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20 SUBURBAN FUN It’s time for the adults out there to put their thinking caps on and get their brains in gear!
24 SUBURBAN GARDENS If you’re looking for some “green-fingered” tips - then look no further!
27 CLASSIFIEDS Looking to use the skills of a local business? Look no further!
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Welcome to edition 7 of Suburban Magazine and thank you once again to our valued contributors and advertisers. Each month we encourage our readers to submit articles, whether it be photos taken, a story or memories from perhaps your childhood. We are grateful that a growing number of our readers are submitting articles
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ALWOODLEY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION Alwoodley Community Association (ACA) has been meeting the social and cultural needs of our community for the past 60 years and more. We are a registered charity operating from the Community Hall on The Avenue, Alwoodley. Adjacent to the hall we have a Football Pitch and 3 Tennis Courts. Our members take part in a range of activities in the fields of arts & crafts, music, sport etc. We have teams competing in local leagues in Chess, Table Tennis, Football and Tennis. The activities are too many to list individually here but details and contacts can be found on our web site www.alwoodleycommunityassociation.co.uk. Membership of the ACA and Social Club is open to all on payment of an annual
Membership Fee, currently £28 Adults (includes Social Club Membership), £17 Students and £14 Juniors. Family membership covering 2 adults + 2 children is available for £70 p.a. Our premises also house the office of the Alwoodley Parish Council and they hold their monthly meetings in our building. Our rooms are available for hire for private events and for local businesses. Alwoodley Social Club operates the bar with Lounge Room & newly refurbished Sports Bar which houses Sky Sports, BT Sports, pool & darts. We have an outside decking area and we are open every evening and weekends. ACA Social Club always has events running such as Beer Festival, Halloween, Christmas Ball & Tribute Acts. All the events and what’s on can be found on Facebook ACA Social Club. New members are always welcome. See our website on how to join or come down and have a look at the amazing facilities. We look forward to seeing you!
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We welcome contributions from our readers. Please tell us what’s going on in your area and send us your photos What do you like? Any gripes you would like to share? What changes you would make? editorial@suburbanleeds.co.uk
A AIREBOROUGH CAMERA CLUB ‘MY YORKSHIRE’ OPEN COMPETITION There has been a terrific response to this year’s competition and this has provided the judges with a difficult but pleasurable task in making the final decisions. After long deliberation three winners from the very high standard of entry have been selected, one for each section: A: Adult – ‘Limestone and Rainbows, Nr Malham’ by Kevin Nutter. 8 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
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It’s been a crazy few months for Cloudy2Clear Windows. The company which specialises in repairing windows which are steamed up, broken or damaged by replacing panes - not the frames has grown rapidly as homeowners take advantage of their services. Manager Joel Skinner feels that it’s all about service. ‘Our product is simple. If your double glazing is misted up we can replace the glass at a fraction of the cost of a new window, in any time of frame, and with a new 5 year guarantee. But it’s not just about saving people money, although that obviously helps. Many tradespeople have
struggled since last year and I honestly feel that during the good times a minority perhaps didn’t focus on customer care as much as they should have done. We make sure we turn up when we say we will, do the job the customer requires and leave their house as clean as a whistle. I often get comments back from customers on how they really didn’t expect that sort of service which, in a way, is very sad for the service industry as a whole.’ Cloudy2Clear service the Alwoodley, Shadwell, Moortown, Chapel Allerton, Roundhay, Meanwood and Oakwood areas and Joel is finding that his approach is a major factor in his success. ‘The truth is that it’s not just the
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AUTUMN IMAGES Autumn, the season of mists and glorious colours - the yellows, oranges and reds add a golden light to any scene and a golden glow to your pictures. There are so many opportunities for capturing the beauty of this season, from wild, wide landscapes, water reflections, early mornings and evenings, to close ups of fruit, flowers and leaf mosaics. You are taking pictures of what pleases you and so decide what it is you particularly like about what you are looking at and set your camera accordingly, or just snap it with your phone or camera before it disappears, the same shot will not occur again. With digital do not be afraid of taking a number of shots, you can always
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delete ones which do not come out as you want. For getting atmosphere into your pictures go out early mornings, dawn, or sundown. The sun is low in the sky and orange tones predominate. Early mornings, before the day warms up, have mists in the valleys and woodlands giving atmosphere and mystery. Shooting into the sun should be tried and can, with care, produce some startling sunburst effects if you can get an object e.g. tree between the sun and the lens, it can certainly add the ‘wow’ factor. Backlighting and mist in woodland can create atmospheric shafts of sunlight. Autumn is the time when there is an abundance of colourful fungi, fruits and multi-coloured leaf patterns,
so do not be afraid to get down on your knees or tummies and get up close. It is also the time when crops are harvested, when hay is cut and baled which produce interesting lines. Still water in lakes, ponds or canals is ideal for capturing reflections of surrounding colours and shooting lowdown near the waters edge can create symmetrical compositions. Long exposures will help smooth out rough or moving water, but ripples can create interesting distortions. For long exposures support your camera on a tripod, a wall, fence post, top of your car or hold firmly and lean against something solid like a tree. If the sun comes out, get out with your camera. Good luck. Aireborough Camera Club aireboroughcameraclub.co.uk
