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MT Welcome Hi readers,

Welcome to the July edition of Moulsham Times.

There’s lots happening around Old Moulsham regarding the proposed quarters: see page 9 for an update from Nick Marely. Vicky Ford and Marie Goldman also both talk about it on their pages.

This month, we welcome a new writer for our finance section, Graham Austin - hopefully some great advice coming from him in the coming issues.

Fingers crossed for a warm summer!

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Chelmsford - By Vicky Ford MP

It is extremely important that we continue to support our local businesses as they reopen and build back from the pandemic. I have enjoyed listening to local restaurant, bar and club owners and hearing about the measures that they have taken to welcome back customers in a Covid-secure way.

Chelmsford’s markets are such a treasure, but traders are still facing lower customers than usual, partly because many office workers have not yet returned to the city centre. I am concerned to hear that Chelmsford City Council has put the rent back up to pre-pandemic levels, which seems very short-sighted to me given that we are so close to taking the final steps to reverse lockdown. I have asked the City Council to reconsider. The market is stuffed full of exciting stalls, from foodie delights to an Aladdin’s cave for those who love stitching and sewing. Please do pop down and support our market traders.

who is also focusing on tackling speeding in residential areas, and county lines drugs.

I am so pleased that the vaccine roll out continues to be hugely successful. All adults can now come forward for the vaccination, and so far, the uptake has been truly phenomenal. There were over 700,000 bookings in 24 hours. Thank you to those who are doing their part to ensure we can ease restrictions as soon as it is safe to do so. As I write, over 81.6% of adults have had their first vaccine, and almost 60% have had their second vaccine. Two community pharmacies in Chelmsford are delivering COVID vaccinations - The Melbourne Pharmacy and the Tesco In-House Pharmacy at Princes Road.

There is some good news coming from the Department for Transport - new flexible season tickets for our railways are being introduced.

I have been campaigning for flexible season tickets for Chelmsford commuters for many years, recognising that many residents do not want or need to travel to London every weekday. The pandemic has accelerated the need for these flexible tickets and I am pleased to see they are on their way.

I know that a number of residents do have concerns about the Moulsham Liveable Neighbourhood proposals and I share these concerns. I believe that these proposals will increase, rather than reduce, some car journey times for residents. They will increase traffic on certain local roads, such as Upper Roman Road. I am also extremely concerned that this proposal will create more traffic on Parkway and the Army and Navy, which are already extremely busy. I have written to Essex County Council and have requested a meeting to discuss this in more detail. I would also strongly encourage residents to submit their views to the formal consultation.

I recently visited the Chelmsford ambulance depot and met the team who have been managing our local ambulance services throughout the pandemic. Our paramedics have been phenomenal, and it was an honour to deliver a thank you message signed by MPs from all over Essex.

It was great to be able to see some of my constituents now that I am able to run my face-to-face surgeries again. I have continued to run my constituency surgeries throughout the pandemic, however this has had be to via telephone, and some cases are better dealt with in person. If you have a particularly difficult case that requires my assistance, please do call my office on 01245 352 872 to book an appointment. Altetrnatively, if you have any enquiries I would be happy to assist via email at vicky.ford.mp@parliament.uk.

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Essex County Council’s new Cabinet Members recently met with local MPs. I have raised with them the need to improve the services for repairing potholes and pavements. The Council are continuing their work to ensure that all residents - but particularly women and girls are feeling safe on our streets. They are being supported in this work

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MT Health: Three ‘Must-Do’ Hip Stretches - By Chris at Forté Physical Health In human form and function, our hips are our ‘powerhouse’. At the joint level, we have our wonderfully mobile ball and socket which has the ability to move in all directions, but is more limited in range compared to the shoulder joint. Wrapping around the joint is a capsule that holds all the fluid in, and then there are thick, strong ligaments keeping everything together.

Beyond that is a complex network of muscle and connective tissue which includes our huge gluteal muscles and our hip flexors. These powerful muscles help to drive us in our walking and running, and they have the ability to create huge force like when we jump or even when we do hand movements like throwing, punching or hitting a golf ball.

Having efficient and effective hip movement is important for so many things, and a lack of it can lead to dysfunction in other parts of the body.

The example I often use is to imagine you are about to throw a frisbee.

If you are right-handed, what’s the first thing you will do? If you use the basic technique (rather than some fancy throw), you will turn side-on to your target and bring your right hand back to outside your left hip.

In biomechanics, we call this ‘loading’. In order to throw something forwards, first, you have to take it backwards. The reason for this is that loading lengthens muscles and once a muscle is lengthened, then it can contract. As you take your right hand back to your left hip, you lengthen your left glutes, and once they are loaded, they can ‘explode’ to create the powerful rotational movement which ripples up through your spine and out through your arm causing a whip effect. So, as weird as it sounds, your butt throws the frisbee!

rotation), so these are the movements we need to target in our stretching routine.

In the photo below left, these simple movements target all the different directions that the hip needs to use in day-to-day life, and they are easy to fit into your day. I tend to do my stretching when I’m watching a bit of TV once the kids are in bed and I get the most benefit when I stretch daily.

The first stretch is a hamstring stretch and helps hip flexion, the stretch on the right targets the hip flexors and helps extension, and the stretch on the bottom left gets all the deep rotators and helps external rotation of the front leg, internal rotation of the back leg and in a roundabout way that will help abduction and adduction.

The problem with mobile joints like the hip and shoulder is that there are so many different stretches that you could be doing, so use these as a starting point and once they take hold, use YouTube or a coach of some kind to help you find others.

I find flexibility practice a fun journey that is never-ending! I like exploring my body through movement. I find little dysfunctions and then spend days or weeks fixing them with exercise. It doesn’t just nourish my body, but I find it relaxing for the mind too, and who doesn’t need a little bit of that these days...

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To read this magazine and But what if this doesn’t happen efficiently? What if when you bring the frisbee back to your left hip, the hip doesn’t budge? Well, you will still throw the frisbee, the body will just compensate and will put more demand on other structures that are helping the throw. So for example, it may put excessive load on your lower back muscles, or the rotator cuff in the shoulder, or even the muscles in your forearm. If this keeps happening over time, you may even end up with problems like tennis elbow, even though it is the tight hip that’s causing it - pretty interesting huh?

This is just one of many examples, but I wanted to demonstrate how important the hip is in relation to the rest of the body. Having strong, mobile hips helps us drive movement through our spine and helps us in many movements where we are using our hands... so we need to look after our hips!

Being a ball and socket joint, they are known as ‘tri-planar’, meaning that the joint can move in all three planes of movement. The hip moves forwards and backwards (flexion and extension), side to side (adduction and abduction) and rotationally (internal and external

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Active Travel (Again!) - By Cllr Marie Goldman This is the third time this year that I’ve written an article about Essex County Council’s Active Travel Fund proposals for Chelmsford (see also my articles in the January and May editions). This time around, though, everyone’s talking about it.

I think it’s fair to say that the proposals for Old Moulsham Quarters are pretty contentious.

My personal opinion is that they haven’t been properly thought through. I think that’s a real shame because it then becomes understandably tempting to fixate just on this one part of the proposals, when in fact, there’s a lot to like in the rest of them.

I’ve been contacted by a LOT of residents about the proposal to install modal filters in various roads around Old Moulsham as well as slightly further afield, but, from the communications I’ve received, hardly anyone seems opposed to the overall aims: namely, to improve and increase walking, cycling and other forms of ‘active’ travel around our neighbourhood. Residents want to reduce speeding around our streets, and prevent through-traffic at rush hours from adding to local pollution and clogging up our roads for residents.

There are lots of residents who are so affected by these issues that they are desperate to see a solution. There are also lots of residents who desperately don’t want to see our neighbourhood artificially divided up, potentially pitting neighbour against neighbour as people try to find a way around the proposed restrictions.

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Active Travel Fund consultation), where you have to pick a side and support that side and nobody else, no matter how well the other team plays.

I will admit that when the consultation was first released and I saw the initial very angry reactions from residents, I was concerned that things might have gone down the same route. But I should have known better - Old Moulsham residents are much, much nicer than that.

So, it has been lovely to see that what started off as a ‘them and us’, ‘for or against’ debate, has progressed and evolved into something altogether nicer and more constructive. Residents are coming together from various different viewpoints and working to create their own alternative proposals. I think this is brilliant - it shows just how much we all care about the area we live in. It’s one of the many reasons why I love living here. Long may it continue.

My role in this is to continue listening to all residents and making sure that all views are represented to the County Council. Oh, and to try my best to make sure that next time around, things are done properly from the start.

