Community Index Didsbury July 2012 by Community Index

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Contents 4. Community Cookery Champions

7. Community Index 8. Summer Opera Stars 9. Live Music Review 12. All the Fun of the Wakes 14. July in Your Garden 15. Didsbury TAG News 16. On Your Bike 17. The Parrs Wood Festival

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EDITOR/ADVERTISING Lesley Swann

SUB-EDITOR/WEBSITE Sam Paechter

CONTRIBUTIONS

Didsbury Dinners, Vicky Russell, Graham Phythian, Carol Thompson, Katherine Watson, Leon Horton

COVER PHOTOGRAPHS Carol Thompson

DEADLINE FOR THE AUGUST EDITION 15th July 2012

Community Cookery Champions Building on the success of our 4-week ‘learn to cook’ course last autumn, this year Didsbury Dinners aims to teach another 100+ people how to cook, for free!

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We’re recruiting a team of 12 Volunteer Community Cookery Champions to help us achieve this ambitious goal. Each member of the team will teach a free cookery course (consisting of six 2-hour cookery sessions) in Didsbury East or West wards. The team will be supported by, and accountable to, the Didsbury Dinners ‘learn to cook’ planning group, and will work closely with the local community. Free training worth over £250 will be provided.

To apply to be a Volunteer Community Cookery Champion, please email us your completed application form and equality monitoring form (available from http://didsburydinners.wordpress. com/communitycooking/) by 22nd July 2012.

We are looking for committed individuals who are passionate about food and cookery. No previous experience is necessary, but basic cookery skills are essential. What we can offer you: •

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free accredited basic teacher training (Preparing to teach in the lifelong learning sector, ‘PTLLS’) free accredited food hygiene training

free training in budgeting, basic nutrition, ‘eco-cookery’, cooking without meat and dairy, and how to give a successful cookery demonstration.

Please note: if we receive a large number of applicants, we will close the application process before this date. If you don’t fancy becoming a Community Cookery Champion, but you’d like to help with the day-today running of the project, please complete our online survey [http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ WM5GNK9]. We look forward to hearing from you!

The Didsbury Dinners Team http://didsburydinners.wordpress.com

Creative Recycling Gallery One-Day Courses for July/August Sat 7th July Glass Fusing create small sample pieces • Sat 14th July Art Journaling collaging/painting/printing • Sun 15th July Rag Rugging for home furnishing • Sat 21st July Book Making designing cover & binding • Sat 28th July Creative Stitch creating cushions • Sun 29th July Drawing can’t draw/can draw • Sat 11th August Glass Fusing create small sample pieces • Sun 12th August Drawing can draw a bit • Sat 18th August Print & Collage Textile Art • Sun 19th August Collage Landscape

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Events in July

Parrs Wood Festival Saturday July 14th 11-5pm Parrs Wood High School Lower Field Lapwing Lane Arcade Fundraiser Saturday July 14th 7pm. An evening with George Galway and friends. Tickets £7.50 Folla members £10 non members - available from Inmans. www.folla.org.uk The Northern Tennis Club, Palatine Road Didsbury Classic Car Show Sunday 15th July 12-5pm Didsbury Park Guitar Trail Sunday 22nd July from 12.30pm Fletcher Moss Gardens

Clubs, Societies & Groups Acting For Fun Central Didsbury 431 4794 Didsbury Amateur Dramatics www.celestaplayers.co.uk Didsbury Cricket Club www.didsburyccsports. co.uk Didsbury Dinners http://didsburydinners. wordpress.com For general enquiries/ Community growing group: didsburydinners@ yahoo.co.uk Community cooking group: community. cooking@yahoo.co.uk Didsbury Good Neighbours Every Tuesday, 1011.45am coffee morning. Didsbury Sure Start Centre, Didsbury Park 07749 504298

