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The turn of the screw A preview of Hazel Roy’s innovative take on this classic ghost tale showing at the Pasonage Trust this month
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Didsbury People achel Mann, parish priest at St Nicholas Church, Burnage, R is by her own admission an ‘unconventional creature.’ Feminist, lesbian, academic and Resident Poet at Manchester
Cathedral, Rachel’s often painful life experiences have included a male to female sex change and dealing with chronic, lifethreatening illness. In her new memoir, Dazzling Darkness (Wild Goose Publications), Rachel discusses these issues, her priestly vocation and her relationship with God. She will be talking about her book at Didsbury Arts Festival 2013 (29 June, The Parsonage).
How have your parishioners responded to your personal revelations?
I’m really out there about who I am. I always have been. Among my own congregation, a lot of people came to the book launch last October. Other people know nothing about it and don’t really care. They’re a real mix of people and a very liberal congregation. This is South Manchester after all and people have lived life!
For several years you’ve suffered from Crohn’s Disease and you describe your life as ‘… a slow erosion of strength and often a feast of pain.’ How difficult is it living day to day with chronic ill-health?
Anyone with a chronic illness will have good days and bad days, but as you get older you get a little more tired. The truth is that chronic pain is very debilitating and a measure of the slow erosion is the lack of bounce-backability after a setback. So, after each surgery and each new stage
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of the illness I just can’t get back to where I was before. I’ve reached the point where, despite being a determined person, I have had to make some very difficult decisions about my life and work. So in the next few months I will be stepping back from a number of things I’m involved in. It feels like a kind of grieving. I like to be creative and imaginative - I find it life-giving - but I’ve got to step back and recover; rest and enjoy life a bit more.
What do you like most about your job? The people, always the people and – to quote Shakespeare – their infinite variety. The way in which, in my profession, people are often prepared to share the most extraordinary things in trust - I find that very humbling! It’s something I encounter especially around funeral ministry. You meet people who are strangers, you spend time with them preparing for this difficult event and by the end of it you feel you know each other.
Discovering our common humanity – there’s something incredibly beautiful and moving about that!
Who is your greatest inspiration?
All pioneers – pioneers and risktakers. The Pankhurst sisters who got out there and said we’re not going to accept that this world is how it has to be; Martin Luther King who stood up against racism; Dietrich Bonhoeffer who stood up to the Nazis. Socrates said, ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ Now that’s inspiring! To live well is to look around and say, ‘Where are the injustices, where are the questions, where are the doubts?’ I may be a Christian priest, but doubt is absolutely crucial to living well.
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t took almost forty-five years, fourteen different homes and God only knows how many failed attempts at finding a hobby, but I’ve finally done it: I’ve bought my very first spade and started gardening. Me, a man who once fell off a podium dancing in the Hacienda, now prefers hardy perennials to partying hard, would sooner opt for a sundry hanging basket to a Sunday hangover. And don’t get me started on trips to garden centres. I’m not sure how it happened (like my waistline it crept up on me) but it all started last summer when I attended a meeting with my housing association and suggested they make improvements to the communal gardens. The reaction was very positive and - social housing being what it is - within the blink of a year I received a letter informing me of the go-ahead to rally my fellow tenants for a photo opportunity on the commencement of our community project. Huh? What? I don’t recall signing up for that. Cometh the hour, cometh the van; loaded with tools, planters, trellis, fruit trees, hardy perennials, and fifty quid to spend on shrubs and bedding plants. And you know what? It was amazing how many of my previously keen neighbours suddenly developed bad backs on the same day. There must have been something in the water, because I found myself alone out there – hacking at stony ground with a pickaxe. But I’m not complaining, because what felt like hard
