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CONTENTS 08 SILHOUETTE PHOTOGRAPHY How do you distinguish between a rose and a daisy or a cow and horse or even a person and a gorilla?
18 SHORT STORY: PART 3 The last installment from Alison Craven’s short story titled, The Worst Day
22 SUBURBAN GARDENS If you’re looking for some “green-fingered” tips - then look no further!
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SILHOUETTES BY AIREBOROUGH CAMERA CLUB How do you distinguish between a rose and a daisy or a cow and horse or even a person and a gorilla? Easy, you recognise the different shapes. This is the first and most fundamental step in identification. The recognition of individuals that have the same shape then comes from details. Some shapes are so strong and characteristic the individual object or person can be identified immediately for example the ‘Angel Of The North’, Blackpool Tower or Bruce Forsyth in pose. Shapes are very strong determining features in any view and this is made good use of in photography in silhouettes. Silhouettes, solid black shapes without detail against a lighter background are a very good way to convey drama, mystery, emotion and mood, and often stand out because of their simplicity. The basic process is to place your subject in front of a light source and expose for the light, which will be the background and not the subject, the lighter the background the darker the silhouette will appear. To photograph silhouettes first you will need a strong subject with a clearly recognisable shape. Remember silhouettes are 2 dimensional and so the shape needs to hold the interest. If you are taking silhouettes of people you want to choose their profile, not full face, as this will pick out their features so they will be more easily recognised. Secondly you do not want to light the subject so turn off the flash. 8 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
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The best times of day to take silhouettes are around sunrise and sunset when the Sun is low in the sky. This is not so arduous at the moment with autumn and winter day lengths. When the Sun is low it gives a range of colours and some feature to the background. Having said that any bright light source will do and you do not want too much in the background as it may be distracting. Keeping the foreground simple is also important. If there is more than one element to the subject keep them separate to make the most of their individual shapes. When shooting in ‘AUTO’ mode on your camera you are letting the camera make all the decisions, it will work out the exposure as it focuses and so will light the subject. To avoid this you have expose on the background by pointing your camera at the brightest point pressing the shutter button halfway and holding it, you can then move the camera back to frame the subject and fully depress the shutter. Using a
small aperture (f14 or higher) will keep everything in focus. With phones and tablets where all you do is point and shoot you will have to look for your silhouettes, as it is more difficult to create them as you can with a camera. The same basic rules apply, strong, solid shapes against a bright background. If the Sun is the source of light then try to cover it with part or all of the subject. If your phone or tablet will not show a silhouette on the screen just ‘tap’ on the brightest part of the image and this should put the subject in silhouette. ‘App stores/shops’ do have a number of camera Apps that will help you be more creative and extend the abilities of your camera. You have nothing to lose so start experimenting. Chris Owens Aireborough Camera Club www.aireboroughcameraclub.co.uk
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“Maintaining balance is a complex function,” said Jill Fisher, Principle physiotherapist from Leeds Neurophysiotherapy. “Information comes from three main sources; the inner ear, vision and position sense from muscles and joints, particularly in our spine and legs especially feet.” “These systems give us an awareness of where our body is in relationship to the environment. “In different circumstances different weighting is given to the different senses so in the dark we must rely more on our inner ear system and information from the muscle and joint systems less from our visual system.” Jill shared that a top tip if your balance is poor, is to help your visual system to compensate by keeping some lights on at night and be aware that in visually unstable environments (such as in crowds) your balance will be more compromised as vision will not be able to compensate so well
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for problems involving the other systems. Another top tip is to ‘pep up’ the information coming from muscles and joints by preventing stiffness, by carrying out gentle exercises in moving feet and toes through a full range of movement. Also, standing and swaying side to side is an exercise that can be really effective at improving balance especially if carried out with the eyes closed; initially carry out touching a stable support in front of you. The advanced form of this exercise is standing with feet close together or standing on one leg. If you feel physiotherapy may help you with balance problems, you can ask your doctor to refer to an NHS service, or go directly to a private neurological or vestibular specialist physiotherapy practice.
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CHAPTER THREE: THE WORST DAY
open so we went in because it was our house anyway so why should we knock?
Written by Alison Craven (extract from an un-published novel)
A man was there wallpapering the downstairs room and it looked really lovely. We’d chosen an ever so with-it pattern in brown and orange swirly swirls to match the new three piece.
