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DIDSBURY ARTS FESTIVAL Closing on a high note!
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DIDSBURY DINNERS Local Cookery Classes
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ERIKA’S VEGI NIKU-JAGA Didsbury Dinners Recipe
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A HIDDEN COST OF METROLINK Dave Bishop
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FOOD & DRINK INDEX New Regular Feature
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NOVEMBER IN YOUR GARDEN Katherine Watson
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CONTRIBUTIONS Katherine Watson, Amanda Woodvine, Didsbury Dinners, Dave Bishop, Didsbury Arts Festival
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Talent show closes DAF 2011 on a high note! Didsbury Arts Festival ended on a high note with an impressive display of home-grown talent – and a surprise guest!
businessman Salim UddinKhandakar and Andrew Shakof, headteacher at Parrs Wood High School.
Didsbury’s Got Talent provided the showcase finale to a week-long celebration of the arts which saw thousands of people flocking to more than 170 events.
They picked 15-year-old songstress, Tasha Leanne Jones, as the winner. In second place was classical soprano, Scarlett Quigley, aged 13, while boy band, Illusion, all year 10 students at Parrs Wood High, came third.
Eleven finalists entertained a 400-strong audience at Parrs Wood High School with singing, music-making – and a performing dog! The evening’s judges included former Olympic athlete and Commonwealth 800m gold medallist, Diane Modahl, local Winner Tasha Leanne Jones
And there was a surprise in store when John Pienaar, Radio 5 Live's chief political correspondent, in Manchester for the Tory Party Conference, turned up to record the show and interview audience members.
He was so impressed by the high standard of all the performances that he featured the event on his popular Sunday evening show, Pienaar’s Politics. Afterwards, John told organisers: ‘This has been a great event, thoroughly enjoyable. I have to say that all the acts I’ve seen here tonight are much better than most of those I’ve seen on TV on either Britain’s Got Talent or X Factor. ‘And what can I say about Didsbury? Many of my friends, in the process of moving to MediaCity in Salford, are planning to live in Didsbury. What a
5 3rd place, Boy band, Illusion
2nd place, Scarlett Quigley
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fantastic place! Has Didsbury got talent? Yes, it certainly has!’ Organiser, Debra Green, pastor at Ivy Church, Manchester, said: ‘We were delighted to have John Pienaar there. What a fabulous journalist he is! ‘This was a fantastic final. The performances were all excellent and we had a great audience. Many thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this a success. We’d better start planning now for next year!’
At Parsonage Gardens, lit by fire lamps, coloured lanterns and light sculptures hanging from trees, the audience was entertained by a shadowy cast of dancing nymphs and spirits with ghostly music played on a real piano under a spreading magnolia tree. The spectacle was created for DAF by local artist Mike Lister and artists’ co-operative, pa-BOOM. To see what happened during DAF 2011 visit:
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Earlier in the evening, more than 300 people took part in a lantern procession from Fletcher Moss Park to Parsonage Gardens. Some children brought giant lanterns made in DAF workshops at Didsbury C of E and Moor Allerton primary schools. Others brought
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The Athenaeum Amateur Dramatic Society Presents...... Willy Russell’s
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A comedy about the sadness and madness of happy family life. Breezeblock Park has been described as “The Royle Family meets Keeping Up Appearances”. Its Christmas Eve and a close-knit family gather for the festivities. But lurking beneath the glitzy gift wrap, tired tinsel and fairy lights lie concealed jealousies, petty squabbles and a secret. As the drinks flow, feather’s fly and a daughter’s news threatens to tear the family apart. Betty and Reeny are sisters, Tommy is their brother.
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Local Residents Learn to Cook with Didsbury Dinners Sales proceeds from ‘Didsbury Dinners: The Low-Carbon Community Cookbook’ were used to fund a fun cookery course that started in September. The free four-week course was held at West Didsbury Sure Start Centre, and aimed to increase people’s confidence in the kitchen. As well as teaching people how to make cheap, tasty meals, it was an opportunity to make new friends. Priority places on the course were given to people with below average cookery skills, a small regular income, and low savings. Sessions were led by Alison Maudsley a cookery tutor for the Cracking Good Food cooking network based in Chorlton (see www.crackinggoodfood.org). Participants learnt how to make quick and easy stir-fries; simple
sauces; soups, stews and pies; and Mexican dishes. And Amanda Woodvine, editor of ‘Didsbury Dinners’, taught the group about food sustainability issues, including reducing energy when cooking, how to source food locally, and how to cut down on food waste. After completing the course, all of the budding chefs rated their skills as either very good or excellent. One participant, Mario, noticed a definite improvement in his cookery skills over the four weeks. He said: “The course has made me more aware of environmental issues, and the importance of eating healthy foods rather than ready-meals. I will now cook more vegetarian foods at home. I’d recommend the course to everyone I know!”
