The Gibraltar Magazine March 2018 by Rock Publishing Ltd

March 2018 Vol. 23 # 05

GIRLS IN TECH HACKATHON

HISTORICAL HUNGARY HUNGRY FOR TRAVEL

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MARCH ISSUE EDITOR’S NOTE

EDITOR: Sophie Clifton-Tucker editor@thegibraltarmagazine.com DESIGN: Lina Sproge design@thegibraltarmagazine.com SALES: Luis Jimenez sales@thegibraltarmagazine.com

Our community is made up of a vibrant mix of women AND men, but with International Women’s Day approaching on March 8th, Mothering Sunday on the 11th and 2018 marking 100 years of women’s suffrage, we thought it fitting to devote this issue to the inspirational mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, nieces, daughters, and friends in our lives. Girls, this one’s for you.

SHE BELIEVED SHE COULD, SO SHE DID.

Speaking of inspiring women, Reg enlightens us about the fearless female duo who took to the sky to make history (p. 49). Britain’s answers to Amelia Earheart both flew in the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II, with one going on to become the first woman to break the sound barrier.

DISTRIBUTION: Jordan Brett jordan@thegibraltarmagazine.com ACCOUNTS: Paul Cox paul@thegibraltarmagazine.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Richard Cartwright Eran Shay & Ayelet Mamo Shay Sophie Clifton-Tucker

In keeping with this month’s theme, the Gib Mag team have been busy interviewing some of the local hard working ladies in business. For our second instalment of ‘A Woman’s Work’ Molly speaks to Muscle Baker extraordinaire Elke Hurtado (p. 39), who reveals what it’s like to run a successful, growing business. Graeme visits the Girls in Tech (p. 25) as they approach the 1 year anniversary of their Gibraltar chapter and learns all about hackathons, and we speak to three young women dedicated to having their voice heard (p. 46).

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Also on the agenda this month is World Book Day (March 1st). Following the success of her recent book launch, Ayelet spills the details of her new book, Relocation, Darling, Relocation! (p. 30) A compelling and informative read for anyone thinking about taking the plunge and upping sticks. Another book to hit the shelves recently was Beyond the Flower Pots (p. 62), the tale of a curious cat named Tiddles written by the late Margaret Brown and illustrated by her daughter Melanie.

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Grab a warm cup of positivitea and put your feet up as Alex delivers an inspiring piece on the very raw subject of body image (p. 52).It’s not always easy to see ourselves the way our loved ones do, especially at an age when we’re only just beginning to suss out the world. Thankfully, we are fortunate enough to have local charities like Childline to offer support (p. 88). Read all about Blue Week, and see how you can get involved. Finally, we revisit the world of blockchain and crypto as we speak to Senior Advisor on DLT at the GFSC Siân Jones (p. 28), who helps us grasp the technology sweeping through the digital world. In what is a male-dominated workplace in other parts of the world, it’s good to know Gibraltar is paving the way for equality.

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contents 8 News 20 Around Town 22 Hello There: Most inspiring female figure?

BUSINESS 25 Girls In Tech: Hackathon 28 From IT to DLT: One Woman's Journey 30 Women in Relocation 32 The Work-Life Balance 34 Women in Politics 36 The Golden Rules

LIFE 39 A Woman's Work: Elke Hurtado

42 Love Is in the Hair 44 A Career in Mothering 46 Empowering Our Youth 49 Britain’s Female Aviation Heroes 52 You Are Enough 54 Spiny-Skinned: Sea Stars

56 Michael Brufal De Melgarejo

SCENE 60 Rock Fashion Rocks 61 Prose: Ballad of the Chauvanist 62 The World Beyond Flower Pots

LEISURE 64 Historic Hungary 72 Jeans and a Nice Top

76 Battle of the Sexes 78 Le Vin Lalou 88 Childline: How was your day?

REGULARS 80 Recipes: Pancake Stack & 'Cheesy' Leek & Broccoli Tartlets 82 Guides and Information

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90 Parenting on the Rock 93 #GibsGems 94 Olympian Gods: Mother of the Gods 96 Schedules 98 Coffee Time

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CULTURAL PROGRAMME MARCH 2018 Thursday 1st March

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World Book Day 2018

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John Mackintosh Hall 10:00:00 - 18:00:00 A worldwide celebration of books and reading. For further information please contact the John Mackintosh Hall staff on Tel 200 75669 Until Friday 9th March Young Art Competition 2018 John Mackintosh Hall 9am – 6pm The annual Art Competition for Young Artists. Free Entry. Friday 9th March to Sunday 11th March World Snooker Open Tournament 2018 For enquiries and tickets contact the offices of the Ministry of Sports, City Hall. Telephone: +350 20047592 Friday 16th March Dream Girl of the Year 2018 John Mackintosh Hall, 8:30pm Tickets priced at £15 on sale from DIAMOND OCCASION, 1st Floor, ICC as from Monday 26th February Moday 19th March to Saturday 24th March Blue Week Various activities will be held throughout this week to fundraise for the Childline charity. Email info@childline.gi to get involved with the #8008 challenge! Moday 19 March to Friday 23rd March th

O’Callaghan Elliot Hotel, registration and welcome drink at 6:30pm and the talk starts at 7:30pm Doug Gillen: Hidden Canvasses: Street Art and the City Thursday 22nd March Awareness Day Outside the ICC Childline will be outside the ICC raising awareness about who they are and what they do. Saturday 24th March Alameda Gardens Tour George Don Gates, Grand Parade, 10.30am Price: £5.00 - children free Tour conducted by Mr Andrew Abrines taking you through the flowers in season and later a question and answer time. For further information contact: +350 20041235 The Gibraltar Wedding Fair 2018 Grand Battery House, 6pm Amazing exhibitors, great entertainment and fantastic prizes! With perfomances by B-Sharp, Michelle Brown and Frank Skott Bridal Catwalk by Diamond Occasion. For further information and tickets contact info@easygibraltarweddings.com

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news POETRY SLAM On behalf of the Ministry of Culture, the Gibraltar Cultural Services as part of its cultural development programme is pleased to announce a Poetry Slam.

THREE TEAMS OF GIBRALTAR STUDENTS IN CYBERCENTURION FINALS Three teams from Gibraltar have qualified for the CyberCenturion National Final, which will be held at The Institution of Engineering and Technology in London on 8th March. This is the third time that Gibraltar teams have qualified for CyberCenturion finals. Over 500 teams from the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories signed up to the competition. After three online rounds, only the top ten teams qualify for the National Final. This year, three of them are from Gibraltar’s schools. These teams are comprised of fourteen students from Bayside and Westside Schools, aged between 14 and 17. One of the teams is an all-girl team, and was the best performing all-girl team throughout the entire competition. In Gibraltar, the online rounds were hosted at the Gibraltar University and involved the students securing and fixing vulnerabilities in a number of different operating systems. Since September, the teams have been training on a weekly basis with the Security Team from the betting company GVC Group, developing their skills in securing both Linux and Windows based operating systems. The students have also been taking part in the UK Governments' Cyber Discovery and Cyber First programmes to enhance their experience further.

The Poetry Slam will be held at the Central Hall on Saturday 3rd of March offering workshops lead by local poet Jonathan Teuma and Tanya Santini for different age groups. The event is open to all those who like word play and a bit of stage action. A Poetry Slam is a live poetry event where participants have three minutes to create their original poem(s). Whether there's an injustice you want to rant about, a love you must express or someone/thing you want to poke fun at, sign up, come along and take the plunge! Workshops on the day will give participants an introduction to poem writing and reciting techniques all within the warmth and safety environment of their respective workshop groups. Workshops are free and will run as follows: 10am to 11am 10 to 12 year olds 11am to 12:30pm 13 to 15 year olds 1:30pm to 3pm 16 to 18 year olds 3pm to 4:30pm 18+ For further information and registration please contact Tanya Santini via email: tanya.santini@culture.gov.gi.

EY Accountants has kindly agreed to purchase personalised hoodies for all the team members, provide them with laptop satchels and arrange a visit to the EY Cyber Hub in London. The teams will also be visiting Bletchey Park during their time in England. The Minister for Education, the Hon John Cortes, said: ‘I am immensely proud of these students, who have worked extremely hard. CyberCenturion offers a unique learning opportunity and I am certain that these skills and experiences will serve all those who participate well in the future. The engagement from the private sector in supporting and training the teams is greatly appreciated and we will be reaching out more to encourage this. I wish all three Gibraltar teams the very best of luck, and most of all, hope they enjoy the experience to the full.’ For further information and registration please contact Tanya Santini via email: tanya.santini@culture.gov.gi. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

news GIBRALTAR AND UK RESUME BREXIT DISCUSSIONS IN LONDON The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo and the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia last month met the Minister for the Cabinet Office David Lidington MP in London. Mr Lidington was the longest serving Minister for Europe with responsibility for Gibraltar and as such is well acquainted with the issues that affect us. Mr Picardo was nonetheless able to update Mr Lidington on the latest developments since he assumed a different role in the UK Government after the 2016 referendum. The meeting followed detailed discussions between the Gibraltar and United Kingdom Government delegations as we prepare to leave the European Union and as British officials engage with individual Members States on matters relating to the future relationship between the UK and Gibraltar, on the one hand, and the European Union on the other. The Gibraltar delegation included the Attorney General Michael Llamas, the Financial Secretary Albert Mena and UK Representative Dominique Searle. The UK delegation included senior officials from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and from the Department for Exiting the European Union.

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news EXTENSION OF BUS SERVICE TO MOUNT ALVERNIA HM Government of Gibraltar is pleased to announce that services on bus route 7 have been extended so that the last bus will leave Mount Alvernia at 7:30pm. This improved service is a direct result of user feedback following a change in the mealtime at Mount Alvernia from 5.00pm to 5.45pm. The extended timing allows family and friends to spend meal times with residents and gives the opportunity for those who wish to take their loved ones on an outing or home for the day to benefit from the extended service. The Minister with responsibility for public transport, The Hon Paul Balban, said: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The

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news CHIEF MINISTER CHAIRS MISUSE OF DRUGS

ORGAN DONATION In May 2015, Gibraltar-based patients became eligible to enrolon NHS transplant waiting lists, allowing people suffering from end-stage kidney failure and other conditions to remain in their own homes while awaiting their transplant.

The Chief Minister has chaired the first meeting of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs since he took ministerial responsibility for this sensitive and important area of policy. The Council consists of several Ministers, senior Civil Servants, the Commissioner of Police, Collector of Customs, Director of Public Health, CEO of the GHA and other experts in this field. The Chief Minister told the members of the body that the Advisory Council will meet monthly and will co-ordinate the implementation of the objectives of a new Drugs Strategy Team. This team, which will be based at No 6 Convent Place, will develop the Government’s strategic objectives regarding the misuse of drugs and will collect data into a centralised drug database in order to inform the strategy. The Team will also develop a community outreach programme, which will include a bespoke website offering awareness resources and rehabilitation information. The Chief Minister Fabian Picardo said: ‘The misuse of drugs affects our society at every level and it can have far-reaching effects on our families – indeed it can destroy people’s lives. We must act now in a smarter, more coordinated way to build a safer and healthier community and we need to engage with key partners in this field, including health and justice practitioners, educators, and the RGP. We have to engage with different age groups and in respect of different addictions in order to have a positive effect in reducing drug dependency. I was therefore very proud to have chaired the first meeting of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and I look forward to tackling the issues that addiction and recreational use of drugs can create on a genuine cross-government basis. The Advisory Council and the Drugs Strategy Team will be the keys to delivering a future in which less people suffer the effects of drug addiction directly or in their family lives.’

The next logical step is to give the people of Gibraltar the opportunity to give the gift of life by making organ donation after

WORKS PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FLOOR TO JOHN MACKINTOSH HOME The Minister for Health, Care and Justice, the Honourable Neil F. Costa MP, together with the Minister for Housing and Equality, the Honourable Samantha Sacramento MP, opened an additional floor at the John Mackintosh Home last month. This new area follows conversion works to the ground floor of the Home, which formerly contained flats. The conversion works have provided space for 16 additional beds on the ground floor of the Home. Furthermore, the refurbishment works have opened up space for an extra two beds on the third floor of the building. This raises the total to 70 beds available at the Home, spread over four floors. The Home is fitted to be ‘dementia friendly’, by making use of colour coding on doors and corridors and using signage,

which resonates best for those with sensory or memory difficulties. These simple but effective steps will allow residents to better orientate themselves and minimise anxiety. The Home is fully accessible to wheelchair users and is fitted with low profiling beds, enabling residents to maintain maximum independence in the safest environment. Specialist equipment such as hoists and standing aids have also been supplied, along with vital pieces of equipment, which provide for the residents’ needs and ensure staff are carrying out resident manual handling tasks safely. The move will release a number of beds at St Bernard’s Hospital, which will be available for acute admissions. The releasing of these beds will also have a positive impact on capacity for clinical procedures, resulting in more beds being available for planned admissions.

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news death possible. To that end, the Ministry of Health and the GHA have been working with NHS Blood and Transplant to make this long aspired goal a reality. HM Government of Gibraltar and the GHA are therefore, delighted to announce a site visit by a senior delegation from NHS Blood and Transplant Service to Gibraltar to help the GHA prepare the ground to make organ donation after death an option for the people of Gibraltar for the first time. Gibraltar residents will be able to register themselves as an organ donor on the

MORE PCC REFORMS The Ministry of Health and the Gibraltar Health Authority are pleased to announce a further tranche of planned reforms to the Primary Care Centre (PCC). The new processes aim to refresh and reinvigorate the appointments system and to increase the community access to GPs and Nurse Practitioners. • Qualified nurses to phone routine test results to patients • Extra GPs being recruited to provide a walk-in ‘See and Treat’ service • Extra GPs being recruited to provide evening clinics • Better balance between advance appointments and on-the-day appointments • £5 increase in the fee for House Calls to patients under age of 65 • Sick notes for up to 5 calendar days can be requested by phone whilst retaining existing safeguards On 27 December 2017, the GHA introduced GP walk-in clinics, to deal with the winter flu season. Following the intro-

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UK register. The GHA anticipate that there will be one to two potential organ donors per year in Gibraltar. It is important to note that one organ donor can potentially give the gift of life to up to eight recipients, and this opportunity to change the life of others for the better is one that will surely be taken up by many members of our caring community. The UK Transplant team is activated as soon as a potential organ donor is identified in Gibraltar. This will set in motion a protocol to send a team from the UK

duction of extra GPs, the PCC's capacity has been enormously improved, with an average of 48 unused appointments every single weekday. This appointment availability has not been seen in the past in the winter months and our primary care services have effectively managed to keep pace with the winter flu surge that has created such difficulties in other countries. Further full time GP posts are now to be advertised to develop a “See and Treat” style Minor Illness Service, where patients can be seen in an area that mirrors the 'Minors' area of an A&E Department with nurses and GPs working closely together to see patients as soon as they arrive. This will create a far more flexible service and will bridge the gap between primary care and the Accident & Emergency Department. After consultation with patients and clinicians, and based on the success of the walk-in clinics, it has been decided that a better balance between, advance pre-booked appointments, and bookon-the-day appointments, needs to be established. To that end, the GHA will increase the number of book-on-the-day clinics available every day over the next few months. This exercise will gradually establish the right balance between, appointments providing quick and easy access to a GP, and those appointments with a preferred GP for long-term care management and regular follow-ups.

to retrieve the organs in Gibraltar, if the donor is suitable. The organs will then be allocated for recipients on the UK transplant list, which includes Gibraltarians. Gibraltar residents can record their desire to become an organ donor after death by signing up to the UK Organ Donor Register at www.organdonation.nhs.uk or by calling 0044 300 123 23 23. After you register, it is also important to make your wishes known to your family members so they can support you in making the gift of life after your death.

There has also been an extensive review of the House Call Service that is provided by the GPs. It is usually preferable for a patient to attend the PCC where there is a full range of clinical equipment and clinical support staff to provide a range of treatment options. However, it is understood that there are some housebound, elderly and vulnerable patients, who are simply unable to attend the PCC and the GHA is extremely keen to preserve house calls for such patients who are in genuine need. House calls fees have not increased since October 1998 and will now be adjusted, in line with the increase in the Index of Retail Prices, and reviewed automatically on an annual basis. To that end, and with effect from today, the fee for a visit by a house call GP will be increased from £10 to £15, for patients under 65 years old. Patients who are over 65 will continue to pay £5. Patients who are exempt for social reasons will remain exempt from payment, including pensioners whose only income is the Old Age Pension. Perhaps one of the most anticipated and requested reforms is that of evening clinics in the PCC. It is, therefore, with great pleasure that we are able to announce that the GHA is already in the process of recruiting two part-time GPs, to provide an evening GP clinic, to run in the PCC between 6pm and 8pm on weekdays from Monday through to Friday evening.

news SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON NEW SCHOOLS PROJECT The new schools project has now entered the next phase of development with significant progress being made. Construction of Notre Dame School at Laguna Estate is progressing well, with this due to open this year, when the current Notre Dame will be demolished and building will start on the new St Anne’s School. Users of the area where the two new Comprehensive schools will be built are currently being reallocated. Demolition is expected to commence in Marc with construction there due to begin in April. The Stage 2 designs for the two new schools at Waterport, which consist of the main layouts requested by the schools as worked on by the architects, are being studied by the contractors that are due to submit their bids within the next fortnight. At the same time, an extensive Stage 3 consultation has commenced over the last week. The Education Ministry’s design team met over four days with all the departmental heads of Westside and Bayside schools to discuss the detailed designs of each of the specialist rooms. Assessment of requirements and design work is now stepping up on the new St Martin’s, Bishop Fitzgerald and Governor’s Meadow schools, which will be located in the area currently occupied by Westside.

TERRITORIES TAKE UP OCEANS, PLASTICS AND MORE Minister for Environment and Climate Change John Cortes has co-chaired a meeting of the Council of Environment Ministers of the U.K. Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies held in Douglas on the Isle of Man. The meeting was hosted by the Isle of Man Government, whose Minister for Environment the Hon Geoffrey Boot co-chaired the two-day meeting. Thirteen territories were represented, and discussed a wide range of issues centring around the Environment. These included Climate Change, severe weather events, sustainable development, biodiversity, renewable energy, funding, Brexit, plastic pollution and the protection of the oceans. The aim of the Council is to bring together Ministers and equivalents and senior officials from all the UK overseas jurisdictions in order to work together to improve

environmental governance and sustainable development, and to engage the UK Government as appropriate. Increasingly also, and particularly at this meeting, the role of this collective, with representation from across the globe, in making a difference at a global level, was emphasised. In particular as most of the territories are islands or near-islands, the importance of the oceans was highlighted. The Council agreed to support efforts to reduce plastic pollution, and to promote environmental protection in those British territories that do not have permanent human habitation. These include the British Indian Ocean Territories around Chagos, and in the Atlantic they include South Georgia, the South Sandwich islands, and the British Antarctic territory. Taken together, this gives the UK responsibility for hundreds of square kilometres of ocean, including some of the world’s major coral reefs and a large section of southern ocean.

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news HM GOVERNMENT OF GIBRALTAR AWARDS AN ADVANCED WORKS CONTRACT FOR ITS WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT HM Government of Gibraltar has today awarded an Advanced Works Contract to the joint venture (the “Joint Venture”) between NWG Commercial Services Limited (“Northumbrian Water”) and Modern Water, which covers the design and survey work required for final planning and environmental approvals as well as preliminary site works for the treatment of sewage in Gibraltar.

These are the final steps before work can commence on the overall project, which is for the design, build and operation of the wastewater treatment plant, to treat all of Gibraltar’s urban wastewater as well as storm flows for the entire population of Gibraltar. On completion, of the design and build phase of the project Northumbrian Water

will be responsible for the operation of the plant for 20 years, via a sub-contract with AquaGib. The intention is that works on site will begin in the first half of this year, with completion expected in 2020. The plant will be located at the Brewery Crusher site near Europa Point. It will be odourless and covered, and so will not negatively impact on views in the area.

SEA DEFENCE WORKS AT THE GORHAM’S CAVE COMPLEX As part of its commitment towards maintaining the important World Heritage Site known as the Gorham’s Cave Complex, Her Majesty’s Government of Gibraltar has commissioned coastal defence infrastructure works. These consist of the placing of gabions on the beach in front of the caves which are aimed at protecting the sensitive archaeological deposits from the action of waves during storms. Gabions were initially placed at Gorham’s Cave and their effectiveness has been monitored. They have been successful at preventing any marine erosion even during the biggest recent storms. The gabions have additionally served as walkways for visitors, thus further minimising impact. The next stage is to place gabions to protect the deposits at Vanguard Cave. Given their elevation and distance from the beach these deposits are safe at the moment but slight sea level rise and an increas-

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ing frequency of bad storms could put the site at risk. Before reaching such a stage, gabions are being placed now. These works were part of the commitment given by HMGoG to UNESCO in the site’s five year Management Plan. Works commence on Friday 16th February with the deployment of equipment by sea

aimed at bringing in quantities of broken limestone rock that will fill the gabions and thus provide an effective sea wall. The design, matching that at Gorham’s Cave, is aimed at additionally minimizing the visual impact on the site. The remoteness of the site and the difficulty of access makes the operation a difficult one which has needed careful planning.