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Social & Support Groups

Didsbury Village East Residents Association www.dvera.co.uk

West Didsbury Residents Association Pam Siddons 445 5406 www.westdidsbury.org.uk

Didsbury Social Group didsburysocial@live.co.uk www.didsburysocial. jigsy.com

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New Family Social UK charity for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children. Meets every two months in south Manchester. newfamilysocial.co.uk email: nwdevelopment@ newfamilysocial.co.uk

Didsbury Village Women’s Institute www.didsburyvillagewi. co.uk Manchester Flower Lovers’ Guild First Monday of the month for flower demonstrations. Refreshments at 7.15 for 7.30 start. Visitors welcome £5 St Werburghs Church Hall, Chorlton M21 0TJ Anne 881 6591, collierann@btintnet.com flowersnorthwest.net Friends of Didsbury Park www.friendsofdidsbury park.co.uk Friends of Fletcher Moss Park Alan Hill 215 0971 awhill@globalnet.co.uk Friends of Marie Louise Gardens www.marielouisegardens. org.uk South Manchester Camera Club www.smcc.org.uk Didsbury Over 50s Group 247 2323 South Manchester U3A Meet on the 1st Tuesday of the month at 2pm, Emmanuel Church. Contact Edna 434 250 South Manchester Dance School 107 Clyde Road West Didsbury, 445 5308 West Didsbury Bookgroup Meets every four weeks at 7.30pm. Lively mixed group of all ages.

The Classroom on School Lane Learn new a new craft 24 School Lane www.classroomschool lane.com Wendy Levy Art Gallery 17 Warburton Street Didsbury, 446 4880

Music & Entertainment Didsbury Comedy Club 7pm Show 7:45pm Admission £6/£5 Didsbury Cricket Club, Wilmslow Rd, East Didsbury, M20 2ZY Jazz Tuesday 10th July 8.45pm Green Street Quartet. At the Slug and Lettuce, 651 Wilmslow Rd, Didsbury. creativespaceinfo. blogspot.com Pub Quiz Dog and Partridge Every Monday 9.30 Cash Jackpot 667 Wilmslow Road Tel: 0871 951 1000 Stax of Soul Wednesdays 9.30pm-12 Thursdays DJ Pip Rolfe Weekend warm up till 1am One Lounge Bar 1 Lapwing lane www.oneloungebar.co.uk 448 0101 Therapy at Sanctuary Bar Thursday night DJ 7–midnight every week. 653 Wilmslow Road

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Useful Numbers Didsbury Library 227 3755 Environment on Call 954 9000 Mersey Valley Countryside Warden Service 905 1100 Manchester City Council 234 5000

East Didsbury Councillors Andrew Simcock cllr.a.simcock@ manchester.gov.uk Andrew Taylor cllr.a.taylor@manchester. gov.uk Bridie Adams cllr.b.adams@manchester. gov.uk

West Didsbury Councillors Mark Clayton cllr.m.clayton@ manchester.gov.uk Carl Ollerhead cllr.c.ollerhead@ manchester.gov.uk David Ellison cllr.d.ellison@manchester. gov.uk

Summer Opera Stars Alexander Wall, a local Tenor from West Didsbury, returns for a one-off performance with Soprano, Samantha Chambers and Pianist, Per Nieslon. They all studied at Manchester's Royal Northern College of Music and are joining forces in a programme which will include some of opera's greatest tunes. Both singers have performed in some of the world's most prestigious opera houses, including The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Please come and support these talented local artists in what should be a great afternoon of music-making.

S u m m e r O p e r a S T a r S alexander Wall Tenor

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emmanuel Church, Didsbury, m20 6Tr 12pm on Saturday 28th July a concert of popular opera arias and duets with two of the North-West’s finest singers.