If by chance this whole debate has passed you by, and if you’re reading this article before 11th July, you still have time to read the proposals and respond to the consultation on Essex County Council’s website here: www.essexhighways.org/active-travel-fund.

Keep safe. Keep well. Keep talking.

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Active Travel - By Nick Marely As part of the recent £7million of Government funding awarded to Essex County Council from the Active Travel Fund, a consultation has opened to introduce Liveable Neighbourhoods. One of the plans will see Old Moulsham, a residential area in Chelmsford, divided into four.

Old Moulsham residents have hit out against the plans and labelled them ‘un-liveable’ and called for ECC to stop the current consultation with immediate effect, describing it as confusing and biased. The consultation has already seen questions removed due to bias and has thus far focused on digital engagement only, leaving many older residents without digital skills excluded from the process.

Old Moulsham residents claim that the plans will disproportionately affect women, elderly residents and those residents with disabilities, and are demanding that all residents are given a voice, along with access to the appropriate information, regardless of age, sex, income and race.

Nick Marley, spokesperson for the group commented: “We are calling on Essex County Council to pause and re-think the current plans. The current proposal assumes that all residents have the same travel patterns, physical ability to walk or cycle and equal access to different modes of transport. In its current form, it actively discriminates against women who are more likely to combine a series of small trips that are complex - such as school runs, care responsibilities, work, kids’ clubs and buying household essentials, as well as the elderly and those with a physical impairment for whom active travel is often not an option. The majority of residents support cycling and walking, as evidenced by people choosing to live in Old Moulsham which is conveniently located close to the train station and city centre.

The wider community are urging Essex County Council to move the conversation on to supporting a healthy, productive collaboration for a better alternative.

As Nick Marley says: “We are ‘no to quarters, yes to change’ and sincerely hope that, with wider engagement from the community, Essex County Council can move forward using the Active Travel Fund to make Old Moulsham even better.”

The group encourages residents and businesses of Old Moulsham to take part in the consultation process and sign the separate petition, specifying the importance of completing it per person, not per household.

Those wishing to take part in the consultation have until 2nd July 2021 to submit their response and can do so here: www.essexhighways.org/ safer-greener-healthier/active-travelfund.

“We are concerned that these plans do little to encourage walking and cycling, but instead simply make driving difficult when there is no alternative.”

For further information, please contact Nick Marley on 07976 590 670 or visit oldmoulsham.co.uk.

The planned changes will see Old Moulsham residents currently driving between the proposed quarters forced on to already congested arterial roads and junctions, such as Princes Road, the Army & Navy roundabout, Moulsham Street, Parkway and New London Road.

Nick Marley adds: “There is considerable concern the proposal will force more vehicles on to the heavily congested Army and Navy junction adding to the traffic which tails back to our local colleges, primary and infant schools, increasing emissions, reducing air quality for our younger people.”

Update: Friday 25th June Residents Against Quarters are pleased to announce movement as they continue to engage further with key councillors at Essex County Council.

Following on from Nick Marley’s interview with BBC Radio Essex, he secured direct engagement with Dick Madden (former leader of the steering group) and Cllr Lee Scott (Cabinet Member for Highways).

This is in addition to some very productive meetings with Cllr Marie Goldman where Residents Against Quarters have continued to share the concerns and potential ideas that Old Moulsham residents have brought to them.

Nick Marley explains: “Throughout this process, we have pushed for a more transparent and inclusive consultation process. We remain concerned that if the proposal to divide our community goes ahead it would disadvantage many residents and not be in compliance with the Council’s Public Sector Equality Duty. Essex County Council have not yet conducted an equalities impact assessment on their plans.”

While there is support for some change, there is very little - if any - support for dividing the neighbourhood from both sides of the debate. The community has reached a point where it is clear there is opposition to dividing Old Moulsham in any way, shape or form.

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Basically as soon as possible: usually when the cotyledons have fully expanded. The seedling should have leaves that are large enough to handle and a simple, single, short root that will not be damaged by transplanting. Another indicator is when seed leaves are touching.

Finally, a little respite from the rain and an ideal time to press on with indoor jobs such as pricking out!

Once containergrown seedlings have germinated it is usually necessary to prick them out. This involves teasing out the seedlings and transferring them to a new container.

If seedlings are left to grow on in crowded conditions they become drawn, with small leaves and long spindly stems and will never grow into good quality, sturdy plants. Pricking out will give seedlings more light, space and air making them less prone to fungal diseases.

The seedlings are transferred from a seed sowing compost to a potting compost, which contains a higher level of nutrients than seed compost.

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Seedlings are spaced out so that they grow at a uniform rate. This should mean that all the plants will be ready at the same time.

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Working Area Pricking-out should be undertaken either in a purpose-built, clean pricking-off shed or in the glasshouse beside the area where the containers of pricked-out seedlings are stood down. Gather all the necessary equipment and organise the workspace so it is both comfortable and efficient.

Equipment Choose suitable low nutrient potting compost such as loam-less potting compost, such as a coir potting compost or J I No. 1 potting compost. Never reuse potting compost.

Containers used range from seed trays to modular trays or individual pots depending on the seedling. Today, seed trays are less popular and modular trays are more common. Containers must be clean to prevent the spread of fungal disease. A striking off board is used to remove excess compost.

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They may be bought but may be made with two pieces of wood and nails spaced at regular intervals.

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Tap the tray of seedlings to loosen them from the sides.

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Gently firm the compost around the seedling. The seed leaves should sit just above the compost - if the seedling is left very tall it will not produce a sturdy plant.

Water the seedlings in, place the container in suitable temperature to grow on and protect from strong sunlight.

Aftercare of the seedlings includes maintaining suitable light, temperature and humidity levels and adequate water levels in the compost (avoid over watering). Daily checks for pests and diseases should take place and any problems dealt with promptly.

Hardening Off Reduce the growing on temperature and eventually move the seedlings outside to covered cold frames.

Increase the ventilation during the day and eventually leave the lights (wooden framed glass panes used to cover cold frames) off at night.

Protect the seedlings by covering the lights with straw or newspaper should frost be forecast.

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Nick Garner’s Music & Ramblings Well, here we are and still not fully open so let’s hope it all goes ahead as planned on 19th July.

I am fully vaccinated and I am feeling a lot safer now as well, just as I hope you all are? It is all going on regarding the Moulsham Quarters. I will not say where I stand on this though, as I am over the other side of New London Road. I am also hearing of an increase in attempts at stealing vehicles plus garden shed break ins - so please stay vigilant and take all the precautions that you can.

I have just been away to my first festival in over a year in Dorchester which was just fantastic. Sadly, I wrecked my caravan just before it, but a good friend took me in their motorhome. I have agreed a settlement with the insurance company and I’m now looking for a secondhand 2-berth caravan - although they are a bit like hen’s teeth with all the staycations at present! I have been a caravaner for well over twenty years now and I love it, and l use it for festivals and weekends away (I cannot do tents at my ancient age).

I am starting to hear of all kinds of events going on now. One being the Chelmsford Festival, which I am proud to say that I started back in 2018. It now continues and is ever-growing - I hope it puts a smile on your face as it does mine.

week which was just fantastic to see and talk to people and to see and hear live music. There was a great variety from solo singersongwriters and from jazz to rock, and blues and boogie with some of the world’s top sidemen playing. It was a tad on the cooler side while the weekend before had been blazing hot, but we still had fun in the beautiful setting of a walled garden. There weren’t too many people, but all very friendly and I made some wonderful new friends. I was there as festival photographer and I must have taken

well over a 1,000 photos of which some are really good, so I wonder is this another new avenue for me to take as a show photographer I wonder? Let’s wait and see.

I have noted that places like Hyde Hall and Hylands Park have a lot going on now too. And I suspect places like the museum and other venues across the county will also be opening up and getting going.

Look out for those open gardens which I am sure we will be seeing more of as well.

We are now all hopeful that July 19th will see the relaxation of the rules and that we can get on with the new normal and that restaurants, pubs and all those other places can open up and get back to business. Everyone needs it so badly - not only for the financial side of things, but for all our social and mental wellbeing.

Music As I am writing this I am preparing for our first live show at Chelmsford City Football Club for tomorrow with Slim Chance and the Ugly Guys. We have not used our equipment in over a year, so I’m hoping that all is good. We also have a new mixer and are for the first time going to live stream our shows across the globe. We have purchased lots of new kit to stream with, which we hope we can operate without a hitch although I have some good help for this gig.