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THE LADBROKES CORAL TROPHY The Med Golf Ladbrokes Coral Trophy, played in an individual Stableford format, was held on the Heathland Course at Alcaidesa on Sunday 11th February. The champion of the day, winner of the Ladbrokes Coral Trophy and a 60€ Med Golf voucher was Paul Nash with 36 points – a much greater achievement than the net par score suggests and 3 points better than his nearest rival. Paul also had the best gross score on the par 3s of one over par, and shared the best pair’s prize with James Barr with a combined score of 62 points. The best senior was Ian McNee with a score of 30 points and the longest drive was won by Matthew Bruce-Smith. The best gross score was won by John Hunter with a very fine 79, just 7 shots over par - in spite of carding an 8 on the first hole! Our handicap category prizes were won as follows: Category 1 (handicaps 0 to 12): There was a tie for first place between Matthew Bruce-Smith (handicap 4) and John Hunter (handicap 1) both with scores of 32 points. In Stableford competitions, ties are awarded to the lowest handicap so the winner was John and Matthew won the runner up prize. Category 2 (handicaps 13 to 22): Sam Broderick was runner up with a score

of 32 points and the winner was Joe Sanchez with 33 points. Category 3 (handicap 23 and above): Dave Allen took the runner up slot from Damien White on handicap with 29 points, The winner was Nick Farr with a score of 31 points. Nearest the pin winners were: Richard Atkinson, Duncan Hamilton, Javi Hunter and John Robbins. Alan Wood won nearest the pin in 2 on a par 4 and Matthew Bruce-Smith was winner of nearest the pin in 3 on a par 5. The Jyske Bank Order of Merit *Only the top 10 will qualify for next summers Med Golf Masters. Here are the current top 20 Matt Charlesworth, Richard Atkinson, Peter Gruetter, Louis Calvente, Mike Cowburn, Daniel Lomax, Sam Broderick, Joe Sanchez, Roy Azopardi, Matthew Warner, Paul Nash, Javi Hunter, Nicky Sanchez, Jon Bowden, Nick Farr, Ian McNee, Chris Purkiss, Kevin Jones, Douglas Cascairo, Tim Mitchell

JYSKE BANK RETAINS GOLD STANDARD WITH INVESTORS IN PEOPLE In a drive to be “the best workplace in Gibraltar” for the 100 colleagues working in Jyske Bank, their HR team have worked with Investors in People to maintain the Gold standard achieved in June 2015. Paul Devoy, Head of Investors in People, said: “We’d like to congratulate Jyske Bank. Investors in People accreditation is the sign of a great employer, an outperforming place to work and a clear commitment to success. Jyske Bank should be extremely proud of their achievement.” Maintaining the standard has required hard work and dedication from the whole Jyske Bank team. Christian Bjorlow, Jyske Bank (Gibraltar) CEO said, “I am so proud of my bank. It was a great achievement to initially receive the Gold award, and so to have re-confirmation of this accreditation shows my bank’s continued success. This also occurred in the year that we celebrated our 30th anniversary on the Rock”

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news HASSANS TOPS CHAMBERS AND THE GIBRALTAR "HALL OF FAME" RANKING TABLES Hassans continues to be considered at the top of its game by both local and international clients according to rankings recently announced by the globally renowned legal directory Chambers and Partners. Hassans has received over twice as many individual lawyer listings than any of its local competitors. The lawyers listed include James Levy CBE QC (Star Individual – the only lawyer in Gibraltar to receive this highest accolade in General Business Law), Michael Castiel, Nigel Feetham, James Lasry and Peter Montegriffo QC (Band 1), Valerie Holliday (Band 2), Isaac Levy, Vikram Nagrani and Tony Provasoli (Band 3). Lewis Baglietto QC, David Dumas QC and Gillian Guzman QC have all been ranked in Band 1 along with John Restano QC in Band 2 for Dispute Resolution. In addition, Peter Montegriffo QC has been listed for the 2nd year as

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a global leader in gaming (in Band 1), alongside just 23 other lawyers from around the globe. The rankings follow news that 7 of the firm’s Partners have also been listed in 9 areas in the Legal 500 ‘Hall of Fame’. The inaugural EMEA edition follows the highly successful US ranking source, with only lawyers that have received constant praise by their clients for continued excellence for 7 years or more being listed. Those listed are Nigel Feetham and Valerie Holliday, James Levy QC, Michael Castiel, Lewis Baglietto QC, James Levy QC, Javier Chincotta and Peter

Montegriffo QC. Javier Chincotta, Managing Partner, commented: “These rankings confirm that we have the best people, with impressive levels of expertise in their respective areas of practice, delivering top value to our clients. Those recognised are a credit both to the firm and to our jurisdiction and deserve the congratulations for their achievements, - no doubt, these achievements will inspire all of us in the firm to push the boundaries of client service to even higher levels.”

Teamwork wins Championships “ISOLAS LLP achieve Band 1 top ranking once again in Chambers & Partners 2018 Global Guide”

SOLAS LLP & Fiduciary Group are delighted to honour our staff who have now worked with us for over 20 years rewarding them with extra holidays and an individual gift of appreciation to each of them. This is to celebrate, during ISOLAS 125 anniversary year, the tremendous teamwork that exists within all parts of the firm: Sharon Truman Davies and Jeanette Ochello from ISOLAS and Kate Bentley, Joanna Parody, Marina Abdul Magid, Peter Thomson and Abigail Parody from FIDUCIARY. Between them, Fiduciary Group and ISOLAS have many years of combined experience of servicing clients’ needs but this handful of long term employees at both companies have, between them, accumulated in excess of 150 years of service for ISOLAS and Fiduciary.

only back at work within weeks (a testament to his mental determination to achieve) but has been ranked as one of the top 10 lawyers, not just in Gibraltar, but globally, in the new Digital Ledger Technology area of law in which he has undoubtedly led the way and contributed in no small measure to the law recently introduced in Gibraltar in this area. Peter Isola, senior partner of ISOLAS LLP and Chairman of Fiduciary Group, said: ‘It has been a tremendous start to the year with the acquisition of

Legacy consulting bringing new talent to the firm with Emma Lejeune, Harriett Almeida and Nicki Walker joining us, the appointment of Emma Lejeune and Selwyn Figueras as Partners, the recognition of our band 1 rating in Chambers, Joey Garcia’s accolade as a top global player in the Fintech space and the appointment of Kate Bentley as Managing Director of Fiduciary Group. But undoubtedly recognizing our employees who contribute so much to the teamwork that exists though out the firm is equally important’.

In addition ISOLAS LLP was only last week confirmed in its Band 1 top ranking in the highly respected Chambers & Partners in its 2018 guide with many of the firm’s lawyers, too numerous to mention, been highly ranked at every level and over the firm’s core areas. It is the only Gibraltar Law firm of its size to be so ranked. But what is outstanding, and worthy of specific mention, is the that one of ISOLAS’ Partners, Joey Garcia, who only last November was involved in a near fatal accident was not

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The Late Nanna Hindes inspired me! She was exceptionally friendly and fun. She once started a water-fight with my friends in her house, and never ever seemed to complain - despite multiple gardening accidents. I think her warmth and positivity is why she lived to grand old age of 96!

My sister because sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always by my side and I would give my life for her. Also my daughter, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my number one.

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Alan Palao, 49

Kelly Whelan

Director at Property Zone

General Manager at Little Bay

All of my female colleagues, because they work so hard and they make going to work fun!

Mother Theresa, because she was selfless and donated her whole life to other people and loved everybody as if they were her own children.

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Firstly my mum, because she encourages me to be a good person every day. Secondly Liz Pichon, author of Tom Gates. Not only did she write it, but she drew all the pictures too! Her books are creative and funny.

Probably my mum because she’s been with me through thick and thin and she has been a pillar in my life.

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Waiter at Bridge Bar & Grill

Trainee Lawyer at ISOLAS

Edna Mode from The Incredibles, because when I was a child I was getting bullied and in the movie she shouts at Mr Incredible who was at least ten times her size. It made me think, “I can do the same” to the people who were bullying me.

My mum. I’m a needy middle child so she organises my life on a continuous basis. Unfortunately I didn’t inherit her dancing skills. She also loves choir with her choir girls, and skipping lunch in favour of a big cake. She always has a smile on her face, no matter what.

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GIRLS IN TECH HACKATHON

We explore the Girls in Tech hackathon, introducing what hackathons are all about and why they’re run by companies like Facebook and Google. We’ll show you why you should consider running your own hackathons, and how you can get involved with Girls in Tech.

BY GRAEME FULTON

s Girls in Tech approaches their one year anniversary since the launch of the Gibraltar chapter, real-world dividends are manifesting in the community as a result of their social initiatives. Last November saw their first “Hacking for Humanity” hackathon - a two day event where developers, designers and product managers banded together to collaborate on solving technical problems for various Gibraltarbased charities and non-profits. What is a hackathon and who can participate? To put it simply, a hackathon is an event where people come together into one space (physical or digital) and work with technology to turn ideas into reality within a short time constraint. You don’t need to be a programmer, or even a technical person – the more diverse the people, the greater the range of ideas that can emerge. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

The Girls in Tech hackathon itself is an open event for both male and female participants to promote gender equality and bridge the gap in the technology spaces. For instance, the last event in November saw twenty-eight participants get the chance to flex their skills, work with fellow hackers, and learn something new – all whilst providing an opportunity to contribute to social causes. Hackathon heroes The time-sensitive yet open nature of hackathons can lead to results that can’t be replicated in regular working environments. For example, Facebook’s famous ‘Like’ button actually started out as an ‘Awesome’ button, produced in an internal company hackathon at Facebook. Facebook’s ‘Chat’ feature emerged in a similar way. Now these are both core features of the Facebook experience. Another example of a hackathon success

was when Skype spent $85m on a popular social messaging app called GroupMe, which started out as a simple idea that was given life through a community hackathon run by TechCrunch, a leading technology news community. Evidently, unlike most regular day jobs, hackathons provide an environment where risk taking is encouraged and failure isn’t frowned upon, giving people the chance to think out of the box and produce awesome things. It’s a great reason to run one in your own company. Furthermore, similar results were seen at Girls in Tech’s Hacking for Humanity - one team produced such a great prototype that Childline decided to develop it into a real solution. Fresh perspectives on business challenges Girls in Tech worked alongside three social initiatives to bring fresh perspec25

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Clockwise: Childline, judges, prize winners. tives to challenges each organisation was facing. The initiatives at ‘Hacking for Humanity’ included: 1. Childline 2. Animals in Need Foundation 3. Understanding Gibraltar Engaging members of the community who are external to each organisation brings an outside perspective to each initiative, and with that, the freedom to explore openly. Any limits imposed by organisational structures and politics are non-existent.

From left to right: Mark Mitrushkin, Márcio José Chaves Oliveira, Miguel Berniz, and Rita Fernandes

For guidance though, representatives The work developed in this event was from each organisation were on at hand appraised by an experienced panel of if teams needed advice or opinions from judges and prizes were given to the top subject matter experts. For instance three placing teams. The judging panel Merel Swarts and Jo Abergel of Childline was made up of Prof. Daniella Tilbury assisted the teams working on their topic (Vice Chancellor and CEO – University by answering questions and providof Gibraltar), Denise Matthews (CEO ing background information about the One Media & Events, Chapter Director Childline organisation. With such guidStartup Grind Gibraltar), Gal Shapira (CIO ance, and the tireless effort of the teams Playtech), Paul Astengo (Senior involved, an array of amazing Executive – Gibraltar Finance, ideas emerged. The more HM Government of Gibraltar) diverse the and Girls in Tech Gibraltar’s Solutions at the event included: people, the Managing Director, Cristina greater the Turbatu. • An anonymous help platform that would support Childline Gibraltar (winning first prize)

range of ideas that can emerge.

• A live call to text application for Childline • A web app for Animals in Need Foundation that would encourage people to walk stray dogs in their free time through the use of gamification. 26

Out of all the hacks, only some go forward to become real solutions. Next is the story of one team at Hacking for Humanity, whose project was chosen by Childline to be used in real life. The hackathon journey: idea to reality If you’re wondering what it’s like par-

ticipating in such an event, here’s some learnings from members of the team that had their project chosen to be developed as a real solution. Their experience covers everything from arriving at a hackathon, forming teams, to preparing their solution beyond the hackathon. Choosing a project At the start of the hackathon, problem statements are set by each of the initiatives involved. The Childline project was put forward to the hackers by Childline’s Chairperson, Jo Abergel and Merel Swarts, Childline’s Services Coordinator. Childline had an issue with maintaining call records and required a bespoke system to easily confidentially communicate with, and measure the risk of young people. Hackers were attracted to the project as it aligned with their passions, and the goals were clear. Here’s what they thought when starting out: GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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“I thought that if I could help someone with my passion that would be a plus. It’s also a good way to get involved with the community, both on social and professional levels.” – Rita Fernandes “From the list of suggested topics, the Childline project had a clear problem and requirements from which we could see the solution.” – Mark Mitrushkin “Having the opportunity to help children to be better served by childline was the spirit behind the election of the project in the Hackathon” – Miguel Berniz

Facebook’s ‘Like’ button started out as an ‘Awesome’ button, produced in hackathon at Facebook.

Working together effectively After choosing the project, the team had to figure out how to work together most effectively, as they had all just met. They found that their shared goals helped them, as well as finding ways to draw upon each individual’s area of expertise: “It was definitely a challenge to start working with people you first met. Each of us wanted to contribute with the skills we have and it was a matter of putting the skills together.” – Mark Mitrushkin “Working with a team of people you just met for the very first time was a truly enriching experience.” – Miguel Berniz Making the right thing Making something cool is fun, but making something truly useful is most important. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

Here, the team show how leveraging expert knowledge helped focus their ideas, leading to a product that solved a genuine problem: “Gladly we had Jo and Merel from Childline to answer all our questions.” – Mark Mitrushkin

“They were genuinely interested in having a better platform, so they were really helpful providing us all the requirements and explaining the issues and constraints that they were facing. We could have just designed something pretty but we decided to look into the real issues Childline was facing and deliver them an improved solution.” – Rita Fernandes Planning for future success The project is now being led by Annemarie Heeringa from Childline. After the hackathon, Swarts and Abergel met with the hackers to ensure the system met their needs before going live with the idea.

Get Involved with Girls in Tech Evident from all parties involved at the event, there is no doubt that using our skills for something important to us is both rewarding and fulfilling – something many people care about more than money. In fact, such positive environments often bring innovative solutions that could otherwise have been locked up forever. On another level, Hackathons also connect people – they’re great for recruitment and promoting your brand too. Childline stated that Girls in Tech gave them the opportunity to raise awareness about the work of their charity to groups of hackers who were not aware of everything they did.

“Many of them approached us afterwards about some of the volunteering opportunities we can offer.” – Jo Making Abergel something

cool is fun, but making something truly useful is most important.

According to Abergel, the hackers brought ideas that Childline hadn’t even considered, and the project is looking very promising going forward. She described that the solution will make information much more easily accessible to Childline staff and volunteers, as well as improving relationships with other agencies whom which they work with.

Girls in Tech have a number of events coming up supported by their platinum sponsor, Gaming Innovation Group, their silver sponsor, Playtech and event partner Colorworks. Girls in Tech also have the support of Supernatural and the World Trade Center who hosted the hackathon. Help from these sponsors enables Girls in Tech to put on incredible and exciting events, whilst importantly encouraging women to pursue technical careers. Up next is their ‘Women in Tech Stories’ event. Contact karen.mares@girlsintech.org for more information on getting involved. 27

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FROM IT TO DLT ONE WOMANS JOURNEY Gibraltar’s multifaceted female community is comprised of a number of women from different backgrounds, religions and nationalities. This month, we sit down with one woman whose inspiring journey has led her to Gibraltar, where she now works as a Senior Advisor on DLT at the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission.

BY SOPHIE CLIFTON-TUCKER

also the technological. Straddling these 5 year old Siân Jones began her of ‘double spending’ digital currency, two disciplines was to her advantage, and career in IT 48 years ago, with as every time a transaction is made, it’s she soon began advising start-ups in her a focus on information security. made known to everyone on the ‘chain’, consultancy career. Back then, it was more about data meaning everyone maintains a true copy processing than IT as we know it today. of the ledger. Siân explains: “Everyone After working with the likes of banks, synchronises their ledger to make sure the In October 2016, the Gibraltar Financial healthcare, and pharmaceutical compa‘fingerprint’ is the same. This fingerprint Services Commission (GFSC) joined the nies, she landed a corporate job in an changes according to totality of informaGovernment of Gibraltar’s DLT working overseas jurisdiction as CIO of an intertion on the ledger. If someone’s ledger is group. Siân became a consultant for what national group in Cyprus. 8 years ago, she out of kilter it becomes apparent, because developed into DLT Regulation, which made the move to the UK where it doesn’t agree with the fingerprint that came into force In January she began doing some consuleveryone else has agreed on. of this year. Back in Blockchain tancy work. Siân was intrigued “This blockchain technology is December, she was technology is “Privacy by Bitcoin and its application really a way of providing trust in asked to come to really a way isn’t an of cryptography. She thought a trustless world. That’s not that Gibraltar permanently. of providing absolute, it a novel use, and so began everyone is untrustworthy, but trust in a nor is it state attending meetup groups in we can’t always know who the But what is DLT, also trustless controlled." London and elsewhere to learn ones we can trust are.” [The noknown as blockchain? world. more about it. She confesses: tion of blockchain as ‘The Trust Distributed Ledger “In those days they were nearly Machine’ was a headline in The Economist Technology is a means of all start-up hipster entrepreneurs with in 2015.] digitally recording, updating and storideas on how to use Blockchain – I was ing information in multiple places at the the oldest in the room!” However, people Whether you’re clued up on cryptosame time. The first blockchain database were interested in what Siân had to say currencies or not, the numerous other was first devised in 2008 by Satoshi due to her background in regulatory combenefits of DLT are undeniable. For Nakamoto; the name used by the unpliance. She understood the old financial example, health records; this technology known person (or people) who invented services world - the traditional one - but can be used to share data to many health bitcoin. This database solved the problem 28

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technology providers, meaning the emergency clinic you visit abroad will have your medical information (as much or as little as you consent to) from your doctor back home at the touch of a button. Another key way DLT can be harnessed is for land registry. Large parts of the developing world have no record of who owns what property. “Generations have been dispossessed because some logging company wants to buy a swathe of land. Blockchain can provide solutions to financial exclusion and restoring trust in government, especially in places where corruption is rife.” However, this technology has brought with it some tension as some draw comparisons between readily available personal information in multiple places to a ‘Big Brother’ situation. Siân reassures this is not the case. “Privacy isn’t an absolute, nor is it state controlled. Some people confuse privacy with an absolute right to anonymity. Google knows everything we do, but data protection legislation ensures this doesn’t get shared without consent. In the DLT world, there are similar mechanisms that can be used. Most people have nothing to hide and are therefore quite happy, in personal circumstances, for their information to be available. Tools to detect money laundering and fight illegal activity already exist. While cash can be untraceable, digital currency is not nearly anonymous as some people would have you believe.”

some kind of minority - a minority of 50% makes no sense mathematically. Just look at me; as a Jewish, transgender woman who is also a lesbian, I’m in a minority of one. There aren’t too many like me!’” Siân has an incredibly, refreshing approach to the age-old debate of discrimination: “All we can be is ourselves, and do the best that each and every one of us can do as individuals.”

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Whether or not women consider themselves on an equal playing turn up late one day because field to their male they had to deal with a sick child. I go out in colleagues, there is still the The work-life balance is equal.” prevalent issue of the gender the world pay gap. In January of this year, as me and Gibraltar can often be seen as an the BBC faced backlash over don’t care example to the rest of the world a recent audit that revealed about how in many ways. We have every a gender pay gap of 9.3%. other people type of ethnicity and religion in According to BBC Women, this perceive me. and around the Mediterranean, issue is not simply down to the all living harmoniously as we disproportionate number of men With her extensive technical knowledge learn to get on with each other and look in higher-paid roles, but rather that many of DLT and how it can and should be women are being paid less than their male beyond labels. implemented, it is unsurprising that Siân counterparts for performing exactly the was asked by the GFSC in December to Siân agrees: “One of the things that I love relocate to Gibraltar. Whilst having a drink same roles. Siân acknowledges this area about Gibraltar is how accepting people of contention, adding: “There is no merit at the University of Gibraltar, overlookhave been. It’s one of the places in the in a woman who is doing a similar job as ing the straits on a clear sunny day, it’s a world where I feel totally comfortable; well as a man being treated any differentdecision she doesn’t regret making. where everybody seems to be warm and ly. The case for being remunerated needs open.” to be made on that basis, not through an Another facet to Siân that makes her such equality argument. Equality should be an interesting, strong female figure is that inherent.” A warm smile sweeps across Siân’s face as she had to work a little harder she adds: I have an incredibly supportive than most to get there. “As a partner, who I am very lucky to have, who But how does Gibraltar fare Jewish, in one sense is more protective about me when it comes to the delicate Whilst participating in a transgender than I am. I am far less conscious of being symbiosis between men and European Women Payments woman who regarded as different. It says more about women in the workplace? Siân Network (EWPN) conference in is also a believes it’s not a numbers game, other people when that happens! I go out Amsterdam last autumn, Siân rein the world as me and don’t care about but instead about the people. members a session where womlesbian, I’m how other people perceive me. “Forget men and women; I en were expressing how they in a minority work with 90+ individuals. I am felt challenged in the workplace, of one. There unaware of any discrimination, Siân’s confidence has come as a result of and how they needed to gain aren’t too positive or otherwise. We are being able to be herself, both in and out confidence in what was often a many like a beacon of how it should be. of the workplace. Not only are her com‘man’s world’. Some women freme!" The GFSC has a women friendly, ments on the booming world of DLT to be quently feel they’re challenged child friendly, and family friendly heard intently, but also those on life itself: by expectations and often by a working environment. Employees are “No woman should listen to the sexist feeling of somehow being second best. offered flexi-hours as well as maternity tripe and feel about herself that she’s any Siân reveals the words she spoke once it and paternity leave – it’s equal and famless. I look in the mirror every morning came to her turn to speak. “I said ‘look, ily-centric. Nobody is victimised if they and all I see is me.” none of you need to feel that you’re in GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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WOMEN IN RELOCATION The challenges of the expat wife.

the initial culture shock. “Life abroad can uite a few women don’t relocate Source: Brookfield Global Mobility Trends be stressful, not to mention dull at times, for their own career, but follow Survey 2016 a husband or partner on an and various triggers cause bluesy feelings assignment. According to the ranging from sadness to frustration”, says After the excitement of an international latest Global Relocation Trends Survey move has worn off, what does a non-work- Relocation specialist Ayelet Mamo Shay, author of the popular novel Relocation Report annually published by Brookfield ing expat wife do? When the boxes have Darling Relocation! which has Global Relocation Service, been unpacked and fewer than 20% of the assignees recently been launched in the thrills of the new Suddenly, After the themselves are women. So, the Gibraltar. Gibraltar is a small and culture subside, how you are excitement very often unfamiliar place for ‘typical’ expatriate woman is one do you fill the days and thrown back of an many prospective employees, who follows her male partner beat the dreaded expat into having making the entire relocation abroad – and may then, much to blues? international to wrestle proposition a relatively “hard sell”. her disappointment, find herself move has with the relegated to the role of the ‘expat Many people may know what to Studied have shown worn off, conundrum expect when relocating to places wife’, leaving behind a promising that a staggering 70% what does a like Paris, New York, or Berlin, but career back at the homeland of “women’s of failed relocations are non-working Gibraltar is a complete enigma to become a housewife or a due to the spouse/partwork”: expat wife for them. “In Gibraltar, we often stay-at-home parent. Indeed, the ner not settling in and unpaid and do? survey report (2016) found that lack the critical mass of people adapting. The typical invisible. only 16% of women who were necessary to operate various adjustment problems associations, clubs, courses and working prior to the relocation are also in include a spouse that doesn’t fit other social groups of like-minded people, employment while on relocation. in, doesn’t create a social network, and which means the socialising and networkbecomes disengaged. ing opportunities available to expat wives Employment status of the female acis fairly limited, especially if English is not companying the assignee on Relocation. Expat wives face many challenges beyond

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prior to or during In her book, Ayelet assignment describes the challenges, dilemmas and experiences Employment prior to of a fictional expat assignment only Employed before and wife - Ofira. Ofira during assignment leaves behind her a great job, loving family, and wonderful friends and goes almost blindly after her beloved 4% Employed during husband to relocate assignment only to another country. Ofira is tremendousEmployment status of the female ly frustrated by her accompanying the assignee on Relocation. inability to work Source: Brookfield Global Mobility Trends in her profession Survey 2016 and feels trapped raising their children case has its own in an unfamiliar culture, where she barely personal needs, it understands the language. She longs for is true that a key her homeland, which she feels she has factor to success betrayed by leaving, and for her family and is the mindset friends. of the relocating spouse and family Especially if you have never taken time out members - their from work before going abroad, becoming attitudes, opena stay-at-home wife in another country can ness and willingtake a psychological toll. Suddenly, you are ness to learn about thrown back into having to wrestle with the local customs, the conundrum of ‘women’s work’: unpaid culture, food, and Suddenly, and invisible. Your partner has his own etiquette. you are struggles and frustrations, of course, like thrown back adjusting to a different workplace culture Another important into having and new management styles. However, success factor is the contrast between the world of the advice to employers has always to wrestle networking, espehome and the business world can foster been to guide and accompany cially with the locals. “Go outside with the unexpected resentment and put a strain the employee right from the your comfort zone and don’t conundrum on your relationship. He’ll be overwhelmed just socialise with people from stage of planning the move, of ‘women’s and exhausted from his new posiparticularly paying attention to the same nationality or work’: tion – and may thus dismiss your the needs of the relocating emreligion. Open yourunpaid and The own problems with culture shock ployee’s spouse and other family self and make friends invisible. ‘typical’ and alienation. “In some counmembers. with people from tries, your husband may even act expatriate other cultures, religions as your visa sponsor and/or your and backgrounds”, says Ayelet. The book “Relocation Darling Relocation!” is woman is legal guardian. It takes quite a Another recommendation is if available for purchase at the Gibraltar Book one who few expat women some time to you can’t get gainful employment, Store, WHSmith, Gibraltar Museum, and at follows her swallow their pride and adjust to volunteer for a local charity or set the Heritage Trust Shop. male partner this reality”, says Ayelet. aside a timeslot for reading up on abroad – and recent developments in your promay then, So what can be done about all fession. Learn the local language, much to that? sign up for a part-time university degree, or take a long-distance her disaplearning class. This might be your There are as many ways to deal pointment, opportunity of discovering new with the expat blues as there find herself interests, brushing up neglected are causes of them. “Having relegated to talents, or improving some skills ERAN SHAY, Managing Director & relocated to Gibraltar ourselves the role of to perfection! (11 years ago already) we know AYELET MAMO SHAY, Business the ‘expat exactly what many of the reloDevelopment Director of Benefit wife’ cating families are going through, Business Solutions Ltd. Having assisted online gaming and are able to advise our clients and financial services compa(+350) 200 73669 about the best ways to deal with some nies with the relocation of their staff to general@benefitgibraltar.com of the issues”, says Ayelet. While each Gibraltar in the last few years, our biggest

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THE WORK-LIFE BALANCE

Founding Director of BC Training Gibraltar, Brenda Cuby understands only too well how to juggle the demands of being a mother whilst trying to maintain a successful work-life balance that also allows her to devote time to the many charity and non-profit organisations that she is involved in.