Didsbury residents receive the ‘Cracking Good Cook Award’
Another participant, Priscilla, commented that the course had helped her enjoy cooking and learning about ingredients. “Cooking can be fun!” ‘Didsbury Dinners: The Low Carbon Community Cookbook’ was published in April. The glossy 80-page paperback contains recipes donated by
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The cookbook costs just £6.99, and all sales proceeds are being reinvested in local food sustainability projects. As well as the cookery course, it has already helped to fund a new community orchard on Stenner Lane in Didsbury, which was planted in July. The book is now on sale via Didsbury Civic Society, Didsbury Library, Didsbury Park Sure Start Children’s Centre, West Didsbury Sure Start Children’s Centre, Cracking Good Food, Manchester Bridge Club, BoHo’s, Unicorn Grocery and Amazon.co.uk. And for those who prefer to go completely paperfree, it will soon be available as a Kindle eBook! If you are interested in a place on a future cookery course, or for more information about the Didsbury Dinners project, please email didsburydinners@yahoo.co.uk or join our yahoo group:
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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 Good Neighbours Marie Greenhalgh 07749 504298 www.didsburygood neighbours.com Friends of Didsbury Park www.friendsofdidsbury park.co.uk Friends of Fletcher Moss Park Alan Hill 445 1535 Friends of Marie Louise Gardens www.marielouisegardens. org.uk South Manchester Camera Club www.smcc.org.uk Didsbury Over 50s Group 247 2323 Salsa de Cuba c/o 212 Burton Road West Didsbury Manchester 07813 830067 [Susan] 07854 192763 [Juan] South Manchester Dance School 107 Clyde Road West Didsbury, 445 5308
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Arts & Crafts The Classroom on School Lane Learn new a new craft or skill. 24 School Lane www.classroomschool lane.com, info@classroom schoollane.com The Magic Cupboard 212 Burton Road West Didsbury Manchester 445 8752 www.themagic cupboard.co.uk, email wendyahatton@ntlworld. com Manchester Mosaics creative and art historical workshops 07528 526798 www.gallery.me.com/ amandamccrann amandamccrann @mac.com Wendy Levy Art Gallery 17 Warburton Street Didsbury, 446 4880
Music & Entertainment Cineworld Cinema Parrswood Entertainment Centre Parrswood Road Didsbury, 434 0909 Didsbury Comedy Club 7pm Show 7:45pm Admission £6/£5 Didsbury Cricket Club, Wilmslow Rd, East Didsbury, M20 2ZY
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN TO SEW? Basic Sewing Skills Course 5 x 2 hour sessions Tuesdays 7 - 9pm Next course starts 15th November 2011 Pottery Corner 34 Beech Rd, Chorlton M21 9EL £120 for 5 sessions Contact Ruth on 0161 881 9861 or Ruthlazarus227@btinternet.com
• Become confident with a sewing machine • Practise all the basic sewing operations buttonholes, zips, gathers, darts etc. • Take home a folder of examples to refer to later
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Erika’s veggie niku-jaga Serves 6–8
1. Cook the rice according to the packet instructions.
2½ cups short-grained sushi rice or tapioca rice
2. Meanwhile, in a large deep pan, sauté the onions and leek.
2 onions, sliced ¼ inch (approx ½ cm) thick 1 large leek, diagonally sliced ¼ inch (approx ½ cm) thick 3 large carrots, diagonally sliced ¼ inch (approx ½ cm) thick 2 turnips cut into eighths 1 parsnip, cut into ¼ inch (approx ½ cm) rounds 5 potatoes, cut into eighths 1 small swede, cut into 1 inch (2½ cm) cubes A couple of handfuls of seasonal mushrooms, cut in half A handful of dried shiitake mushrooms, pre-soaked in warm water for 20 mins (use the water from this as stock) 2 handfuls of coarsely chopped kale 2 small birds eye chillis, cut with scissors as finely as possible
3. Add the rest of the veg (except for peas, broccoli and parsley) and add mushroom soaking-water plus just enough water to cover everything. 4. Add stock cubes, syrup, soya sauce, mirin and the grated garlic. Bring to the boil, cover and reduce heat. Simmer on low until potatoes are parboiled. 5. Add tofu, broccoli and peas and grated ginger and parsley. Taste-check at this point – add more water if too salty, or more soya sauce if not salty enough. 6. Remove lid and cook over a medium-low heat until the soup has reduced by half. When the potatoes are cooked so that they break when prodded, add rice noodles. Turn off heat after 5 minutes. 7. Serve in bowls, accompanied with bowls of sticky short-grain sushi rice. Sprinkle sesame seeds over each portion.