Tickets: £10, £8 (Concessions) £4 (Kids) Tickets available via: www.alexanderwall.co.uk 07782 390224 or at the door

Live Music Review Hannah and Lois

May 31st, The Castle Hotel When my never-on-time friend suggested we go to her friends gig, I wasn’t in the best of moods when she turned up an hour late. Unaware of who the band was, I was relieved to know it was at The Castle Hotel (Oldham Street). Despite its slightly drab exterior the larger-than-you-think pub is welcoming and cosy with an excellent jukebox. Squeezing our way through to the back room my friend provided a brief description of the duo; “They’re really chilled out and cute; they have sweet lyrics and an awesome harp”. More in the mood for an angry rock gig, I secretly start praying they wouldn’t sing about flowers, trees and heartache. As we

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queued to go in I felt my spirit lift as my hand was stamped with the face of a kitten and I was told I am on the guest list. ‘Back of the net!’ as my friend would say. The womb like room had a calming atmosphere; with warm coloured lighting and small wooden stage crowned with fairy lights. A small, quiet introduction was made by two young women; Hannah and Lois and soon the honey toned vocals and dreamy sounding harp filled the air. They have a good stage presence; its hippyish and not in a pretentious way. You can’t not be driven to tranquility as you listen to Lois’ plucking of the harp against Hannah’s high, delicate, sixties sounding voice; especially during a moving song ‘Carrie Anne’ which offered

a dose of nostalgia. Both are pretty to look at and its hard to not be charmed by their slight nervousness which lead to one of them unable to work out why the keyboard wasn’t working (it wasn’t plugged in). Although their tone suggests they are inspired by the likes of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, their old country music style plugs a shine towards Dolly Parton. The venue provided an idyllic setting for the talented folk duo; slotting in perfectly in the bohemian back room away from the beard infested, Victorianesque, ale-swilling bar area. The audiences reaction; occasional whispers of “wows” and looking blown away at one another assures us that these two are destined for big things. Vicky Russell

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All the Fun of the Wakes Graham Phythian

Roll up! Roll up! Catch the greased pig and keep your family in bacon for a week. Pull a funny face through a horse’s collar and win some ale. Eat an entire wax candle for a cash prize. Or if the thought of that turns your stomach, consume a treacle-loaf in one go. Win some money at the races: on foot, with wheelbarrow, or on a donkey. Try your luck at the prize stalls. The patch of open land between what is now the Didsbury Inn (once the Ring o’ Bells) and the Old Cock Inn was the scene of some decidedly original entertainment back in the nineteenth century. Star turn must have been the gentleman with the dimensions of Peter Crouch who drank a pint of buttermilk, then swallowed small raw potatoes whole. Punters forked out a penny to put their ear against the man’s stomach to hear the spuds going splosh into the liquid. No, I’m not making this up. It’s in a book written by Alderman Fletcher Moss. The festival began with the traditional rush-bearing procession on August 5th (St. Oswald’s Day), then from the following Sunday the village celebrated the annual Wakes holiday, when all shops and factories closed for a fortnight. Rush-bearing had an ancient purpose: that of spreading rushes on church floors for insulation towards the end of summer. The tradition remained for many years in the form of a procession (first mentioned in Withington in 1603) and later accompanied by Morris Dancers and a band. The rushes on the cart were arranged into a tall edifice adorned with

Chasing the greased pig. Drawing by Rob Hall, based on a detail from an 1859 wood-engraving. flowers, and from which there were hung various tankards and spoons, often of silver. The horses that drew the cart sported extravagant decorations on the top of their head. Fletcher Moss states that the rush cart which did the tour of the south Manchester villages was made up at William Mee’s Farm (later Hobson’s Hall Farm) in Chorlton. This was on the site of the present cricket ground at the end of Ellesmere Road.

took the place of the traditional recreations, but you can’t help feeling something was lost. With the possible exception of the business with the greased pig, it sounds like fun.

The early August celebrations in Didsbury in the late nineteenth century were in two distinct phases. The more respectable affair was the Horse and Horticultural Show, held in fields to the south of Stenner Lane. With the arrival of the railways and cheap passenger travel, the Wakes underwent a fundamental change. Gradually home-grown activities were supplanted by a mass exodus to the seaside towns. Entertainment on tap

Graham’s book on local history South Manchester Remembered published by The History Press, is out now, available at all good bookshops.

