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Moving forward across the area? Welcome to the April/May 2021 edition of Bexley Life Magazine the bi-monthly lifestyle magazine for Bexley Borough and the surrounding areas. With a small light now appearing at the end of a very long ‘Covid tunnel’, just what can we all expect from the following months around the Borough? Hopefully a resemblance of normality should start to descend upon the area, but then who really knows? Bexley Life is still reflecting everything that is happening LARGE STOCKS Bexley FOR FAST, FRE and the effects they are having on local businesses E SA VEIVER30 DEL Y % and residents. Inside you will find stories and articles for the season, many of the type you’d expect to see and others representing the differences in the current climate. So, we would like to welcome you to this edition of Bexley Life and hope we all stay safe and healthy. If you have any news, reviews, product launches or absolutely anything else of interest across the local market, please email it through to me at info@bljournals.plus.com for future consideration in our forthcoming issues. La Belle 30th Anniversary

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The second phase of the restoration work at the Exchange, formerly known as the Carnegie Library, Erith is now entering its final stages and is expected to be complete later this spring.

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The works include further repair and renovation of the first and second floor, a new lift to make the space fully accessible and the completion and fit out of new workshop spaces as well as external landscaping and new openings to provide better access to the ground floor. The workshops will provide a space for local people to learn skills in ceramics, textiles, woodwork, print, performance and the creation of garden spaces. Councillor Louie French, Bexley’s Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Growth said: “Following the uncertain year that we’ve had, it is great that we have still been able to progress our ambitious plans for Erith. The restoration of the old Carnegie Building will improve the town as a place to live and do business and will deliver a boost just when it is needed.” The improvements are funded by the Council, Heritage Lottery Fund and by further fund raising by local company The Exchange who are managing the building. The latest works follow the restoration of the basement of the building which was completed in 2019 when the new Bookstore café and community space opened. Sarah Batten, Director, The Exchange said: “In spite of the challenges presented by the pandemic, the project team have pushed ahead with the building works, creating a beautiful space for local residents to enjoy and Luse for years to come. Never before are community spaces - where we can all come together in the real world - quite so important.” For more information about events and programming and how you can become involved at the Exchange visit www.theexchangerith.com It is hoped that an opening event, that complies with guidelines on social distancing, can be held later in the year for the community, to celebrate the completion of the second phase of works. www.bexley.gov.uk

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National Fish & Chip Day Oh My Cod! It’s National Fish and Chip Day! It’s back - and it’s bigger than ever! Friday 4th June 2021 will see people across the country celebrating their love of fish and chips as they come together on National Fish and Chip Day! Despite 2020 being a year like no other, this amazing industry, who are at the centre of every community, adapted the way they operate to ensure they could continue to keep the nation fed, just as they did during two world wars. National Fish and Chip Day 2020 saw people across the country showing their love for the nation’s favourite dish and TV, radio newspapers, magazines and social media were buzzing with stories. The #nationalfishandchipday hashtag was trending from 8am until late into the evening.

Bexley Cricket A new book with all proceeds to support female cricket in Bexley. Written by John Daniels, this is a great read for all of us interested in cricket around the area and with all proceeds supporting female cricket, what more could all supporters want? The cost is just £15 plus £2.95 UK P&P Email: johnwilliamdaniels@gmail.com

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The Trust will be having a number of events, visits and courses over the coming months and into the Summer. Open garden featuring a vegetable plot and pond

Saturday 24th April 12:00-13:30, 13:30-15:00, 15:00-16:30 The venue is Wateringbury, near Maidstone, fees or donations apply and booking is essential. This is a chance to tour a garden of approximately a third of an acre featuring vegetable plot and pond along with a range of wildlife habitats and get tips and advice for developing your own garden.

Mini gate hurdles workshop

Saturday 15th May 9:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00 The venue is Tyland Barn, fees or donations apply and booking is essential. Learn how to make and take home a mini version of the traditional Sweet chestnut hurdles ideal for garden use as border edging, plant supports and dividing off parts of the garden

Open garden featuring habitats for insects, birds and bats

Sunday 16th May 12:00-13:30, 13:30-15:00, 15:00-16:30 The venue is Doddington, south-west of Faversham, fees or donations apply and booking is essential. This offers a chance to tour a large garden (2.5 acres) being developed to offer numerous beneficial features for wildlife. Advice available on the day.

Reptile Ecology and Survey Techniques Saturday 22nd May 10:30-16:00

The venue is Tyland Barn, fees or donations apply and booking is essential. Discover how to identify reptiles and learn about their habitat requirements. Then search for reptiles in a nearby nature reserve.

Learning Bird Sounds

Friday 7th May 8:00-13:00 The venue is Bossenden Wood, fees or donations apply and booking is essential. Why do birds sing? A fascinating insight into the world of bird sounds at Bossenden Woods and then Oare Marshes. Discover how to identify birds by their songs and calls.