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he concept and notion of family has changed and is changing so much,” Brenda states. “The family is very different from what it was and it is the workplace that has to adapt.” As an advocate of positive employee morale, Brenda knows that companies reap the benefits from properly managing equality issues. “Look at Facebook,” she says. “CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a month’s parental leave when his second daughter was born and then another month in December.” However, Brenda agrees that it is a constant negotiation to make her multiple roles work in harmony. “It works because of my supportive family and, because from a young age my children have seen me working, it helps to instil a good work ethic and a desire for independence in them. “Technology has also helped,” she says, “with the ability to take a call in the car or to answer an email on the go.”

ness. “Working a 9-5 job for a corporate Something else about which Brenda is passionate is surrounding herself with company would not fit in with my family supportive women, friends and colleagues, and charity commitments,” she says. “I love who are also mothers and who understand the freedom that my start-up business gives me! If I had to go and work for an the inherent problems in managing their employer I know that I would not grow time effectively. Learning from other inspirational working mums and watching how and learn as much as I am currently able they achieve a good balance is something to do.” Brenda understands that being her that Brenda advocates. “I may not get own boss can be stressful and is not an easy path to walk. “For me it is it right all the time, but I hope the only path I wish to tread and to learn from my mistakes and “The move on. If there is one tip I can family is very I view the daily challenges that I pass on it is to have a diary and face as learning curves.” different a to-do list to hand at all times,” from what Brenda states. “It helps to keep As a veteran entrepreneur having it was and me on track and is something started at a young age running it is the that I constantly refer to.” her own companies, Brenda workplace knows only too well the difficulthat has to ties involved in establishing a Brenda set up BC Training business and she is fervent about because she felt that being her adapt.” using her experience to help own boss gave her the opporothers on their journey. “Helping sometunity to work and create a business that one to navigate their way to success is so would help others to grow and develop, understanding that personal growth and gratifying,” Brenda says. Being a mentor to a startup is a way of giving back to the development is key to personal happiGIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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Personal growth and development is key to personal happiness.

community and having someone to guide you through the pitfalls is essential. “Experience is not something that you can get from reading books,” Brenda says. “A good mentor can provide networking opportunities with people in the right sphere of business, as well as offering reassurance, encouragement and advice.”

One of Brenda’s favourite quotes is ‘Successful mums are not the ones that have never struggled, they are the ones that never give up despite the struggles’. “When you are a wife, mum and the owner of a start-up business you need to know when to push forward and when to let go,” Brenda says, adding that rolling with the issues and not being too critical is vital. “Those closest to you will be critical and there will be days “Helping when you need to make difficult decisions, but you need to remain someone true to your inner self.” to navigate

“Each week I make sure that I have some ‘me’ time scheduled in my diary!” Whether that is having her hair done their way to Another of the tricks Brenda or meeting a friend for success is so passes on to those that she menlunch, Brenda knows that gratifying.” tors is to carry a small mirror for it is vital to step off the self-affirmation. “This way if you treadmill and take time are ever in need of a reminder about who out. “It is so easy to get caught up you are and why you do what you do, just in family, work etc. that you can have a look in the mirror and ask ‘is this quickly lose sight of ‘you’, so make going to serve me?’” ‘you’ a priority.” Self-care is also very important to Brenda. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

Every day is a challenge when

Founding Director of BC Training Gibraltar, Brenda Cuby

Successful mums are not the ones that have never struggled, they are the ones that never give up despite the struggles.

growing a business, and even more so when it is a start-up and there are tight budgets to work to. Growing BC Training into an international business providing online and face-toface training has been both transformational and fulfilling for Brenda. “Learning all about how to run a business, developing your ideas, maintaining your passion and desire for your dreams to blossom is extremely hard work, but the rewards make up for it.” 33

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WOMEN IN POLITICS Mark addresses the issue of gender equality and Gibraltar's democratic progress.

BY MARK MONTEGRIFFO

hile travelling back and forth was only the first step. The 1960s saw a lot more liberalisation including legalising between Manchester (my abortion and no-fault divorce. These were university city) and London also pivotal steps but by no means game, (for band rehearsals), UK set, and match. Nowadays, there are still press were covering the 100 year mark social, economic and political since the first time (some) women inequalities between men and got the vote in general elections. Equality is women, not just in the UK, but Journalists arrived in Manchester; not about throughout the world in varying the birthplace of key suffragette women degrees. Joint with Slovakia and Emmeline Pankhurst and, as usubecoming the Czech Republic, the UK is al, journalists assembled around like men, but among the worst performing EU the vicinity of Westminster down states on the issue of gender south. In Westminster, on the 6th tapping the of February in 1918, a law was equality. At least after Brexit, full potential they can be a poorly performing passed that began to change the of our face of UK politics for decades to nation on gender equality outside society by the European Union. The UK still come. The Representation of the creating an People Act allowed for roughly has a gender pay gap, a huge disenvironment 2 in every 5 women in the UK parity in the fields of science and of choice... technology, and there remains a to vote. Indeed, it was also the first time that women could now distance in terms of access to the be legally permitted to sit as a member of top jobs. Vĕra Jourová is the EU commissioner for gender equality. She said that parliament. “this backwards or stagnating trend I find truly embarrassing. Equality is not about It was an important achievement. But it 34

women becoming like men, but tapping the full potential of our society by creating an environment of choice... Women are discriminated against when it comes to their career paths and access to jobs. Men are discriminated against their private lives and put under huge pressure to focus on their career and making money.” But how is Gibraltar doing? Does Gibraltar do well for gender equality and female empowerment? Well, it is very hard to tell when there is no consistent polling or ongoing studies about the state of our democracy and society. Developed nations tend to see positives in commissioning studies and polls to inform future policy, so the same mistakes do not get made and that proactive decision-making can address long-term systemic issues. Instead, we have to resort to the echo-chamber of social media to pour our grievances. Our opinions are likely to be highly influenced by our religious beliefs, political worldviews, and content that we read online. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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Social media is built on commoditisation, selling you viewpoints and content to consume via advertising and algorithms.

Of course, this is unavoidable. Social media is built on commoditisation, selling you viewpoints and content to consume via advertising and algorithms. If you are a liberal, social media is likely to make you more liberal. If you are somewhat conservative, you will be made more conservative because Facebook, Twitter and Google work by giving you material that it thinks you might like based on what you have already searched. It is getting harder and harder to reach authentic conclusions, not that it was not a challenge in the days of traditional press. But this is not enough. We must first have an accurate picture of where our society is at and where we are going.

Equally, we need to get a good account of where we think our society is at, and where we want it to go. The public sphere must have a conversation about our existential formation as a society. Are we a liberal democracy? Are we a democracy that is informed by religious values? Can we be both? These are the sort of questions that need to be revisited, or else any progress or, at least, any clarity will be hard to come by. Community discussions in a place of Gibraltar’s size and population can make a lot of difference very quickly. Together Gibraltar (TG) hosted a public meeting on the environment in November soon after it launched as a movement, but at the end of January they held a meeting on gender equality and women’s issues. How rare is it that women are the focal point of conversation in our society, save for the pageants? TG assembled a panel comprised of a committee member of the GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

Gibraltar Women’s Association (GWA) Tamsin Suarez, the founder of No Means No Nyree Turnock, and a long-serving and well-respected teacher from the community Conchita Triay – an all-female panel. The meeting was participatory and deliberative at the same time, with women giving their voice and raising concerns over pension equality, paternity leave and gender-equal pay. Indeed, recently the GWA came out in support of campaigning for the legalisation of abortion, something that happened in the UK in the mid-1960s. Abortion in particular is an emotive issue, but the fact that women are talking about it openly is surely an encouraging thing for most people who care about the progress of the community, irrelevant of their opinion on the issue.

in the UK was elected in 1979! A lot of this has to do with political discourse that is invariably led by male lawyers with either no real concern or idea on how to empower women. It also has to do with the systemic societal restrictions that are still placed on women, especially mothers. More recently, the volume of trolls and social media harassment is not something anyone should put up with if they have an interest in improving Gibraltar’s politics. Why would you bother if you were subjected to that every time you voiced an opinion? It is tough, and these are not the only reasons why women do not feel at home in our politics as much as men do. This is inequality in practice and does not belong in any honest democracy. In real democracies, it cannot be a case of men feeling like they live in one, but women feel limited.

Quite simply, we cannot compare Gibraltar with the UK with total accuracy. We The most symbolic inequality, however, have a different history. Our democratis the political glass ceiling. Any democrat ic progress began while, and after, the living in a democracy would be shocked continent was at war. Our by the lack of women sitting in democratic history is still short, our parliament. We not only have We must though storied nonetheless. The a lack of women as MPs, but have the UK has had a successful feminist there is a lack of female involveconversamovement in the suffragettes ment in the political process. tion, and it that literally fought to the death NGO figures like Janet Howitt feels like we in many cases for their rights. The and the members of the GWA are coming circumstances are different. But are undoubtedly proving themto it. that does not mean we have to selves to be inspirational across accept the status quo. We must generations in the community. have the conversation, and it feels like we They are fighting for positive change for are coming to it. Once we have a sustained the sake of positive change. But there is a conversation on gender equality in our glass ceiling in the corridors of power. We society, we will be in a more likely environmerely have 2 women in parliament out of ment for women to be represented better 17 members. We have never had a female in politics. And who knows, maybe we will Chief Minister or a female Leader of the Opposition. The first female Prime Minister have a female chief minister some day. 35

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THE GOLDEN RULES The importance of following certain essential rules that will help the new property developer reach success.

se the best advisors.

partner or clerk but you will still pay top prices for the privilege. It would probably be wiser to use a keen and energetic character who is both knowledgeable and efficient and with whom you get on. It is quite possible that initially he make not make hefty fees with you but if you are successful so will he and his fees will get larger - as they should.

third rate and will make your final product very difficult to market which is the last thing you want. With the high technology in use these days, people want the best of the best at the right price. Make sure you deliver because competition is fierce to say the least. It is therefore of essential importance to build the best team around you regardless of size who follow your instructions and can spot Your any problems along the way. designs

A large number of property beginners tend to use lawyers who charge low cost conveyancing. Others feel they are experts in the field and look after the legalities themselves. This is the wrong approach. The fact is, there are very few property deals in Gibraltar or any other European jurisdiction where things go There are The same idea applies smoothly due to the fact that very few to your architects. My could end up every legal system is complex. A advice is use the best property being third Become an expert in your area good lawyer or business consulmoney can buy within deals in tant is essential to make sure all rate and will reason. Do not try and Gibraltar has a small but very Gibraltar ends meet and to show you the make your draw plans yourself and healthy property market, and where things correct shortcuts. Try to find a final product make savings in that like any other property market professional who is a specialist in go smoothly. field. The truth is that it has very different areas with very difficult property transactions and who it rarely works and your prices that can go from reasonto market. will give you a good and personal will encounter problems with able to extremely high. Look service. Choosing a top market firm who the local planners who have to grant you at the windows of estate agents all the charge high end fees will not necessarily planning consent. And your builder will time. Read the local paper and browse the be the correct answer. Unless you are inprobably do a second class job. On top of internet for values. Sooner than later you volved in a very large deal, these high end all this if you try and go low cost and skip will know more than you think you would firms will often pass your case to a junior architects, your designs could end up being and this knowledge is priceless when you 36

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are offered deals. To be familiar with your area of expertise is of paramount importance. Estate Agents

To be familiar with your area of expertise is of paramount importance.

much as develop. It is a trading game after all. Be firm with your decisions

knowing to some degree local property law is advantageous to say the least. Discussing the legal particulars of a transaction with your solicitor will help with the correct decision making; two minds can work a lot better than one if both know what they are talking about. Before you know it you will have a good understanding of property law and what the crucial legal points of a deal are.

Those dealers who are given Agents are arguably the best the best deals by their agents source of all types of deals. are those who act quickly. Deal Without their leads and sales offers you approved and deal done. There are too would hear of few deals or nothing at all. many time wasters about who assure the With the use of modern advertising and consultants and agents that they are gensocial media, agents make sure to comuine buyers, and yet they often Timing your deals municate to the world at large what can pull out at the last minute. This Being be bought. If you want to be successful is most frustrating for agents so Timing in property is most successful is you must become a top customer of one make sure you do not form part important taking into considera matter of or several local agencies. At times an excel- of that brigade. If you do you will ation your own financial position being in the lent single contact can be adequate and never establish a good reputation and the state of the property right place may supply enough deals - make sure you which is most important in such market. Whatever deal you make, at the right are top of his list. This may mean lavish a small community. The bottom you should take a conservative luncheons and fat bonuses but let me line in this rule is: The agentÂ´s approach to it in the early stages. time. assure you it will pay handsome dividends best client is the one who makes You should not over expose at the end of the day. Another an immediate decision to a deal yourself with bank finance. This means you idea is to form joint ventures when presented. should do one or two deals at a time and There are with agents through which the take it from there. Once the deals are comtoo many agent has a minority interest pleted and you finally collect your profits Understand Financing time wasters in each deal he brings up at no you may move on to do more. Keep an eye about who extra cost. With this formula the on the market and spot the areas which In these modern times, property assure the agent gets fully involved and will are moving best. Avoid areas which have finance is of paramount imporproduce a substantial amount of topped out. Most entrepreneurs insist on consultants tance to both developers and deals. saying that being successful is a matter of final retail buyers. A developer and agents being in the right should know all different financthat they place at the right ing possibilities, and he must, are genuine Never fall in love with your time. Property is when dealing with professional properties buyers, and lenders, know what to ask for and no exception. pull out I keep telling clients there is at what cost and the different at the last always an attractive price for a options available. Knowing where minute. property. Sometimes it is best to get the funding and the cost to make a mega fast 10% on a will probably give you an importdeal than 100% in the long term with all ant advantage over others in the property the risks and work that go with it. So the game. JORGE V.REIN PARLADE MBA answer to this point is: If the money is Business Consultant good and the deal is a quick one take it. +350 54045282 Understanding Property Law And go on to the next. Remember, some jorgeparlade@icloud.com of the most successful property companies No need to fire your lawyer, do your own locally and in the UK will wheel and deal as contracts or your own conveyancing, but GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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ELKE HURTADO

Our monthly spotlight on the women carving out their own spaces on the Rock, and how they did it. Vegan, gluten-free, wheat-free, free from refined sugars, it all sounds a little technical and overwhelming. But Elke Hurtado, aka The Muscle Baker, has managed to break through the tediousness surrounding nutrition guidelines and intolerances, creating a brand that has become synonymous locally with sweet indulgence.

BY MOLLY MCELWEE

ur monthly spotlight on the women carving out their own spaces on the Rock, and how they did it.

doughnuts stocked in their shop windows.

it feels like to be the face of your own company, and how she juggles the growing demand from hungry clientele.

She’s been ahead of the trend from the onset, as foodies with intolerances or just people following strict diets hankering for I chose this career because… some sweet relief from their daily chicken Vegan, gluten-free, wheat-free, free from refined sugars, it all sounds a little techniand spinach monotony flock to her small I didn’t really choose this career, rather cal and overwhelming. But Elke bakery. Her playfully designed it chose me. It came about as an outlet branding (aided by her previous Hurtado, aka The Muscle Baker, It also of creativity at a time where I was going has managed to break through career in graphic design), partthrough some life changes, trying to be helps attract nered with her conthe tediousness surrounding healthier and when I was very people with nutrition guidelines and intolerstantly evolving menus unhappy at work. At first, it was “I do about no interest ances, creating a brand that has and recipes, means her just a hobby, then it became a 20,000 in the food become synonymous locally with clients are constantly blog, then I started selling some steps a day nutrition, craving her next cresweet indulgence. creations and before I knew it I without but who ation. More than that, it had left my job and wanted to leaving the simply want also helps attract people Created in 2013, The Muscle pursue it full-time. I didn’t really with no interest in the kitchen.” Bakery was initially born out of have a plan, I just knew that I had something food nutrition, but Hurtado’s own craving for more to take a risk and do what made that tastes who simply want something that sweet snack options without the me happy instead of staying in a career delicious. tastes delicious. hefty unhealthy side effects. The because of the safety it brought. results earned her thousands of social media followers, a bakery in town It seems she is ticking all the right boxes, A typical day looks like… and earning more than just Instagram likes and a growing list of local establishments these days. We spoke to her about what queuing to get her protein bars and We now have almost 14 outlets which

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a woman's work stock our items so most hours in the day as whatever surprises the day may bring. I are spent prepping fillings/coating, wrapdo about 20,000 steps a day without leavping, and labeling as well as making sure ing the kitchen so that can really give you our own store doesn’t run out of an idea of what my days are like. treats. That means every day is “Those very busy at The Muscle Bakery. moments are My career defining moment It’s particularly hectic for me beparticularly was… cause everyone just turns to me rewarding, with questions. Customers want I feel that there hasn’t been one feeling to speak to me regarding cake ordefining moment but a few molike you’re ders, ingredient questions etc. So ments that have felt really special making a I work in the kitchen taking care to me. When I left my job, when of baking and cooking, but I also I landed my first stockist, getting difference.” have to make sure we have stock sponsored by Bulkpowders to and ingredients, tend to customers, take create recipes for them, hosting a baking photos, keep social media updated, check workshop in London and, of course, finally all our stockists have enough items, as well moving into my own premises.

The best part of my job is… When customers who have trouble finding food elsewhere are thankful for what we make, like mothers who find it hard to make stuff for their children or older grannies who have just being diagnosed with food intolerances. Those moments are particularly rewarding, feeling like you’re making a difference. It’s also really cool when people who are not into eating healthy or don’t really care about what they eat, keep returning just because what you’re making tastes good and they enjoy it. I love that. Makes me realise that all those hours of recipe failures are worth something and that I’m (at least) doing something right! The worst part of my job is… Being a boss. Seriously. If anything has given me stress and anxiety it is that, no one warns you about it or tells you how hard it will be. Well, how hard it will be if you’re a softy like me!

“If you’re passionate about what you do, believe in yourself daily and keep at it, eventually things will work out.”

If I could be anything else, I would be… Me, just with more time to spare. And a better boss! The advice I’d give to anyone wanting to go into this business…

It will be hard, at times it will feel almost impossible or that you’re failing and you will want to give up a thousand times over, but if you’re passionate about what you do, believe in yourself daily and keep at it, eventually things will work out. Having people who continuously support me and believe in me, and what The Muscle Bakery is about, has also been crucial in its success and growth.

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LOVE IS IN THE HAIR Friday nights are going out nights. That’s the trend for most young people especially. But if you’re determined to get on in life and have ambitions that you’re absolutely certain you want to realise... you sacrifice that night out and stay in!

BY RICHARD CARTWRIGHT

higher by moving closer to town hoping You slowly become more competent as he reason for forgoing a night for a bigger slice of the cake by making out is that you have to work on your confidence builds. “Yes, that’s what I her hairdressing talents more accessible Saturday mornings, which I would lacked at first. I didn’t feel confident and imagine is why we don’t see too that’s why I’d do clients’ hair in their homes to a higher footfall in a busy marina, just a and not charge them!” Evidently Janice’s stone’s throw away from the town centre: many local youngsters working in shops, “Yes I rented a standard unit in Ocean confidence soon developed enough not bars, restaurants or even hairdressing Village and later moved next door where salons. Not so, for businesswoman and to just apply for a job in an established I am at present, which is three professional hairdresser Janice Cruz who, hairdressing salon but to have since her late teens, has run her own the courage to set up her own times the size of the original one.” "Sometimes business, and that’s what she did. hairdressing business on the Rock. “I left you wonder “I set up my business in school at 15 and didn’t want to Janice Hair and Beauty Salon at if you’d be the Caleta Hotel in the work anywhere. I was always Ocean Village has been up and "I’d do better off keen on hairdressing from my Health and Beauty part running for just under a declients’ hair working for childhood days. I remember of the hotel. There was cade, and is the longest running in their someone some equipment there attempting to make French plaits business on the Ocean Village homes and else and not when I was four or five years old, but I bought some and walkway - and they’re still going not charge running your also had some stuff of so as a young teenager I attended strong. “Running a business can my own. I had my motha hairdressing college for two and be very, very stressful,” Janice them!” own thing." a half years,” Janice tells me, “I er to help me there and asserts, “you go home after a came away with my qualifications in theory it was a slow start, but eventually did quite long day and the business is still on your well and I built up the business specialising and practice and when I was about 17 mind. Like most people, I have a home to started to work straight away.” in brides.” run and my 13 year old son Leon to look after. Your business is a 24/7 commitment which at times can become a struggle, and As with most professions you become However, as a determined businesswoman there’s no doubt Janice wanted to aim sometimes you wonder if you’d be better proficient `learning on the job’ as they say.

