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Lantern Parade Saturday 22nd November Starts at the cafe Fletcher Moss Park 6pm All welcome – you can bring along your own lanterns or just come along for the fun! £2 donation per adult on the gate as a DAF fundraiser. Lantern Building Workshop Sunday 16th November, from 12.30 St James & Emanuel Church, Barlow Moor Road If you would like some help getting creative with your lantern, come along to our Lantern Building Workshop afternoon £7 per person all materials included and all welcome - young and old!
GET INVOLVED WITH DAF Didsbury Arts Festival is visited by thousands of people, attending events in venues right across Didsbury. DAF attracts famous artists from Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novelist Alison Moore, poet and author Jackie Kay, to international pianists Kathryn Stott and Nelson Goerner as well as local and regional talent in our main festival and festival fringe. Our local schools are engaged in DAF with hundreds of local children contributing and performing.
Would you like to be involved in helping to make 2015’s DAF the best one so far? Are you looking to get involved in an exciting Community Project? Do you have a local business you want to promote to the cool folks of Didsbury or say thanks to your regulars? Or do you simply have a passion for the Arts and want to ensure we have a great Festival? If the answer to any of the above is Yes, we are looking for you!
For more information or to register your support, please contact us on committee@didsburyartsfestval.org
Didsbury Arts Festival 20-28 June, 2015
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Didsbury People by Deborah Grace
Isabel Webb
Aspiring journalist and award-winning young writer, Isabel Webb, 17, on food, fashion and The Devil Wears Prada!
Tell me about your recent writing award.
I won a young reviewer’s competition organised by Manchester’s newest theatre company, HOME. The prize was two tickets to their production of Romeo and Juliet and the opportunity to interview the two lead actors and review the play.
My review has been published on the HOME website and will soon appear on Northern Soul.
So, you want to be a journalist?
Yes, I’d like a job where I get to do different things every day and I’ve always enjoyed writing. When I was little I wrote stories and even attempted an entire novel, which was a rip-off of Nanny McPhee with all the names changed. I have a blog and I’ve been writing reviews for years – plays, dance shows, films and restaurants. I’m currently an ‘A’ level student at Manchester High School for Girls and I hope to study history at university, then go on to do journalism. What really appeals to me is fashion journalism, so I’d like to live in New York for a year and see if I can make it. Oh dear, that all sounds very like The Devil Wears Prada!
Which writers do you most admire?
That’s a difficult one; I read so many books. Caitlin Moran is brilliant. Her autobiography, How to be a Woman, opened my
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eyes to feminism. I also admire George Orwell. But one of my favourite books has to be F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; I loved it so much when I first read it.
What do you do to relax?
I like to sleep! I spend a lot of time blogging and reading. I go to films and the theatre. I make lists of things to do in my spare time, so I never seem to have any. I’m a mental list maker.
What makes you happy? Family, friends and food. I was brought up on my Italian grandmother’s cooking. She came over from Naples, fifty years ago, to find work. Now she’s got a Little Italy in Whalley Range, with sisters, brothers and cousins living in the same road.
Complete the sentence, ‘I love Didsbury because …’ ‘You always run into someone you know and there are lots of independent shops, which you don’t get anywhere else. My friends love coming over to stay in Didsbury.’
Read Isabel’s blog at: daphneanddelilah.wordpress.com
Making Food Fair
Exploring solutions to the many faces of food poverty We’ve seen the news stories about food poverty - people turning to charitable food banks as they struggle to feed their families - but our food industry is responsible for poverty in a number of different forms. Driven by major retailers working to ruthless profit margins, it now exerts a terrible economic pressure on those employed in the production, processing and distribution of what we eat.
Making Food Fair, a gathering organised by Feeding Manchester and the Kindling Trust, aims to tackle the issues surrounding food inequality in all its forms. Experts, activists, and campaigners will discuss progressive and sustainable solutions, and you’ll have an opportunity to have your say and put forward ideas of your own. An inspiring lineup of speakers includes representatives from
Sustain’s London Food Poverty Pilot, Nourish Scotland, Church Action on Poverty and the Principal Investigator of the ERC study Families and Food Poverty in an Age of Austerity.
