HOT OFF THE PRESS
JUNE ‘15
In This Months Issue:
4TH BIRTHDAY SPECIAL
ISSUE 39
4th Birthday Party Review
Chef Adams Cooking Corner
History Fun
Summer At The Centre
And Loads More……..
NOTE FROM THE TEAM
Happy Birthday to the centre! Check out all the pictures on
pages 6-7. We had a great day and the weather was brilliant.
This months magazine is crammed full We’ve added 4 extra
pages this month! We have Adam making birthday cakes, the
last instalment of our History Fun, Mark and Alysha are back
with their download list. Mark has been to the cinema and
seen a Pitch Perfect 2, Paul has written a great piece about
his day at Rookley’s Gardens Galore. We have an update of
lots of exciting things that are happening during the summer
at the centre. Colin has been to Mexico and we have a really
hard Guess Who! Have a great month everyone!
FUN AND GAMES
This month we have a
Sudoku for you all to try,
you have to fill all the
boxes with numbers from
1—6 but you can’t have
the same number in the
same row or the same
line! Good Luck.
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE ANSWERS
Did you find all the differences from last
months Spot the difference? There was 10
in total. Here are the answers.
IN THIS MONTHS MAGAZINE
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Mark & Alysha Download
5 Minutes with Paul
Page 4
Around The World
Summer at The Centre
June’s Birthdays
Page 5
History Fun
Jims Useless Facts
Page 6
4th Birthday Party
Page 7
4th Birthday Party
Page 8
Page 9
Chef Adam’s Cooking
Mark’s Movie Review
I Like Driving In My Car
Dates for the Diary
Page 10
Fundraising News
Page 11
Fun and Games
Guess Who?
Page 12
Festival Game Card
Keep up to date with all the goings on at the centre by
checking out our Website
WWW.PHOENIXPROJECTIOW.ORG
GUESS WHO?
Which member of
staff from The
Phoenix is in this
disguise?
Answer next
month!
Well done to all
those who
noticed last
months Guess
Who?
It was Nick
AROUND THE WORLD
ADAM’S COOKING CORNER
As we have just had the centres 4th birthday I thought
I’d do some easy to make cakes.
This month Colin has been looking at Mexico
The official name of for Mexico is the United Mexican States
There are 31 states in Mexico
Its capital city is called Mexico City
The main language spoken in Mexico is Spanish
Around 117 million people live in Mexico
Mexican food is known for its range of flavours and spices.
Popular dishes include tacos, burritos and enchiladas
SUMMER AT THE CENTRE
We will be running day trips which include visits to The Mayflower,
Seaview Wildlife Park, a Spa Day, and a trip to The Aquarium in
Southsea. If you come to the centre on a Thursday and world like to
go to Portsmouth Dockyards on your day trip,
See Sam or Mandy. We also have tickets to Calbourne Mill and to
Robin Hill park we can use all summer,
In July we have hired a beach hut in Shanklin for two weeks.
Method:
Time: 1.05 mins.
Serves: 12
Level: easy
Stars out of 5:
 Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line 2 x
12-hole fairy cake tins with paper cases.
 Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until
pale. Beat in the eggs, and stir in the vanilla extract.
 Fold in the flour. Add a little milk and spoon the
mixture into the paper cases until they are half full.
 Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes, or until golden
brown on top, Leave to cool
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110g/4oz Caster Sugar
2 free-range eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
110g/4oz self raising flour
1-2 tbsp milk
For the Icing
300g/10½oz icing sugar
 Sift the icing sugar into a large mixing bowl and
stir in enough water to create a smooth mixture.
 drizzle the icing over the cakes, sprinkle with decorations and set aside until the icing hardens
JUNE BIRTHDAYS
4th Rosemary Bircham
5th Mark Lees
7th Joel Ives
10th Querino Bogoni
11th Peter Merricks
13th Barbara Bennett
21st Sam Whittingham
22nd Mark Bignell
28th Rachel Mallon
30th Nicola Spanner
Ingredient
110g/4oz butter
2-3 tbsp water
hundreds and thousands, or
other cake decorations
MARKS MOVIE REVIEW
This month I’ve been to see Pitch Perfect 2, it’s a
sequel to the 2012 film. Its all about a acapella
singing team. In this film, the team have to perform
in an international competition
they have never won before.
Certificate: 12
Running Time:
115mins
Mark’s thumbs up
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FUNDRAISING NEWS
MARK AND ALYSHA’S DOWNLOAD LIST
We’ve had a very busy couple of months with our fundraising
events. At the beginning of May we had a Race Night at the centre,
it was a great night where people got to bet on horses and then we
watched the races on the big screen. We had Chilli and Jacket
Potatoes for dinner. The evening raised £280.
