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Welcome to the May edition of Queens Park Living!
May yet again and Brighton festival month with so many diverse and interesting things going on both here locally in Queens Park as well as across the city! Queens Park Living this month is more stuffed full than I can remember - both with local activities and articles as well as with a record number of local businesses advertising! Happy days for our little local Queens Park magazine! We hope you find something of interest in this month’s publication and please keep sending us your articles and using our advertisers- they make the production and distribution of Queens Park Living possible so your support is really appreciated. Have a wonderful May and enjoy the festival! Queens Park Living
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Contents Page 5 Music & Wine Page 7 ElmTrees Page 8 Cat Feeding Page 9 Bark In The Park Page 11 Nicky Crab Yoga Page 12 Anil Ironwork Page 13 Queen’s Park Volunteers EarTrumpet Page 14 List of Advertisers
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Open Day Queens Park Tennis Club
Saturday 23rd May, 2015 1pm-5pm
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Come and enjoy a knock-up, some free coaching, a chance to try the latest rackets, and test our new ball machine. You can also meet club members and take refreshments, served all afternoon in the tennis club house.
Queens Park Tennis Club, East Drive, Brighton BN2 0BQ info@qpltc.co.uk www.qpltc.co.uk 07743 291427 Please send locale-mail articlesinfo@queensparkliving.co.uk to editorial@queensparkliving.co.uk or call 01273 551021 To your advertise or call 01273 551021
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May Play Scheme Spring Has Sprung!
May 26th-29th Children aged 4-11 Book Now: 01273 679900 Book now now for for our Book our fantastic fantasticSpring Spring The month ofplayscheme May brings the start of summer, beautiful - March playscheme – April30th 7th to to10th 17thApril blossom and flowers and in Brighton is especially exciting as Children love this time of year and the playit is The Brighton Festival. The May Playbest Scheme embrace scheme celebrates all the spring will has to creativity with making,egg Maypole dancing, craft & offerarts with& chocolate hunts, bonnet making, creative and card making sessions, egg & design, gardening &nests planting, sports & games, cooking painting and a wide variety of fun indoor and eating (yummy!) and lots of outdoor adventures. outdoor physical activities, games and quizzes. The Tarner Community Project offers a vibrant The Tarner Community Project offers a vibrant range of afterrange schoolof after schoolclubs andplay holiday playfor schemes children aged 4-11 years. clubs and holiday schemes children for aged 4-11 years. With OFSTED outstanding accreditation, the children benefit With OFSTED outstanding accreditation, the children benefit from a from a wide range of activities and the wonderful outside Tarner wide range of activities and the wonderful outside space of space Tarner of Park, where the project is based. Park, where the project is based. After school collections from: • • •
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Here we feature the May concerts going on at St Lukes...
Music and Wine at St Luke’s Summer Series Our latest brochure, featuring concerts from May until October, is hot off the press. As well as piano, strings and wind recitals the series features a flute and tabla performance and also a charity gala concert on 19th June in aid of the Neighbourhood Care Scheme. Please contact us if you haven’t got a brochure yet and would like one. On Friday May 22nd, three years after her memorable Goldberg Variations debut, local pianist Rachel Fryer will once again perform this extraordinary work by Bach in its entirety by memory. Made famous by the late Glenn Gould and subsequently in “The Silence of the Lambs”, the variations are full of contrast and last 80 minutes.
Rachel will give a short pre-concert talk about the work, including musical demonstrations which will highlight things to listen for, helping to make the concert as welcoming both for seasoned and for first-time attendees. Venue: St Luke’s Church, Queen’s Park Road, BN2 9ZB Pre-concert talk: 7.30pm. Performance: 8pm.
Tickets: £7 / £5 concessions / £3 under-12s, available on the door. Disabled access. Wine and refreshments served. For more information,visit www.stlukesconcerts.webeden.co.uk
Email musicandwineatstlukes@gmail.com or phone 01273 510595.