Making Food Fair takes place on Saturday 22nd November in central Manchester. Places are £10 (with lunch) and advance registration is essential. www.feedingmanchester.org.uk
Didsbury WI Online
Didsbury Women’s Institute launch interactive new website Didsbury Village Women’s Institute have a brand new, topof-the-range website featuring an interactive calendar, showing everything this thriving WI is up to, as well as local events by other organisations that members might be interested in.
Morgan-Trimmer, built the website. “It was built in Drupal 7 which is a popular open-source platform, and uses best practices in terms of design and content,” she said. “It’s responsive, which means the same site will work properly on your tablet or mobile, as well as your desktop or laptop. It was important when building a site that serves a wide range of people and abilities, that it was easy but use, but accessible by the latest technology.”
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There’s lots of useful information for people who might be thinking about joining the WI, such as membership benefits, who the WI is for, and what to expect at your first meeting.
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Step away from the trolley… Celebrate your independents Our parents and grandparents knew what they were doing. When they went shopping, they’d pick up a bag and walk down the road. They knew what they needed, knew exactly where it came from and knew the people selling it. Compare that with our socalled ‘cash-rich-time-poor’ lives, piling bags of food into the boot of the car in a bleak out-of-town car park. They bought fresh, they bought what they needed and they wasted nothing. We talk about ‘shopaholics’ and ‘retail therapy’ as though overspending is a virtue – or at least an endearing weakness. I’d argue that retail therapy really does exist, but it’s not on offer at the Trafford Centre. Shopping local is fun: it’s life-affirming. You chat to real people and you talk about what you want: you can touch, taste, smell - even try - before you buy. Local traders source their own stock and they do it expertly, because if they didn’t, you wouldn’t go back.
Try asking a fishmonger about an interesting-looking fish in his shop. He may not quite be on first-name terms with it, but he’ll certainly know where it lived and the perfect way to cook it. Shopping local makes financial and economic sense: in studies too numerous to list, local traders often come out cheaper than the supermarkets and when you spend locally, your money stays local. Looking longer-term, you help create a vibrant neighbourhood centre, improving local employment and training opportunities. These in turn support families, schools, transport links and house prices. Shopping isn’t a chore - that’s how the supermarkets portray it so they can play up the ‘convenience’ angle. Shopping can be interesting, sociable and rewarding – if you do it right.
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What’s on at Christ Church, West Didsbury Saturday 15th November Fundraising Concert for Cancer Research UK 7.30pm A Night at the Opera. Favourites from the worlds of Opera and Operetta anightattheopera.weebly.com
Saturday 22nd November William Byrd Singers 7.30pm Conductor: Keith Orrell Admission: £10 (£9 concessions, £5 students) Music by Phillips, Howells and Britten
Saturday 29th November Manchester Beethoven Orchestra
7.30pm A Concert in aid of The Rainbow Family Trust Music byTchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Berlioz Admission Free Retiring collection for the Rainbow Family Trust. www.christchurchdidsbury.org.uk
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Wendy’s success all the more remarkable. Said Wendy: “I am absolutely delighted – and stunned – to have won this award. It’s such a great honour and I’d like to thank all the individuals who nominated me for the title. We are a dedicated, hard-working team at Didsbury Oxfam, so it’s lovely to have this recognition which, I believe, reflects on all our efforts.” Emma Joy, Oxfam Area Manager, said: “I am thrilled for Wendy; her enthusiasm and ‘can do’ attitude are infectious.”