We have a couple more shows lined up before the summer. On 9th July we have Wille and the Bandits and Calum Ingram, then on the 16th July we have Robin Bibi with his big band and Jeff Chapman’s Roosters. We then return from 3rd September where we will be putting on weekly shows, starting with the legend that is Chris Farlowe.

You can get now tickets for my shows in person from the football club and from Intense Records, Hopsters and Chelmsford 4Good. Tickets are also available online or via our ticket hotline at no extra charge by calling 07508 496 411.

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Besides all of my shows there is plenty more going on in Admiral’s Park too. I am sure more will be happening elsewhere in and around Chelmsford too - not just music, but cycle rides and runs for charities as well as art exhibitions and lets hope there will be more theatre also.

As I have mentioned before, the HotBox (by the bus station) has regular live music happening as well. We’re also looking forward the reopening of the UB and we can see Justin and his team have been very busy with skips outside and a lot of painting going on. I know he said that he wanted to open at the end of June, though that may have changed of course with the Government putting back the relaxation of all the rules until July - we will have to wait and see.

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Julie Chandler Celebrates 40 Years at Chandler Materials On Tuesday 22nd June 2021 Julie Chandler, Managing Director at Chandler Materials, celebrated 40 years’ service to the company. To celebrate this, we invited customers old & new to join us for a free bacon roll and a cuppa, served by the leading lady herself.

the phone. I went to night school to learn shorthand and typing and would type out letters for Uncle Peter. I got reminded one year that Tipp-Ex did cost money as my typing wasn’t great! I also used to put the paperwork for delivery orders into plastic wallets to stop them getting wet and dirty.

“Until the day I became MD, Uncle Pete, the previous Managing Director, and I sat opposite each other, and we shared a computer that was placed on a turntable with a hole in the desk underneath to pass the keyboard through! I enjoyed a 25-year apprenticeship with him teaching me everything I needed to know.”

Julie Chandler and her daughter Lauren served up the bacon rolls, teas and coffees to keep the tradesmen fuelled Chandler Material Supplies is a third generation family-owned builders merchant, operating out of a 3-acre site in Widford, Chelmsford. We are renowned for stock reliability and service combining the range of prices of a major supplier with friendly service of a local merchant. We also have a bathroom showroom, a landscaping/patio display and a brick and roof tile matching service.

Julie, who says the current Directors are ‘not the owners of the business - we are the current custodians; just the people with the keys at the moment’,t started her love affair with the business at the age of 13. She said: “I cleaned the offices on a Saturday, before Uncle Peter interviewed me in the garden when I was 15 and asked what I was going to do when I left school. There were three million unemployed then, so I officially joined the company when I was 16, adding up columns of numbers in the VAT ledger and answering

Julie’s son Richard and daughter Lauren both work for Chandlers now and form part of the most recent generation of Chandlers at the firm.

Julie said: “I always hoped my children would work here. I wanted them to do something they would be happy doing. We are very lucky working with family we all get on so well and it’s great working with people you love. I couldn’t imagine working anywhere else.”

As a local independent family run business, Chandlers has always ensured its managers remain close to the shop floor. You’ll often find Julie answering the phone and other Ben Chandler & M&P Dunn enjoying a free directors serving breakfast in the yard. Feel free to pop in and say hello and ask any questions you may have about Chandlers, our products or our service.

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National Men’s Health Month - By Ola Adamolekun Hurray - it’s Men’s Health week! Well, it was between 15/06/2021 - 21/06/2021.

As you’re reading this in July 2021, then June 2021 was National Men’s Health Month and June 21st was Father’s Day. When I started my career as a Nutrition and Health Coach, my ideal client was meant to be middle-aged women with digestive and/or tummy problems. So far, the majority of my clients are men. So, I started to wonder why and to investigate the people surrounding me.

I’m married with 3 sons and 2 grandsons. I guess this is a clue that there is something about me that draws men to me. So, I thought I’d write something for the men out there who unwittingly have become my ideal clients!

So, what is National Men’s Health Month and why do we need it? From a health perspective, men are much more unlikely to visit the doctor or take their health as seriously as women (sorry guys!). I wonder why? I think men feel they are meant to be the strong silent types who don’t want to make a fuss.

When I was growing up, men weren’t supposed to cry, get sick or make a fuss. Things are a bit different now as men are being encouraged to get in touch more with their feminine side, but among some men that stereotype persists. However, I seem to be

experiencing something different. Most of my clients are middle-aged males who value their health and aren’t afraid to do something about it.

According to Men’s Health Forum ‘One man in five dies before the age of 65’. But on a more positive note, men are now living longer (but not as long as women!). So, if you guys are living longer, it makes sense to have a better quality of life in your later years. That’s where I come in. As a health coach, some people come to me when they already have a problem. I’d rather people come and see me before that.

Here are three things I think are important for men of all ages: 1. Screening: Prostate cancer has been in the news quite a lot lately.

Get yourself checked out. Anyone over the age of 40 can get a free health MOT on the NHS - this is a good starting point to steer you in the right direction.

2. Mental Health: This is another area that is beginning to open up and there is a lot of debate on mental health - especially post COVID-19. It’s okay not to be okay. Please don’t bottle it all up - speak to someone. As well as being a health and nutrition coach, I’m also a mental health first aider and I’ve seen the statistics on depression and anxiety among men rising.

3. Lifestyle: Food, exercise, relaxation, and sleep. These all affect our ability to function as human beings. So getting the right balance is key. Most people address some of these factors but find it difficult to balance them all.

4. Finally - did I say 3 tips? I know, I’m too generous. So here is a great site called Men’s Health Forum which has loads of great tips just for men - www.menshealthforum.org.uk.

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Record Store Day 2021 is in full swing this year with Part 1 taking place at Intense Records in June. Now Intense is preparing for Part 2 on Saturday 17­th July.

For Part 1 there were hundreds of limited edition releases catering for every taste and genre, including artists like AC/DC, Linkin Park, Amy Winehouse, Noel Gallagher, U2, Suede, Ian Dury, Prince, and Madness. Some of these are still available at Intense now, so go track them down at the Intense record store along Viaduct Road, or look on their website.

Drop 2 this month sees releases from Bastille, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Chic, The Clash, The Cure, Czarface, Gorillaz, Hapy Mondays, Jamiroquai, Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones and loads more.

You can check out the full list of releases at www. intenserecords.com and submit your wish list there too, so we know what you are after.

We will be having DJs playing live all day and we open at 8am on the day, but you might need to get up earlier than that to secure yourself a copy of that special vinyl on your wishlist!

Intense will be back open on Sunday 18th­­from 10am - 4pm and any remaining stock will go online at 6pm.

For more info visit Intense Records, 33/34 Viaduct Road, Chelmsford CM1 1TS (under the arches by the bus station), or call 01245 347 372.

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Hello, everyone, and another month gone by - I can’t believe it’s July already. I hope you are all doing well and looking forward to ‘Freedom Day’, whenever it comes. Hopefully, we will be there by the time the August issue appears... The weather recently has been a bit wet.

One day I managed to totally soak three waterproofs and two pairs of shoes delivering the Moulsham Times. I try my best to keep the magazines dry, but sometimes it is not possible, so apologies if your copy last month was a bit soggy. I hope you did not find it necessary to iron it before you could read it!

Those of you are regular readers of this column will know that I am a big fan of The Chase. I got a bit confused recently when Bradley appeared to have morphed (is that a word?) into Peter Jones from Dragon’s Den. A contestant mentioned that she had started a business, producing and bottling chilli sauces and selling them.

Immediately, Bradley seemed to go into business mode, asking her how many she’d sold, what her plans were, was she making a profit and so on. I thought she was going to receive an offer of an investment from the Chasers instead of a series of questions to answer! Don’t the programme makers know how easily confused I can get?

Time for a quick moan. People who leave stuff in their supermarket trolley’s when they have finished their shopping. I am used to seeing discarded shopping lists, half eaten cakes, bits of wrapping, but now, heaven forbid, some think it’s OK to leave their used face masks.

What sort of people do that? How arrogant they must be. If I were to catch them I would have a great deal of difficulty not making a comment, loudly!

We had a strange experience recently. We went into a local pub, no, that’s not the strange bit, and the waitress explained that we would have to use the dreaded app to order our food and drinks. As usual, I couldn’t make it work. A couple of weeks before I had ended up with four glasses of wine and two main courses in my ‘basket’ in another well known pub. It took me 35 minutes to get my order right, and in that time, my mate John had ordered and eaten his! Anyway, back to the most recent episode. We explained that I could not use my phone for our order and she went off saying she would be back soon. Here’s the strange bit. In one hand she had a pen, and in the other a small pad. She asked what we wanted and wrote it down. She disappeared and returned later with all that we wanted. I am not sure how she did it, but I hope it catches on. It will save me a lot of frustration and I can get what I want from a pub, a nice drink and meal, and a time to relax. By the time I use the technology, I need another drink. Oh, that’s not why they do it, is it..?

