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McCarthy & Stone Magazine
| July 2020 |
Dear Homeowners
July’s Cover
Welcome to issue 2 of the McCarthy & Stone
Wimbledon is cancelled and summer newsletter! I’m proud to say the first one was a big
won’t be the same. But the good news
is that tennis courts are reopening success, generating a wealth of responses. I’m so
and you’re invited to play! After glad you enjoyed it.
weeks of lockdown it’s just what some
people need. Alternatively, you could
enjoy some strawberries and cream, It’s been an exciting month, with our CEO John and
a glass of Pimm’s and relive some some of our homeowners appearing in the national
classic matches on the official press as part of our ‘Thank you…’ campaign. You can
Wimbledon YouTube channel.
In or out, it’s your call. see more of their portraits at the back of the magazine.
Visit: This month’s theme is physical and mental fitness –
lta.org.uk
appropriate as we emerge from lockdown. It is also
for the latest safety guidance and
court bookings. a great time to announce exciting new partnerships
with activity tracker Fitbit and the book club Hive.
We also have details of upcoming Mirthy talks, an
interview with the legendary Fred Dinenage MBE
and the winning entry of our poetry competition.
Get in Touch
Please enjoy this edition of
McCarthy & Stone,
4th floor, 100 Holdenhurst Road, The Review and keep emailing us
Bournemouth, Dorset, with feedback and contributions.
BH8 8AQ And once again thank you for
thereview@mccarthyandstone.co.uk helping to keep our communities
safe and supported.
Best Wishes,
Miruna Constantinescu,
National Marketing Director, McCarthy & Stone.
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McCarthy & Stone
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Life of a Lighterman Life and Times of Edith Cavell
Euro 96 Relived Evoking the golden age of barge The extraordinary story of a
And while we’re in a sporty trade on the Hull-Selby canal. British heroine who was executed
mood, relive all the action from in 1915.
when football came home. 8th July, 11am:
Jenny Bowen,
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Trials and Tribulations of
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Working in Africa California Dreaming
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Discover how body language
What we love about Hive is speaks louder than words. Describing the 22-year
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In My View
Our series of interviews continues with broadcaster,
author and good friend to the McCarthy & Stone
community Fred Dinenage MBE.
Fred’s TV more. It’s great to
career spans “It’s great to walk, walk, to listen to
the birds and the
over 50 years
with credits to listen to the sea. This has been
including birds and the sea.” a good time to reconnect with
nature and think about your life a
World of bit more; to self-reflect. What message do you have for the
Sport, Gambit I’ve even featured all three of my McCarthy & Stone community?
and Coast to Coast. He also has I’ve also noticed people have been
rescue dogs, Dave, Isabella and
kinder to each other too. It’s been The people in McCarthy & Stone
a passion for true crime and Rudi. Dave has become a cult
lovely to spend time with my wife developments are lucky as they
helped the notorious Kray twins figure, people love him. It’s been a
and it’s been refreshing to have have each other, lots of people
write their autobiography. really good thing for me because
all this free time. It’s certainly haven’t had company. I think
I can keep up my involvement in
made me appreciate more what that the thing to hang onto is that
What has been your experience my job, but also keep safe.
I perhaps took for granted. we will come through this, that it
of the pandemic? How do you keep yourself Maybe this will make us all more will end eventually, you have to
At first, it was quite dramatic appreciative. I hope that the be hopeful that everything will
physically and mentally active? world is better for this.
because for the past 36 years be alright.
I have co-presented a news In the morning I do a great deal
of gardening, but the afternoon Have you managed to maintain To all my friends at McCarthy
programme and suddenly, & Stone, staff and homeowners,
is taken up with organising the a sense of community?
because of my age, I had to self- I look forward to seeing you
show. I get many emails and
isolate at home. However, I was We have had regular family very soon.
letters from viewers and try my
determined to still be involved meetings online where everybody
best to reply to them all.
with the programme as we have gets on their computer or phone
such a brilliant, loyal following.
So, every day I do a piece called
What positives can we take and we have all been exchanging
greetings. Of course, you miss
“I hope that the
‘Your Daily Dinenage’, where we
from this? your children and grandchildren, world is better
do good news – anniversaries, My life has always been so busy but gradually this is easing, so
fundraising, birthdays, etc. that, like a lot of people, I have we’ve been able to see them – for this.”
We’ve done 40 so far. started to appreciate nature from a safe distance!
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Our pen pal initiative, in partnership with literacy
charity Coram Beanstalk, connects McCarthy
Benefits & Stone homeowners with school children.
We’re proud to share this lovely feedback:
McCarthy & Stone Member:
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great community, of course – is who also have Fitbit devices. do myself and I have enjoyed
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to maintain a healthy, balanced writing about things going
looking into how I could spread
lifestyle. But how do you know if McCarthy & Stone Friends on in my life, and I really look
& Family: available at fitbit.com some happiness. My mum
you’re doing enough? Fitbit offers
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a range of activity-tracking devices
that help you keep moving, stay initiative and I thought it – we get lots of post at home,
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hydrated and even sleep better. would be great to get involved. but it’s not usually for me!’
devices and accessories,
That’s why we’ve partnered with including the popular Missi, aged 11, Devon
them to offer you and your family Fitbit Ace 2 for kids.
an exclusive range of benefits!
• Free delivery.
• Connect with family
and friends who also
have Fitbit devices.
What’s more, we are looking for six people to be official product testers
and they will get to keep their devices for free!
It’s first come first served for being one of the 6 testers.
Email thereview@mccarthyandstone.co.uk for more information.
We’ll report back on our testers next month to see how they got on.
THE GIRLS OF FIRST FLOOR Our Poetry Competition Winner
Brueton Place
Judged by historian and author Michael Bird.
A big thanks There was lots of humour and
to all who optimism, and a real sense of
BY RON W EBB entered – over putting this crisis into perspective.
350 of you!
Writing about I’ve gone for Ron Webb’s The
The girls of first floor Brueton Place the pandemic, Girls of First Floor Brueton Place,
Are lovely, pure and fair of face. I suppose I a lively, affectionate and funny
Eleven sharp each lockdown day was expecting take on friendship and social
Their chairs appear along the way. predominantly distancing. The brisk rhymes are
Each maiden comes to take her place, dark, melancholy deceptively simple – look again,
poems, but I and you’ll realise how neatly Ron
So full of charm, of wit, of grace.
was wrong. Your poems covered balances light and shade. And I
They chat, they laugh, they reminisce, the whole spectrum of feelings love the swing to that rhythm!
about our strange new world of Congratulations to Ron, who wins
Remember days once filled with bliss.
social isolation. a £100 Waterstones voucher.
Supplied with coffee, chocs and treats,
They lounge with ease upon their seats
And talk of better days to come ‘The Lighter Side of Lockdown’
When this dread scourge is past and done. by homeowner Bob Gridley, Walmsley Place
On subjects far and wide they chat,
From childhood dreams to Bet’s straw hat!
Of holidays in blazing sun
And plans for ventures still to come.
To solving sundry aches and pains
They all apply their active brains.
And so, on each succeeding day
They chat along the alleyway.
Their talk is not of doom and gloom,
But hope that better times will bloom
And happy days will soon appear,
To bring us joy, to bring us cheer.
Photographer Tim Dunk
captured these and
other McCarthy & Stone
homeowners remotely and
safely for our ‘Thank you…’
marketing campaign, which
celebrates all the small
acts of kindness that make
such a big difference in
our communities.
Look out for them on
our website and in the
national press!
Go to mccarthyandstone.co.uk to read messages of
thanks from our homeowners and their families.
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