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The Didsbury Holistic Centre and Lidgate Grove Didsbury
Opening 1914
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Wednesday 19th (7pm), Thursday 20th and Saturday 22nd November (8.15pm)
At The Edge Theatre
Tuesday 25th, Thursday 27th, Friday 28th and Saturday 29th November (7.30pm)
As a special celebration of Chorlton library being 100 years old, The Edge are presenting a brand-new show, which will be performed at both Chorlton library and at The Edge Theatre as part of Chorlton Book Festival. Opening 1914 tells the story of ordinary people opening a long-awaited library against the backdrop of a world just three months into the Great War. The Edge Theatre bring their own unique storytelling style to the library to celebrate its 100th birthday this month. Tickets from ÂŁ5 Places are limited Book online at www.edgetheatre.co.uk or by phoning 0161 282 9776
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Community Spin Decks Album Review
Dinosaurs Ate My Caravan
Biscuithead & the Biscuit Badgers • By Linsey Parkinson Whatever happened to songs that made you laugh for the right reasons, rather than the wrong ones? Dinosaurs Ate My Caravan, the new album by Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers, isn’t about lazy pastiche or lame satire; it’s intelligent, eclectic and laugh-outloud funny. Sixteen splendid tracks await discerning chaps of all ages and genders: from the hymn to David Attenborough (“Feeding meat to a great white shark/His brother’s in Jurassic Park”) to a useful lesson
on snow formation, a healthy dose of avuncular speculation and a cautionary tale or two. Aficionados will be delighted by new recordings of classic tracks, Cheese and The Land Hermit Crab. The band is inspired by a range of surreal and whimsical influences, which include the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Deaf School and the Divine Comedy. Some call them the thinking man’s Half Man Half Biscuit. I know I do. Nonsense? Of course it is. Have a listen, or ignore them completely, at www.biscuithead.co.uk
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Didsbury Through Time
On School Lane buying the fish and chips in 1911
by Andrew Simpson
We are on School Lane and the year is sometime around 1911. I doubt that we will ever be certain who the woman staring back at us is, but I rather think it will be either Mrs Martha Meredith who ran the Supper Bar (Fish and Chips) at number 1 School Lane, or Ellen Tennant who was the wife of George Tennant, the butcher from number 3.
And, if pushed, I think it will be Martha who at 36 described herself as a widow with a 14 year old daughter and shared her home with her brother-in-law; Mary Ann, who she employed as a servant; and John Wilson, the boarder. Alas the children’s identities are lost to us but they will be local and must have been drawn from their homes by the presence of the photographer. The properties are still
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recognisably the same and by one of those odd coincidences, just one hundred and three years after our picture was taken number 1 is a fish and chip shop.
other residents.
Now, tracking down the identity of the woman in the picture is not so difficult.
Of course, despite knowing something of the life of Mrs Martha Meredith and her family and tenants, linking her to the woman standing in the street on that sunny day is, and will always be, speculation.
The starting point is the street directories, which are lists of each householder, complied annually. The list will often include the occupation of the named individual and, because they were published every year, is a good way of following an individual. But earlier directories leave out some of the poorer streets and if you are looking for a rural area, these do not always appear, or at best are hidden in obscure places. But, with a name and the address it is possible to find out more using the census records, which will provide the details of
Sometimes you strike lucky and there are the details of a will, along with parish records and newspaper accounts.
Picture: from the book, Didsbury Through Time, Peter Topping & Andrew Simpson, 2013
Read more on the history of Didsbury in Andrew Simpson & Peter Topping’s book Didsbury Through Time. chorltonhistory. blogspot.com
Book Reviews Murmurations: An anthology of uncanny stories about birds Edited by Nicholas Royle From Shakespeare’s hoarsecroaking raven, foretelling regicide, to Daphne du Maurier’s chilling tale of humanity under attack from beating wings and bloody beaks, the image of the bird in literature has always produced an unsettling effect on readers.
Birds – and birdsong - are all around us, so much a part of our everyday lives that we take them for granted. And yet, in their very familiarity, we also have a sense of something alien, threatening; or in other words ‘uncanny’ (unheimlich
in German). This creepy collection, which brings together previously published stories by Daphne du Maurier, Russell Hoban and others, with new tales by contemporary writers, explores our preoccupation with birds and the way in which they appear to inhabit the darker, psychic landscape of our subconscious fears and desires. A widow, half-crazed with grief, awakes to the reality of new life growing inside her as she scatters snowflakes with a ‘tat, tat, tat’ on the frozen body of a dead redwing. Two friends, on holiday in Iceland,
encounter a sinister raven, ‘bloodybeaked and full of eyeballs’. A young girl, with a tragic history, transforms herself into a dove and takes flight. An older couple retire to the seaside only to be plagued by the relentless shrieking of gulls, ‘like a human baby in agony.’ These stories, and others, exude a macabre pull that will keep you (uneasily) reading on, when you know it would be wiser to stop. • Review by Deborah Grace
The Paying Guests Sarah Waters
It is London, 1922, and from the wreckage of a devastating world war, a more fluid, social model is emerging to replace the smashed ideals and rigid class barriers of the old order.