Now for an apology and a correction regarding my view of the origin of the acronym POSH. Richard has kindly written to explain that in actual fact the best cabins were on the shady side of the ship, not the sunniest. People on trips to India wanted to have the morning sun in their cabins on the way there and back, rather than the afternoon

sun which was hotter. This meant the POSH travellers had a more comfortable journey, I have looked at the good old internet, and there seem to be several different origins around, but the most prolific is Richard’s version. So, sorry for misleading you all and thank you to Richard for taking the trouble to let me know about my misleading ‘facts’.

We are away at the moment, and on day one of our trip, my wife and I bought new waterproofs, as our old ones (see the previous section) were no longer fit for purpose. Anyway, it worked in our favour, because we are on day 8 and we have not had rain during the day yet!

As I write this, the Government have just delayed so-called Freedom Day. Like everyone else, I was disappointed, but to be honest I would rather go a few weeks longer as it is than have another lockdown.

Having said that, we have a small garden that we are able to sit in. I felt so sorry for those who live in places like high rise flats with young children to entertain. I tried to remember that throughout the worst times and I hope things are a little better for them now.

I was reading the letters in my newspaper last week and the subject being discussed was how to deal with scam telephone calls. The best one in my view was when the ‘callee’ (have I just made up that word?) answered all the questions from a double glazing company trying to sell her a conservatory. The questions were mainly about size, how many doors, what sort of roof and the like. They spent some time going through all this, then just as he was about to give her a quote and close the deal, she said,’oh, how are you going to fit it to the rear of my third floor flat?’ The phone went dead and I don’t expect that she will ever hear from them again. Priceless!

I was walking to get the newspaper the other day in a village in the heart of the country and passed a field. Behind the gate there were some cows, a number of which were lying down. It was a beautiful morning (see photo in header). So much for the old saying that if cows are lying down it is going to rain. No chance I thought...

It poured that night. I think that the TV weather reports should just be a series of cows photos in various locations. Having said that, I’m not sure that the famous Michael Fish denial of the hurricane would have been more accurate with the cows!

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One for the Euros: Why did Cinderella get dropped from the football team? She kept running from the ball (substitute a current footballer’s name to bring this one up-to-date).

Stay safe and look forward to Freedom Day!

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MT History: From Poland to Essex - By Henri Lewi Many members of the Polish community here in Essex are descended from the group of Polish men and women that arrived here during the Second World War. These men and women arrived in two waves following the German (and Soviet) invasion of Poland in September 1939. The first wave arrived in 1940 and were mainly members of the Polish armed forces that had escaped from their homeland and joined the British Army and RAF fighting in France.

Following the fall of France, the Polish airmen fought alongside their British counterparts during the Battle of Britain with great distinction (watch the 1969 film Battle of Britain). Those Polish soldiers who had escaped from Poland to France (often via Rumania and Italy) formed a number of Polish divisions and fought alongside both the French army and British Expeditionary Force. Like their countrymen in the air force, these men were either evacuated from France by boat to England or escaped into Switzerland, later making their way to Britain or the Middle East. Those that arrived in England in 1940 after the Dunkirk evacuation formed the basis of the Polish 1st Armoured Division and the Polish Independent Parachute Brigade (remember Gene Hackman as the Polish General Sosabowski in the film A Bridge to Far). The Polish Armoured Division took part in the invasion of France in the summer of 1944 as part of the 21st Army Group, like their air force colleagues, they fought with great distinction in the liberation of France, Holland and Belgium and especially in the battle of ‘the Falaise Pocket’.

and enlisted in the Polish 1st Division. initially being stationed on the Maginot Line and fought his way back with the division to the coast where he was evacuated to England in the summer of 1940.

My mother was deported by the Russians (along with my aunt and grandmother) from their hometown in south-east Poland to Kazakhstan in April 1940. After being ‘freed’ by the Soviets, she joined the Polish II Corps as a Woman’s Auxiliary in 1942 and subsequently transferred to the Polish Airforce based at Dunholm Lodge, Linconshire as a WAAFSKI in 1944. The rest is history!

Chelmsford Community Radio

‘Hello’ said a voice on the phone, ‘is that Chelmsford Chatting on CCR?’

The first words I heard from the very first caller to Chelmsford Chatting on Saturday mornings from 11am. This was a huge moment for me, as someone had bother to pick up the phone and call. It turned out to be Amanda from Old Moulsham and she spoke about a new scheme that’s being supported by MacMillan Cancer Support in Chelmsford.

Whilst the Arnhem airborne assault in September 1944 did not go as well as planned - the film A Bridge too Far although somewhat controversial, was pretty accurate in its portrayal of the airborne landings. The Polish Parachute Brigade acted as support to the British Amanda is a secondary school librarian and received a diagnosed of Airborne Division and in the closing stages of the battle enabled many Stage 3 triple negative breast cancer in 2018. She is a creative and men of the Airborne Division to safely escape across the Rhine. has been isolating throughout lockdown and this has allowed her to produce some wonderful work.

In the east, the Soviets who had invaded Poland in September 1939 had by late 1940 deported over 1.5 million men, women The group of creatives Amanda is part of have created Can Create, a and children to the Soviet Union - usually by freight train and new project that explores how creativity can help in the face of cancer, often to the far reaches of the Soviet Union such as Kazakhstan, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative will be holding Uzbekistan and Siberia. A journey that often took 2-3 weeks involving an event and exhibition at The Art Place in Chelmsford later this year, distances of over 3,000 kilometres. Following the Nazi invasion of with anyone affected by cancer in Essex invited to submit their entries Russia in June 1941, the Soviet Government made peace with the

by Monday, June 21st.

Polish Government in Exile (now in London) and allowed the Polish deportees to not only be freed, but to also form their own army under In Amanda’s case, it was whilst receiving chemotherapy and General Wladyslaw Anders (who had been freed from the notorious radiotherapy treatment in 2018 that she first discovered how NKVD Prison of Lubyanka), and evacuated firstly to Persia (now Iran) creativity - writing, specifically - could help her manage the emotional and then to Palestine and Egypt. This army - the Polish II Corps - was challenges of living with cancer. part of the British 8th Army and took part in the Italian Campaign and notably fought again with distinction in the battles of Monte Casino, Amanda very kindly shared her experience with the show and Ancona and Bologna between 1944-1945. A significant proportion listeners, including having to contact her children by online video of the Polish II Corps were women (as the Women’s Auxiliary) who during lockdown. acted as armourers, truck drivers and mechanics and were heavily involved in the support of the front-line troops during their campaign. The deadline for submissions for the Can Create exhibition is Monday, Many members of the Women’s Auxiliary subsequently transferred to June 21st. Submit a photo or file containing your submission to Britain during 1944 and became members of the Women’s Auxiliary Rebecca Loan at RLoan@macmillan.org.uk.

Airforce supporting both the Polish Fighter and Bomber squadrons and were often known as the WAAFSKI. You can phone up and talk too - just call 01245 806 807 from 11am on Saturdays to get on the air and part of Chelmsford Chatting, or The Essex Connection email me in the studio.

After VE Say the British Government removed recognition of the Polish Government in Exile and recognised the new Polish (communist) Chelmsford Community Radio has had plenty of other guests on Government in Warsaw resulting in over 200,000 Polish allied recently, including the High Sheriff and the Springfield Road charity men and women here in the UK being unable to return back to football team on Good Morning Chelmsford. their homeland. As part of the resettlement programme, many now disused airfields were turned into Polish Displaced Persons Camps Chelmsford Chatting on a Saturday morning has already had some to allow the Polish ex-servicemen and women to study trades, fabulous guests: I was delighted to talk snooker with Steve Davis encourage further learning and apply for British Citizenship. One recently and hear about his stage show coming to the Civic Theatre in large camp was sited here in Essex at Kelvedon partly on the old RAF July.

Rivenhall, which was finally closed in 1956. The old disused airfield is now partly a quarry and partly farmland.

If you have a story to tell or are part of a local group and would like some publicity for a local event, then get in touch with My father was one of those Polish soldiers, who finding himself Chelmsford Community Radio and drop us an email at studio@ stranded in Italy at the outbreak of the war made his way to France chelmsfordcommunityradio.com.

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Quiz Time - by John Theedom 1. Who and where was the first female Chief Constable in the UK? 2. Which role did the late Trevor Peacock play in The Vicar of Dibley?

