where with luck we might see wild boar.<br />
It is always such a spectacular treat when they<br />
appear of their own free will, and they often<br />
do – but of course it can’t be guaranteed.<br />
The walk is 5€ and the meal is 9€ for a<br />
four course scrumptious meal which never<br />
disappoints and consists of a salad, starter,<br />
main course, dessert, a drink, and coffee!<br />
It’s a magical spot and always a lovely<br />
experience. The restaurant is optional but<br />
most people couldn’t be dragged away! So<br />
be sure to book your place early as places<br />
are limited.<br />
Either phone or text 679002147 with all<br />
your names and contact phone numbers,<br />
or email natureespunatrails@gmail.com<br />
(there are no hyphens in the email address<br />
if it accidentally gets hyphenated at the<br />
printers!)<br />
If you register as a member at the NEST<br />
website you’ll be fi rst to get news as it<br />
happens with new walks and any changes -<br />
go to http://www.nestwalks.info You’ll<br />
also fi nd videos, information on El Berro &<br />
Sierra Espuña and the wildlife.<br />
Dogs are very welcome and much-loved on<br />
NEST walks - on leads under control, to avoid<br />
tripping people up and also to keep them<br />
away from local herds of goats and sheep.<br />
Please check in advance what the restaurant<br />
arrangements are regarding where to put<br />
your dogs. On this occasion in <strong>October</strong>, we<br />
will probably be outside eating where dogs<br />
are acceptable, with plenty of shade nearby<br />
for cars. Looking forward to seeing you all,<br />
with or without dogs!<br />
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It’s time for change… it’s time to move<br />
on…. There are occasions in our lives when<br />
we know that we, circumstances, or both,<br />
have to change so that we are able to<br />
fulfi l our life’s destiny; but change is hard<br />
unless it is forced upon us and we have no<br />
other options.<br />
Wellspring Victory Church has reached<br />
that place of change and we will be moving<br />
from Bolnuevo to our amazing new building<br />
in Calle Madrid, Puerto de Mazarrón. We<br />
have had fi ve wonderful years in our<br />
building in Bolnuevo and could so easily<br />
have stayed put, continued doing Church<br />
and happily doing what we have always<br />
done… we have experienced good times,<br />
diffi cult times and everything in between.<br />
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Around a year ago we sensed that time<br />
in Bolnuevo was going to be short and<br />
that we would have to move on to where<br />
several members of our congregation<br />
felt our ministry to people would develop<br />
into what God wanted it to be. Our main<br />
ministry would be outside of the ‘box’<br />
that Church can sometimes become and<br />
we needed a place where we could open<br />
up our doors to the unloved, the unlovely<br />
and the hurting people around our area;<br />
Church is so exciting when things are not<br />
rigid and expected.<br />
I have heard the following said many<br />
times and it is so true. ‘If you keep on<br />
doing what you have always done you<br />
will keep on getting what you have<br />
always got’. If we want things to change<br />
in our life, we have to do something to<br />
bring about that change. If you are fed up<br />
with the way things are in your life, can I<br />
encourage you to do something about it?<br />
You have to make a decision that tomorrow<br />
will be different and do something different<br />
tomorrow. If you don’t, things will remain<br />
the same… and they don’t have to.<br />
As I wrote earlier, it would have been so<br />
easy to have stayed put and weathered out<br />
the economic situation here in Spain, but<br />
this was living in our comfort zone and not<br />
where God wanted us to be. He wanted us<br />
to be stretched so our faith in Him would<br />
grow and this has happened in the lives of<br />
many people. In Bible times someone had<br />
to step out in faith before the answer was<br />
revealed and it is no different today for all<br />
of us. We dipped our sandal in the ocean of<br />
the unknown, the diffi cult, the challenging<br />
and the downright impossible and God has<br />
come through for us… big time!<br />
It has thrilled my heart to see people work<br />
so hard to make this change happen.<br />
Some who do not even attend Wellspring<br />
Church have spent many hours working<br />
on the new building and fi nances have<br />
come miraculously to enable the work<br />
to be completed… thank you so much to<br />
everyone who has helped and prayed for<br />
us.<br />
After two and a half years of form-fi lling and<br />
waiting, we have received our registration<br />
for Victory Churches of Spain… it has<br />
come just at the right time as we move<br />
into Puerto de Mazarrón and start the next<br />
phase of our church life here on the <strong>Costa</strong><br />
Cálida.<br />
On the weekend of 7 th – 9 th <strong>October</strong> we will<br />
be hosting the very fi rst Victory Churches<br />
European Conference at the Hotel Playa<br />
Grande and have a speaker fl ying in from<br />
Toronto, Canada. Pastor Brad Dewar will<br />
be speaking on Church growth and how we<br />
as individuals can infl uence that... as we<br />
grow in God… so the Church grows.<br />
On Wednesday 12 th <strong>October</strong> at 4pm we are<br />
holding a special service and dedicating<br />
our new building to the Lord’s work… All<br />
in all, this has been a very special year for<br />
our Church, and I believe it is just the start<br />
of exciting times ahead as we start doing<br />
things in the town that we have never<br />
done before. I am convinced that the cork<br />
has come out of the bottle for us this year<br />
because we were willing to make a change<br />
and be different. We want to be known<br />
as the Church that shows everyone ‘In<br />
your face grace’… because that is exactly<br />
what Jesus did and He offers that grace<br />
to everyone right now. Start fulfi lling your<br />
destiny now by making a decision that<br />
your life can change for the better.<br />
God bless you. [Pastor Andrew]<br />
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Hi Shannon here again and I am going to<br />
tell you about our trip to Sierra Nevada. It<br />
was amazing! The scenery was beautiful.<br />
There were ski slopes, clothes shops, pubs,<br />
bars and lots more to look at. I bought a<br />
small key-ring of a girl holding skis saying<br />
‘Demon days’ and I bought Mum one with<br />
Hello, Connor here with<br />
more exciting news<br />
from Los Almagros for<br />
you! I know Nathan<br />
and Shannon have<br />
mentioned our holiday<br />
with Brian and Maureen<br />
and mentioned the trip<br />
up Sierra Nevada, so I<br />
thought I would tell you<br />
in detail the actual drive<br />
there. We did a lot of<br />
stuff while we were<br />
away, but the journey<br />
there was very eventful.<br />
We went to a camp site called Los Lomas<br />
and it was not too far from the mountain<br />
that we went up, but we thought by looking<br />
at the map and checking on the GPS that it<br />
would take us about 4 hours to get there,<br />
even going the scenic route that Brian had<br />
found for us. We packed up and set off. We<br />
Hi everyone, Nathan here again and I am<br />
going to tell you about one of the many<br />
exciting things we did over the holidays.<br />
We went away in our caravan and tents to<br />
Sierra Ne vada and we went with Brian and<br />
Maureen.. otherwise called Grumps and<br />
Nana Mo! They have their own caravan.<br />
They were a great help because as we<br />
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her initial on it and a map of the area. We<br />
checked the price for a cable car trip up<br />
the snowy mountains and as it was rather<br />
cheap for the 7 of us we decided to go. I<br />
am 13 years old now and they classed me<br />
as an adult! Brian said I must be a Young<br />
irresponsible adult! We trekked up to the<br />
cable cars and they chugged away.<br />
It was amazing to see all the snow. Nathan<br />
did not believe it was snow until he stood in<br />
it and his feet got cold! I put some snow<br />
down Dad’s back so he chased me, caught<br />
me, picked me up and dropped me in the<br />
snow. It was freezing! We met two men<br />
from Mexico who asked us if we would take<br />
their photograph for them and we had a bit<br />
of a chat with them about the snow and the<br />
sun being there at the same time. After<br />
we had numbed our fi ngers and soaked our<br />
clothes with snow, we descended down the<br />
mountain again for a well earned ice cream<br />
each. It was awesome to sit so high on a<br />
went in the front<br />
because as Brian<br />
said we would be<br />
going slower than<br />
him and he could<br />
keep an eye on<br />
us to make sure<br />
we did not get<br />
lost! Funny!<br />
After driving for<br />
about an hour we<br />
started to climb<br />
and soon the<br />
car overheated.<br />
We had to stop<br />
at the side of the road to allow the car to<br />
cool down and for Dad to fi nd out what was<br />
wrong and fi x it! Brian and Maureen were<br />
nowhere to be seen and we wondered if<br />
they had got lost! The car cooled down and<br />
Dad discovered that it had a leaking hose<br />
which he could replace anyway. Mum was<br />
drove past all the great views and wonderful<br />
scenery, up all the steep hills and down<br />
again, our car kept over heating! We had<br />
to keep stopping and Grumps and Nana Mo<br />
kept an eye on us and the traffi c while Dad<br />
replaced the hoses and fi lled up with water<br />
again! It took us ages to get to the camp<br />
site, 8 hours instead of 4 hours! We just<br />
made it before the car lost all its water again<br />
and we managed to set up camp then Dad<br />
and Brian went in search of car parts so that<br />
Dad could fi x the car ready for our drive up<br />
to the top of Sierra Nevada – leaving the<br />
two caravans on the camp site. There was<br />
a basketball pitch on the site so Connor and<br />
I went to play and met up with some other<br />
children from Spain, France and England.<br />
We all played together, it was great fun.<br />
Dad came to join us so we could have equal<br />
numbers. The next day we went up to<br />
the top of Sierra Nevada. We went up in<br />
the cable cars and chair lifts. At the top we<br />
found snow and had snowball fi ghts! We<br />
were all in shorts and Tee shirts. It was<br />
chair swinging away in the gentle breeze<br />
surveying all the scenery. At the base of the<br />
mountain it was so warm that we quickly<br />
dried off so we could sit and have our picnic<br />
in comfort. An amazing day altogether.<br />
concerned that maybe Brian and Maureen<br />
had broken down as well and were stuck.<br />
However, it was not long before we saw<br />
them coming up the road towards us. The<br />
funny thing was that they had stopped for a<br />
cup of coffee because Maureen needed one<br />
and still caught us up! It is always good to<br />
laugh! After we fi lled our car with water<br />
again and had a bit of lunch we set off once<br />
more. Unfortunately we overheated all the<br />
way there and we even wondered if we<br />
would ever reach Los Lomas. Dad was really<br />
cool, he managed to fi x the car and keep it<br />
safe right up until the camp site entrance..<br />
it lost all its water at the gate so we had to<br />
coast into our parking bay. We made it and<br />
Dad and Brian went into the town to buy<br />
some spare parts so we could drive home<br />
at the end of the holiday. We did that fi ne.<br />
funny but great fun. I had never been in<br />
a cable car or a chair lift before and it was<br />
awesome. The views from the top were<br />
really good. We did a load of other stuff<br />
with Brian and Maureen, but there is not<br />
room here and I think Shannon and Connor<br />
are going to tell you about those anyway.<br />
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By Sara Millbank<br />
Like all ailments, it’s often the unknown that<br />
worries us more than the actual problem.<br />
Arthritis is one of those problems and while<br />
it affects almost 10% of the population, how<br />
much do you know about it? Usually old<br />
people get it and isn’t it something to do with<br />
your joints and bones?<br />
The Arthritis Association has set aside a<br />
day in <strong>October</strong> to try and increase people’s<br />
awareness and knowledge of this painful<br />
problem. So what better excuse to look at<br />
what I can expect in the next few years!<br />
Symptoms of Arthritis<br />
The main symptoms are stiffness, pain and<br />
restricted movement. Some people may only<br />
experience slight stiffness, while others have<br />
grating joints, bone growth or even misaligned<br />
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joints. The pain and loss of movement tends<br />
to get worse gradually and is linked to the use<br />
of the joints with Arthritis.<br />
As the swelling and painful joints worsen,<br />
sufferers can experience a general feeling of<br />
unwell. Long term Arthritis progresses into<br />
reduced mobility, making every day tasks<br />
very diffi cult. Other organs can be affected<br />
and infl ammation can sometimes be found<br />
in the patient’s eyes and lungs. Living with<br />
a degenerative disease can also affect your<br />
mental health.<br />
Causes<br />
Although causes are not fully known, it is<br />
felt that some people are genetically more<br />
prone than others to this disease. However, it<br />
has been proven that obesity does put extra<br />
strain on the joints and can lead to stress<br />
and injury. Jobs or activities that involve<br />
repetitive movements of a particular joint can<br />
cause Arthritis or a previous damage such<br />
as a sports injury. Rheumatoid Arthritis,<br />
however, is caused by a fault in the immune<br />
system which makes the body attack its own<br />
tissues. It is also thought that this is passed<br />
down from family members.<br />
Types of Arthritis<br />
The two most common types of arthritis are<br />
Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid. Other<br />
forms of Arthritis are gout, ankylosing<br />
spondylitis, juvenile, psoriatic, systemic lupus<br />
erythematosus and septic. Osteoarthritis<br />
often develops in people between 40 and<br />
60 years of age with around 12% of people<br />
over 65 affected by the condition. It begins<br />
very slowly with pain, stiffness and restricted<br />
movement affecting the joints. The pain and<br />
loss of movement tends to worsen as the<br />
day progresses as the joints are used more.<br />
Rheumatoid affects around 4% of us and<br />
often starts between 30 and 50 years of age.<br />
Even more worrying is the fact that women<br />
are three times more likely to be affected<br />
than men. Damp and cold weather may<br />
aggravate the symptoms and can sometimes<br />
leave people feeling tired and unwell.<br />
Prevention<br />
Controlling your weight may help to ease<br />
pressure on the joints. However, it is not true<br />
that avoiding exercise will help to reduce<br />
joint problems in later life. Exercise such<br />
as walking will help to prevent Arthritis by<br />
increasing the strength of the muscles that<br />
support your joints. Good posture can assist<br />
the strengthening of healthy joint structures.<br />
Diagnosis<br />
Arthritis is usually diagnosed by the<br />
symptoms and a physical examination.<br />
Related factors, such as your occupation,<br />
activities and medical history of your family<br />
are taken into consideration. An x-ray is<br />
sometimes used to identify Osteoarthritis as<br />
it can highlight the narrowed space between<br />
the bones in a joint. An x-ray can also show<br />
whether there is any calcifi cation, which is<br />
where calcium builds up in the body.<br />
Treatment<br />
Individual treatment and management advice<br />
is usually given as everyone experiences<br />
Arthritis in a different way. Treatment should<br />
be started as soon as possible in order to<br />
reduce further damage. Medicines prescribed<br />
can include analgesics such as Paracetamol<br />
for the pain and anti-infl ammatory drugs<br />
such as Ibuprofen to help to reduce swelling.<br />
It is very important to make your GP aware<br />
of any history of high blood pressure, high<br />
cholesterol and if you smoke.<br />
Massage, hydrotherapy and acupuncture<br />
have all been credited with help Arthritis as<br />
well as reducing weight, stopping smoking<br />
and increasing non-compact exercise like<br />
swimming. Nutritional supplements such as<br />
glucosamine sulphate and fi sh oils increased<br />
in the diet of sufferers have also shown great<br />
results.<br />
To avoid Arthritis or stop it getting worse,<br />
the action is simple as far as I can see. Lose<br />
weight, stop smoking, walk more and eat<br />
more fi sh oil. Easy!<br />
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Photos<br />
copyright:<br />
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Photography<br />
A cut above the<br />
rest fashion show<br />
held at the Playasol<br />
Hotel in Bolnuevo<br />
by Jane’s Salon<br />
was a huge success<br />
and we would like to<br />
say a big thank you<br />
to all who took part.<br />
The salon provided a full make-over to all<br />
the models including hair colouring, makeup<br />
and nails and they shone on the catwalk,<br />
with clothes from Jay’s Fashions and Bezza<br />
Boutique, modelling a wide variety of UK<br />
brand clothes and jewellery, and bags and<br />
accessories provided by Bobby Dazzler and<br />
Irene’s Footwear.<br />
The teens stood out<br />
from the crowd in<br />
their modern makeup<br />
and funky hair<br />
styles, with Egyptian<br />
cotton towels from<br />
Yorkshire Linen,<br />
making it a fashion<br />
show to remember.<br />
Barbara from<br />
Jane’s Salon not<br />
only modelled,<br />
but also made a<br />
wedding outfi t<br />
out of Yorkshire<br />
Linen’s drapes<br />
and used her<br />
creative talent on<br />
the models’ hair.<br />
Intricate nail art designs were done by<br />
Jenny and Lyndsay proved her fashion<br />
shoot make-up did the trick.<br />
Trudy from CC Radio stole the show with<br />
her role as MC and Mark the Spark &<br />
Misty kept the music going. Vocalist Tori<br />
entertained the crowd with her amazing<br />
voice and is defi nitely one to watch out for.<br />
Look forward to next year’s show because<br />
this year’s was the best around!<br />
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Long Term Rentals<br />
As ever, September sees the majority of<br />
the holidaymakers leaving from our villas,<br />
although this year we do seem to have<br />
an extended summer season right into<br />
<strong>October</strong>! As ever, with autumn approaching,<br />
we tend to get a surge in clients looking for<br />
longer term rentals or winter lets of a longer<br />
duration. This year is no exception, and we<br />
currently have several clients looking for<br />
longer term rental properties, with a mix<br />
of Spanish, UK and Dutch clients for <strong>2011</strong>-<br />
2012. Country homes remain popular, and<br />
get snapped up by the dog-loving ex-pat<br />
community, but this year we are seeing a<br />
return of younger clients, taking the fi rst<br />
step to relocating to the area by renting for 3<br />
to 6 months for a “reality check”. For young<br />
families and clients who need to work, this is<br />
a sensible step to take, and the “try before<br />
you buy” approach is once more increasing<br />
in popularity.<br />
To successfully let your property, you need<br />
to make sure that you can adapt to being a<br />
landlord, remembering that even the best<br />
tenants who pay rent and bills on time will<br />
at times test your patience, and that of your<br />
agent, with their mishaps and demands. Be<br />
realistic, and be prepared to give and take<br />
a little and the steady income you can<br />
generate will more than compensate for the<br />
inevitable wear and tear on the property.<br />
Properties close to amenities and by the<br />
sea remain popular, and we are always<br />
short of good quality homes on Camposol,<br />
particularly larger villas. <strong>2011</strong> was a great<br />
year for our business, and despite the tough<br />
economic times, we are looking forward<br />
to similar growth across our core areas in<br />
2012.<br />
Liz Edmiston runs OwnersAway Property<br />
Rentals & Management offering a full<br />
range of rental management services to<br />
property owners on the <strong>Costa</strong> Calída. Contact<br />
Liz on 691977107 or info@ownersaway.com<br />
for more information or visit the website<br />
www.ownersaway.com to view the full<br />
range of properties and services.<br />
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An Evangelical, lively and<br />
friendly place to discover the<br />
love of Jesus.<br />
In preparation for our Annual Garden<br />
Party in aid of Operation Smile we were<br />
involved in putting together a number of<br />
puzzles and quizzes. We know that people<br />
will either love them or hate them and we<br />
always make it clear that participating in<br />
any of these is voluntary as we want people<br />
to enjoy themselves. As we go through<br />
life the circumstances and experiences<br />
we go through can often seem puzzling<br />
and confusing. Recently remembering the<br />
tragic day of 9/11 ten years ago it is clear<br />
that people are puzzled and confused by<br />
these and similar events. How can humans<br />
do this to each other? What depths of<br />
hatred can we stoop to? Where was God<br />
in all of this? We cannot sort this kind of<br />
puzzle out on our own any more than the<br />
governments of the world are going to be<br />
able to sort the money problem out! Watch<br />
and see.<br />
God is not going to chuck in a solution<br />
either. First of all we are not generally<br />
asking Him and secondly we think we<br />
are clever enough to get by on our own.<br />
No there are many puzzles in life which<br />
ultimately we don’t have solutions to.<br />
Really underneath our questions we are<br />
looking for peace…something which makes<br />
sense out of it all. Jesus said in John’s<br />
gospel Chpt 14v27…’I am leaving you with<br />
a gift-peace of mind and heart. And the<br />
peace I give isn’t like the peace the world<br />
gives. So don’t be troubled or afraid’<br />
Our Sunday morning service is at the<br />
Community Centre on Camposol ‘B’ starts<br />
at 10.30am each week and offers a variety<br />
of music and styles, both traditional and<br />
modern. You are invited to join us.<br />
Have you visited our shop in Fuente Alamo de<br />
Murcia? We have decided that we will sell all<br />
our clothing for one price per piece - 1€! That’s<br />
right! All our clothing, some of which is actually<br />
designer wear, is to be sold at 1€ per item.<br />
We have a wide variety of clothes, ‘T’ shirts,<br />
shirts, trousers and shorts for the men and<br />
tops, skirts, shorts and even dresses for the<br />
women. Shoes and bags are also priced at 1€.<br />
No, this is not a “fi re sale” this is a clothing only<br />
sale. We also have bric-a-brac, and furniture,<br />
at very competitive prices. If you are looking<br />
for a piece of furniture you can ring and fi nd<br />
out if we have it on 634336067 from 10.30am<br />
to 2.30pm Monday to Saturday. Sorry but the<br />
staff insists on a day off every Sunday.<br />
We rescued two boys this last month; Lucky<br />
and Joel. Joel had a few tics and was a little<br />
lethargic, but his brother Lucky was a total<br />
mess. His ears were very swollen and the skin<br />
could not be seen for the tics. On checking<br />
his body it was found that he had literally<br />
thousands of them. He could not walk properly<br />
and when he was seen by the vet he was given<br />
an immediate blood transfusion. His blood<br />
was like coloured water. That was a couple of<br />
weeks ago and now he is well on the mend,<br />
but - there’s always a ‘but’ - the total cost of his<br />
treatment was €235, well above what we can<br />
afford. Therefore we are starting a small appeal<br />
to raise the money for the treatment, please<br />
call me for details, thank you.<br />
Take a look at the photo of Lucky.<br />
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Consistoriales in Mazarrón<br />
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Successful<br />
Opening<br />
of the Art<br />
Exhibitions<br />
of a Dutch<br />
and a<br />
British<br />
artist in<br />
the Casas<br />
The opening of the art exhibitions in<br />
the Casas Consistoriales on Friday, 9 th<br />
September was a great success. Almost<br />
100 people visited the inauguration. There<br />
was a great mixture of people of local<br />
Spanish alongside many Dutch and British.<br />
The colourful works of Ans van der Linden<br />
and the detailed works of Tina Watts were<br />
very well<br />
received.<br />
The event<br />
was featured<br />
on two<br />
regional<br />
Spanish TV<br />
channels as<br />
well as in the<br />
local papers.<br />
The exhibitions run till 7 <strong>October</strong>. Monday<br />
to Friday from 10.00am to 2.00pm and on<br />
selected Saturday mornings.<br />
Is celebrated every Saturday at the Catholic<br />
chapel at Pastrana, approximately 10km from<br />
Mazarrón<br />
Schedule of Masses:<br />
Saturday at 4:30pm<br />
Schedule of Confession:<br />
Saturday from 3:45-4:25pm also on request<br />
Catechism for Adults and Bible Study:<br />
Every Sunday at 4:30pm<br />
Fr. Carlos Prats mobile 628 824 555<br />
Fr. Octavio Carpena mobile 676 219 445<br />
www.pastranaonline.com<br />
The seven words of Jesus on the Cross<br />
Not long ago we were retracing the Passion,<br />
Crucifi xion, Death and Resurrection of<br />
Jesus. As recorded in the Gospels, Jesus<br />
Christ was mocked, scorned and tortured in<br />
the praetorium. He carried his cross up to<br />
Calvary, nailed to the Cross, and suffered and<br />
indescribable end. One may meditate on the<br />
Passion of Christ by refl ecting on his Seven<br />
Words on the Cross.<br />
“Father, forgive them, for they do not<br />
know what they do”<br />
Jesus says this fi rst word just after he was<br />
crucifi ed (Luke 23:24). At the height of his<br />
physical suffering, his Divining love prevails<br />
and He asks His Father to forgive his enemies.<br />
“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with<br />
me in Paradise” Luke (23:43)<br />
The criminal on Jesus right asks, “Jesus,<br />
remember me when you come into your<br />
kingdom” Luke (23:42)<br />
“Jesus said to his Mother, this is your<br />
son”.<br />
Then he said to the disciple: “This is your<br />
Mother” John (19:26-27)<br />
Hid third word is addressed to Mary, his Mother<br />
and John, the only eye-witness of the Gospel<br />
writers. Jesus is concerned about taking care<br />
of his Mother and Jesus looks to John to care<br />
for her.<br />
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken<br />
me?” Mathew (27:46)<br />
One is struck by the anguished tone of this<br />
expression. This cry is from the painful heart of<br />
the human Jesus who must feel abandoned by<br />
His Father and the Holy Spirit, not to mention<br />
his earthly companions the Apostles.<br />
“I thirst” John 19:28<br />
This is His only human expression of His<br />
physical suffering. Jesus is now in shock.<br />
When Jesus had received the wine, he<br />
said, “It is fi nished”. John (19:30)<br />
The sixth word is Jesus’ recognition that his<br />
suffering is over and his task is completed.<br />
Jesus was obedient to<br />
the Father and gave<br />
his love for mankind<br />
by redeeming us with<br />
His death on the cross.<br />
“Father, into your<br />
hands I commend<br />
my spirit” Luke<br />
(23:46)<br />
The last word is<br />
directed to the Father<br />
in heaven, just before<br />
He dies.<br />
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Bob Marley<br />
was born in<br />
the village<br />
of Nine Mile<br />
in Saint<br />
Ann Parish,<br />
Jamaica as<br />
Nesta Robert<br />
Marley. A<br />
Jamaican<br />
passport offi cial would later swap his fi rst<br />
and middle names. Marley became friends<br />
with Neville “Bunny” Livingston (later known<br />
as Bunny Wailer), with whom he started to<br />
play music. He left school at the age of 14 to<br />
make music with Joe Higgs, a local singer and<br />
devout Rastafari. At a jam session with Higgs<br />
and Livingston, Marley met Peter McIntosh<br />
(later known as Peter Tosh), who had similar<br />
musical ambitions. In 1962, Marley recorded<br />
his fi rst two singles, “Judge Not” and “One<br />
Cup of Coffee”, with local music producer<br />
Leslie Kong. These songs, released on the<br />
Beverley’s label under the pseudonym of<br />
Bobby Martell, attracted little attention. The<br />
songs were later re-released on the box set<br />
Songs of Freedom, a posthumous collection<br />
of Marley’s work.<br />
In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer,<br />
Peter Tosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley<br />
Kelso, and Cherry Smith formed a ska and<br />
rock steady group, calling themselves “The<br />
Teenagers”. They later changed their name<br />
to “The Wailing Rudeboys”, then to “The<br />
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Wailing Wailers”, at which point they were<br />
discovered by record producer Coxsone Dodd.<br />
They fi nally changed the bands name to The<br />
Wailers. By 1966, Braithwaite, Kelso, and<br />
Smith had left The Wailers, leaving the core<br />
trio of Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, and<br />
Peter Tosh. In 1972, The Wailers entered<br />
into an ill-fated deal with CBS Records and<br />
embarked on a tour with American soul singer<br />
Johnny Nash. Broke, The Wailers became<br />
stranded in London. Marley turned up at<br />
Island Records founder and producer Chris<br />
Blackwell’s London offi ce, and asked him<br />
to advance the cost of a new single. Since<br />
Jimmy Cliff, Island’s top reggae star, had<br />
recently left the label, Blackwell was primed<br />
for a replacement. In Marley, Blackwell<br />
recognized the elements needed to snare<br />
the rock audience: “I was dealing with rock<br />
music, which was really rebel music. I felt that<br />
would really be the way to break Jamaican<br />
music. But you needed someone who could<br />
be that image. When Bob walked in he really<br />
was that image. Blackwell told Marley he<br />
wanted The Wailers to record a complete<br />
album (essentially unheard of at the time).<br />
When Marley told him it would take between<br />
£3,000 and £4,000, Blackwell trusted him<br />
with the greater sum. Despite their “rude<br />
boy” reputation, The Wailers returned to<br />
Kingston and honored the deal, delivering the<br />
album “Catch a Fire”.<br />
The Wailers’ fi rst major label album, “Catch<br />
a Fire” was released worldwide in April 1973,<br />
packaged like a rock record with a unique Zippo<br />
lighter lift-top. Initially selling 14,000 copies,<br />
it didn’t make Marley a star, but received a<br />
positive critical reception It was followed later<br />
that year by “Burnin’”, which included the<br />
standout songs “Get Up, Stand Up”, and<br />
“I Shot the Sheriff”, which appealed to<br />
the ear of Eric Clapton. He recorded a cover<br />
of the track in 1974 which became a huge<br />
American hit, raising Marley’s international<br />
profi le. Many Jamaicans were not keen on the<br />
new “improved” reggae sound on “Catch A<br />
Fire”, but the Trenchtown style of “Burnin’”<br />
found fans across both reggae and rock<br />
audiences. The Wailers were scheduled to<br />
open 17 shows for the number one black act<br />
in the States, Sly and the Family Stone.<br />
After 4 shows, the band was fi red because<br />
they were more popular than the acts they<br />
were opening for. The Wailers broke up in<br />
1974 with each of the three main members<br />
pursuing solo careers. Despite the break-up,<br />
Marley continued recording as Bob Marley<br />
& The Wailers. In 1975, Marley had his<br />
international breakthrough with his fi rst hit<br />
outside Jamaica, “No Woman, No Cry”, from<br />
the “Natty Dread” album. This was followed<br />
by his breakthrough album in the United<br />
States, “Rastaman Vibration” (1976),<br />
which spent four weeks on the Billboard Hot<br />
100. In December 1976, two days before<br />
“Smile Jamaica”, a free concert organized by<br />
the Jamaican Prime Minister, Michael Manley<br />
in an attempt to ease tension between two<br />
warring political groups, Marley, his wife,<br />
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and manager Don Taylor were wounded in an<br />
assault by unknown gunmen inside Marley’s<br />
home. Taylor and Marley’s wife sustained<br />
serious injuries, but later made full recoveries.<br />
Bob Marley received minor wounds in the<br />
chest and arm. The shooting was thought<br />
to have been politically motivated, as many<br />
felt the concert was really a support rally for<br />
Manley. Nonetheless, the concert proceeded,<br />
and an injured Marley performed as<br />
scheduled, two days after the attempt. When<br />
asked why, Marley responded, “The people<br />
who are trying to make this world worse<br />
aren’t taking a day off. How can I?” (Marley<br />
left Jamaica at the end of 1976, and after a<br />
month-long “recovery and writing” sojourn<br />
at the site of Chris Blackwell’s Compass<br />
Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas, arrived in<br />
England, where he spent two years in selfimposed<br />
exile. Whilst there he recorded the<br />
albums “Exodus” and “Kaya”. “Exodus”<br />
stayed on the British album charts for 56<br />