2 vegetable stock cubes (or kelp stock, dashi) 1 level tbsp golden syrup 1½ cups Kikkoman’s Japanese soya sauce (reduced salt if possible) ¾ cup mirin (sweet cooking sake rice wine) 1 large garlic clove, grated 2 slabs of firm tofu, cut in 2 inch (5 cm) blocks The florettes of 1 broccoli, plus coarsely chopped stalk 1 cup peas 2 inches (5 cm) of ginger, grated A handful of flat-leaf parsley A handful of clear thin rice noodles 4 tsp sesame seeds
“This is an adaptation of Japanese NIKUJAGA, which literally translates as ‘meat and potatoes’. It uses mainly seasonal spring vegetables available in the Didsbury area. It’s a hearty comfort food dish, with a salty-sweet taste; a cold-weather favourite one-pot dish in Japanese households. It works well as a veggie dish by replacing the meat with a firm tofu.”
Recipe reproduced from Didsbury Dinners: The Low-Carbon Community Cookbook, with kind permission from the editor Amanda Woodvine. Didsbury Dinners is an 80-page A4 glossy paperback packed full of recipes from local residents and groups. Buy your copy for just £6.99 from The Albert Club and Didsbury Civic Society. All proceeds from the sale of the book will go towards promoting local food sustainability. didsburydinners@yahoo.co.uk
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A Hidden Cost of Metrolink
There seems to be general agreement that the extension of the Metrolink tram system to Chorlton has been a good thing. We’re told that it will take cars off the road – although I’m not so sure. I suspect that we’ll end up with Metrolink and an ever-growing number of cars. Nevertheless, there is a hidden cost to Metrolink – a cost which, I suspect, the vast majority of local people are not even aware of. The organisation behind Metrolink is Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and if you go on to their website, and dig down, you will find their ‘Wildlife and Tree Replacement Policy’. This policy promises that: “The development of transport infrastructure must ensure the protection and enhancement of protected landscapes, habitats and sites; and take opportunities to protect and enhance
Haresfoot Clover
biodiversity, ...”
Ivy-leaved Duckweed
Those of us who are concerned about wildlife, and the rate at which it is disappearing both locally and nationally, are beginning to suspect that this promise is not worth the paper it is written on. TfGM seem to be under the illusion that all they have to do to fulfil the promise is to plant a few trees (many of which seem to have died already) and install a few cheap pond liners (which won’t last more than a few years) in some out-of-the-way spots.
This strange little water-borne plant has leaves which float just below the water’s surface. I found it in a waterlogged section of the old railway line between Chorlton and Old Trafford, just before work began on Metrolink. I was allowed to rescue some and moved it to a newish pond near Hardy Farm. Unfortunately it didn’t take to its new habitat and died out.
I am an amateur botanist and I have spent the last few years studying the plant life of the Mersey Valley and South Manchester. As a result I have a pretty good idea which rare or unusual plant species we have lost already and which we are going to lose very soon. Here are some examples:
This plant was reported from Chorlton by the great Manchester shoe-maker botanist, Richard Buxton in his flora of 1849. It is probably now extinct in this suburb. Haresfoot Clover I was very excited a couple of years ago to find this distinctive little clover, with its ‘powderpuff’ flowers, on a tiny patch of wasteland at Hough End. A year
17 later this patch of land was obliterated by TfGM’s contractors who sited their heavy machinery on it. I have two more South Manchester sites for this plant, but one of these is threatened. The other is (ironically) near a Metrolink station where the contractors will, no doubt, soon find an excuse to destroy it.
contain populations of the magnificent Royal Fern (Osmunda regalis) and the rather papyrus-like Wood Club-rush (Scirpus sylvaticus). Both of these have been dug up and moved across the river to Sale – but I’m not confident that they will survive and they are now, of course, both effectively extinct in Chorlton.
Intermediate Polypody on London Plane
This SBI still contains Chorlton’s only population of Heather (Calluna vulgaris) and a rare Hawkweed (Hieracium sp.) but I doubt whether either of these will survive the coming onslaught.
A few years ago a friend of mine reported that he had spotted, from the top deck of the number 86 bus, a Polypody fern growing on a London Plane tree on Upper Chorlton Road. Intrigued, I decide to investigate further. I found three examples on Upper Chorlton Road and several more on Urmston Lane in Stretford. There were more examples on the Plane Trees which grew on the central reservation of Mauldeth Road West – but, of course, TfGM have now chopped those down. The phenomenon of one plant growing on another plant (e.g. a fern growing on a tree) without parasitising it is called epiphysis. Epiphytic ferns are most commonly found in the wetter parts of Britain – particularly in ancient oak woodland in the South West. But London Planes are not ancient oaks – they are ‘man-made’ hybrids, often planted as street trees because they are resistant to pollution; to find epiphytic ferns growing on them is extraordinary! I sent a fern frond to a national fern expert for identification. He told me that he had not encountered this combination in any other city in the UK – so it may be unique to South Manchester. Nevertheless, TfGM have destroyed a significant proportion of the population before it can even be properly studied.