3. Who is the presenter of the TV show In For A Penny?

4. What sort of plant is an ilex?

5. What is the American equivalent of our postcode?

6. What is DERV? 7. Where is the world’s oldest working clock?

8. In which field was English physicist William Fox-Talbot regarded as a pioneer?

9. In which part of your body is the pineal gland?

10. Ray Reardon is a former star in which game?

11. What is the surname of ‘Buzz’, the second US astronaut to set foot on the moon?

12. Which type of musical instrument is classed as timpani?

13. What do you call an Eskimo home with no toilet?

14. Which English town has the most chickens?

15. In which pastime would you need a ripcord?

16. Why are policemen sometimes referred to as peelers?

17. With which group did Boy George make his name in the pop world?

18. On which day did the COVID-19 pandemic officially start in the UK? 19. Spilikins are used to keep count in which card game?

20. Which city is this years City of Culture?

21. In which film does the character Yoda appear?

22. What was the first name of the famous trumpeter Mr Bilk?

23. What is the number of the cloud you are on when you are very happy?

24. Which Mediterranean island was awarded the George Cross in WW2?

25. What was the surname of Britain’s shortest reigning monarch, Queen Lady Jane?

26. Which article of clothing can be rara?

27. When is the longest day in 2021?

28. What is the German word for a motorway?

29. Where is the birthplace of the Liquorice Allsort?

30. Which 3-letter word completes all these, Rab...s, Or...al, Ha...at and Am...ion?

31. What does the ‘E’ stand for in OPEC? 32. Which country hosted the final of the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest?

33. Who was the South African transplant pioneer who carried out the first heart transplant in 1967?

34. Who, Where or What is a farrago?

35. It’s all the rage at the moment, but what does PPE stand for?

36. Which actress is leaving the TV show Birds of a Feather?

37. Which method of communication uses 2 flags?

38 Which well known chocolate bar is made in Slough, England?

39. What connects ‘Dance’, ‘Robin’ and ‘Table’?

40. What is measured using a spirometer?

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The Singing Chef

This months recipie is the classic Victoria Sponge. I’m making this for my lovely friend Brian McGovern of McGovern Estates. We’ve been friends for a very long time. We met through a Brian’s work with Cool to be Kind who support rough sleepers in Chelmsford.

So here it is. It’s a classic recipie so happy birthday Brian and I hope you like your cake!

Please go and make this cake for someone you care about who’s missing someone. Send us your stories and pics if you would like to, we would love to hear about Chelmsford spreading the love!

Ingredients 200g caster sugar 200g softened butter 4 eggs, beaten 200g self-raising flour 1 tsp baking powder Beat all this together separate into two cake tins and cook in a fan oven at 180oC for 22 minutes, then cool on a wire rack.

Once cooled...

Mix 100g softened butter, 140g icing sifted sugar, a drop of vanilla extract (optional) together and spread over the bottom cake.

It was Brian’s birthday at the end of last month and he’s really missing the birthday cake his beautiful late mother Nancy used to make to bless his tastebuds each year.

Top off with half a jar of your favourite jam and decorate as desired.

Sarah is a singer and vocal coach based in Chelmsford and offers singing lessons to people of all ages and abilities. You can email Sarah at sarahmtfood@gmail.com or search for ‘Sarah Beth Vocal Coaching’ on Facebook.

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Summer Poems - By Rosie Waspe Summer - a small word bursting with the promise of blue skies, BBQs, ice creams and trips to the seaside. Writing this article on the longest day of the year, I had hoped to be relaxing in the garden on a colourful deckchair, basking in the warm evening sunshine. Instead, I am huddled inside wearing a blanket and using my cat as a portable heat pad!

With the weather blowing hot and cold, it’s hard to know whether the summer is yet to arrive or has been and gone. So, in anticipation of days ‘more lovely and more temperate,’ I decided to seek poem inspiration elsewhere.

I did not need to look far.

With the Euros and Olympics and other tournaments, fixtures and events to catch up on, our summer of sport will provide all the breathholding, nail-biting, morale-boosting edge-of-seat moments that define elite sport. Those moments we all enjoy so much!

In my school, we are preparing for Sports Day and our amazing coach, Mandy, is tireless in her encouragement and enthusiasm to support everyone to achieve their personal bests. So, I’ve decided to dedicate this poem to those who motivate, train and inspire others in

sport. To Mandy and all the PE teachers, personal trainers and sports coaches out there; this is for you:

You are the champions.

There are times we feel defeated, we lack the drive and are deflated And sport seems too much effort, ineffective, over-rated.

We could succumb to the settee for a night of aimless viewing But instead, it’s thanks to you that we are up and we are doing!

Whether football, swimming, tennis, dance or martial arts combined Your guidance makes us stronger in our muscles, hearts and minds.

You have given us the confidence to achieve our very best (as we stagger home exhausted for some chocolate and a rest!)

You look beyond our lack of fitness and see potential in the making (And you encourage us politely when we’re grumpy and we’re aching!)

You choose to see the best in us as fearless, brave and bold And though you may not always know it, you are worth your weight in gold (medals!) www.perspnalpoems.co.uk

The Long Walk - A Short Film with a Long Reach

hopes to deliver is - reach out, don’t stay silent, ask for help.

So why is this film so relevant now? Because more and more people are struggling with mental health issues and with scant resources available, it can be hard to believe that reaching out to get help can actually work. It is important for people to know that help can be sought. It is hoped the film will raise awareness of what people’s mental health experiences can be like, whilst at the same time reaching out to those who need to be reached, for people to know its ok to not be ok, and it’s ok to open up and talk about things.

Already assigned to the film are award winning director Richard Kattah, CEO of the production company Little Drops Production, and award winning writer and director/producer Monet Morgan. The art director is Alex Larusso. Executive Producers Leigh Trifari (actress and producer) and Andrew Alton-Read (actor, producer, director, voice-over artist, radio presenter) are now reaching out to people to get involved. With an already fantastic team in place, the film needs further funding to do the project justice. The funding needed is going to be raised via crowdfunding, and there are plenty of ways people can get involved in raising funds.

Crowdfunding will be live from 29th June - 30th July on greenlit.com.

With mental health very much at the forefront of people’s minds as we exit the COVID-19 pandemic, a new short film is gearing up to highlight both the pain and the positive outcomes that are possible when help is sought.

People can follow the project on social media by searching: Twitter/Instagram - ‘longwalk_short’ Facebook - ‘longwalkshort’

The Long Walk is a psychological drama based on one person’s truth.

A young boy suffers a trauma and then is catapulted into a world of psychosis. During a particular psychotic episode, he loses touch with reality and finds himself on a long walk across London.

Casting for the film is due to take place shortly and filming will be in Essex and London. Any local actors and indeed anyone that would like to be involved in the film should contact: Casting: Andrew AltonRead - info1thelongwalkfilm@gmail.com.

Experiences of mental health to the good is the basis of this film.

Many might not feel positive about a film about mental health, and may choose to shy away from it. But this is a positive film. It is uplifting, thought provoking, dramatic and engaging. The message it

For investment queries and how to support the film financially, interested persons can contact Leigh Trifari- nfo1thelongwalkfilm@ gmail.com.

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Win a Quilt for Batemans! - By Suzanne Kuyser Covid and the various lockdowns have been difficult in so many ways and for so many people. One group of women, The Old Moulsham Book Group in Chelmsford, decided to create a quilt to occupy the time.

Many of the women in the group has never made or been involved in making a quilt so it was quite a challenge. However, the more experienced quilters were happy to share their skills. Some opted not to sew but to donate money for the backing materials and wadding (or batting as it is sometimes known).

The quilt was composed of squares, made using scraps from the women’s sewing baskets, with each quilter taking nine squares to create a larger one with the patterns arranged as they wanted.

the other would be raffled to the wider community, with proceeds going to The Batemans Trust which looks after disadvantaged children in Chennai.

The Old Moulsham Book Group regularly fundraises for the charity through curry nights. As these couldn’t be held last year, they turned to creating Special Treat Boxes for Christmas, and then Easter - which proved very popular raising more than £2,000. The money from the quilt raffle will go to the day-to-day care of the children in Chennai and the charity’s development fund to build a primary school and community centre to help other underprivileged children who struggle to access education in Chennai.

Featuring hands encircling dancing children, the Batemans Quilt has a special embroidered message on the back which reads: ‘I helped build a school. Made by Old Moulsham Bookgroup for The Batemans Trust. Lockdown 2020/21.’