Miss said I could read my story out to the whole class because I had a very vivid imagination. I had to stand in front of the blackboard next to her desk. My story was about a girl whose mam had just been given a brand new house with underfloor heating and an inside lavvy and the mam’s friend had a catalogue. She let the mam and the girl chose loads of new stuff for their new house from the catalogue and they didn’t even have to pay one penny for it because the lady with the catalogue, who was called Joan, had gone to live in Australia and Empire Stores would never send a mister all the way to Australia to get the money. When I’d finished everybody clapped and Miss said, ‘Well done, Susan.’ I was just like the queen bee in the hive. At playtime Carol Ingham came up to me and said that her mam got stuff from Aunty Joan’s catalogue as well and that she never even told them she was going to Australia. She said her mam would be really mad because she was going to order a Teasmade. I’ve never heard of a Teasmade whatever, they are, and I don’t think Aunty Joan’s catalogue would have them, so I think she was lying. Me and our Linda decided to go see the new house on our way home from school. We ran like billie-o, so mam wouldn’t worry where we were. The door was
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The man looked a bit mad and said, ‘What do you to want? You should knock, you know.’ Our Linda said, ‘You should knock, you know, because this is our new house. So there!’ I squeezed our Linda’s arm and told her to stop being so cheeky. She pulled away and stood there all cocky with her chin sticking out. ‘Sorry about her,’ I said, ‘she doesn’t mean to be rude, it just comes out of her gob like fresh air. It looks really, really nice and my Mam will be really happy.’ ‘You’ve put that piece on upside down,’ our Linda said, pointing. We all moved closer to have a look. She pointed again, ‘There!’ The man stepped back, then forward, then back again, looking. He took his hat off and scratched his head. ‘I don’t think I have,’ he said, ‘in fact, I know I haven’t!’ ‘Well, if you’re sure…’ said Linda, ‘if you’re sure, then I’ll take your word for it.’ ‘Get out! Clear off, you cheeky little blighter,’ he said, ‘before I give you a good hiding!’
We ran out and laughed all the way home. ---It seemed like forever waiting for the new house to be ready and then when it was ready, we still had to wait because there was a problem with the bath. Mam had sorted everything out; the stuff we were taking was piled on top of the boxes from Aunty Joan and the stuff we were leaving was piled in the kitchen. We were still sleeping in our old beds and sitting on the horrible old sofa but it didn’t matter because we knew it wouldn’t be long before we were ladies of the manor with our onyx ashtray and moquette cushions. After another week of waiting, Mam said she was going to go to the Housing Area West Office while we were at school and give them what for. She was so sick of waiting and she wasn’t the only one. Our Linda said we should have the day off and go with her, but she just said, ‘Off you go, see you this aft.’ Mam was waiting for us at the school gates because it was Wednesday and we always go to our grandma’s for our tea on a Wednesday. We still didn’t know when we could move in to our new house. Mam said that now here was a problem with the underfloor heating, but it was best to have everything tickety boo right from the start. ‘Yes, well, we want everything to be perfect, we don’t we?’ I said, ‘We don’t want to be taking all our swanky new stuff into a rotten house, do we?’
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SHORT STORIES ‘We alreadiy live in a rotten, stinking house,’ said Linda, ‘so I don’t care about the stupid underfloor heating, I just want to get out it and have all our new bunk beds and stuff.’ ‘I’m glad you reminded me, Linda,’ Mam said, ‘don’t either of you breathe a word to Grandma or Granddad about the catalogue stuff. I don’t want them to know about it just yet… so keep it dark.’ It’s a good job she told us because I’m as sure as eggs is eggs, we would have told them. Mam always had little secrets from Granddad and so did Grandma. We’d get a biscuit and Grandma would say, ‘Don’t tell your granddad.’ Or Mam would say, ‘Can you lend us a pound, Mam, but don’t tell Dad.’ Me and our Linda got tied in knots wondering what was a secret and what wasn’t! We had neck of lamb with carrots and pearl barley, then rice pudding with jam for our teas and it was so delicious I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. After tea me and our Linda went to watch telly with Granddad while Grandma and Mam made a cup of tea. We watched Casey Jones, which we didn’t like at all, but Granddad did. Then Mam and Grandma came in with the tea and a Blue Riband each and we all watched The Magic Roundabout. It was dark when we walked home. As we got nearer our street, it got darker and darker and really scary because nobody at all was about. There were no lights in any of the houses and no people in any of the houses. It was a ghost street and I hated it. We were really pleased that Mam had banked the fire up before she’d left the house and the