consecutive weeks. It included four UK hit<br />
singles: “Exodus”, “Waiting in Vain”,<br />
“Jamming”, and “One Love” (a rendition<br />
of Curtis Mayfi eld’s hit, “People Get Ready”).<br />
During his time in London, he was arrested<br />
and received a conviction for possession<br />
of a small quantity of cannabis. In 1978,<br />
Marley returned to Jamaica and performed at<br />
another political concert, the One Love Peace<br />
Concert, again in an effort to calm warring<br />
parties. Near the end of the performance, by<br />
Marley’s request, Michael Manley (leader of<br />
then-ruling People’s National Party) and his<br />
political rival Edward Seaga (leader of the<br />
opposing Jamaica Labour Party), joined each<br />
other on stage and shook hands, something<br />
no one thought they would ever see.<br />
Under the name Bob Marley and the<br />
Wailers eleven albums were released,<br />
four live albums and seven studio albums.<br />
The releases included “Babylon by Bus”,<br />
a double live album with thirteen tracks,<br />
were released in 1978 and received critical<br />
acclaim. This album, and specifi cally the<br />
fi nal track “Jamming” with the audience in<br />
a frenzy, captured the intensity of Marley’s<br />
live performances. “Survival”, a defi ant<br />
and politically charged album, was released<br />
in 1979. Tracks such as “Zimbabwe”,<br />
“Africa Unite”, “Wake Up and Live”, and<br />
“Survival” refl ected Marley’s support for<br />
the struggles of Africans. His appearance at<br />
the Amandla Festival in Boston in July 1979<br />
showed his strong opposition to South African<br />
apartheid, which he already had shown in his<br />
song “War” in 1976. In early 1980, he was<br />
invited to perform at the 17 April celebration<br />
of Zimbabwe’s Independence Day. “Uprising”<br />
(1980) was Bob Marley’s fi nal studio album,<br />
and is one of his most religious productions; it<br />
includes “Redemption Song” and “Forever<br />
Loving Jah”.”Confrontation”, released<br />
posthumously in 1983, contained unreleased<br />
material recorded during Marley’s lifetime,<br />
including the hit “Buffalo Soldier” and new<br />
mixes of singles previously only available in<br />
Jamaica.<br />
In July 1977, Marley was found to have a<br />
type of malignant melanoma under the nail of<br />
one of his toes. Contrary to urban legend, this<br />
lesion was not primarily caused by an injury<br />
during a soccer match in that year, but was<br />
instead a symptom of the already existing<br />
cancer. Marley turned down doctors’ advice<br />
to have his toe amputated, citing his religious<br />
beliefs . Despite his illness, he continued<br />
touring and was in the process of scheduling<br />
a world tour in 1980. The intention was for<br />
“Inner Circle” to be his opening act on the<br />
tour but after their lead singer Jacob Miller<br />
died in Jamaica in March 1980 after returning<br />
from a scouting mission in Brazil this was no<br />
longer mentioned. The album “Uprising”<br />
was released in May 1980 (produced by Chris<br />
Blackwell), on which “Redemption Song” is<br />
particularly considered to be about Marley<br />
coming to terms with his mortality. The band<br />
completed a major tour of Europe, where they<br />
played their biggest concert, to a hundred<br />
thousand people in Milan. After the tour<br />
Marley went to America, where he performed<br />
two shows at Madison Square Garden as part<br />
of the Uprising Tour. Shortly afterwards,<br />
his health deteriorated and he became very<br />
ill; the cancer had spread throughout his<br />
body. The rest of the tour was cancelled and<br />
Marley sought treatment at the Bavarian<br />
clinic of Josef Issels, where he received a<br />
controversial type of cancer therapy partly<br />
based on avoidance of certain foods, drinks,<br />
and other substances. After fi ghting the<br />
cancer without success for eight months,<br />
Marley boarded a plane for his home in<br />
Jamaica. While fl ying home from Germany to<br />
Jamaica, in acceptance that he was going to<br />
die, Marley’s vital functions worsened. After<br />
landing in Miami, Florida, he was taken to the<br />
hospital for immediate medical attention. He<br />
died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami<br />
(now University of Miami Hospital) on the<br />
morning of 11 May 1981, at the age of 36.<br />
The spread of melanoma to his lungs and<br />
brain caused his death. His fi nal words to his<br />
son Ziggy were “Money can’t buy life”. Marley<br />
received a state funeral in Jamaica on 21 May<br />
1981, which combined elements of Ethiopian<br />
Orthodoxy and Rastafarian tradition. He was<br />
buried in a chapel near his birthplace with his<br />
red Gibson Les Paul (some accounts say it was<br />
a Fender Stratocaster).<br />
Personally I remember seeing Bob Marley at<br />
The Lyceum in London. I knew little of Reggae<br />
and nothing about Marley. I have seen many<br />
artists and groups live and I can honestly<br />
say his concert was one of the best I have<br />
ever been to. The charisma, the power and<br />
of course the music of Bob Marley will stand<br />
tall for as long as music is listened to truly a<br />
legend in all sense of the word.<br />
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Where did the summer go?<br />
We have friends here, from my home<br />
town of Southampton, for 2 months<br />
renting on Mazarrón Country Club so this<br />
is going to be a good couple of months<br />
for Dave & I – hangovers, nooooo, good<br />
fun, yeeees!<br />
So back to work, what have we seen over<br />
the summer period? Well, the summer<br />
months haven’t be kind to the industry,<br />
reports of the market going up, down and<br />
stagnating. I don’t think anyone really<br />
can predict what is going to happen in the<br />
last quarter. One thing for sure is that,<br />
in August we had the largest number of<br />
enquiries since February <strong>2011</strong> – could<br />
things be on the move again? I know it’s<br />
odd talking about August which seems a<br />
while ago now, but I am writing this at<br />
the end of August for the <strong>October</strong> issue.<br />
I have been doing quite a lot of work with<br />
some agents in the <strong>Costa</strong> Blanca area and<br />
I am amazed at the house prices in that<br />
region. I have been offered large, 6 bed,<br />
2 bath villas for around 125,000€ and<br />
apartments within 5 minutes’ walk of the<br />
beach for around 55,000-60,000€; many<br />
bargains to be found and I think some<br />
people who come to Spain to buy, are<br />
buying purely on price and not location.<br />
As you can see, the prices are way lower<br />
than in the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida so this could<br />
be another reason the house sales have<br />
slowed slightly this year? Who knows,<br />
it’s all speculation!<br />
If you are happy to buy on price, then<br />
so be it, but I always suggest you fi nd<br />
the area you like fi rst and then fi nd the<br />
property. You can have the best property<br />
in the world, but if you don’t like the<br />
area, you won’t be happy.<br />
The Government has announced its latest<br />
initiative to kick start the housing market.<br />
The tax on new build properties (only)<br />
will be reduced from 8% to 4% until the<br />
end of <strong>2011</strong>. The Tories have noted that,<br />
if they are elected in November, they will<br />
continue this through 2012, so let’s see<br />
what happens.<br />
Finally, according to the TV reports, the<br />
number of people emigrating from the<br />
UK is at a 6 year low. It’s interesting<br />
that we are seeing more French enquiries<br />
than ever before. We are fortunate to<br />
have great French & Spanish speaking<br />
ladies in our company and we have found<br />
this a great bonus over the last year. We<br />
call it Girl Power!<br />
For more information on buying or selling<br />
property contact<br />
Jennie or Sue at<br />
Best of Spanish<br />
Email info@bestofspanish.com or<br />
telephone (0034) 635 434 651 or 646<br />
692 471<br />
Puerto Lumbreras Christian Fellowship<br />
now meets every 1st and 3rd Sunday<br />
each month at 11.00am in the premises<br />
of the Spanish Evangelical Church Puerto<br />
Lumbreras<br />
Tel 619453283 Paul and Sandra<br />
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Mark Billingham<br />
was<br />
born and<br />
brought up<br />
in Birmingham.<br />
He<br />
worked for<br />
some years<br />
as an actor,<br />
TV writer<br />
and standupcomedian,<br />
and his<br />
fi rst crime<br />
novel was<br />
published<br />
in 2001.<br />
Sleepyhead was an instant bestseller in<br />
the UK and has been sold widely throughout<br />
the world and was published in the USA<br />
in the summer of 2002. Mark then began<br />
to write a series of crime novels featuring<br />
London-based detective Tom Thorne.<br />
He has also written a series of children’s<br />
thrillers –Triskellion – written under the<br />
pseudonym Will Peterson. Mark lives in<br />
London with his wife and two children.<br />
Scaredy Cat (2002)<br />
This is the second book by Mark Billingham<br />
which features DI Tom Thorne. There<br />
are two killers acting in unison, but separately.<br />
It takes Thorne a little bit to fi gure<br />
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it out, but the tricky part comes when he<br />
actually has to catch these deranged killers<br />
and stop them. The clues aren’t exactly<br />
pouring in and we are given a secondary<br />
back story to follow, along the lines of<br />
Sleepyhead, only this time it’s not the<br />
victim’s thoughts we are seeing, but the<br />
beginnings of a pair of killers.<br />
The Burning<br />
Girl<br />
(2004)<br />
North London<br />
is shaken<br />
by the<br />
brutality of<br />
the opening<br />
assault<br />
by the Turkish<br />
Zarif<br />
family, who<br />
employs a<br />
vicious hit<br />
man, leaving<br />
an X carved<br />
on the<br />
back of victims.<br />
Two decades ago, someone torched<br />
schoolgirl Jessica Clarke, believing she was<br />
gang boss Kevin Kelly’s daughter Alison. As<br />
Gordon Rooker, who confessed to the fi -<br />
ery murder, is up for release, someone has<br />
called claiming to have burned her. Reluc-<br />
tantly Tom Thorne agrees to look into the<br />
1984 horror and the present phone calls,<br />
not realizing this all ties together with the<br />
X marks. Tom Thorne is at his best as he<br />
crosses the legal line to ensure justice for<br />
a little girl is served. Carol is an intriguing<br />
secondary character who, with her over<br />
the hill cold case squad retirees, seems<br />
perfect for her own tales.<br />
In The Dark (2008)<br />
DI Thorne is given a well-deserved rest<br />
(although he does make a brief cameo appearance)<br />
in In The Dark. A woman is<br />
driving home late at night in Hackney and<br />
sees a car with its lights turned off. She<br />
fl ashes her own lights to warn the driver,<br />
but after being shot at, she loses control<br />
the car and ends up killing an off-duty policeman.<br />
As the Division Chief on a Child<br />
Protection Unit, the very pregnant Helen<br />
Weeks never expected to fi nd herself on<br />
the other side of the police desk. Witnesses<br />
reported hearing gunshots from a second<br />
passing vehicle and local police suspect<br />
that this might be the work of a neighborhood<br />
gang. Helen is determined to accept<br />
her fi ancés death, but clues eventually<br />
lead her to a series of startling discoveries.<br />
Firstly, Paul was doing more than just routine<br />
intelligence work for the police force<br />
and secondly, Paul’s death wasn’t just an<br />
accident.<br />
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ROCKABILLY QUEEN Wanda Jackson<br />
opens the XXXI Cartagena Jazz<br />
Festival. Also performing will be the<br />
Japanese composer/musician Ryuichi<br />
Sakamoto, the Amercian jazz fusion<br />
guitarist Pat Metheny, and US folk band<br />
Fleet Foxes. The Department of Culture<br />
recently previewed who will be appearing<br />
in November. The full festival schedule will<br />
be announced shortly.<br />
Wanda Jackson is an American singer,<br />
songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had<br />
success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of<br />
the fi rst popular female rockabilly singers<br />
and a pioneering rock and roll artist. She<br />
is known to many as the Queen or First<br />
Lady of Rockabilly. Jackson mixed<br />
country music with fast-moving rockabilly.<br />
As rockabilly declined in popularity in the<br />
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mid-60s, she<br />
moved to a<br />
successful<br />
career in<br />
mainstream<br />
country<br />
music with<br />
a string of<br />
hits between<br />
1966 and<br />
1 9 7 3 ,<br />
including<br />
‘Tears Will Be The Chaser For Your<br />
Wine’, ‘A Woman Lives For Love’ and<br />
‘Fancy Satin Pillows’. She has enjoyed a<br />
resurgence of popularity among rockabilly<br />
revivalists in Europe, and was inducted<br />
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as<br />
an Early Infl uence in 2009.<br />
Ryuichi Sakamoto began his career<br />
in 1978 as a member of the pioneering<br />
electronic music band Yellow Magic<br />
Orchestra. They were an international<br />
success, with worldwide hits such as<br />
‘Computer Game/Firecracker’ (1978)<br />
and ‘Behind The Mask’ (1978). As<br />
a solo artist he had success with the<br />
experimental electronic fusion album<br />
‘The Thousand Knives Of Ryuichi<br />
Sakamoto’ (1978), and later released the<br />
pioneering electro-music album ‘B-2 Unit’<br />
(1980), which included the electro classic<br />
‘Riot In Lagos’. He began acting and<br />
fi lm composing with ‘Merry Christmas,<br />
Mr. Lawrence’ (1983), which he starred<br />
in and composed the score for. The song<br />
‘Forbidden Colours’, which he composed<br />
for the soundtrack, became a worldwide<br />
hit and he won a BAFTA Award. He later<br />
won an Academy Award and Grammy<br />
Award for scoring ‘The Last Emperor’<br />
(1987), and has also won two Golden<br />
Globe Awards for his work as a fi lm<br />
composer. In addition, he also composed<br />
music for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics<br />
opening ceremony.<br />
Pat Metheny is one of the most successful<br />
and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to<br />
come to prominence since the 70’s, and<br />
regarded as one of the top three jazz<br />
guitarist in the world (the other two being<br />
John Scofi eld and Bill Frisell). Certainly he<br />
is one of the most original guitarists to<br />
emerge from the 80’s onward as a chancetaking<br />
player who has taken some wild left<br />
turns. His music at times can be diffi cult<br />
to describe incorporating progressive<br />
elements of folk, jazz and mood music.<br />
Metheny has 3 Gold Albums and 17<br />
Grammy Awards. He has been touring for<br />
more than 30 years, playing between 120-<br />
240 concerts a year, and last appeared in<br />
Murcia at the San Javier International<br />
Jazz Festival in 2005.<br />
Fleet Foxes came to prominence in 2008<br />
with the release of their second EP, ‘Sun<br />
Giant’, and their debut full length album<br />
‘Fleet Foxes’. Both albums received much<br />
critical praise, and reviewers noted their<br />
use of refi ned lyrics and vocal harmonies.<br />
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Further north, about fi ve kilometers<br />
south of Murcia is a small haven of live<br />
music, particularly jazz. The venue is<br />
called Jazzazza, based in the suburb of<br />
Aljezares. It’s not just a bar, (it’s slogan<br />
is “Ce n’est pas un Bar”) it’s a place to<br />
read, enjoy a cup of coffee, have a relaxed<br />
conversation or perhaps a game of chess,<br />
as well as listen to live music. Since<br />
opening in late 2004 they have presented<br />
various cultural activities including book<br />
presentations, children’s theatre, poetry<br />
and fi lm club. Jazzazza is renowned for<br />
staging some impressive international<br />
jazz acts, the legacy continues with their<br />
autumn programme;<br />
Oct 13 - Oscar Peñas Trio & Jason<br />
Palmer, led by the guitarist and composer,<br />
Oscar Peñas, living in Brooklyn since 2007.<br />
Beside him, one of the most innovative<br />
voices in contemporary jazz, the American<br />
trumpeter Jason Palmer. Both musicians<br />
are part of the underground jazz scene in<br />
New York, and began their collaboration<br />
last year playing in the Ethereal Ensemble.<br />
The rhythm section comprises of David<br />
Xirgu on drums and Swedish bassist<br />
Marko Lohikari.<br />
Oct 28 - Will Vinson Quartet.<br />
Saxophonist and composer from London,<br />
Vinson relocated to New York in<br />
1999. Since then he has recorded and<br />
collaborated with Gonzalo Rubalcaba,<br />
Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Potter, and<br />
Aaron Parks among others, plus has<br />
four critically-acclaimed solo albums. He<br />
has a great reputation as a leader and<br />
accompanist. The quintet features the<br />
masterful young guitarist Mike Moreno.<br />
Moreno is becoming a hot item on the New<br />
York jazz scene. His agile guitar playing<br />
has attracted the attention of major artists<br />
such as Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Greg Osby, and<br />
Kenny Garrett. Birmingham, Alabama, bass<br />
player Orlando Le Fleming has toured<br />
and recorded with Billy Cobham’s project<br />
“Art of Five” and was featured on Jimmy<br />
Cobb’s series “Marsalis Music Honors”. He<br />
is a member of the David Sanchez Quartet.<br />
German drummer Jochen Rueckert<br />
completes the quartet.<br />
Nov 5 -<br />
Aruan Ortiz<br />
& Michael<br />
Janisch<br />
Quintet<br />
featuring<br />
Greg Osby.<br />
A new<br />
leading<br />
international<br />
quartet<br />
formed at<br />
Berklee.<br />
Y o u n g<br />
musicians<br />
f r o m<br />
different corners who have studied under<br />
the command of masters like Joe Lovano<br />
and Lee Konitz. Cuban pianist Aruan<br />
Ortiz, prominent newcomer bass player<br />
Michael Janisch, trumpeter Raynald<br />
Colom, and drummer Rudy Royston.<br />
The special guest, Greg Osby, is a shining<br />
beacon among the current generation of<br />
jazz stars in the U.S. Osby was named<br />
Playboy Magazine’s “Jazz Artist of the<br />
Year” in 2009.<br />
Nov 11 - Joe Magnarelli Quartet.<br />
Trumpeter Joe Magnarelli is one of the<br />
most exalted musicians of contemporary<br />
bebop. A fi nalist in the prestigious<br />
Thelonious Monk competition in 1990,<br />
Magnarelli has shared stage with John<br />
Hendricks, Harry Connick Jr., Ray Barretto<br />
and the Village Vanguard Orchestra. The<br />
rhythm section features Fabio Miano,<br />
piano; Ignasi Gonzalez, bass; Esteve<br />
Pi, drums.<br />
More information about Jazzazza at<br />
www.jazzazza.com<br />
More festival and concert information at<br />
www.vibesfromthecostas.blogspot.<br />
com. Keep the ViBES ALiVE!<br />
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A Close Shave for MABS!<br />
When MABS volunteer, Val Vickery, was told<br />
that she would need intensive chemotherapy<br />
as part of her treatment for breast cancer,<br />
she knew that she would have to lose<br />
her hair. Husband, Malcolm, is also a MABS<br />
volunteer, and they can both be found every<br />
Saturday, outside The Arches restaurant in<br />
Los Alcázares, selling books to raise funds for<br />
MABS Murcia.<br />
Malcolm wanted to do something to make Val<br />
feel more comfortable about her hair loss, so<br />
he decided to have his head shaved to keep<br />
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her company. When the owner of The Arches<br />
found out what he was doing, she offered to<br />
hold an event to raise money for MABS with<br />
Malcolm’s head shave as the main feature.<br />
Ali’s daughter, Sam, heard about it and she<br />
immediately decided to join in and have her<br />
lovely, long, blonde locks cut off to raise money.<br />
Her own sponsorship total had reached<br />
over 400€ on the night.<br />
Last Thursday, Suzy G joined the sell-out<br />
crowd at The Arches to watch Malcolm and<br />
Sam lose their locks. Hairdresser, Joanne,<br />
from Ascension Estetica in Los Alcázares,<br />
with razor at the ready, started Malcolm’s<br />
head shave, with a<br />
number 4 cut. Suzy G<br />
chivvied up the audience<br />
and got them to<br />
pay for the next stage<br />
– a number 3, and so<br />
on, until they reached<br />
zero. Malcolm received<br />
kisses on his<br />
bald head for his<br />
bravery from Suzy G<br />
and Val.<br />
Sam then bravely<br />
stepped forward and<br />
Mum, Ali, made the<br />
fi rst cut into her long,<br />
blonde tresses. “This<br />
is quite an emotional<br />
moment for both of<br />
us” said Ali “because<br />
Sam has had long hair ever since she was a<br />
baby”. Hairdresser Joanne’s son, George, at<br />
the tender age of thirteen, was next for the<br />
chop, with a stylish head shave, leaving a tuft<br />
at the front.<br />
Suzy G ended the evening with her inimitable<br />
entertainment style, getting everyone up<br />
and dancing into the late hours. MABS raised<br />
over 1200€ on the night, with sponsorship<br />
money still coming in. “It’s been a fantastic<br />
night” remarked Malcolm “and we’d like to<br />
thank everyone for their support”. Malcolm<br />
and Val were given matching caps by MABS<br />
sponsors, Iceland Overseas.<br />
MABS would like to thank Ali, Sam and The<br />
Arches team, Suzy G and Joanne for giving<br />
their time for free, and all the wonderful supporters<br />
and sponsors for helping them raise<br />
such an amazing amount.<br />
Photographer: Robin Bayliss<br />
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1st Race Day of the SAMM Autumn<br />
Series<br />
Sunday 4 th September <strong>2011</strong><br />
The fi rst race day of the Sailing Association<br />
Mar Menor’s Autumn Series on 4 th<br />
September got off to a bad beginning. The<br />
races take place from the CAR Sailing Centre<br />
at Los Narejos on the Mar Menor and the<br />
competitors and offi cials arrived to fi nd that<br />
The Summer<br />
months in the<br />
Sahara desert<br />
region are unbearably<br />
hot<br />
and diffi cult,<br />
with temperatures<br />
rising to<br />
above 55 degrees,<br />
so each<br />
year the association Vacaciones en Paz<br />
bring some of the children from the Tinduf<br />
Refugee Camp in a remote part of Algeria, to<br />
Spain for a little respite. This year San Pedro<br />
del Pinatar welcomed fi ve of the children who<br />
stayed with Spanish families.<br />
The Vacaciones en Paz charity is very close<br />
to the heart of President Jane Cronin and<br />
members of the ADAPT Association. We<br />
met with Visitacion Martinez Martinez, the<br />
Mayoress, and Silvia Egea Morales, Councillor<br />
for Citizens Participation, at San Pedro Town<br />
Hall and with Nuria Mesa of Vacaciones en<br />
Paz, Jane handed over a cheque from ADAPT<br />
for 1,500€ to help them to continue with the<br />
wonderful work that they do.<br />
ADAPT members<br />
also<br />
brought smiles<br />
to the faces of<br />
the children,<br />
who range in<br />
age from 8 to<br />
11 years, when<br />
they presented<br />
them with<br />
large bags of toys.<br />
ADAPT meets monthly at Castelar College, San<br />
Pedro. See website www.adaptsanpedro.eu<br />
for more information.<br />
Enid Winskill.<br />
a children’s Optimist dinghy race was also<br />
organised for this day.<br />
1 st Race<br />
Just as the SAMM morning race was starting,<br />
the crew of the safety boat was approached<br />
by organisers of the children’s race and told<br />
to change the course that had been set to<br />
avoid a clash. The resulting last minute<br />
confusion led to the race being abandoned.<br />
2nd Race<br />
The afternoon race started promptly at<br />
2.30pm and six boats fought an exciting<br />
3 lap contest in 15 to 17 knot winds. The<br />
racing is run under the RYA Portsmouth<br />
Yardstick handicap system and the results<br />
on corrected times were:-<br />
Place, Boat, Helm, Crew, Times<br />
1 st Miracle, John Clarke, Doreen Squires -<br />
51mins 15secs<br />
2 nd Laser 2000, John Down, Mike Harding<br />
- 53mins 17secs<br />
3 rd Gamba, O. Midttun, L. Anderson, A.<br />
Young and B. Young - 55mins 6secs<br />
4 th Weta 15, Edd Penning, Heinz Lenhard -<br />
57mins 48secs<br />
5 th Weta 14, Brian Murray, O. Fseldsbo -<br />
64mins 59secs<br />
DNF Deltania, D and M Scott<br />
Everybody is looking forward to the next<br />
race day on 18 th September and the special<br />
MABS Cancer Support Race on 25 th<br />
September.<br />
For more information about SAMM<br />
and its race programme go to www.<br />
sailingmarmenor.com and follow the links or<br />
email sammracing@yahoo.co.uk<br />
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Faith’s New American Leg<br />
At last the long-awaited prosthetic leg, made<br />
especially in America for Faith at the Easy<br />
Horse Care Rescue Centre, has arrived.<br />
Kate and Solvi Jensen, who have worked<br />
tirelessly to sponsor and support us and many<br />
of the animals since the start of the centre,<br />
are both pictured here alongside Faith proudly<br />
modelling her new leg.<br />
Because Faith’s<br />
operation was<br />
the fi rst of its<br />
kind in Spain,<br />
nobody had<br />
any experience<br />
or ideas of<br />
how to create<br />
an effective<br />
prosthetic leg for a horse. Faith’s prosthetic<br />
legs following her return from Barcelona<br />
were made in Spain and, although these<br />
gave her the support she needed, they often<br />
caused rubs on the stump and kept breaking<br />
structurally, some only lasting 2-3 weeks,<br />
simply because it was all experimental and<br />
hadn’t been done before.<br />
We knew we had to do more to help Faith,<br />
so we contacted Dwayne Mara in Louisiana,<br />
America who designs and makes Molly the<br />
Pony’s prosthetic leg. It took Dwayne 5<br />
legs to get the design right for Molly, fi nally<br />
developing the latest which can bend at the<br />
knee and allows Molly to walk with ease and<br />
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even to trot.<br />
This is Faith with her fi rst leg made by<br />
Dwayne. It was thought better to start her<br />
off with a straight leg, which is what she has<br />
been used to up until now. This leg will always<br />
be used as a travelling leg as it has a lot of<br />
support. The second leg, which will allow her<br />
to use her knee again, is being made now<br />
and we are expecting it in 3-4 weeks time.<br />
Each leg costs €1500, a very special price as<br />
Dwayne charges us nothing for his time.<br />
Faith is very happy with her new leg and<br />
bares weight on it, which is very important<br />
so that her healthy front leg isn’t taking all of<br />
her weight, as horses carry 85% of their total<br />
weight on their front legs.<br />
Faith, and all of us here at the rescue centre,<br />
would like to say a big thank you to all of you<br />
out there who have made all of this possible<br />
for Faith as, without your support, she would<br />
have lost her fi ght for life. Faith now spends<br />
her days walking around the yard with best<br />
friend Cookie and loves to meet all of her<br />
visitors.<br />
Safe at the Centre<br />
Many readers contacted the Easy Horse Care<br />
Rescue Centre following the initial article<br />
of the horses kept in horrendous conditions<br />
by the gypsies in San Luis. Tethered and<br />
starving, Blanca the white mare was reported<br />
to the rescue centre and, upon arrival,<br />
volunteers further discovered Mimosa kept in<br />
a fi lthy, cage-like enclosure and two donkeys<br />
in complete darkness; all with no food or<br />
water and extremely malnourished. The local<br />
police that were called out immediately had<br />
no interest and ordered the volunteers to<br />
leave, however Spanish local TV arrived at the<br />
scene the next day to televise the situation<br />
on its evening news broadcast. This media<br />
coverage encouraged the gypsies to negotiate<br />
a fi nancial settlement for the animals, which<br />
are all now safely here at the centre. This is<br />
all thanks to the support from readers, as<br />
well as kind donations. The previous article<br />
received a great response and many people<br />
have contacted EHCRC for updates.<br />
M i m o s a ,<br />
when found,<br />
was starving<br />
and kept in<br />
a fi lthy cage.<br />
The EHCRC relies<br />
only on charitable<br />
donations. We<br />
are open to the public all year round every<br />
day 1-4pm. On Sundays and Wednesdays<br />
we have guided tours, where visitors can<br />
meet our horses and donkeys and hear their<br />
stories. Visitors can also enjoy a light lunch<br />
or light refreshments available in the café<br />
garden, and all proceeds go towards the<br />
support of the centre. For more information<br />
visit our website www.easyhorsecare.net or<br />
call Sue on 652 021 980.<br />
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Hi<br />
Please take a moment to read this letter,<br />
it might change your life, and it most<br />
defi nitely could save you and or your kin a<br />
lot of money and heartache.<br />
I have lived in Spain as an ex-pat for<br />
over 10 years now and one question that<br />
is often discussed at the bars or around<br />
the dinner table is about the Spanish tax<br />
liability on inheritance; it really worries a<br />
lot of people.<br />
The tax liability on a property can be huge,<br />
so much so that many of us will be forced<br />
to sell when one of our partners passes on.<br />
At the very least, our heirs will be forced<br />
to fi nd 40% and often a lot more of the<br />
property value, just to keep it in the family.<br />
Also, did you know…<br />
Your husband or wife will not be<br />
exempt from Spanish Inheritance Tax.<br />
When the time comes, they will be forced<br />
to fi nd the money to pay the tax on 50% of<br />
the property, or sell it to pay off the debt.<br />
It was often discussed that there must be<br />
a legal alternative to the huge tax bill we<br />
all face.<br />
If you have the same concerns, this letter<br />
is a timely reminder of the risks faced by<br />
failing to plan properly and the benefi ts<br />
available when you do.<br />
After many dedicated hours of research,<br />
I have teamed up with a tax planning<br />
company based in the UK to fi nd an answer<br />
to this problem and I wanted to tell you<br />
about it.<br />
The Wincham Tax Planning Strategy<br />
– A simple, effective and totally legal<br />
approach to Spanish Inheritance tax<br />
planning.<br />
Simply put, the strategy helps you to legally<br />
avoid the Spanish Inheritance Tax liability<br />
placed on your heirs. The product is backed<br />
by accountants, business Consultants and<br />
Lawyers and there are a team of lawyers in<br />
Spain to take care of the legalities there.<br />
The strategy is not new - it’s well established<br />
and proven. Wincham have just created<br />
the environment where it can be offered to<br />
clients on a wider scale, and is available to<br />
my clients too.<br />
Of course, you need to be reassured<br />
about the legality of this kind of planning.<br />
On their website, Wincham have posted<br />
views from lawyers in the UK and Spain,<br />
and also from accountants. Rest assured<br />
this is a 100% legal tax planning structure.<br />
It’s just that until now it was a little known,<br />
expensive and time consuming process.<br />
Wincham have changed all that.<br />
All you need to do is register for a free<br />
proposal at www.winchamiht.com and a<br />
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personalised proposal showing you and<br />
your heir’s liabilities, and the savings to be<br />
made using the Wincham plan. Wincham<br />
can even arrange funding if you need it.<br />
There is more information and opinions<br />
from lawyers in the UK and Spain,<br />
accountants’ views and advice on fees at<br />
www.winchamiht.com<br />
You will need to input my ID, so they know<br />
you are a client of mine. Put 341313 into<br />
the UNIQUE ID text box.<br />
Thanks for your time<br />
Peter Clarke<br />
You can of course call me on 660 170 355<br />
if you wish to know more<br />
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Hello again from Bob. Sorry I missed you last<br />
month – Fran and I were in the UK. My thanks<br />
to Rosemary for stepping into the breach.<br />
We drove back in the “yellow peril” as it has<br />
become known, and despite one or two minor<br />
navigational errors, had a really good time.<br />
Have you ever driven through the city centre<br />
of Pamplona in the morning rush hour? No?<br />
Well, try not to! Mind you, it looked a nice<br />
place, but we didn’t really want to be there,<br />
not then, anyway. Missed the turning for the<br />
by-pass! I won’t say how, but let’s just say<br />
that my navigator was having a snooze and<br />
couldn’t wake up in time (I’ll be in trouble for<br />
that).<br />
Our August<br />
Dance at<br />
Mariano’s,<br />
Camposol<br />
saw the<br />
return of<br />
the lovely<br />
Lucinda,<br />
who put on<br />
a really good<br />
show despite<br />
h a v i n g<br />
injured her back in a nasty car accident just<br />
two weeks before. Well done, Lucinda. Also<br />
appearing, were everybody’s favourites, The<br />
Beagles. The dance fl oor was full as usual;<br />
lots of arm waving, singing along too, and<br />
thanks to Mariano’s for putting the air-con on<br />
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so that we weren’t too hot.<br />
The next Welcome Meeting will be on 1 st<br />
<strong>October</strong> when tickets will be on sale for the<br />
annual Ladies’ Day Trip to Benidorm on<br />