labour at the time - what was meant to be a community project (if only in the landlords’ eyes) - has subsequently become my pet project. Don’t get me wrong. I’ve had nothing but support from the badbacks, some financially, others with a word of encouragement, and I’m only too happy to have the final say. A month down the line, and I’ve been lugging stone to build a rockery; installed a wooden border; potted, plotted and envisaged a colourful summer ahead... All being well. There are no guarantees in this game. When I intimated to my friend that I was nearly finished, he smiled and said “Can I let you into a secret? A garden is never finished.” He’s right, of course. And whilst I’ve no doubt Katherine Watson’s informative articles in this very magazine are going to be invaluable over the coming months and years, I’m quickly discovering that nature herself doesn’t always play ball. Cats are a case in point. How do you keep cats from viewing your freshly-composted planters as luxury litter
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trays? “Buy a catapult,” my cat-loathing friend opines, but I can’t do that – far too expensive. “Orange peel,” a neighbour tells me, “they don’t like citrus.” Lion pooh, suggests a website, they really hate the stuff. Lion pooh? I guess it’s possible, but old wives’ tales abound when it comes to this gardening lark. And what do I do about slugs and snails? If last year’s gastropod invasion in the damp of that long, wet summer is anything to go by I might be in for a head-on battle. So what’s the answer? Slug pellets? I’m told they’re harmful to birds that eat the slugs and snails and I certainly don’t want that. My sister swears by beer traps. I’ve fallen into a few of those myself over the years so I know they work. Well, we’ll see. So here I am, with another rod for my already aching back. I wanted a little piece of England and wandered into a minefield, albeit willingly. And if you can find me, if any of you out there knows what I’m letting myself in for, please, please, keep it to yourselves.
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ears ago, an old friend accompanied me on pilgrimage to Haworth, our ultimate goal in Brontë country being Top Withins, the ruined farmhouse that may – or may not - have been the inspiration for the eponymous location of Emily Brontë’s classic tale of love and revenge. Despite our best efforts (did I mention my friend’s geography PhD?) we became lost and eventually gave up. Thigh-deep in mud and freezing water, I puzzled at my inner vision of Cathy and Heathcliff running freely (hair streaming, wild laughter) over this impossible, sodden landscape without tripping on
boulders and drowning in bogland. I was just 12 years old when I discovered Wuthering Heights and still remember the shock of revelation that the classics weren’t simply about the boring old past, but about life, passions and people as real as you and me. How I longed to
Simon Armitage Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way
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he bleak beauty of Emily Brontë’s beloved Yorkshire Moors was doubtless lost on the British poet, Simon Armitage, during his tramp, in the summer of 2010, along the inhospitable, 268-mile stretch of hills, bogs and moorland grandly dubbed the ‘backbone of England.’ A gruelling trek beloved of hard-core walkers, the Pennine Way is often described as the UK’s equivalent to the Appalachian Trail. For some reason – ‘as a poet I’m
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be Cathy swept up in the savage embrace of Heathcliff – more elemental force than mere man! And what wouldn’t I sacrifice for deathless, transcendent love! As an adult, I take a more measured view. The doomed love affair of Cathy and Heathcliff occupies after all only the first half of the novel. The second, less dramatic half centres around the parallel love story of young Catherine and Hareton, whose developing relationship, illustrating the desirability of growth and change, sun, wind and rain at your back rather than in your face! Every night he literally sang for his supper, giving readings in pubs, chapels, village halls and someone’s living room, and afterwards passing round a sock for contributions. After 21 days and three and a half stone lighter the hapless poet was, by his own admission, ‘physically depleted and mentally disturbed.’ It was an experience he has vowed never to repeat but one that makes for
restores happiness and harmony to two troubled houses. After several re-readings, however, this is a novel that never loses its capacity to shock, challenge and captivate the reader.
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THE TURN OF THE SCREW A haunting tale set in a haunted house
at adaptations of Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and was inspired to write my own version using the Old Parsonage as the setting of the play.’