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July in your Garden

Using water in the garden has gone in and out of fashion, but it has been suggested that we have lost thousands of ponds from gardens and countryside in the last one hundred years due to farming techniques, popularity and maintenance issues. However, having water in the garden is starting to become popular again mainly due to the rallying cry of conservationists and garden makers keen to preserve (or create) habitats for a range of wildlife and insects. So following on from a long tradition of ‘natural’ representations of water, made popular in China as a form of ‘Shan Shui’ (outdoor Feng Shui) and adopted on a very large scale in England during the landscape movement of the 1700’s, we are being encouraged to create our own little oases in the form of a wildlife pond.

A pond can attract more variety of wildlife than any other single feature in the garden. If you can do without fish (and the accompanying, ubiquitous plastic heron), a wildlife pond can provide a breeding space for frogs and toads as well as a habitat for a host of other creatures, from water snails to pondskaters. You might even be lucky enough to see damselflies and dragonflies – such as the Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum or the Azure Damselfly, Coenagrion puella (“Prehistoric bedragoned times, Crawl that darkness with Latin names…”).

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Opinions differ as to how big the pond should be but there is a general consensus that your pond should be at least 70 - 80cm deep at some point in order to prevent total freezing and therefore protecting wildlife over winter. Creating a shallow area and at least one sloping side allows birds to bathe, hedgehogs to drink, and amphibians like frogs to get in and out of the pond easily. A range of depths in a wildlife pond is also recommended to provide the necessary spaces for different plants of which there are many types. Deep-water aquatics (such as Nymphaea - the Water Lily) have their roots in water that is 45cm (18in) or more with their leaves standing out above the water or floating on the surface. Marginal plants grow in the shallow water around the edge of a pond in planting baskets standing submerged in water. Submerged aquatics

live completely under water including the useful oxygenator Lagarosiphon major (which also goes by the less impressive common name – Pondweed) and free-floating plants drift about on the surface of the pond with their roots dangling in the water. Examples include another popular oxygenator Stratiotes aloides (Water Soldier) that marches and multiplies through the water at an incredible rate. Both the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (wwt.org.uk) and the RSPB (rspb.org.uk) provide useful lists of pond plants to avoid. If you don’t have oodles of space, then a smaller area or small containers may still be useful to wildlife. Old sinks or half barrels may still provide a home for aquatic insects, and breeding areas for dragonflies. Katherine Watson, Fat Grass Garden Designs

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Independent Retailer Month is a global "Shop Local" campaign that runs throughout July. The campaign highlights the important role smaller, local, independent retailers play in the communities they serve, the local economy they contribute to, and in the retail sector as a whole. To help celebrate this fantastic initiative TAG! cards for 2012 will be on sale for £2.50 from local shops below while stocks last. TAG! is a Loyalty Card scheme for local independents. Over 50 Didsbury independents have very generously joined together to form a Didsbury Community loyalty scheme which can be used to raise money for local Cheese Hamlet 10% off spends over £15 (Mon-Thurs)

causes and enables you to save when you shop locally and independently. TAG! cards can then be used in any of our Community schemes in South Manchester so that even when visiting other areas you can seek out some wonderful independents and save there too. Here are a selection of Didsbury TAG! members you can find the full list of Didsbury members and their offers at www.tagpassiton. com

Thank You! Special thanks to Jayne Crawshaw from Didsbury Community Association for all her hard work in organising the lovely bunting in Didsbury Village along Wilmslow Rd in time for the Jubilee Celebrations and annual Didsbury Festival. A special mention too to all the following local businesses and Associations

for their generous donations and contributions. Gascoine Halman, The Deli, Saints & Scholars, Dog & Partridge Pub, Oxfam, Andrew Graham Shoes, Hallmark Cards, Evans Fish Shop, Ashley Brown's Hairdresser's, Zayn News Agents,The Royal Oak Pub, Axons Butchers, Urban Grill, The Crown Pub, Didsbury Community Association and Didsbury Civic Society. Hopefully with more traders involved next year, the bunting will be extended to other areas of Didsbury too.