Introduction to Orchids

Saturday 29th May 10:00-16:00 The venue is Tyland Barn, fees or donations apply and booking is essential. What do you know about wild orchids: their life cycles, how they are pollinated, relationships with fungi, where to find them, and how to identify them? Discover all this and more on this course, which includes field visits to orchid sites in mid Kent

Open garden featuring a wilder lawn

Saturday 29th May 12:00-13:30, 13:30-15:00, 15:00-16:30 The venue is Edenbridge, Kent, fees or donations apply and booking is essential. A chance to tour a garden of (approximately 20 x 30 metres) with a wilder lawn, ponds, fruit trees, herbaceous beds and habitats for reptiles, invertebrates and hedgehogs. Advice available on the day. www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk

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The children’s charity Lifelites has donated brand-new life-changing technology worth tens of thousands of pounds for life-limited and disabled children using the services of the children’s hospice Demelza Hospice Care in Eltham. All of the children cared for by Demelza have life-threatening or life-limiting conditions, made all the more difficult by the COVID-19 pandemic. The specialist technology, which Lifelites donated this year, can give them the opportunity to do things they and their parents never thought possible. This technology enables these children to play, to be creative, to control something for themselves and communicate, for as long as possible. Lifelites-donated technology enables children to escape the confines of their conditions, connect with their loved ones and communicate their wishes and fears, which is proving especially vital during this unsettling time. The technology, along with training and technical support services which Lifelites donates, costs around £50,000 over four years. After four years, Lifelites aims to return to replace the equipment with the latest, up-to-date technology that is bespoke and most suitable for the children using Demelza. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Lifelites-donated adaptive iPads have been in high demand. While for many of us this is an everyday object, for life-limited and disabled children it can change their entire world. Often for the first time in their lives, they can control something themselves, engage with the world around them and express their feelings and thoughts. Lifelites is delighted to have received enough funding to donate multiple iPads together with drop-proof cases to make them easily accessible. All iPads include bespoke apps that fit to the children’s needs. Another piece of equipment that Lifelites donated was the POD, a mobile and sensory pop-up tent that offers room for every child, irrespectives of their abilities. It comes in a rucksack so that hospice staff can easily take it to the children wherever they are: in the hospice or even in the children’s own homes. The sensory tent enables life-limited and disabled children - even if they are in a wheelchair - to escape their often stressful lives into a world of their own. They are surrounded by colourful moving images and relaxing music. Simone Enefer-Doy, Chief Executive of Lifelites says, “Lifelites is delighted to be able to donate lots of our magical technology for the children at Demelza in South East London. The wide range of equipment is specially adapted so that it can be used by anyone, regardless of their ability. All of Lifelites-donated technology is mobile so that hospice staff can reach every child, in hospice as well as in children’s own homes. Every moment is precious for these children and their families, this assistive technology gives them the opportunities they deserve to make the most of their time. “We couldn’t have provided this package if it wasn’t for the generosity of our supporters, so for this we are incredibly grateful.” Mirelle Cassidy, Lead Nurse at Demelza Hospice Care for Children, South East London, said: “We are hugely grateful to Lifelites for the generous donation of equipment and the comprehensive training programme they offer, which allows our Care teams to work with the children and maximise the benefits offered by this technology. Many of the children that attend our hospice in Eltham have complex communication needs. The range of equipment helps children communicate, develop new skills and can help develop a degree of independence”. www.lifelites.org

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Greenwich Theatre reopening, better than ever... by James Haddrell, Artistic Director of Greenwich Theatre. Theatres across the country are currently working out when, and how, they might consider reopening. Current guidance suggests that from mid-May venues will be able to welcome socially distanced audiences, but the challenge for venue managers is putting together a programme of shows that are financially viable with only a third of the seats available for sale – and allowing for the fact that cast members may still have to remain distanced from one another as well. One particular style of show that lends itself to this model is the ‘evening with’, a chance to get ‘up close and personal’ with a famous or notable personality. However, being theatre, rather than a chance to attend a Q&A by a living person these solo shows can offer the audience the opportunity to spend time with a figure from history. Greenwich Theatre has three such shows lined up for the months ahead, with two performed by Liverpool based writer and actor Tayo Aluko. First up, on Saturday 12 June in Call Mr Robeson, Aluko offers an evening in the company of Showboat star Paul Robeson. Remembered as a world-famous actor and singer, Robeson’s now largely forgotten political activism led many to describe him as the forerunner of the civil rights movement. His sympathies for the Soviet Union and for communism, and his criticism of the United States government and its foreign policies, caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Aluko’s show, which was seen at New York’s Carnegie Hall in 2012 and in the West End in 2013, recalls the actor and activist’s remarkable