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Founder of Janice Hair and Beauty Salon at Ocean Village, Janice Cruz time in attending courses, trade fairs and exhibitions all over Spain, Italy and the UK. London, Madrid, Barcelona and beyond is where it’s all happening so you have to keep in touch. “Creativity is important and you have to be aware of what’s happening out there, so you need to go to these Janice employs two other hairdressers at insuperable, no matter how daunting and places, especially these days that we have her salon - Jessica and Ivanova – “They are she, like others, is proof of that. For close all these celebrities who come out to great girls and I’m very happy with them on 20 years she’s been running her very perform on the Rock. I’ve worked but I have been through the own business, taking on the challenge with "I’ve on Rita Ora, Sam Bailey, unpleasant business of havno business partner to lean on, Ben Haenow and several ing to deal with a number of worked on starting as she was just about ex"Keep other X Factor contesother members of staff that just iting her teens – an age when for Rita Ora, going, tants that we’ve had weren’t up to it and having to most, fun, fun, fun is high on the Sam Bailey, persevere performing here - thankdismiss them. I don’t consider agenda. It’s often assumed those Ben Haenow and never fully, with no complaints! myself as being a bad or hard who run a business must be rich. and several regret what I also attended a hair boss but you need to know If they are, no doubt it’s been other X you have a extensions course some where to draw the line and down to hard work. But that’s Factor passion for!” time back and was one of there are limits. I treat my staff not always the case. “Let me the first to start offering with respect as I do my clients. contestants." tell you, we’re not all rich and at and working with them here.” Your employees need to be times it can be quite demanding. January happy and these girls have a passion for and February are tough months but bills the job, as I do.” It’s ‘The Year of the Woman’ commemoratand wages still have to be paid. The thing ing 100 years of women’s emancipation. is there are ups and downs in any business Some argue there’s still some way to go, As with most businesses, I would imagand the message,” Janice maintains, “is to but with strong, determined, no nonine, you have to keep up with the latest keep going, persevere and never regret sense ladies – just like Janice – nothing is trends and hardworking Janice wastes no what you have a passion for!” off and more relaxed working for someone else and not running your own thing. However, you soon get back to thinking, this is what you really want and you just have to continue working at it.”

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A CAREER IN MOTHERING

With a twenty-eight year gap between her eldest and her seventh child, full-time mum Cathy Earle has an intense experience in parenting and she has witnessed - and often advocated in first person - the many changes in attitude towards motherhood and its dynamics with the other roles women are expected to play in contemporary society.

BY ELENA SCIALTIEL

for various reasons, the role of main ‘palike the Trinity roundabout, and for new athy describes herself as ‘lucky to ones to be built. Today, most estates have rental unit’. While thirty years ago or less, enjoy enough financial stability to be able to dedicate her time to nappy-changing fathers were virtually sci-fi their private playground, and government has provided several public ones at key family care’, but she understands material, nowadays there are baby-changing facilities in most public gents’ as much locations.” how nowadays most women need, and actually want, to work outside their homes, as ladies’, and if there aren’t yet, surely there is a pressure group lobbyto guarantee the much-coveted Indeed she is pleased with the outcome double income to their families, ing to set the record of a lengthy battle started as a Being a but primarily to pursue their own straight! young mum and continued as good wife Thirty career in a century when - finally! committee member and chairand a good years ago - being a good wife and a good woman, a nine-year spell during Of course, Cathy has mother is or less, mother is no longer the only prowhich Cathy worked hard to been, and still is when fession advertised for respectable no longer nappyimprove the day-to-day life of the occasion arises, very women. Gibraltarian families in their plight vocal and determined the only changing within the Gibraltar to care for the more vulnerable profession fathers were Women’s Association: members of society. “When forHowever, she draws attention to advertised virtually mer chairwoman Rosemary Peach “I joined almost thirty the fact that gender inequality in for sci-fi stepped down to pursue her years ago, and soon the workplace is still a thing, and respectable material. political career, I was the most in her opinion men have it easier I was part of the women. obvious choice as her successor, committee. My bone with higher salaries and broadof contention was the state of because I had more time on my hands er career opportunities, while than working women, and was already in local playgrounds. When my fourth child women are still tied down to stereotypes. the loop, and because the membership was born, I realised how filthy, inadequate However, a new mentality is spreading reckoned I had the cheek to pursue an isand insufficient they were and lobbied and heading in the right direction with sue until I was satisfied with the response, paternity leave and more fathers taking up, for better maintenance at existing ones,

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Henry & Cathy no matter what.” No matter if her heart still flutters when she has to speak before an audience, no matter the bullying she has to endure for expressing an opinion or standing up for herself or to give a voice to those who don’t have one.

Earle Family

all consequences and implications, physical toll on her sanity? Of course not, as busier and emotional. Her argument goes well is never busiest for a resourceful homebeyond moral grounds and, decency aside, maker, but she does appreciate that fullshe claims that minors should be sheltered time working women may find themselves from the heartaches, bellyaches and other Family structure has evolved light-years in with the weight of the world on their aches that inevitably come with adult relaa couple of generations, from extended to shoulders when faced with aging and ailing nuclear first and foremost, but most signifi- tionships, such as the STD risk connected parents, or parents-in-law, on one plate of to misinformed promiscuity, a cantly from large and living from paycheck the scale and newborn grandmore widespread plague than to paycheck, to contained and enjoying a children on the other. Hence she Busier teenage pregnancies. Like many disposable income: “Couples have fewer calls for more part-time positions is never other pressure groups, she calls children so that they can afford them a to be offered in the public sector, busiest for a for the holistic approach to ‘sex richer lifestyle. My family has always lived like in the private one or, as she resourceful ed’ in order to include not just comfortably, but sacrifices were made. For describes it, ‘job sharing’, achomemaker. the biological side of the story, example we seldom eat out unless it is a knowledging this isn’t a solution but the emotional one, preparing big celebration. I am used to budgeting targeted at women only, and men children for what lies ahead after on small and big things alike, would benefit from it too. holding hands and living happily like homemade sandwiches for Materialism ever after. “In my younger days, picnics and holidaying at resorts If the twenty-first century woman is no may be smoking was cool, while nowawith home-cooking facilities.” longer achieving status through whom she rationed days it’s widely accepted it isn’t, Materialism may be rationed marries, the number of children they have, within so one hopes the same will soon within reason in the Earle houseand if they manage to keep it together apply to ‘performing’ for teens…” hold, but love isn’t; motherly love reason in ‘til death does them apart’, she is defined surely grows exponentially with the Earle by her profession, with no bonus points the number of offspring! “I beWishful thinking indeed from household, for having or not having a ring on her lieve that children must be taught but love isn’t. Cathy, well aware of the risks finger and babes pulling at her skirts. Yet how to be responsible, and how of peer pressure in person or the value of a mother’s job in practical to contribute their fair share to on social media, a blessing and terms of child minding, nursing, the smooth running of the household. a curse for youngsters as well housekeeping and so on is often This must not be confused with neglect or as less young. She does take to Yet the not fully recognized, not only carelessness - I would never leave my elev- social media when it can help a value of a economically, but also sociologen-year old home alone,” she adds, “or let cause, but she is aware of the mother’s job ically, and those who choose to her roam around the Alameda after dark, perils of its abuse, especially for in practical be full-time mums are sometimes and I strongly disagree with parents trustyoung minds when they haven’t sidelined and not taken seriously terms is ofing babies in the care of teenage siblings.” yet developed skills to enable inas active contributors to society ten not fully dependent criticism, filter verbal at large. and non-verbal communication, So how old is old enough to look after recognised, and self-awareness in protecbabies? According to Cathy and her well not only. Therefore, Mothering Sunday is tion from the abuse of trolls and known, well fought, and undoubtedly coneconomicalgoing to be a busy affair indeed predators. troversial, firm stance on the legal age of ly, but also across three generations within consent, eighteen and not one day youngsociologically. the Earle clan, but Cathy upholds er ought to be old enough for teenagers Like many fellow middle-aged the need of marking Women’s to lawfully have sex with each other or women, Cathy is caught in the adults. “The same minimum age required middle of multigenerational care: she looks Day on 8th March to remind women and for voting, smoking and drinking.” In fact, after her mother, three children who still men that the equality caravan has travelled she wonders whether a teenager can really live with her, and helps one of her daugha long way but, if the destination is in enter a full relationship in full awareness of ters with her own baby. Does this take its sight, so far we’re still half way there. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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EMPOWERING OUR YOUTH These three determined young women are part of the engine behind the Voice of Young People. Their aim is to help empower and support their fellow 'young people', primarily by providing readily-accessible information, and offer them a much needed voice.

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hree young women are on a mission for young people’s voices to be heard loud and clear in Gibraltar. Jade Garcia, Skye Bargon and Macey Whalley are the focus group for Voice of Young People (VYP), a group set up last year with the support of the Gibraltar Youth Service. VYP aims to get young people to ask the questions and make the changes for the betterment of young people’s lives. One of their main aims was to increase the accessibility of information that is already available to young people in Gibraltar. With this in mind, the members of VYP are compiling a youth directory, so that any young person can look up a service that closely matches their needs and have a contact readily available. Through engaging with the Youth Service, they learned they could go to the Citizen’s Advice Bureau and get a direct referral. For young people to know how much

they could gain from the services of an organisation like CAB is crucial, and this group wants other young people to feel empowered about how to find the right contacts. Jade, Skye and Macey described their experience of compiling the directory and came to realise just how many relevant associations and organisations there already are in Gibraltar, but that are not widely known to young people. They are dividing the directory into sub-sections: Education, Health, Support Services, Advice and Guidance, Sports, and Arts and Leisure. Jade explained the challenges of carrying out the research as it sometimes took several attempts to find the right contact for an organisation. VYP believe a viable solution would be to make the youth directory available as a downloadable app. VYP aim to continue engaging with young people via assemblies, attend-

ing events and to follow up on issues in meetings with Ministers to create awareness about the group and the directory. Last year, the group met with the Ministers for Education and for Youth and Culture, as well as the Head of the Department of Education regarding social and education issues that they believed young people felt passionate about. Through dialogue VYP were able to express their concerns and work with Ministers to affect change on local issues that mattered to them. With the vision of continuing to impact policy and development in Gibraltar, VYP will have a stall at Youth Day on 10 th March, which is organised by Gibraltar Cultural Services on behalf of the Ministry of Culture and Gibraltar Youth Service. You can find (VYP) on Facebook - @thevyp and if any young person between the ages of 14 and 25 would like to get involved in the work VYP is doing, they can contact the Gibraltar Youth Service on: 200 78637. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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BRITAIN’S FEMALE AVIATION HEROES

Amy Johnson and Diana Barnato Walker both flew in the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II. Johnson set several world records before the War and was married to flyer Jim Mollison, who was a regular visitor to Gibraltar and often stayed at the old Queen's Hotel, whilst Barnato Walker was probably the most successful woman flyer long term and was the first woman to break the sound barrier.

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me, how on his last visit to the Queen’s, he drunk holding court at the died while on a flying mission for the Air Queen’s Hotel in his crumpled suit Mollison became so inebriated that he Transport Auxiliary in 1941. It was his and stained tie looked nothing like needed assistance to board his flight back drinking and gambling that had caused the the playboy aviator he claimed to the UK. Mollison was a passenger, not break-up of their marriage in 1938, but his the pilot, as his license had been revoked to have been. Had this sad figure really consumption of alcohol only grew more in 1953 by the Civil Aviation married Britain’s Amelia Earhart uncontrolled after her untimely death. Had this and dated socialites and music Authority Medical Board. hall stars? sad figure Johnson, born at Hull on July James Alan Mollison 1, 1903 was the oldest of four really Mollison was only 54 when he His fellow drinkers likely didn’t daughters of a fish importer/ married was so died of the effects of believe the posh-accented Jim exporter. She graduated with a Britain’s smitten Mollison but it was all true, he decades of heavy-drinkBA in economics from Sheffield Amelia that eight had been married to world-reing and chain-smoking. University and then moved to Earhart hours later, Suffering from acute cord flyer Amy Johnson and had London where she worked as a and dated while they alcoholism he was survived a Luftwaffe attack in legal secretary while taking flying socialites were still in admitted to the Priory World War II while on a flight lessons at the London Aeroplane at Roehampton, London with blue-blooded, co-pilot Club. In those days only well-toand music the air, he Diana Barnato Walker. He had and died there on do women could afford to take hall stars? proposed. also dated a bevy of starlets October 30, 1959. It flying lessons. Johnson’s family was an ignominious end for the one-time including the beautiful singer and variety weren’t upper class but they weren’t wonder flyboy who had been born in star Dorothy Ward. poor and her father, with the help of Glasgow on April 19th, 1905. the Lord Mayor of London, provided the money for her first plane, a De Havilland During his frequent visits to Gibraltar, Sadly, friends said Mollison never got over Gypsy Moth. She named it Jason after Mollison became friends with hotel boss her father’s business trademark. Jason the death of the redoubtable Amy, who Ernest Francis. Years ago Ernest told

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due to his drinking and her mood swings. She suffered from menstrual periods so painful and disabling that she underwent a hysterectomy under the pretext to the media of having an appendectomy. Two weeks after the wedding Mollison became the first person to fly solo from east to west across the Atlantic, from Ireland to New Brunswick, Canada in 31 hours, 21 minutes. Amy countered that in November, 1932 by flying from Britain to South Africa, breaking her husband’s record by 10 hours, 26 minutes. Her proud father commented to the press,” “This is wonderful, for a man it would be fine, for a woman it is splendid”.

was second hand but Johnson was the first British woman to earn her ground engineer’s license, meaning not only could she fly the plane but she understood the mechanics and could repair it.

to England in 8 days and 19 hours. The next year the record-hungry Scot set another world standard by flying from England to South Africa in 4 days, 17 hours

Johnson obtained her pilot’s license in July 1929 and soon after was breaking records. In May 1930 she became the first woman to fly from England to Australia, covering the 11,000 miles in 19 days. For this feat she won a Daily Mail prize of £10,000, the Harmon Trophy, and later was awarded the Order of the British Empire. With the prize money she was able to purchase Jason II, a De Havilland Puss Moth three-seater monoplane. In 1931, accompanied by co-pilot Jack Humphreys (her ground engineer instructor), she became the first pilot, male or female, to fly from London to Moscow in one day - a distance of 1,760 miles in 21 hours. The pair then flew from Moscow over Siberia to Japan setting yet another record.

Appropriately Mollison and Johnson met on an airplane. He was piloting an ANA flight from London to Sidney when one of the crew came forward to inform him that the world famous flier Amy Johnson was on board. She was brought up to the cockpit and there was an immediate attraction. Mollison was so smitten that eight hours later, while they were still in the air, he proposed, she accepted and they were married on August 2, 1932.

Mollison loved flying as much as his future wife, and was equally determined to make a name for himself. Being male he found a quicker path to fame. After graduating from Edinburgh University he joined the Royal Air Force and aged 18 earned a commission, making him the youngest officer in the service. By age 22 he was the youngest ever instructor, and soon after setting that standard he took a job as an instructor in Australia. Eventually he ended up as a pilot for Australian National Airways. In July/August, 1931 he set his first world record by flying from Australia 50

The marriage of ‘The Flying Scot’ and the ‘Lone Girl Flyer’ was a sensation and the media dubbed them ‘The Flying Sweethearts’. Cynics grumbled that it was not a marriage but a business deal, partly because the boozy Johnson, nicknamed by friends ‘Brandy Mollison’, was known for his hedonistic lifestyle while the attractive Amy had not been short of love-struck suitors. To reassure her father, Will Johnson, that it was true love she wrote to him, “Please believe me that I am very, very happy”. There is film of the couple (you can find it on You Tube) at an after-wedding party, with Scotsman Mollison speaking with an amazingly plummy English accent, talking of his up-coming solo flight to America and his regret that Amy can’t be with him. Based on their letters they were in love but the relationship was compromised

Mollison then set another solo record by flying from England to Brazil, via West Africa, in three days, 13 hours. It has been written that one reason for Mollison and Johnson falling in love was that they could empathise at being solo long-distance fliers. But the competition over records might have pushed them apart. They did have some success flying together but also crashes and disappointments and they finally divorced in 1938. When war came in 1939 women weren’t accepted as pilots in the regular RAF so Johnson joined the newly formed Air Transport Auxiliary. Mollison was too old to qualify for combat, you had to be 25 or younger, so he also joined the ATA and this is how he came to meet another top woman pilot, Diana Barnato. The ATA provided an invaluable service for the Allies during World War II, ferrying planes of all types from airports and manufacturing hubs to combat airfields all around the UK, and after D-Day to bases in Europe. The organisation also transported pilots, other passengers and supplies and sometimes acted as an ambulance service. Unlike Johnson and Mollison, Barnato wasn’t a famous world record breaker when she joined the ATA. But she had had a yearning to fly from an early age. She had only six hours of training before flying solo first the first time aged 20. Diana Barnato was born in North London, on the night of January 15, 1918, to the sounds of bombs thumping down from German Zeppelins. The family were rich, paternal grandfather Barney Barnato having made a fortune in South Africa as a co-founder of the De Beers diamond mining company. Her dashing father, Woolf Barnato, was chairman of Bentley Motors and a top racing driver. But Diana’s parents refused to support her GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

history passion for flight, because they were convinced she would crash and be horribly injured or killed. Diana was determined to fly though and she financed lessons out of her ‘pocket money’ which barely covered the £3 cost per lesson. In the meantime Diana thoroughly enjoyed the pre-war excesses of London high society, frequenting the exclusive Empress and 400 nightclubs. She debuted in 1936 aged 18 and was presented to King Edward VIII at Buckingham Palace. But when war came she mucked in and volunteered as a nurse for the Red Cross. Upon learning that the ATA was accepting women pilots she was quick to join up. Despite being tiny and proudly feminine (always wore makeup on flights and kept a powderpuff in a jumpsuit pocket) Diana trained on single engine fighters and later on twin-engine bombers. She would go on to fly virtually every type of plane of the war, including Spitfires, Hurricanes, Vickers Wellingtons and Lockheed Hudsons. She experienced many thrills and a few harrowing flights in difficult weather, but survived, and for that she credited her ‘Guardian Angel’. You can read all about it in her autobiography, Spreading My Wings (Grub Street 2003). In the book she describes coming under fire while on a flight with Mollison. By this stage of the war the ATA pilots were being ferried back to their home bases, relieved from suffering the long, cold, train journeys which Diana considered the worst part of the job. Of the surprise attack she wrote: “I had flown a Hurricane from Langley to Cardiff in lovely weather, but had to put down at Whitchurch later because of the visibility. Here I found some other ATA pilots also waiting to be collected and flown back to White Waltham (Diana’s base). “In the late afternoon, the transport Anson arrived as usual, this time piloted by the famous and dearly beloved record-breaker, Jim Mollison, widower of Amy Johnson, who had been killed in 1941 flying with the ATA. Jim had already collected several pilots from here and there, plus another bunch from Hullavington (RAF airfield in Wiltshire), which made us 12 in number, including Jim.” As co-pilot, Diana sat next to Mollison for the flight which proved uneventful until they were over the railyards at Reading and a fighter plane “going like stink” flew out of the clouds straight at them. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

Amy Johnson

“At first, I thought it was a Mosquito (a revolutionary new fighter), because at the time the Mossie was just coming out of the Leavesden and Hatfield factories…but then, against the dark cloud, I saw tracer coming at us from what appeared to be the gunner of the silvered aircraft. I then noticed the huge black cross on the fuselage and the swastika on the tail-plane. An ME 110!

shortly before they were due to be married. She did marry Wing Commander Derek Walker on May 6, 1944 but he was killed on November 14, 1945 when the Mustang fighter he was delivering crashed. Diana swore never to marry again but she did carry on a 30-year affair with American pilot and car racing champion Whitney Straight. They had a son, Barney, in 1947.

“Jim saw it all too. ‘Jeese’ he yelled, ‘It’s a Jerry!’ He yanked the Anson up into the overcast to hide as the German flashed past, very close, on our port side, its guns still blazing.”

Straight was a married man but Diana never asked him to leave his wife. When asked why, she replied: “I was perfectly content. I had my own identity”. During the war Diana flew more than 80 types of airplanes and delivered 260 Spitfires. The ATA was disbanded in late 1945 having logged 415,000 hours and delivered 309,000 aircraft. Of the 1300 pilots166 were women, and of the 174 killed in service16 were women. From 1943 to the end of the war the women pilots were paid the same as the men.

Fortunately the Anson was not hit and Diana and the other ATA pilots put it down to the enemy being a rotten shot, or perhaps the sun was in his eyes. “What that German gunner didn’t know,” wrote Diana, “was that it would have been a triumph and a very good bag for his squadron, had he, by chance, shot down 12 highly-trained ferry pilots all at once, when he was only after a railway line.” Having landed and with the excitement over, Mollison invited Diana for a cup of tea and predicted “You know Diana, by tomorrow they’ll all be saying I shot it down!” Sure enough the press had a field day exaggerating details and lionising Mollison. Diana did lose many friends during the war, including fellow pilots and fiancé Humphrey Gilbert who died in a crash

Diana Barnato Walker went on to fly commercially and with the Women’s Junior Air Corps. She encouraged and trained young women to be pilots and in 1963, at age 45, she flew an English Electric Lightning at a speed of 1.6 Mach (1,262 mph) becoming the first British woman to break the sound barrier and setting an air speed record for women. She was a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society and was awarded an MBE in 1965. In her 60s she survived three cancer operations and at age 88 she flew for the last time taking the controls of a twin-seat Spitfire. She died on April 28, 2008 aged 90. 51

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YOU ARE ENOUGH In a world of airbrushed celebrities and filtered Instagram models, where do we fit in? And should we even try?

BY ALEX MENEZ

I’d like to tell you about an odd experience I’ve had over the last few years. A while back in 2015, after years of lying in my bed eating cheap garlic bread, I decided it was enough and it was time for me to get my act together. After an The world around me was telling entire adolescence of disliking the way me I wasn’t beautiful, and I I looked, I decided to stop damaging my believed them. Although I was rich right body and looked for a healthbullied at school for the way I now and ier lifestyle. Sadly, I didn’t do looked, in hindsight I find that it In Gibraltar, we have My battle have a blue this the proper way. I instead a giant black cloud really wasn’t my biggest probwas not Fiat 500 if I downloaded the MyFitnessPal lem, it’s what I was taught by hanging over the term with my app onto my iPhone and allowed had a £1 for the society around me. These ‘mental health' and appearance myself only 400 calories a day influences stretch between our often love to pretend every time but with (the healthy amount being 1500 that ‘esto cosa no pasa education and of course, the an adult told myself. for women), essentially once en Gibraltar’, especially media. me I was too again, punishing myself for the in young people. I’d be young to be way I looked. I sat alone in my house back very rich right now and have a I found myself essentially unhappy. blue Fiat 500 if I had a £1 for ev- at university for 2 months, over exercising punishing myself for the way I and eating very little, leaving my body ery time an adult told me I was looked. You see, the world has weak and my mind even weaker. This too young to be unhappy or too young to conditioned us to strive for perfection, slowly became an obsession, pushing me understand. You know what? I wasn’t too which doesn’t exist, and the more you to grow a bad relationship with food, and I young, I wasn’t unaware and I was vullook for it, the more dangerous this all just couldn’t stop. The idea of having men nerable. We are all vulnerable, especially becomes. We can’t pretend that the scars approach me at clubs or bars and tell me when we’re young. in our mind are easy to heal, and if not 52

dealt with early in our adolescence, these can snowball into something much worse. These insecurities are more than just “I’m so fat” or “I’m too thin”. They’re negative thoughts that slowly develop in silence and next thing you know, you’re 21 and having some sort of I’d be very quarter-life crisis.

2 years later, I can still vividly remember the day I looked into the mirror and began to count my flaws.

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desperately unhappy and I just didn’t know what else I could do.