7 th December, including the Rich Bitch Show<br />
in the afternoon. Tickets are €17 or just €12<br />
if you don’t want the Show. It’s also market<br />
day, so bring your purse along.<br />
Tickets will also be on sale for the New<br />
Year’s Eve Dance with The Beagles and<br />
Donna Glass from Benidorm, at €25, to<br />
include a table buffet, party hats, champagne<br />
and grapes at midnight. These are sure to sell<br />
out fast, so don’t miss out!<br />
Information will also be given about next<br />
year’s Summer Ball and another Trip to the<br />
Races at Mijas. Did you go this year? If you<br />
did, you’ll know what a great day we had at<br />
the races, and, Haydn, remember this time,<br />
hang on to your ticket – it may be a winner!<br />
Other tickets available are for <strong>October</strong> 26 th<br />
Dance with Ricky Lavazza and Laura Elen<br />
from the <strong>Costa</strong> Del Sol. Just €9 and €5 for<br />
bacon, egg and chips.<br />
The November 16 th Dance features<br />
Samantha Curtis, new to this area, and from<br />
Benidorm, Rob Sweeney. No, he wasn’t in the<br />
Flying Squad (you work it out). Again €9 and<br />
€5 for chicken and chips.<br />
Our Christmas Party Night is on December<br />
14 th at €12 and €5 for chicken and chips.<br />
Featured that night are Showaddywaddy<br />
Legends and fabulous Nick Gold. . For more<br />
details, and for tickets, call Rosemary on<br />
620105179.<br />
Next month, I’ll be reporting on our Benidorm<br />
Trip, on 17 th to 19 th <strong>October</strong>. Really looking<br />
forward to that, especially the bodega!<br />
Dates for the Book/Jigsaw Swap are<br />
<strong>October</strong> 11 th and 25 th , at the ICA clinic on the<br />
dual-carriageway on B Sector. Further details<br />
from Jo on 669457985.<br />
There is change of dates for the Fun<br />
Petanca this month. Instead of the usual last<br />
Wednesday of the month, it will now be on<br />
<strong>October</strong> 5 th at 1.00pm, and also for November,<br />
on the 2 nd , again at 1.00pm. Then it’s back<br />
to normal, so there will be two sessions in<br />
November. Call Les on 968131880 for more<br />
information.<br />
Welcome is open to everybody, there is<br />
no membership; just come along and meet<br />
friends old and new. All events are held at<br />
Mariano’s, Camposol A unless otherwise<br />
stated and food is available at the bar. For<br />
more details, call Rosemary on 620105179,<br />
or email rosemarybeak@hotmail.com, or visit<br />
www.welcomegroupspain.com.<br />
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HOW CAN I STOP MY DOG PULLING ON<br />
THE LEAD?<br />
By Tracy, your fully qualifi ed Dog Listener<br />
in Spain<br />
“Ever wonder where you’d end up if you<br />
took your dog for a walk and never once<br />
pulled back on the leash?” – Robert Brault.<br />
“By mastering the walk, you have the ability<br />
to truly bond with your dog as her pack<br />
leader. The walk is the foundation of your<br />
relationship” – Caesar Millan<br />
With Autumn approaching and bringing with<br />
it some much longed for cooler weather,<br />
we can start enjoying some lovely walks<br />
with our best friend, unless, that is, your<br />
dog walking is a stressful experience. If<br />
your experience of walking your dog is<br />
being dragged round the block with the<br />
dog wrenching your arm out of its shoulder<br />
and your arriving back home dishevelled,<br />
stressed and frustrated, then it’s time to<br />
take control of the situation. The reason<br />
your dog is pulling on the lead like crazy is<br />
simply because he thinks he is the leader<br />
and therefore he makes the decisions as to<br />
where and how fast you go – in plain canine<br />
terms, he is leading the hunt!<br />
You can improve the situation immensely<br />
by showing your dog, that you are the<br />
leader and that you are quite capable of<br />
making these decisions yourself. The fi rst<br />
step you need to take is to gain control of<br />
the situation before you have even left the<br />
house – never take an over-excited dog out<br />
of your house.<br />
Well I am pleased to report that we had a<br />
wonderful last minute holiday on a short<br />
Mediterranean Cruise. I realised how lucky<br />
we were when we met so many British people<br />
who were so envious that we live here that it<br />
did make me realise that we should not take<br />
it all for granted. I did manage to buy a violin<br />
whilst I was away as have been dying to take<br />
it up again recently. I have not played since<br />
I was about 15 years old, so could do with a<br />
few lessons if there is anyone out there who<br />
can help please let me know!<br />
I had never experienced Refl exology before<br />
and knew little about it when I decided to<br />
fi nd out more, so I booked a session with<br />
Drew Ryder (Mind and Body Therapist).<br />
It is a very relaxing and pleasant experience<br />
and I also learned quite a lot about how<br />
areas on your feet are linked to all parts of<br />
your body that I was not aware of before. I<br />
am starting to realise that it is all very well<br />
paying attention to my hair and nails etc on<br />
the outside, but the inside needs some tlc as<br />
well. I am defi nitely going to focus more on<br />
these types of treatments in the future.<br />
I spent a very pleasant afternoon/evening<br />
Step 1 - If your dog has set times for his<br />
walk and he comes and harasses you to let<br />
you know it’s that time, you need to leave<br />
it for a short while before getting up to go<br />
out. This tells the dog that you make the<br />
decision as to when the walk will happen.<br />
Wait until he has calmed down and then get<br />
up!<br />
Step 2 – If, once you have decided it’s time<br />
for the walk and you get up to put on a<br />
jacket, or pick up your keys and the dog’s<br />
lead, he starts leaping around excitedly<br />
again, simply sit back down and wait for<br />
him to calm down again. This step may<br />
need to be repeated over and over until he<br />
gets the message.<br />
Step 3 – Once you have managed to get<br />
the lead on to a calm dog, remember that<br />
you should always leave the property ahead<br />
of your dog. The walk should not begin with<br />
the dog dragging you to the front gate. If<br />
your dog starts to pull straight away, you<br />
should turn swiftly and walk in the opposite<br />
direction. This may mean that you walk<br />
backwards and forwards on your driveway<br />
or in your house for quite a while, but this<br />
will send the message to your dog that you<br />
are the one who makes the decisions as to<br />
where you go – i.e. you are now leading the<br />
hunt. If the bad behaviour continues, you<br />
should cancel the walk at this time. Simply<br />
turn around, head back indoors and sit back<br />
down. The dog will soon get the message<br />
that you only leave the house when their<br />
behaviour is calm. I have known dogs resist<br />
handing over leadership of the walk for 3<br />
days!<br />
with friends at the fashion show organised<br />
by Jane’s Salon, in Bolnuevo. There were<br />
some lovely items on show and all the<br />
models looked fabulous, courtesy of the<br />
staff at Jane’s Salon. They all had their hair<br />
and nails done beautifully and looked very<br />
glamorous. Jane’s Salon has a really wide<br />
selection of treatments and therapies and is<br />
well worth investigating.<br />
I was delighted to visit “La Vista Café<br />
Bar”, formerly The Sol Beach Bar in Los<br />
Alcazares now under the new ownership of<br />
Melanie Elkington. This location is beautiful<br />
as it has a beach front view and is right on<br />
the boardwalk. At this time of year it is a<br />
wonderful place to visit as although many of<br />
the summer visitors have left, there are still<br />
plenty to see and the parking is much easier.<br />
Whether you just need a cold drink, an ice<br />
cream or a full meal, Melanie will assure you<br />
a warm welcome.<br />
I must just share this with you that my<br />
favourite snack of the month must go to<br />
Liz’s Cafe for their new Chicken Ceaser<br />
Wrap. Ymmm<br />
Teresa<br />
Once these 3 steps have been mastered,<br />
you will fi nd it much easier to take control<br />
whilst actually out on a walk and be able to<br />
deal with any undesirable behaviour such as<br />
lunging at other dogs or other people etc.<br />
Remember though, this is not a quick fi x.<br />
This is an ongoing message that you need<br />
to be sending to your dog.<br />
Should you need further information or<br />
help in understanding your canine friends,<br />
contact Tracy on 868 082 011 or 630 021<br />
386.<br />
Tip of the month - You are what you<br />
eat. This applies to dogs just as much as<br />
to humans. Feed your dog a good quality<br />
complete food and do not feed him leftovers<br />
from your table. Limit treats to rewarding<br />
good behaviour only.<br />
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Active, Inspiring and Successful Start to<br />
Murcia Dance’s New Term and It’s Not<br />
Just for Children!!!!<br />
What a fun packed and busy summer Murcia<br />
Dance have had. From successfully fund<br />
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raising for much needed dance resources to<br />
working in new studios, from participating<br />
in Fiestas Camposol events to winning top<br />
awards at the Mazarrón Festival de Baile,<br />
the Murcia Dance programme goes from<br />
strength to strength.<br />
The programme is not just for children.<br />
Teaching Principal of Murcia Dance,<br />
Louise Bremner, would like to welcome adults<br />
who like to move, onto its programme. Louise<br />
is now a fully licensed ZUMBA Instructor<br />
having completed her training in Malaga<br />
in early September. The new sensation in<br />
fi tness will compliment other areas of the<br />
programme which include Theatre Dance and<br />
Beginner Salsa Classes for Adults.<br />
It is hoped that an adult dance group can<br />
be formed to participate in next year’s<br />
Mazarrón Festival de Baile. This year two<br />
schools entered adult groups that entertained<br />
audiences and danced away with top awards.<br />
Some children for the fi rst time participated<br />
in the Mazarrón Festival de Baile and they<br />
did their school, community and families<br />
proud. The Camposol Urban Dance Crew,<br />
who meet on a Saturday morning during<br />
term time, were placed 1st and joint 2 nd in<br />
their Under age 9 Novice group section.<br />
Judges commented that it was good to see<br />
boys dancing and to see different levels and<br />
abilities working together.<br />
Holly Ryan and Kian<br />
Davies won joint 1 st<br />
place duet in the<br />
beginners under<br />
13 section and the<br />
schools seniors,<br />
Charlotte Moore and<br />
Shannon Robertson,<br />
received joint 2 nd<br />
place in the over<br />
13 Beginners Duet.<br />
Both heats had a<br />
very competitive<br />
group of entries<br />
from other schools,<br />
so all dancers in these sections have done<br />
extremely well.<br />
Two top awards were also given to Murcia<br />
Dance. Jack Dawson and Shannon Moran,<br />
placed 1 st in their duet, also won the highest<br />
marked duet from the Under 13 category<br />
winning over more advanced duets which is<br />
fantastic for very young dancers at a Novice<br />
level. The lovely Jack Dawson, who is a<br />
dedicated young dancer, won one of the most<br />
prestigious awards from the festival; The Most<br />
Promising Dancer, Under Age 13, Award for<br />
his stage personality, interacting with others<br />
whilst showing individuality, musicality, and<br />
interpretation of different choreographic<br />
material. Teacher Louise states “Jack is a<br />
model pupil. He works very hard, is caring<br />
and encouraging in class to other children and<br />
has a natural dancing ability. I’m very proud<br />
to not only be working with Jack, but also all<br />
of the young dancers who collectively make<br />
up a vibrant community, making my work as<br />
a teacher of dance relatively easy”.<br />
A whole new programme of dance and<br />
performing arts will be running for children,<br />
young people and adults from the new<br />
Camposol Community Centre, Sensol Hotel<br />
and Tara’s Retreat throughout the autumn.<br />
We have lovely venues suitable for dance,<br />
mirrored with barres and suitable fl ooring. We<br />
will have visiting guest teachers to support<br />
the programme for all abilities. For more<br />
details visit our website www.murciadance.<br />
co.tv or telephone Louise on 655 421 120.<br />
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Age Concern Social<br />
Age Concern ran its fi rst social on Wednesday<br />
14 th September. As with all new ventures<br />
the committee did worry, would enough people<br />
turn up? In the event some 50 members<br />
of Age Concern crowded the hall at the Cultural<br />
Centre, Camposol. It was a convivial<br />
lunch with a nicely laid out room, chairs in<br />
little circles, a visitor’s book for members to<br />
sign, and plenty of light bites; sandwiches,<br />
quiche, sausage rolls. Many folk contributed<br />
to the food and it looked splendid, and it all<br />
went! There was tea and coffee, with something<br />
stronger for those who wanted it. A bit<br />
of background music contributed to the atmosphere.<br />
By 1.30 the last stragglers had arrived and sat<br />
down. There was an invalid buggy, an electric<br />
buggy and several assorted sticks and supports.<br />
The chairs had been arranged in neat<br />
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circles but true to form, Brits re-arranged the<br />
furniture to a lozenge shape and got on with<br />
the business of greeting old friends and making<br />
new ones. It was very much an afternoon<br />
tea party. Members were asked what they<br />
wanted out of the socials and the combination<br />
of food and chat did seem a winner. Bingo,<br />
talks from interesting people were all mentioned.<br />
There are almost certainly enough interesting<br />
people in Mazarrón to entertain Age<br />
Concern for years. The party started at noon<br />
and fi nished at 3pm. The committee plan to<br />
have these social events once a month.<br />
Age Concern on the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida is part of<br />
a network of affi liated bodies who are in turn<br />
part of Age UK, the product of the merger between<br />
Help the Aged and Age Concern. There<br />
will be a Rock n Roll evening at Mariano’s,<br />
Camposol as a fund raising activity on <strong>October</strong><br />
21 st with Jimmy Mac from Benidorm head-<br />
ing the bill. Tickets are 5€ and a chicken and<br />
chip supper can be had for a further 5€. It’s a<br />
7.30pm start. In November an All our Yesterdays<br />
event is planned for the Steak Out<br />
on Sector B Camposol.<br />
You can contact Age Concern every Friday<br />
morning outside the Trevi on Camposol, and<br />
outside the underground car park on the Paseo<br />
in Puerto de Mazarrón, or you can phone<br />
Graham, 634 310 215, Ann on 634 306 927<br />
or Penny on 662 332 725. Age Concern also<br />
meets every Wednesday morning in the Cultural<br />
Centre, Camposol if you want to register<br />
as a friend or get help.<br />
Rod Sawyer, Age Concern, 618553786 or<br />
email rodsawyer41@hotmail.com<br />
5 th and 6 th November <strong>2011</strong><br />
The Trade Fairs and Exhibitions IFEPA<br />
hosts the Canine Show every year in November.<br />
The National and International Dog Show is<br />
organized by the Sociedad Canina de Murcia.<br />
At this exhibition there are competition points<br />
valid for International Champion (CACIB) of the<br />
FCI (FCI) and National Champion of Spain (CAC)<br />
of the Royal Canine Society of Spain (RSCE).<br />
The show is attended by the owners of over<br />
two thousand dogs, from all the European<br />
Community, Nordic countries, and even<br />
Russia, and several American countries like<br />
USA, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc.<br />
They are all looking for the points towards the<br />
championships. There are over 180 different<br />
dog breeds entering the exhibition so this<br />
should be a brilliant show.<br />
John Kemp, after years of rescuing and<br />
homing dogs in this region of Spain has made<br />
videos of all the dogs he has available for rehoming.<br />
Rather than seeing just one photo of<br />
a dog in a magazine or newspaper, you can<br />
now go to youtube.co.uk and just search for<br />
johnkempdogs. Most of John’s dogs now are<br />
adult, between 1 to 3 years old, so why not<br />
visit his page there and check out all the dogs<br />
for yourself.<br />
Visit John Kemp at his stall every Sunday<br />
morning at the car boot sale at Cañadas del<br />
Romero near El Pareton.<br />
If you see a dog you are interested, please<br />
contact John on 646737230. You can also try<br />
fostering a dog for a while if you prefer to<br />
see how it goes. More great news is that John<br />
Kemp’s dogs are all fully inoculated and up<br />
to date with all their treatments. They are all<br />
housetrained and also will have been spayed<br />
or castrated, so the next time you are looking<br />
for that special someone to share your life<br />
with, look no further than Johnkempdogs at<br />
youtube.co.uk<br />
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Registered Charity Nº 8.714/1ª<br />
JJ’s Puppy Rescue Association has been<br />
a Registered Charity since March 2007 with<br />
a Management Committee, Association<br />
Members, Volunteer Helpers and Foster<br />
Carers. We have become well known for<br />
rescuing abandoned puppies in the Mazarrón<br />
area. Without the help of the Association over<br />
300 puppies and dogs would have died from<br />
starvation or disease and their short lives<br />
would have ended in fear and distress due to<br />
human neglect.<br />
We now have over 40 rescued puppies and<br />
dogs in our care that are in need of a loving<br />
home. If you are interested in fostering or<br />
adopting a puppy or dog please give one of<br />
our Committee Members Tony 618034921<br />
or John 617004959 a call. They will provide<br />
more details and can arrange for you to see<br />
any of our rescued puppies or dogs.<br />
To raise the funds needed for the care and<br />
veterinary treatment of the abandoned<br />
puppies that are rescued, we are dependant<br />
upon the public for help. We have a Charity<br />
Shop in Puerto de Mazarrón near the Arbol<br />
Supermarket. The Charity Shop is staffed<br />
entirely by Association Members who give<br />
their own time voluntarily without payment<br />
or remuneration for their dedicated work. Any<br />
unwanted furniture, household items, bric-abrac,<br />
linen, clothes, shoes, books and DVD’s<br />
or videos that can be sold in the Charity Shop<br />
to raise funds will be gratefully accepted.<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION OR<br />
COLLECTION OF DONATED ITEMS<br />
PLEASE GIVE ONE OF OUR COMMITTEE<br />
MEMBERS A CALL Tony 618034921 -<br />
John 617004959 - Richard 699243370<br />
WeDoItAll4ThePuppies<br />
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TO TELL OR NOT TO TELL<br />
Dear Jennifer,<br />
My husband and I set up a successful<br />
restaurant business in Alicante 15 years<br />
ago. We have recently run into some<br />
marital problems and at this point it’s<br />
looking like we’re heading for a divorce.<br />
It’s obviously an incredible diffi cult time<br />
for us both but at what point should we<br />
disclose the news to our staff?<br />
A.F<br />
Dear A.F,<br />
Your main aim at this point in time is to<br />
minimise speculation and uncertainly. When<br />
rife among staff, they can be dangerously<br />
distracting. Obviously, your staff may have<br />
picked up signs of a deteriorating working<br />
relationship and marriage between you<br />
and your husband. They are not daft. Fear,<br />
especially in an uncertain and unstable<br />
economy, will be uppermost on their minds<br />
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and not the status of your marriage. Will<br />
the business go bust? Will the business be<br />
sold off? Will they still have jobs after your<br />
divorce? These are all valid questions that<br />
warrant honest answers.<br />
To this end, I feel that your staff have the<br />
right to know where they stand and the<br />
sooner they know the better. However, I will<br />
suggest that when you do decide to make the<br />
announcement, that you and your husband<br />
do it together to avoid rumours and any<br />
malicious gossip. Don’t dwell on sympathy;<br />
don’t dwell on the reasons for the break-up;<br />
keep it simple and practical; and let your staff<br />
know that they are valued and appreciated<br />
for their hard work. If possible, let them know<br />
what the future holds for them, but please<br />
avoid making promises that you can’t keep. It<br />
is not fair on your staff.<br />
Jennifer<br />
I DON’T WANT TO VISIT MY SICK<br />
MOTHER!<br />
Dear Jennifer,<br />
My mother, who lives near us in Playa<br />
Flamenca, suffers from depression. I<br />
try to visit her as often as I can, but I<br />
always come away with so much guilt.<br />
She refuses to discuss her problems<br />
with me, saying that she does not want<br />
to upset me, but when she shuts me out<br />
I feel worse. Her rejection of my good<br />
intentions, make me feel overwhelmed,<br />
frustrated and angry and I am even<br />
considering not visiting her at all! Why<br />
won’t she allow me to help her? I have<br />
tried speaking with my father about it<br />
but he refuses to intervene, often telling<br />
me to mind my own business. I love<br />
both my parents but I feel in limbo and<br />
helpless to restore peace in my family.<br />
My frustrations are taking a toll on my<br />
relationship with my partner. I don’t<br />
know what to do!<br />
Bethany K.<br />
Dear Bethany,<br />
There is so much deep emotion in your letter<br />
and I empathise with your frustrations at<br />
present. However, you cannot “fi x” your<br />
mother if she does not want you to. I am<br />
not sure of the intensity of your mother’s<br />
depression, whether it is mild or chronic, but<br />
depression is a medical condition and she<br />
may need professional support. Pushing her<br />
to talk about her problems, when she does<br />
not want to, may exacerbate the problem,<br />
not only regarding the relationship with your<br />
mother, but also with your father.<br />
We all want to “fi x” unpleasant situations,<br />
because to dwell and live in unhappiness<br />
and emotional pain is diffi cult, but there are<br />
times to “heal and mend” and there are times<br />
to respect the need for “personal space”.<br />
Perhaps this is what your mother needs<br />
from you and you should try to respect her<br />
wishes no matter how hard, frustrating and<br />
overwhelming it might be. Rather than visit<br />
her out of obligation, make sure your visits<br />
are positive ones, full of love and support. Just<br />
let her know that you are there for her, if she<br />
ever needs you. Help her with her shopping,<br />
cleaning and with any tasks she requires of<br />
you and she will appreciate your presence<br />
even more. Your mother may eventually<br />
choose to reach out to you in time but only<br />
when she is ready and not any sooner.<br />
If you have diffi culty coming to terms with<br />
your mother’s depression, seek a support<br />
group yourself, either in your local area or<br />
online. Having a supportive network around<br />
you will not only provide you with information<br />
and insight into your mother’s illness but<br />
will be an outlet for your frustrations and<br />
emotional pain as well.<br />
Jennifer<br />
Jennifer Rahman is a life coach, NLP and<br />
EFT therapist in Murcia. She receives<br />
numerous letters and reads each one.<br />
However, due to the volume received,<br />
she will not be able to respond personally<br />
to everyone except via her column. Send<br />
your letters either as a word document<br />
to <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida <strong>Chronicle</strong> addressed to<br />
“Ask Jennifer” or email it to Jennifer@<br />
lifemaxxinternational.com.<br />
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Dear Editor<br />
I thought I would let you know about excellent<br />
service from one of your advertisers.<br />
At the end of August the air conditioning in<br />
my Renault Scenic failed on a trip back to<br />
Camposol. I decided to book the car into<br />
Talleres Lopez Milan in El Pareton and<br />
liased with John who translates for Paco<br />
the owner. After leaving the car for a day<br />
to investigate the fault and getting a courtesy<br />
lift back to Camposol, I got a phone<br />
call saying that they hadn’t been able to<br />
identify the fault, but had taken the car to<br />
Renault Totana who had diagnosed that<br />
the compressor had failed and the cost of<br />
a new one with fi tting etc was 2000€.The<br />
car is over 4 years old and so was out of<br />
warranty, but Paco persuaded Renault Totana<br />
to submit a claim to Renault HQ on<br />
the grounds that the compressor should<br />
last a lot longer than that.<br />
After a week of waiting, the news came<br />
back that Renault would fund the complete<br />
repair. I have since collected the car from<br />
Lopez Milan with just a small bill for their<br />
work and everything is working better than<br />
before.<br />
I have never had such excellent service in<br />
over 40 years motoring. One always hears<br />
of poor service, but this is the other end of<br />
the scale.<br />
I would not hesitate to recommend Lopez<br />
Milan, and Renault Totana to anyone and<br />
special thanks to John and Paco.<br />
John Osborne<br />
Dear Editor<br />
The <strong>Costa</strong> <strong>Calida</strong> <strong>Chronicle</strong> magazine was<br />
only out for a week and I have just received<br />
a call from a really nice lady named<br />
Jackie Carter in response to our appeal.<br />
She would really like to help Marina. I am<br />
sending her info on the Family Fun Day and<br />
Dog Show too as she would like to come<br />
along and get involved.<br />
If anyone else would like to help Marina<br />
with her many dogs, please call 968 482<br />
948<br />
Well done & Thank you CCC<br />
Linda<br />
Helping Hands<br />
Animal Charity Support Association<br />
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LOS CANOVAS PLAYERS<br />
ANNOUNCEMENT<br />
The Los Canovas Players regretfully<br />
announce that the production due to be<br />
performed in November will have to be<br />
postponed until January/February 2012.<br />
This is due to the forthcoming national<br />
elections in Spain when our venue is going<br />
to be used for most of the month by the<br />
political parties involved (we have yet to<br />
fi nd out whether it will be a farce or a<br />
tragedy!!!).<br />
With Christmas coming so soon afterwards<br />
and many of you going back to the UK for<br />
the festive season we felt it reasonable<br />
to postpone until most of you are back in<br />
Spain.<br />
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We do hope you will continue to support us<br />
as you have done in the past. When fi rm<br />
dates are arranged they will be published<br />
in the media.<br />
As always we are looking for “new blood”<br />
to join The Players in whatever capacity,<br />
whether on stage or behind the scenes so<br />
if you are interested in drama contact us<br />
by e-mail at loscanovasplayers@gmail.<br />
com<br />
We help anyone in need,<br />
irrespective of<br />
race, creed or status.<br />
Matthew 25 v 35-36<br />
The Blessings keep fl owing; for GO maD has<br />
just received a Beautiful Caravan, following<br />
the generous giving hearts of Geoff and Jean<br />
Board of La Azohia; a huge thank you to you<br />
both. GO maD is continually thankful for<br />
God’s Provisions and this Divine Timing; for<br />
a new Volunteer (who also needs a home) is<br />
soon joining our ‘Outreach Team’. We sense<br />
that following this, GO maD’s further<br />
projects: Rastro and Refuge/Shelter/Soup<br />
Kitchen are not far off!<br />
Sharing of more fl owing: We now have Six<br />
Sewing Machines in storage and one was<br />
recently given to our dear friend Hafi da;<br />
such a joy to see the gratitude and her wide<br />
beaming smile. A vision was given, over<br />
a year ago to start a Sewing Workshop to<br />
help those ladies out of work - wonderful to<br />
see this start to happen. Hassan had been<br />
patiently awaiting a pair of reading glasses.<br />
A donor heard and a ‘perfect match’ was<br />
made - another huge beaming smile greeted<br />
us. A Spanish family recently received a<br />
sofa/bed; the immense joy and gratitude<br />
we witnessed, stirred the heart. You just<br />
cannot put a price on that exchange. Steve<br />
our great DIY volunteer, recently removed a<br />
bath from a house in Ramonete and replaced<br />
it with a shower (desperately needed due to<br />
lack of mobility) - more smiles greeted us.<br />
These experiences give one a reality check.<br />
We are the fortunate ones who can Make A<br />
Difference to the lives of those around us.<br />
You never know what impact your donation<br />
will have, but we know that when God says<br />
He will meet the needs. He means it and<br />
GO maD is witnessing this time and time<br />
again.<br />
A huge big thank you to all who continue to<br />
support our work. We are together Making<br />
A Difference to lives around us. Maybe you<br />
would like to join us and see for yourself<br />
these beautiful ‘beaming smiles’. Call us<br />
today on 634 357 137<br />
NOW NEEDED: Men’s Shoes & Trainers<br />
along with Smaller sized Men’s clothes<br />
plus Bedding / Linen / Curtains /<br />
Towels<br />
Drop-off centers; The Cultural Centre,<br />
Camposol B; Mon 3-5pm and Fri 12.30-2pm.<br />
Business Centre, Camposol A & <strong>Costa</strong><br />
<strong>Calida</strong> Radio, Puerto de Mazarrón.<br />
Shop: Open Tues/Weds/Thurs/Sat 10am-<br />
2pm plus Thurs eve 6-9pm<br />
Tel Shop: 634 321 161<br />
Outreach/Other Enquiries: 634 357 137<br />
Facebook: madmazarron or<br />
email madmazarron@live.com<br />
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Ebony and Ivory for<br />
MABS<br />
Diamantes Restaurant in El<br />
Mojón has a monthly Ladies’<br />
Lunch called ‘Ebony<br />
& Ivory’, held on the third<br />
Tuesday of each month.<br />
It is an opportunity for ladies<br />
to dress up and have<br />
a relaxing few hours over<br />
a three course lunch with<br />
a glass of wine for just 10€<br />
per head. The guests get<br />
to meet and make new<br />
friends as, after the main<br />
course, three people from<br />
each table move to another<br />
table. During the<br />
lunch a raffl e is held in aid<br />
of MABS Cancer Support<br />
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Group and, so far this<br />
year, the grand sum of<br />
688€ has been raised.<br />
Terri, who owns Diamantes,<br />
has set a target<br />
to raise 1,000€ for<br />
MABS by the end of<br />
the year - so ladies:<br />
why not come and join<br />
‘Ebony & Ivory’ to ensure<br />
that she makes it?<br />
Janet Bell, MABS FundraisingCo-ordinator<br />
says “Terri really<br />
does us proud; there is<br />
a choice menu, a great<br />
atmosphere and some<br />
excellent raffl e prizes<br />
too! Those of us who have been going<br />
since the beginning of the year have made<br />
new friends.<br />
If you would like to come along, please call<br />
Diamantes on 965 352 947 to book your<br />
table. Lunch is 1.30pm for 2.00pm and<br />
normally fi nishes around 4.00pm.<br />
MABS Cancer Support Group is a registered<br />
charity (No. 7261) offering help<br />
and support to local people of all nationalities<br />
who have been diagnosed<br />
with or are being treated for cancer.<br />
If you or someone you know would<br />
like some confi dential help or support<br />
call our HELPLINE 693 275 779 or visit<br />
their website: www.mabsmurcia.com<br />
Photographer: Geoff Bell<br />
The Pets In Spain team are here to help<br />
abandoned animals in Spain and others<br />
in need of re-homing. If you are looking<br />
to adopt a dog or cat, or need to fi nd a<br />
home for one, or if you simply want to<br />
know more about taking care of your pet<br />
in Spain, this is the web site for you.<br />
call 965 419 769<br />
Banger and Mash<br />
are twin 20 week<br />
old small girls.<br />
They have had all<br />
their vaccinations<br />
and are adorable.<br />
Banger is lively<br />
and Mash is quiet<br />
and delicate. For<br />
more information<br />
Toby who is about<br />
a year and a<br />
half old and is a<br />
slightly nervous<br />
little boy who<br />
bears the scars<br />
of acid or boiling<br />
water which<br />
burnt his side. He<br />
has healed now but his coat has not fully grown<br />
back. He is vaccinated. For more information<br />
please call: 659 274 573<br />
These gorgeous<br />
Egyptian<br />
Mau kittens are<br />
3 months old.<br />
Their mother was<br />
abandoned when<br />
her owners moved and left her behind. They<br />
have big ears and very short fur that does not<br />
leave hairs in the house. The mother has already<br />
been adopted so it’s just the kittens that<br />
need homes. For more information call Linda:<br />
646 645 035<br />
To view more animals for adoption go to:<br />
www.petsinspain.info<br />
If you would like to advertise an animal<br />
email: info@petsinspain.info<br />
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Well Autumn is here and the visitors have<br />
gone back. You may just be looking for a<br />
new hobby to fi ll in all that time you have<br />
on your hands!!! Why not try sailing, Radio<br />
Controlled Sailing. I am talking about a<br />
