Herald - Issue 420

OPEN SUNDAYS & BANK HOLIDAYS • RINGWOOD ROAD, TOTTON • PLAZA PARADE, ROMSEY • THE PRECINCT, CHANDLERS FORD ALL DAY COD & CHIPS £1 OFF On presentation of this advertisement MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY ONLY Not valid with any other offer. Valid until 30th March 2022 10th March 2022 • The HERALD • Page 33 v F @ heraldpublishing v FOOD FOR THOUGHT The Blackfield Baker Ltd Traditional Quality Bakery Bread, Cakes, Savouries and Take-away Birthday Cakes Tel: 023 8089 8688 • 139 Hampton Lane, Blackfield ‘The Blackfield Baker’ Makes & Bakes the best Bread & Cakes Watercress – It’s So In Season! At last, the days are getting longer, and warm sunshine is tempting us out to enjoy relaxed al fresco dining. What better way to embrace the season than with some delicious, healthy salads – quick, and easy to make, and best of all packed with British watercress freshly harvested on farms in Dorset and Hampshire, available from May. Still grown in the traditional – and only – way in owing spring water in special Victorian watercress beds, watercress is the perfect salad leaf. Vibrantly green and with a peppery kick it’s pleasing to the eye and to the taste buds and better still is one of the healthiest veg available. It boasts over 50 vital vitamins and minerals and gram for gram contains more vitamin C than an orange, more folate than a banana, more vitamin E than broccoli and more calcium than milk. It’s also rich in iron and because of the high levels of vitamin C and A it possesses this iron is more easily absorbed than most other plant-based irons making watercress an essential addition to any vegetarian or vegan diet. ere’s so much more to say about watercress so why not join the 15,000 people who gather in the Capital of Watercress, Alresford in Hampshire for the annual Alresford Watercress Festival. Deprived of this slightly bonkers celebration of watercress for the last two years, it’s expected this year’s festival on Sunday 15th May will be bigger and better than ever! To nd out more, visit: www.watercressfestival.org Packed with so many vitamins & minerals, make watercress a regular on your plate! FOR WINE LOVERS as well as getting to know other like-minded people. eir next meeting is on Wednesday 23rd March for ‘New Wave Brazilian wines’ presented by Nicholas Corfe of GoBrazilWines. For more details about upcoming events and ‘Tasting Notes’ visit: www.brockenhurstwineclub.co.uk or to attend a session telephone John Harris on: 07714 261251 or email: jharris.lydith@btinternet.com e Brockenhurst Wine Club meets monthly in Brockenhurst Village Hall, usually on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm. Open to all, members explore a wide range of wines that people may not have come across, in a range of budgets and to learn something about how and where they are made, Oh My Cod - It’s National Fish & Chip Day! The biggest food awareness day of the year, National Fish and Chip Day, is back for its 7th year! On Friday 27th May , a week before the nation prepares for a special four day Bank Holiday to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the nation will come together to celebrate another icon, and still a favourite... sh and chips! From the North to the South, the East to the West, we all love the nation’s favourite dish, but we all enjoy them in di erent ways! Some can’t eat them without gravy, others think that is an abomination! For others, if it doesn’t have mushy peas is it even a sh supper?! We understand that Her Majesty, who has some of the nest chefs at her disposable throughout her UK residencies, is partial to sh and chips too! She has passed this love of the dish on to her grandchildren too, with William and Kate famously enjoying a portion of steaming hot sh and chips from their favourite shop in Anstruther when they re-visited their University hometown of St Andrews last year. is year on Friday 27th May we want to celebrate the di erences that make sh and chips (and scraps, batter bits, scrumps, batteries... what do you call the little bits of batter at the bottom of the packet?!) so iconic and will see people across the country coming together on National Fish and Chip Day! is event is championed by trade organisation, e National Edible Oil Distributors Association (NEODA) who represent all the major re ners, key packers and distributors of edible oils as well as suppliers of non-oil products (such as batter mix, sausages, packaging, range manufacturers and potato preservatives) in the UK. The Big Jubilee Lunch Since 2009, The Big Lunch has been bringing millions of people together to share food and fun in a nationwide act of community friendship on the first weekend in June every year. As you know this year, e Big Jubilee Lunch will be part of the o cial celebrations for HM e Queen’s Platinum Jubilee , 2nd to 5th June . C o m m u n i t i e s across the UK are invited to save the date for e Big Jubilee Lunch in their diaries, and start chatting with neighbours to help get this party started. Visit: www. edenprojectcommunities.com/the-big-jubilee-lunch to nd out how you can get involved and order your FREE Big Jubilee Lunch pack. If you held a Big Lunch last year or are planning to this year, please let the neighbourhood watch team know by emailing: deborah.waller@ourwatch.org.uk Waterside Veterans Coffee Club e newly establishedWaterside Veterans Co ee Club (WVCC) is held on the 3rd Saturday of every month from 10am at Fawley Royal British Legion, Exbury Road, Black eld, SO45 1XD, with their next meeting scheduled for Saturday 19th March . All veterans, serving personnel, their families and dependents are invited to attend and enjoy the usually good humour, refreshments and occasional visiting guests. If you would like further information on this great venture please do get in touch by calling Lucy on: 07979 673343 or emailing: wvcc@btinternet.com Lots of Variety at Local Festival Totton gears up for its 43rd Festival of Drama which promises to be the best one yet so go along and enjoy ve nights of excellent community theatre. 14 entries from amdram groups from Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and even Hertfordshire! - are competing to win a place in the All England Theatre Festival English Final with a chance to represent England at the British Finals. e Festival takes place at e Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Aikman Lane, West Totton, SO40 8FT from the 22nd to 26th March . It‘s curtain up at 7pm each evening to enjoy three one act plays guaranteeing audiences an unparalleled variety of theatre showing the high quality work of amdram groups as they perform works by famous playwrights and new writers. e Regina Monologues by Southampton’s SUP eatre Company is just one of the 14 one act plays on o er during the week performed under the watchful eye of professional adjudicator Keith Phillips GODA. Tickets are just £9.00 and on sale now at Hanger Farm. Contact: hangerfarm@minsteadtrust.org.uk or call the box-o ce on: 023 8066 7683. To learn more about the Totton Festival of Drama, a Stage One of e All England One Act eatre Festival, visit www.tottondrama.co.uk or follow us on Twitter or Facebook.