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LOCAL NEWS BIRDWATCHING WHILE STANDING STILL It's the start of autumn migration and, over the next few weeks, birds will be making their way to their winter feeding grounds. It's the time when unusual birds can turn up on your local birdwatching patch, or even in your garden, so keep your eyes peeled. Here’s where some simple birdwatching techniques can help. As birds move south, they sometimes latch onto feeding parties of common birds. A good birdwatching technique is to ‘work’ your way through each group of birds to see whether you can spot something unusual. This might be something you’d normally do when sitting in a hide at a reserve but try to get into the habit of doing this while walking in your local woodland. If see a group of birds moving around, or hear some coming towards you, lean against a tree to obscure your outline and let them come to you. If you keep perfectly still, you’ll be able to get a good look at each bird. Most will be young blue tits, long-tailed tits and great tits but there is a chance you’ll see something else. Similarly, take a bit of time to study the species of birds using your garden as a feeding station. Remember last month’s lesson? The first rule of thumb is to remember that there are a lot of juvenile common birds around at this time of year. 16 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE
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Some can look quite different to their parents, so do take a good field guide out with you. This should give you a good illustration of juvenile birds for each species. It would be well worth swatting up on the young common birds likely to be seen in your chosen habitat before you go out. It will save time when you're in the field. Most of the tatty adult common birds in woodlands will have almost completed their moult by now. However most ducks are still in ‘eclipse’ (that is what we call the moulting stage of ducks). Think common first then consider something scarce.
I had a cuckoo in my garden for a few seconds as it tried to escape being mobbed by crows on its journey southwards. My best garden tick yet! I also get grey wagtails at my pond every year.
Some of the birds to look out for in our woodlands and gardens during the autumn migration are chiffchaff, willow warbler, wood warbler, blackcap, goldcrest, redstart, spotted flycatcher and pied flycatcher. Make sure that you look at all the birds coming to your garden feeders. If you have a good sized pond, or you’re visiting an area with a pond or a stream, you may find a sedge warbler, a common sandpiper or a dispersing grey wagtail. A couple of years ago
Good luck! If you have a good camera and you think you may have seen something unusual then please do send me a photo. Next time I’ll tell you more about migration.
Young dippers and kingfishers disperse from their nest sites and travel downstream making your urban stretch of water a possible feeding area for a time. Fields with grazing cattle or horses could also attract passing yellow wagtails. They feed on insects that are attracted to dung. Look for them around the hooves and mouths of the grazing animals.
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LOCAL NEWS LEEDS STREET PLAY We’re lucky in Leeds to have the opportunity to work on a huge range of projects to make the city a more accessible and exciting place for children and young people to live. Some of our current activities are focusing on the importance of play, and giving kids the chance to be outside and get active while staying safe. Of course back when many of the people reading this were younger we would always be out paying with friends in the street, but time’s moved on and the huge volume of traffic is just one reason why this is more difficult these days. That’s why Leeds City Council is working with Play England and Leeds Play Network on an active street play project to make it easier for children to play out by supporting local residents to close their streets at regular intervals weekly or monthly, typically for two or three hours after school or at the weekend. Of course residents will still have the access they need but the street would be completely closed to all through traffic. It’s still relatively early days with
this initiative but hopefully more and more communities will take advantage of it so children can reap the physical, social, emotional and mental health benefits offered by outdoor play whilst at the same time making them a visible part of the wider community. Residents who have already made street play a regular feature of their neighbourhood have welcomed an increase in community cohesion as people gather to organise and deliver the sessions. The street play initiative in Leeds
ALWOODLEY REVIEW Dan, Peter and I were summoned recently to be told about plans for economies on street lighting. The council has been looking at each ward and it’s our turn. Highways officials have suggested places where lights could be switched off; this will only happen between midnight and 5.30 a.m. and about 92% of lights will not be changed. We were asked to comment on the 8% that might be affected and we found four areas where we had doubts. These are going back on again. The changes start in September and on balance we think the ideas are sensible. However, we will be interested in any local problems and we are assured that the lights with the early hours switchoff can be switched on again. If you come across
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was launched in May this year and initial feedback shows it has been well received with plenty of communities taking up the offer and children and residents enjoying the street play experience. If your community would like to get involved Leeds Play Network can offer support and practical help. You can find out all about it on the Leeds Play Network website www. leedsplaynetwork.org.uk/streetplay or telephone 0113 2016790. Cllr Jane Dowson, Deputy Executive Board Member for Children and Families
a problem, contact any of us and we will take it up. We would also like to hear of your experiences with bus services in Alwoodley. We have meetings with the operators and they tell us they are interested in our comments, which are not always entirely favourable. (In truth, they are almost never favourable- people don’t remember buses that turn up on time). However, we can’t turn up and say we just don’t like the service; we must have details of specific buses that are late, didn’t turn up, went the wrong way (it happens) or where the driver drove for two miles while talking on his mobile phone (that has happened as well). We’ll happily grumble for you but detailed grumbles are more useful than general ones. Cllr Neil Buckley
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