great pastime whether you are a beginner or<br />
a seasoned sailor it is worth giving it a try.<br />
The new Radio Control Model Group based<br />
in Los Alcázares under the name of RC Mar<br />
Menor Sailing Group, has progressed well<br />
over its fi rst three months. The group is a<br />
S.A.M.M. group and members can enjoy the<br />
full range of benefi ts that S.A.M.M. has to<br />
offer, including an active social scene and the<br />
opportunity of sailing full sized boats.<br />
We are based at the Sports College of Infanta<br />
Cristina on the shores of the Mar Menor<br />
and enjoy their excellent sailing facilities.<br />
Our racing series has now started and will<br />
mainly consist of members getting used to<br />
their new boats, with some learning to sail<br />
for the fi rst time. Later we will have a better<br />
understanding of the full range of boats at our<br />
disposal and what we need to cater for. While<br />
our main venue will be Infanta Cristina, we<br />
hope to visit other locations perhaps once a<br />
month to try and attract a wider membership<br />
at venues such as Cartagena. We have our<br />
fi rst visit planned for <strong>October</strong> 14 th and will<br />
be meeting not to race, but just to check<br />
out sailing conditions in the harbour. We<br />
are currently seeking permission from the<br />
Harbour Authority to use this location as a<br />
regular monthly meeting. Anyone wishing to<br />
join in is very welcome please give me a call<br />
fi rst for more info.<br />
Later we will start with some simple Match<br />
racing to defi ne the different capabilities of<br />
each boat and then progress to a form of<br />
handicap racing along the lines of a rigged<br />
start. With all new clubs it is a matter of wait<br />
and see what boats people want to buy and I<br />
believe that variety is the spice of life. In the<br />
short term it looks like the International One<br />
Metre will form the fi rst boat class for racing.<br />
The I.O.M. as it is called has world wide<br />
support and has been in production for more<br />
than 30 years with national competitions in<br />
Europe, USA, New Zealand, and Australia,<br />
and world championships run every year. Last<br />
year the Spanish National Championships<br />
were held at the college over a 3 day period<br />
with some 14 boats taking part.<br />
We have already attracted a wide range of<br />
boat types and owners with an equally wide<br />
range of diverse skills. Their skills are always<br />
available to members and they are willing<br />
to assist if need be. The group caters for all<br />
tastes whether you are a seasoned model boat<br />
builder or you prefer your boat straight out of<br />
a box. The range of boats we have attracted<br />
so far to our Friday morning get together<br />
is very varied from the compact Victoria at<br />
750mm long, up to the mighty 5 foot long<br />
American East Coast 12 metre, also including<br />
a Thunder Tiger, two International One<br />
Metres, and a Austrian Smaragd. We have<br />
Just acquired one of the new American Vela<br />
one metre boats, this was shipped in from the<br />
states for valuation and trials, looking very<br />
good it comes fully built and includes a 2.4<br />
R.C. control system. We have also had a Laser<br />
which is a copy of the world famous Laser<br />
single handed 2.4 class dinghies. In the U.K.<br />
Sailors of the full size Laser regularly race the<br />
R.C. version in winter to sharpen their skills,<br />
that is if they can break the ice on the local<br />
pond, sorry I could not resist that one.<br />
It is also our intention to cater for our<br />
disabled friends with a new boat due to be<br />
completed by September. It is an M6 and the<br />
biggest boat to date at 5’6” long and dual<br />
controlled. It is controlled by a crew of two,<br />
one helmsman and one sail trimmer each with<br />
a separate radio unit, we believe it is the only<br />
one of its kind and is an ideal tool for disabled<br />
sailors. This boat also has value for beginner’s<br />
wanting to test the water so to speak, it allows<br />
a beginner to gain confi dence with a tutor on<br />
one aspect at a time before going solo.<br />
We also would like to bridge the divide and<br />
become multinational and have some other<br />
nationalities as members. We already have<br />
members from Scotland, Ireland, England and<br />
even Yorkshire, where ever that is, (answers<br />
on a post card to!!).<br />
If we can tempt you to come and take a look<br />
then for more information please check out<br />
our website www.rcmarmenorsailinggroup.eu<br />
or phone David on 968 170 870<br />
E-mail davidlees66@hotmail.com. Hope to<br />
see you on the water soon.<br />
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BLACK AND WHITE BALL<br />
With enough energy to light up a small city<br />
Age Concern committee members rolled<br />
into town (or more precisely, port) on Friday<br />
morning. After spending the last couple<br />
of months planning and selling tickets for<br />
this year’s premier fund raiser, the day had<br />
fi nally arrived and there was much to do.<br />
Mr and Mrs Señor Shifter arrived on time<br />
and the long tables donated by Los Gallayos<br />
were heaved onboard, then a trip down the<br />
Via Axial to La Gato Verde where countless<br />
tables and chairs fi lled up the van to capacity.<br />
A short hop then into the very heart of the<br />
Marina and down to the Yacht Club venue<br />
where a vast blank space was waiting to<br />
be transformed. Enthusiasm is never in<br />
short supply and with a gusto that belied<br />
their collective years the intrepid bunch of<br />
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volunteers set about converting their blank<br />
canvas into a fi tting arena to welcome the<br />
anticipated 200 plus guests.<br />
At last everything that could be decorated was<br />
decorated, a quick shower and turnaround<br />
for everyone, then back to welcome the<br />
arriving guests. There is something exciting<br />
about Black and White and as everyone<br />
had made the effort, the result was like a<br />
chessboard that ebbed and fl owed, generally<br />
towards and away from the bar.<br />
The very accomplished Lenny Mitchell<br />
soon had everyone up dancing and it wasn’t<br />
long before honoured guest the Mayor of<br />
Mazarrón Señor Gines Campillo Mendez<br />
and his consort succumbed to the beat and<br />
for a couple of hours at least was able to<br />
forget about the burden of offi ce, as did Kelly<br />
Ensor who had an almost ‘Grenfellesque’<br />
appearance as stately as a galleon she sailed<br />
across the fl oor in her splendid ensemble.<br />
Steve the Snip was caught for a moment<br />
not telling his awful jokes, but only for a<br />
moment, and all were quite amazed at<br />
Graham Jackson’s man/woman outfi t, his<br />
alter-ego getting admiring glances from<br />
a few of the less sober males. Trevor and<br />
Brenda Thornton crackled with energy like a<br />
pair of fresh Duracell batteries; their zest for<br />
life is quite infectious.<br />
The Roving Diner provided a splendid<br />
buffet and everyone had good comments<br />
about their fare and professionalism. The<br />
raffl e was drawn and a great big thank you<br />
to all the local businesses who contributed<br />
prizes; your generosity will not be forgotten<br />
and to all those who bought tickets, digging<br />
deep to give over 700€ of profi t - simply<br />
magnifi cent.<br />
Around midnight the event drew to its<br />
conclusion and under bright stars and a<br />
waning moon everyone made their happy<br />
way home. Chairs and tables were stacked<br />
and rubbish removed and a tired but happy<br />
bunch of Age Concerner’s made for home.<br />
A successful Ball and a total profi t for the<br />
charity of just over 2500€. Thank you all.<br />
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Energy Saving Week 17 - 23 <strong>October</strong><br />
Energy Saving Week is a great way of making<br />
it hit home just how vital everyone’s input<br />
is in the fi ght against climate change. It’s<br />
helped propel the issue of saving energy into<br />
people’s thoughts, and into the political arena,<br />
not to mention giving people energy saving<br />
tips they can easily adopt. Here in Spain it<br />
is just as important to save energy as it is in<br />
the UK. There are various ways in which you<br />
can save energy, much of it without costing<br />
you anything.<br />
Energy Saving Tips<br />
If you can’t wait for this year’s Energy Saving<br />
Week to kick off in your area, why not try<br />
and adopt some of our quick tips to help you<br />
become more energy effi cient:<br />
• Replace used light bulbs with energy<br />
saving bulbs<br />
• Move furniture away from radiators to allow<br />
heat to circulate<br />
• Choose energy saving recommended<br />
household appliances<br />
• Ensure all pipes are lagged except for areas<br />
where is it “useful heat”<br />
• Fit thermostatic radiator valves to control<br />
temperature room by room<br />
• Fit a programmable room stat as a master<br />
stat to your central heating system<br />
• Turn your thermostat down a degree<br />
• Place foil around the back of your radiators<br />
to refl ect heat back into the room<br />
Insulation<br />
The obvious solution to keeping your house<br />
warm in the winter and cool in the summer is<br />
insulation. Many of the houses in Spain were<br />
built as holiday homes and were not designed<br />
to be occupied all year, especially during the<br />
winter months. This causes a damp problem<br />
in many cases, especially in the bedrooms<br />
and bathrooms. There are now professional<br />
companies in the region offering excellent<br />
ways of insulating your home.<br />
Curing Damp<br />
One way to<br />
ensure that<br />
you house is<br />
not damp is<br />
to have full<br />
central heating<br />
which will<br />
help dry your<br />
house out as<br />
most houses<br />
are built with thousands of litres of water in<br />
their construction. Full central heating systems<br />
either oil, gas or others (the majority<br />
in this region are oil fi red) with some natural<br />
gas or LPG will assist in curing damp. The reason<br />
for this is that the walls of the house will<br />
dry out and maintain the thermal capacity of<br />
the building. Camposol Heating & Maintenance<br />
(page 6) or Cálida Gas (page 51) can<br />
provide such systems.<br />
Adequate ventilation is also very important to<br />
ensure no damp, especially if you have gas<br />
fi res as your main heat source. This is also vital<br />
for safety reasons. There are now 99% effi<br />
cient fl ue-less, wall mounted gas fi res avail-<br />
able on the market, supplied and fi tted by<br />
Camposol Heating & Maintenance (page<br />
6), which do not give off the<br />
same amount of condensation<br />
as the old style mobile<br />
units.<br />
You can now also buy secure,<br />
purpose built window vents<br />
right here in the <strong>Costa</strong> Càlida<br />
from No More Mould. (page<br />
53). Mould is a serious problem<br />
here in Spain and can<br />
cause asthma and respiratory<br />
problems. No More Mould’s<br />
aim was to fi nd a product<br />
that kills mould and protects<br />
against re-growth. Eventu-<br />
ally they found “Expore” and it worked so<br />
well that they decided to import it from the<br />
UK. Condensation is also a big problem here<br />
so we import adjustable air fl ow trickle vents<br />
from the UK and this is another product that<br />
helps prevent mould. For further information<br />
on any of these products contact No More<br />
Mould on 672 795 574 or 677 623 442.<br />
T here are various products on the market<br />
that can solve a damp problem, another one<br />
of them being Liquid Wallpaper. This is a<br />
new product that can be pasted on the walls,<br />
creating a layer of insulation. It comes in a<br />
huge selection of colours and can be applied<br />
by a good DIYer. The paper comes in a bag<br />
and is added to water to create a paste which<br />
can be applied to one or all of the walls of the<br />
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room, adding colour to what may be a totally<br />
white decor. See Liquid Wallpaper advert on<br />
page …….<br />
Double Glazing<br />
Another way of cutting down heat loss is of<br />
course double glazing. This will also cut down<br />
outside noise and it is an excellent security<br />
measure. It is quite simple to change your<br />
windows and patio doors to double glazing<br />
and there are numerous companies in the<br />
area that specialise in this.<br />
Latest Technology Intelligent Glass Replacement<br />
double glazed units.<br />
Made with 4mm<br />
glass leaves &<br />
argon fi lled, our<br />
double glazed replacement<br />
units<br />
for <strong>2011</strong> are now<br />
even more energy<br />
effi cient. -<br />
Up to 40% more<br />
insulation in both<br />
summer and winter<br />
months. For<br />
more information<br />
call Kevin’s<br />
Fly Screens and<br />
Aluminium Services<br />
(page 53)<br />
on 650 662 579<br />
or visit our website<br />
www.kevinsfl yscreens.com.<br />
In the Garden<br />
It’s great to get outdoors and enjoy the<br />
garden, but fi ght the temptation to use the<br />
hosepipe or sprinkler. It’s still possible to keep<br />
the lawn pristine without using high quantities<br />
of water by investing in a water butt and<br />
watering can instead. A water butt collects<br />
and stores rainwater throughout the year,<br />
which you can then use free of charge to water<br />
your lawn and plants. You should also bear<br />
in mind the water restrictions may operate in<br />
the summer months. It is fairly easy to install<br />
guttering which can be directed into a water<br />
butt and this can be used for watering plants,<br />
washing the car and many other activities. If<br />
you are storing water in this way remember<br />
to protect against mosquitoes. One way of<br />
combating mosquitoes is to put some cooking<br />
oil into the water butt. This will form a layer<br />
on top of the water, preventing mosquitoes<br />
getting into the water.<br />
If you have a large water deposit, water tank<br />
or Spa, you can purify<br />
& make the water safe<br />
to drink by investing<br />
in an Aquasmater<br />
Capsule (page 54). No<br />
other chemicals are<br />
required. This amazing<br />
invention, sold in<br />
37 countries world-<br />
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wide, ionizes the water, turning well water<br />
or municipal tap water into purifi ed drinking<br />
water. They are guaranteed to last at least<br />
12 months, so if you only need pure water for<br />
6 months, you can take the capsule out and<br />
keep it until the following year. One capsule<br />
will sanitize 2,000 litres of water.<br />
Keeping a cover on your swimming pool will<br />
not only reduce heat loss, but it will also reduce<br />
the amount of water lost due to the<br />
wind and the sun. Daisy Pools (page 52) are<br />
the main suppliers of swimming pool covers<br />
in the area. Give them a call and they will<br />
advise you on the best ways to extend the<br />
weeks you will be able to use your pool.<br />
In the Home<br />
When trying to use less energy in the home<br />
it’s important to choose energy-saving products.<br />
If you need to replace any of your white<br />
goods, including your boiler, consider investing<br />
in more energy effi cient products. Look<br />
out for the blue Energy Saving logo on products<br />
and select these items instead of less<br />
energy effi cient models. Making your house<br />
more energy effi cient is also vitally important<br />
if you are considering putting your property<br />
on the market. Low wattage light bulbs now<br />
come in various shapes and sizes and using<br />
these in all lighting appliances will save you<br />
money.<br />
Save Energy and money with a secondary<br />
electricity meter or sensor from CHM<br />
With the ever increasing cost of electricity<br />
have you considered a secondary electricity<br />
meter? Whether you are renting out your<br />
property or not, fi tting a secondary meter can<br />
ensure that you have no hefty unexpected<br />
bills. These meters are fed with pre-paid<br />
cards (either €5 or €10 each). The meter tariff<br />
is set to the same as the electricity provider,<br />
but this can be over- ridden by the property<br />
owner if needed. Tenants have been found to<br />
turn on far more appliances in both summer<br />
and winter if they are not paying the bill; a bit<br />
of a shock when it turns out to be more that<br />
the rent you are taking!<br />
For air conditioning units CHM also provide<br />
motion room sensors that will de-activate after<br />
15 minutes if there is no movement in the<br />
room, saving you both money and energy.<br />
Your central heating system<br />
When having your new central heating system<br />
installed, remember to ensure that the<br />
positioning of the radiators have been carefully<br />
planned with your installer. Try and ensure<br />
that they are on inside walls and not<br />
underneath windows where possible. It has<br />
been publicised recently on British television<br />
that with a thermal imaging camera heat loss<br />
is greater than was originally thought if a radiator<br />
is positioned under a window or an outside<br />
wall. If there is no choice, then at least<br />
put a heat resistant refl ective layer on the<br />
wall behind the radiator.<br />
Heating and Water<br />
Systems.<br />
Most heating and water<br />
systems (hot and<br />
cold) will benefi t from<br />
in-line descalers.<br />
These can be either<br />
electronic or manual<br />
types and in-line fi lters<br />
can combat hard water<br />
problems by removing<br />
harmful dirt and<br />
corrosive substances.<br />
This can extend the<br />
effi ciency of heat exchangers,<br />
electrical<br />
elements, kettles, dish washers and washing<br />
machines. These products can be sourced<br />
through Healthy H20.<br />
Solar Water Systems<br />
Solar hot water<br />
systems<br />
make the<br />
most of the<br />
natural heat<br />
given off by<br />
the sun. The<br />
water will<br />
heat up on<br />
most days,<br />
even if there is little sun, but you will need a<br />
back-up boiler if there is no sun for 3-4 days.<br />
These systems can be installed by various local<br />
companies.<br />
Why not use the power of the sun to reduce<br />
your energy bills with a solar water heater<br />
from Free-Sol? Solar power is a free, clean,<br />
green energy source and with the installation<br />
of a solar hot water heater being more affordable<br />
than ever before, there has never been a<br />
better time to upgrade your home to harness<br />
the power of the sun throughout the year.<br />
A solar water heating system is one of the<br />
most cost effective ways to help lower your<br />
carbon footprint and with oil, gas and electricity<br />
costs continuing to increase, solar power<br />
is also a great way to deliver hot water for<br />
FREE. The sun is doing all of the work for<br />
you, even in winter! In fact with a solar water<br />
heater you can expect to save up to 80% on<br />
the cost of producing your hot water. Furthermore,<br />
a solar water heater can enhance<br />
the value of your property. Within a very<br />
short period, the capital cost can be offset by<br />
the lower running costs with the result that<br />
your initial investment will begin to pay you<br />
back quickly.<br />
To fi nd out more, see the Free-Sol advert on<br />
page 52 or phone Martin Freeman on 659 232<br />
507. martin.freeman@free-sol.com<br />
Solardirecta<br />
(page 59)<br />
have specialized<br />
in solar<br />
water heaters<br />
for over<br />
seven years.<br />
With over 500<br />
systems sold<br />
and installed<br />
throughout southern Spain, they have unrivalled<br />
experience in the solar water heater<br />
fi eld. Their own branded high quality units<br />
are manufactured specifi cally for the Spanish<br />
market and are fully mains pressurized. Keith<br />
explains that, unlike other systems, Solardirecta’s<br />
system has no need for a pre-heating<br />
copper coil inside the tank. All the energy<br />
produced goes directly into the tank which inturn<br />
feeds directly into the house, so there is<br />
very little heat lost and as a bonus, no need<br />
for the ugly header tank on top and no additional<br />
pumps are required. If you are looking<br />
for a reliable company who can supply and<br />
install a solar hot water system for you, or<br />
you simply want to buy a unit to fi t yourself,<br />
Solardirecta can help and all advice is free.<br />
Stock is always available and delivery is quick<br />
so call Solardirecta today and start saving<br />
money immediately. Call Keith on 659315130<br />
or email sales@solardirecta.com<br />
All Solar Directa systems are of the highest<br />
specifi cations and can be fi tted in a day. Give<br />
Keith a call on 659 315 130<br />
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Convenience stores now allowed to sell<br />
cigarettes<br />
Shops which open for 18 hours or more per<br />
day will now be able to sell cigarettes and<br />
loose tobacco. A new law has been passed<br />
which means that, in addition to petrol stations,<br />
convenience stores will also be allowed<br />
to set up cigarette machines on the premises.<br />
It means shops such as the chain stores which<br />
never shut will be permitted to have vending<br />
machines in store, but they will not be<br />
allowed to sell cigarettes off the shelf, since<br />
only tobacconists are authorised to do so.<br />
The law will rule out 7/11 stores and most<br />
internet cafés, since these are only open for<br />
between 12 and 16 hours daily. Convenience<br />
stores will be obliged to apply to the Commission<br />
for the Tobacco Market, and register<br />
the vending machine number as well as the<br />
tobacconist who supplies them.<br />
This measure is designed to maintain strict<br />
controls over cigarette sales.<br />
Spanish scientists develop vaccine to<br />
prevent Alzheimer’s<br />
A group of scientists from the Euroespes biomedical<br />
research centre in Galicia, lead by Dr<br />
Ramón Cacabelos, have developed the fi rst<br />
preventative vaccine against Alzheimer’s, and<br />
have applied for a patent with the US Patent<br />
Offi ce.<br />
“It’s another step forward in the fi ght against<br />
the illness”, said Dr Cacabelos in today’s press<br />
conference.<br />
The vaccine, known as EE-AD-SP1 and tested<br />
on genetically modifi ed rats, allows the process<br />
of brain death, which begins as soon as<br />
the brain reaches maturity at the age of 30,<br />
to be intercepted, thus preventing it from<br />
developing again in old age. The vaccine has<br />
also shown itself to be effective in reduce<br />
pathogenic features of the disease in animals<br />
with signs of cerebral degeneration.<br />
The vaccine, which is given in two separate<br />
doses, introduces a new immunogen which<br />
promotes the generation of antibodies to<br />
fi ght the amyloid plaques where beta-amyloid<br />
proteins accumulate in the brain of Alzheimer<br />
patients. The drug, presented in sphingosine-<br />
1-phosphate rich liposomes that contribute to<br />
the regeneration of neurones, also impedes<br />
intracranial haemorrhages and side effects of<br />
other Alzheimer medicines.<br />
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This twin purpose - therapeutic and preventative<br />
- makes this vaccine a new weapon in<br />
the fi ght against the disease and could benefi<br />
t both people at high risk of developing the<br />
illness, as well as those who already show<br />
symptoms of it.<br />
Once it has been accepted by the US Patent<br />
Offi ce, the vaccine will be clinically developed<br />
overseas, most probably in the United States.<br />
“Europe is slow when it comes to developing<br />
new drugs”, said Cacabelos. The Euroespes<br />
group, which has spent 20 years developing<br />
drugs to treat Alzheimer’s, believes that the<br />
vaccine could be ready for dispensing in six<br />
to eight years.<br />
Alzheimer’s is currently the third biggest<br />
health problem in the world and the fi fth largest<br />
cause of death amongst the over 65s in<br />
the United States. In the European Union,<br />
dementia care and treatment costs taxpayers<br />
160 billion euros a year, with an average cost<br />
of 22,000 euros per patient.<br />
EC says Spanish economy will grow<br />
0.8% in <strong>2011</strong><br />
The European Commission (EC) maintained<br />
that the Spanish economy would grow 0.8%<br />
in <strong>2011</strong>, the same fi gure it forecast in May<br />
of this year and well below the government’s<br />
latest forecast of 1.3 %.<br />
The quarterly fi gures, however, show a deceleration<br />
in Spain’s GDP, with the EC expecting<br />
just 0.1% growth between July and September,<br />
a rate they forecast to continue then until<br />
the end of the year. During the fi rst quarter of<br />
<strong>2011</strong>, the Spanish economy grew more than<br />
expected, reaching 0.4%, spurred on by an<br />
increase in exports, which is why the 0.8%<br />
fi gure has been maintained, despite the fact<br />
that between April and June it slowed to just<br />
0.2%.<br />
The EC Executive has nevertheless warned<br />
that the imbalances in the private sector that<br />
built up during the real estate boom and the<br />
high level of unemployment are still major<br />
burdens for the Spanish economy.<br />
Infl ation will sit around the 2.9% mark across<br />
the year, compared with the 3% forecast in<br />
May and the fi gure of 1.8% recorded in 2010,<br />
as a result of the quarterly drop in prices. According<br />
to the EC, the evolution of the rate of<br />
infl ation is due in the main to the higher oil<br />
prices during the fi rst half of the year, which,<br />
in turn, were due to the social and political<br />
unrest in northern Africa.<br />
The EC forecasts little<br />
change in consumer<br />
spending will remain<br />
cautious because of<br />
widespread personal<br />
debt and unemployment,<br />
whereas public<br />
spending will rise, after<br />
the increase seen<br />
in the fi rst quarter,<br />
as a consequence of<br />
the “ambitious” programme<br />
of tax consoli-<br />
dation.<br />
During the fi nal months of <strong>2011</strong>, the EC expects<br />
infl ation to keep falling as the infl ationary<br />
impact of the increase in VAT and the<br />
price of electricity gradually wear off.<br />
Less than one per cent of driving fi nes<br />
used to support traffi c accident victims<br />
Spain’s ministry of traffi c netted 457.8 million<br />
euros in fi nes last year – but only spent 0.09<br />
per cent of it on helping accident victims.<br />
A law passed in 2009 now makes it compulsory<br />
for every cent in fi nes collected by the<br />
Dirección General de Tráfi co (DGT) to be<br />
spent on accident prevention, road safety and<br />
supporting victims of road crashes. Representatives<br />
from Spain’s Association of Road<br />
Traffi c Accident Victims say they are grateful<br />
for the benefi ts they receive, but are disappointed<br />
that this is only 450,000€ a year –<br />
despite the DGT’s having amassed more than<br />
26 million over budget in fi nes and a further<br />
523 million euros in taxes.<br />
The Association has only been receiving funds<br />
since 2007 – when they got 180,000€, but<br />
say the fact they are only given a tiny slice<br />
of the DGT’s income from fi nes means they<br />
are unable to offer vital fi nancial assistance<br />
to most of their members.<br />
For each person killed on the road, numerous<br />
others are left severely disabled either<br />
temporarily or permanently meaning they are<br />
unable to work, and their meagre disability<br />
pension – assuming they are entitled to one<br />
– does not even stretch to cover the cost of<br />
living, let alone paying for carers or adapting<br />
their homes to be able to live in them. The average<br />
monthly disability pension ranges from<br />
450€ to 700€, depending upon region, and<br />
those claiming must have worked and ‘paid<br />
into the system’ for a certain number of years<br />
prior to becoming incapacitated.<br />
The law does not state what percentage of<br />
fi nes collected should be paid to accident victims,<br />
meaning that last year, out of the 822<br />
million euros spent by the DGT, nearly half<br />
went on ‘promoting responsible driving’; another<br />
86 million was invested in ‘improving<br />
traffi c fl ow’, and 253 million on making it easier<br />
and quicker to fi ne people.<br />
Association representatives explain that they<br />
are run entirely by volunteers, many of whom<br />
give up their jobs to help, and receive nothing<br />
from the DGT. The DGT is self-fi nancing<br />
and budgets for annual fi nes according to its<br />
needs. To pay its 10,000 staff members, it<br />
needs to collect 453 million euros a year in<br />
fi nes from motorists.<br />
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St Nicholas Ecumenical Church<br />
Calle Sobrija 2248<br />
Sector D20 Camposol<br />
By Rev Len Eaton MBE<br />
The seemingly never ending extremely<br />
hot summer is at last cooling down a bit.<br />
There are many in the congregation who<br />
have sung their praises not only to the Lord<br />
during this time, but also to the planners of<br />
the new Church building who insisted that<br />
the Church be fi tted with air conditioning.<br />
The Lord works in mysterious ways; His<br />
wonders to perform and what a difference<br />
it has made to our services of worship.<br />
The summer is always a mixture of regular<br />
comers being away and new and occasional<br />
visitors arriving, but the numbers attending<br />
regular Sunday services have remained<br />
more or less at the same level. It is always<br />
a great joy to see new faces and equally<br />
to see our resident regulars returning with<br />
many stories to tell.<br />
We are now well on our way through<br />
Trinity, the longest season of the Christian<br />
year which continues until 1 st November,<br />
All Saints Day, then onwards with the<br />
Sundays before Advent and fi nally Advent<br />
and Christmas. From 1 st <strong>October</strong> it’s only<br />
86 days until Christmas Day!<br />
On Sunday 9 th <strong>October</strong> we will be celebrating<br />
Harvest Festival, one of the oldest<br />
festivals in the Bible; that of taking the fi rst<br />
fruits of their labours to the house of God.<br />
As prescribed in Deuteronomy Chapter 26<br />
to the Israelites during their escape from<br />
Egypt, they were told by God to do this.<br />
The gifts were to be blessed by the Priest<br />
and distributed to the needy. Harvest<br />
Festival is one of a number of times in the<br />
year when the collection taken in Church is<br />
sent to a school in Asesewa, Ghana, which<br />
we have been supporting for nine years.<br />
The money is used to supply basic items;<br />
a small cotton uniform, pencils, pens and<br />
paper so that children are able to attend<br />
school. We ask specifi cally that gifts of<br />
food, vegetables and fruit is not brought<br />
to Church in the traditional way, but that<br />
people give as generously as they possibly<br />
can when the collection is taken. What<br />
better gift can a child receive than the<br />
ability to read, write and understand basic<br />
arithmetic? You would be most welcome to<br />
come and join us.<br />
Services for <strong>October</strong> <strong>2011</strong><br />
Sunday 2 nd<br />
Song s of Praise 10.30am<br />
Sunday 9 th<br />
Holy Communion, Harvest Festival<br />
10.30am<br />
Sunday 16 th<br />
Morning Prayer 10.30am<br />
Sunday 23 rd<br />
Holy Communion 10.30am<br />
Sunday 30 th<br />
Song, Worship and Prayer<br />
10.30am<br />
All services are in English and take place at<br />
Calle Sobrija 2248, D20 Camposol, where a<br />
warm welcome awaits you. We have a very<br />
active ministry in the German language led<br />
by Rev Bro Konrad, who holds services in<br />
San José Church, Puerto de Mazarrón, on<br />
the 2 nd and 4 th Sundays at 4pm. Services<br />
offered by the Church are Wedding<br />
Blessings, Holy Baptism, Confi rmation<br />
and Funerals. We have a Pastoral Service<br />
throughout the year, people who listen, talk<br />
and are there to help anyone who is sick<br />
or in need. The Pastoral care is absolutely<br />
confi dential.<br />
For any of the Church Services offered,<br />
or other information, please call Rev Len<br />
Eaton on 968 138 952, or Rev Deacon<br />
Maureen Kent on 636 099 679<br />
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Blackie<br />
Blackie was initially a<br />
little shy with strangers,<br />
showed preference for<br />
females, but being a<br />
little wary of males,<br />
which is probably due<br />
to his past. He is an<br />
affectionate dog who<br />
likes to be with you,<br />
enjoys being stroked<br />
and will lean against you<br />
with his head on your knee.<br />
He is very amiable and has<br />
never shown any sign of<br />
aggression. He is very<br />
responsive to what is<br />
required of him and has<br />
got used to country walks<br />
on a lead. When he was<br />
fi rst rescued he was very<br />
lethargic with no energy,<br />
but since undergoing treatment for his<br />
Leishmania he has become the lively young<br />
dog he should be who likes to play with<br />
other dogs, gets on with cats and enjoys<br />
socialising with people.<br />
For more information regarding any MARA<br />
animals please ring Marion on 628811187<br />
or Keith on 628811188.<br />
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The annual meeting of WARM was held<br />
on 20th August and was kindly hosted by<br />
Andrea and Rob. Many thanks to both<br />
