Denham Jan 18 by In and Around Publishing

Dear Readers Welcome to the January issue of

Inside this month’s New Year issue

In and Around Denham I hope you and your families all had a wonderful Christmas and managed to spend time resting and celebrating with loved ones. And now, welcome to 2018! A bright, shiny new year and a chance to set some goals and aspirations for the next twelve months. I don’t think I’ll be doing anything drastically different, but my focus will definitely be on having more free time to spend with my family and beautiful little granddaughter. I’ve also realised that making time to invest in yourself is really important and something I wasn’t very good at last year. Constantly working in the belief that I mustn’t take time out may have got the job done but was I really working as effectively as I could? So, it’s back to the gym for me (a place I haven’t visited for an embarrassingly long time), regular lunch dates to catch up with friends and a daily break away from my desk. Relatively small changes, but ones that hopefully will make a big difference. I’m not big on New Year Resolutions, but something small and manageable might just make all the difference. Until next month... Angela & Sammy

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Health: Benefits of sleep 10 History: Welcoming in the Old New Year 12 Wildlife Zone 16 Karen Munro: Careers 19 Short Story: Precious 20 Technology: New Year Revolutions 22 Beauty: Baby it’s cold outside 24 Coffee Break Puzzles 26 Quirky Britain 28 Recipe: Chorizo & Prawn Paella 30 RSPCA Re-homing Appeal 32 Property 36 Finance: Choosing the best mobile phone plan 38 The Big Garden Birdwatch 42 New Year Traditions from Around the Globe 44 New Technologies to help you make a green exit 46 Gardening: A rose by another name 48 Denham Parish Council 50 Motoring: McLaren 720 S 52 Road Test: Jaguar F Pace 54 Mark My Words 56 Puzzle Solutions 57 Interiors: Light up your Winter 58 Pets: Cat Flu 60 Wordsearch 60 Parenting: Growing up in a digital world 62 St Helen’s College 64 Children’s Puzzle Page 66 Citizens Advice Bureau 68 Useful Telephone Numbers 68 Gardening: Gardener’s Resolve 70 Clubs, Groups & Classes 72, 74 & 76

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In the face of escalating costs, diminishing funding and an ever-increasing legislative burden, challenging times lie ahead for our Branch and to survive we will need the backing of our local community more than ever. We hope we can continue to rely on your support during 2018. As we begin 2018 we would be so grateful if you can spare even a little in the way of: a financial donation food for our animals goods to sell in our shops

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or your time to volunteer helping in the shops or Charlie at 10 years young came into us through no help walking the dogs/ spending time with the cats fault of his own and is now looking for a new start in life. This handsome chap loves a fuss and a cuddle, Addresses can be found on our website he is a big boy with a lot of love to give. Charlie www.rspcahillingdonclinic.org.uk or call us on maybe able to live with young children but would 01895833417. Thank you for your support. prefer a home without other cats or dogs. Could you be the pawfect companion for him?

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We have many older cats that are looking for loving homes. Could you offer a forever home to one of If you think you can offer one of our animals a loving home then please ring RSPCA Hillingdon our mature cats? Branch on 01895 833417 or visit our website www.rspcahillingdonclinic.org.uk to download JACK MALE TABBY 9 YEARSOLD an application form. Jack came into our care through no fault of his own, and is now looking for a forever home. This handsome 9 years young chap is very affectionate and likes the company of people who can give him lots of fuss and cuddles. Although Jack is very affectionate towards his human companions, he would prefer to be the only pet in the household but maybe able to live with children. This beautiful boy would really love to find a loving home soon, can you be his pawfect companion? 32

We are always grateful for any donations of old sheets and blankets to use for bedding for the animals & food and toys for the animals to play with. These can be brought into our Clinic at 16 Crescent Parade, Hillingdon UB10 0LG.

Dear Resident,

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Welcome to the New Year which we hope will bring us all good health and happiness. The Communities Committee, chaired by Cllr Sharon Williams, put some great events on for us last year and are now busily planning this year’s. They would appreciate any offers of help from the community, so please let us know if you can spare any time. Meanwhile, we are all aware that there are those in our community who may suffer from disabilities and/or loneliness and it is our hope that we can help those in need of some assistance and friendship to ease their situation. We have not been very successful at starting up our Good Neighbour Scheme due in part to being short staffed and overworked (and my own health problems brought on by a couple of accidents last year) but we hope this year will see a surge of enthusiasm by both Councillors and Volunteers to get this initiative off the ground! There is another very popular ‘Tea Dance’ being organised for Sunday 21 January for the older generation, which besides having a DJ will also have Bingo and refreshments. An Armed Forces Day celebration is also being organised with ‘Tea & Cakes’ in the grounds of St Mary’s Church, Saturday 30 June 2018, and we are also looking to put something on for the WW1 Centenary in September this year, so watch this space and our website for more details. Further good news is We are indebted to the Scout Group who are in the process of passing over to us the lease of the disused Scout Hut in Denham Green. We have a fair amount of work to do in bringing it up to scratch after it has laid empty for so long, but we are really 50