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fire was still in, so it was lovely and warm, even if it looked like a tip. The next morning I was taking the wee bucket to empty down the lavvy when a car pulled into the street. A man in a suit and a hat got out and smiled at me. I smiled back, even though I hadn’t to talk to strange men, nobody said anything about smiling at them. ‘Do you know where Mrs Hewitt lives?’ he said. ‘That’s my mam! She just lives there, at number 12.’ ‘Well! That’s splendid, splendid, my dear, thank you,’ he said. ‘I’ll just empty the wee bucket and I’ll take you,’ I said. ‘That’s fine, I can see number 12,’ he said. He got out his briefcase and locked his car. I flew down the ginnel, wee sloshed up the sides of the bucket and down my legs into my sock and shoe but I didn’t mind. It must be the man from the Council telling us our house was ready. I tipped the bucket down the lavvy and raced back. Our Linda’s eyes were really wide and she looked shocked. Mam was on her knees as she’d been raking out the cinders from the fire and our Steven was pulling at the man’s trousers and holding his arms up. ‘Is it ready, Mam?’ I said, ‘Is our house ready? Can me move in today? Shall me and our Linda have the day off? I can’t believe—‘ ‘Shush, Susan,’ said Mam. ‘No,
it’s not that.’ Everybody looked really serious and I couldn’t work it out. ‘You do realise that receiving stolen goods is extremely serious and can carry a prison sentence?’ said the man. Mam went a bit white and had to hold on to the coal scuttle. Me and our Linda looked at each other with our mouths wide open. ‘A van will be sent later today to collect all the furniture and housewares. The clothes are another story. I’d suggest you make some arrangements to pay for them.’ Mam nodded and looked down at her black hands. A tear plopped onto her finger. ‘It’s up to them higher up than me to decide whether the police will be involved, but I’ll do my best to get it sorted out as soon as possible, in view of the circumstances.’ ‘Thank you,’ Mam whispered in a little voice. ‘If you could make arrangements to pay for the clothes etcetera, that would go a long way in your favour.’ ‘I’ll do my best,’ said Mam. ‘Good, good,’ said the man, ‘That’s it then, as I said, a van will be round later today, so make sure you’re in and everything’s ready for removal.’ ‘Removal?’ said our Linda, ‘You can’t remove it, it’s ours! Aunty Joan gave us it as a celebration present! You can’t just barge in and take people’s stuff, you… you… big pig!’
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‘Linda!’ said Mam, ‘I’m sorry, she’s upset that’s all.’ ‘Well, he can’t just—‘ ‘LINDA! Be quiet. Go get ready for school you two. Go on, NOW!’ I could tell Mam’s voice was all wobbly and I thought she was going to cry. Me and our Linda went up the first two steps and sat down to listen. ‘Ah, one more thing,’ the man said, ‘you wouldn’t happen to have an address for Mrs Joan Thornton, would you?’ I squeezed our Linda’s arm and she squeezed mine back. ‘She’s on her way to Australia. I’ve
no idea, I’m sorry,’ said Mam. ‘Well, bear in mind any information you can give us will obviously go in your favour.’ The man started to move about and we could hear Mam had stood up so we shot up the stairs and got our coats and hats. When we came back down, Mam was sitting on the old sofa with her head in her hands, roaring. Our Linda picked our Steven up and sat next to Mam and I went and made her a cup of tea with three sugars. ‘How have you done anything wrong, Mam?’ said our Linda. ‘It’s not fair. Aunty Joan gave us a lovely present and we just said
thank you, didn’t we? I wish my dad had been here, don’t you?’ ‘Ooo no!’ said Mam, ‘No… we’d of all ended up in Armley if he’d been here.’ I gave mam her tea and sat on the floor. I was so sad and felt so sorry for her – she was only trying to do nice things for us and now she was in big trouble. I wiped my nose on the sleeve of my cardigan and went over to the cocktail cabinet and opened the lid. “Some Enchanted Evening’ filled room with happiness and my smiled a little smile. ‘Nobody can ever take our cocktail cabinet though, can they?’ I said.
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COUNCILLORS RICHARD LEWIS, JOSIE JAROSZ AND MICK COULSON (LABOUR, PUDSEY) Green light for rejuvenation of Pudsey green space Two hundred years after the battle of the same name, residents in the Waterloos area of Pudsey are set for improvements to their local green space. The open space between Waterloo Grove and Waterloo Mount is in
NEW LEASE OF LIFE FOR RYCROFTS IN SWINNOW Residents in the Rycrofts area of Swinnow will have seen a number of improvements in the last few months. From new carpeting and other improvements to communal areas in tower blocks to new gardens, fencing alongside the border with Stanningley Road, tarmacking and making parking areas better, there is certainly a buzz around the Rycrofts. One of the final pieces of these works, improvements to the parking area at Rycroft Place, is nearly complete, with new tarmac already laid. Funding for these improvements has come about as a result of urging from local 26 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
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to the space. This includes the planting of trees, fencing to keep the area safe and a mixed shrub bed. Councillor Josie Jarosz (Labour, Pudsey) said: “It’s no good having an open space if it isn’t looked after or used. The land at the Waterloos has the capacity to be a great local place, but it needs a little bit of time and effort to do so. “I’m really glad that this space is going to be rejuvenated, with new trees and improved spaces. It can be a place for all local residents to enjoy.” people really love their homes in Swinnow, so we have to make sure that the outside of the properties matches the inside. Getting the work on the gardens, garages, communal areas and car park completed means people will have a more welcoming and better place to live. “Seeing this come together has been really pleasing, especially as the Rycrofts High Rise Residents Association is now back up and running. We hope they will thrive and we look forward to continuing to work with them.” “Doing this work now will ensure we are making a great environment for people in the Rycrofts to live in.”