I began counselling mid-2016 where the kindest woman was able to help me see It’s sad that since we are children, we are that my battle was not with my appearallowed to think that the appreciation of ance but with myself. My anger at my another is the amount we are worth when body was just a cover up for the deeper in fact, it is quite the opposite. You see, and darker problems in my mind which I after months of looking at myself in the never dealt with properly and if anything, panel mirror at the gym chanting in my starving myself was by far the worst thing head ‘you’re disgusting, you’ll I could’ve done, but that is what never amount to anything and society had led me to do. My Even you’re unattractive’, it actually teachers had called me out on though Kylie worked. I lost 25kg and I was Jenner has thin and even though I couldn’t a brilliant recognise myself, everyone liked body, she me more for it and that’s what probably mattered.

my boobs might not be even, that’s okay, because I’m a woman and nobody is perfect or the same and instead of crying, I should embrace myself for who I am. My respect for my body only really began when I grew respect for myself and although it wasn’t easy, it was worth it. I cannot stress enough how important it is to take care of yourself and nurture every part of you, whether it be your heart, your mind or your body. You are special, you are beautiful and you are more than anything you could ever dream of. We need to say this to each other more; we

sits at home

This is by far one of the hardest and sees a things I’ve ever had to comprepicture of hend. Why, when I was plump, J-Lo and did no one ever compliment my feels just outfit, my hair, my incredible as selfbottom or face? Why did all conscious as these random people who had the rest of never noticed me before, start to approach me and tell me I’m us. “looking great”? This became my drug. This new attention from men and women was very confusing but I couldn’t get enough. Every time I went out, at least three or four people would stop in the street or in a nightclub and compliment me. Everyone thought I was beautiful, more beautiful than before but why didn’t I feel it? Why did I still look in the mirror and look for more and more faults? This perception of ‘being thin means being happy’, is the biggest lie and I can’t believe I ever thought it was true. You see, the magazines don’t tell you that even though Kylie Jenner You are has a brilliant body, she probably special, you sits at home and sees a picture are beautiful of J-Lo and feels just as self-conand you are scious as the rest of us and that’s more than okay, because we’re human and anything you it’s fine to feel uncomfortable could ever about yourself sometimes.

dream of.

I remember once I went out and this lovely girl said “You’re looking incredible but just as incredible as before” and that really struck a chord with me. After months, it was just really really nice for someone to appreciate how I’ve always looked, and not tell me that I have improved. I had grown so tired of this battle with myself. I couldn’t handle this whole saga anymore because I was weak and realistically wasn’t eating enough for my brain to function that well. I was moody, I was stressed, and most of all, I was so GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

my weight, the bullies had called me out my weight, and my number one enemy, myself, had joined them. I think the push in the media by different women and the body empowerment movement over the last few years has really helped my perception of myself. This constant reminder that although

cannot carry on bashing each other and reducing one another to nothing. This battle with our image is ongoing but the more you empower each other, the easier this struggle will get. If you or someone you know needs someone to talk to, call SAM on 116123 or Childline on 8008. 53

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SPINY-SKINNED SEA STARS

Commonly referred to as starfish, sea stars are not fish at all. First appearing in the fossil records in the Cambrian period around 450 million years ago, they form part of the Phyla Echinodermata which means ‘spiny skin’. The scientific name for the class they belong to is Asteroidea which literally means ‘star likeness’ due to their characteristically recognisable five limbs.

BY LEWIS STAGNETTO

travel using a water vascular system. In a depth of around 200 metres, a testimos with most marine organisms, essence it is similar to a water balloon; life as a baby sea star begins ny to its adaptability. It is a very hungry push on one end and the opposite end with a planktonic larval stage. sea star which consumes many types of Their bodies resemble a spearbi-valve molluscs and other invertebrates. swells up. Sea stars have thousands of Often, they are found consuming a human legs with sucker cups on the end in a syshead and require high magnification to be tem which resembles the octopus suckers. sized portion of mussels, except, they seen. Later, they metamorphose into penThese stick to the surface of rocks, allowtamerous juveniles, at which stage they like theirs alive. Without defined mouth ing the arm to hold on whilst at the same begin to develop their well-recognised parts, sea stars push their stomachs out star shapes. It is at this point that their of the bodies and digestive juices break time releasing another arm and moving down the prey externally. They it along in the direction of travel. With body parts begin to become five arms to choose from, this a then suck in the soup more recognisable; mouths for Often, they quite a complicated walk but as into the stomach eating, eyespots for detecting are found People any climber will attest to, a very light brightness, and feet for within their bodies and consuming often say stable one. They can achieve walking. All this extra mass the food is passed to a human that sea digestive glands located speeds of up to 15km per hour. allows them to settle on the sea sized portion stars have Uncharacteristically for most bed and life in its adult shape in the arms. It is this of mussels, five legs but animals, the eyespots are located strange way of eating can begin. except, they this is not which allows sea stars at the end of the arms and this helps determine which limbs it the ability to consume like theirs true at all. Locally, a prominent species is prey items much larger moves. In some species like the the spiny sea star Marthasterias alive. than themselves if required. brittle stars, these eyespots are speckled glacialis. This is primarily an eastover the upper side of their body. ern Atlantic species whose range extends from the UK all the way down to South People often say that sea stars have five Sea stars have their own predators to Africa. It has been found on rocky or sanlegs but this is not true at all. One of the features of Echinoderms is that they fear and as part of that defence system dy environments, either subtidal or up to 54

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environment diversity. Studies on the effect of sea star our local spiny sea star can shed an arm removal found that mussel beds were able as an escape response. This is similar to to out compete all other organisms. It is a a lizard losing a tail and the process does good sign that our local marine coastline not harm the animal in any significant has many examples of these sea way. The arm can be re-grown stars which in turn, keep our in a matter of months. On rare This is mussel populations in check. occasions it is possible that the rarer than single arm can be replaced by the four-leaf two which produces a six-armed Evolutionary analysis through clover so sea star. This is rarer than the embryology has determined don’t spend four-leaf clover so don’t spend that of all the invertebrates the too long too long looking for one! Echinoderms are our closest looking for living relatives, a fact that can be hard to believe. The evidence Sea stars are commonly considone! lies in that they, like us, are ered keystone species due to its wide-ranging diet. They help suppress the deuterostomes, meaning “two mouths”. Our mouth is connected by a long gut populations of many invertebrates and to our bottoms, the two holes being the ecologically are very important indeed for “mouth”. This system is exactly the same maintaining ecosystem balance and bio-

PHYLUM: Echinoderm

CLASS: Asteroidea

HABITAT: Rocky and sandy shores

DIET: Bi-valves, Gastropods, Conchifera

INTERESTING FACT: Much like a lizard dropping its tail, many species of starfish can lose an arm to escape predation. This causes no long lasting harm to the animal.

with all deuterostomes and is completely distinct to feeding mechanisms found in Arthropods or Molluscs. Therefore, this implies a common ancestry, albeit millions of years ago. This is further evidenced through a plethora of studies investigating genetic commonOf all the alities, which have found similar invertebrates organ structural development the even though their respective Echinoderms functions might have diverged. are our On the tree of life our branch then splits off to form the closest living Chordates and it is from here relatives. that the Vertebrates arise. So next time you walk down a beach and happen upon a sea star, take a good long look and remember that we share common ancestry, just 450 million years ago! GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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ince our father’s death, it has been comforting to read the many letters of condolence our mother has received and the obituaries written about him. It was clear he was a popular man and one whom everyone saw in the same way: a gentleman; generous and gregarious; immaculately dressed and possessing a mischievous sense of humour. As we are sure readers of his regular articles in this magazine and in the Gibraltar Chronicle will attest, he was also someone who was dedicated to Gibraltar and promoting its best interests. But most of all, people have commented on how important his family was to him and as such, we’re grateful to be given this opportunity to say what our father meant to us. We think back to Gibraltar and the holidays we had in what he always called “the tourist paradise of the Western Mediterranean”, sometimes kissing the runway on arrival! Happy days spent playing on the beach at Catalan Bay following scary drives in our grandfather’s dilapidated Hillman Imp; drinking Fanta out of brown bottles at the Yacht Club; eating churros (which we were told you could only eat on a Sunday) and seeing who could be the bravest when having our photo taken with the apes or being buried in sand. One of Tabitha’s strongest memories is Dad’s passion for Gibraltar, which he could discuss and write about endlessly. Having had a healthy disregard for the ‘Gibraltar problem’ as a teenager, it’s been interesting to read his interviews (on the rockjottings website) with many prominent UK politicians. As a civil servant, she can see what a dedicated and successful lobbyist he was. He also relished Gibraltarians’ suc-

cesses, avidly following Albert Hammond, John Galliano and Christian Hook. Dad also developed eccentric collections, resulting in an extensive assortment of apes in our downstairs cloakroom, windup nuns and monks on bookshelves, and every wall covered in Gibraltar prints. Embracing the eccentricity could be a challenge as a young teenager, but Dad’s enthusiasm for life and ability not to take things or himself too seriously marked him out, including stimulating a round of ‘no-hands puddings’ at Tabitha’s graduation dinner or when I had started work in the City commencing a trip to the Varsity match with a bottle of red wine for breakfast! Some of my happiest memories are of winter Saturdays spent driving to and from school rugby matches where he would come and support me home and away irrespective of the weather. I can see him now sat on his shooting stick, in his sheep skin coat encouraging me and passing on his experience from having been having been a very talented rugby player in his youth. We’d spend the car journeys talking about politics and his experiences at work spent travelling to the Middle East and other exotic places; something that has heavily influenced me in my personal and professional life as a lawyer. But most of all I remember singing along to the Monty Python music when Sports Report came on the radio and never quite understanding why he supported Wolves when the classified results were read out. In later years, our father’s grandchildren gave him great pleasure. Whether it was deciding to spend his 70th birthday at Euro

Disney, so that he could delight in their excitement at dressing up and visiting the Magic Kingdom, or hosting meetings of his curry club (Raj’s curry house being the favourite venue) and awarding certificates as each new level of heat was completed, he’d always make sure that they were entertained and felt loved. Grandchildren also provided a fantastic outlet for his sense of fun. He was an amazingly inventive developer of rules and rituals: marching the grandchildren down Main Street at light infantry pace; waking them up at 6am to watch BBC breakfast news; rigorous times tables training; being doused in aftershave after a shower; and eating ‘tucker’, bowls of nuts and pickles as a morning snack. Little did the grandchildren know that it was he who told our mother to give them the pocket money they always got when they visited, and they will also miss his regular emails sending press cuttings about their schools or other things he read in his work that reminded him of them. Finally, Dad has been a fantastic husband to our mother, Brenda, showing both of us the importance of a strong marriage. One thing we’ve never understood is their devotion to medical dramas like Casualty - but this seemed to help dad deal with his own illness with great humour. And it is this latter quality which made him great to visit and spend time with, right up till his last couple of days. He really enjoyed spending his last month in Gibraltar, seeing his friends and being in the place that he loved the most. Michael Brufal – father, husband, friend – we salute you! By son Jonathan and daughter Tabitha. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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ROCK FASHION ROCKS

An enchanting collection chronologically exhibiting the works of local artists over the years, highlighting the creative process in producing a final piece.

nce a year, Gibraltar Cultural Services (GCS) puts on a major exhibition open to the public. In the past, this has included events such as the retrospective exhibition about Mario Finlayson and his work in 2015 and the Royal Academicians exhibition (Barbara Rae, Anne Desmet, and Ann Christopher) in summer 2016. The 50th anniversary of the John Mackintosh Hall in 2014, held in JMH, and commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 which was held in Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery were held under the Culture and Heritage Agency, the predecessor to GCS (formed in July 2014). In 2016, local fashion designer Paul Perez sought the means to hold an exhibition on the late Eduardo Viottoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. Library & Artworks Manaker Kimberly Pecino and GCS Head of Events Tanya Santini McClelland approached former GCS CEO Yvette Zarb Bensusan, who latched on to the idea with an aim to expand it to

include as many Gibraltarian designers as possible. In March 2017, a press release was issued asking any designers who were interested to come forward for consideration for inclusion in the exhibition. The designers who formed this innovative exhibition included the late Johnny Pearce, the late Eduardo Viotto, Dorcas Hammond, Priscilla Sacramento, Jane Langdon, Tiana Langdon, Willa Wasquez, Giorann Henshaw, Paul Perez, Gabriella SardeĂąa, Christel Mifsud Victory, and Gail Howard. Clothing items, photographs, newspaper clippings, sketches, video footage, and other miscellaneous items were very kindly loaned to GCS for the purpose of the exhibition from the designers themselves, and from their family and friends. Each contribution was invaluable to the final product. This exhibition provided a valuable insight for Gibraltarians and tourists alike on the progress of fashion design in Gibraltar;

from a closed-frontier situation in the 1970s and 1980s where fabric was very hard to come by, meaning Pearce and Viotto had to struggle to make do with what resources were available to them, right up to the modern-day Runway winners who have many more resources at their disposal, but also much stronger competition on a global and online level. The opening night was a huge success, featuring a red carpet, cocktail bar, and fashion show exhibiting pieces that we could not fit into the exhibition space. The exhibition had a very positive response, with over 300 visitors in the first three days alone! Mrs Justine Picardo opened the exhibition, which government ministers, members of the opposition and HW Kaiane Aldorino Lopez also attended. The exhibition was organised chronologically, with each vault curated sensitively to highlight the strengths of each individual designer whilst also ensuring that the 59

exhibitions exhibition as a whole is as cohesive as possible. The captivating display begins in the first vault with Johnny and Eduardo featuring fashion from the 1970s/1980s, and continues on until the final vault which showcases Runway winners from the 2010s. Eduardo Viotto (1961-1994) began sketching from the age of just four. His passion for fashion led him to leave school early in pursuit of something more creative. Eddie was involved with a number of local theatre projects whilst working on reception at the Rock Hotel. Eventually, he went on to produce three Miss Gibraltar pageants (1991-1993), even designing winner Karina Hollands’ dress which was worn at the Miss World, Miss Universe and Miss Europe pageants. Eventually, he opened a workshop and showroom in Wellington Front in 1989 where he showcased his famously sensual Italian styles.

Jane Langdon is constantly finding new ways to express her ideas, using her Mediterranean surroundings as inspiration. After completing an art foundation course in Madrid, she moved on to Florence, learning techniques of Italian Renaissance

Gabriella Sardeña cites her interior designer mother as an early source of inspiration. After working alongside Dorcas Hammond in her studio, she went on to specialise in fashion and textiles in Manchester. Gabriella was the winner of local fashion design competition Runway in 2015, leading to her participation in Brighton Fashion week the following year.

Johnny Pearce (1946-1987) was considered a pioneer in the fashion world. He has worked with the likes of Norman Hartnell (dressmaker to both the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth II) and Nalanie Chellaram, with whom he formed the hugely popular sell-out collection ‘JOANAL’. Together they boasted an exclusive royal clientele. Dorcas Hammond begun her career in fashion making clothes for her dolls from offcuts from her mother’s curtains. Dorcas began creating exclusive pageant and bridal gowns, winning several designer awards. Among others, she dresses Kaiane Aldorino in her evening gown and Gibraltar national costume. Today, she runs her own fashion design and dressmaking school, Dorcas Fashion Academy. Priscilla Sacramento sought to combine her love of design with her career as she put on a fashion show for Bijoux, her collection of evening gowns, with all proceeds going to St Martin’s School where she was head teacher. Another string to Priscilla’s bow is her passion for millinery, as demonstrated in her 1977 collection of hats and fascinators, Way Ahead, and 2006 collection of pink turbans for Sonia Golt’s Bosom Buddies Show. Willa Vasquez, one of the founders of The Fine Arts Association, was born into a family of artists. After studying drawing in Madrid, she produced her first solo exhibition at the tender age of 18. Since then, her work has been shown in London, New York, Cadiz, Marbella, Venice and Gibraltar. After Venice, Willa was inspired by its famous Murano glass, which now influences her work. 60

Paul Perez was inspired to take up hand sewing by the close relationship with his grandmother. A local youth project called Forensic Fashion helped him to learn basic pattern cutting skills, after which he went on to complete a course in fashion design. Paul set up his self-named label in 2015, and today works as a teacher as he develops his latest collection. masters before returning to Gibraltar. Today, Jane translates her art into garments while running her studio shop ‘Jane Langdon Designs’. Tiana Langdon, daughter to Jane, immediately began working with John Galliano after graduating in fashion design (and being awarded the graduate prize for drawing), developing her skills as Senior Textile Designer for Christian Dior. From here, she became a freelance Textile Design Consultant, working for the likes of Roberto Cavalli and Missoni before moving into the creative direction department for ZARA. Giorann Henshaw, founder of the Gibraltar Arts & Crafts Association, began her career learning to paint on china and porcelain at the age of 17, creating moulds and sculptures and painting dinnerware, thimbles, mugs and limited edition Dorothy Doughty plates. Her time spent helping cousin Dorcas Hammond by painting shoes extends to today as she continues to paint satin shoes, clothes, and soft furnishings.

Christel Mifsud Victory, winner of 2013’s Runway with her label Shorji, opened Gibraltar’s first sportswear boutique in 2015. Self-taught, she has pushed herself to create a range of active wear renowned for its print and bold colours, of which her array of leggings have been the bestselling pieces. Gail Howard allows her creative instinct to guide her, having never had the opportunity to attend an art and design college. In 2016, she won the Runway New Designer Competition which only increased her enthusiasm. Gail’s latest success involved exhibiting a recent collection in London Fashion Week 2017, which received a high level of media attention. As expressed by the Minister for Culture Hon. Steven E. Linares MP, “Fashion is an art form in and of itself; the same amount of artistic expression goes into the making of a piece of clothing or accessory as with a painting, poem or song. It is a creative form that should be recognised in its own right, and where better to start than with Gibraltar’s own designers?” GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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BALLAD OF THE CHAUVANIST BY PETER SCHIRMER

But then came Pankhurst – she who led a chase of suffragettes, all screaming for a say

Prince, have you heard – that Auntie BBC

and for a vote – and Westminster gave way.

has given in to pressure from a set

The downward slide began in froth and lace...

of female staff who claim they do not get

Wars intervened, and women took the place

their workplace due of gender parity,

of men in factories, and mills, and malls,

while male staff earn a higher salary.

where wearing trousers or tough overalls

The world’s gone mad, and true tradition rocks...

gave them mobility, but far less grace.

for trousers have replaced those lovely frilly frocks which stressed a woman’s femininity.

Things went from bad to worse, I must confess. those suffering suffragettes foundations laid

It was Lysistrata in ancient Greece

for Germaine Greer and burn-the-bra brigade.

first set this flame of feminism a-fire,

‘The Female Eunuch’ wowed the gutter press;

and with an eye to sex (and men’s desire)

The work-place soon was in a nasty mess

withheld conjugal rights till men made peace.

with unions and employers in a flap

But Common Sense prevailed and shouted: ‘Cease!

when forced to bridge the wage and gender gap.

Forget this equal gender bitchin’.

Chic bum-tight jeans replaced the cocktail dress.

Women, you know your place is in the kitchen. Go – comb the Golden Fleece.’

Envoi And from Lysistrata the world has come full circle

Thus chauvinism regained its rightful role,

To Margaret Thatcher, May, Angela Merkel...

and though there were a few historic glitches -

Chauvinist Tradition, sexist to its core,

when women, for brief periods wore the britches -

has been defeated in the liberal, gender war.

most knew their place, and wore a camisole.

And Prince the fight, begun a century ago,

The globe regained its axis round each pole, Men ruled the roost, as God ordained they should, He, too, was male and clearly understood The Alpha functions of the global soul.

goes on today. Progress is always slow.

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THE WORLD BEYOND THE FLOWER POTS

Illustrated children’s book seals special mother-daughter bond.

BY ELENA SCIALTIEL

rtist Melanie Brown, a regular of local artisans’ markets with her stones, shells and finely printed trinket boxes, has eventually realised in print her dream of illustrating her late mother Margaret’s modern fairytale: the story of a curious feline, inspired by their family cat Tiddles. Melanie has been working on this project as a tribute to her mum, to whom she was very close, since her passing eleven years ago. However, Melanie put it on the back-burner for most of this time, occasionally adding new pictures, until she managed to self-publish it with CreateSpace just on time to make a nice present to cat persons of all ages. With the subtitle ‘A Harrogate Adventure’, ‘Beyond the Flower Pots’ will catch your eye with its exquisite front cover, oh-soBritish in the realistic depiction of the daffodils in the fore, the mischievous wink of the protagonist black cat, all balanced by 62

purple and pink hydrangeas in the garden of sage-green foliage.

ing against steely skies, stone and brickwork cityscapes dotted by pointy steeples.

“My favourite medium is gouache, which “The protagonist, Tiddles, was actually allows for vibrancy and versatility,” she my mother’s black cat, who went missing says about her illustrations, developed on and returned three weeks later,” Mel says. “My mum was very emotional a larger scale than the miniature-like artistic souvenirs she during this disappearance, and "What made herself known in Gibraltar overwhelmed once Tiddles was started for. “It is quite long for being back home safe when hope was as a true a children’s book, so it can be almost lost. So she felt she had story was to record the event for the whole enjoyed over some time, adembellished family to remember it. The story venture after adventure.” There with makeare forty-six pages featuring was written between 2000 and twelve illustrations, all Melanie’s 2004, and what started as a believe hand-painted originals which she true story was embellished with adventures treasures at her home in Teulada, make-believe adventures to ento engage gage her young readers’ imaginaCosta Blanca, where she recently her young tion when retold.” moved after having spent a few readers’ years in Gibraltar with her son. imagination." The escapade is set in Yorkshire, where Margaret lived at the time “I can’t tell you too much about of the incident, and so Melanie’s illustrathe plot, or it will spoil it for my readers, but what I can tell you is that Tiddles tions are bathed in traditional countryside is a typical apartment cat who lives a light, with vibrant garden flowers contrastGIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

literature cushy carefree life until one day she gets tempted to explore the world beyond the comfort of her little garden. She meets a streetwise white fluffy cat and they become the best of friends. It’s all goingto-town fun and games until Tiddles finds herself alone and hungry in a dark and cold unknown place.”

Margaret had a full professional life starting out as a ballerina in the Scottish ballet, a dream shattered by a bad car crash. This experience motivated to become a physiotherapist, before answering again the call of the performing arts and landing a stage designer job. After having Melanie and her brother, she became an acclaimed chef and upon retireMelanie’s ment, she returned to her first illustrations love, ballet, to make and dress are bathed porcelain dolls and memorabilia in traditional for various ballet companies.

Leafing through the book, the reader will spot Tiddles longingly gazing at the mysterious city beyond the wrought-iron gates, countryside cascading with morning glory and light, with other colourful creepers in full vibrant bloom. Attention to detail is algarden ways a must in Melanie’s artwork, in the sapient stroke used to flowers deliver the pink fuchsias growing contrasting in the terracotta pot to the left, against the green watering can - almost steely skies. a cliché for any self-respecting British backyard - and even the pigeon, beckoning from the top of a bright yellow tree.

‘Beyond the Flower Pots’ is available from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com, for just £9.50, a reasonable indeed price for a full-colour 8x10-inch paperback.