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of them for an<br />
excellent lunch and<br />
for the swim in the<br />
new pool!<br />
As well as being<br />
a social event the<br />
aim of the meeting<br />
was to arrange<br />
the forthcoming<br />
year’s programme.<br />
This was achieved<br />
and we now have<br />
a full and varied<br />
programme of 24<br />
walks.<br />
The next walk will be<br />
on 8th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2011</strong><br />
with the fi nal one on<br />
Thursday 14th June<br />
2012.<br />
If you are interested<br />
in walking and would<br />
like to join a friendly<br />
group and explore<br />
the region of Murcia<br />
on foot please contact<br />
warm2005@gmail.<br />
com for a copy of the<br />
programme.<br />
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Viva Las Vegas<br />
The Viva Las Vegas Show was a complete<br />
sell-out, with not a ticket to be had anywhere.<br />
More than 190 people turned up at the Alandalus<br />
Restaurant, on the outskirts of Calasparra,<br />
last weekend to enjoy the show and<br />
help raise money for MABS Murcia NW.<br />
Charles Prince and Christine King travelled<br />
from Mazarrón to entertain the audience with<br />
a feast of well known songs from Elvis Presley,<br />
Dusty Springfi eld and other famous stars<br />
who have appeared on the Las Vegas circuit.<br />
Adults and children alike were up dancing<br />
most of the night and the restaurant provided<br />
a range of tapas. The fi rst prize for the raffl e<br />
was kindly donated by La Mariposa Hotel, Gebas<br />
in the Sierra de Espuña – a quad biking<br />
session for 2, including lunch at the hotel. The<br />
raffl e raised 506€ on the night, bringing the<br />
fi nal total of funds for MABS to an incredible<br />
1,156€.<br />
MABS Co-ordinator, Cecilia Coulson, said<br />
“As people were leaving at the end of the<br />
night they were asking when the next show<br />
would be; in fact some people have asked to<br />
be on the waiting list for tickets. I have also<br />
received many emails saying what a fantastic<br />
night it was. As one lady remarked as she left:<br />
‘Let’s have more’, so we will be organising<br />
another event very soon.” A new wheelchair<br />
has already been purchased with some of the<br />
funds raised.<br />
MABS Murcia is a registered charity (No.<br />
7261) offering help and support to local<br />
people of all nationalities who have<br />
been diagnosed with or are being treated<br />
for cancer. If you or someone you know<br />
would like some confi dential help or support<br />
call our HELPLINE 620 422 410 or<br />
visit their website: www.mabsmurcia.<br />
com<br />
Photographer: Arthur Coulson<br />
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Once again the weather has caused havoc<br />
with the crops in the area. There were<br />
reports of hail stones as big as golf balls,<br />
crashing down and shredding the leaves<br />
on the trees, knocking almonds, fi gs and<br />
olives to the ground. The rest of the time,<br />
the weather has been hotter than usual<br />
and we have enjoyed using the swimming<br />
pool to keep cool. Those who went back<br />
to the UK to escape the heat during July<br />
and August, came back to nearly as hot<br />
weather.<br />
The fi estas in the area continue into <strong>October</strong>,<br />
with Bullas celebrating their Wine<br />
Festival.<br />
BULLAS<br />
Bullas celebrates its main Feast honouring<br />
Our Lady of the Rosary, on <strong>October</strong> 7th,<br />
but according to an old tradition, the actual<br />
Feast’s day falls on the fi rst Sunday<br />
in <strong>October</strong>. The popular character who announces<br />
the arrival of the Feast is a typical<br />
musician called commonly “el Tío de<br />
la Pita”.<br />
The Friday’s night celebration is called<br />
“Migas Night”, when everybody enjoys<br />
the “Migas”, a typical Spanish dish from<br />
Bullas, which is basically fl our, oil and water<br />
cooked in a huge pan with various pieces<br />
of meat and/or fi sh added. Saturday’s<br />
dawn marks the beginning of the popular<br />
“Diana”, a very original parade where noone<br />
of the participating people can escape<br />
from going dirty with fl our and eggs which<br />
are thrown in gay abandon.<br />
Apart from the two processions with the<br />
image of Our Lady of the Rosary, there<br />
are parades and the fl oral offerings,<br />
where many people accompanied by music<br />
bands carrying fl owers for the Holy Virgin’s<br />
image that stands at the Church.<br />
Bullas celebrates the Wine Festival every<br />
last weekend in September just before the<br />
Patronal Feast. Activities include the Wine<br />
Route’s guided tours, tastings by the<br />
Master of Wine that every year is awarded<br />
to a person devoted to the viticulture<br />
and oenology. Some other events are held<br />
in the central square of Bullas on Sunday<br />
morning, such as the Inauguration of<br />
the Wine Fountain, the traditional grape<br />
treading and the First Juice’s Blessing<br />
that can be sampled by the people. Mu-<br />
sic and traditional dances are also present<br />
during these special moments.<br />
Some other initiatives such as the Tapas<br />
Fair make this festive climate more exciting<br />
during these days when Bullas’ star<br />
product, the wine, is celebrated.<br />
There’s plenty to see and do in and around<br />
Bullas including:<br />
Museo del Vino, Bullas<br />
This Museum illustrates the historical implications,<br />
culture and socioeconomic effects<br />
of the wine industry. It is located in<br />
one of the few traditional wineries that<br />
have survived in perfect condition, with its<br />
brick vaults and jars partly buried in the<br />
ground along its halls. English audio guide<br />
available. At Avda. de Murcia, s/n. 30180,<br />
Bullas, Murcia. Open Tuesday to Saturday,<br />
10:30-14:00 and 17:00-20:00. Contact<br />
968 657 211.<br />
Don Pepe Marsilla House Museum<br />
Every Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat<br />
This wonderful house has been restored<br />
and preserved to recreate the lifestyle<br />
of Don José Marsilla Melgares de Aguilar<br />
(1854–1930). This old noble house is located<br />
in Bullas’ Rosario Street, just behind<br />
the parish Church. Don Pepe was a rich<br />
and powerful landowner and mayor of Bullas.<br />
There is an audio guide of the building.<br />
El Zacatín<br />
Craft Fair<br />
Held in the<br />
Plaza Vieja<br />
and the Castle<br />
area in<br />
the centre of<br />
town on the<br />
fi rst Sunday<br />
of each<br />
month, this<br />
handicraft<br />
fair sells<br />
products and<br />
crafts from<br />
the region.<br />
Different activities<br />
are arranged each month including<br />
guided visits, demonstrations of traditional<br />
trades.<br />
General Market<br />
This market offers fresh fruit and vegetables<br />
and some household goods every<br />
Tuesday morning in Gran Via Manuel Lopez<br />
Carreno and surrounding streets. 08:30-<br />
14:00pm<br />
Cehegin Scene<br />
In <strong>October</strong> the artisan market “El Mesoncico”<br />
says hello to its monthly events until<br />
next June. We celebrate the market the last<br />
Sunday of the month in Plaza del Castillo<br />
at the heart of the old town from 10.00 to<br />
15.00pm. There you will fi nd more than 50<br />
craftsmen of the area with stalls displaying<br />
such products as cured meats, hams, pottery,<br />
cakes, wines, cheeses, etc. Each of<br />
the monthly markets has a different theme<br />
showing traditional and local crafts. You<br />
will be able to taste and enjoy the foods<br />
and products most typical to this area.<br />
<strong>October</strong> is the start of the Artisan Market<br />
“El Mesoncico” with many new activities.<br />
On this occasion we can see the proccess<br />
of pressing of the grapes as it has<br />
been since the XIX century. Furthermore,<br />
it will be possible to taste wines<br />
from the bodegas of Cehegin in the<br />
denomination of Bullas together with<br />
cheeses of the area.<br />
Free parking is available at the Marble<br />
Technology Centre situated in Carretera<br />
Murcia, approached from the West. A free<br />
bus service is operated to the market place<br />
every 20 minutes<br />
Every weekend you can visit the Ecological<br />
Park opened to visitors from 9am until<br />
6.00pm at weekends; everybody is welcome.<br />
For visits during the week however,<br />
a reservation is required by telephone to<br />
696 775 783.<br />
If there are any further enquiries please<br />
contact the Cehegin Tourist Offi ce at 968<br />
723 550 or visit our tourist website www.<br />
turismocehegin.es<br />
Santiago Leo<br />
Cehegin Tourist Offi ce<br />
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LAST CHANCE TO VOTE!<br />
Shown below are the photographs that have been emailed in by our readers to be included in our competition<br />
to have their photographs included on our 2012 calendar. If you would like to vote for your favourite<br />
photograph then please email us on costacalidachronicle@gmail.com or go to one of our offi ces on Camposol<br />
or Cehegin listing your favourite pictures.<br />
Boats racing on the Mar Menor View from the top of Cabo Tinoso The Submarine at Cartagena<br />
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The Burglars<br />
are back:<br />
Once again<br />
we seem to<br />
be suffering<br />
at the hands<br />
of these evil<br />
lowlifes, the<br />
opportunist<br />
burglars who<br />
continue to<br />
make life a<br />
misery for some of us. Lately there has been<br />
a marked increase in house burglaries in our<br />
area. Burglars have recently been targeting<br />
Camposol, Mazarrón Country Club and<br />
Isla Plana in particular. They are becoming<br />
more and more ruthless in their methods<br />
and do not care how much damage they do<br />
in order to gain entry to your property. It<br />
would appear that in many cases they are<br />
targeting holiday homes and they seem to<br />
be interested in fl at screen TVs, DVDs and<br />
laptop computers in particular. They also<br />
make such a mess as they tend to search<br />
every cupboard and drawer just dumping<br />
everything out on the fl oor. I am often the<br />
fi rst outside person called in after the police<br />
and I must say that I will never get used<br />
to the wanton vandalism caused by these<br />
people. It must be devastating for the<br />
homeowners when they return home to view<br />
such a scene.<br />
What can you do to combat these<br />
burglars?<br />
You need to make sure that your property is<br />
properly secured every time you leave home<br />
and also when you are going to bed at night.<br />
Never leave tools or any other implements<br />
which might be used by the burglar lying<br />
about or within easy reach. Get into a routine<br />
of checking and double checking before you<br />
go out or go to bed each night. Whatever<br />
security measures that you have installed<br />
in your home, always ensure that they are<br />
operational. It is very important if you have<br />
an alarm system fi tted and your insurance<br />
company has been informed, then you must<br />
always make sure that it is fully operational<br />
and armed. If you forget to arm it and are<br />
unlucky enough to be burgled then your<br />
claim may be invalid.<br />
If you need any advice about upgrading<br />
your home security, call Pat Dunne at ADS<br />
Locksmiths (00 34) 600 255 250 for a<br />
free home security survey. ADS Locksmiths<br />
is a fully legally registered business and is<br />
part of ADS Property and we have been<br />
serving the local community since 2003.<br />
We also have an insurance broker service<br />
offering policies underwritten at Lloyds of<br />
London. The policies are written in English<br />
and easy to understand. If you wish to avail<br />
of this service please call Maura Dunne at<br />
ADS Property (00 34) 646 969 455 for an<br />
instant quote.<br />
ADS Locksmiths also work in partnership<br />
with many leading businesses involved in<br />
matters regarding home security. We can<br />
supply security grilles (rejas) manufactured<br />
locally by a leading supplier.<br />
Here at ADS we know it is virtually<br />
impossible to stop the determined burglar,<br />
but you must do as much as you can to<br />
make it more diffi cult for them to gain entry<br />
to your home. We must fi ght back to protect<br />
our hard earned possessions. Take care of<br />
yourselves and your property.<br />
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Animal Organisations:<br />
Andrea’s Animal Rescue<br />
Fuente Alamo<br />
690 906 565<br />
Easy Horse Care<br />
Rojales<br />
652 021 980<br />
Galgos del Sol<br />
Murcia<br />
galgosdelsol@hotmail.com<br />
Helping Hands<br />
contact@helpinghands.org.es<br />
JJ’s Puppy Rescue Organisation<br />
Mazarrón<br />
618 034 921<br />
John Kemp’s Puppies<br />
La Pinilla, Fuente Alamo<br />
646 737 230<br />
K9 Pet Rescue<br />
San Fulgencio/La Marina<br />
611 606 001<br />
MARA Dog Rescue<br />
Mula<br />
685 311 599<br />
Noah’s ARC<br />
Mazarrón<br />
699 352 818<br />
(Charity Shop)<br />
968 154 507<br />
PAPS<br />
966 769 137<br />
Charities:<br />
Age Concern Spain<br />
Mazarrón<br />
634 316 213<br />
Alcoholics Anonymous<br />
Mazarrón, Cuevas de Reyllo<br />
646 290 420<br />
Cabo De Palos<br />
968 545 181<br />
<strong>Costa</strong> Cálida Samaritans<br />
www.costablancasamaritans.com<br />
GO MaD<br />
Mazarrón<br />
678 598 677<br />
Help Murcia Mar Menor<br />
Santiago de la Ribera, San Javier<br />
968 181 623<br />
Lions Club of Mazarrón Bahía<br />
Mazarrón<br />
636 746 959<br />
MABS Mar Menor<br />
Mar Menor<br />
693 275 779<br />
MABS Mazarrón<br />
Mazarrón<br />
620 422 410<br />
MABS NE Murcia<br />
634 362 826<br />
MABS NW Murcia<br />
693 275 779<br />
Mazarrón Bahía Lions<br />
Mazarrón<br />
636 746 959<br />
PALS (Protection and Life Saving)<br />
Mazarrón<br />
968 437 837<br />
Churches:<br />
Mass in English<br />
Pastrana, Mazarrón<br />
628 824 555<br />
Olive Branch Christian Fellowship<br />
Camposol, Mazarrón<br />
618 720 181<br />
Pilar Christian Community Church<br />
Pilar de la Horidada<br />
966 769 300 or 650 509 606<br />
Puerto Lumbreras Church<br />
619 945 283<br />
St Nicholas Church<br />
Camposol, Mazarrón<br />
968 138 952<br />
Wellspring Victory Church<br />
Bolnuevo, Mazarrón<br />
620 599 270<br />
Groups:<br />
ADAPT<br />
San Pedro<br />
966 189 402<br />
Cloud Nine Drama<br />
Mula<br />
644 400 123<br />
Ex-Servicemen’s Association<br />
Mazarrón<br />
968 965 058<br />
Friends & Buddies<br />
Camposol, Mazarrón<br />
968 163 758<br />
Greenfi ngers Sector C Gardening Group<br />
Camposol, Mazarrón<br />
626 513 842<br />
Help at Home<br />
San Javier<br />
633 673 034<br />
Homeowners Sector A<br />
Camposol, Mazarrón<br />
608 029 112<br />
Welcome Group<br />
Camposol, Mazarrón<br />
620 105 179<br />
If you would like details of your club or organization<br />
included on this page, please send an email to<br />
costacalidachronicle@yahoo.es<br />
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The letter<br />
“J” joins the<br />
ranks of least<br />
favourite<br />
Spanish<br />
l e t t e r s<br />
amongst<br />
English<br />
speakers,<br />
because it is<br />
one of the<br />
hardest ones<br />
to pronounce. We’ve already talked about<br />
the sound itself because it is the same as<br />
one of the pronunciations of the letter G,<br />
which is the throaty sound like the “ch”<br />
in the Scottish word “loch”. We saw that<br />
the letter G only makes this sound when<br />
followed in a word by an “e” or an “i”,<br />
whereas the letter “J” always makes this<br />
sound, wherever it appears in a word. You<br />
will fi nd the letter “J” at the beginnings of<br />
words, such as “jugar” (to play), in the<br />
middle as in “rojo” (red) and at the end as<br />
in “reloj” (watch or clock). As I mentioned<br />
when we were looking at the letter G, if<br />
you fi nd it impossible to produce a really<br />
harsh “j” sound, then you can lighten it<br />
down to a “h” sound; just make it as noisy<br />
as possible, as if you were panting having<br />
just run round the block. Alternatively, you<br />
could run round the block, but that is a bit<br />
drastic and not a very practical solution.<br />
There is a wide variety of words beginning<br />
with “J” which remind us of similar<br />
English words, and here are just a<br />
few: jersey (jersey or jumper), jirafa<br />
(giraffe), jaguar (jaguar), justo (just),<br />
juvenil (youthful, without the negative<br />
connotations of juvenile), justicia<br />
(justice), justifi car (justify), Japón<br />
(Japan), japonés (Japanese – notice that<br />
in Spanish nationalities do not start with<br />
capital letters.)<br />
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In recent years the Spanish have introduced<br />
foreign names in their society including<br />
many beginning with the letter “J”, such<br />
as Jessica and Jennifer. In these cases they<br />
usually pronounce them with a “y” sound,<br />
which is the nearest a Spanish speaker can<br />
usually get to the English “j” sound.<br />
As usual there are words beginning with “J”<br />
that look like English but have a different<br />
meaning. One of these is the Spanish word<br />
“junta”. This means some sort of ruling<br />
or governing body, but does not have the<br />
negative connotation it has in English,<br />
where it is only associated with a military<br />
style of absolute rule. We have a “junta<br />
directive” for example which means a<br />
committee. Of course, you may have your<br />
own opinion about committees but they are<br />
not supposed to carry machine guns as a<br />
rule.<br />
Two common “J” words in Spanish are the<br />
months June and July, which are “junio”<br />
and “julio”, the latter also being a man’s<br />
name, as both the month and the name<br />
come from “Julius Caesar”, or “Julio<br />
Cesár” as many Spanish men are called to<br />
this day. Similarly, another common “J”<br />
word means Thursday; that is “jueves”.<br />
“Jueves” also has a classical origin as it<br />
is the day of the planet Jupiter or the god<br />
“Jove”.<br />
Another frequently heard word is the<br />
translation of “young” which is “joven”.<br />
Young people as a social group are<br />
referred to as “los jóvenes”. They are<br />
in contrast to another important section<br />
of society, those who are “jubilado” or<br />
“jubilada” meaning of course “retired”.<br />
Most of the retired people I know really<br />
like this word and prefer it to the rather<br />
prosaic “pensionista”. The next item<br />
isn’t exactly a word, but you will fi nd it<br />
written in cartoons. It is “ji ji” which is<br />
the Spanish equivalent of “hee hee” or “tee<br />
hee”. In other words it is how Spanish<br />
cartoon characters snigger to themselves<br />
when they’ve just tipped black paint over<br />
that angry grown-up that has been chasing<br />
them down the street.<br />
“Justo” is an interesting word as it shares<br />
a similar dual meaning as its English<br />
equivalent “just”. We can talk about a<br />
“just” person in English and a “persona<br />
justa” in Spanish, is someone who is fair,<br />
or who lives a morally correct life. From<br />
this we have the word “justice” which is<br />
“justicia” in Spanish. The two languages<br />
also share the other meaning of “just” as<br />
in “exactly” or “just right”. We can say<br />
“el precio justo” the right price or “el<br />
tamaño justo”, “just the right size”.<br />
Probably the commonest name in Spain<br />
begins with the letter “J”, José. A<br />
curiosity about the name José is that it<br />
is very often abbreviated to Pepe. I was<br />
under the impression for a very long time<br />
that Pepe came from the religious term<br />
“Padre putativo” which was a name given<br />
to Joseph the supposed father of Jesus<br />
by the Church. However, I have found<br />
a more reasonable explanation which is<br />
that it is part of the old word for José or<br />
Josep, which is still refl ected in the Italian<br />
equivalent “Guiseppe”.<br />
This month’s saying contains the word<br />
juego meaning game, but in this case<br />
with the idea of gambling or “gaming” -<br />
“Afortunado en el juego, desafortunado<br />
en amores”. Lucky at gambling, unlucky<br />
in love. In other words, you cannot have<br />
everything going your way in this life. Well,<br />
I think most of us have learnt this already!<br />
Jane Cronin, Spanish Classes and Talks.<br />
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Tel: 968 183 258<br />
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Domestic tourism, with Madrid at the helm,<br />
remains the main source of visitors<br />
Mazarrón is getting very favourable results<br />
in the arrival of tourists to the municipality<br />
this summer. According to data compiled<br />
by the Offi ce of Tourism of Puerto de<br />
Mazarrón, during the months of July and<br />
August, the township has experienced<br />
considerable growth in terms of tourist<br />
arrivals, from visitors to their of offi ce<br />
totalling 2524 in 2010 and 2929 to <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
This represents an increase of 16%<br />
of tourists compared to last summer.<br />
The domestic market remains the<br />
main source of visitors as it represents<br />
45% of the total with foreign tourists<br />
accounting for 31% of the total,<br />
including the strong presence of<br />
English people, French and German.<br />
Finally, the remaining 24% visitors<br />
are from the region of Murcia.<br />
It must be mentioned that the regional<br />
press has done a survey which shows<br />
that the number of tourists has increased in<br />
Mazarrón, although the time spent in hotels<br />
has decreased. The average occupancy rate<br />
could be around 90% in August, 15% more<br />
than in July, although the average stay<br />
has decreased to 4 days. There are more<br />
visitors but less time spent in our town.<br />
This fi gure, which may seem negative, has<br />
been described by the Mayor of Mazarrón,<br />
Ginés Campillo, “favourable and positive<br />
since, although tourists are here less time,<br />
this rotation is what causes them to spend<br />
more in restaurants and shops in the<br />
municipality than those who are here for<br />
15 days or a whole month. These tourists<br />
generate increased consumption and<br />
therefore improve the service economy.”<br />
In fact, retailers and restauranteurs are<br />
calling the summer campaign “better than<br />
expected”, especially during the month of<br />
August. They highlighted the signifi cant<br />
improvement that has occurred in the<br />
cleaning and waste collection conducted<br />
by the City, which meant “a better<br />
image for tourism, which has recovered<br />
despite the current economic crisis “<br />
It has also helped improve the image the<br />
activities planned by the Department of<br />
Tourism and Celebrations, among which<br />
included summer school for children that<br />
was developed in Playa del Castellar, hiking<br />
trails and cultural activities in August.<br />
Also, Mazarrón has been promoted at the<br />
fair “Marquis of Vélez” in Velez Blanco and<br />
the “Med Cup” of Cartagena, which has<br />
fostered a positive image even more<br />
in the municipality. In both places<br />
there was a stand with information<br />
on our coastline, the Route of the<br />
Watchtowers and diving activities<br />
that can be enjoyed along the Bay.<br />
In short, the improvement in both<br />
the arrival of new tourists and<br />
promotion that´s take place outside<br />
the municipality, is given “the<br />
commitment of the government<br />
team today is one of the key<br />
sectors for economic recovery of the<br />
municipality as is tourism,” Ginés Campillo<br />
pointed out. The mayor has stated “We will<br />
continue in this line so that the tourists keep<br />
coming to Mazarrón in the coming months.<br />
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With the very enjoyable and successful<br />
Madrid trip completed, PALS now move<br />
on to the Lisbon Mini Cruise on the 21 st<br />
<strong>October</strong>. One of our happy trippers said how<br />
pleasant it was not to be over-organised.<br />
This is our policy; we get you there, we<br />
get you all the information you may need<br />
and are there if there are any problems or<br />
you require guidance. Other than that, we<br />
believe that people are very happy to be<br />
left to their own devices. We always let you<br />
get on with it. Anyway back to Lisbon. At<br />
the time of writing, we have had a couple<br />
of cancellations, so if you are interested<br />
in a 4 Night Mini Cruise with coach from<br />
Mazarrón, call us quickly for a ticket at 410€<br />
per person all inclusive leaving 21 st <strong>October</strong><br />
Each year we have two Beach BBQs at<br />
la Siesta Beach in Bolnuevo, and these<br />
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are held on Mayday and this year on 12 th<br />
<strong>October</strong>. It’s food and drink all the way,<br />
with boules thrown in (excuse the pun) for<br />
13€. It’s an afternoon of laughter.<br />
We have arranged a cabaret evening<br />
SHOW OF SHOWS at the Playa Grande<br />
Hotel, Puerto de Mazarrón, with a meal<br />
and the fantastic Susie G giving her all.<br />
If you have not seen her show, then you<br />
are missing a real treat. I think she’s on<br />
Duracell batteries! Very limited places at<br />
22€ per head.<br />
The Christmas Ball on 11 th December is<br />
again at the <strong>Costa</strong> <strong>Costa</strong> Hotel, Mazarrón<br />
and by popular demand we have The<br />
Beagles looking after the music and<br />
dancing. We have not altered the price for<br />
5 years and the menu is still massive and<br />
drinks with the meal included at 27.50€<br />
surely a chance to dress up and trip the<br />
light fantastic.<br />
Tickets for all of the above can be obtained<br />
on a Wednesday afternoon at Sara Laras or<br />
on a Friday or Saturday morning, from 11<br />
at the Trevi or call 626 460465<br />
We are in discussion with the 112 Service<br />
in Mazarron for their medical equipment<br />
needs and will of course keep you informed<br />
as to progress, and this year we have<br />
supported FAST on Camposol to the<br />
amount of 10,700€ and counting. PALS<br />
DO IT 4 U. We are a registered charity<br />
and our accounts are open for inspection<br />
at anytime and we welcome enquiries and<br />
new members at our monthly meetings at<br />
the Cultural Centre on Camposol B the fi rst<br />
Monday ion each month at 11.15am<br />
CAFÉ<br />
The CAFÉ CONCERT 5 is on 1 st <strong>October</strong>, so<br />
a full report will be in next month’s issue,<br />
but we are hoping to signifi cantly increase<br />
the fund towards its 60000€ target for an<br />
additional ambulance in Mazarrón for the<br />
whole community.<br />
LORCA DISASTER.<br />
The money collected at the Concert in May<br />
and subsequent contributions, notably from<br />
the ex-services organisation, Sector D<br />
,Interactive and <strong>Costa</strong> <strong>Calida</strong> International<br />
Radio among others has raised the total<br />
to an in credible 6384.07€ what a great<br />
response - thanks everyone.<br />
We have paid an invoice for 4820.85€ for<br />
emergency medical equipment including<br />
oxygen bottles defi brillator and other<br />
essential items. This equipment will be<br />
housed in a central location for immediate<br />
use for any further calamities, but it’s worth<br />
noting that some 400 people are still living<br />
in tented accommodation and that a further<br />
300 aftershocks have been recorded. The<br />
money from the government seems to be<br />
taking a long time to surface, so all help<br />
is really much appreciated. Our dealings<br />
with the Ayuntamiento in Lorca have been<br />
refreshingly professional and rewarding.<br />
We will keep you informed as to further<br />
purchases from the fund which now stands<br />
at 1563.22€<br />
If you have any questions relating to PALS,<br />
CAFÉ or The LORCA EARTHQUAKE fund<br />
please direct them to kenpayne@live.co.uk<br />
or call 626 460465<br />
PALS events and activities can be found at<br />
www.pals.sm4.biz<br />
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Wordsearch<br />
Translate the English words below into Spanish<br />
WILD BOAR<br />
SOAP<br />
CRAB<br />
TO PULL<br />
JELLY<br />
NEVER<br />
HAM<br />
SYRUP<br />
GARDEN<br />
JUG<br />
GINGER<br />
SHERRY<br />
YOUNG<br />
<strong>October</strong> Quiz Questions<br />
Questions on the<br />
September <strong>2011</strong> edition<br />
1. What does home from<br />
home offer you?<br />
2. Where would you fi nd a<br />
fully equipped pottery on<br />
Camposol?<br />
3. What does “expore” do<br />
for you?<br />
JEWEL<br />
RETIRED<br />
BEAN<br />
GAME<br />
THURSDAY<br />
JULY<br />
JUNE<br />
MEETING<br />
COURT<br />
PONY<br />
MIGRAINE<br />
SYRINGE<br />
Answers on page 98<br />
Monthly Quiz<br />
4. Who claims ‘No job too big<br />
or too small’?<br />
5. Who offered an evening of<br />
comedy and culture?<br />
6. Where would you discover<br />
simple savings from the<br />
bank you know?<br />
7. When you are ‘all googled<br />
out’ what do you do next?<br />
8. Who offered a free no-<br />
Suduko<br />
Do-Able<br />
Diffi cult<br />
obligation quote and you<br />
can fi nd out exactly what<br />
they offer?<br />
9. What does Arkrights offer<br />
you?<br />
10. Who offers beauty treatment<br />
at home or in the<br />
salon?<br />
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CLEAN UP DAY<br />
On Tuesday the 13th September, Bob Owen<br />
received a request to muster the community<br />
and gardening groups for a meeting at<br />
the Town Hall. They duly attended a meeting<br />
in the council chamber on Thursday the<br />
15 th September to learn of an initiative by<br />
the council for a “clean up” of certain green<br />
areas on Camposol. It was the council’s intension<br />
to repay the volunteers by providing<br />
tables and benches for picnic areas in the<br />
cleared areas. On Saturday 17 th September,<br />
over 70 volunteers met on the lower car<br />
park at 9am and work commenced.<br />
D Sector and CRA Group were sent to the<br />
“pines” on Sector B where they soon fi lled<br />
their sacks and needed more. Eventually the<br />
dustcart in attendance had to back down the<br />
hill into the wooded area as the volume of<br />
waste was too great to bag up.<br />
B Sector Group took on the task of clearing<br />
the olive trees area adjacent to the car park,<br />
again vast quantities were collected.<br />
C Sector Group cleared the roundabout<br />
and all areas up to the end of the commercial<br />
centre. They also ran out of sacks and<br />
had to buy more in the Todo.<br />
By 10.30 the job was done and Javier from<br />
the hotel arrived with the picnics supplied by<br />
them. The picnics were distributed by the<br />
Mayor and Councillor David Fernandez.<br />
Bob Owen would like to thank all the volunteers<br />
who turned up to help and to prove<br />
once again that there is a true community<br />
spirit on Camposol.<br />
Camposol D Gardening and Community<br />
Group held their Annual BBQ in the Golf<br />
Club on Fri 2nd Sept. The committee decided<br />
to donate the proceeds of the raffl e and<br />
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the balance of the evenings’ tickets sales to<br />
FAST. This decision was received by rapturous<br />
applause from the members attending<br />
the event.<br />
Kaz Moore the FAST Coordinator and Paul<br />
Myatt were invited to the BBQ as guests and<br />
during the evening they managed to recruit<br />
6 new volunteers. Kaz was then invited to<br />
the Groups’ Monthly Meeting held in Trevis<br />
Bar on Tues 6th Sept and received the donation<br />
of 1150€ from Linda Crook the Group’s<br />
Entertainment Organiser. The Gardening<br />
Group has agreed to continue supporting<br />
FAST in the future.<br />
Greenfi ngers Gardening Group<br />
We had several calls from residents asking<br />
could we change the night for the Street<br />
Party BBQ which clashed with the Age Concern<br />
Black and White Ball, as some of our<br />
members had already bought tickets for the<br />
ball, but with the information on the newsletter,<br />
it was decided to continue as there is<br />
always something on around Camposol with<br />
all the different groups.<br />
I am delighted to report the Street Party<br />
BBQ was very well attended with 80+ guests<br />
attending, some in costume as we had a<br />
theme of Romans and Slaves. Well done to<br />
all for your effort. The BBQ was manned by<br />
BBQ Bill and when under pressure helped<br />
by his personal assistant Frances. The bbq<br />
was kindly loaned by CHM. The disco was<br />
fantastic with DJ Daniel Wheatly who played<br />
some great music and there was dancing in<br />
the street with around 20 people taking to<br />
the fl oor. The bar was kept busy all evening,<br />
run by John Osborne, with David Johns and<br />
Lesley Dutton assisting, with drinks at 1€<br />
each and takings of 430€. The raffl e was organised<br />
by Ros and raised 204€.<br />
Adrian cleaned the road and closed each<br />
end to make sure we<br />
were safe and the<br />
setting up and taking<br />
down was done<br />
by Adrian, John and<br />
myself. Thanks to local<br />
resident Thomas<br />
for bringing his 17<br />
chairs and I believe<br />
4 tables, also Lesley<br />
for donation of<br />
home-made Sangria<br />
which went down<br />
very well. Thanks to<br />
everyone for the support.<br />
(The group now<br />
have a second hand fridge freezer to help<br />
keep the drinks cold.)<br />
The Gardening Group started work<br />
on Wednesday 21st September on the duel<br />