Measuring 132cm x 132cm (52” x 52”), this unique quilt makes a great gift and is suitable for use as a sofa throw, as a baby’s playmat, or to brighten a bed and will become a piece of memorabilia to hold onto for years to come.

In the end, two quilts were made as so many squares were created and lockdown stretched on. One quilt had the names of all the book group embroidered in a circle in the centre and was raffled among the members. With the quilt much admired by friends, it was decided

Raffle tickets cost £5 each, or you can increase your chances of winning by taking advantage of a five tickets for £20 offer.

Entries close on 15th August 2021 and the draw will be made by the end of August.

Tickets can be bought on line at www.batemans.org. uk/2021/05/04/win-a-quilt-for-batemans.

Alternatively, please send a cheque to The Batemans Trust, 27 Stocks Lane, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX13 6SS. Please mark the back of your cheque ‘Quilt Raffle’ and include your address.

Each raffle ticket purchased will be given a unique number and the raffle will be drawn using an online Wheel of Fortune. www.issuu.com/itsyourmedia

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MT Finance - Has Normal Service Resumed?

Our role as investment managers requires us to frequently look back over history, such that we can assess where the future opportunities are in terms of investing for our clients and, perhaps more importantly, ensure we avoid the pitfalls of the past. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes, as the saying goes.

As we cast our eyes back over 2020 and the first half of 2021, it would appear as though we are through the worst of what has clearly been a very challenging time, particularly when one looks at the pace of the rollout of the vaccination program and optimism around society beginning to function fully.

But what will the new ‘normal’ look like? The pandemic has caused numerous changes to society that are likely to remain after this crisis is over. It has accelerated the move towards renewable energy from fossil fuels as governments invest in infrastructure to create jobs in the recovery. Working from home has been normalised - and this is likely to have a permanent impact on the shape and use of city centres. But the most significant of these is the acceleration towards digitisation - a move that will impact all of us, even the less tech savvy.

When we look at investment market performance, shares have recovered well from the large falls at the onset of the pandemic. In the early stages, despite broad market falls, shares of the winners from lockdown excelled. As people stayed at home, online retailing, downloaded entertainment and digital conferences took off.

Consumers being forced to stay home also led to the beginnings of a home improvement boom.

More recently, attention has switched to impending relaxations of the controls, so the shares in companies such as hotels, airlines and live entertainment have been the focus of more investor enthusiasm.

The high savings rate during the lockdown period, as people stayed at home, has raised expectations of a consumer-driven boom especially in the hard-hit tourism and leisure sectors. We believe there will continue to be a good pace of growth for the remainder of 2021, flattered by the poor comparative figures in the second quarter of 2020 when so much of the global economy was shut.

investment decisions. We will need to keep our eyes focused on this careful trade off.

For the remainder of 2021, many western nations will still need to deal with large spikes in unemployment, as furlough schemes and other support packages are withdrawn. This process needs to be carefully managed so the employment backdrop doesn’t damage market sentiment. This implies an increase in fiscal spending is likely in most major economies. It is far easier to turn on the spending taps than to turn them off.

2020 was fitting reminder that investing in stock markets carries risks, and it is therefore important to ensure you are aware of the potential to incur losses, particularly over shorter time horizons.

Taking professional investment advice can prove valuable in this regard.

Graham Austin, Chartered FCSI Investment Manager Graham.Austin@charles-stanley.co.uk The value of investments can fall as well as rise. Investors may get back less than invested. Past performance is not a reliable guide to future returns.

Charles Stanley is one of the UK’s leading wealth management firms, providing a range of financial planning and investment management services to private clients, trusts and charities.

Charles Stanley & Co. Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Registered office: 55 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 3AS.

Returns on shares have been so good since the bottom of the market in spring 2020, it is difficult to think they can sustain recent rates of return. The FTSE 100 is now back above 7,000 but remains below the level seen before the COVID-19 related sell-off in March 2020.

The US and European markets have hit a series of new record highs.

As we move out of lockdown and through the early stages of recovery, markets will become more discerning between the winners and losers, something we continually appraise in selecting investments for our clients.

What are we monitoring as we recover from the pandemic? The most pressing issue in recent months has been an increase in inflation, whereby the cost of the same basket of goods goes up over time.

We are already seeing evidence of this in the price of petrol, or other raw materials such as timber. This will ultimately impact us as consumers, with £100 tomorrow buying less goods than it can today.

Owning real assets which have a good track record of keeping up with inflation, such as shares or property, can help to mitigate this.

Should inflation remain stubbornly high, there will need to be withdrawals of the large sums of money which has been provided by central banks to support the global economy, and some gradual interest rate rises are also likely. Whilst this will come as better news for savers after such a prolonged period of meagre returns on cash savings, this can present a delicate balancing act in maintaining the economic recovery, to avoid curbing ongoing spending and 24 www.moulshamtimes.com

Pilates: For the Love of...

Non-Zoom - By Erica Foulds

Returning to non-Zoom fitness and stretches for better recovery!

shoulders unroll and head finally. Repeat 5 times.

We at Hummingbird Pilates and Yoga Writtle, along with the fitness industry on the whole, have now been back open and in person for a couple of months now. After what seemed like forever, it has been wonderful to see clients in person working harder than ever, achieving week by week, getting back to feeling themselves, and as an instructor - not just watching 12 2inch squares on my laptop screen and trusting the efforts on the other side.

3. Leg Circles: Laying on your back, arms out wide to the sides, keep the right foot on floor with knee bent, extending left foot to the ceiling draw a large semi circle in an anti-clockwise direction nearly to the floor in front of you then lift straight back to vertical. Do 5 semi-circles then repeat other, left foot stays down, right leg to the right drawing clockwise semi-circles.

So many good fitness providers made the most of the time in 2020 by adapting and learning how to put on amazing classes using Zoom and other socially safe methods to teach, BUT I would be a millionaire if I had a penny for every time I heard: ‘I’ve realised that I need the studio and you in person to feel like I am doing properly! (and not cheating to make it easier)’.

Saying that, we are Hummingbird have decided to keep a full online schedule, all of our classes are combo, live in studio and streamed live over Zoom. The start of my fitness career was in mainstream gyms rather than a boutique pilates studio, so I really appreciate from all sides what so long out of the routine of a good hard gym class/ session/golf round/circuit class/stretchy hot yoga, feels like. Whatever your chosen method of keeping fit, it’s a tough one to replicate online the feeling of the invisible field of ‘motivational energy’ that comes from the atmosphere of working out with others, the instructors voices, the fun music, the cool aircon, the buzz and clink of weights, the smell of the incense in a yoga studio or whatever makes your experience so great. Despite the restrictions being lifted it looks like lots of you love virtual fitness and in fact having your dog wandering around next to you, your cat nuzzling you and your French doors open giving you a cooling breeze as you workout.

At Hummingbird we have different levels of classes, suitable for all experience levels, our gentle class is great for a stretch, learning pilates for the first time or as a recovery session to compliment any other fitness you engage in. Next month I am planning, Pilates for the love of… keeping pilates fit when on holiday!

If you would like to request a sport, then get in touch on Facebook or Instagram - ‘@hummingbirdpilatesyoga’. Or for more details on 12 person pilates classes live in studio in Writtle or on Zoom, search ‘Hummingbird Pilates & Yoga Writtle’, www.hummingbirdpilates.co.uk, or email us at info@hummingbirdpilatesyoga.co.uk. Call 01245 422 556 for more info.

So now that we are returning to a new norm, finding our groove again, working out harder again, whether its with that favourite instructor or just the summer sun giving you an extra spring in your training, its always going to be a good idea to makes sure you’ve got good active recovery!

Here are 3 great pilates moves to help maintain mobility and recover between workouts and structured session!

1. Thread the Needle: For shoulder mobility, stretches of chest and upper back. On all fours hands under shoulders knees under hips, open right hand to the side, stretch hand to the ceiling, breathing in and looking up as you’re there, the idea is opening the chest to the side. Then lower the arm and thread it under the waist to the left, til your right shoulder is as low as you can and you’re twisted as far as you can. Repeat 5 times then same with left arm.

2. Roll Down: For full spinal flexion, stretches for length of spinal muscles, additional hamstrings (back of thighs) too. Standing feet hip width apart, hands by your sides, nod your chin to chest, round your shoulders forward, bend the knees slightly, round the middle and lower back hanging the arms in front by ankles, bend knees enough to touch floor. Additional move - alternate knee pedals with straightening and bending the knees for 8 counts. Slowly unravel the back by standing up from the lower back, mid back, www.issuu.com/itsyourmedia

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counselling, activity groups and respite day care across the county.