Well done and thanks to everyone who supported the evening.
We are looking at doing another one next year.
We are looking back over classic songs from June this month, going back
10 years at a time. Have a listen to the tracks and download them.
We have been very lucky receiving gifts with can use as prizes to
raise money for the Phoenix. Southampton FC have been very
generous the last few years always giving us tickets for trips
to the stadium and this year they gave us a signed shirt.
We had a raffle and it was drawn at our 4th Birthday.
The winner was James Hodson and we raised £282.
so a big thank you to everyone who brought a raffle ticket.
Finally we have been chosen by the Isle of Wight Festival as part of
their new charity initiative to have 2 full weekend tickets for this
years festival. We are doing a fun game where you have to guess
where on the picture our Phoenix is hiding. It’s £1 a go and all the
money goes to the charity, so have a go and who knows you could
be at the
festival seeing Blur, Fleetwood Mac, Pharrell Williams and over 300
acts over the 4 days. Good Luck.
June 2005 - James Blunt– You’re Beautiful
A number one for 5 weeks by the former Captain of the Household
Calvary, This was James Blunts only UK number 1.
June 1995 - Michael & Janet Jackson– Scream
This was a number 3 hit for the brother and sister team on their only
outing as a duo, the music video was even more famous for being the
most expensive one ever made at the time, it cost about £5million!!
June 1985 - The Crowd - You’ll Never Walk Alone
This was a charity record to raise funds to the Bradford City Stadium fire,
the song featured orginal performer Gerry Marsden and also featured acts
like Bruce Forsyth, Black Lace, Peter Cook and Motorhead!
June 1975 - 10CC - I’m Not In Love
This was 10CCs 2nd of 3 UK number 1s in the 70s this song featured a
choir made up of recording the band singing over 256 voices.
June 1965 - Elvis Presley - Crying In The Chapel
Originally a hit back in 1953 for Artie Glenn and his son Darrell. This was
recorded by Elvis in 1960 but held back from his album to be released as
an Easter special record, it was number 1 for 2 weeks
5 MINUTES WITH PAUL
On Sunday 3rd May, Paulette and I went to Rookley’s
‘Gardens Galore’ show to help on the Phoenix Project
Stall. We sold a range of plants, Fuchsias, Cosmos,
Geraniums and Petunias. We were also selling items
made in the woodwork group planters and bird tables.
I served several customers including Sarah Crump and her
husband, he brought lots of vegetables for his new garden.
The Shirt ready to be raffled
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Adam trying to win Festival
Tickets
James our raffle
winner with his
signed shirt
Towards the end of the day Paulette and I had a look around the
show, I brought two Cacti they are Iophonphora Diffusa and
Reburtis Muscula varieties and I met Steve from the Cacti Society.
Despite the wind we had a good day and made just over £300.
PAUL
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PHOENIX 4TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
On Wednesday 27th May we celebrated our 4th Birthday Party.
The sun was shining and we all had a brilliant time. Jim was our
entertainment, he sang lot of party songs so lots of us had a dance.
Andrew Skinner also performed on the keyboard, We had Jacket
potatoes for lunch and ice cream from the ice cream van for
dessert. It was a brilliant day.
We are Looking forward to next year already!
I LIKE DRIVING IN MY CAR
On Saturday 23rd May a group of service users got a fantastic
opportunity to drive a car. John Marsh and his friends who are all
driving instructors taught the service users the basics of learning
how to drive a car. The cars have dual control so they the instructor
can also control the brakes and accelerator.
Below are some pictures of the morning.
We are hoping to make this an annual event.
HISTORY FUN
The last two weeks of the history
group we learnt all about the
Victorians and also about the first
World War. The Victorians was
very interesting we got to see and
use things used in the Victorian
times, including a kettle and a
washing machine!
For the first world war we looked
at uniforms and found out about
life in the trenches. I would not
have liked to have had to spend
time in the trenches, they were
very scary.
We want to say thanks to Lisa for
a great time, teaching us all about
the different parts of history and
we hope you have enjoyed
reading about them.
Carole and Michael.
JIM’S USELESS FACTS
This month it’s all about Animals
DATES FOR THE DIARY
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JUNE
2nd Day Trip - Seaview Wildlife Park
12th - The Phoenix Centre Music Festival
18th Day Trip - Portsmouth Dockyards
29th Day Trip - Amazon World
Did you know……
A Jellyfish is 95% water.
Frozen Lobsters can come back to life after being thawed.
And Ostrich egg is bigger than its brain.
Blue Whales fart bubbles are bigger than a horse.
Alligators can live up to 100 years.
A single elephant tooth can weigh as much as 9 pounds.
For every human in the world there are one million ants.
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