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HAYFEVER Suffering this Spring? Come and get help and advice from us When pollen count is high... • Stay inside when possible
• Keep car windows closed and have airconditioner on instead
• Avoid cutting the grass • Shower more often • Wear wraparound sunglasses
• Rub some petroleum jelly inside your nostrils to capture pollen
National Dementia Week 18th- 24th of May
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Eternal Vigilance: How they saved The Elm Trees of Queen’s Park By Conrad Brunner You probably know that the arrival of Dutch elm disease in Britain around 30 years ago virtually wiped out the elm population in this country. As many as 25 million trees in the UK were lost, causing an environmental catastrophe, with similar devastation across the continent.
Paris once had 30,000 elms lining its boulevards and avenues. Now there are less than 1,000. All was lost? Not quite. One small corner of Britain held out against the disease, nurturing and maintaining its elm population at more or less the pre-1980s level: the City of Brighton & Hove. Complete disaster was avoided thanks to people like Rob Greenland, who was the Senior Arborist on the council during the darkest days of the disease, when they were chopping down as many as 700 infected trees a year in Brighton. That they were able to preserve the local elm population is thanks to two factors. Firstly, the unique character of our little seaside micro-climate. “The South Downs and the English Channel form natural defences across which the disease cannot easily travel,” explains Greenland. The second factor was the diligence of the council’s elm
You can spot an elm tree by the pronounced vertical ridges of the bark and its teardrop, asymmetrical leaves.
protection programme, scouring the city for infected trees over the summer months: “It’s a fast response strategy of tactical pruning of infected boughs.” A quick look at West Drive shows you where elm trees have been lost, where new ones have been planted, and where mature, healthy elms continue to flourish. The elm is an indigenous tree, suited to the thin top soil and chalky base, thriving in the salty south-westerlies that blow in off the Channel. Not surprisingly, we have become emotionally attached to them. When an elm tree in Vernon Terrace, Seven Dials, was condemned due to its overburdened roots, 4,300 locals signed a petition to save it, and the tree is still there. When building plans at Brighton College required the removal of a 100-year-old English elm, the multimillion pound proposal was swiftly blocked by the council. The Friends Of Queen’s Park logo, inspired by the arch at the foot of West Drive, depicts a small tree visible through the arch. The tree is, of course, an elm. Queen’s Park is ringed by elm trees, on North, East and West Drives, with a couple in the Royal Spa area and a further 20 or so within the park itself. “That Brighton’s parks and Georgian streets still have a flourishing elm population,” said a recent BBC report, “is testament to the efforts of a team of council tree experts who refused to yield to its ravages.”
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Local Business... Here is a useful local service that mat well be of interest...
Toto Cat Feeding & Cat Sitting Ever wanted a safe and reliable service that lets your cat stay at home whilst you go away? We provide a truly personal service dedicated to you and your cat… A ‘Toto cat’ is a happy cat. Toto Cat Feeding & Cat Sitting was established in 2010 with a very clear vision and purpose... to put your cat’s welfare at the heart of everything we do.
Our service is safe and reliable. Less stressful for your cat and less worry for you; no journeys to and from the cattery, you simply close your front door and let Toto take care of your cat(s). Our 5 Star rated service... for you and your cat... • • • • • • •
Our team can visit up to 3 times a day including our ‘Stay and Play’ service that has proven to be very popular... Our team arrive with a box of cat toys and the fun starts!
We are available 365 days of the year and all our prices INCLUDE parking fees. We are happy to set a cat feeding machine each day for your cat’s next meal.
We can open and close curtains, switch lights on and off and pick up post to make your home look occupied.
Take a look at the Toto website and see how cost effective our service can be. Read our reviews on our website or on Google. We love cats and would love to meet yours. Website www-cat-feeding.com Office Contact No: 07545 847556
We use our own cleaning equipment. Dirty litter, used pouches and rubbish are always removed from your home leaving it clear of unwanted smells. We send a complimentary text message on our first & last visit.
We offer an ‘extra cleaning service’ so that your home is clean and fresh upon your return.
It’s simple and straightforward...
We will meet with you and your cat in advance at one of our registration meetings so that we understand all of your requirements, complete some paperwork and confirm your first Toto booking. You can still register with us even if you don’t have any plans to be away from home yet... You will then have peace of mind that your cat-sitting arrangements are in place. Once registered it is even more straightforward... a simple and flexible booking process and your ‘catcare’ is covered.