Should we care about these losses? I think that we should. Every day, day in, day out we lose more and more species both locally, nationally and internationally. The gravity of this situation, and its grievous implications for the future of our species, were recognised at a major international conference at Nagoya, Japan, last year. The UK was a signatory to the subsequent treaty – but Metrolink suggests to me that the authorities still don’t ‘get it’ – and still don’t care! Dave Bishop, Chair of Friends of Chorlton Meadows davegbishop@aol.com
http://friendsofchorltonmeadows.blogspot.com
The Plants of Hardy Farm and Lower Hardy Farm Both of these areas are Sites of Biological Importance (SBIs) and, hence, are supposed to be afforded a certain degree of protection. Nevertheless, the Metrolink to the Airport line is to be driven through the latter (a corridor has already been bull-dozed through it) and contractors’ plant and machinery is now sited on part of the former. Hardy Farm is home to a complex group of wild orchids: Northern Marsh, Southern Marsh, Early Marsh and Common Spotted orchids (all Dactylorhiza sp.) have all been found there, along with their hybrids. Of these Early Marsh is the rarest nationally – but, of course, Metrolink equipment has been ‘plonked’ on top of the best area for that species. Lower Hardy Farm should always have been the Mersey Valley’s ‘Jewel in the Crown’, from a biodiversity point of view, but it has been ignored and grievously neglected for decades. It used to to advertise call Lesley: 0787 589 5604 lesley@communityindex.co.uk
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Food & Drink Index Cafe Life The Art of Tea 47 Barlow Moor Road Didsbury, 448 9323 The Bursting Butty 839 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 6264 Crazy Cow Cafe 837 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 215 0325 Fletcher Moss 1 William Street Didsbury, 438 0073 Folk Cafe Bar 169-171 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 2912 www.folkcafebar.co.uk Refresh 10a Whitechapel Street Didsbury, 4348899
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Bistro West 156 156 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 1921 Cachumba 220 Burton Road West Didsbury Cafe Rouge 651-3 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 438 0444 Chiquito Mexican Grill Unit 4 Parrswood Entertainment Centre Didsbury, 446 4130 The Didsbury 852 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 5389 www.thedidsbury.co.uk The Dog and Partridge 667 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 5322 The Famous Crown 770 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 434 7085 Felicini Locanda 751 Wilmslow Road Didsbury, 445 2055 www.felicini.co.uk The Four in Hand 108 Palatine Road Didsbury, 448 9397 Frankies Fish Bar 178 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 3300 www.frankiesfishbar.co.uk alex@frankiesfishbar. co.uk The Great Kathmandu 140 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 2145 www.great kathmandu.co.uk Green Tea Restaurant 222 Burton Road West Didsbury, 445 5395 www. greenteadidsbury.com Greens 43 Lapwing Lane West Didsbury, 434 4259
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November in your Garden
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by Katherine Watson For many people November signals the final turn to winter - where the smattering of warmer and brighter days through October, gives way to the dreary trudge of cold and wet, lifted only by a few well-placed national traditions like mischief night and Guy Fawkes. The poet Emily Dickinson described November as “the Norway of the Year” (presumably alluding to short, dark and cold days and not to a month jostling with serial killers). But the gardening year is far from over by November and the days, although shorter, can still be punctuated with a chill sun. Tulips can be put in until the end of the month and most garden centres sell a wide variety. Check your bulbs before you buy them to make sure they are nice and plump,
(try also to avoid bulbs with a lot of mould on them) and get them in the ground as soon as possible. Whilst squirrels generally don’t like the taste of daffodils, the same can’t be said for tulip bulbs and the only way of preventing them from munching through your stock is to cover the planting area with mesh secured at the edges. If you take your chances, make sure you clear up any bits of papery skin from the bulbs after you’ve planted them. Apparently the Dutch interplant their tulips with Fritillaria imperialis to prevent then being eaten. This variety of Fritillaria is a very impressive spring flowering bulb, a wonderful display in groups, but one that is susceptible to rot in damp conditions so may not be as reliable as other
bulbs. November is also a good time to move shrubs and plant trees allowing the roots to settle before spring. If you are thinking of putting in a hedge, you could also consider bare-root whips that are very cheap over the winter and can be bought in bundles. For a large hedge you could plant a double row, staggered with five whips per metre. So all-in-all and in the spirit of our crush on all things Scandi-Wegian, November may well be the Norway of the year for the all the right reasons Katherine Watson, Fat Grass Garden Designs
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