They also work with Young Carers and professionals in schools. Their website is: www. affc.org.uk Call 0300 7 70 80 90 or email info@affc.org.uk.

We are hoping to host Action for Family Carers as part of our Copper Potters coffee morning. This will be an introductory session to gauge the level of need in the local community. This will take place on the morning of 24th August and may become a regular opportunity to get support.

A family carer is someone who, without payment, provides help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour, who could not manage otherwise. This could be due to age, physical or mental illness, addiction or disability.

Action for Family Carers is an Essex charity which for 30 years has been providing information and support for carers who have unpaid caring responsibilities for others.

They are the only Carers Trust Network Partner and Centre of Excellence in Essex and they have been awarded the Trusted Charity Mark at Level 2, NCVO’s highest quality mark for charity management and governance.

They provide information, advice, befriending, employment,

Moulsham Plant Sales We had a successful first plant sale at the front of the Community Station in the last week of June and hope to repeat this on a monthly basis - and maybe more frequently if the interest is there.

The list (picture above) is from the June list, so gives you an idea of what you can expect.

Crafters Are you a local crafter that would like a regular slot at the station?

Get in touch, as we would like to support small local businesses. www.mlct.org.uk enquiries@mlct.org.uk 07434 678 999

An Update From Cllr Rob Gisby Moulsham Lodge Ward Councillor

It has been a busy month as I begin my role as a councillor and am inducted in the ways of the City Council. I am pleased that a number of residents have been in touch with me recently with issues or questions - please do continue to reach out and I look forward to helping where I can.

As always, I continue to report issues I see locally - including earlier in the month two suspected mains water leaks. These have since been investigated and repairs made. It is really important we report issues we see. If something needs to be reported and it’s not clear how, please get in touch. In a similar way to Neighbourhood Watch, we are the eyes and ears on the ground. On this latter point, if you’d like an update, the Summer 2021 Neighbourhood Watch newsletter has now been published and can be found at www. chelmsfordneighbourhoodwatch.org.uk.

One thing I wanted to mention especially this month, especially as the good weather kicks DIY and gardening into full swing, relates to fly tipping and environment. I regularly see requests online for ‘someone who can take waste away’. Always worth having a look to see if the services are already in place with the local councils who will collect additional items but if you do need to use a company to take the waste away, please make sure you are using a company that is licenced to carry waste. This can easily be checked by searching ‘waste carrier licence check’ online. Also, always keep records of who you use. Too often, cases of fly tipping are linked back to unregistered

carriers taking waste and dumping it, rather than paying to dispose of it responsibly. This can lead to risk of prosecution not just for the carrier but for the person whose waste was dumped. Responsible disposal is important for all waste, but particularly for fridges, freezers, air conditioning units and so on, which carry refrigerant that could be released into the atmosphere and have long lasting, very high global warming potential.

On another note, hopefully you’ll be aware of the Essex County Council Active Travel consultation - if you are not, please to take the opportunity to have a look at the various proposals across Essex which can be found at www.essexhighways.org/safer-greenerhealthier. Though there are not specific plans for Moulsham Lodge, significant changes are proposed in Old Moulsham which I would recommend having a look at - especially if you regularly move between Moulsham Lodge and Old Moulsham, for example for school runs, work or visits. This phase of consultation is open until 11th July and it’s important to receive as much feedback as possible. If you have trouble accessing these plans or taking part in the online consultation, please get in touch and I will do my best to assist.

Last month I mentioned that I would be making a personal donation to a tree planting scheme of your choice, to in some way offset recent campaign activity - there is still time to vote for your preferred scheme on my Facebook page - search ‘Cllr Robert Gisby’.

You can get in touch with me via Chelmsford City Council, through my Facebook Page (Cllr Rob Gisby) or via Chelmsford Conservative Association. Please do reach out - I look forward to hearing from you.

Stay safe, keep well, be kind.

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Tile Kiln Corner By Cllr Linda Mascot

At the AGM of Chelmsford City Council held in the Civic Theatre in May, Cllr Jude Deakin was elected as Mayor of Chelmsford for a second year and I’m honoured to continue in my role at Deputy Mayor for 2021/22. Thanks to everyone who has supported the Mayor’s charities, Sanctus, Helping Hands Essex and Mid-Essex Mind - we have managed to raise £9,000 to be shared between them this year.

Although the last tier of lockdown restrictions have been paused for another four weeks, pubs and restaurants are fully open with customers able to eat and drink on tables inside, albeit still following Covid guidelines. The Clay Pigeon in Robin Way has recently reopened as a member-only club. Landlord Andy explained how it works: “Memberships are approved by management and are being allocated to those in the community who have supported us. We want people to be able to use the pub without it being too crowded and local people are given preference. It feels like one big family and is working really well, particularly with events such as the football matches (Euro 2020).

“The new beer garden is now open which is proving to be a success with everyone. We have an outdoor screen for sports and brightly coloured overhead sails offering protection from the weather - either the sun or rain! Unfortunately we cannot offer our regular food menu until restrictions are fully lifted, but follow our Facebook page for details of upcoming barbecues or other events.

“We’d like to thank all our customers for continuing to support us through such a difficult time, although things aren’t the same as they were we’ve all come through it together and I look forward to seeing

familiar faces soon. Hopefully we’ll have our resident DJ Mat Format back in the not too distant future - we miss him and his music, we currently have more than 250 members and each member can sign in one guest, for enquiries about membership contact me on 01245 358 971.”

It’s never been more important to support the local businesses which enhance our communities - I hope to see you soon in the Clay.

Take care and stay safe. mascotlinda@gmail.com Twitter: @lindamascot Instagram: @lindyloumascot

Back of the Net! Well, the delayed 2020 Euro Championship has started, and perhaps by the time you read this you’ll be looking forward to England playing in the final?! We can but dream…

It is astonishing quite how much media attention and energy goes into football tournaments like Euro 2020.

Perhaps it is exacerbated this year because of the pandemic - we’re all looking for some fun somewhere. But there have always been debates across the media about team selection, formation, whether England were brilliant or terrible in their first match… the list goes on.

And for the footballers themselves; there’s the preparation, the training, the tactics, seeking out the tiny percentages that give them the edge.

But what for? Name goes down in history… perhaps. But for others it’s a passing glory. Who remembers the winners in 2016 of the top of their heads? Or who scored the only goal in that final? (Portugal and Eder, by the way).

They strive for success, a chance to be immortal, to go into the history books. But in the long run, it’ll be just a name on a list of winners that’ll occupy some future Wikipedia page. Is that all there is? Aim for the title, and if you win you have a moment of fame and joy! But there are so many who testify to the emptiness of that experience. www.issuu.com/itsyourmedia

Actually, more significantly, are our relationships. And none more so that our relationship with God. Alisson Becker, the goalkeeper of Liverpool, spoke of the life-changing significance of Jesus Christ to help him through this past year, as his father died from drowning. It wasn’t the desire for success that helps you recover from something like this. It’s relationships, and most fundamentally, relationship with Jesus.

Alisson Becker is a Christian - he believes that Jesus Christ is God and that God raised him from the dead, and that true purpose, joy and hope are found in relationship with Jesus. A few years ago he baptised (an expression of faith in Jesus Christ and commitment to him) his friend and Liverpool striker Roberto Firmino. Firmino posted this on his Instagram: ‘I give you my failures and I will give you my victories as well. My biggest title is your love, Jesus!’

I wonder what your striving for? And what will happen if you achieve it? For Firmino, as for all Christians, true purpose, fulfilment, and hope, is found only in faith in Jesus Christ.

We’re running an online Alpha Course (www.alpha.org) – a relaxed course giving you a chance to explore who Jesus claims to be, from the comfort of your own home. Get in touch if you’re interested and want to find out more. tim.goodall@tilekilnchurch.org.uk tinyurl.com/y24qlkvx www.facebook.com/tilekilnchurch Tim Goodall, Pastor Tile Kiln Church 27

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MT Therapy - Chelmsford Therapy Rooms Hi Everyone! I hope you’re all safe and well. Today I’m continuing to look at cyberbullying. Let’s look at the effects that cyberbullying can have on someone:

1: Anxiety There are various reasons for someone feeling anxious as a result of bullying, but the most obvious reason is that bullying in its nature is designed to make the victim feel vulnerable. The bully could threaten the person’s safety, or threaten their reputation, but the main thing to remember is that the bully will always find a way to connect themselves with something negative.

The limbic system is the part of the brain responsible for anxiety.