Artist Melanie Brown

Turn the page and you will stare directly in Tiddles’ amber eyes in an emotional close-up that expresses the love that Melanie remembers her mother feel for, and lavish on, her lucky cat, here depicted while being stroked by a passer-by, trying to shelter her from the rain. Turn another page and it’s spring in Attention the park again, where Tiddles and to detail her new white friend are being is always playful with trees and ponds, on a must in the background of grass dotted Melanie’s with yellow and blue flowers, artwork. green and coppery leaves, and the flight of two magpies. Again we feel the British touch that tells us how The protagonist, Tiddles much Melanie misses her hometown, and her mother to share it with. As the story unfolds, Tiddles makes a close encounter with a cute white Scottish terrier: stylistically, this picture features the lovely contrast between black and white lively represented in the cat-dog dynamism, complemented by the Margaret ever-present bright green and the had a full detailed brickwork in the fore, professional highlighted by immaculate white grout. life starting

Melanie Brown and her mother Margaret Brown

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The terrier is a nod to Melanie’s ballerina, parents’ homeland: “Mum was a dream Scottish and came from Glasgow, shattered like Dad. They grew up in the by a bad car same town and had a wonderful crash. marriage,” Melanie tells, as she reminisces about her childhood in Devon. “But the pictures I painted are inspired by Harrogate, where my parents ended up, and the Tiddles incident took Porcelain dolls and memorabilia made by place.” Margaret Brown GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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HISTORIC HUNGARY Come on an adventure across mammoth lakes, through luscious national parks and around the medieval castles of one of Europe's most exciting capitals.

BY CHRIS HEDLEY

ungary, or as they call it in their own language, Magyarország (quite the mouthful), but certainly never ‘hungry’. Hungary has that lovely whistling language which belongs to the Ugro-Finnish group, to which only two languages belong: Finnish and Hungarian. As there are no similarities between these two languages and the other languages in Europe, this makes it a very difficult language to learn. So what can you do in a country that is home to one of the largest European music festivals, the largest lake in Europe and numerous other sights to attach superlatives to, and is a bustling, vibrant, cosmopolitan capital city? Factual History After a few empires (notably the Romans and the Huns) ploughed their way through Europe leaving traces of their civilizations behind, the country was

formed in 895AD, made up of the tribes the country all over again, which evenwho inhabited the land. During the 10 th tually became absorbed as a state of the Century, Hungary adopted the Latin Soviet Union. The later transition from language, a monarchy, and Christianity, communism to democracy was a peaceful and continued to evolve. Three one and more or less formed hundred years later the Mongols the Hungary we know and love Numerous came to wreak havoc, smashing today. stone the place up and indulging in a castles and bit of mass-murder before makInteresting History fortifications ing a swift exit. Consequently, were built numerous stone castles and forElizabeth Bathory was born into just in case tifications were built just in case nobility in the 16th Century, and those pesky Mongols came back those pesky her family owned land which for a second invasion, which spanned across modern day Mongols they did. The fortifications Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia. came back worked. Hungary broke up and She did all the things you’d for a second reformed over the years finally expect from a rich noblewominvasion, forming the Austro-Hungarian an; married young, learned a which they Empire, which dissolved with few languages, profited from did. the end of World War I. The the work of peasants and so aftermath of war resulted in on. There are reports saying chaos, whereby Hungary lost a lot of its that she stepped in to help poor women land before slowly gaining some back with suffering from hard times, husbands being the help of the Axis powers in the run captured by their enemies for example. up to World War II. This war devastated Sounds like a fairly nice woman. Then sto65

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Elizabeth Bathory

Then stories of brutally murdered women and torture equipment started to emerge, which intensified after the death of her husband.

Buda Castle at night

ries of brutally murdered women and torture equipment started to emerge, which intensified after the death of her husband. Young peasant women were beaten, mutilated, and killed in their hundreds according to some sources, and she allegedly - and famously - bathed in their blood in order to maintain to maintain her youth. Eventually Elizabeth was found guilty after apparently having been caught in the act, and spent the three remaining years of her life bricked into a room with no windows.

Budapest

The story is contested and has no doubt been embellished by the hand of fiction

The River Danube flows through the city from north to south. To the west lies the

writers and those looking to profit from it. She was a rich woman, and the Habsburg palace wanted her wealth. She was also educated in many sciences, which could explain the ‘torture’ equipment, which may simply have been for medical purposes. In any case, although Elizabeth is frequently described as Hungarian, she is more likely to be from what is now Slovakia, so this is a bit of a tangent.

historic city of Buda, where you’ll find Buda Castle on top of the aptly named Castle Hill. The area was home to a great siege, though thing didn’t turn out quite the same as the Great Siege of Gibraltar, with Buda’s population shrivelling from eight thousand down to around three hundred people. The castle itself has been through its own hard times, being attacked, damaged, and rebuilt throughout history as is the nature of most castles. Since World War II, a pretty decent job of restoring parts of the castle to its late Gothic state has been achieved, along with other parts being modernised by the ruling communist government, making an interesting architectural mix, and a pretty lovely sight.

Budapest

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St Matthias Church Walking around the outside of the castle, you’ll see the various statues recreated from throughout the ages. Nip into the Lion’s Courtyard, undeterred by the four lion statues fiercely warning you not to enter, and go inside for a wander around the Budapest History Museum and the Hungarian National Gallery. Savoyai Terrace is a spacious square within Buda castle that also serves as a vantage point for views of where the Danube splits the city into two. From here you can see the city’s bridges, the parliament building, and other sites across the river into Pest. Ask the local engineering students about the statue of Hussar General András Hadik on horseback, and your focus will be directed towards the horses’ gentlemanly orbs, which gleam a different colour to

Multi-coloured tiled roofs of St Matthias Church the rest of the statue due to students polishing them before difficult exams or tourists for luck.

The basement housed a maze of prison cells where inmates were routinely beaten and starved.

For those interested in military history, on the next hill from the castle is the Citadella, which, like many other buildings in Budapest, was built during the time of the AustroHungarian Empire. From here you can have another elevated look at the river and its bridges, or wander round the old fortification looking at big, old-fashioned guns. Once you’ve had your fill, stroll across the nearest bridge to Pest to find a huge covered market built in the 19th Century, where

you can pick up all your obligatory holiday souvenirs.

Ambling into Pest you’ll find many more sights and buildings to explore. The Hungarian Parliament Building on the banks of the Danube (which had to be reinforced due to the weight of the thing) is inspired by the UK’s Houses of Parliament, although for a slice of the bragging rights, the Hungarian version is supposedly a foot wider. You can enter this building only in the form of a 30 minute guided tour, providing you’ve booked tickets in advance. Further from the river is a place used as headquarters by the Nazis and the communist State Security

The Great Synagogue

Statue of Hussar General András Hadik

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Festival Sziget Police. The basement housed a maze of prison cells where inmates were routinely beaten and starved. It has since been turned into a museum and aptly been given the name ‘House of Terror’.

Since its humble beginnings as a student event in 1993, the music and cultural festival now expects around half a million visitors.

Hősök tere (or Heroes Square in English) is a large plaza boasting the Seven Chieftains of the Magyars monument to represent the leaders of the seven tribes of the Hungarians back in 895AD. Various places of worship are sprawled throughout the city, notable Matthias Church with its eclectic architectural style, or the Great Synagogue - the largest of its kind outside New York

City. To the north stands the Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial over the mass graves of those killed by the Nazi’s in World War II. The leaves of the trees bears inscriptions of some of the family names of the victims. Sziget

Every August, a week-long festival is held on Old Buda Island in the Danube. Since its humble beginnings as a student event in 1993, the music and cultural festival now expects around half a million visitors. Sziget hosts an eclectic mix of genres attracting people from around the globe. It’s becoming increasingly fashion-

able to the festival world as the Burning Man festival in Europe. There are even dedicated party trains complete with DJ’s to transport people from various European cities. If you’re planning on going to Sziget Festival, try not to forget that you’re in Budapest and go see some sights too. You crazy party animal. Lake Balaton One of my favourite European getaways is only a short train ride from Budapest. Lake Balaton holds the title of Europe’s largest freshwater lake and, touristy though it is, it’s very beautiful. Flanking the shores of the lake are plenty of guest houses, hotels, camping sites, and other lodgings to suit your needs. By day, you

You’re outside because it’s cooked traditionally in a massive hanging cauldron over an open fire.

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Most typical Hungarian wine Tokaji

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can sit on the banks and contemplate the natural beauty. If it’s warm enough, you can even jump in for a little swim. The silt bed squelches beneath your feet as you try to keep your distance from the oncoming swans (apparently they can break your arm). Also be wary of the eels. Or perhaps just retire to the safety of the banks and read a book. By night, sit outside and sample some of the goulash your guesthouse is most likely preparing. You’re outside because it’s cooked traditionally in a massive hanging cauldron over an open fire. So very tasty, so very cheap. In Hungary they grow an incredible variety of peppers, from the teeny tiny red ones, to the yellow squashy ones. One of them, whose name

I only know in Polish (bizarrely), Czuszka, is really spicy, and may find its way into your goulash.

The village has been deliberately preserved in its traditional state and paints a picture of the Hungarian subgroup in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Other things to do here include hiking the northern hills or your usual array of water activities: sailing, kite surfing and the likes. There’s also a nice little wine trail up Badacsony Hill, with an abundance of small vineyard owners offering their hit-or-miss wines by the glass or bottle. It’s a little bit like Bertie Bott’s every flavoured beans (for the Harry Potter fans among our readership), but it’s a fun afternoon not to be missed nonetheless.

Incidentally, the most typical Hungarian wine is Tokaji, which you can get dry, but is traditionally sweet. If you have the palate for it, it’s very fruity, very aromatic, and has a slight musty aftertaste. For those who don’t have the palate, it’s white wine. Hollókő

For a taste of traditional Hungary, head to Holloko. In 1783, Hungary decided that wood was too flammable to use for building and prohibited the use of it. The residents of Holloko took no notice of this decree, so the village has been periodically plagued with fires. Nevertheless, the

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travel village has been deliberately preserved in its traditional state and paints a picture of the Hungarian subgroup, Palóc, and their life in the 18th and 19th centuries. Walk down the only road taking in the beautiful old houses and walk into every single craft shop and museum you find. Follow the road and hike up the hill for twenty minutes and you’ll find a medieval castle, and a picturesque view of the village and surrounds vineyards, orchards, and general loveliness. Easter hosts the best festival of the year; think colourfully decorated costumes, folk crafts and customs, and men throwing buckets of water over women, for some reason. Pécs

a ruddy good, liveable city. Go and see the 11th Century cathedral, the 4th Century necropolis, or the the Mosque of Pasha Quasim, built when the Ottomans came to take over. There are a few museums to get stuck into, with two of them focusing on local artists Tivadar Kosztka Csontváry and Victor Vasarely. Nearby is the town of Villány, famous for its red wine. Nip over and take a tour of any of the wineries for your obligatory holiday-wine-day-out. National parks Aggtelek is a national park is for those who think geology ‘rocks’ (apologies). With 280 caves spread across 200 square kilometres and stretching into Slovakia, Aggtelek is bound to sate your cavernous desires. Its limestone landscape, stalactites and stalagmites (I can never remember which is which) may seem familiar, but unlike Gibraltar these caves are a little larger in size, one of which is known to be the largest stalactite cave in Europe!

The great thing about Europe is that you can step into any town on the map and the chances are it’s got some history behind it. Pécs is no different. Founded two thousand years ago by the Romans, it’s now exists as a small (although large in Hungarian terms) university town. Hungary has been a Christian state for a long time and Pécs has the Early Christian Őrség is the the place Hungarians go to Necropolis to back that up, built in the relax. Tucked away in the west by the 4th Century. But Pécs is better known as border of Slovenia, this place is renowned being a multicultural melting pot. The valfor its luscious meadows, marshland, and ues of people from different backgrounds a forest that covers the region with a have all blended together over smattering of quaint little towns the city’s history and its inhabiIt seems and villages for good measure. tants still live in harmony togethThe region’s directorate have as if nothing er. Pécs has won awards for been working hard to prehere has peace, tolerance, and just being serve the natural and historical changed

surroundings, which is why it seems as if nothing here has changed for a few hundred years. Tranquillity awaits you. Hortobágy is a national park rich with folklore and cultural history. Wild horses have been grazing this steppe for over ten thousand years and have been joined more recently by other beasts such as oxen and cattle. The main attraction here is Nine Hole Bridge, 167 metres of stone road with entrances broader than the rest of the bridge to make life easier for herdsmen to cross the river by funnelling their animals in an orderly manner. There are also around 350 different types of birds, which combined with the open horizon, attracts birdwatchers and sunset admirers alike. Keep an eye out for the shadoofs (sightly, early irrigation tools) jutting into the air across the landscape. The land of Hungary is blanketed with natural beauty, compelling history, and charming towns. Cross over to Budapest over a long weekend for a city break with a difference, or take your time exploring the countryside, towns, and villages for a relaxing cultural holiday. All that’s left for you to do is visit this captivating country, and that’s left for me to do is refrain for a few more sentences from making any drab ‘hungry’ puns. So save up those pennies and make a new entry on your bucket list; this really is a travel destination that will leave you hungry for more. (Sorry.)

for a few hundred years. Tranquillity awaits you.

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JEANS AND A NICE TOP ASOS RIVINGTON High Waist Denim Jeggings In Clean Black ASOS £22.00

As Friday approaches, and post-work plans begin to become a serious topic of discussion, WhatsApp exchanges between you and your girlfriends will no doubt commence "Are we going out-out? You going nice or like, nice-casual?" We all know the struggle too well! Sometimes if Dusk just isn't on the cards, and you're feeling more of a My Wines & Casino kind of vibe, (or, God forbid, any other semi-casual destination) the occasion simply calls for the classic ‘jeans and nice top’ combo. BY JULIA COELHO

ASOS DESIGN Body with Sequin Embellishment

They are easy and uncomplicated options that are pretty simple to style too.

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New Look High Neck Lace Insert Top ASOS £19.99

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fter last month’s passionate championing of the good old jumpsuit, and mild disdain of my usual fashion choice which I am so ironically contending for this month, Missguided have come out with a widely talked about “jeans and a nice top” section on their website, and so I quickly became inspired by my once go-to but recently rejected combo. The new section came after a fellow shopper tweeted Missguided with a request for said option; the store replying with a simple ‘noted’ before launching it only two weeks later. Not all heroes wear capes! The launch was received with an overwhelming response from girls and women everywhere, and since then, unsurprisingly, several online retailers have followed suit Even (ASOS, we’re waiting on you our male now). Even guys must experience this same conflict, surely. After counterparts weeks on end wearing the same must struggle with chinos/jeans and shirt pairing and considering whether a t-shirt the inner could maybe possibly be an apdebate. propriate choice, even our male counterparts must struggle with the inner debate. As I navigate my mid-twenties, I realise that mini dresses don’t fill me with joy like they used to. Even though they’re perfectly apt for the Dusk scene, I feel like the older you get, the more you can get away with, and the more casual you can dress on a Friday night. Certain types of dresses are only really appropriate for out-out nights, whereas a more dressed down look can often transcend any occasion; perfect for a civilised glass of wine on the Chatham Counterguard strip, and perfect for the dancefloor too. It’s a win-win situation! These days, my usual go-to is jeans and an okay-ish top; I wouldn’t even stretch it to nice, to be quite honest. I’m just not a pretty blouse kinda gal; I find it so much easier and more natural to buy casual tees or shirts. This year, however, I’m determined to invest in a few pieces that will succeed in taking my outfit from casual afternoon coffee at OV, to some evening beverages at Vinopolis (keeping all dancefloor-related eventualities at the back of one’s mind, of course).

Nobody's Child Blouse In Mini Spot ASOS £22.00

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One of my favourite styles, without a doubt, is a high neck piece. High necks are so incredibly flattering and elegant, and have the ability to give any outfit a touch of much needed glam without any effort whatsoever. I find wrap over blouses have that same effect; they are easy and uncomplicated options that are pretty simple to style too. Although I’ve never personally gone down the bodysuit route, 73

fashion I recognise, increasingly, how versatile and appropriate they are for those desperate jeans-and-a-nice-top outfit searches. They tend to perfectly teeter on that fine line between sexy and elegant, and can easily be paired with a smart Easy blazer and some court heels for a enough to particularly fancy affair.

Floral Embroidered Checked Shirt TOPSHOP £29.00

dress up, but also seamlessly compatible with a more alternative style.

On the other end of the spectrum, a flannel shirt, (or any shirt, for that matter) as unappealing as it may sound, doesn’t always have to look like you’ve just come from mucking out a stable. Aside from looking fantastic when tucked into a pair of high-waisted jeans, I find that they also give you a slight edge when it comes to accessorising; easy enough to dress up, but also seamlessly compatible with a more alternative style, as opposed to the restrictions placed upon you by an overwhelmingly feminine blouse. I’ve recently taken to wearing a flannel shirt with embroidered flowers detailing, buttoning it down as much as I dare, and pairing it with a delicate lariat necklace for that extra girly and glam touch. I love flannel shirts on guys too. They make for a perfect alternative to your standard Fridaynight shirt, fellas.

ASOS FARLEIGH High Waist Slim Mom Jeans in Mint Green ASOS £32.00

Wrap Top With Ruffle and Lace ASOS £32.00

But what about the jeans, you may ask? Well, the answer is, any pair of jeans will work! From high-waisted black skinnies, to ripped and studded, to colourful mom jeans, literally any will do! According to ASOS, though, we should be keeping an eye on “dark indigo washes, stitch detailing, polka dots and ice-cream hues.” When I’m presented with a slightly more than casual affair, my natural inclination is to assume that a pair of jeans wouldn’t be appropriate, but when paired with a smart top, some accessories and a good pair of shoes, jeans suddenly become the perfect balance to an otherwise dressy look. The high-street has some gorgeous blouses on offer; pieces that are not only fab for after-work drinks, but also a We should nice lunch, a baptism, you name be keeping it! It’s amazing how a simple an eye on blouse can take your outfit up a “dark indigo notch to become one that is able washes, to transcend occasion.

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Whether it’s a simple button detailing, down blouse, a checked shirt or polka dots bodysuit, or even a cropped tee, and pairing a top with a great pair of ice-cream jeans should never have to be hues.” stressful. Embrace it fully, and opt for more daring options that you wouldn’t usually consider trying. You’ll find it can actually be quite fun! 74

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Bershka Skinny High Waist Jean ASOS £21.99

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Missguided Tall Floral Print Pyjama Shirt ASOS £25.00

Penfield Ridley Neppy Shirt Buttondown Flannel Regular Fit in Grey ASOS £85.00

Miss Selfridge Floral Print Plisse Wrap Blouse ASOS £25.00

Whistles High Waist Jean ASOS £95.00

United Colors of Benetton Flannel Shirt In Green ASOS £36.00

ASOS DESIGN Tall oversized cord check shirt ASOS £28.00

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BATTLE OF THE SEXES With the end of the 2018 Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival last month, we look to the state of the game regarding women and gender in the world of chess.

BY MARK MONTEGRIFFO

tephen AJ Whatley is two years my junior and was dubbed a ‘chess starlet’ by the Panorama in 2015. Upon meeting him in Bayside Comprehensive, I was not aware of his achievements as a chess prodigy. I was also oblivious to the prospect that Gibraltar would host a prominent tournament in world chess, featuring grandmasters and continental champions. At the age of 7, Stephen won the Gibraltar under 8 competition before representing Gibraltar in British chess champions, even winning at age 10 in the under 12 bracket. Moving on to be a prolific player in Europe and then the world game, the young prodigy has gone from strength to strength, flying the Gibraltar flag while he’s at it.

Women’s International Master Sabrina Chess Federation in English) and the U.S. Chess Federation (USCF), male chess Chevannes said to the Telegraph, “I’ve been players significantly outperform their female asked if I want to play in the junior section; counterparts on average. The average I’ve even had men refuse to believe I’m Elo rating (the internationally there to play.” Polgar is quoted in recognised rating system named the same Telegraph piece addressAt the after professor and chess player ing her success and the issue of Tradewise Arpad Elo) for women is 8% below gender inequality: “Of course Gibraltar that of men’s. The game that this is not easy as generally a lot Chess was made compulsory in Spanish of male players say that I was an schools in 2015 also has a signifFestival, an exception. I do hope that there icant gender disparity at the very innovative will be more women players who top. Out of the top 100 FIDE will be able to prove it again that friendly rankings of players of both sexes, women focusing their energy on game did only 1 is a female (1%). Out of the this goal can play chess at the something top 500, only 7 are women (3%). level of the top male players. Men symbolic. Out of a total of 1443 grandmasand women are different but there ters, only 31 are women (2.2%). are different ways of thinking and Men earn master-level chess titles at a ratio fighting still achieving the same results.” of 6 to 1 over women.

But, as is often the case with young prodigies, Stephen credits his parents This year’s ‘Battle of the Sexes’ video can for the early encouragement. While these facts may make deChess and be found on gibchess.com. The two games His mother, Sharon, sits as the pressing reading, it is no wonder women have ended with forfeits by the female team, president of the Gibraltar Chess when statistics also show that granting the males victories. However, the a complex Association, Secretary of the female players are substantially post-match footage shows the ladies’ team relationship. Calpe Chess Club, and coaches under-represented dancing on the chessboard-floor chess in local schools. Chess in the competitive with the boys nowhere to be It fills and women have a complex relationship. game. Of the 1 million plus FIDE seen. I think we know who the one with Way back in 1962, chess grandmaster members, only 11% are womreal winners were that night! pride to Bobby Fischer told Harper’s Magazine in an en. Indeed, with the exception know that interview that, “they’re all weak, all women. of the Polgar sisters, chess has Either way, it fills one with pride Gibraltar They’re stupid compared to men. They been, and continues to be, a very to know that Gibraltar gave a shouldn’t play chess, you know. They’re gender-segregated game. But at gave a small small contribution to the de-genlike beginners. They lose every single game the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess contribution der-segregation of the game. against a man. There isn’t a woman player Festival, an innovative friendly to the Even if it proves to be largely in the world I can’t give knight-odds to and game did something symbolic. de-genderinconsequential in the grand still beat.” It has been said that a woman’s Gibraltar hosted a male team scheme of the short-term future segregation role is to take care of the family, whilst men versus female team game of chess of the game, at least it showed of the game. are better at chess because it is in their made out of participants from the 120 minutes of a gender equal nature. festival. chess event is possible. With the figures so stacked against women in chess, hopefully According to data from the Fédération However, not everywhere is as forward this can be seen as progress of a kind. Internationale des Échecs (FIDE – or World thinking as Gibraltar in this respect.

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LE VIN LALOU

“Wine is inspired from the cosmos, it tastes of the world itself. Once one knows how to taste wine, one no longer simply tastes wine but its profound secrets”. – Lalou Bize-Leroy. How one woman became the most revered wine maker in the world.