excited over the possibilities of its future use for the community. Is there something you would like to see the hall used for regularly or for a one off? If so please let us know. Also, we are really pleased that our website has finally been renewed thanks to Cllr Julia Walsh who stepped in to engage an external company to pull it together for us. We hope you like it and will visit us regularly at www.denhambucks-pc.gov.uk . There are still some areas of the site that need populating but please email our clerk if you discover any teething problems with any parts of the new site. Further news is there are discussions under way for a ‘Virtual Dementia Tour Bus’ to park for a day in Denham to allow residents to experience what it is like for someone suffering from this disease and we will post the date on our website once confirmed. The replacement of Streetlight Lampheads has now been completed across the parish, barring any that need corrective measures, except for the conservation area of Denham Village for which we are still awaiting information. Save the Date: The Annual Parish Meeting will be held on the 16 May 2018 The Parish Council meets on the 2nd Monday of every month (except August) at 19:30 in the Parish Office, Rear of Denham Village Memorial Hall, Village Road, Denham, and residents are always welcome to attend but there is no entry once the meeting begins. Marilyn Heath - Chairman, Denham Parish Council Our grateful thanks to In and Around Denham for providing this platform for us

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St. Helen’s College Wins Prestigious National School Sport Accolade A Hillingdon school has become one of the first schools in England to win a new national award for making a commitment to develop its students to be the best they can be in competitive school sport.

ple in both curricular and extracurricular activities, participating in a minimum number of competitions across different sports, and reaching out to target groups including young leaders, volunteers, and those previously identified as the school‟s least-active St. Helen‟s College on Parkway, pupils. Hillingdon was one of only 104 schools in the country to receive Sharon Walker, Director of Cothe special School Games Plati- Curriculum and Subject Leader num Award. The Award is part of for PE/Games at St. Helen‟s the School Games Mark, a gov- College, said: “We are really ernment-led awards scheme delighted to have been recoglaunched in 2012 and adminis- nised with this award. As an indetered by national charity the pendent school, we have a creaYouth Sport Trust, which had tive and exciting PE/Games curclose to 9,000 applicants this riculum, as well as a quite unique year. Its aim is to reward schools co-curricular programme with for a commitment to the develop- over 70 clubs. Our pupils reach ment of competition across very high standards in core schools and into the community. sports such as football, rugby, netball, hockey, tennis and athletParticipating in this process al- ics but, perhaps as importantly, lows schools to evaluate their PE they are also able to „have a go‟ provision, grading them either at sports as diverse as lacrosse, bronze, silver or gold, and assists badminton, taekwondo, yoga, trischools in developing an action golf, gymnastics, handball and plan for future progress. The many more. This exposure to the Platinum Award is the new fourth widest possible range of activities level of the award scheme, intro- leads many pupils to uncover a duced earlier this year to cele- real talent or interest in the sportbrate schools who had shown ing world, and to go on and comconsistently high levels of enthu- pete at high levels in their chosen siasm and commitment to school sport‟. sport. Applications are only open to those schools who achieved Shirley Drummond, the school‟s five successive gold awards. Head, added, „Competitive sport develops a healthy drive to sucTo achieve the gold award a ceed, pride and humility in vicschool must meet a certain set of tory, grace and resilience in the criteria, which includes engaging face of defeat, and the ability in a high percentage of young peo- pupils to pull together as a team 64

for a common purpose. These traits can be seen in every St. Helen‟s College pupil and we are enormously proud of the way in which our sporting and cocurricular programmes contribute to our pupils‟ personal development.‟ Ali Oliver, Chief Executive of the Youth Sport Trust, said: “We are pleased to introduce the new Platinum Award this year to give these exemplary schools the recognition which they deserve. We are extremely proud of all our award winners for the passion which they have shown towards the School Games and their dedication to providing opportunities for all young people to take part in competitive school sport. “At a time when young people are becoming less healthy and less active, the School Games provides opportunities for millions across the country to participate in sport and reap the benefits of an active lifestyle both on and off the field. Schools like St. Helen‟s College are really leading the way.”