Now relax... your cats are in the care of Toto... simply purrfect!
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Here we feature annual Queens Park favourite Bark in the Park...
Bark In The Park 2015 Calling all canines. Find your comb, jump in that bath and brush those gnashers because it’s time to put your best paw forward. Sunday June 15th sees the return of the famous Queen’s Park Dog Show, better known as Bark in the Park, brought to you by the Friends of Queen’s Park and our cosponsors Coastway Veterinary Group. This will be the third year that we have two show rings running: the Fun Ring and the Pedigree Ring, and Coastway will be running the registration with their customary professionalism. The Fun Ring has 12 barking mad classes. Rosettes, prizes and places will be offered for: Best Rescue, Handsomest Dog, Best Fancy Dress, Prettiest Bitch, Best Puppy, Best Child’s Toy, Dog Most Like Its Owner, Best Trick, Best Veteran, Best Sausage Catcher and, of course, Best In Show. A special additional category for 2015 is Waggiest Tail. Veterinary nurses Hannah Pook and Heather Ryan will have the tricky job of awarding the gongs, alongside our favourite local dog lover Annabel Giles. Our very own Barkmeister Crispin will compere proceedings. Attempt to, at least. Have you ever tried lining up 30 dogs to catch a sausage?
For the Pedigree Ring, we welcome back Crufts Head Vet Andreas Schemel as our esteemed judge. The show classes are as follows: AV (any variety) Puppy, AV Toy Dogs, AV Gun Dogs, AV Terriers, AV Working Dogs/Pastoral, AV Hounds, AV Open, and AV Veteran. Important: registration begins at 11am. Don’t be late! Entry to each class costs £1.50 with all profits from the day going towards improvements to the park. The show proper starts at 12 noon. Each of the Fun Ring classes is sponsored by a wonderful local business and you will find links to and information about them all on the Friends of Queen’s Park website: www.fpqbrighton.net
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Drop-In session for those who have played before and need some pre-season coaching. £10 pp per session. No need to book.
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Just thinking of starting and want to learn how to play ? Forehands Backhands Serve Volley Singles Doubles tuition. In fact everything to get you playing this Summer. Friendly Coaching. Racquets provided. £10 pp per session. Starting on Saturdays at 12.30 Mid May.
INDIVIDUAL LESSONS What ever your standard from Beginner to Club Player Lessons from £15
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Concerned about your home being sold to fund your future care fees? The Issue
You probably own your home as joint tenants if you are a couple and solely if you are single. For couples this means you own it wholly, jointly and severally. Ultimately therefore you do not own it 50:50 as you might have assumed. You actually own all of it together and when one partner dies the surviving partner owns it solely and absolutely. It is sole and absolute ownership that enables a property to be taken into consideration as an asset by the local authority and puts the property in danger of needing to be sold to fund care.
The Reality
The Law (C.R.A.G - charging for residential accommodation guide) allows local authorities to assess your assets to determine if you need to pay for your own care. Currently if you have assets above £23,250, you are on your own and require care, you will probably have to pay for it all - currently averaging around £800 per week. Savings, cash and income would be used first and then your property would need to be taken into consideration. You would be expected to pay for all of your care until such time as your assets were depleted to below the £23,250 threshold. You would then pay for a proportion of your care until your assets were below £14,250 - at which point all your future care would be paid for.
The Solution
For couples, simply by changing the way you own your property well in advance of any care considerations i.e from joint tenants to tenants in common and by setting up two Trusts within a properly structured Will at the same time will in most cases, prevent your home from being taken into account by the local authority altogether should you ever require care in the future.