BY ANDREW LICUDI DipWSET

proprietors of other top domaines. Not only people think (and I include myself in this), o be a successful rock climber you are they jealous, they are frightened of Bizeshould not have an overwhelmBurgundy produces the most alluring and Leroy because they fear increasing pressure ing and disproportionate fear of ethereal wines anywhere, then Lalou Bizet for lower yields and bio-dynamic farming. falling. Lalou Bize-Leroy, lithesome Leroy, by simple logic, may well be the greatest winemaker that’s ever lived. Anyone who loves great Burgundy, must realand athletic after years climbing Europe’s ize that her wines embarrass much of what is challenging peaks, must have sensed as produced in Burgundy” she walked into Domaine de la Romanee Robert Parker, the world’s most Conti’s boardroom that - on this occasion famous wine critic, in his 1997 Our palates at least - a life changing fall was guide to French wines I have written about Burgundy by and large inevitable. Her sister Pauline, who had this say about Lalou before but I will quickly recap on Lalou Bizet have been like Lalou owned 25% of DRC’s the Cote D’Or - this small area of Bize Leroy: Leroy may hijacked by shares, sided with other shareFrance where the finest expreswell be the holders and had Lalou fired from sumptuous, sions of Chardonnay and Pinot “I have said it so many greatest her post as director. It is said that Noir are produced. Many think times that it may seem full bodied, winemaker it was a major and bitter blow but it’s the most exciting wine region redundant, but if you modern what followed was the stuff of in the world. Clive Coates MW that’s ever missed it in my 1990 styled fairy tales. in his bible-sized The Wines of tome, Burgundy, Lalou lived. Spanish and Burgundy talks about an explosion Bize-Leroy stands virtuNew World in quality in the region over the Lalou Bize-Leroy apparently loves vines ally alone at the top of Burgundy’s wines. last 25 years. We see very little more than people. She herself is not quality hierarchy. Because she is Burgundy in Gibraltar, conseuniversally loved but her sense of purpose a perfectionist, and because she quently few here have acquired a taste for after she was fired from DRC has made has had the courage to produce wines from these wines. Red Burgundy particularly is her enormously wealthy and her wines low yields and bottle them naturally, without not easy-drinking but persevere and you have become the stuff of legend out of fining or filtration, she has been scorned by will soon appreciate their out-of-this-world reach to all but the very rich. If, as many many Burgundy negociants, and even by the

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ethereal nuances. Our palates by and large have been hijacked by sumptuous, full bodied, modern styled Spanish and New World wines which, in spite of their initial charm and easy-drinking nature, turn out to be simple and ultimately uninteresting – pleasant enough drinks but no more. Of course, no one can call Burgundy wines cheap. According to Coates they can never be inexpensive for all sorts of reasons. The price of the land, the pitifully small scale of operations and the impossibility of making top quality wines without reducing yields to a minimum.

in the unpredictable weather and astronomical prices some producers can achieve for their wines and it’s no wonder it’s an area considered seriously complicated, full of jealousies and intrigue.

There are many Her stories why Lalou Bizet-Leroy was obsession Romanée-Conti vineyard To add insult to injury, Burgundy as a wine ousted from to sorting region is hideously complicated. The three Domaine de la Romanee Conti. acquired 22ha with 26 appelout grape by most important areas in Burgundy are Cote Why one sister would turn lations and nine grands crus. grape, only du Nuit (reds), Cote du Beaune (mostly against another is anyone’s guess Adopting biodynamic principles allowing whites) and Chablis (not physically part of but it accepted that Lalou’s in- no chemicals and plenty of mathe best Burgundy and producing only whites). Each volvement in acquiring vineyards nure - ensured that vines flourto go into of these areas is then divided into individfor her herself under Domaine ished and life was brought back her wines, ual communes or villages and these in turn Leroy was seen as unacceptable to previously impoverished soils. divided into individual vineyards which competition to DRC and she eventually Above all, she cut back yields are then designated as Grand Cru (top), was subsequently forced out. with no more than four bunchpaid Premier Cru (second) or simply capable Lalou to this day still has her 25% es of grapes per vine. This was handsomely. of producing ‘village wines’. For share of Domaine de la considered financial suicide by example, Gevrey-Chambertin is Romanee Conti. It’s no other producers, but her uncompromising part of Cote du Nuit producing nature to yields and her obsession to sortwonder reds. Gevrey-Chambertin is then One can imagine that being fired ing out grape by grape, only allowing the it’s an area subdivided into 9 Grand Crus may have been a factor in her best to go into her wines, eventually paid considered and 26 Premier Crus vineyards. mission to climb to the upperhandsomely. Her wines are considered the seriously Each vineyard will have mulmost echelons of Burgundy wine pinnacle in Burgundy. Her wines express complicated, tiple owners and, like chefs, making and make Domaine Leroy individual vineyards and soils with amazfull of some better than others. So, for a force to be reckoned with. She ing concentration arising from ludicrous example, Chapelle-Chambertin jealousies succeeded beyond anybody’s low yields. Her finest can fetch thousand and Charmes-Chambertin, two expectations particularly in a and intrigue. pounds for a bottle (£2000 for her 2005 of the Grand Crus, will have world dominated by men! So how Richbourg), though she does produce more than fifty owners between did she do it? village wines at more affordable prices. On them some having parcels of land as little pricing she is unapologetic. “Yields are limas 50 square metres the size of a one Firstly, she started acquiring top vineyards ited and there is enormous demand for my bedroom in Watergardens! Multiply this when these became available. With the wines. Price is a way of showing respect throughout the whole of Burgundy, factor financial help of her Japanese importer she for these wines. They deserve it.” GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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PANCAKE STACK EGG, DAIRY & SUGAR FREE An easy, tasty recipe for the kids to make a breakfast in bed that Mum will be sure to remember! (…Dad can help too)

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT SPREAD INGREDIENTS 1 cup (140g) of raw unsalted hazelnuts 32g of dairy free chocolate ¼ tsp pure vanilla extract ¼ tsp Himalayan pink salt

INSTRUCTIONS 1. Roast the hazelnuts for 10-12 mins at 175C in a single layer on a tray. 2. Remove from the oven and let them cool so they are easy to touch. Place them on either a large piece of kitchen towel or a tea towel and roll them around until the skins come off. 3. Place the hazelnuts in the blender and blend on a low speed (you do not want the hazelnuts to get too hot) until a smooth butter is produced. You will need to halt the process to scrape down the sides. 4. Melt the chocolate over hot water and when the butter is ready, add it to the mix together with the salt and vanilla extract. Blend it until you have all the ingredients mixed. 5. Your chocolate hazelnut spread is ready, so place in a jar or dish. It can be kept in the fridge for two weeks. 80

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INGREDIENTS 1 cup (114g) of plain flour 2 tsp baking powder 1 pinch of salt 1 cup (250ml) of non-dairy milk (I used Oatly organic) 1 tbsp of chia seed 1 tsp apple cider vinegar 2 tsp vanilla extract A vegetable oil for cooking 2 bananas (a sweet substitute for sugar)

INSTRUCTIONS

'CHEESY' LEEK & BROCCOLI TARTLETS These tasty tartlets take no time at all to make, and even less time to eat! Perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner, they can be eaten hot or cold.

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1. Mix the milk and chia seeds in a jug or bowl, stir well. Then add the vanilla and apple cider vinegar and stir again.

recipe by Coconut and Berries www.coconutandberries.com

2. In a bowl, add the flour, baking powder and salt together and mix.

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PANCAKES (MAKES 6)

3. Add the milk chia seed liquid to the flour mix and stir until all the ingredients are blended. Do not beat. 4. Heat your pancake pan with the oil of your choice. Once hot, spoon the batter into the pan and cook at a medium heat. 5. Once bubbles are appearing on the top of the pancake, flip it over. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling brave, toss the pan! 6. As your pancakes cook slice the banana in half and then into three, giving you six pieces per banana. Start frying the banana in a little bit of oil until golden. 7. Once all your pancakes and bananas are ready prepare to create your stack. 8. You can layer the pancakes any way you like, I have two ways I like to do this. a. Smear all three pancakes with the chocolate hazelnut spread and stack placing bananas in between each pancake. b. The second way is to stack the pancakes with bananas in between and lash the chocolate hazelnut spread on top letting it drizzle down the side. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

INGREDIENTS Pre-made pastry tart cases 1 tsp oil 1 leek, halved lengthwise and chopped finely Approx. 100 g tenderstem broccoli 1/4 cup cashews, soaked 1 tbsp nutritional yeast 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tbsp lemon juice 2 tbsp arrowroot 1/2 cup water Black pepper

INSTRUCTIONS 1. SautĂŠ the leeks in the oil over medium heat for approx. 10 minutes, stirring often. Add the broccoli, cover and cook for a further 5 minutes. 2. Blend together the remaining ingredients and mix with the leeks and broccoli. Season with black pepper. Spoon the filling into the pre-baked crusts. 3. Bake for 25 minutes. Cool briefly before removing from the tins and serve warm or cold. 81

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BON APPETITE FOOD AND DRINK CASA PEPE

NUNOS ITALIAN

CAFÉ SOLO

A delightful terrace, bar, restaurant on the prestigious Queensway Quay Marina. Wonderful location for business meetings, weddings, anniversaries and other special occasions. Specialising in fresh fish caught locally with daily specials including seabass, dorada, sole, and bream, plus a very comprehensive a la carte menu. Also available are tapas and raciones (double size tapas) to share (or not!) prior to a main course. Mixed paellas also available, as well as fish cooked in rock salt, whole suckling pig and baby lamb to order.

Nunos Italian Restaurant, overlooking the Mediterranean, is popular with hotel guests, tourists and local residents. This 2 rosette rated, AA restaurant is renowned for its eclectic interior, intimate atmosphere and fine cuisine. Savour a wide selection of freshly prepared Italian delicacies, including bread, pasta, meat and fish, followed by delicious desserts. In the summer months, the hotel offers alfresco dining for private parties in the Garden Grill. Sitting nestled in the colonial garden you can enjoy a mouth-watering menu of charcoal-grilled meats and freshly prepared salads in candlelit surroundings. Open: Mon-Sun 1-3pm lunch, 7–11pm dinner

Modern Italian eatery set in lively Casemates square. Everything from chicory and crispy pancetta salad with walnuts, pears and blue cheese dressing, or king prawn, mozzarella and mango salad to pastas (eg: linguine with serrano ham, king prawns and rocket; smoked salmon and crayfish ravioli with saffron and spinach cream) to salads (eg: Vesuvio spicy beef, cherry tomatoes, roasted peppers and red onions; and Romana chorizo, black pudding, egg and pancetta) and pizzas (eg: Quatto Stagioni topped with mozzarella, ham, chicken, pepperoni and mushroom) and specialities such as salmon fishcakes, beef medallions and duck. Daily specials on blackboard. No smoking.

Open: Tues-Sat lunch & evening, Sunday lunch only, closed Mondays. Casa Pepe, 18 Queensway Quay Marina, Tel/Fax: 200 46967 casa.pepe.gib@gmail.com. www.casapepegib.com

Nunos Italian Restaurant and Terrace Caleta Hotel, Catalan Bay Tel: 200 76501 Email: reservations@caletahotel.gi

Café Solo Grand Casemates Square. Tel: 200 44449

THE LOUNGE Stylish Lounge Gastro Bar on Queensway Quay Marina serving best quality food prepared by passionate, qualified chefs. Popular quiz on Sundays from 7pm and a relaxed friendly atmosphere. A separate Lounge Bar Area serving a wide range of hot drinks, wines, beers, spirits and cocktails at reasonable prices, with large TV’s for sports and events coverage. Open: 10am-late Mon - Sun Be sure to arrive early to ensure a seat! The Lounge, 17 Ragged Staff Wharf, Queensway Quay Marina Tel: 200 61118 info@thelounge.gi

SOLO BAR & GRILL

JURY’S CAFÉ-WINE BAR

Solo Bar and Grill is a stylish and modern eatery — perfect for business functions or lunches — and part of the popular Cafe Solo stable. Serving everything from Goats’ Cheese Salad, Mediterranean Pâté and Cajun Langoustines to Beer Battered John Dory, or Harissa Chicken, and Chargrilled Sirloin Steak. This is a delightful venue in Europort with a cosy mezzanine level and terrace seating. Well worth a visit, or two! Available for private functions and corporate events — call 200 62828 to book your function or event.

Next to the Law Courts, with a terrace seating area, Jury’s has a selection of Ciabattas, paninis, baguettes and wraps, plus popular sharing dishes, such as Your Honour’s platter. Jacket potatoes, main courses, pasta and some innocent salads too. For those with a sweet tooth, there are tantalising homemade desserts, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, as well as Lavazza coffees and frappes.

Open: 12-8pm. Solo Bar & Grill, Eurotowers Tel: 200 62828

Jury’s Café & Wine Bar 275 Main Street. Tel: 200 67898 │ www.jurysgibraltar.com

Open: 7am-midnight Mon-Sat, 9am-midnight Sun.

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restaurants, bars & pubs ALL’S WELL

O’REILLY’S

LORD NELSON

Traditional pub in fashionable Casemates area. Named for the 18th century practise of locking gates to the city at night when the guard called ‘All’s Well’. All’s Well serves Bass beers, wine and spirits plus pub fare. English breakfast all day, hot meals such as pork in mushroom sauce, sausage & mash, cod & chips and steak & ale pie plus a range of salads and jacket potatoes. Large terrace. Karaoke Mondays and Wednesdays until late. Free tapas on a Friday 7pm.

Traditional Irish bar with full HD sports coverage and Irish breakfast from 8am (Sunday from 9am). Guinness on draught. Food includes salads, jackets, beef & Guinness pie, Kildare chicken, chicken brochette, gourmet burgers, wraps, children menu, homemade desserts, daily specials and more. And just like in Ireland there’s no smoking inside, so a great atmosphere for all.

Situated in the corner of Casemates Square, the bar is a celebration of the life of Lord Nelson. See the collection of nautical art & memorabilia, including a brass pin from HMS Victory itself. HMS crews’ breakfast served from 10am, full menu including steak & ale pie, traditional fish & chips & much more served all day until 10pm. Jam session Thursday, live top local band on Friday & Karaoke Saturday nights.

All’s Well Casemates Square. Tel: 200 72987

O’Reilly’s Ocean Village. Tel: 200 67888 www.oreillysgibraltar.com

Lord Nelson Bar Brasserie 10 Casemates Tel: 200 50009 Visit: www.lordnelson.gi

BRIDGE BAR & GRILL

STAR BAR

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Located on the water’s edge, Ocean Village, just across the bridge from O’Reilly’s. This bar & grill is a fusion of an American themed menu with Tarifa chill out style. Open for breakfast from 9am serving healthy options, freshly squeezed orange juice and Italian Lavazza coffee. Try the spicy Caribbean rum ribs, southern fried chicken bucket, the popular Texas burger or a selection of tasty salads and homemade desserts. London Pride, San Miguel & Carling beer on draught, live sports.

Gibraltar’s oldest bar, just off Main St. Small cosy and famous for its full English breakfast from 8am (9am on Sunday). A full menu including fish & chips, until 10pm. The home of Star Coffee, draught beers include Heineken, Old Speckled Hen, Murphys and Strongbow cider. Managed by Hunter Twins from Stafford, England, also home to Med Golf & Tottenham Hotspur supporters club.

Located next to Pizza Hut in Casemates and in Eurotowers, serves a variety of salads/baguettes (white, brown, ciabatta) filled with a deli selection such as roast chicken; smoked salmon & mascapone; ham, cheese and coleslaw; or humous, avocado & roast red pepper. Salads fresh and tasty (Greek, Waldorf, cous cous, tuna pasta etc), great value. Jackets, quiches, coffee plus cakes (flapjacks, muffins) available all day. Eat-in area. Soups in winter.

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clubs & activities Arts & Crafts Cross Stitch Club: John Mackintosh Hall, 1st Floor, Mon 6-8pm, fee £1. Gibraltar Arts & Crafts Association: Children: Mon&Fri 12.30-2pm, Mon-Fri 3.45-5.15pm Adults: Wed 5.45-7.15, Sat 10.30 to 12.30, Tel: 20073865 email: gibartsandcrafts@hotmail.com Knit and Natter Group: Tues 11am-3pm, Thurs 5.30-7.30pm, at Arts & Crafts Shop, Casemates balcony. Free to join and refreshments provided. Tel: 20073865. The Arts Centre: Prince Edward’s Road, Art classes for children and adults. For more info call Tel: 200 79788. The Fine Arts Association Gallery: At Casemates. Open 10am-2pm, 3-6pm Mon-Fri, Sat 11am-1pm. The Gibraltar Decorative and Fine Arts Society: Affiliated to UK NADFAS meets third Wed of month at 6.30pm at Eliott Hotel - lecturers & experts from the UK talk on Art etc. Contact: Chairman Claus Olesen 200 02024 claus.olesen@sghambros.com. Membership Ian Le Breton 200 76173 ilebreton@SovereignGroup.com Board Games Calpe Chess Club & Junior Club: meets in Studio 1, John Mackintosh Hall Thursday, Juniors: 5p.m. - 7 p.m. / Tuesday & Thursday 7p.m. - 10:30 The Gibraltar Scrabble Club: Meets on Tuesdays at 3pm. Tel: Vin 20073660 or Roy 20075995. All welcome. The Subbuteo Club: Meets in Charles Hunt Room, John Mackintosh Hall. Dance Adult Dance Classes: Wed evenings at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre from 7-8.30pm. Contact Dilip on 200 78714. Art in Movement Centre: Hiphop/Break Dance,Contemporary Dance, Pilates, Capoeira, Acrobatics, Street Kids & Tods, Modern Dance. Performance and Film opportunities. Judo & Jujitsu Classes: Tue/ Thur with Sensei Conroy. All ages. Budokai Martial Arts Centre, Wellington Front. www. artinmovement.net FB: Art In Movement A.I.M, tel 54025041 or 54007457 Ballet, Modern Theatre, Contemporary & Hip Hop: weekly at Danza Academy. Training from 3 years to Adult Advanced. 68/2 Prince Edward’s Rd Tel: 54027111. Bellydance Classes, all levels, Tue 8-9pm at the Ocean Village Gym (non–members welcome). Contact 54005593. DSA Old & Modern Sequence Dancing: Sessions at Central Hall Fri 8.30pm, beginners 8pm. Tel: 200 78901 or tony@gibraltar.gi Everybody welcome. Modern & Latin American Sequence Dancing: Mon at Catholic Community Centre 8pm. Tel. Andrew 200 78901. Modern, Contemporary, Lyrical, Flexibility, Hip Hop & Dance Theatre: Classes weekly at Urban Dance Studio, 2 Jumpers Bastion. Tel: Yalta 54012212 or Jolene 54015125. Rockkickers Linedance Club: Governor’s Meadow 1st School. www.rockkickers.com Salsa Gibraltar Salsa: Tues at Laguna Social Club, Laguna Estate. Beginners 7-8.30pm. Intermediates 8.30-10pm. Tel: Mike 54472000 or info@salsagibraltar.com Zumba Classes at Urban Dance: Jumpers Bastion, with certified instructor Tyron Walker. Tel: 20063959 or 54012212 or Twitter: @UrbanDanceGib History & Heritage The Gibraltar Heritage Trust: Main Guard, 13 John Mackintosh Sq. Tel: 200 42844. The Gibraltar Classic Vehicle Association: Dedicated to preservation of Rock’s transport/motoring heritage. Assists members in restoration / maintenance of classic vehicles. New members welcome. Tel: 200 44643. Garrison Library Tours: at 11am on Fri, duration 1h 50mins. Tel: 20077418. History Alive: Historical re-enactment parade. Main Street up to Casemates Square every Sat at 12 noon. Music Gibraltar National Choir and Gibraltar Junior National Choir: Rehearses at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. Tel: 54831000. The Calpe Band: Mon & Wed. For musicians of brass/woodwind instruments of all standards/ages/abilities 7-9pm. Tel:

54017070 or thecalpeband@gmail.com Jazz Nights: Thurs at 9pm at O’Callaghan Eliott Hotel. Tel: 200 70500. Outdoor Activities The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Gibraltar: Exciting self-development programme for young people worldwide equipping them with life skills to make a difference to themselves, their communities and the world. Contact: Award House, North Mole Road, PO Box: 1260. mjpizza@ gibtelecom.net, www.thedukes.gi. Social Clubs The Rotary Club of Gibraltar meets the Rock Hotel, 7pm Tuesday evenings. Guests welcome. For contact or info www.rotaryclubgibraltar.com Royal Antediluvian Order of Buﬀaloes: (Gibraltar Province) meets RAOB Club, 72/9 Prince Edward’s Road - Provincial Grand Lodge, Thu/month, 7.30pm. William Tilley 2371, Thurs 8.30pm. Buena Vista 9975, monthtly, Social Lodge. www.akearn1.wix. com/raob-gibraltar, william.tilley.lodge@ hotmail.co.uk, Clive, tel: 58008074 Special Interest Clubs & Societies Creative Writers Group: meets up on Tuesday mornings at 10.30 in O’Reillys Irish Bar and it is free to attend. Tel: Carla 54006696. Gibraltar Book Club: For info Tel: Parissa 54022808. Gibraltar Horticultural Society: meets 1st Thurs of month 6pm, J.M. Hall. Spring Flower Show, slide shows, flower arrangement demos, outings to garden centres, annual Alameda Gardens tour. All welcome. Gibraltar Philosophical Society: devoted to intellectually stimulating debate. Frequent lectures and seminars on a range of topics. Tel: 54008426 or Facebook: facebook.com/gibphilosophy Gibraltar Photographic Society: Meets on Mondays at 7:00 p.m. Wellington Front. Induction courses, talks, discussions, competitions etc. For details contact the secretary on, leslinares@gibtelecom.net Harley Davidson Owners’ Club: www.hdcgib.com Lions Club of Gibraltar: Meets 2nd and 4th Wed of the month at 50 Line Wall Road. www.lionsclubofgibraltar.com St John’s Ambulance: Adult Volunteers Training Sessions from 8-10pm on Tues. Tel: 200 77390 or training@stjohn.gi The Royal British Legion: For info or membership contact the Branch Secretary 20074604 or write to PO Box 332. UN Association of Gibraltar: PO Box 599, 22a Main Street. Tel: 200 52108. Sports Supporters Clubs Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Club: Meets at Star Bar, Parliament Lane, when Spurs games are televised - call prior to matches to check game is televised. Great food for a lunch if KO is early or an early supper if the game is later. Gibraltar Arsenal Supporters Club: Meets match days upstairs at Time Out Café, Eurotowers. Gooners of all ages welcome. For info/news visit www.GibGooners.com Tel: 54010681 (Bill) or 54164000 (John). Gibraltar Hammers: Meets on match days at the Victoria Stadium Bar, Bayside Road. All league games are shown live. All West Ham supporters and their families are welcome. For details visit www. gibraltarhammers.com or gibraltarhammers@ hotmail.com Sports & Fitness Artistic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Artistic Gymnastics Association. Tel: Angela 200 70611 or Sally 200 74661. Athletics: Gibraltar Amateur Athletics Association holds competitions through year for juniors, adults and veterans. Two main clubs (Calpeans 200 71807, Lourdians 200 75180) training sessions at Victoria Stadium. Badminton: Recreational badminton weekdays at Victoria Stadium (Tel: 200 78409 for allocations). Gibraltar Badminton Association (affiliated to BWF& BE) junior club/tournaments, senior leagues/ recreational. www.badmintongibraltar.com Ballet Barre Fitness: Adults on Wed 10am & Fri 6pm at The Arts Centre. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com