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here have been several adaptations of the classic ghost story, The Turn of the Screw, but none more authentically creepy than the latest offering from local theatre director, Hazel Roy. The historic Old Parsonage, one of Didsbury’s oldest buildings, will provide the setting for a staging of the Henry James chiller in which a governess fights to save her two young charges from the clutches of malevolent spirits. Performances will take place from Saturday 22 to Friday 28 June, as part of this year’s Didsbury Arts Festival. The play’s action will take place inside the Parsonage in the red room before opening out into the grounds and gardens of the house. Umbrellas may be advisable! The former home of Alderman Fletcher Moss has a long tradition of hauntings, making it the perfect location for a tale of ghosts and mystery. A previous occupant, local minister Rev W J Kidd, hastily
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left the property in 1860, complaining of ‘ghosts and troubles.’ Servants refused to sleep on the premises and among the various ghostly sightings has been that of an elderly woman, dressed entirely in black. After years of disuse, the Grade II listed building has finally been brought back to life as a community hub, following its restoration last year. Said Hazel, who is also an actor and writer: ‘On my many pleasant walks over the years in Fletcher Moss Park and the Parsonage Gardens I have always been intrigued by The Parsonage itself and wanted to explore the building. ‘I had heard of its reputation for being haunted and had for some time felt the house and grounds would make the basis for an excellent site-specific production. I had been looking
Twenty-one year old Alexa Morden from Didsbury, a final year drama student at the Manchester School of Theatre, is to play the central role of the governess. And four Parrs Wood High School pupils will share the roles of Miles and Flora, the hapless children horrifyingly possessed by ghosts. Gracie Ashpole (12), Eloise Hall (11), Tom Hardern (11) and Joel Danziger (12) are all enthusiastic members of the school’s drama club. Rehearsals are now underway, so look out for sightings of actors working in the Parsonage grounds - and maybe the odd ghost or two! For details and tickets, visit the DAF website at: www.didsburyartsfestival.org or email: hazelroy46@hotmail.com
Performances begin at 7 pm on 22, 27 and 28 June. A matinee performance will take place at 2 pm on Sunday 23 June. Audience numbers are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment!
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musical luminaries, including the astonishing, young, violin virtuoso, Venezuelan, Giovanni Guzzo. Kathryn Stott & Friends will perform at Emmanuel Church on Thursday 27 June in aid of local charity, Francis House Hospice.
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oet Simon Armitage, Manchester jazz star Matthew Halsall, writer Jackie Kay and internationallyacclaimed pianist, Kathryn Stott, will provide some of the highlights during Didsbury Arts Festival 2013.
The area’s annual showcase of talent, now in its fifth year, will take place from Saturday 22 June to Sunday 30 June, with more than 100 events and exhibitions taking place all over Didsbury. Featuring for the first time an extensive fringe programme, this year’s festival will represent a huge range of the arts from music, theatre, dance and comedy to visual arts, crafts, writing and film – all happening at local venues! One of Britain’s best-loved contemporary poets, Simon Armitage will close the nineday festival on Sunday 30 June with readings from his poetry and from his latest book, Walking Home, a humorous account of his trek along the
Pennine Way two years ago. A touch of brass will provide a fitting musical accompaniment to Yorkshireman, Armitage, in what promises to be an unforgettable evening at Didsbury Baptist Church. A dazzling talent on the UK jazz scene, Matthew Halsall will be raising the roof at Didsbury Baptist Church on Friday 28 June. The Manchester-based trumpeter, also starring at the Manchester Jazz Festival in August, will perform tracks from his latest album, the appropriately-named Fletcher Moss Park, accompanied by his own band. Following a sell-out charity concert at DAF 2011, concert pianist, Kathryn Stott, returns this year with a host of
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Another DAF stalwart, Jackie Kay, is making a welcome return - this time as a special guest of Manchester’s Poets & Players (Emmanuel Church, Saturday 29 June). With music from Chris Davies, cellist Sarah Moody and friends this promises to be an inspirational afternoon. Among the many other highlights during Festival week is a Short Film Showcase, a classical concert performed by students of Chetham’s College and a promenade theatre production of The Turn of the Screw, intriguingly staged in the house and gardens of the historic Old Parsonage. Don’t miss the Festival’s opening weekend and lots of fun for all the family, kicking off with a craft and buskers’ fair outside Didsbury Library (Saturday 22 June). Enjoy art on the railings and live music from local bands and artists in the Creative Space in Fletcher Moss Park on Sunday afternoon (23 June).