carriageway near the old MASA offi ce when<br />
breakfast and drinks were provided.<br />
The group is inviting all Camposol to go<br />
bowling each Friday from 4pm. For all information<br />
on the group contact Bernard 626<br />
513 842 also check out the website www.<br />
greenfi ngersgardenandsocialgroup.com<br />
The new Camposol winter train has arrived.<br />
It is specially adapted to have “fi lled in” sides<br />
for wet and or windy weather, so please use<br />
this long-awaited service or we will lose it!<br />
The new train timetable:<br />
Monday to Thursday 10-2 and 5-11<br />
Fridays and Saturdays 10-2 and 5-12<br />
Sundays 1 until 9<br />
Please note that the last pick up is at the last<br />
time stated i.e. 11, 12 and 9.<br />
Street cleaning should have started on Camposol<br />
by the time you read this!<br />
It has now been confi rmed that the Camposol<br />
Fiesta in 2012 will be held on 16/17th<br />
June.<br />
English Butcher Camposol<br />
Locally renowned English Butcher, are<br />
suppliers of high quality sausages, including:<br />
Traditional Pork, Pork & Leek, Cumberland<br />
and Chilli & Pepper. All their fresh meat is<br />
sourced locally and Topside, Leg of Pork,<br />
Legs of Lamb and all your favourite steaks<br />
are cut to your requirements.<br />
Now taking orders for fresh oven-ready turkeys<br />
for Christmas.<br />
They also stock a range of seasonal British<br />
produce including Bramley Apples, Parsnips,<br />
Swedes and Maris Piper Potatoes.<br />
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Camposolers Community Website is<br />
a “private” Windows Live Group Website<br />
and Membership is by invitation only.<br />
Camposolers restricts Membership to all<br />
Home Owners in the Camposol Urbanisation.<br />
It is a very secure site. Camposolers is the<br />
only site devoted to Camposol where<br />
Members are identifi ed by their real<br />
Full Names. Apart from real names of real<br />
people, no other Member details whatsoever<br />
are published on Camposolers by the owner.<br />
Camposolers is a genuine community<br />
site and has been serving Camposol Home<br />
Owners continuously for over 8 years. If you<br />
are a home Owner in Camposol and wish to<br />
be a part of this community group please<br />
email reg_rogers@hotmail.com for an<br />
In spite of dwindling numbers of volunteers the<br />
group has achieved another year of making<br />
Sector D a nicer place to live and one of the<br />
best areas of Camposol. All our perimeter<br />
road edges have now been gravelled and a<br />
large number of local residents are tending<br />
small gardens opposite their homes.<br />
Our potholing team worked well into the<br />
summer repairing the worst of road damage<br />
and have a large list of work in the pipeline<br />
when they return to work at the end of<br />
<strong>October</strong>. All our bins are now off road where<br />
possible and our compost site continues to<br />
provide members with a valuable amenity<br />
and relieves pressure on the bins. We start<br />
burning again in mid <strong>October</strong> when we renew<br />
our licence with the council and forestry dept.<br />
We apologise in advance if smoke drifts over<br />
your area, but we have over 100 tonnes of<br />
waste to burn that has accumulated over<br />
the summer months. We do however watch<br />
the forecast and pick days when the wind is<br />
forecast to blow away from us.<br />
application form. Please confi rm that you own<br />
property in Camposol.<br />
New to Camposolers is the sister Website<br />
Camposolers 2003 / Political & Council<br />
Administration, which includes news from<br />
the CRA and the A SECTOR Committee. You<br />
can now contact the new Camposol Council<br />
Offi ce located in Camposol through its<br />
Message Board in English. Members include<br />
local politicians. Membership to this new site<br />
is automatic to Camposolers members.The<br />
SkyDrives on both sites are linked.<br />
If you wish to be fully informed join<br />
Camposolers now.<br />
Gardens have been created in various areas<br />
on waste land and this work continues on a<br />
weekly basis. The storm drains running under<br />
D Sector have been cleared again this year in<br />
anticipation of a goto fria that is forecast for<br />
the autumn. 50 tonnes of soil were moved at<br />
a cost of over 500€.<br />
Another project was to bury the unsightly<br />
concrete staircase dumped by Masa just off<br />
the duel carriageway. The concrete blocks<br />
have also been removed. It is planned to<br />
landscape this area this winter. More bucket<br />
collectors have been recruited so you will see<br />
some new faces on a Friday.<br />
We bought a new trailer recently which is fully<br />
legal and are now able to offer our members<br />
a free service to the Eco Park for large<br />
items. Our trailer collection service for large<br />
quantities of garden waste is also in daily<br />
demand and it’s free to members. Details on<br />
how to contact us for these services can be<br />
found on our website and notices on the bins.<br />
The following Message was posted on<br />
Camposolers by a Member…<br />
“Thanks to all who have responded to the<br />
many questions that we asked since joining<br />
this amazing forum. Some of the subjects<br />
that I have asked about are as diverse as<br />
insuring a car, electricity supplies, changing<br />
to gas, gazebos, internet connections, winter<br />
heating, prescription medicines, etc., and all<br />
have been responded to by the members of<br />
this forum. It seems that no matter what we<br />
throw at you somebody has been there before<br />
and is willing to share the experience”<br />
Reg Rogers<br />
Owner of Camposolers and Camposolers 2003<br />
We have erected a location map on entry<br />
to Sector D for visitors and delivery drivers.<br />
Our notice board contains details of our<br />
expenditure which is updated monthly. We<br />
meet monthly on the fi rst Tuesday of the<br />
month in Trevis at 4pm. All members are<br />
welcome to attend these meetings.<br />
We are looking to recruit a few more Poligono<br />
Reps for poligonos 11, 14, 24, 28, 29. Do you<br />
live on any of these? Would you like to get<br />
involved with your local community group? If<br />
so ring Les Crook, Secretary on 968 979 831<br />
Our Annual Meeting this year is on Tuesday<br />
6 th December at 4 pm in Trevis. Why not come<br />
along and join us?<br />
Mick Drummond, Chairman 968 131 971<br />
Les Crook, Secretary 968 979 831<br />
Bob Owen, Treasurer 968 970 577<br />
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September A Big Month For F.A.S.T.<br />
Camposol!<br />
This month saw many changes to improve<br />
the equipment are service available to FAST<br />
(First Aid Support Team Camposol) with<br />
16 volunteer responders receiving training<br />
to Murcian Standards in Defi brillation and<br />
Oxygen Administration; all due to the<br />
fi nancial support from PALS who funded not<br />
only the equipment, but also the 3rd party<br />
training, all so that we at FAST can deliver<br />
the best care for Camposol Residents,<br />
working hand in hand and meeting the<br />
shared goals of<br />
PALS “Protection And Life Saving”. We and<br />
the residents are indebted to them.<br />
The availability of<br />
such equipment is<br />
a wonderful step<br />
forward as we now<br />
have the power to<br />
de-fi brillate, or in<br />
lay-terms, pass an<br />
electrical charge through a heart that is in<br />
VT as they say in Casualty, where the heart<br />
quivers like a jelly and is unable to pump<br />
oxygenated blood around the body. The<br />
charge stops the quivering and allows the<br />
brain to restore the normal rhythm if it is<br />
capable of being re -started. This, combined<br />
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with oxygen therapy, gives a patient a much<br />
better chance of a successful recovery.<br />
Further to this, oxygen therapy can aid<br />
breathing diffi culties such as asthma,<br />
strokes, drowning etc.<br />
FAST have also<br />
purchased 6 Ambu-<br />
Bags using donated<br />
funds. These also<br />
assist patients<br />
with respiratory<br />
failure and work in<br />
conjunction with the<br />
oxygen therapy of stand alone in place of<br />
basic mouth to mouth rescue breaths.<br />
All this will be effective from the beginning<br />
of <strong>October</strong>. Speed is so important, especially<br />
when dealing with Heart Attacks (Cardiac and<br />
or Respiratory Arrest) Strokes, Drowning,<br />
Electrocution or similar. Remember that<br />
for every minute passing, the chances of a<br />
successful recovery can diminish by 10%<br />
every minute, so if anyone thinks that such<br />
an event is happening, RING 112 AND<br />
THEN RING FAST ...FAST to give the best<br />
possible chance of recovery!<br />
The whole system of calling FAST on one<br />
single landline number would not be possible<br />
without the support from<br />
Compusurf who provide<br />
the landline and full<br />
computerised changeover<br />
system that links the line<br />
to either the 24 hour or<br />
12 hour emergency phone.<br />
This has been provided<br />
completely free of charge<br />
by Compusurf to enable<br />
Camposol Residents to have<br />
the most advanced service<br />
available using its new<br />
system on phones carried<br />
by volunteers 24/7 365<br />
days per year.<br />
FAST never fail to be amazed at the<br />
support given by so many people to help us<br />
deliver the best we can to Camposol; PALS,<br />
Compusurf and the big providers, but there<br />
are so many more, from one selfl ess couple<br />
who asked people attending their 20th<br />
Wedding Anniversary not to give a present,<br />
but donate to FAST, so 220€ was spent on<br />
Ambu-bags and bandages. The family of Mr<br />
Micky Rooney who recently passed away<br />
asked for no fl owers but donations to FAST;<br />
another 137€ came our way. The D Sector<br />
group donated 1150€; a truly magnifi cent<br />
fi gure to enable further investment and<br />
maintenance of equipment. There are many<br />
more too, including book sales and collecting<br />
tins from the customers of The Tea Pot in<br />
Puerto de Mazarrón that have earned over<br />
500€. Finally we thank Kelly Ensor who<br />
has come to our rescue after a long period<br />
without further Red Cross training, as after<br />
the election we had no-one to represent us<br />
until Kelly made it all happen again. To all we<br />
offer our sincere gratitude.<br />
FAST have planned a Christmas Fayre at<br />
Mariano’s Restaurant, Camposol A on 29th<br />
of <strong>October</strong> from 11am to 4pm. Come and<br />
buy Christmas gifts, cards and calendars all<br />
under one roof and it will be early enough<br />
to catch posting dates to home countries.<br />
There will be Christmas music, food and<br />
carols to get us in the mood for Christmas<br />
and with a special guest appearance or our<br />
very own Nurse Gladys Emmanuelle ......a<br />
better friend than enema!!<br />
Seriously though, Camposol is now a major<br />
leader in the services available within an<br />
Urbanizacion that we can be proud of and<br />
FAST intend to remain a major part of that<br />
to ensure “Camposol is Always A Safer Place<br />
For All”. Thanks to our wonderful committed<br />
volunteers, including our many new recruits<br />
and the support from the community.<br />
Glen Ford<br />
FAST Communications Offi cer<br />
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After a considerable time where the former<br />
administration had fi rst displayed little or no<br />
real interest in curing or even recognising<br />
Camposol’s problems, we fi nally saw a<br />
belated attempt to fi nd some solutions.<br />
What would probably have proved to be an<br />
unsuccessful and prolonged effort to recover<br />
Masa’s questionable assets hardly got off<br />
the ground and we now fi nd that with the<br />
defeat of the then Mayor Blaya Blaya at the<br />
recent municipal elections, there is now the<br />
likelihood of a new approach from latest<br />
incumbents.<br />
We have in the past experienced more than<br />
enough smoke and mirrors, false dawns<br />
and unrealistic promises. What is urgently<br />
needed now is a practical and sustainable<br />
strategy that will bring about the completion<br />
of Camposol to an acceptable standard. While<br />
All the committee would like to thank Linda<br />
Biggs for her continuing hard work for<br />
Camposol A, but owing to some disagreements<br />
with rest of the committee, she has stepped<br />
down as Chair and secretary. Linda will still be<br />
part of our committee and continue to assist<br />
our efforts to make Camposol a better place.<br />
We are still awaiting the opportunity to review<br />
the new town hall plans for us all on Camposol<br />
when they are available. We are hopeful<br />
that they have looked through both the<br />
OMBUDSMAN and the GARRIGUES reports.<br />
The plans were stated to be published in<br />
September and as the holidays are now over<br />
we keenly await the announcement.<br />
We would like to say the market and the train<br />
are a great success, the bars are booming<br />
and there is a buzz about the place, but we<br />
do have concerns for the owners of the villas<br />
we seem to now be witnessing a wealth of<br />
good intentions and welcome gestures from<br />
the new administration, there is over fi fteen<br />
million reasons (the Council estimate of<br />
how many euros is required to complete the<br />
estate), why this will not be enough on its<br />
own.<br />
Of course Camposol is not the only Mazarrón<br />
community that is suffering from neglect; in<br />
which case it is not likely that we will be on<br />
our own in vying for a share of the Town Hall’s<br />
meagre resources. Nevertheless it is unlikely<br />
that any other areas of the municipality are<br />
experiencing anything near the magnitude<br />
of problems we are faced with. Also much<br />
blame for the urbanization’s ills can justifi ably<br />
be attributed to the, albeit previous,<br />
administrations failures in exercising a<br />
legal and moral duty of care. Despite the<br />
where the market has been placed. We have<br />
received some complaints, so to be fair we are<br />
having Sector A complaint forms printed so<br />
the new town hall can see for themselves just<br />
who and how many have complained - copies<br />
will be sent to the town hall and councillor of<br />
Camposol [Pepe Gomez]. All complaints will<br />
show the NIE number together with the Name<br />
and Address of the Complainant. We believe<br />
there are non-residential roads i.e. Avenida<br />
Saladillo on which it would be a better<br />
place for the market, also in front of the A<br />
Commercial Centre [in front of our bars].<br />
This will leave the top car park free to park<br />
As of the 12 th September, when this report<br />
was prepared for publication:-<br />
75% of street lights were not working on “A”<br />
- Linda Biggs has a map showing the areas<br />
of darkness and will be passing this on to the<br />
councillor of Camposol (Pepe Gomez). The<br />
development generating a substantial income<br />
for the Council during the construction<br />
process, we were severely let down by the<br />
Town Hall and a much needed process of<br />
supervision and control over what proved to<br />
be an unprincipled promoter did not happen.<br />
It should also be remembered that other<br />
communities’ problems have probably for<br />
the most part come about as a result of the<br />
normal and expected rigours associated with<br />
the passing of time, whereas Camposol has<br />
never had the benefi t of a basic infrastructure<br />
that is anything other than which can be<br />
considered as incomplete or substandard.<br />
Would it then be unreasonable to hope that<br />
under the circumstances we could where<br />
possible be afforded a little preferential<br />
treatment?<br />
Website: www.cracamposol.com<br />
Email: info@cracamposol.com<br />
lights were switched off before Christmas<br />
when they were working. Strangely we now<br />
hear that it’s a wiring problem. The cynical<br />
view is that someone is making money out<br />
of their re-activation and it has been said the<br />
cost so far is €60 thousand. Is that sum a<br />
joke?<br />
A.G.M. for sector “A” 2012 is in planning<br />
for the fi rst quarter of next year and the<br />
committee will advise more at later date<br />
Committee members are<br />
Marcel van Schalk Chair<br />
John Grant Vice Chair<br />
Beryl Holland Treasurer<br />
Alan Aldrich Secretary<br />
Cliff Ashley<br />
Linda Biggs<br />
Lourdes Escudero<br />
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This summer seems to have been longer<br />
than ever, and most of our volunteers<br />
have hopefully enjoyed a well deserved<br />
summer break - a special thanks therefore<br />
for Zone 2, who have continued to work<br />
throughout the holiday season. Zone 2<br />
look after the busiest sector of Camposol<br />
A; from the entrance up to the commercial<br />
sector. The Commercial Sector has always<br />
been a priority, but now we have a ‘tren’.<br />
We welcome the train and hope that it<br />
continues, but the route of the train is only<br />
in the region of Zone 2 on Camposol A side<br />
of the motorway, so those same volunteers<br />
have continued to follow its path, collecting<br />
empty cans and crisp packets thrown aside<br />
by the happy holidaymakers enjoying<br />
the journey. A very special thanks to all!<br />
Thanks also to Pauline, who runs our<br />
weekly Friday Book Club, which I know is<br />
appreciated as an English Library by many<br />
on Camposol, but which is also the main<br />
source of income for our volunteer group.<br />
We now have permission from the new<br />
council to continue, although at the time of<br />
writing, we still await the offi cial paperwork<br />
authorisation. Thanks to Tatiana, in the<br />
new offi ce of Pepe Gomez, open every<br />
morning in the new social centre on<br />
sector B, who was so helpful in obtaining<br />
a renewal of our license. For those of<br />
you who don’t yet know, Tatiana speaks<br />
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excellent English, and is a link between<br />
Camposol and the new council. I am<br />
awaiting a meeting, hopefully very soon,<br />
to discuss how we can continue to work<br />
together to make Camposol a better place.<br />
Although not much physical work has been<br />
carried out, we have still made hay whilst<br />
the sun shines. I was happy to report that<br />
we are in a healthy position with approx<br />
4,000€ in our bank account - so, why do<br />
we need any more? So far we have agreed<br />
expenditure of almost 1,000€ on extending<br />
the gravel garden opposite the Health<br />
Centre, work which will start as soon as<br />
the weather cools down. We have also<br />
agreed to spend another 1,000€ on work<br />
in the Memorial Garden and surrounding<br />
parkland. We have agreed to spend 500€<br />
on the BBQ area at the rear of Camposol<br />
A. We have spent more than 700€ on new<br />
equipment to help maintain the garden<br />
areas, plus the regular miscellaneous<br />
expenses - this month alone we have<br />
spent 15€ on bin bags! Soon it will be<br />
caterpillar season, and we won’t have any<br />
money left to deal with them! I am hoping<br />
for help from the council, but we are also<br />
planning more fund-raising events, just in<br />
case! Please support as much as you can.<br />
On Wednesday <strong>October</strong> 26 th starting at<br />
3.30pm we will enjoy another Fashion Show<br />
at Sensol Golf, sponsored by Glitzy Bitz.<br />
This event was so popular last year that<br />
we had to turn people away, so this year<br />
admission will be by ticket only. Tickets<br />
will be available soon from Glitzy Bitz<br />
and the Friday Book Club, so buy yours<br />
soon, as they are bound to sell out fast.<br />
On November 5th, Bonfi re Night, we<br />
are hoping to host an afternoon in the park;<br />
a recruitment drive in which we invite<br />
everyone to come along and help us to weed<br />
the Memorial Garden to prepare it for<br />
the traditional Service of Remembrance<br />
to be held there on November 11th. We<br />
hope that as many people as possible will<br />
gather in the park at 3.30 on Bonfi re night<br />
to put in an hours work to help our cause,<br />
then stay a little longer to enjoy drinks<br />
and traditional Bonfi re Night snacks,<br />
and discover how good it makes you feel !<br />
Hope to see you there!<br />
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NEWS FLASH<br />
Pride of Spain Awards <strong>2011</strong><br />
At the time of this article going to press, the<br />
winner of the Pride of Spain Awards had not<br />
been announced yet. Nail biting and tension<br />
mounting it has been in the last few weeks<br />
as the votes are cast. Tina Solera, a fi nalist<br />
in the Charity section, is unfazed by it all,<br />
relentlessly continuing her rescue missions<br />
to save abandoned Spanish greyhounds<br />
(Galgos) and Podencos in Murcia. Here’s<br />
wishing you, “Good Luck” from all your friends<br />
and supporters around the World.<br />
Beach Trips for dogs- volunteers urgently<br />
needed<br />
Very often rescued dogs waiting to be rehomed<br />
get bored with their temporary<br />
environment and Tina Solera has devised a<br />
unique way to cheer them up- a day at the<br />
beach! Tina urgently needs volunteers to<br />
make her dream work. These “days-out”<br />
will be organised group activities under the<br />
watchful eye of Galgos Del Sol. Interested?<br />
Contact Tina Solera at tinesolera@hotmail.<br />
co.uk.<br />
Guapita – A<br />
heroine’s story<br />
For those of us<br />
following Guapita’s<br />
recovery and<br />
rehabilitation from<br />
a compound leg<br />
fracture, it is a day<br />
we thought would<br />
never come, but<br />
as they, “A picture tells a thousand words”.<br />
Here is proof that she is fi nally on the road<br />
to recovery.<br />
Here she is enjoying a day at the beach<br />
without a care in the world. Yet it was only<br />
a few months ago, that Guapita began her<br />
incredible journey. She endured several painful<br />
operations and months or rehabilitation,<br />
paid for by Galgos Del Sol. Finally, the day<br />
dawned when she had the pins in her hind legs<br />
removed and given a clean bill of health from<br />
the vets. She is currently waiting re-homing.<br />
Sponsor a dog for only €15!<br />
Here is your chance to do something<br />
incredible and raise money for Galgos Del<br />
Sol. Sponsor a dog for only a one-off payment<br />
of €15 and you will receive some very special<br />
personalised gifts from your sponsored dog.<br />
Great value for money, I say!<br />
Bon Voyage!<br />
We shed a few tears when it came to say<br />
“Bon Voyage” but pride shone through when<br />
we saw how happy you all were in your new<br />
homes abroad. (photo)<br />
Josh, Grace and Tina off to Belgium.<br />
Dogs for adoption<br />
Jose<br />
A rather handsome<br />
boy is waiting for his<br />
new home. Will you<br />
be the one to offer it<br />
to him?<br />
Jose is 2 years-old,<br />
fully vaccinated,<br />
castrated and negative for any known disease.<br />
Friendly and playful.<br />
Ollie<br />
A 2 year old Podenco<br />
boy who is fully<br />
vaccinated, castrated<br />
and is passport ready<br />
for the UK.<br />
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Clive<br />
Clive is an old boy,<br />
waiting for a loving<br />
home to see him<br />
through his years. He<br />
is 9 years old, fully<br />
vaccinated and is<br />
passport ready.<br />
To fi nd out more, please contact Tina Solera<br />
on: tinasolera@hotmail.co.uk or visit: www.<br />
galgosdelsol.es<br />
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COMING SOON AT META<br />
What we’ve all been waiting for! The<br />
Equine Social Club of the year!<br />
META COLTS AND<br />
FILLIES SOCIAL<br />
CLUB.<br />
How do you fancy<br />
squeezing into your<br />
old jods and getting all<br />
hot and sweaty? Why<br />
not join us, the META<br />
team, horses, instructors and helpers?<br />
Julie Jones (BHS Stages 1 and 2, Stable<br />
Management Certifi cate, List 6 Dressage<br />
Judge) and Kim Young (BHS Stage 1,<br />
Spanish Galope 1, Parelli Expert, First Aid<br />
and Orienteering) have come up with a<br />
brilliant idea for horse lovers, mature but<br />
young in spirit, a Social Club that will<br />
involve you in a world of activities that suit<br />
you down to the ground.<br />
META invites you to an open day with Julie<br />
and Kim to discuss your ideas and share in<br />
the creation of a unique social club:<br />
What can we do?<br />
Excursions - (eg. Lorca Fiestas)<br />
Shows - (Show Jumping/Dressage etc)<br />
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Social Events - (BBQ’s/Tapas at other<br />
clubs)<br />
Horsemanship - Hacking in the Mountains/<br />
at the Beach<br />
Join us for a Brainstorming Session on<br />
WEDNESDAY 9 TH NOVEMBER, 10.00am at<br />
META Riding Centre on the Mu 603 road<br />
to El Palmar (just past Los Ventorrillos<br />
about 5 km down from the big roundabout).<br />
For more detailed information look at our<br />
Blog - www.horseridingbymeta.blogspot.<br />
com<br />
Phone 636 172198 or email us meta@<br />
meta.nom.es<br />
The Studio @ The Academy has now moved<br />
to Camposol B Commercial Centre, next to<br />
Camposol Computers. It is now called The<br />
Beauty Palace (see advert on page 85).<br />
The new stylish salon offers a full range of<br />
Hair, Beauty and Inch-loss treatments by fully<br />
qualifi ed therapists and stylists.<br />
The Hair and Beauty Academy is now open<br />
solely for NVQ training and short courses<br />
offering NVQ level 2 and 3 Hairdressing<br />
and Beauty therapy courses. Short courses<br />
include<br />
Backscratchers Nail Extensions, Manicure,<br />
Pedicure, Waxing, Eyelash and Brow<br />
treatments, Hopi Ear Candles, Body Wraps,<br />
Advanced Cutting, Refresher Courses, and<br />
Colour Correction.<br />
We are now also the regional training centre<br />
for the latest MYSCARA – Semi-permanent<br />
mascara.<br />
NVQ Hairdressing Level 2 (day release)<br />
course starting this month.<br />
Call 968971828 for other course dates.<br />
Our aim, with your help, is to aid people with<br />
limited incomes to have stray dogs and cats<br />
which they may have adopted, to be spayed<br />
and castrated. We will also help with your<br />
vets bills where possible, call or email us if<br />
you need help.<br />
To do this we need your donations and would<br />
be grateful for any items such as clothes,<br />
bric-a-brac, furniture and white goods.<br />
You can donate at the shop, Mon to Sat<br />
10.00 till 2.00. (Take the 3 rd on the left after<br />
Barclays Bank on your way into Puerto de<br />
Mazarrón), or call Mamas on 666 186 037<br />
Our collection van is on Camposol B sector<br />
lower car park every Tuesday 10.00- 1.00.<br />
Thanks to your donations in the past year<br />
we were able to assist every applicant with<br />
fi nancial help towards the medical costs for<br />
their animals<br />
Turn Your Unwanted Furniture Into Cash<br />
If you have large items of furniture that are<br />
no longer needed why not try selling them on<br />
our 50/50 scheme.<br />
We will collect the items from your house<br />
(free of charge) and display them in the shop<br />
until sold. You will then receive 50% of the<br />
selling price with the remainder going to the<br />
charity.<br />
Volunteers Needed<br />
Could you help us, can you spare one<br />
morning a week to help in our shop in Puerto<br />
de Mazarrón? We would be grateful for any<br />
help and it would enable us to raise more<br />
money for your pets.<br />
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“Siyasa” sounds like “Cieza” and there is<br />
a good reason for this – it is only a handful<br />
of kilometres from the centre of the modern<br />
town of Cieza in Northwest Murcia. The area<br />
of Siyasa is located on the medieval fortifi ed<br />
Castle Hill (Monte del Castillo), with the río<br />
Segura at its foot. But what is Siyasa? It<br />
is, in fact, a quite remarkable Arab town<br />
which only began to be investigated by<br />
archaeologists in the 1980s. Indeed, some<br />
regard it as one of the best examples of<br />
remains of an urban settlement of its time. It<br />
has provided important information about life<br />
in al-Andalus in the 12 th and 13 th Centuries.<br />
The fi rst reference to Siyasa appears to be<br />
in the 10 th Century, but by the 11 th Century,<br />
it was already suffi ciently well established,<br />
though still a relatively minor settlement, for<br />
the Arab geographer Al-Udri to describe it as<br />
an important staging point on journeys such<br />
as that from Cartagena to Toledo. In the 12 th<br />
and 13 th Century it became a major urban<br />
centre in what is now the region of Murcia,<br />
with approximately 800 houses occupying<br />
terraces on the hillside down to the river<br />
below (there is a difference of over 100<br />
metres in level between the houses at the<br />
top of the slope and those at the bottom).<br />
The town was fortifi ed with the castle on top<br />
of the hill controlling the surrounding area<br />
as well as acting as a refuge for the town’s<br />
population in times of danger. Although in<br />
an important strategic position in the Segura<br />
valley, Siyasa’s livelihood was based on<br />
agriculture using the springs and the river<br />
for irrigation.<br />
Today, Siyasa is an extremely important<br />
archaeological site (about which, more in<br />
a minute) but how did such an important<br />
settlement of perhaps around 4000 people<br />
in the 12 th Century come to be abandoned,<br />
especially when, in 1243, it recognised the<br />
sovereignty of the Castilians when Murcia<br />
was taken by the Christians and it was<br />
allowed to retain its government and way of<br />
life with relatively little change? The reason<br />
can be traced to the major uprising in 1266<br />
of the Arab population of Murcia which was<br />
only put down with some diffi culty. King<br />
Alfonso X of Castile decided that the area<br />
should be repopulated by Christian settlers<br />
to whom various privileges were given. The<br />
Christian resettlers began to arrive in the<br />
area around 1270 and preferred to live on<br />
the fertile plain by the river, although there<br />
is some archaeological evidence (graffi ti,<br />
some coins etc) that some may initially and<br />
temporarily have taken over property in<br />
Siyasa itself. Nevertheless, in June 1272,<br />
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when the King spent two days in Cieza,<br />
repopulation was clearly well underway and<br />
Siyasa had effectively been abandoned by<br />
its mudejar population following the rebellion<br />
and its repression. Clearly, the town had not<br />
appeared attractive to the new settlers. This<br />
is particularly fortunate today as Siyasa<br />
remained as it had been at the time of its<br />
abandonment and without subsequent<br />
modifi cation. The Arab population also left<br />
behind many ornaments and utensils which<br />
have added to the importance of this site as<br />
a mirror of 13 th Century Arab Murcia.<br />
Even the castle, though it continued in<br />
military use for a further 200 years, ended<br />
up being destroyed in 1457 as the result<br />
of a dispute within the powerful Fajardo<br />
family over the governorship of Murcia.<br />
Nevertheless, the new settlement of Cieza<br />
did not have things all its own way until the<br />
fi nal ending of the Moors’ occupation of Spain<br />
with the fall of Granada in 1492. Thus, on<br />
Easter Sunday 1477, King Chico of Granada<br />
penetrated Murcia and attacked Cieza with<br />
a force of about 50,000, slaughtering some<br />
and taking the rest of the population hostage<br />
and removing them to Granada. It was not<br />
until after the fall of Granada, that Cieza<br />
began to emerge again, especially when it<br />
was given the status of a free city in 1494.<br />
But what of Siyasa today after 750 years of<br />
abandonment and oblivion? The settlement<br />
was once walled, with towers, as well as<br />
having the castle overlooking it, and one or<br />
two traces of the walls remain. They appear<br />
in general to have been of relatively poor<br />
quality, though some stronger points have<br />
been found, no doubt in the more vulnerable<br />
areas. There were two principal entrances<br />
through the walls – one in the north below<br />
the castle and the other in the south east,<br />
near the cemetery. One of Siyasa’s unusual<br />
features is that the cemetery is actually<br />
within its walled area. However, it seems that<br />
this may have resulted from the growth of<br />
the town causing the once external cemetery<br />
area to have to be incorporated within its<br />
expanding limits. Paradoxically, it is this area<br />
which suffered the most in the centuries after<br />
Siyasa’s depopulation from treasure hunters<br />
looking for rich grave goods. Unfortunately,<br />
no one told them that it was not the tradition<br />
of the time to inter objects with the dead!<br />
Since the 1980s, a small area of 19 house<br />
remains dated to the 11 th to 13th Centuries<br />
has been carefully excavated and you can<br />
clearly see the house and street plans. Most<br />
streets were narrow and winding and, unlike<br />
some other Arab settlements where the<br />
authorities controlled development, in Siyasa<br />
the streets simply “evolved” as building<br />
occurred. All except the wider principal<br />
roads (there was one between the periphery<br />
and the centre of the town) functioned solely<br />
for the passage of individuals and perhaps<br />