Basketball: Gibraltar Amateur Basketball Association (affiliated FIBA) leagues/ training for minis, passarelle, cadets, seniors and adults at a variety of levels. Tel: John 200 77253, Randy 200 40727. Boxing: Gibraltar Amateur Boxing Association (member IABA) gym on Rosia Rd. Over 13s welcome. Tuition with ex-pro boxer Ernest Victory. Tel: 56382000 or 20042788. Cheerleading: Gibraltar Cheerleading Association, girls and boys of all ages. Chearleading and street cheer/hip hop at Victoria Stadium. Recreational / competitive levels. Tel: 58008338. Canoeing: Gibraltar Canoeing Association. Tel: Nigel 200 52917 or Arturo 54025033. Cricket: Gibraltar Cricket, National Governing Body & Associate Member of ICC. Governs International & Domestic Men’s, Women’s, Boys’ & Girls’ cricketleague & cup competitions and in-school coaching. www.gibraltarcricket.com, info@ gibcricket.com, Twitter: @Gibraltar_Crick Cycling: Gibraltar Cycling Association various cycling tours. Darts: Gibraltar Darts Association (full member of WDF & affiliate of BDO). We cater for men, ladies & youth who take part in leagues, competitions and a youth academy for the correct development of the sport. Tel: Darren 54027171 Secretary, Alex 54021672 Youth Rep, Justin 54022622 President. Email: info@ gibraltardarts.com Football: Gibraltar Football Association leagues/competitions for all ages OctoberMay. Futsal in summer, Victoria Stadium. Tel: 20042941 www.gibraltarfa.com Gaelic Football Club (Irish sport): Males any age welcome. Get fit, play sport, meet new friends, travel around Spain/Europe and play an exciting and competitive sport. Training every Wed on the MOD pitch on Devil’s Tower Road at 7pm. Andalucia League with Seville and Marbella to play matches home and away monthly. Visit www.gibraltargaels. com or secretary.gibraltar.europe@gaa.ie Hockey: Gibraltar Hockey Association (members FIH & EHF) high standard competitions/training for adults/juniors. Tel: Eric 200 74156 or Peter 200 72730 for info. Iaido: teaches the Japanese sword (Katana), classes every week. www.iaidogibraltar.com Iwa Dojo, Kendo & Jujitsu: Classes every week, for kids/adults. Tel: 54529000 www. iwadojo.com or dbocarisa@iwadojo.com Judo and Ju-jitsu: Gibraltar Budokai Judo Association UKMAF recognised instructors for all ages and levels at Budokai Martial Arts Centre, Wellington Front. Tel: Charlie 20043319. Ju-jitsu: Gibraltar Ju-jitsu Academy training and grading for juniors/seniors held during evening at 4 North Jumpers Bastion. Tel: 54011007. Karate-do Shotokai: Gibraltar Karate-do Shotokai Association - Karate training for junior & seniors at Clubhouse, Shotokai karate centre, 41H Town Range. Monday: 9:30 p.m. & Wednesday 9:45 p.m. Karate: Shotokan karate midday Mon beginners, other students 8.30pm. Thurs 8.30pm. In town at temporary dojo or privately by arrangement. Contact Frankie 54038127 or info@fhmedia.co.uk. Motorboat Racing: Gibraltar Motorboat Racing Association Tel: Wayne 200 75211. Muay Thai and Muay Boran Club: Tues & Thur at Boyd’s Kings Bastion Leisure Centre at 6:30pm, Tel: John – 54024707 FB: Gibraltar Muay Thai Netball: Gibraltar Netball Association (affiliated FENA & IFNA) competitions through year, senior/junior leagues. Tel: 20041874. Petanque: Gibraltar Petanque Association. New members welcome. Tel: 54002652. Pilates: Intermediate Pilates: Tues & Fri 9.30am, beginners Pilates: Fri 10.50am at the Shotokai Centre, 41H Town Range. Tel: 54033465 or pilatesgibraltar@hotmail.com Gibraltar Pool Association: (Member of the EBA) home and away league played on Thurs through out the season, various tournaments played on a yearly basis both nationally and internationally, Tel: 56925000 gibpool@gibtelecom.net, www.gib8ball.com Rhythmic Gymnastics: Gibraltar Rhythmic

Gymnastics Association runs sessions from 4 years of age, weekday evenings. Tel: 56000772 or Sally 200 74661. Rugby: Gibraltar Rugby caters for all ages from 4 years old to veterans (over 35’s). It organises competitions and sessions for Juniors; 4 x Senior Clubs; Veterans team; Touch Rugby and a Referees Society. Email admin@gibraltarrfu. com or visit www.gibraltarrfu.com Sailing: Gibraltar Yachting Association junior/ senior competitive programme (April - Oct) Tel: Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club at 200 78897. Shooting: Gibraltar Shooting Federation. Rifle, Europa Point Range (Stephanie 54020760); Clay pigeon, East Side (Harry 200 74354); Pistol, near Royal Naval Hospital (Louis 54095000). Snooker: Members of European Billiards & Snooker Association - facilities at Jumpers Bastion with 3 tables. Professional coaching for juniors/seniors. Organised leagues/ tournaments and participation in international competitions. Tel: 56262000 / 54000068, or info@gibraltarsnooker.com Squash: Gibraltar Squash Association, Squash Centre, South Pavilion Road (members WSF & ESF). Adult and junior tournaments and coaching. Tel: 200 44922. Sub-Aqua: Gibraltar Sub-Aqua Association taster dives for over 14s, tuition from local clubs. Voluntary sports clubs: Noah’s Dive Club and 888s Dive Club. Tel: 54991000. Commercial sports diving schools available. Time - Thursday 12:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.. Telephone, Jenssen Ellul - 54027122 Swimming: Gibraltar Amateur Swimming Association (member FINA & LEN) opens its pool for leisure swimming. Junior lessons, squad for committed swimmers, water polo. Pool open Mon&Thurs: 7-10am, 12.30-4pm. Tue, Wed, Fri: 7-10am, 12:30-5pm. Sat: 3-5pm. Sun: closed. Mon to Fri from 5-6pm groups training. 6-7.30 squad training. Mon, Wed, Fri 7.30-8.30 swimming joggers, Tues & Thurs 7:30-8:30 junior Water polo. Mon, Tues & Thurs 8:30-10pm Adult water polo. Tel: 200 72869. Table Tennis: Gibraltar Table Tennis Association training and playing sessions, Victoria Stadium, Tues 6-10pm and Thurs 8-11pm with coaching and league competition. Tel: 56070000 or 20060720. Taekwondo: Gibraltar Taekwondo Association classes/gradings Tel: Mari 20044142 or www. gibraltartaekwondo.org Tai Chi: Tai Chi for children and adults. Mon-Thur 6.30-8pm at Kings Bastion Leisure Centre and Sat 9am-1pm at the Yoga Centre, 33 Town Range. Tel: Dilip 200 78714. Tennis: Gibraltar Tennis Association, Sandpits Tennis Club. Junior development programme. Courses for adults, leagues and competitions. Tel: Louis 200 77035. Ten-Pin Bowling: At King’s Bowl in the King’s Bastion Leisure Centre every day. Gibraltar Ten Pin Bowling (members FIQ & WTBA) leagues, training for juniors and squad. Tel: 200 52442. Triathlon: Hercules Triathlon Club organises swimming, running and cycling training sessions and competes regularly in Andalucia and Internationally. Contact chris.walker@york. gi or Facebook “Hercules Triathlon Club” Volleyball: Gibraltar Volleyball Association training, indoor leagues, beach volleyball competition, 3 v 3 competition, juniors and seniors. Tel: 54001973 or 54885000. Yoga: Integral Yoga Centre runs a full programme of classes from Mon-Fri at 33 Town Range. Tel: 200 41389. All welcome. Theatrical Groups Gibraltar Amateur Drama Association: Meet at Ince’s Hall Theatre Complex, 310 Main Street. Tel: 20042237. Trafalgar Theatre Group: Meets 2nd Wed of month, Garrison Library 8pm. All welcome.

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Childline is Gibraltar’s largest children’s charity exclusively operating on the Rock. They have become high profile over the last year; in terms of reach, they have fast become the largest charity in Gibraltar. Childline are most commonly associated with child abuse, but there are so many other issues that they help the community deal with on a daily basis. I sat down with trustees Annie Green and Jo Abergel for a chat about who Childline Gibraltar are, and what they do, over a fresh cup of coffee.

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call our helpline. It’s another way to help people in Gibraltar, predominantly though hildline started in June 2006, their helpline service which is operational support them as it’s a legal requirement spearheaded by an NSPCC from 17:00-21:00 every evening. For social worker who relocated to to have adult present when questioned. those who would appreciate that extra Gibraltar, and is comprised of a 365 days a year 24 hours a day, specially trained volunteers are available to accomlayer of anonymity, they also offer a live board of trustees responsible for overall pany these juveniles if a parent chat box during these hours via their management, duty managers website (childline.gi). Annie reveals: “Due or custodian is either unwilling or who man phone lines at night, Childline to our working hours, we’re currently only service coordinators, and volunable to.” help our little answering around 40% of calls. We are unteers who generously offer community now in discussions to divert to the NSPCC their time pro bono to help our As well as the above, Childline with big outside our helpline hours so as to offer a little community with big issues. have conducted preventative issues. 24/7 service.” As a representative of the Child educational strategies, working Protection Committee (CPC) closely with local schools and both on an executive and operational youth groups as well as parents and carers The types of calls received have changed level, and as a member of the National to raise awareness on how to deal with over the years. Initially, they were Appropriate Adult Network (NAAN), issues young people in Gibraltar predominantly about different another lesser-known service offered types of abuse (sexual, physical, may be experiencing. This form Now, one by Childline is the ‘Appropriate Adult’ of early intervention is designed emotional and neglect) whereas in 3 calls scheme. Appropriate Adults achieve a now, one in 3 calls is related to give people the understanding is related fairer justice system by safeguarding the and skills they need in order to to mental health, be it anxiety, to mental welfare and rights of children detained or deal with issues when they arise depression, or stress. As Jo health. interviewed by the RGP. Jo explains: “It’s reveals, “stress levels are rising, before they escalate into somesomething that evolved - a lot of juveparticularly for girls aged 13 to thing more serious. niles who are detained are from deprived 16; the most common Childline service backgrounds, similar to the children who users. A lot of this can be attributed to soTo date, Childline has helped over 6000

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cial media. Body issues are affecting girls companies aimed to do this by donating more and more down to the doctored a figure using these numbers (£800.8). images they see on platforms Last year, even the Convent Stress such as Instagram.” Nodding in joined in by baking a cake with agreement, Annie adds: “We see the number on it! This year, levels are a lot of cyberbullying (‘trolling’). Childline will be giving away car rising, There’s no escape from the bomand moped 8008 stickers. One particularly bardment of information. Young car or bike bearing this sticker for girls people’s use of jargon such as will be selected at random to aged 13 to ‘FOMO’ (fear of missing out) is win a nice prize. Another activity 16; A lot of reducing the effect these words during this week will see schools this can be have on children – it negates the holding ‘Blue Day’, where everyseriousness behind it. body will wear blue and donate attributed to to Childline. This year almost all social media. local schools are on board. “You wouldn’t send your child out into traffic without giving rules like ‘stop’ and ‘look’ and so on, As we drain our cups of the last drops of yet they’re often left alone to navigate coffee, I ask Annie and Jo to leave us with the internet. In some cases, parents or their lasting message: “Every childhood guardians don’t understand technology matters. Obviously we are here for the as well as kids.” This is someserious issues, but it doesn’t thing Childline aim to tackle have to be. We want people to “Mental by promoting ‘Safer Internet know you can ring for anything, health can Day’ which occurs on the first even if you don’t know whether affect you Tuesday in February, giving you should be concerned or whatever adults tips on how to keep chilnot. We’re here. Let off steam; if your dren safe in the online world. somethings niggling, just get in touch. Our specially trained team background. are ready to respond and it can The third week of March marks We all have ‘Blue Week’, an annual week our good and be as anonymous as you’d like.” of raising funds for awareness bad days, about the charity and visiting Childline is so much more than wherever as many schools and businessjust a helpline. It’s a resource for you live and es as possible to illustrate why young people and adults who whatever the charity is so important, may need an extra helping hand you do.” and here’s where you can help. with any issue that’s weighChildline aim to get as many ing them down. As the team people involved as possible through varstresses, “Mental health can affect you ious events and activities, one of which whatever your background. We all have being the #8008 challenge. You can get our good and bad days, wherever you involved by posting a creative picture of live and whatever you do.” Luckily, there their helpline number in some way on sois no problem too big or too small for this cial media with the hashtag #8008. Some dedicated team of professionals. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

Get involved: Blue Week will take place from 19th-23rd March, with Awareness Day on Thursday 22nd March outside the ICC. If you or someone you know needs help, call 8008 or contact the team via email help@ childline.gi or via the live chat feature on childline.gi. For more information about the work Childline does or to get involved, email info@childline.gi. 89

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PARENTING ON THE ROCK Mothering – are we over-involved?

BY ELAINE CAETANO

eens and Self-harm

morning I was intrigued by the report I saw on the TV, reason being that a clip was shown of a girl who suffers from this problem, talking about control. Regarding emotional wellbeing, I hear a lot of opinions on social media that sound misinformed or at least coming from a place of confusion. But this girl’s testimony made a lot of sense to me.

A few months back, a trending news item caught my attention. The headline read that recent research found a sharp rise in reported incidents of self-harm amongst girls in the UK aged between 13 and 16. A review of articles in the media that day Self-harm revealed controversy over the practices validity of the findings. Despite have been on the detail of these research the increase statistics being in dispute, there for some is no doubt that certain selfharm practices have been on years now the increase for some years now and are of and are generally of a growing a growing concern.

Power and Control

Many individuals who self-harm talk about a short-lived sense of relief from emotional distress. And plenty of self-harmers say that their chosen act of self-harm makes them feel in concern. control. The girl in the video was I have worked in mental very clear; she said that cutting health for 10 years and my training in herself helped her feel in control. This Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy as resonates with stories around another well as many years of personal therapy growing problem, especially prevalent in have given me in-depth understanding of young females: eating disorders. Hearing why people behave the way we do. That about children’s sense of control took my 90

thinking to articles I have shared on my Facebook page about changes in parenting, education and play and how children’s sense of control has been affected by current trends and the importance of this to the wellbeing of relevant generations. Play prepares children for later life. How, where and with whom children play is now generally quite different to how it was for their parents just one generation back. Later in a child’s life, our kids are having their weekly schedules filled up with structured activities. I don’t wish to come across as critical of parents who do this, as I am aware of cases where parents wish and endeavour to get their kids to “play outside more”, and challenges have arisen to make them retaliate after giving it a good go! But in the spirit of furthering our understanding of how the rapid changes in our lives are affecting us collectively, I wanted to share the awareness that play and GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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social interaction for children in past gencourse!). Finding a maths tutor or physiA generation or two back most of us had erations, involved a much greater sense cally getting to piano class are examples no awareness of individual needs - we of control for the children involved. Apart of things they can do with minimum weren’t allowed them! With tight resourcfrom generally having much intervention from others. es and a world without disposable nappies more intervention and support or washing machines, one had to eat what She said from parents, children’s leisure was served and if you were to go places, that cutting Pressure on Young People time is now filled with activities you had to get yourself there. Yet despite herself that are organised by grown-ups. giving our young so much, many mums Parents are investing and exhelped Activities are structured, offering still feel bad. pecting more of their offspring – her feel in children little opportunity to take academically and in other fields. control of what happens, where control. Men are more involved in parenting than However, allowing children to and when it happens and with in the past, yet it’s still mothers who are fail is important as the reality is whom. They have little freedom to come generally the primary care givers. Social that we can’t all always win and when we and go as they please and rules are dicpressures seem higher than ever don’t, we need the skills to deal tated by adults who create the activities. and many suffer from never with the experience. Parents Allowing There is much value in the aspect of play being able to feel like they are who want to make sure their children where children create games, i.e. ways of doing enough. Our economy children are fully prepared for a to fail is interacting with each other and negotiate thrives on making us feel like transition may not be allowing important . with each other the terms and conditions we aren’t giving our children them to experience ordinary or rules and boundaries to structure their enough. traumas, important to the develtime together. opment of skills for resilience in life’s challenging times. That Mums in Therapy This is not to say that to address parents Since my return to Gibraltar I have been self-harming behaviours, teenagToday’s parents are not just generally, working with families and in the past ers should just be given more inmore involved but unrealistically could do couple of years I have worked with dependence or control. Care for expect that like they likely did with being plenty of mothers in individual and group such a delicate condition should in comparison to their parents, less involved therapy settings. Many mums who suffer be looked at individually and in their offspring will achieve from anxiety and depression have high context, with the appropriate in their well beyond what they have in standards and fail to acknowledge how professionals. It does howevsocio-economic terms. This is in children’s er seem to me that parents ignorance of the fact that we are well they are actually doing. The women affairs. I see in my private practice are excellent generally, could do with being living a different era especially mothers yet still feel anxious and guilty less involved in their children’s in economic terms, where growth has affairs and letting them get on with things generally slowed down and social mobility on a regular basis. The good news is that women who find a therapist they click on their own more often. One easy way (in the UK) is said to have stagnated. with, do noticeably benefit from psychoto keep yourself in check with regards therapy and mothers find that even their to whether you are overdoing it is to ask Pressure on Mothers children seem to feel better once mum yourself the simple question of could they Parents today spend more time than ever feels more OK and empowered by emrealistically do this by themselves (even if pathic, non-judgemental support. they aren’t going to do it as well as you, of attending to children’s individual needs. GIBRALTAR MAGAZINE MARCH 2018

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MOTHER OF THE GODS When it rains, even a move to Ocean Village can’t keep a goddess dry.

BY PETER SCHIRMER

tions of the apes which - emboldened hile Dad’s away, the kids But it was unlikely that the all-seeing by the absence of Zeus and his thunderpowers of the Mother of the Gods can play,’ Athena sang bolts - had again begun regular raids on would reach as far as Gibraltar from softly to herself as she the new Olympus, developing a particFiesola, the small town near Florence poured a liberal splash ular taste for Zeus’ store of Rose’s lime to which the Roman gods had been of Baileys over her breakfast Coco Pops. marmalade (though, unlike the Father of With Hera away from the Rock in distant banished by Imperial edict. Anyway, the Gods they did not slather she would have directed her Rome - well, not quite Rome as it turned it on sardines). Not the apes, attention to the upper reaches out, but far enough away for her rules Hestia it was the weather that had of the Rock where of breakfast to be ignored took to the Apollo had driven them into the city. the pantheon had Athena the goddess of wisdom penthouse dubbed his made their home since and her siblings could eat and as sweetly An unexpected cold snap five sisters fleeing Olympus the drink what they pleased, and as Aristoaccompanied by torrential rains previous summer. And when they pleased. ‘the Coven’ phanes’ had taken the gods by surprise. her offspring were no several cenproverbial On Mount Olympus they had There was one niggling worry longer there. They turies earlier. wasps to always been prepared for winthough: their know-it-all mother had moved, and with nectar ter’s gales and frequent snows; might wonder how her offspring were them their futons and duvets, but this was the Mediterranean, the tip managing without her. ‘Very nicely, thank Ikea furnishings, ice- and coffee-making of the Costa del Sol, where - according you’, thought Athena; though since her machines, the 60-inch flat screen TV as to holiday brochures - the sun always parents’ departure to visit their distant well as the lap-tops and games consoles. shone. Roman relatives, a lot had happened of The brood had been driven from their which Hera would have disapproved… or So it had been fortunate that Dionysus haven atop the Rock, not by the predaeven forbidden. ‘

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satire her dress. ‘It’s a bleeding disgrace.’ Hebe, usually demure and well-spoken, had picked up a smattering of slang from the chatter of local college students passing the bank where she had become an advisor on wine investments. But she seldom swore; and even the mildest expletives indicated a level of anger that among most mortals would provoke a string of F-ing and S-ing.

horizons.’

‘We’re back. The coven is reunited again,’ Demeter had called as the two travellers reached the flat rock which served as doorstep to the gods’ home. Apollo had dubbed his five sisters ‘the Coven’ several centuries earlier when his daily travels from Mount Olympus had taken him through a town called Salem – a small, strait-laced community which ‘What’s burnt women thought to be witches, he told the gods on his return. ‘You’d think Hera and Hestia had be disgusted; Zeus, seldom surprised by someone in mortal folly, thought it strange government to use women as winter fuel; would do while Poseidon, glaring at his something sisters opined it ‘a good idea about it – if we burnt our own damned after all, witches’. Ministers ‘A-ha, a coven of five,’ Apollo had quipped. And the name stuck...

must get splashed, too,’ said Demeter.

Hestia, more talented even than her mother as a home-maker, took to the penthouse as sweetly as Aristophanes’ proverbial wasps to nectar and brought an order to the family’s life that Hera would have envied. No longer were Dionysus’ empties littered across the floor, or Poseidon’s nets and fishing lines draped carelessly across futons and Posturepedic chairs - potential hazards to the unwary. The empties were taken daily to the bottle-bank, and the nets, along with two tridents and a recently-acquired spear-gun, were stored in a corner of the roof garden.

had nipped in to the Casino to escape the first unexpected downpour (or so he claimed, though Athena thought it more likely that he wanted a few sly glasses of wine before he made his way up the Rock). A casual £1 coin With Hera popped into one of the slot still in Italy, machines had hit a jackpot large the Goddess enough to pay for two-month’s of Love could rental of an Ocean Village indulge in all penthouse owned by somethe excessive one called ‘Henwy’ and the maquillaje Olympians had moved in the which her following day. mother

would have damned as ‘unladylike’.

That, too, had proved providential, for earlier on that first evening of rain their two sisters Demeter and Hestia had unexpectedly reached Gibraltar after a protracted ‘gap year’ travelling in India and Nepal to ‘broaden their cultural

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up, Sis?’ asked Aphrodite, looking up from painting her nails a fashionable emerald green and fluttering her heavily mascaraed false eyelashes. (With Hera still in Italy, the Goddess of Love could indulge in all the excessive maquillaje which her mother would have damned as ‘unladylike’.)

‘A woman’s touch,’ grumbled Ares at his most macho - though like his siblings he enjoyed the greater comfort and a sense of peaceful normality Hestia had brought to their home, he wasn’t going to admit it. But, as the winter rains resumed their onslaught, the tranquillity of the evening was shattered.

‘Ruddy yobbo drivers! The government should do something about them... and sort out the pavements and gutters.’ Hebe exploded into the penthouse , shaking water from the hem of

‘What’s up is the broken pavements and atrocious drainage in Glacis Road, that’s what’s up,’ snapped Hebe. ‘Whenever it rains, the water collects in long wide pools and those young drivers with blaring radios drive deliberately close to the pavement throwing up a wave of water that soaks passing pedestrians.’ ‘In England motorists can be fined £1,000 for that sort of behaviour,’ remarked Hermes, who had learned from a brief visit to London that his winged heels could lift him above the threat. ‘This ain’t bleedin’ England,’ Hebe’s slang became more pronounced. ‘You’d think someone in government would do something about it – after all, Ministers must get splashed, too,’ said Demeter. ‘Dream on,’ retorted Hebe. ‘They’re driven everywhere. Have you ever seen one of them on a bus – saving money, or cutting carbon footprints by using public transport! Not on your Nelly! The only time they walk is up and down Main Street when they accompany some visiting Big-Wig.’ ‘You could get up a petition, or at least do something about it at the next election,’ Apollo suggested. ‘But they aren’t on the electoral roll,’ Hermes pointed out. ‘But we will be! It’s time for votes for goddesses,’ chorused the five sisters. 95

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