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Event: The Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile Location: Yeovil Recreation Centre, Yeovil 

I’m taking part.

Date: Sunday 20th March 2016 

Time: 12:30 

Distance: 1 Mile
Please sponsor me.

Your Sport Relief Giving Page link is https://my.sportrelief.com/sponsor/davidrecardo – this is where everyone can sponsor you, so send it to as many of your friends and family as you can!

The money you raise will help transform people’s lives, in the UK and across the world’s poorest communities.

The Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile is back – and it’s coming to Yeovil Recreation Centre. On Sunday 20th March South Somerset District Council and Yeovil Town FC are inviting local people to come together and make themselves proud by entering now at http://www.sportrelief.com.

  
This is the fifth time that South Somerset District Council is organising the event and so far tens of thousands of pounds have been raised by the events held at Yeovil Recreation Centre.

On Sunday 20th March local heroes from Yeovil and the surrounding area will be walking and running themselves proud during the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile to raise life-changing money for Sport Relief 2016. The colourful, cheerful and eager Milers will be doing their bit to make a difference to people living across the UK and the world’s poorest communities.
Event organiser, David Blackwell, Leisure Projects Officer at South Somerset District Council explains more about the event and how to get involved. “Everyone is welcome to come along to the Rec. From little ones with their mums and dads, to runners up against the clock there’s something for everyone on this special day.”

“There will be plenty of free activities including circus skills and arts and crafts so don’t forget to rope in your mates, family, boyfriend, girlfriend and colleagues too. Enter now at sportrelief.com, get sponsored and help transform the lives of people living here in the UK and in some of the world’s poorest countries, while being part of an incredible nationwide event.”

Yeovil Town FC are once again getting involved in the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile. Manager Darren Way from the football club said, “I have taken part in the Yeovil Sport Relief Mile before and really enjoyed it. It is such a well organised event and one that will hopefully raise lots of money for worthwhile causes.” 

Councillor Sylvia Seal, Portfolio Holder for Leisure and Culture at South Somerset District Council said, “We want the fifth Yeovil Mile to be a fun event in aid of a very good cause. We are delighted to have support from Yeovil Town F.C and Goldenstones Leisure Centre to help make this our best Sport Relief mile ever. One of the district council’s aims is to encourage participation in sport and physical activity and this comes in many forms. People can walk around in fancy dress if they like – it is all helping to make a difference to people’s lives.”

About Sport Relief

Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives. The money raised by the public is spent by Comic Relief to help people living incredibly tough lives, across the UK and the world’s poorest communities. It all leads up to the Sport Relief weekend and a fantastic night of TV on the BBC.

Sport Relief 2016 will take place from Friday 18th to Sunday 20th March 2016. You can run, swim, cycle or even walk yourself proud at events across the country. There’s a distance for everyone, whether you’re sporty or not. Find out more at http://www.sportrelief.com 

Entry fees for the Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Games:

Adult £7.    Children (under 16) £3.   Family (2 adults, 2 children) £17

The Yeovil Mile

For more information contact the lead officer on the project:

David Blackwell, South Somerset District Council, Leisure Projects Officer on 01935 462280

Modular ward

• Work is continuing to complete our new modular ward, which was craned onto the roof of the hospital at the end of year. This innovative ward will become our new 24-bed emergency assessment unit (a space for assessing those who have been admitted as emergencies and who need to be assessed for admission, onward care or discharge), providing much needed additional capacity and helping us to better utilise the entire hospital for the benefit of patients. 
• The current phases of work are to develop the access to the ward and to prepare the interior. Opening is scheduled for early February.
• The hospital chose to implement a modular ward as it makes best use of our restricted site (we have very limited space to build ‘outwards’ due to our urban location) .

Car park

• With more people attending our hospital each year – many arriving by car – we need to improve the quantity and quality of car parking for patients, visitors and staff. This month (January ‘16), we begin work on a new multi-storey car park, providing 656 parking spaces in a modern, accessible development.  
• We will also be constructing a new road to link Higher Kingston and the A37 (Kingston) to ease congestion on the hospital site, improve access, and reduce hospital traffic on local streets.

How will it happen?

• Building our multi-storey car park is a big operation and will happen over several phases across the year. Below are the first two.

1. Phase 1: After the closure of Car Park 2 on 25 January, the developers will start preparing the site, including demolishing the bungalows and one other property, and building retaining walls
2. Phase 2: Work begins on the foundations and steel ‘frame’ of the car park, as well as the carriageway of the A47 as part of developing the hospital’s new-one way system.

And finally:

• I always thought “Junior Doctors” were newly qualified, but that is not the case, they could be any doctor in a hospital below a consultant, their age is not an issue, a 40 year old Doctor with 15 years experience could still be referred to as a “Junior Doctor”. ——- “I learn new things every day”.

Members of the public who want to know more about their local hospital and would like to share their feedback about the Trust are invited to come along to a drop-in event on Tuesday 26 January between 2.30pm and 5.30pm at Yeovil Baptist Church.

This event is an opportunity to hear about exciting developments at the hospital, as well as changes taking place, and the work that is being done to improve patient care and experience. It will feature a number of stands and talks providing details about dementia, catering, fundraising, patient experience, volunteers, hospital governors, and car parking and the hospital estate.

The Chief Executive will also be giving a presentation on the hospital’s plans to integrate health services so care is more seamless for patients, and details about plans to improve facilities at the hospital including the development of a new multi-storey car park and the new ward at the hospital.

Paul Mears, Chief Executive said “This event is a chance for us to showcase the Trust and the developments that we are making and have made over the last year. We will also be sharing our plans of how we are looking to the future and looking at integrating our services. It has been a busy year at the hospital and we are making considerable changes to benefit our patients and visitors, which we are looking forward to sharing at this event.”

There will also be samples of the new hospital catering service on offer as well as refreshments.
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It’s Sunday morning, it’s poring with rain and the wind is howling, pretty much what you would expect when you want to go out.

Having a gurt big greenhouse attached to the house comes in very handy on days like this, last years growbags are still there, all the fuchsia’s are pruned ready for next season, and my only remaining dahlia is tucked up harm, what’s to do ?  I know I’ll recycle my grow bags, that will pass the morning constructively.

At this point I must say, if you tomatoes have had any blight I don’t recommend you do this as you will be using the growing medium for potting up your seedlings, the last thing you want to do is kill them off because you were careless.

The recycling process is simple enough, you cut open your growbag, then with your preferred tool, (mines a scoop) place the content in a garden sieve, in manageable quantities, and sieve, this process will remove most of the roots from your past crop, leaving you with a fine manageable growing medium. (Please remember as you go to add some nutrient to the mix) as the past crop will have used what was there, I use slow release granules together with some soil conditioner also sieved, I get my soil conditioner from our local recycle centre run by Viridor. If you want a more open medium you can also add some vermiculite as you go, this helps with the drainage.

The container below contains one good quality growbag, (I don’t buy cheap grow bags, they are not worth having, in my view), together with some soil conditioner and nutrients, it is reasonably dry, easy to handle and most importantly ready to use when needed, for “any repotting job”.

You will never get, all of the roots from last years crop out of this mixture, but I have found over the years I have been doing this, it doesn’t matter, “providing your growbags are disease free”.

I hope, happy reader, you find this tip useful and it produces some wonderful blooms for you, like it has for me over the years. If you find this useful please share the knowledge with others, recycleing is always worthwhile.

South West in Bloom Yeovil in Bloom
 

easy to do and save money in the spring