Behind the solid front door of their once-elegant Camberwell villa, widowed Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, have fallen on hard times. Father and brothers dead, mother and daughter are forced to take in lodgers and suffer their genteel sensibilities to be offended by the Barbers, a ‘brash’ young couple of the ‘clerk’ class. Greeting their arrival in a van piled high with tat, Frances notes, with horror, the wicker birdcage,
bronze-effect ashtray and ‘refined’ elocution-class accents: ‘What on earth had she done? She felt as though she was opening up the house to thieves and invaders.’ Nevertheless, Mrs Barber (Lilian), with her red lipstick, gramophone music and slipshod routine, provides a source of fascination to Frances, whose own life is colourless and constrained by duty. An unlikely friendship develops between the two women and ignites dangerous desires. For Frances, the memory of a past love, sacrificed to convention, makes her determined not to lose a second chance of happiness, but as passion explodes into violence,
love and loyalties are torn apart. As domestic drama plunges into crime, Sarah Waters’ erotic thriller is a nerve-jangling rollercoaster of a novel. Story telling at its finest. Try to resist the temptation to look ahead to the final page! • Review by Deborah Grace
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November In Your Garden By Katherine Watson
I am increasingly asked to include native hedgerowtype plants in garden schemes for clients who have an eye on sustaining wildlife habitats in their gardens.
More people are beginning to think about how their privatised garden spaces link up to wider green habitats – the corridors between gardens, along roads and even in the city (with perhaps the exception of Market Street). The importance of our hedgerows, for example, in supporting a range of living species has been the focus of much research in recent years. Hedgelink (www.hedgelink.org.uk) talks of the beneficial effects of native plants and wildlife evolving side-by-side over hundreds of years creating ‘wildlife corridors’ of plants flowering and fruiting at slightly different times to accommodate the cycles of their dependents. The ‘linear landscape’ of the native hedgerow is also important for bats who use it as a ‘commuting route’ – a somewhat urbanised term to describe the lines travelled between roosting and feeding sites. Hedgerows are invaluable habitats for dormouse populations who use them as ‘dispersal corridors’ -
important links between copses that are too small to support a viable dormouse population on their own. Bumble bees use hedgerows to guide foraging and they are even important for the survival of ten species of threatened lichen. Whilst most of us don’t have the space to create ‘commuting routes’ or ‘linear landscapes’ between copse and wood, we could include some of these native hedgerow plants to support our garden wildlife at different times of the year. November is a good time to plant bare root hedges and shrubs. For a hedge, five whips per metre or seven in a staggered row will be plenty and some of the native species include: Crataegus monogyna (Hawthorn); Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn); Alnus glutinosa and Coryllus avellana (Hazel). For stand alone shrubs try Viburnum opulus (Guelder Rose) or Euonymous europaeus ‘Red Cascade’ and for that old English, wild rose look, try Rosa rubiginosa (Sweet Briar) or the stalwart Rosa canina (Dog Rose). There are quite a few suppliers including: www.hopesgrovenurseries.co.uk www.crocus.co.uk www.hedgesdirect.co.uk.
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Sport in Didsbury By Geoff Garnett
Football: Great win for Bedians Last season’s Lancashire and Cheshire AFL Premier division title challengers AFC Oldham lost their second successive game, going down 4-3 at East Didsbury based Bedians. Bedians charged into a 4-1 lead with goals from Julian Patterson (two), Stuart Madew and James Seggie.