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or some time now those of us who enjoy visiting and shopping at the fine old arcade of shops on Lapwing Lane where it crosses Palatine Road in West Didsbury, have been worried about the state of the canopy that fronts the shops and shelters the pavement.
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surviving original Edwardian canopy in Manchester. Unless something is done fairly soon the whole canopy will become dangerously decayed and will have to be demolished. The portion of the canopy outside the end shop, Blockbusters has already been destroyed following a vehicle collision. For reasons listed on our website, the landlords and the shopkeepers are not in a position to take sufficient joint action. It is left to the people who live in the area of what has been done – by erecting a plaque to be placed on the arcade when the work is complete. If you wish, and if you are happy to donate a minimum of £100, we would like to include your name, or that of your family, on the plaque. Panes will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. The introductory words on the plaque will be simple, saying something like: “Friends of Lapwing Lane Arcade At the time of its 100th birthday in 2013 the people
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here’s an array of very exciting artwork by over 20 artists at this year’s annual show at the Everyman Art Gallery. Some old favourites and some new found artists, all pulling together (along with our loyal customers) to make our summer show a success.
Don’t leave them in a box...
the walls in the reception area. Rob Jenkins is to be followed by another surprise come along to find out.
Preview, 28 May 7.30pm (open to the public)
There is lots happening in the gallery this year; why not check for updates at
Everyman also hits the ball at the Northern Tennis Club on Palatine Road where we’re giving our artists of the months another breath of fresh air on
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JUNE in your Garden
une in many respects reveals the height of the perennial flowering season with colours spilling in waves across the early summer borders. Plants still sport a spring freshness before the high summer sets to blanching and blending foliage which adds a certain vibrancy to beds and borders this month. There are numerous colour schemes to play with in terms of perennial planting - here are just a few to try out if you fancy a revamp. Bronze is a colour too little seen in urban gardens except perhaps in the odd Heuchera here and there. For a really interesting foxglove try Digitalis parviflora an exotic looking compact variety with orange bronze flowers. Team it with Dryopteris wallichiana, a robust fern with black stems, for a shady border or with bronze
fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), Anemanthele lessoniana – a versatile evergreen grass with bronze highlights and Astrantia rubra for a border in sun. For another sunny option, the red Achillea millefolium ‘Paprika’ could be matched with the wonderfully graceful Stipa gigantea and the smaller clump forming grass Carex testacea and punctuated with other prarie type perennials such as the yellow Geum ‘Mai Tai’ or ‘Lady Stratheden’ and perhaps even the chocolate cosmos;
so called not so much for its deep crimson/brown velvety flowers but its remarkable chocolate scent. For a calmer palette of colours Veronica spicata ‘Royal Candles’, with spires of blue purple flowers or pink blushed white plumes of the variety ‘Atomic White Ray’ would look effective in a cottage style border with Geranium ‘Johnson’s blue’ or sanguineum alba, the grass Molinia caerulea and the darker foliage of Anthriscus sylvestris ‘Ravenswing’. As with all of these options, beauty is in the eye of the beholder so don’t feel limited to a particular scheme.
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Community Index Sport League win for Bedians fourths edians FC, who play at Millgate Lane in East Didsbury, B field four teams each week in the prestigious Lancashire and Cheshire AFL. Their first team just managed to avoid relegation from the Premier Division and the second and third teams failed to shine in their respective divisions.
But their fourth team restored club morale as they strolled to victory; winning the Division F
title.
They looked a good bet to do well in the Hellawell Shield the knockout competition for fourth teams and below - but lost out in extra time to Old Stretfordians fifth team, in the semi-final.