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ART MUSIC DANCE AND ENTERTAINMENT ART WORKSHOP Pudsey Wellbeing Centre, Robin Lane, Pudsey, LS28 7DE Meet in Community Hall, 1st Floor every Monday 1.30pm-3pm. All abilities are welcome to join local artist Geoff Lea. All you need is a Sketch Pad, pencil & eraser. FARSLEY & DISTRICT ART CLUB The Studio, Westroyd Park, New Street, Farsley LS28 5AS. The club opens three days per week for drawing & painting. There are regular demonstrations, workshops and sketching, details at www.farsleyartclub.org.uk. Please visit and try us out or call 07542 495575.
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BRAMLEY LIBRARY CRIME READERS Hough Lane, LS13 3ND Second Monday of every month, 5.30-6.30pm Enquiries: 0113 214 6040 CALVERLEY METHODISTS Coffee Morning first Saturday each month from 10 am to noon. On the premises in Chapel Street. Coffee and Chat Bring and Buy. Fairtrade food etc. for sale. A warm welcome awaits you. CALVERLEY LIBRARY Thornhill Street, LS28 5PD Knit Wits Knitting and Crochet: Alternate Mondays from 2pm – 4pm Contact the Library for any further information on Readers Groups Enquiries: 0113 378 3124 KNIT & CROCHET GROUP Cafe Lux, Pudsey Wellbeing Centre, Robin Lane, LS28 7DE Meet every Wednesday 5pm8pm. All welcome. PUDSEY LIBRARY Pudsey Library, Church Lane, LS28 7TY Readers’ Group meet 2nd Tuesday of every month 1.30-2.30pm Job Club every Thursday 10.15am – 12noon PC Club Every Friday 2-4pm Enquiries: 0113 3781893 ROYAL MILITARY POLICE ASSOCIATION. West Yorkshire branch meet at the Pudsey British Legion Club, Robin Lane, LS28 7BR on the first Thursday in every month at 7.30pm. Ex Redcaps welcome. Further information call Eric Boddy, 01943 873909
IT’S A DATE CHRISTMAS FAIR Pudsey Lowtown Primary School Friday 27th November 2015, 6-8 pm Tickets £1 on the door. Under 12 yrs free. Tombolas, Stalls, Games, Cafe, Santa and lots more. CHRISTMAS CRAFT MARKET Sunday 6th December 10-3, Robin Lane Health and Wellbeing Centre. Santa’s Grotto, Mince pies, entertainment, To book a stall ring 0113 395 5830 FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC CLUB Live at the Lux, Cafe Lux, Robin lane, Pudsey Fri 13th Nov – Leeds City Stompers, Red Hot Blues Band Friday 11th Dec – Robin Hill Tickets £5 0113 395 5830 POETRY AND A PINT 12th Nov - Kristina Diprose, Cafe Lux, Robin Lane, Pudsey 19th Dec William Thirsk-Gaskill Doors open 7pm Tickets £3 0113 395 5830 robin.lane@nhs.net PUDSEY COMMUNITY CHOIR Raise your voice Pudsey is a community choir that meets every Thursday at Cafe Lux, Robin Lane 4 to 4.45pm for all ages and 7.30 -9pm for 14 years and above. £2 per person. All welcome WINTER FAYRE St James the Great, Woodhall, Galloway Lane, Pudsey Sat 14th Nov 11- 1 Free Admission Bric a brac, Tombola, Games, stall etc
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REMOVALS Specialists in house removals & house clearances ● Rubbish Clearance
TELEPHONE ENGINEER
Call Kevin on
07850 152242 father &
07837 961655 son
Ex BT Engineer, Over 15 Years Experience, Repairs/sockets installed for phone Home & Office Cordless phones supplied and installed, Broadband problems solved, Up to 70% cheaper than main companies
We will take your unwanted furniture to St George’s Crypt
or text us and we will call you back Email: kev@kevsvan.com
www.kevsvan.com
ROOFING
0113 2604303 or 07538 952417
G.T. ROOFING
SLATING, TILING, FELTING UPVC FACIAS, SOFFITS & GUTTERS ALL ROOFING WORK UNDERTAKEN
VELUX WINDOW SPECIALIST TEL: 0113 256 0677 MOB: 07734 526388
WASTE TRADE
TOP PRICES PAID FOR COPPER, BRASS, LEAD, ALUMINIUM AND STEEL ON SITE CHEQUE CASHING FACILITY
SCRAP CARS WANTED
Find us at: Newgate Works, Bowling Back Lane, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD4 8SJ
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