Oldham came back well in the last 15 minutes through Nathan Barker and an own goal adding to Joe Heap’s earlier strike, but they missed chances to snatch a share of the spoils in the dying minutes. Pictured: Bedians v AFC Oldham (Oldham in yellow shirts)
Golf: Blue Moon shines again at Didsbury The annual Manchester City v Man United match at Didsbury had a full field, with plenty of banter and good golf enjoyed by all participants and supporters. City, led by Captain Colin Hartley and City legend Roy Cheetham, completed a hat-trick of wins to take the coveted trophy and celebrate with champagne, Blue Moon and the Poznan.
Considering that City were short of players leading up to the match, some rapid recruitment of ringers, strays and overseas players swung the balance in their favour for the third consecutive year. The Didsbury FFP committee is looking into how City managed to recruit such a good team again!
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Pictured: City in celebratory mood United organisers Mike Wardrop and Mike Serrage showed their usual exemplary sportsmanship and good manners and
congratulated the elated blue boys on their victory whilst vowing to win the trophy in 2015.
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Community Index Local groups and useful numbers Clubs, Societies & Groups
Acting For Fun Central, Didsbury 431 4794 Didsbury Civic Society didsburycivicsociety.org.uk Didsbury Cricket Club didsburyccsports.co.uk Didsbury Good Neighbours Every Tues 10-11.45am coffee morning. Holt Pavilion, Didsbury Park 07749 504298 www. didsburygoodneighbours.org.uk Didsbury Ladies’ Probus Club Alternate Monday afternoons in East Didsbury. Joan Woodall 434 2532 Didsbury Men’s Probus Club Alternate Thursday mornings in East Didsbury. Bill Woodall 434 2532
Didsbury Lawn Tennis Club Bob Peel, 445 0465 didsburyccsports.co.uk Didsbury Players celestaplayers.co.uk
Didsbury Village East Residents Association dvera.co.uk Didsbury Village WI didsburyvillagewi.co.uk
Dolls House and Miniatures Group 2nd Monday of each month, 8-10pm, Whalley Range Venue. Ann 07814 861285 Eat Green free cookery school, food bank, garden tool libraries and community growing activities. info@eatgreen.co.uk www. eatgreen.co.uk Ford Bank Residents Association fordbankresidents.org.uk Frets community guitar and singing, Fridays 10am, Didsbury Sports Club 07813 121478
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Friends of Didsbury Park friendsofdidsburypark.co.uk
Friends of Fletcher Moss Park Alan Hill 215 0971 awhill@globalnet.co.uk
Friends of Marie Louise Gardens marielouisegardens.org.uk Lipreading and Communication Skills classes Free to deaf people and their families and friends. Wednesdays 1 -3 pm at Mauldeth House 0161 832 0444 enquiries@ manchesterdeafstudies.org Manchester JKF Karate Club Didsbury MMU Sports Centre, Tuesdays 8.30pm Ben Pollock, 07894108944
Oneness Deeksha Meditation Saturdays 11am-12 at The Didsbury Parsonage. Donation £2 Christine 07734 072040 South Manchester Camera Club Mondays at 8-10pm, Didsbury Methodist Church smcc.org.uk Didsbury Over 50s Group 247 2323
South Manchester U3A 1st Tuesday of the month 2pm, Emmanuel Church. Edna 434 2509
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 westdidsburyresidentsassoc@ gmail.com westdidsbury.org.uk Withington Civic Society Roger Smith 445 1473 withingtoncivicsociety.org.uk
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Social & Support Groups Manchester Diabetes Support Network Details/ venues/ monthly dates etc diabetesinmanchester@gmail.com 860 5688/07414 635992 New Family Social UK charity for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children. Meets every month in south Manchester. newfamilysocial.org.uk email: nwdevelopment@newfamilysocial. co.uk Rethink Manchester Carers in Action www.rmcia.blogspot.co.uk 07757 082 976 Useful Numbers Didsbury Library 227 3755
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Carl Ollerhead cllr.c.ollerhead@ manchester.gov.uk David Ellison cllr.d.ellison@ manchester.gov.uk Local MP John Leech - MP
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