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On Your Bike Summer’s here (apologies if it’s not) and I guess it’s time I dusted down my rusty old bike and hit the kerbs again. Get some exercise. And what better way to do that than to feel a warm breeze on your face as you whizz past all those joggers in their funny looking Lycra getup? Sorry joggers, but some of you put me in mind of extras from a camp science fiction show. Buck Rogers anyone?

No, pedal-power, that’s the thing. Not only is cycling an effective form of low impact exercise (improving aerobic fitness and reducing the risk of coronary heart disease), but it’s good for the environment too. Recent statistics show that 50% of all journeys made in the UK are two miles or less, which most of us can achieve on foot or by bicycle rather than driving; while Manchester Friends of the Earth are keen to encourage us to cycle to work, and not add to an already polluted atmosphere. Don’t panic. I’m not getting on my soapbox. Truth is, my bike spends much of the year reared up on its back wheel, squeezed into the hallway cupboard. Besides, I’ve got no lights, the steering is off and the brakes are a wee bit dodgy. And my bike’s not much better. But in summertime, like any mad dog or Englishman, I grab at the chance to get out and about. Not so much on the roads, you understand; I’m nervous in heavy traffic, not fond of breathing car fumes, and being screamed at by irate, gas-guzzling idiots isn’t my idea of fun. But I’m lucky enough to live on the edge of Mersey valley, with its neighbouring nature reserves, which amounts to a good stretch in either direction, not a traffic-light in sight. For the city-dwelling two-wheeler who rarely gets out to the sticks, it’s something of a godsend. Try it. Not only

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is it a cost efficient day out, but it’s a great way to bring the whole family together. Don’t have bikes for all the family? No problem. Arek Bartniczak opened The Bike Barn, opposite Jackson’s Boat pub on Rifle Road, two years ago. Offering repairs and bike hire from Wednesday through to Sunday (10am to 6pm), Arek’s mission is simple: “I want to get the whole family out cycling. We can provide all the equipment you’ll need: child seats, helmets, trailers, bikes for all ages - and children under five go free.” Not only that, but Arek can also provide family-friendly cycle routes, with places of local interest and natural beauty along the way to engage your little ones or simply stop for a picnic. What more could you ask for? So go on. Do your heart a favour. Do the planet a favour. Do your wallet a favour. And get on your bikes and ride.

Useful Contacts: www.fixbikego.com Mobile bike repairs Tel: 07789 021 860 www.loveyourbike.org Manchester Friends of the Earth Cycling campaign www.kenfosterscyclelogic.co.uk 374-376 Barlow Moor Rd, Chorlton, M218AZ www.withingtoncyclesltd.com 26 Burton Rd, M20 3EB www.the-bike-barn.co.uk Bike hire and repair shop, Rifle Road, Sale, M33 2LX outside Jackson’s Boat Pub www.gmcc.org.uk Greater Manchester’s Cycle Campaign

Engaging Communities on Climate Change A course to help you work in your community on energy-saving & environmental issues Wednesday 11th July 2012 For bookings & info email: anna@talkaction.org

The Parrs Wood CHESHIREGATE Festival 2012 SOLAR PANELS

Saturday 14 July, 11am-5pm Parrs Wood High School Lower Field Hosted by 104.9 imagineFM LIVE on stage: Reconnected, Forbidden Juice, Be Minor Live entertainment all day Huge Funfair Artisan Market Foods from around the world Pimms tent and beach bar New car arena Casino Hog roast Fun Olympics family competition Chance to win an ipod2 A great family event bringing Parrs Wood High School and the Didsbury community closer together.

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