It’s designed for fight, flight or freeze to save our lives in a stressful situation. The amygdala, a part of the limbic system, is responsible for linking negative feelings and stimuli so that we know quickly when a situation is dangerous. Those who cyberbully might choose a specific avatar (image used on social media), username, or handle.

As soon as the victim sees it, their amygdala links the negative stimuli with the bully and anxiety is triggered. This means that the bully doesn’t necessarily have to be sending them a message, or posting something, to torment their victim.

The human brain doesn’t mature until the age of 25 for girls and 28 for boys. This means that in adolescents and young adults their reactions can be more severe, and their anxiety more overwhelming.

Teenagers, for example, are already dealing with a flurry of hormones flooding their bodies. Add a cyberbully into the mix and is it any wonder why young people find their online lives so overwhelming?

They’re already dealing with life, so dealing with a bully as well could have severe consequences such as panic attacks and anxiety.

Interestingly, this could also explain why a young person could become a cyberbully. Their bullying could be a projection of how they’re feeling themselves - they’re making someone else feel anxious, scared and vulnerable just like they do.

2: Low Self-Esteem A significant feature of bullying is to make someone feel negative.

Either to make them feel scared and vulnerable, or to make them feel bad about themselves. If we look at the types of cyberbullying that exist, some of these are to do with humiliation. When someone feels humiliated, they don’t feel good enough about themselves. They feel lesser than their peers. This is especially the case if, for example, they’re trolled, or told something negative about themselves repeatedly until they start to believe it.

Lots of cyberbullying with young people, and in offices, is aimed at ruining the victim’s reputation. Reputation is defined as: ‘the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone’. Young people are in the ‘relationship’ developmental stage of their psyche and emotional intelligence between the ages of 12 and 19. What their peers think of them is the ONLY thing that matters. If they are ostracised, excluded, taken advantage of, ridiculed or humiliated, they automatically think that they must not be good enough. They may or may not ask, ‘why me?’ - but at the end of the day they will, for the most part, assume that there is indeed something wrong with them, and this is why they are being targeted in this way.

Another way to look at how cyberbullying can affect self-esteem is to look at how one type of cyberbullying can cause another type of cyberbullying like a domino effect. It’s all linked to low self-esteem.

The other thing to remember about self-esteem is that usually the bully also has very low self-esteem and again their behaviour is an elaborate way to make them feel better.

3: Depression When someone has been bullied, they can feel very alone and isolated. Depression is linked to low self-esteem, so when someone isn’t feeling good enough, they can also feel intensely low.

Depression is something many people feel they can’t get away from.

Cyberbullying may be something a person feels can’t get away from too, especially after a pandemic where we only had our devices to keep us company! Many people might say, ‘Oh, just switch it off’ - but how can someone suffering with depression do that? They already feel like they have nothing, they would likely see coming off their social platforms as a huge loss too.

4: Anger Many victims of cyberbullying will get angry about what is happening to them. In fact, research indicates that anger is the most common response to cyberbullying, followed by being upset and worried.

Some young people that are victimised may even plot revenge and engage in retaliation. Aside from the trouble they could get into, this approach is dangerous because it can keep them locked in the bullyvictim cycle.

5: Suicidal Thoughts and Self-Harm Sometimes targets of cyberbullying respond to their intense feelings by harming themselves in some way. For instance, some might engage in self-harm such as cutting or burning themselves. In fact, research has consistently linked bullying and self-harm.

Cyberbullying also increases the risk of suicide. Young people that are constantly tormented by peers through text messages, instant messaging, social media, or apps often begin to feel hopeless and that the only way to relieve the pain is ending their life.

As a result, they may fantasise about dying in order to escape.

In these circumstances it’s important to recognise the difference between wanting to die and wanting to escape.

Jenny Hartill is a therapist and owner of Cloud9 Therapy and Chelmsford Therapy Rooms. Please see the therapist list on the website at www.chelmsfordtherapyrooms.co.uk, or you can email info@chelmsfordtherapyrooms.co.uk, or call 0330 100 5162 to enquire about an initial consultation.

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Let’s take catfishing. A fantastic way to really understand catfishing is to watch the MTV show Catfish. A large number of the catfishing victims have the same story and urge you to watch the programme it’s fascinating! www.moulshamtimes.com

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Car Prices Are up, but Why? - By Simon Inglis According to leading Aussie car sales sites from Gumtree, the dedicated car selling websites to Facebook marketplace, car prices haven’t returned from their 2020 highs. Anything but if the evidence is correct. Whether it be that desire for personal space or the stayat-home boredom shopping, to the ‘if now then never’, new car sales are still enduring the hard sell with used cars hotly in demand among private buyers.

Recently I heard of cases in which model year 2017 Hyundai SUV’s were selling for as much as their model year 2020 relatives, although Australia’s end of financial year run-outs after June may change things for the private buyer satisfied with last year’s model. The same situation seems to be being replicated all over every pricing band, age and model variant. We have all heard of the ridiculous prices being asked of 1970s Porsche 911s and other classics and now even those minor classics such as old Austins and Fords seem to be doing the same, albeit at lesser price peaks.

2017 witnessed the demise of Australian car design and manufacturing, as both Ford and General Motors were soon to close their factory doors downunder. General Motors, the long time owners of its Australian subsidiary Holden, have pulled the plug on this Australian icon. An Aussie designed V8 will never roll out of its empty factory floors again, and even for a mostly ‘foreign’ buyer such as myself this is heartbreaking. No more bhp/kilowatt comparisons between the SS and SSV variants, no more breathed on Monaros of any vintage or rallying Toranas let alone the roar of a big block V6 or V8 police car.

In turn however, such Australian interest vehicles are commanding pretty serious money these days. But perhaps this isn’t so much a COVID-19 issue rather one of nostalgia with the hope of turning a smart profit...

As a ‘student of the classifieds’ I’m constantly in awe of what sort of prices people are asking. I am being lead to believe that most of my ageing fleet is appreciating faster than Sydney house prices but in Australia, unlike in Blighty, sales data is harder to gauge for various reasons. Yet a 20 year old Camry with 300,000 kilometres on its odometer can seemingly command $2,500 - or its Lexus IS equivalent, $5,000. Perhaps you’re in the market for daughter’s Toyota Corolla at similar money? Maybe a ten year old Hyundai Santa Fe is more your thing at $10,000?

In the luxury market a ten year old S Class may be $40,000 while a 20 year old Toyota Landcruiser, bush-bashed and beaten to 400,000 kilometres may well be $10,000. And something newer does indeed seem to be asking new car drive away prices. It looks like plain madness out there!

Given that Australian cars have far less of the tin worm, except where I live in the cooler, far wetter south of the country, it has been said by many that cars have no official use-by date, which is perhaps partly true. Yet is it Covid or a mixture of things driving used prices skywards around the world?

I do look at Auto Trader UK quite a lot, and I’m as often surprised that the cars I wish to buy, if borders ever reopen and we return to England, are way higher than I’d have expected. It seems that although most of us desire safer cars and technology for ourselves and our families, many of us are invested with a new-found desire for personal space.

Perhaps for a time we, and our governments forgot that, thinking we’d all be happy on-board a crowded bus or a sweaty train carriage.

I’ve always thought of the modern car as one of mankind’s most liberating of inventions. It allowed the masses to travel within a small, cosy space alone or with loved ones far and wide. The poorer and the richer can go as far as each other. The emergency services depend upon life-saving cars delivering everything from our blood samples to babies and the police should be able to save a life within a few minutes notice. As but a few examples.

Obviously the curse of poisonous toxins have become an issue as our lust for ever increasing mobility increased and given tyre and brake pad deposits, it is said our current crop of politicians are deluded to think electrification alone will solve all our problems. Yet the reality is that whether it be a Bentley or a Citroen Ami, personal space and comfort is worth a premium to most of us. The car will evolve and the next ten years or so should be interesting as one idea is sorted out among others.

Yet it is 2021 and to add to that personal comfort factor we have the Covid issue. For me, as I observe the empty Melbourne trains and trams, I understand now more than ever; I’d far rather any car than a bus for me and my family.

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SALES 74 MOULSHAM STREET, CHELMSFORD, CM2 0JA

LETTINGS 152 MOULSHAM STREET, CHELMSFORD, CM2 0LD

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This is St Marks House - Welcome home.

Prices from £245,000

This is a beautiful development of opulent apartments set in a prime location within Chelmsford, City Centre.

This stunning collection includes 7 one-bedroom apartments and 3 two-bedroom apartments.

A fantastic investment opportunity with all ten apartments owning a share of the freehold with a 999-year lease. Help to buy, also fully available to first time buyers.

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