a single beast of burden. The houses were<br />
of the traditional Moorish type, called “house<br />
with a central patio”. The larger houses on<br />
the higher terraces had an elbow shaped<br />
entrance to enhance privacy and the central<br />
patio was open to the air and light, and might<br />
have a small planted area in its middle. There<br />
would be a summer and winter salon with<br />
sleeping area and kitchen, and, on a second<br />
level, a room for the women to be out of<br />
sight when strangers called! A small stabling<br />
area was also quite normal somewhere in the<br />
entrance area – the position of Siyasa would<br />
make the use of beasts of burden necessary<br />
both for personal transport and the supply<br />
of goods. There were no windows on to the<br />
street, which was probably wise as the minor<br />
thoroughfares were very narrow and had<br />
effl uent discharged into them. All the houses<br />
had a toilet in a corner of the patio. While<br />
external decoration was sparse, internally<br />
the houses were richly adorned. Indeed, the<br />
richness and variety of decorative arches,<br />
corbels, fretwork etc in plaster found in<br />
Siyasa has been quite remarkable. However,<br />
as Siyasa grew in the 12 th and early 13 th<br />
Centuries, the newly built houses became<br />
smaller out of necessity.<br />
The overwhelming majority of this impressive<br />
site, however, remains unexcavated – for two<br />
reasons. First, there is the obvious question<br />
of money and resources. Second, the nature<br />
of the construction of the houses (“tapial”)<br />
used much loose material and exposure<br />
to the elements, especially rain, causes<br />
severe erosion without the necessary (and<br />
costly) protection. The excavations are now<br />
protected and visits are sometimes organized<br />
by the Cieza town hall (the tourist offi ce will<br />
be able to advise on this). However, if this is<br />
not possible, there is another way of seeing<br />
something of the splendour that must have<br />
been Siyasa – The Museo Siyasa in the<br />
centre of Cieza, housed in the old Cieza<br />
Casino building, is well worth a visit in its<br />
own right. The museum concentrates on<br />
remains from Siyasa, although it contains<br />
other elements from Cieza’s history. In<br />
particular, it has two full scale reproductions<br />
of houses from Siyasa, including original<br />
arches recovered from them. The internal<br />
decoration is fascinating – one of the houses<br />
relating to the style of the late 12th and<br />
early 13 th Century and the other to the mid<br />
13 th Century. Many utensils, including pots<br />
and glass items are also on display and we<br />
were particularly impressed by one, almost<br />
complete vase.<br />
Article by Clive and Rosie Palmer who have<br />
written several guide books on towns and<br />
regions in Murcia. These can be seen at and<br />
obtained from, www.lulu.com, or contact<br />
clive.palmer5@btinternet.com. Copies of<br />
some of the books may also be available from<br />
Cosas y Cosas, Cehegin and Best Wishes,<br />
Camposol Urbanización.<br />
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Children’s Food<br />
With four grandchildren all under fi ve, I have<br />
recently been reminded how diffi cult it can<br />
be to get children to eat fruit and vegetables.<br />
The hot weather here in Spain doesn’t help<br />
and at a BBQ recently, I noticed that the<br />
children were tucking into a homemade<br />
burger. Mum had cleverly hidden some fi nely<br />
chopped onion and mushrooms and used<br />
egg to bind the mince, so in actual fact the<br />
children were eating very healthily. I decide<br />
to visit some of my old recipes and see how<br />
they could be adapted to encourage children<br />
to eat them. One of my grandsons loves<br />
sausage and cheese so I tried the sausage<br />
and potato layer and it was a great success.<br />
Equally, my granddaughter loves rice, but is<br />
not very keen on egg, so we tried the egg<br />
fried rice recipe and she wolfed it down. Of<br />
coursed all children love chocolate, but can<br />
be a great way to get fresh fruit down them<br />
when it’s dipped in the chocolate.<br />
Buen Apetito<br />
Sausage Potato Layer<br />
40g butter<br />
1 clove garlic<br />
700g potatoes<br />
2 large red potatoes<br />
Salt and black pepper<br />
100g chorizo sausage<br />
1 onion<br />
75g cheddar cheese<br />
140ml single cream<br />
Butter suitable dish and peel and thinly slice<br />
the potatoes, sausage and onion. Take pips out<br />
of peppers and slice. Layer half the potatoes<br />
in dish and season. Sprinkle peppers, onions<br />
and sausage and then top with the remaining<br />
potatoes slices. Pour over the cream and<br />
sprinkle with cheese. Bake in oven 180º for 1<br />
hour or until potatoes are tender.<br />
Pizza<br />
I pizza base<br />
I onion<br />
I clove of garlic<br />
6 tbsp tomato puree<br />
1 tin plum tomatoes<br />
300g mozzarella<br />
Oregano and thyme<br />
Peel and slice onions and garlic and fry in olive<br />
oil until soft. Add tomato puree and canned<br />
tomatoes, then oregano and thyme. Simmer<br />
for 20 minutes until mixture thickens. Spread<br />
mixture over pizza base and sprinkle with<br />
cheese. Bake for 25 minutes or until crispy.<br />
Egg Fried Rice<br />
225g long grained rice<br />
1 clove garlic<br />
2 eggs<br />
2 tbsp sunfl ower oil<br />
2 tbsp light soy sauce<br />
Cook the rice in a large saucepan of boiling<br />
salted water for 10 minutes. Drain, rinse with<br />
boiling water, then drain again and set aside.<br />
Beat the eggs and set aside. Heat oil in a nonstick<br />
wok or large frying pan. Crush garlic and<br />
stir-fry for 1 minute, add rice and cook for a<br />
further minute. Pour in eggs and stir fry for<br />
about 2 minutes or until eggs are almost set.<br />
Add Soy sauce to taste and salt and pepper.<br />
Serve while hot.<br />
Tomato Omelette<br />
Whisk eggs until broken down but not too<br />
fl uffy. Season with salt and pepper. Place pan<br />
on a gentle heat and add butter and when<br />
melted add eggs. Stir gently with a fork or<br />
wooden spatula. Skin and chop tomatoes<br />
and fry in a little oil with onion (optional) and<br />
rosemary and garlic until soft. Add into centre<br />
of omelette and fold over. Serve immediately.<br />
Chocolate Fruit<br />
Fresh fruit like bananas, oranges, grapes,<br />
strawberries etc.<br />
150g Chocolate<br />
A packet of cocktail sticks<br />
Melt the chocolate in a glass bowl over a<br />
saucepan of boiling water, stirring. When<br />
the chocolate is runny, without lumps, take<br />
a piece of fruit and put a cocktail stick into<br />
the top. Dip it into the chocolate and coat all<br />
over. Place on a kitchen towel and allow to<br />
set. Decorating with hundreds and thousand<br />
- can be done with the chocolate is still wet.<br />
Any fruit can work so why not try some more<br />
unusual ones?<br />
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Interview<br />
with Dick<br />
Handscombe<br />
re new book<br />
Q.<br />
Hullo Dick it’s<br />
nice to chat<br />
for a change<br />
rather than<br />
just receiving<br />
and posting your monthly articles, which<br />
by the way are always well received by our<br />
readers. I gather that you have now written<br />
something special for our readers in the<br />
form of another book.<br />
A.<br />
Likewise I appreciate the chance to chat.<br />
Thanks for the opportunity, especially as my<br />
new book will be out by the middle of the<br />
month. The title is ‘Living Well from Our<br />
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Mediterranean Garden’.<br />
Q.<br />
That sounds interesting, but I note that this<br />
is written by yourself and not jointly with<br />
Clodagh this time.<br />
A.<br />
There is a simple reason for that. One<br />
theme of the book is how important the<br />
development of our holistic and ecological<br />
garden and the self suffi ciency achieved from<br />
it has been to me in recovering emotionally<br />
and physically from two cancer operations<br />
back in 1993 by natural means. Also the<br />
story starts nearly ten years before I fi rst<br />
met Clodagh and I had written seven nongardening<br />
books before meeting Clodagh.<br />
Since then it had been fun to write seven<br />
gardening books together.<br />
Q.<br />
So what is ‘Living Well from our Garden<br />
in Spain’ and how did it begin?<br />
A.<br />
We had thoughts about a book along these<br />
lines for some time and especially after we<br />
gave a well received talk on the topic to a<br />
U3A conference on retirement health and<br />
another talk on Spiritual Gardens to a social<br />
society. Further, for a number of years we<br />
have had a blog titled ‘Health from your<br />
Garden’ on the important ‘What Doctors<br />
Don’t Tell You’ site www.wddty.com.<br />
In a nut shell the book explores how one’s<br />
garden can be of immense help to one’s<br />
overall wellness which is defi ned in the<br />
book as comprising one’s spiritual, mental,<br />
physical, gastronomic and economic<br />
wellness. It gives guidance on the overall<br />
development of a beautiful benefi cial<br />
garden, how the traditional Mediterranean<br />
diet is a good start point for wellness, what<br />
can be grown in a garden that is benefi cial<br />
nutritionally and for other reasons, and<br />
the possibilities of moving from a focus<br />
on gluttonous fast food eating to real<br />
gastronomy from one’s own garden.<br />
Q.<br />
That sounds interestingly and timely. Is it<br />
another big book and who is publishing it?<br />
A.<br />
In fact it is perhaps best called a booklet. It<br />
is only 40 pages, but with the font size a very<br />
dense, fact fi lled book.. It is a very natural<br />
follow on to ‘Your Garden in Spain’,<br />
‘Apartment Gardening Mediterranean<br />
Style’, ‘Growing Healthy Fruit in Spain’<br />
and ‘Growing Healthy Vegetables in<br />
Spain’. These four books were published by<br />
Santana Books.<br />
The new book is self published with the<br />
help of the marketing/design executive of<br />
a printing company who is also interested<br />
in achieving overall wellness for his family.<br />
The reasons are threefold:<br />
I needed the book printed fast to support<br />
several talks in the autumn.<br />
I wanted to keep the costs and price down<br />
– it will be only 3.90€<br />
I also wanted to keep the postage rates<br />
down for those who buy direct.<br />
I did look at the possibility of an EBook, but<br />
there are a number of tables of information<br />
in the new book that are impossible to<br />
present intelligently in an eBook format.<br />
Q.<br />
How can it be purchased?<br />
A.<br />
Short term, the easiest way is to send your<br />
name an d address and a payment of 5€<br />
to Clodagh Brown, PO 572, Correos, 03730<br />
Javea , Alicante. By the end of September<br />
we hope that you can purchase by Paypal<br />
via www.gardeninginspain.com. Also we<br />
hope to give more talks on the topic up and<br />
down Spain to gardening and social clubs<br />
and cancer support charities where copies<br />
will be available. Lastly we expect that<br />
several bookshops including Bookworld will<br />
stock it.<br />
Naturally we will rush you a copy as soon as<br />
we have some from the printers. Hopefully<br />
you will be able to do a book review next<br />
month.<br />
Q.<br />
No problem<br />
with that.<br />
Well Dick,<br />
thanks for<br />
updating<br />
us on your<br />
w r i t i n g<br />
activities.<br />
Will this<br />
be the last<br />
book?<br />
A.<br />
Probably not,<br />
as writing is I<br />
understand,<br />
(75 next<br />
birthday!), a good way of keeping<br />
Alzheimer’s away.<br />
(c) Dick Handscombe.<br />
www.gardeninginspain.com<br />
September <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
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Every Mon Wellbeing Clinic with <strong>Calida</strong> Caring<br />
Agency<br />
Jane’s Salon, Bolnuevo<br />
Watch Your Weight Club, 2€ to MABS<br />
Jane’s Salon, Bolnuevo, 10.30am<br />
Slimming Club<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 11.00am<br />
Zumba with Mark<br />
Alley Palais, Camposol B, 11.00-12.00pm<br />
Andrea’s Animal Rescue, Collection for<br />
Shop<br />
Car Park, Camposol B, 11.30-1.30pm<br />
GO mad Available for Donations<br />
Cultural Centre, Camposol B<br />
<strong>Costa</strong> <strong>Calida</strong> Radio (Pto), 3.00-5.00pm<br />
Music Quiz with John<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, 9.00pm<br />
Every Tue Pensionista Day 1€ discount<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A,<br />
MAMAS Collection /Book Stall<br />
10.00-1.00pm<br />
Camposol B Car Park, opposite the garage,<br />
“Pick/Try/Choose/Buy/Donate”<br />
MABS Murcia NE<br />
Apts Maruja, Baños de Fortuna,<br />
10.30-12.00pm<br />
Dance Fitness to Music with Annette<br />
Hotel Sensol, Camposol C, 11.00am<br />
Bingo<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, 2.00pm<br />
Fish and Chips<br />
The Arches, Los Alcázares, from 6.00pm<br />
Fun Quiz Night with Eddie B<br />
Market Tavern, Pto de Mazarrón, 7.30pm<br />
Karaoke @<br />
The Arches, Los Alcázares<br />
Every Wed Bridge, New Players Welcome<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, 9.45am<br />
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Age Concern booking events etc<br />
Cultural Centre, Camposol B, 10.00-12.00pm<br />
Zumba with Mark<br />
Alley Palais, Camposol B, 11.00-12.00pm<br />
Zumba with Louise<br />
Hotel Sensol, Camposol C, 11.30-12.25pm<br />
Creative Writing Group with Annette<br />
Camposol, 2.00-3.30pm<br />
Fish and Chip Night, 6.50€<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 6.00-9.00pm<br />
Quiz Night with <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida Radio<br />
DJ Mark the Spark<br />
Hacienda del Álamo Clubhouse, 8pm<br />
Steak Night (3 courses)<br />
Don Ricardo’s, Pto de Mazarrón, 15€<br />
Quiz with Nigel<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, 8.30pm<br />
Mens’ Darts In the Evening<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A<br />
Disco @<br />
Alley Palais, Camposol B, 9.00pm-3.00am<br />
Every Thu Camposol Market<br />
Camposol A<br />
“Pick/Try/Choose/Buy/Donate”<br />
MABS Murcia NE<br />
Apts Maruja, Baños de Fortuna,<br />
10.30-12.00pm<br />
Slimming Club<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 11.00am<br />
Zumba with Louise<br />
Hotel Sensol, Camposol C, 11.30-12.25pm<br />
“Latin Beats” with Annette<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, 11.30-12.30pm<br />
Andrea’s Animal Rescue Collection Point<br />
Mazarrón Country Club Bar,<br />
11.30-1.00pm<br />
Zumba with Louise<br />
Cultural Centre, Camposol B,<br />
6.00-6.55pm<br />
Beginners Salsa with Louise<br />
Cultural Centre, Camposol B,<br />
7.30-8.30pm<br />
Karaoke with Bernie Mac @<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 9.00pm<br />
Ladies’ Darts in the evening<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A<br />
Evening Special Menu 8pm - 20€<br />
Buen Descanso, Tallante<br />
Fresh Fish Night, 3 courses<br />
Don Ricardo’s, Pto de Mazarrón, 10€<br />
Curry Night<br />
Market Tavern, Pto de Mazarrón, 10€<br />
Barbeque Night<br />
Hacienda del Álamo Golf Clubhouse<br />
Lenny Mitchell @<br />
The Priory, El Galan<br />
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Every Fri Bridge, New Players Welcome<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, 9.45am<br />
Book Sale and Bric a Brac. Noah´s ARC<br />
Camposol B, 10.00-2.00pm<br />
Book Stall. Camposol A Gardening Group<br />
Car Park Camposol A. 10.30-12.30pm<br />
Lions Bahia Mazarrón booking events etc<br />
Outside Kennelly’s, Camposol B,<br />
11.00-1.00pm<br />
Age Concern booking events etc<br />
Outside Trevi Bar, Camposol B,<br />
11.00-1.00pm<br />
GoMad Available for Donations<br />
Cultural Centre, Camposol B<br />
<strong>Costa</strong> <strong>Calida</strong> Radio (Pto), 12.30-2.00pm<br />
Mark Phoenix Hypnotheraphy @<br />
Dental Care, Camposol B<br />
Fish and Chips from 6.00pm<br />
The Arches, Los Alcazares,<br />
Fish & Chips 5€<br />
The New Royal, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Silly Steak Nights €14.95<br />
La Vista, Los Alcazares<br />
Fish & Chips & Live Music @<br />
Hacienda del Álamo Clubhouse, 12€<br />
Evening Special Menu 8pm - 20€<br />
Buen Descanso, Tallante<br />
Fresh Fish Night €10<br />
Don Ricardo’s, Pto de Mazarrón, 10€<br />
Bingo<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 7.30pm<br />
Disco @<br />
Alley Palais, Camposol B, 9.00pm-3.00am<br />
Every Sat Book Sale with MABS Murcia Mar Menor<br />
Outside The Arches Bar, 10.00-1.00pm<br />
(weather permitting)<br />
Karaoke/Disco with Bernie Mac @<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B. 9.00pm–late<br />
Lenny Mitchell @<br />
Manga Norte Restaurante, La Manga<br />
Saturday Special €20<br />
Don Ricardo’s, Pto de Mazarrón, 10€<br />
Evening Special Menu 8pm - 20€<br />
Buen Descanso, Tallante<br />
Every Sun Car Boot Sale, 8.30am<br />
Cañadas del Romero Social Centre,<br />
Car Boot Sale, 9.00-2.00pm<br />
El Romero, Cuevas de Reyllo,<br />
Help MMM Car Boot<br />
Autocine, Los Narejos<br />
Sunday Lunch<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, from 4.50€<br />
Sunday lunch & Music @<br />
Hacienda del Álamo Clubhouse<br />
3 course Sunday Roast (lunch & evening)<br />
Don Ricardo’s, Pto de Mazarrón, 10€<br />
4 course Sunday Roast<br />
Hotel Mariposa, Gebas, 15€<br />
3 course Sunday Carvery<br />
The Yachtsman, Pto de San Pedro<br />
Classic Sunday Dinner<br />
Market Tavern, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
3 course Sunday roast<br />
La Vista, Los Alcázares, 14.95€<br />
Karaoke/Disco with Bernie Mac @<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, From 7.00pm<br />
Fun Bingo<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 8.30pm<br />
Quiz and Games Night<br />
The Arches, Los Alcazares<br />
OCTOBER<br />
Saturday 1<br />
“Welcome” Meeting<br />
Mariano´s, Camposol A, 2.00pm<br />
CAFE Concert 5 €5<br />
Hotel Bahia, Pto Mazarrón,<br />
from 4pm – 12.00am<br />
Entertainment (artist tbc) @<br />
Las Torres, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Speed Dating<br />
The Arches, Los Alcázares<br />
Revue of Songs/Sketches/Poems by<br />
Cloud Nine Drama<br />
La Molata Social Centre, Nr Camposol, 8.00pm<br />
Art Exhibition in Mazarron (until 7<br />
<strong>October</strong>)<br />
Casas Consistoriales, Plaza del<br />
Ayuntamiento,<br />
Sunday 2 “El Zacatín” Artisan Market<br />
Bullas<br />
Mazarrón FC v El Palmar CF<br />
Monday 3 Sew’n’Sos Sewing Group/<br />
MABS Murcia NE<br />
Urb Las Kalendas, Fortuna, 2.00pm<br />
Tuesday 4 World Animal Day<br />
Volunteers Meeting for HAH<br />
Las Claras, 11.00am<br />
Auction with MABS Murcia NE<br />
Bobs Bar, Carretera Pinoso, Fortuna, 2.00pm<br />
Friends & Buddies Evening<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 8.00pm<br />
Crib Night with Welcome<br />
Mariano’s, Camposol A, 7.30pm, 1€<br />
Free Knitting Club 11am<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A<br />
Cálida Caring Agency @<br />
Dental Care, Camposol B<br />
Wednesday 5 Ladies Fair, handbags/shoes/clothes etc<br />
Jane’s Salon, Bolnuevo, 11.00-3.00pm<br />
Open Day From 11.00am<br />
Camping Pueblo San Javier<br />
Petanca with “Welcome”<br />
Mariano’s , Camposol A, 1.00pm<br />
Line Dancing<br />
The Arches, Los Alcázares<br />
Lions Meeting<br />
Cultural Centre, Camposol B, 5.00pm<br />
Thursday 6 Fiestas Patronales<br />
Santomera<br />
Friday 7 World Smile Day<br />
Fiestas Patronales<br />
Torre Pacheco<br />
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Feria y Fiestas Patronales<br />
Alhama de Murcia<br />
Virgen del Rosario<br />
Bullas<br />
Ntra Sra del Rosario<br />
La Unión, Lorca, Fuente Librilla & Puerto<br />
Lumbreras<br />
Lenny Mitchell @<br />
The New Royal, Pto Mazarron<br />
Outdoor Market Stall with MABS<br />
Calle Segura, Calasparra, 9.00-1.00pm<br />
<strong>Calida</strong> Country Music Club Night<br />
(CAFÉ)<br />
La Molata, Cañadas de Alhama, 8.00pm<br />
Saturday 8 Walk with Warm warm2005@gmail.com<br />
Outdoor Market/clothing/jewellery/<br />
shoes<br />
Las Torres, Pto de Mazarrón,<br />
11.00-4.00pm<br />
Entertainment tbc @<br />
The New Royal, Pto de Mazarron<br />
Entertainment (artist tbc) @<br />
Las Torres, Pto de Mazarrón, 9.30pm<br />
Lenny Mitchell @<br />
Manga Norte Restaurante, La Manga<br />
Tony Lincoln @<br />
The Arches, Los Alcázares<br />
Shirelle @<br />
Hotel Mariposa, Gebas<br />
Sunday 9 CF Huercal-Overa v Mazarrón FC<br />
Family Fun Day/Dog Show/Market 10am<br />
Helping Hands (see page 93)<br />
Tuesday 11 Book & Jigsaw Swap with Welcome<br />
Avda de los Cavachos, Camposol B, 10.00am<br />
Sheer Fantasy @<br />
Hacienda del Álamo Golf Clubhouse<br />
Wednesday 12 World Arthritis Day<br />
BBQ on the Beach with PALS<br />
Bolnuevo, 13€ inc food and drink<br />
Fortuna Ladies’ Luncheon Club/<br />
MABS Murcia NE<br />
Las Palmeras Restaurant, Baños de Fortuna,<br />
1.00pm<br />
Offi cial Opening Wellspring Church 4pm<br />
Calle Madrid, Puerto de Mazarrón<br />
Thursday 13 Fiestas de Octubre<br />
Los Alcázares<br />
Friday 14 Indoor Market with fashion/bling/DVD’s<br />
Alley Palais, Camposol B<br />
Justin Sane (Adult Night) @<br />
The Arches, Los Alcázares<br />
Zoe Barnes @<br />
The New Royal, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Saturday 15 Entertainment (artist tbc) @<br />
Las Torres, Pto de Mazarrón, 9.30pm<br />
Andy McBride (Rod Stewart) @<br />
The New Royal, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Lenny Mitchell @<br />
Manga Norte Restaurante, La Manga<br />
Open Day at Beauty Palace<br />
Camposol B<br />
Sunday 16 Mazarrón FC v Jumilla CD<br />
Monday 17 Energy Saving Week (until 23 <strong>October</strong>)<br />
Benidorm Trip with Welcome (2 nights)<br />
Excursion to bodega/market/Valor Chocolate<br />
Factory<br />
Sew’n’Sos Sewing Group/<br />
MABS Murcia NE<br />
Urb Las Kalendas, Fortuna, 2.00pm<br />
Tuesday 18 Ladies’ Lunch - MABS Mázarron<br />
Diamantes Restaurant, El Mojon<br />
Friends & Buddies Evening<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 8.00pm<br />
Race Night with “Fiestas Camposol 2012”<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, 5€<br />
Thursday 20 Fresh Crab Night €20<br />
Don Ricardo’s, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Friday 21 Trafalgar Day<br />
Outdoor Market Stall with MABS<br />
Calle Segura, Calasparra, 9.00-1.00pm<br />
4 Night Cruise with PALS<br />
Malaga/Algarve/Lisbonde/Tangiers<br />
Christine @<br />
New Royal, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Rock n Roll Night feat Jimmy Mac/Age<br />
Concern<br />
Mariano’s, Camposol A, 7.30pm, 5€,<br />
supper €5<br />
Saturday 22 Cloud 9 @<br />
The Arches, Los Alcázares<br />
Red Strokes @<br />
Las Torres, Pto de Mazarrón, 9.30pm<br />
Lenny Mitchell @<br />
Manga Norte Restaurante, La Manga<br />
Barrington @<br />
The New Royal, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Sunday 23 MABS Race for Life<br />
Camposol B, 10.00am<br />
SC Aguileno v Mazarrón FC<br />
Monday 24 United Nations Day<br />
Tuesday 25 Book & Jigsaw Swap with Welcome<br />
Avda de los Cavachos, Camposol B, 10.00am<br />
MABS Mazarrón Meeting<br />
Trevi Bar, Camposol B, 11.30am<br />
Friends & Buddies Evening<br />
Cat’s Bar, Camposol A, 8.00pm<br />
Wednesday 26 Diwali (Hindi New Year)<br />
MABS Murcia NE Meeting<br />
La Carcelera, Urb Las Kalendas, Fortuna,<br />
11.30am<br />
“Welcome” Dance/Ricky Lavazza &<br />
Laura Elen<br />
Mariano’s, Camposol A, 9€, food optional<br />
Fashion Show @ Sensol Golf by Glitz Bitz<br />
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3.30pm<br />
Camposol A Clean-up<br />
Friday 28 Indoor Market with fashion/bling/DVD’s<br />
Alley Palais, Camposol B<br />
Booksale with MABS Mazarrón<br />
Outside of Trevi Bar, Camposol B,<br />
9.00-1.00pm<br />
Table Top Sale with GO mad<br />
Camposol B, 10.00-2.00pm<br />
Walk with NEST with optional meal<br />
Meet 10.30am El Berro Car Park, Sierra<br />
Espuña<br />
John Sloman @<br />
The New Royal, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Murder Mystery Night with MABS Murcia<br />
Las Claras, Los Narejos, 6.30pm €12.50<br />
Cálida Country Music Club Night/Dave<br />
Sheriff<br />
La Molata, Cañadas de Alhama, 8.00pm<br />
Saturday 29 Christmas Fayre with F.A.S.T.<br />
Mariano’s, Camposol A, 11.00-4.00pm<br />
Halloween Party @<br />
Alley Palais, Camposol B<br />
Lenny Mitchell @<br />
Bar Imanyo, Daya Nueve<br />
Martin Ross @<br />
Las Torres, Pto de Mazarrón, 9.30pm<br />
Suzy G @<br />
The New Royal, Pto de Mazarrón<br />
Halloween show<br />
Meta, El Palmar<br />
Sunday 30 Artisan Market<br />
Plaza del Castillo, Cehegin, 10.00-3.00pm<br />
Monday 31 Halloween<br />
Halloween Party @<br />
The Arches, Los Alcázares<br />
Halloween Party @<br />
The Steak Out, Camposol. From 7.30pm<br />
Halloween Party @<br />
Hotel Mariposa, Gebas<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
Wednesday 2 Petanca with “Welcome”<br />
Mariano’s , Camposol A, 1.00pm<br />
Friday 4 Cálida Country Music Club Night<br />
(CAFÉ)<br />
La Molata, Cañadas de Alhama, 8.00pm<br />
Saturday 5 Bonfi re Night<br />
Shaky Ground @<br />
Las Torres, Pto de Mazarrón, 9.30pm<br />
Clean-up Party in Memorial Garden<br />
Camposol A Clean-up<br />
5/6th Dog Show<br />
IFEP Torre Pacheco<br />
Colour coding guide:<br />
Entertainment and special menu nights are Red<br />
Markets,exhibitions,leisure,activities and meetings are<br />
purple<br />
Charity and non profi t making organisations are green<br />
National events are orange<br />
Fiestas are pink<br />
Important dates are blue<br />
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Despite a disappointing start to Mazarrón<br />
FC’s season which saw all the fi rst three<br />
games end in defeat, the supporters’ club,<br />
Los Amigos de Mazarrón FC continues to<br />
thrive.<br />
Membership of Los Amigos de Mazarrón<br />
FC costs just €10 per year and runs from 1 st<br />
August. Forms are available at the weekly<br />
meetings held at the Trevi Bar, Camposol,<br />
every Thursday at 4 pm. Coaches are<br />
organised to transport members to away<br />
games at a cost of just €7 return and can be<br />
purchased at our weekly meetings.<br />
Weekly meetings are open to everyone with<br />
the exception of the Monthly Business<br />
Meeting which is normally held on the last<br />
Thursday in each month. Why not come along<br />
and join us for a drink and chat and to listen to<br />
what is happening at your local Football Club?<br />
You can also take part in our popular Key in<br />
the Box Competition with the chance to win<br />
a large cash prize for just €1.<br />
Former Wimbledon, Watford, Sheffi eld United,<br />
Nottingham Forest, Barnsley and Leicester<br />
City Manager, Dave Bassett, has accepted<br />
an invitation to become an Honorary Life<br />
Member of Los Amigos de Mazarrón FC.<br />
Dave was the speaker at our inaugural Gala<br />
Evening and Dinner in February 2010 and<br />
has supported us superbly over the last few<br />
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years by donating prizes for our raffl es and<br />
auctions.<br />
Our 3 rd Annual Gala Evening and Dinner,<br />
jointly sponsored by New Images, the No. 1<br />
Unisex Hair & Beauty Salon and Nail Bar of<br />
Centro Commercial, Sector B, Camposol, and<br />
Ibex Insurance of C.C. Upper Local 2, Avda<br />
Doctor Mesa S/N, Puerto de Mazarrón, is<br />
being held at the Hotel La Cumbre, Puerto de<br />
Mazarrón on Wednesday 8 th February 2012.<br />
Former Nottingham Forest, Leeds, Everton,<br />
Chelsea and Blackburn striker Duncan<br />
McKenzie is the guest speaker.<br />
Although all VIP tickets have been sold there<br />
are still some general tickets for the Dinner<br />
remaining. These cost €40 and include a four<br />
course dinner with local beer, wine and soft<br />
drinks included during the serving of dinner.<br />
To reserve your tickets please ring Andy on<br />
634 040 990, Dave on 600 631 956, email<br />
us at losamigosdemazarronfc@hotmail.co.uk<br />
or call at the Trevi Bar between 3 pm and<br />
3.45 pm any Thursday prior to our weekly<br />
meetings.<br />
Mazarrón FC games are normally played<br />
on a Sunday with varying kick-off times.<br />
Full details of all games, home and away,<br />
are normally announced on the Tuesday<br />
before the weekend in which the game is to<br />
be played and are displayed on posters at<br />
various points on Sectors A & B on Camposol,<br />
announced on <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida International<br />
Radio and also given on our new website<br />
www.losamigosdemazarron.es<br />
Provisional fi xtures for <strong>October</strong> are:-<br />
2 nd <strong>October</strong><br />
El Palmar CF (HOME)<br />
9 th <strong>October</strong><br />
CF Huercal-Overa (AWAY)<br />
16 th <strong>October</strong><br />
Jumilla CD (HOME)<br />
23 rd <strong>October</strong><br />
SC Aguileno (AWAY)<br />
30 th <strong>October</strong><br />
No game scheduled<br />
Admission to home games is just €5.<br />
For all information about Los Amigos de<br />
Mazarrón FC and Mazarrón Football Club<br />
visit our website www.losamigosdemazarron.<br />
es or for specifi c enquiries email<br />
losamigosdemazarronfc@hotmail.co.uk<br />
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We’ve been to Benidorm on a number of<br />
occasions but on August 20 th this was a trip of<br />
a different nature. This time it was to watch<br />
the fi rst stage of the “Vuelta de Espana”<br />
(professional and world renowned cycle race).<br />
1 st Stage<br />
The Team Time Trial took place in this Tourist<br />
Town with a very hard twisting route through<br />
the narrow streets and seafront. The British<br />
Rider Mark Cavendish of Team HTC<br />
Highroad was in all sorts of trouble after his<br />
green jersey win at the Tour de France and<br />
was well behind his eight other team mates.<br />
It was clear he should be in his sick bed,<br />
but bravely carried on for the next 3 stages<br />
before having to retire from the race. Team<br />
Sky (mainly made up of UK riders) didn’t<br />
have much luck either as 3 of their riders<br />
came down on a narrow cobbled section and<br />
although not picking up major injuries, lost<br />
40 seconds to the other team (this would<br />
be a major factor 3 weeks later). Jakob<br />
Fuglsang from team Leopard Trek took the<br />
lead on this stage.<br />
2 nd Stage<br />
After our overnight stay in a great hotel<br />
500mts from the fi nish line, we did a bit of<br />
sightseeing and then set off to watch the<br />
next stage in Santa Pola near the “feed<br />
station”. A fl at stage, one of only three in this<br />
year’s “Vuelta”, with the win going to Sky<br />
Procyclings Chris Sutton.<br />
Stage 3<br />
This stage (Petrer to Totana). As I predicted,<br />
this stage had a sting in the tail due to the<br />
2 short climbs around the Espuña. The fi rst<br />
shock to the riders was the 3 rd category “El<br />
Berro” climb. Very short, only 4k in length,<br />
but steep (13%) in places. After a fast<br />
dangerous descent into Alhama de Murcia,<br />
a 15k fl at section passed through the fi nish,<br />
then started the climb to La Santa, not going<br />
straight up the main road to the Monastery,<br />
but the back road. This is not used often by<br />
cyclists (for training or touring) as it’s 8k long<br />
with an average percentage gradient of 13%.<br />
The race started on this climb in 3 groups.<br />
It was at this climb we decided to park<br />
ourselves, our large table (as we had rather a<br />
large amount of food with us to keep us going<br />
during the 4 hour wait) and very comfortable<br />
chairs! It was a fantastic spot at the side of<br />
the road by the canal intersection, so when<br />
the race passed,<br />
we then had an<br />
easy drive to the<br />
main La Santa<br />
road to wait for<br />
the race to start<br />
its descent in to<br />
Totana. With the<br />
temperatures<br />
in the high 30’s<br />
we had a good<br />
deal of shade<br />
under a large<br />
tree to see the<br />
race come up the<br />
mountain. By this<br />
stage, the race<br />
had disintegrated in to 8 groups due to the<br />
severity of the steep climb. Pablo Lastras<br />
from Movistar won this stage with a group of<br />
4 other riders a little way behind.<br />
After the three weeks of racing, the Spanish<br />
rider Cobo from Team Geox took the fi nal<br />
win, with 2 British riders coming into 2 nd and<br />
3 rd places; Chris Froome (2 nd but only 13<br />
seconds behind the winner) and Bradley<br />
Wiggins (3 rd place at 1 minute and 39<br />
seconds behind). However, if they hadn’t lost<br />
the 40 seconds on the fi rst stage Team Time<br />
Trial, there could well have been a British<br />
winner for the fi rst time ever in a Grand Tour!!<br />
The Spanish also did us proud with 3 of their<br />
riders in the top 10 overall placings. We’ll<br />
wait with bated breath for next year.<br />
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Tuesday 30 th August saw the 8 th Event in the<br />
<strong>2011</strong> <strong>Costa</strong> <strong>Calida</strong> Golf Challenge. La<br />
Manga was the venue and all 32 players lined<br />
up to tackle the famous South Course. Conditions<br />
were great with a slight cooling breeze<br />
which was very welcome. Many thanks to Pedro<br />
and his team at La Manga for making this<br />
all possible and we will be returning at some<br />
point during 2012.<br />
The discounted green fees and buggies were<br />
all arranged by <strong>Costa</strong> <strong>Calida</strong> Golf Tours (www.<br />
ccgt.co.uk), and the other two main sponsors<br />
were The Great Golf Company and Caja Rural<br />
Regional<br />
The results:<br />
Winner<br />
Shona Callow (13 handicap) 37 Points<br />
