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22 The Parish Magazine - July/August 2021 feature — 5 July: Sweet Food for Thought! Now is the time to dig out the picnic hampers and clean the BBQs! July is officially National Picnic Month, and on 2 July BBQ week begins – if taking a BBQ on a picnic beware, many picnic locations ban fires and BBQs for safety reasons. And while planning your picnic remember that July is also the World Plastics Free Month so avoid using plastic wrappers, utensils, etc. There are lots of ideas about how you can support this worldwide effort — including plastic free picnic ideas — on: https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/ By 7 July you may fancy a sweet break because it is World Chocolate Day! It was on this day in 1550 that chocolate was first brought to Europe. The cocoa bean, from which chocolate was first made in Mexico about 4,000 years ago, was said by the Aztecs to be a gift of the god who gave them light and drink – it came in the form of chocolate! Christians will know that they were correct in chocolate being a gift from god, only they would question who the true God is! MEXICAN COINCIDENCE After spending a whole day of eating chocolate without feeling guilty you can then take a break for three days as you prepare to enjoy National Doughnut Week from 10-18 July. By the end of doughnut week, you will be able to take a slightly longer break to recover before celebrating Vanilla Ice Cream Day on 23 July. By coincidence, vanilla, like the cocoa bean, originally came from Mexico and it is said to be the second most expensive spice after saffron. Also, like chocolate, the best way to celebrate Vanilla Ice Cream Day, is to eat it either on its own or with one or more of your favourite foods – food maybe you could add a chocolate flake! To round off a glorious month for food lovers, 30 July is National Cheesecake Day. Cheesecake is believed to have originated in Ancient Greece, and the earliest evidence is in a book by the Greek physician Aegimus (5th Century BCE), who wrote a book on the art of making cheesecakes. By the first century BCE it was established in Rome as evidenced by the oldest known Roman cheesecake recipe credited to a politician, Marcus Cato. There are hundreds of cheesecakes recipes online, a good starting place is: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/ cheesecake-recipes August: Great and Small! With fewer opportunities for overseas holidays this year, many of us will be visiting the UK’s beaches and shorelines and so what better time could The Wildlife Trust choose than to have its annual National Marine Week from 25 July to 9 August. Despite its name, it lasts for 15 days to allow for variations in tide times around the country, so you need to bear that in mind when planning your visits. There is a lot of information to help you on: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/get-involved/ campaign/national-marine-week where the trust says they are particularly interested in sightings of Pacific oyster, wireweed, slipper limpet, Chinese mitten crab, oarweed, snakelock anemone, stalked jellyfish, shore crab, beadlet anemone and common limpet, but feel free to report all
The Parish Magazine - July/August 2021 23 Image credits Mountain picnic table: Lina1984malina on dreamstime.com Elephants: Jonathan Pledger on dreamstime.com Lions: Ciolca on dreamstime.com Owls: Pedro Turrini Neto on dreamstime.com Seaside: Three Cliffs Bay, Eutuxia Ntzereme on unsplash.com Bats in the night sky: Amy Smith on dreamstime.com other sightings as well. August is also a month to celebrate several other creatures, great and small. The 4 August should be a hoot as the International Owl Awareness Day is being celebrated around the UK at bird sanctuaries, wildlife parks and even by book sellers who are suggesting you spend the day reading a wide selection of owl-centred stories! Four days later cats take centre stage while on the 24th dogs get their turn. If larger animals are your love, then look out for lions on 10 August, elephants on the 17th and orangutans on the 19th! HOMELESS ANIMALS For most animals lovers, however, 22 August is perhaps the most important day of the month because it is when The International Society for Animal Rights is holding its annual ‘Homeless Animals Day’. This special day was introduced to spread awareness about pet overpopulation and the society’s meaningful work which includes saving the lives of millions of animals. https://isaronline.org/programs/internationalhomeless-animals-day-ihad/ BAT NIGHT To round off a month of animal celebrations the ‘night owls’ among us can sit up all night long on 28-29 August and take part in the International Bat Night. This annual night out started in 1997 and if you want get involved visit: https://www.eurobats.org/international_bat_night . . . and fresh air memories of UK holidays! Camping and caravanning holidays have been around for many years and for obvious reasons seem to be increasingly popular this year, so on this, and the following pages we share some past experiences of this traditional pastime ... How did we ever find time for church . . . By Paul Masters, son of Claude a regular contributor My memories are from our early caravanning days and membership of the Berkshire branch of the Caravan Club which seemed to meet every weekend ... how we ever found time for church, I don't remember! However, I remember well the first Sprite caravan. It was towed by what I would now think a most inappropriate vehicle — a 1500cc automatic Hillman Avenger. Dad had to buy a special oil cooler to stop the automatic gearbox overheating! I remember that Dad converted a drop down double bed from a wall into a bunk bed made from a steel tube and a canvas sheet — a typical make do and mend, but it worked well for many years, although I never got to use it. Being a male offspring, I was banished forever to sleep in the awning with whatever animals we took with us. The rally weekends seemed to be a lot of people showing off their latest asset and that the bigger units always belonged to the smallest family with the very best rigs reserved for retired folk. ANOTHER NIGHTMARE The highlight was always to claim the souvenir badge for the weekend which would be proudly stuck with the smallest piece of Blu Tack possible to the most visible part inside the caravan. I remember the water being delivered to the sink via an awkward hand pump and it felt very posh when the next caravan upgrade sported a foot pump! Our last caravan had hot and cold running water! Toilets were another nightmare. Our first van had nothing more that a bucket and a small pack of 'Elsan Blue' to keep the unpleasant smells at bay. No doubt that the job of emptying it would not have been Dad's favourite job of the weekend. All in all, I have many pleasant memories of those weekends away, but most of all I remember watching the adults getting increasingly more inebriated as it went on. They sobered up just in time for the haul back home late on Sunday evening, knowing that the working week ahead would end with the preparations for yet another weekend away!
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