Pics – Action from the Hellawell Shield semi-final – Bedians in blue shirts
Dan’s the man at Pike Fold
idsbury’s attached professional Danny Wardrop D pulled off a crucial victory in the Manchester Alliance, 36-hole, Stroke Play competition at Pike Fold. Danny, who has played on the Challenge Tour and the Europro Tour in recent seasons, set a hot pace with a 66 in the opening round. This was matched by the Disley pro, Scott Jackson.
in all. In pursuit were Graham Cox (Davenport) at 139 and home pro Grant Hamerton at 143. The amateur top spot went to Mark Daven (Ashtonon-Mersey) with 149; four clear of Harwood’s Karl Bowker.
The second round saw Wardrop post 70 – two less than Jackson, so he won with 136
The race for the professional Order of Merit now sees Wardrop with a healthy lead
going into the last lap of the season with his total of 403 points. He’s ahead of Scott Jackson at 384, Grant Hamerton at 367 and reigning champion Graham Cox at 299.
The Albert Wins Winter Tennis league The Albert Club on Old Lansdowne Road, West Didsbury has won the North East Cheshire Winter Tennis League. A team consists of two men and two women and the women were very strongly represented by Julie Wright and Rebecca Griffiths. They
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saw off strong challenges from two of the Bramhall clubs, Queensgate and Bramhall Lane. The summer league has now begun and the Albert’s women’s team has had a flying start in the First Division, already beating local rivals the Northern.
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Community Health & Wellbeing Oneness Deeksha Meditation Saturdays 11am-12 at The Didsbury Parsonage, Stenner Lane Didsbury M20 2RQ. Donation £2. Enquiries to Christine 07734 072040. Weekly Meditation Classes Held in Didsbury meditateinmanchester. org 0161 861 7012
Societies & Groups Acting For Fun Central Didsbury 431 4794 Didsbury Amateur Dramatics www.celestaplayers.co.uk Didsbury Arts Festival 22nd - 30th June email: info@ didsburyartsfestival.org www.didsburyartsfestival. org Didsbury Civic Society www.didsburycivicsociety. org.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 Tues 10-11.45am coffee morning. Didsbury Sure Start Centre, Didsbury Park 07749 504298 www. didsburygoodneighbours. com
Didsbury Ladies Probis Club Meets on alternate Monday afternoons in East Didsbury. Please call Joan Woodall 0161 434 2532 for more information Didsbury Village East Residents Association www.dvera.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 2509 South Manchester Dance School 107 Clyde Road West Didsbury, 445 5308
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West Didsbury Bookgroup Meets every four weeks at 7.30pm. Lively mixed group of all ages. Call 445 4483 leaving your name, address & landline West Didsbury Residents Association Pam Siddons 445 5406 www.westdidsbury.org.uk
Arts & Crafts Wendy Levy Art Gallery 17 Warburton Street Didsbury, 446 4880
Music & Entertainment Jazz Tuesdays at 8.45pm at the Slug and Lettuce, 651 Wilmslow Rd, Didsbury. creativespaceinfo. blogspot.com 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
Social & Support Groups Didsbury Social Group didsburysocial@live.co.uk www.didsburysocial. jigsy.com Social Circle Social and activity group. Walks, meals, weekends away, quiz nights, live music, dancing, theatre, comedy Tel: 0161 434 0098, or 07767 686 177 www. social-circle.co.uk
I N D E X15 every month in south Manchester. newfamilysocial.org.uk email: nwdevelopment@ newfamilysocial.co.uk
Useful Numbers Didsbury Library 227 3755 Environment on Call 954 9000 Mersey Valley Countryside Warden Service 905 1100 Manchester City Council 234 5000
Didsbury East 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
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New Family Social UK charity for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children. Meets
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Nicola Owen and her team have been offering quality dental care at The Dental Health Centre for over 20 years in Didsbury village. • New patients welcome. • Cosmetic and routine dental treatment. • Emergencies usually seen same day, even when patients are not registered at the practice. • Special care for nervous patients. • Please contact reception to book your appointment.
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