Longest Drive – Ladies<br />
Paula Jones<br />
Longest Drive – Men<br />
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N/P in 1 shot<br />
Dave Storey<br />
N/P in 2 shots<br />
Paula Jones<br />
N/P in 3 shots<br />
Shona Callow<br />
We had 7 winners of the two’s pot - Shona<br />
Callow , Ruth Harrison , Rab Duncan , Dave<br />
Storey x 2 & Richie Heaton x 2<br />
Andy Walsh on 650 718 172 or email andy@<br />
ccgt.co.uk<br />
Control your approach<br />
shots by David Gay PGA<br />
Professional<br />
Do you wish you could<br />
pitch your iron shots close<br />
to the pin, every time?<br />
The secret is to play a little<br />
knockdown shot, says<br />
David Gay<br />
It’s amazing how many times I see amateur<br />
golfers rush their approach shots. These shots<br />
may seem easy compared to longer shots, but<br />
they require a great deal of skill.<br />
Rush the shot and you’ll probably miss the<br />
green from an easy position in the fairway.<br />
The fi rst mistake most golfers make is to try to<br />
hit too little club and force the ball all the way<br />
to the pin. This often causes a miss hit or a high<br />
trajectory that lacks control.<br />
Try playing more ‘knockdown’ shots in the<br />
greens. Take one more club than you think you<br />
need and grip down a little to shorten the shaft<br />
length for extra control.<br />
This will give you a lower more controlled ball<br />
fl ight.<br />
The second important<br />
lesson is to learn is to<br />
use a shorter swing.<br />
Club head control is<br />
vital to gain accuracy;<br />
by making a threequarter<br />
swing you’ll be<br />
able to keep the club<br />
head square to the<br />
target and keep your<br />
shots straighter. The<br />
fi nal adjustment to be<br />
made is to place the<br />
ball in the middle of your stance. This will help<br />
you to hit down on the back of the ball, giving<br />
a better strike, plus increasing the back spin to<br />
help you shot on the putting surface.<br />
Ball back, hands forward<br />
For a lower, controlled<br />
ball fl ight, position the<br />
ball at set up in the<br />
middle of your stance<br />
and make sure your<br />
hands are ahead of<br />
the ball (as shown).<br />
This will make your<br />
shoulders more level<br />
to the ground, rather<br />
than tilted. During the<br />
swing, keep the centre<br />
of your chest over the<br />
centre of the ball.<br />
Controlled backswing and follow through<br />
The key to playing this shot well is to keep<br />
your swing under control. That means making<br />
a shorter back swing- no longer than three<br />
quarters the length of your normal swing,<br />
do the same shorter swing with your follow<br />
through and you will be able to master the<br />
knockdown shot. With this knockdown shot,<br />
your swing will feel nice and compact and will<br />
produce a crisp strike at impact.<br />
For more information on lessons you<br />
can NOW fi nd David at Roda Golf<br />
Academy or contact on 6700 83939 email<br />
davidgaypga@mac.com<br />
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A great green fee of €24 including buggy<br />
was too good to miss as a large contingent<br />
from The Old Guard returned to La Tercia<br />
Golf Resort for its August competition.<br />
Left to right – Derek Hayward, Dave Barrett,<br />
Gavin Elbourne and Phil Carter on the fi rst tee<br />
La Tercia is a tricky nine hole course and<br />
playing it twice doesn’t make it much easier.<br />
The reeds had grown very high in the lakes<br />
and picking out fairways and greens on<br />
three of the holes was a worry unless you<br />
had the benefi t of local knowledge. This<br />
was a minor problem however and the rest<br />
of the course was in very good condition<br />
considering it was the height of the dry<br />
season.The day was very hot and humid<br />
and certainly took its toll on some of the<br />
less slender of the competitors.<br />
New member, Bob Rowe was the Overall<br />
and Division One Winner returning<br />
a Stapleford score of 29 points. (Sorry<br />
Bob, no trophy for you this time [three<br />
competitions minimum rule], but we hope<br />
you enjoy the wine). Runner-Up and<br />
Division Two Winner was Phil Carter<br />
with 28 points. (The practice in America<br />
has really paid off!). An overjoyed and<br />
emotional Dave May received his engraved<br />
tankard for fi nishing with 24 points as<br />
Division Three Winner. Darrell Webster<br />
was presented with the much sought after<br />
‘Plonker Trophy’ for fi nishing at the<br />
opposite end of the leader board.<br />
Other awards: ‘Nearest the Pin’ at hole<br />
4 Dave Barrett (0.4 metres from the pin!).<br />
‘Nearest the Pin 2 nd shot’ at hole 15<br />
Martin Hill. ‘Twos’- Howard Wright, Dave<br />
Barrett and Ian Murphy. Best Guest - Paul<br />
Knight (31 points).<br />
On a sad note, the society said its goodbyes<br />
to Treasurer Ian Adams. Ian has been an<br />
elected offi cer of Fuente Old Guard for<br />
over three years. During this time he has<br />
done a great job looking after the society’s<br />
fi nances, but is now returning to England<br />
with his wife Tina. We all wish you both<br />
well.<br />
Many thanks to Manager Nigel for his<br />
help and providing the prizes of vouchers<br />
for eighteen holes of golf and Jose in the<br />
restaurant for the food, wine and service.<br />
Another great golfi ng day out in sunny<br />
Spain.<br />
Bob (the shorts) Rowe collects his ‘Overall<br />
Winner’s wine from Vice-Captain Barry Martin<br />
If anyone is interested in joining Fuente<br />
Old Guard Golf Society or just wants to<br />
fi nd out more about us (Lady members<br />
welcomed) please contact the Secretary<br />
Bob Daffon Tel: 968598540 or email<br />
chrisandbobinspain@hotmail.com<br />
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FOR SALE<br />
Zanussi condenser dryer as new 350€ ono.<br />
Can be seen on Camposol Sector D.<br />
Tel 629541939 or 616729690<br />
Samsung N145 Netbook, brand new.<br />
Operating system loaded complete with<br />
camera for Skype. Price €185. Petrol<br />
strimmer in excellent condition, €70.<br />
Oceanic semi-dry suit, 2 pieces with hood,<br />
sm ladies size. Exc cond €50<br />
Tel:689568069 (Cehegin)<br />
Frister+Rossmann Epochlock 055D<br />
Overlocker with 4 Draw Wooden<br />
Sewing Cabinet. Very little use.<br />
Manual in English. €250 No Offers<br />
Tel 634346965 Mazarrón<br />
LINE 6 SPIDER 50w Amp. programmable,<br />
Dist, FX rev, delay etc. exc cond..v.loud.<br />
130€<br />
Tel: 600233456 (Cehegin)<br />
2 Loko Kayaks with paddles. 260€ ono.<br />
Tel 638138362<br />
White porcelain basin and pedestal/chrome<br />
mixer taps. Exc cond 40€. Matching bidet<br />
with chrome mixer taps. 10€.<br />
Tel 966260700/680588377.<br />
Electro acoustic guitar, small bodied,<br />
Burgundy. Gig bag/spare strings. Unused<br />
120€. Acoustic guitar, Steel strung. Gig<br />
bag/spare strings. Natural fi nish. As<br />
new 45€.Ukulele. Yellow wood. Bag and<br />
tutor book. New. 25€. Tel 630366321 or<br />
harrytaylorfc@yahoo.co.uk<br />
Goodyear Wrangler 215/75 R15 tyre.<br />
Brand new,unused. Buyer collects. Brand<br />
new bidet 15€. Brand new TV wall bracket<br />
up to 16” tv,max weight 30kgs10€. Ships<br />
Monthly from June 2009 & Ferry & Cruise<br />
Review, all in mint cond.1€ each/12 for<br />
10€.<br />
Tel 634325427 Camposol<br />
Car Seat 0-4 years gd cond 20€ ono.<br />
Car Seat/Carrier 0-6 months 10€ ono.<br />
Lg Travel Cot & Mattress. Gd Cond 25€.<br />
Booster Seat 5€<br />
Tel: 672920349 Mazarrón<br />
Portable Gas Fire, regulator & gas bottle.<br />
50€ ono.<br />
Tel: 672920349 Mazarrón<br />
Sky+HD Digital Recorder.<br />
Brand New, still boxed. 95€<br />
Tel. 968599015<br />
WANTED<br />
2 nd hand external door and windows. Any<br />
size and material for shed.<br />
Tel 634334169<br />
WORK OFFERED<br />
GROUP INFORMATION<br />
CLASSIFIED ARE AVAILABLE FREE FOR<br />
ITEMS UNDER 500€ OR FOR WANTED/<br />
LOST ITEMS, FOR NON-COMMERCIAL<br />
ENTERPRISES ONLY AND EXCLUDING<br />
VEHICLES AND BOATS. Maximum 20<br />
words and 3 classifi eds per customer.<br />
How to Place a Classifi ed Advert<br />
Please go to www.costacalidachronicle.<br />
com and click on classifi ed or email<br />
costacalidachronicle@gmail.com or call<br />
968 970 680 between 10.2pm Mon-Fri<br />
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Writing this in mid September the weather<br />
is getting cooler, the days shorter and<br />
autumn approaches. Matt and I are soon<br />
off to Worcester to collect his Mum and have<br />
a week’s holiday in Wales. Mum Monk is<br />
coming back with us, so that leaves Sister<br />
Bobbie at home alone, house and animal<br />
sitting. Thanks to all of you who asked about<br />
our lost dog Freckles, but unfortunately he<br />
has not returned home – still some hope,<br />
but it gets less likely that we will see him<br />
again as each day passes. The pond is<br />
looking as though winter is here with most<br />
of the plant life dying away. Does anyone<br />
know if the turtles we adopted and have<br />
seen the summer through will survive the<br />
winter in the pond? It’s quite deep, but we<br />
don’t know if the temperatures outside are<br />
to low, although when we were in Madrid at<br />
the Parque Buen Retiro the lake was full of<br />
them and we are sure they don’t collect all<br />
those ones up each winter!<br />
TV News<br />
We are getting lots of calls about two<br />
subjects which none of us really need worry<br />
about:<br />
Firstly, people seeing all the ads about UK<br />
going fully digital this autumn ask, should<br />
we in Spain be doing anything to keep the<br />
UK viewing? The answer is NO. We are all<br />
already digital – if you view with SKY or<br />
FREESAT there is nothing you need do.<br />
Secondly, many of you are asking if anything<br />
needs to be done about HD (high defi nition)<br />
viewing as all the channels seem to be going<br />
HD. Again the answer is NO. If you want<br />
to view in HD then you will need an HDready<br />
TV and an HD digibox, but it is not<br />
necessary. There are no current plans to<br />
switch off SD (standard defi nition), so again<br />
just sit back and watch. If you do watch with<br />
a SKY subscription and go HD by getting<br />
a new TV and digibox, be aware that SKY<br />
charges an additional 10 pounds per month<br />
for the HD channels – FREESAT HD is<br />
FREE!<br />
We did not get any answers to last month’s<br />
question about using FREESAT HD boxes<br />
for BBCiplayer. We need to disguise the<br />
Ethernet sockets on a router as if you are<br />
in UK. We know we can view it through<br />
a computer, but does anyone know how,<br />
through a FREESAT box plugged into a<br />
router? BBC see us in Spain and will not<br />
allow access – would be great to use iplayer<br />
direct to TV???<br />
SKY seems to have settled all their channel<br />
changes and channel numbering at last.<br />
Channels have been renamed and moved<br />
to new locations, but it now seems to have<br />
settled. It’s OK for you young ‘tecy’ people,<br />
but the older ones of us get used to things<br />
where they are and change is confusing<br />
– it’s like when the supermarket change<br />
layout and I can never fi nd a thing! Anyway<br />
for all the changes most of the actual SKY<br />
output seems much as before! Any of you<br />
on FREESAT and either missing the SKY<br />
you had in the UK or wanting more choice of<br />
channels including SPORT? We can provide<br />
SKY contract cards for viewing. It costs a<br />
bit to get one and the subscription is the<br />
same as it would be in UK. Contact us for<br />
details.<br />
We have recently had a couple of requests<br />
for new installations from people who have<br />
just purchased houses down here in Murcia<br />
and on-site visiting have found it impossible<br />
to locate the big dishes required for UK TV<br />
viewing – disappointed clients. Remember<br />
we will always site survey a property BEFORE<br />
you make the fi nal move to buy – worth it if<br />
UK TV is going to be important to you. How<br />
many times have we heard “Oh we haven’t<br />
come to Spain to watch TV”! Most of those<br />
have not lived here a winter when it can be<br />
cold with long dark evenings.<br />
If any of you have any questions you would<br />
like answered about TV viewing in Spain,<br />
email us and we can answer in the following<br />
months newsletter if it’s a general enquiry –<br />
we will always email an answer back anyway.<br />
Article sponsored by RAINBOW<br />
SATELITTES – the company for all your TV<br />
needs in the Murcia region.<br />
Contact Alan or Matt for free friendly advise<br />
– email rainbowsats@gmail.com or phone<br />
(0034) 686 358 475. Our website www.<br />
rainbowsats.org has some good basic info<br />
about viewing TV in Spain.<br />
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1. Where would you fi nd Four Seasons,<br />
Stamina, Lexus, and Love Tub together?<br />
Euro Spas<br />
2. Who offers both home care and<br />
hospital care?<br />
<strong>Calida</strong> caring agency<br />
3. Where would you fi nd both antiageing<br />
clinic and Fuschia Beauty Clinic?<br />
At the Salon<br />
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4 What do Rosie’s Toesies offer you?<br />
Mobile foot care and pedicure service<br />
5. What do ASSSA insurance<br />
specialize in?<br />
Health insurance<br />
6. Where would you fi nd Restaurant<br />
Yachtsman?<br />
Puerto de San Pedro<br />
7. What would you fi nd at Calle De La<br />
Ensenada , La Puebla (on F35)?<br />
Mariachis<br />
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8. When was St Teresa of Avila,<br />
canonized?<br />
In 1622<br />
9. What does Lenny Mitchell and his<br />
Musical Machine invites you to do?<br />
Take a trip back to 60’s and 70’s<br />
10. Who offers Liquid Wall Paper?<br />
Interior Elegance<br />
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British residents in <strong>Costa</strong> Blanca South<br />
have their healthcare and welfare questions<br />
and concerns addressed<br />
The Consulate and Pension Benefi t and<br />
Healthcare Teams together with representatives<br />
of local authorities and 15<br />
British and Spanish support organisations<br />
answered questions on how to access<br />
their services. The aim of the “Consulate<br />
in the Community” event was to<br />
address questions and concerns around<br />
healthcare and welfare for residents<br />
across the <strong>Costa</strong> Blanca South and help<br />
those that are most vulnerable in these<br />
diffi cult times.<br />
Members of the Consulate and other organisations<br />
spoke to many of the over 200 people<br />
present about their entitlements in terms of<br />
pensions, benefi ts and healthcare and any<br />
other welfare needs. Organisations represented<br />
were HELP, MABS, Age Concern, AFA,<br />
Torrevieja Stroke Support Group, <strong>Costa</strong> Blanca<br />
Samaritans, the U3A, the Spanish Red Cross,<br />
Caritas, the Royal British Legion as well as Torrevieja<br />
Town Hall, social services, health authorities<br />
and the local provincial government.<br />
The event took place at the Centro Cultural<br />
Virgen Del Carmen in Torrevieja and refreshments<br />
were kindly provided by the Iceland<br />
supermarket in Torrevieja where earlier in the<br />
day the British Vice-consul Lloyd Milen and<br />
Pension, Benefi t and Healthcare Offi cer, Laura<br />
Leeman talked to shoppers and informed them<br />
of the evening event.<br />
The Consular team also held a meeting with<br />
the various organisations and institutions taking<br />
part in the open day to discuss how to improve<br />
and increase the cooperation between<br />
them.<br />
The British Consul in Alicante, Paul Rodwell,<br />
said:<br />
“As consul, I think it is essential to be out and<br />
about in the community. This event has potentially<br />
helped hundreds of Brits and shown<br />
them that there is a superb support mechanism<br />
out there working in partnership with the<br />
British Consulate in Alicante. It was especially<br />
rewarding to see so many British and Spanish<br />
organisations ready to help out those most in<br />
need.”<br />
The Pension, Benefi t and Healthcare<br />
Team in Spain<br />
http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/living-in-spain/more-help-inspain/dwp-dh<br />
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6. Caravaca De<br />
La Cruz<br />
La Paca<br />
Vélez Rubio<br />
A-91<br />
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Moratalla<br />
Vera<br />
3. Calasparra<br />
El Berro<br />
Águilas<br />
Cieza<br />
Archena<br />
7. Cehegin<br />
RM-15<br />
Molina de<br />
Segura<br />
16. Mula<br />
17. Pliego<br />
Alcantarilla<br />
C-3315<br />
1. Alhama<br />
de Murcia<br />
Aledo RM-2<br />
21. Totana<br />
RM-3<br />
A-7<br />
RM-23<br />
23. Los Cantereros<br />
5. Cañadas del<br />
Lorca Romero RM-3<br />
4. Camposol<br />
22. Purias<br />
AP-7<br />
Albacete<br />
27. Blanca<br />
A-7<br />
Las Palas<br />
14. Mazarrón<br />
2. Bolnuevo 18. Puerto de<br />
Mazarrón<br />
26. Fortuna<br />
9. Fuente<br />
Alamo<br />
Murcia<br />
20. Tallante<br />
Cartagena<br />
Orihuela<br />
RM-1<br />
Catral<br />
N-332<br />
Torrevieja<br />
RM-19<br />
Pilar De La Horadada<br />
11. La Torre 28. San Pedro del Pinatar<br />
29. Torre<br />
Pacheco<br />
19. San Javier<br />
12. Los Alcazares<br />
A-30 AP-7<br />
8. El Algar 10. La Manga<br />
13. Los Belones<br />
24. Cabo de Palos<br />
25. La Manga Club<br />
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Accommodation:<br />
Hotel La Mariposa - 968 631 008<br />
Accountants:<br />
Silvente - 968 332 058<br />
Airport Parking:<br />
Coastline Park & Fly - 966 799 326<br />
Seguro Parking - 622 062 115<br />
Bars, Cafés & Restaurants:<br />
Alley Palais - 968 131 970<br />
Amaro Restaurant - 968 484 019<br />
Restaurante Buen Descanso<br />
– 968 163 642<br />
Café Teatro - 682 343 910<br />
Cafeteria Plaza - 968 705 406<br />
Cat’s Bar - 666 188 353<br />
Chez Zoe - 676 691 324<br />
Don Ricardo’s - 968 155 887<br />
Hacienda del Alamo Golf Resort<br />
Clubhouse - 968 070 066<br />
Hotel La Mariposa - 968 631 008<br />
La Vista Café Bar - 868 186 727<br />
Las Torres - 607 013 423<br />
Leonardo’s - 628 682 303<br />
Liz’s Cafe - 696 724 123<br />
Mariachis Mexican Restaurant<br />
- 968 559 984<br />
The Market Tavern - 968 154 588<br />
The New Royal - 968 595 864<br />
The Steak-Out - 968 970 619<br />
The Yachtsman - 600 749 181<br />
Trevi Bar & Restaurant - 669 026 544<br />
Builders:<br />
Amigos - 619 025 160<br />
CM Constructions - 659 159 948<br />
Fuente Building Services - 696 744 982<br />
Green Construction - 968 970 614<br />
JD Construction - 630 269 994<br />
Tony’s Building Services - 647 119 952<br />
Westwood Construction - 968 563 553<br />
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Building Services:<br />
Kano Building Design - 963 141 082<br />
P&P Services - 659 732 962<br />
Steve Maquina - 644 317 669<br />
V.I.P. Services - 650 893 607<br />
Butchers:<br />
Big Breakfast Butchers - 968 170 553<br />
English Butcher Camposol<br />
- 619 579 823<br />
Carpentry:<br />
Philip Carpenter / Joiner - 680 443 219<br />
Car Hire:<br />
Bolnuevo Cars - 968 150 979<br />
F&C Rent a Car - 968 199 156<br />
Cars & Transport:<br />
P&P Services - 659 732 962<br />
Specialist Vehicles SL - 968 146 158<br />
Chiropodists:<br />
Chiropody - Philip Dawe - 968 150 244<br />
Cleaning Services:<br />
Limpieza Rosa - 619 199 407<br />
Clothes Shops:<br />
Legs & Co. - 660 792 513<br />
Computer Accessories:<br />
Beep - 968 155 710<br />
Dot Com World - 968 199 154<br />
Shop at Camposol Computers<br />
- 968 154 477<br />
T J Electricals - 868 181 121<br />
Computer Repairs & Sales:<br />
Beep - 968 155 710<br />
Camposol Computers - 968 199 191<br />
Dot Com World - 968 199 154<br />
LocoPC - 968 971 893<br />
Shop at Camposol Computers<br />
- 968 154 477<br />
Dentist:<br />
British Dental Clinic - 628 115 554<br />
Dental Care - 968 199 111<br />
Olivier Houdusse - 968 153 645<br />
Education:<br />
Creative Writing - 649 647 467<br />
Let’s Talk Spanish - 630 939 626<br />
Electricians:<br />
Amigos - 619 025 160<br />
Jim Large - 628 539 789<br />
Louis Harris - 619 712 821<br />
Sparks Electrical Services - 626 693 440<br />
Entertainment:<br />
Lenny Mitchell - 658 321 891<br />
Funeral Plans:<br />
ASSSA - 968 153 396<br />
The Funeral Director – 650 631 719<br />
Furniture:<br />
Cosas y Cosas - 968 742 712<br />
DFS - 968 334 194<br />
Furniture Plus - Purias - 968 482 456<br />
Hairdressing:<br />
Cálida Hair and Beauty Academy<br />
- 968 971 828<br />
Jane’s Salon - 968 158 433<br />
The Salon – Melissa & Tanya<br />
- 691 916 717<br />
The Salon 2 - 686 354 232<br />
Health & Beauty:<br />
Anti-Ageing Clinic - 691 916 717<br />
Avon with Jan - 672 880 353<br />
The Care Agency<br />
- 0044 1455 559 988<br />
Drew Ryder Therapist - 660 326 194<br />
Face and Body - 676 545 436<br />
Freedom Mobility - 968 153 620<br />
Fuschia Beauty Clinic - 630 439 480<br />
Jane’s Salon - 968 158 433<br />
Nadine - 696 886 649<br />
Rosies Toesies - 639 171 835<br />
The Beauty Palace – 968 971 828<br />
Heating and Aircon:<br />
Camposol Heating & Maintenance<br />
- 968 199 184<br />
<strong>Calida</strong> Gas & Oil - 659 791 771<br />
LLamas Chimeneas - 968 591 030<br />
Louis Harris - 619 712 821<br />
Miles Plumbing - 968 955 171<br />
Home Furnishings:<br />
Curtain Call - 616 240 171<br />
Yorkshire Linen - 968 595 946<br />
Insurance:<br />
ASSSA - 968 153 396<br />
Ibex Insurance - 968 595 945<br />
Knight Insurance - 902 282 820<br />
Please tell our customers where you saw their advertisement in the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
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MSC Insure - 968 429 129<br />
Nash Warren - 968 156 583<br />
Internet Cafés<br />
Alley Palais - 968 131 970<br />
Camposol Computers - 968 199 191<br />
Dot Com World - 968 199 154<br />
Kennels and Catteries:<br />
Casa Abril Catteries - 617 417 189<br />
Colina Kennels - 639 012 342<br />
Delmonte - 968 168 711<br />
El Carro Kennels - 620 582 654<br />
Legal Services:<br />
Nicky G Translation Services<br />
- 968 199 245<br />
P&P Services - 659 732 962<br />
Professional and Legal Solutions<br />
- 968 595 826<br />
Silvente - 968 332 058<br />
Locksmiths:<br />
ADS Locksmith - 600 255 250<br />
Mechanics:<br />
Colair - 626 726 149<br />
Decklid Auto Services - 626 678 840<br />
English Garage Services - 968 743 350<br />
Eurotyres - 968 424 605<br />
Ford Marcosta - 968 424 636<br />
López Milan - 968 429 216<br />
Ken Sherwood-Mechanic - 679 646 859<br />
Mobile Car Mechanic - 666 161 129<br />
Neumáticos El Ceña - 968 422 015<br />
Metalwork:<br />
Eriks - 636 050 008<br />
Mobility Products:<br />
Freedom Mobility - 968 153 620<br />
Outdoor Catering:<br />
The Roving Diner - 699 223 112<br />
Outdoor Living:<br />
D&G Garden Leisure Products<br />
- 968 334 773<br />
Furniture Plus - Purias - 968 482 456<br />
Pergola Covers - 667 879 399<br />
Woodworks Direct - 649 540 016<br />
Painting and Decorating:<br />
Decor8 -646 324 669<br />
Interior Elegance - 968 482 456<br />
RJB Décor Painting - 699 044 742<br />
Trevor Smith - 968 163 298<br />
Plumbers:<br />
Apache 24/7 Plumbing Services<br />
- 968 970 614<br />
Camposol Heating & Maintenance<br />
- 968 199 184<br />
Printing & Design:<br />
Insignia Graphics - 618 615 903<br />
Mister Print - 638 893 357<br />
Property Maintenance:<br />
Trevor Smith - 968 163 298<br />
Westwood Construction - 968 563 553<br />
Property Management:<br />
Harris Property Management<br />
- 619 726 014<br />
La Manga 4 U - 0044 7921 351298<br />
Me & My Buddy - 634 359 732<br />
Owners Away - 691 977 107<br />
Sensol Golf Villa Rentals - 968 970 614<br />
Spanish Property Rentals - 699 107 072<br />
Property Sales:<br />
ADS Property Services - 646 969 455<br />
Another World Properties - 968 592 679<br />
Best of Spanish - 635 434 651<br />
Fuente Alamo Real Estate - 968 598 173<br />
Sensol Golf Sales - 968 970 614<br />
Removals:<br />
Advance Moves - 968 654 667<br />
<strong>Costa</strong> Cálida Transport - 660 359 956<br />
Dainton Storage - 653 529 243<br />
Lord’s Removals and Storage<br />
- 608 061 872<br />
Mar Menor Removals - 968 564 298<br />
Retail Outlets:<br />
Direct Sports.es - 686 341 749<br />
Eros - 968 583 008<br />
TJ Electricals - 868 181 121<br />
Services:<br />
Compusurf - 968 970 666<br />
Dog Listener - 868 082 011<br />
Easy Flat Packs - 966 470 770<br />
Four Legs Dog Grooming Service<br />
- 968 974 056<br />
Healthy H20 - 968 437 270<br />
Home from Home Chimney Sweep<br />
- 660 478 881<br />
House Clearance - 968 974 997<br />
Kennedy Financial Services<br />
- 678 035 992<br />
Kevins Aluminium Services<br />
No More Mould - 672 795 574<br />
The Laundry Shop - 670 847 305<br />
UK Woolshop - 619 493 183<br />
Solar Power:<br />
Inside Out Spain - 659 232 507<br />
Solar Directa - 659 315 130<br />
Spas & Hottubs:<br />
Eurospas - 650 722 905<br />
Sport & leisure:<br />
Alley Palais - 968 131 970<br />
Casa La Pedrera - 660 616 620<br />
<strong>Costa</strong> Cálida Radio - 902 903 783<br />
Dance Zone - 649 647 467<br />
Direct Sports.es - 686 341 749<br />
Friends in Nautical Sports - 645 657 094<br />
Horseriding META - 636 172 198<br />
Hotel La Mariposa - 968 631 008<br />
JFM Radio Network - 968 868 198<br />
Mazarrón Dance - Zumba Classes<br />
- 655 421 120<br />
Yoga Classes Bolneuvo - 662 043 540<br />
Swimming Pool Cleaning &<br />
Maintenance:<br />
Alpha Pools - 968 971 824<br />
Daisy Pool Covers - 968 638 583<br />
Köhn Pool Service - 968 138 638<br />
Pool Pump Repairs - 606 594 874<br />
Tony, Tiler Diver - 646 438 694<br />
Watermaid - 646 705 088<br />
Translation:<br />
Carlos’ Interpreting Services<br />
- 630 187 041<br />
Nicky G Translation Services<br />
- 968 199 245<br />
P&P Services - 659 732 962<br />
Travel Agents:<br />
Dragon Tours - 968 971 993<br />
TV & Satellite:<br />
CTV Aerial & Satellite Systems<br />
- 600 218 046<br />
ISS - 655 480 543<br />
LocoSat - 968 971 893<br />
Rainbow Satellites - 686 358 475<br />
YPM Satellites - 628 234 045<br />
Veterinary Clinics:<br />
Veterinary Clinic Maskota - 968 597 929<br />
Emerg - 619 378 473<br />
Vet in the Port - 968 153 931<br />
Emerg - 608 466 553<br />
Please tell our customers where you saw their advertisement in the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
To place an advertisement with us please see page 5 or contact Teresa 619 199 407<br />
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Friday 16 th<br />
September saw<br />
the Almanzora<br />
Valley rocking<br />
well into the night<br />
with the sounds of<br />
Showaddywaddy<br />
Legend performing<br />
at the third event<br />
by Helping Hands<br />
held at Centro<br />
Hipico, the huge<br />
Equine Centre and<br />
Restaurant near<br />
Pulpi.<br />
“The mission of<br />
Helping Hands is to support existing<br />
charities and those unsung heroes who<br />
quietly go about rescuing and caring for<br />
abandoned and mistreated animals at<br />
their own cost and with no support. We<br />
realize that times are hard for everyone at<br />
the moment, so our events are designed<br />
specifi cally to give our supporters value<br />
for money by keeping costs down. We<br />
would rather have a small profi t and see<br />
our supporters go home really happy<br />
Face And Body BEAUTY TREATMENTS<br />
Relax<br />
Rejuvenate<br />
Unwind<br />
It’s time you spoiled yourself to a nice<br />
relaxing treatment. You need to chill after<br />
all those summer visitors!<br />
Pamper parties – for ladies<br />
Gather a group of 3 or 4 friends together<br />
and you can all enjoy a day of pampering<br />
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than try to<br />
raise funds<br />
by giving<br />
nothing for<br />
something.<br />
Now is not<br />
the time for<br />
that” said<br />
Helping<br />
Hands.<br />
“The next<br />
event (see<br />
page 93) is a<br />
huge Family<br />
Fun Day,<br />
Dog Show<br />
and Market on 9 th <strong>October</strong> at the same<br />
ideal venue. The day will be packed with<br />
entertainment and will end at around 5pm<br />
with a Magic and Illusionist performing in<br />
the main Restaurant.<br />
We want everyone to come along and have<br />
a great day on a small budget so please<br />
join us”<br />
The Helping Hands Team<br />
in the comfort of your own home. You<br />
could have an aromatherapy massage to<br />
de-stress, a nice relaxing facial to put back<br />
all the moisture lost through sunbathing,<br />
or maybe a pedicure to restore your feet<br />
after walking around in fl ip-fl ops and<br />
sandals -try out the Shellac on your toes-<br />
it lasts for ages! Choose from any of the<br />
treatments listed on my website www.<br />
fabbeautywithlorraine.moonfruit.com<br />
The best bit (apart from the treatments<br />
of course) is that as the host you will<br />
receive30% discount on the price of the<br />
treatment you choose on the day if the<br />
total cost of everyone’s treatments is over<br />
100€, PLUS a further 10% discount on<br />
your next 2 treatments after the pamper<br />
day. And there’s more………….your friends<br />
will all receive 10% discount on their<br />
treatments if they are over 20€ each.<br />
Beauty vouchers<br />
Have you got a birthday or anniversary<br />
coming up? Have people been asking you<br />
what you want for Christmas already? Ask<br />
them to treat you to some beauty vouchers,<br />
or if you are struggling to fi nd a present for<br />
someone, I supply personalised vouchers<br />
for any amount from 10€<br />
Call 676545436<br />
or email<br />
beautywithlorraine@yahoo.com<br />
Go on treat yourself – you deserve it.<br />
I look forward to meeting you soon<br />
Compusurf puts its retail operation<br />
“Camposol Computers” Online<br />
“CompuShop”, the fi rst Online Shop Dedicated<br />
to Camposol<br />
Compushop has replaced the retail outlet<br />
known as “Camposol Computers” - same<br />
company, same people and wholly owned<br />
and operated by Compusurf SL. based on<br />
Urbanizacion Camposol in the Murcia Region<br />
of Spain. Compushop is primarily designed to<br />
serve the local population of Camposol fi lling<br />
a market void and offering the convenience<br />
of Online Shopping and Free Delivery at<br />
competitive prices from the comfort of your<br />
own home.<br />
Like any online shop, Compushop can also<br />
deliver at reasonable prices to anywhere in<br />
the world. The old Camposol Computers<br />
Shop will no longer stock goods, but instead<br />
customers can order online from Compushop<br />
in the Internet Cafe section of the old retail<br />
premises and collect items free the next day, or<br />
if they live on Camposol, have them delivered<br />
free of charge. Our repair workshop also<br />
remains on the premises meaning customers<br />
that come into the premises can still chat to<br />
someone for advice.<br />
The worry of shopping online that some people<br />
have is taken away, as we are real people<br />
operating right on your doorstep and you<br />
can come and speak to us if necessary. The<br />
e-shop will be populated with PC assesories,<br />
consumables including printer inks, papers,<br />
blank cds, DVDs etc etc. Hardware including<br />
laptops, PC’s, printers and all the usual items<br />
you would fi nd in a PC shop. Customers can<br />
ask for anything they want that is not on the<br />
stock list and we will try our best to get it. We<br />
wil also be selling unlocked Mobile phones and<br />
assesories as well as Sims, contract phones<br />
and PAYG phones, Sat systems, TVs; the list<br />
goes on. The range will be expanded as people<br />
suggest products.<br />
Compushop also gives Compusurf customers<br />
a convenient way to pay for our PAYG Internet,<br />
telephone and VPN services.<br />
Compushop is a new venture in the<br />
e-commerce fi eld that is designed to gather the<br />
best of both the online and walk-in shop worlds.<br />
The concept is based around localization,<br />
serving local residents. Unlike the big e-shops,<br />
our business ethic is to keep it local with real<br />
people on hand. As the business grows, rather<br />
than expand the one e-shop, we will open new<br />
e-shops, again operated locally around an<br />
existing walk-in shop.<br />
You can visit Compushop now at www.<br />
compusurf.es/shop We have only just opened<br />
so it will be a few weeks before we are fully<br />
stocked, but you can still open an account now.<br />
Its free, and you can keep popping in to see<br />
what new items are on the shelves. While you<br />
are there send us your suggestions and your<br />
wish list of products.<br />
Chris Jennings.<br />
Please tell our customers where you saw their advertisement in the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
To place an advertisement with us please see page 5 or contact Teresa 619 199 407<br />
www.costacalidachronicle.com email: costacalidachronicle@gmail.com
Please tell our customers where you saw their advertisement in the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
To place an advertisement with us please see page 5 or contact Teresa 619 199 407<br />
www.costacalidachronicle.com email: costacalidachronicle@gmail.com<br />
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In association with <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida International Radio and www.angloINFO.com
In association with <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida International Radio and www.angloINFO.com<br />
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Please tell our customers where you saw their advertisement in the <strong>Costa</strong> Cálida <strong>Chronicle</strong><br />
To place an advertisement with us please see page 5 or contact Teresa 619 199 407<br />
www.costacalidachronicle.com email: costacalidachronicle@gmail.com