The children and/or whoever else is also nominated as Trust beneficiaries for that particular Trust will subsequently have access to that half of the property when the surviving partner dies. The first half of the property then is 100% securely in Trust for the beneficiaries and will not be at risk. As a result of this simple strategy the survivor is protected from having to sell the property to pay for their care should they need it because it is not possible to sell just their half of the property and the Crag guidelines clearly state that the market value of half a property is £0. The second half of the property will then ultimately go into Trust for access by the nominated beneficiaries when the surviving partner eventually dies. The beneficiaries will at that stage have both halves safe and secure in Trust and will be able to share and dispose of the property according to the wishes of the settlors (the original owners of both halves). By leaving 1/2 the property into Trust on first death, the surviving partner can still sell the property to downsize if they wish and are not restricted in any way with regards to what they wish to do to or with the property - it simply means that it is safeguarded and therefore will definitely be able to be appointed to the chosen beneficiaries when the time comes. For sole owners immediately conveying at least half of your property into Trust well in advance of any care consideration and becoming a Trustee and primary beneficiary of the Trust with others nominated to become beneficiaries after your death is usually enough to take away the risk of the property being considered as an asset to be sold if care is required as the property is not absolutely owned by yourself anymore and again it is not possible to sell half a house or force a Trustee to do something that is not in the ultimate best interest of the Trust beneficiaries. Call us now on 01273 911142 for a friendly chat about how this strategy could be of real benefit to you and your family.
For sole owners the process is simply to set up a Trust now and convey at least 1/2 of your property into it which will produce the same result.
The Reasoning
When you own your home as tenants in common you actually own half each. When the first partner dies, they leave their half into their trust. The surviving partner is the Trustee of that Trust and also the primary beneficiary which means that they have complete control over the property and what happens to it.
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Fancy trying yoga? This article should helping choosing from the many different types available...
Finding the right yoga for you Hot yoga, partner yoga, acro-yoga, doga (yoga with your dog!) There are so many different types of yoga these days that it can become quite mind-boggling trying to navigate your way through them. As a new yoga student, you may feel a little like a rabbit caught in the headlights wondering which class you should try and how to decide which one is right for you?
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When you actually try out these different styles of yoga and you take away the ‘extras’ such as the temperature of the room, or the different types of props being used, you will find that there are strong similarities in the actual postures you do in each class. Most styles of yoga will offer physical opportunities to stretch, tone and strengthen your body, reference to your breath and how it connects with your movements and some element of relaxation or meditation. My own local yoga classes are definitely not hot, though you may increase your heart rate during certain sequences. I might ask you to do some postures in pairs, but this is not the norm and I can
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promise it won’t involve a trapeze. If your dog were to come along, I would hope they would stay on a lead outside! I have been practising yoga for over 25 years and trained with the Vajrasati school of yoga here in Brighton. I am a 500 hour registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance UK and teach regular weekly drop-in yoga classes in the Kemptown area which will: • Use an awareness of your breath to connect with your body and its movements • Improve your body confidence, strength and posture • Encourage your body to release physical and emotional tension • Create space for you to relax and find time for yourself • Include a focus on mindfulness and mindful movement • Have a fun and friendly atmosphere where beginners are welcome Yoga has been shown to have many benefits for mind and body from helping with back pain to calming anxiety. Ultimately it is a refreshing and rejuvenating way to spend an hour of your time. If you don’t like the idea of a group drop-in class, I also offer 1-2-1 or small group tuition in your own home or workplace. If you have ever thought about trying out yoga, now might just be the time to give it a go! Nicky Crabb For more information about Nicky’s classes please see her website : www.nickycrabbyoga.co.uk or give her a call on 07989 347716.
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Here are a couple of things going on locally in the Brighton festival...
Anvil Ironworks at Artists Open Houses Anvil Ironworks will have an exhibition of sculpture and affordable metal art at the Artists Open Houses festival, plus live forging demonstrations from 1pm, in the first four weekends in May. This year, Anvil will also be showcasing photos from Heath Knight. Paul Wells is the artist maker behind Anvil Ironworks. He specialises in handcrafted contemporary and traditional metalwork. He creates decorative and functional sculpture, lighting and furniture, sitespecific and architectural pieces. During the festival, Anvil are at 222 Ditchling Road, or find them with the Fiveways Artists Group in the Open House brochure.
Brighton Festival event: Ear Trumpet
Queen’s Park 16-17 May
A rich seam of music is flowing through a geological fault line deep beneath Brighton. Eonsworth of sound is harmonically bound together, trapped inside primeval rocks, and occasionally it erupts to the surface.