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and eventful life – and of course features a virtuoso rendition of the unforgettable Ol’ Man River. The following evening in Just An Ordinary Lawyer, Aluko turns his attention to Nigerian-born Tunji Sowande, a keen cricketer, an active solo concert performer and the lawyer who quietly broke through one barrier after another in the late 1970s to become Britain’s first black judge. Then, the following week, the hilarious Hurricane Michael offers a comic insight into Michael Fish, the celebrity weatherman who famously denied the approach of the great storm of 1987. Admittedly the show is actually an hour in the presence of Michael Phish (played by the astonishingly talented Russell Layton) and takes an entirely tongue-in-cheek look at the events that led up to that famous on-air denial, but given the reception with which the show has been met (including a rave from Michael Fish himself) this promises to be a uniquely entertaining show. These shows serve to do a number of things. They each tell a powerful or entertaining story. They each offer a glimpse back in time – to a moment of political unrest, of groundbreaking social change or of a great natural phenomenon sweeping the country. Most of all though, they remind us that all of the most memorable moments in our history, whether changing society forever or just leaving us with a talking point that will endure for years to come, were driven by individuals. In driving the civil rights movement and the subsequent diversification of the British legal system, the role played by Robeson and Sowande cannot be overstated, while Michael Fish, with his iconic “don’t worry”, showed us how much credence we give to those on television and just how wrong that can be. As theatres begin to reopen their doors, it is clear that we won’t need large casts or huge stage sets to do what theatre does best – to tell a good story and make us feel something. Some of the smallest shows set to take place on stages across the country this year will inevitably prove to be the shows that stay with us long after the curtain has come down. www.greenwichtheatre.org.uk

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Great comedy is now back at Bexley Park Bexley Park Comedy is finally back on Friday 25th June with Phil Nichol as the headliner and Friday 30th July, with Arthur Smith headlining. PHIL NICHOL is a truly unique performer. An acclaimed actor, award winning comedian, producer, presenter, writer and musician, there is no end to his talent! His skill as an improviser whether it be musical, comedy or straight is unparalleled. Phil has appeared on The Graham Norton Show, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Altitude Festival , Annually Retentive, The World Stands Up, Comedy Shuffle, Glastonbury and many more. WINNER - Scotsman Fringe First Award 2011 WINNER - IF.COM Eddie Award 2006 (previously The Perrier, now known as the Edinburgh Comedy Award) WINNER - Time Out Best Comedy Performer 1998 CHORTLE BEST HEADLINER - Nominee - 2002, 2006 & 2010 "Attacks his material with all the restraint of a Tasmanian Devil in a foghorn factory" -The Times As always there's a great supporting lineup direct from the London Comedy Circuit. Show contains adult humour so be prepared for some naughty jokes and strong language ARTHUR SMITH - COMEDIAN • COMPERE • BROADCASTER • PLAYWRIGHT This grumpy old man par excellence presents the BBC Radio 4 show 'Excess Baggage' and has written four plays including 'An Evening With Gary Lineker' and 'Live Bed Show'. His stand-up topics range from vigorous yodelling to mediaeval literature via death by drink. His delivery is relaxed and sardonic, but his shows are a surprising, dark and witty treat. He's also one of the many 'Grumpy Old Men' that appear on BBC 2's hit show. "The funniest and most honest comic of his generation" - The List As always there's a great supporting line up direct from the London Comedy Circuit. Show contains adult humour so be prepared for some naughty jokes and strong language Book early for the best seats for both shows! For more information visit: www.houseofstandup.co.uk/dartford/ ALL SHOWS ARE SUBJECT TO COVID-19 SAFETY MEASURES AND GOVERNMENT ADVICE AT THE TIME.

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New library for Thamesmead

Construction of 'The Nest' is currently underway as part of the major redevelopment of the former Tavey Bridge residential area. The building's shell is on track to be completed by spring 2021, with its interior and furnishings expected to finish in early 2022. Architect firm Bisset Adams has taken inspiration for the eye-catching and innovative building design from swan nests that can be found on the banks of Southmere Lake, where the building will be situated. As part of the new library BRIAN’s BUSINESS NETWORKING development, the London Borough of Bexley has partnered with Arts Council England, Peabody Trust and Bow Arts to form The Creative Knowledge Project. This project is led by local arts organisations and artists to empower existing communities in Thamesmead to shape the future of the building. Fine art makers Rima & McRae who specialise in bespoke interior finishes, will work with local schools inspirational an create to architectural feature to be installed within the library. @BriansBN Bow Arts has commissioned Dunya Kalantery as an artist in residence, to explore future uses and service BriansBusinessNetworking developments with the local community. www.bbnetworking.co.uk www.bexley.gov.uk

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