To hear it properly, however, you’ll need to use a series of elaborate ear trumpets created from gramophone horns, converted euphoniums and brass instruments. “Ear Trumpet” is about the noises that you would miss if you didn’t listen for them and features original music by Robert Lee. This will take place on the old bowling green - drop in at any time between 12 - 2pm or 3 - 5pm.
Free estimates 01273 686404 (workshop) 07756 893950 / 07754 112425
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With important news of changes to how the park will be maintained...
Queen’s Park - Volunteers Needed... 40 years ago the Queen’s Park Community Association got fed up with the way things were going and mustered volunteers to sort out the park, save the Royal Spa and persuade the council to build the Spa Nursery School. Well, the going is getting tough again, and some say it’s time for the tough to get going!
2015 will see more cuts to our team of hardworking gardeners and litter picking at the weekend has also been withdrawn. There are already areas of the park which have not been maintained for years. Take the Cascade: in 1975 we were advised that ‘unless the community is willing to do the donkey work the stream will go.’ Well, the Cascade stream is still there but maintenance is still down to us and we need your help! This year City Parks announced it is to encourage volunteer groups to become autonomous. This means no more relying on a Park Ranger to organize volunteer sessions. It will be down to the Friends of Queen’s Park or community members. There may be a bright side to all this. Becoming autonomous would mean we ourselves can select
what work needs to be done and then do it when and where we choose. Well, OK, it will have to fit the new Master Plan (to be published soon) but within reason that will be the case. There are loads of smiles around when people work in volunteer groups and for some the rewards go way beyond the achievement of the day. Skills are learned, friendships are begun and people feel better about themselves. Our timetable for 30 volunteers sessions is on the park notice-boards and also on our website. For more information contact Chris: chrisalowe@btinternet.com or Lindsay: lindsay.cattanach@brighton-hove.gov.uk Volunteer sessions in May are Wednesdays 6th and 20th @ 1pm and Saturday 23rd @ 11am
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After School Club Tarnerland.............................................................................4 Artist Lisa Holdcroft.......................................................................7 Bathrooms Eurotiles Bathrooms............................................................6 Blacksmiths Anvil Ironworks....................................................................4 Builders Teamology..............................................................................4 Estate Agent Bonett’s...........................................................................Cover Paul Bott...............................................................Back Cover Health Nicky Crab Yoga.................................................................11 Fun & Fit................................................................................4 Landlords Required Acquisitions Landlords.....................................................14 Local Attraction The Royal Pavilion..............................................................5 Locksmiths Lee’s Locks............................................................................12
Loft Ladders Loft Ladders.........................................................................13 Mediation Service BHIMS..................................................................................15 Osteopath Brighton Osteopath.....................................................Cover Oven Cleaner Dirty Ovens............................................................................7 Pharmacy O’Flinns...................................................................................6 Public House The Round Georges.............................................................5 Tennis Queen’s Park Tennis Open Day.........................................2 Queen’s Park Tennis Coaching..........................................9 Tiling Eurotiles Bathrooms............................................................6 Transport Breeze Up To The Downs.................................................2 Will Writing Thy Will be Done................................................................2
Landlords! We want your properties Guaranteed rents for landlords with no commission, or management and renewal fees. Up to £63,000 over five years* For further information, please call 01273 292213 or 292164 or email guaranteedrents@brighton-hove.gov.uk
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ARE ARGUMENTS WITH YOUR CHILDREN CAUSING YOU STRESS?
Are rows with your parents driving you mad? Is it difficult to get your young neighbours to understand your point of view? Feeling misunderstood by the older couple over the road? Our free Intergenerational awareness and Conflict Resolution Skills Training is here to help! BHIMS (Brighton and Hove Independent Mediation Service) is running a free training course for the residents of Queens Park. The course will be 3 sessions long and will take place in June/July 2015. We can either run daytime or evening sessions to best suit you and will go with the majority of what is requested. You will get the chance to: • Identify examples of conflicts that involve young people and understand young people's experiences in conflict • Practise young people appropriate communication skills (conflict coaching, understanding choices & responding rather than reacting).
For more information call Jo on 01273 700812 or email us at jo@bhims.org.uk
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