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INSIDE THIS MONTHS ISSUE

      The Battle of Barnet. Market manoeuvres.
      Hadley’s roads. Blocked.
      Cycling to the Great Wall. Chinese torture.
                                                                                     NOVEMBER 2010 ISSUE
                                                                  HADLEY WOOD NEWS




      A Day in the Life of: Bob.
      Mamacha. Peruvian patterns
      Primary school. Leave the car at home Mum.
      Letting out your house? New laws.
      Bill and Ben Nevis

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Editorial                                                                       The Great Wall by bike
               Friends of Barnet Market                                                      and diary. Part 2
               (FOBM) have been keeping
               us up to date on develop-                                                     Beijing. Very smooth off the plane,
               ments at Barnet Market. Mr                                                    through passport control and into the
and Mrs Walsh who own the market have                                                        terminal on a train. (We learn that the
re-applied for planning permission to                                                        airport has the largest roof structure in
redevelop the St Alban’s Road site. This                                                     the world and that Beijing city has 25
includes fourteen flats to be built above                                                    million people living in it, 5 ring roads and
the site. There are many objections to                                                       10 thousand new cars per WEEK!
their plan amongst them the fact that the                                                    There’s 10km between ring road 4 and 5
Market has now been included in the                                                          and 30kms between 5 and 6. They are
Monken Hadley Conservation Area.              and thankfully they chose half term week       already starting on number 7). By 11am
FBOM are opposing the plans and we            to do most of it. There is also the            we're on board a coach along with Pia my
are keeping a close eye on what is            blockage at the bottom of Beech Hill. If       room mate for the trip, who rather handily
happening there. We hope that whatever        you are driving from Cockfosters and turn
plan is agreed is satisfactory in terms of    into Beech Hill you come up against a
its function, appearance and connection       long line of parked contractors vehicles
to the rest of the Spires shopping area. If   on the left. Cars coming down Beech Hill
you want to be involved or just find out      have the right of way. A build up of traffic
what is happening please mail Chris           behind the parked vehicles occurs
Smith at csdes@dircon.co.uk                   sometimes backing up into the
   On a different topic there are several     Cockfosters road. The contractors have
complaints about traffic issues. Another      to do their job and they often have heavy
issue is the delay experienced as we          equipment to move from van to the site.
drive around Hadley Wood. You cannot          However a little thought on their part and
blame Skanska for causing a hold up at        a few gaps left in their line would make it    speaks Chinese. The room is very basic
the top of Camlet Way. They have to get       a lot easier to navigate this section.         but fine, (We flop on to the beds to
new gas pipes across the roads there          Rod Armstrong                                  discover they are rock hard with springs
                                                                                             coming through). It's hard to describe the
                                                                                             town we are staying in. Wide boulevards
                                                                                             with 3 lanes each way but almost no
                                                                                             traffic. A shopping mall that's actually just
                                                                                             a concrete block with only one shop (a
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There is a sort of numbness in my fingers
                                                and lots of others are complaining of the
                                                same thing and also tennis elbow.
                                                  At the next stop we sit in a tourist
                                                covered area with other Chinese visitors.
                                                As people began to arrive it becomes
                                                apparent that there were quite a few
                                                casualties due to the heat (now 34                                               TAILORING AND REPAIRS BY EXPERTS
                                                degrees). They were 'picked up' by the
                                                bus amid much complaining. We take a
                                                chair lift up to see the Buddha. The view
                                                is good and we surmise where we are
                                                going tomorrow. The Great Wall is far on
                                                the horizon and most definitely high up

said words to the effect of 'you've got to                                                                                      day had been very manageable but
be joking'!                                                                                                                     decide to keep quiet as not many others
                                                                                                                                agree. Especially as it was so hot.
Sunday 12th – Day One                                                                                                              Dinner is in a huge, characterless
Only awake for about an hour in the night                                                                                       dining room. This time they bring the
(if you move your hip bone off a spring, it                                                                                     dinner to the table. There's an amazing
only puts your knee onto another one.                                                                                           selection of dishes, mostly gone cold but
Breakfast was a bit slow. One guy with a                                                                                        a huge variety and delicious. We're
4 slice toaster (and metal tongs to get the         Concert Dinner                                                              finished by 8pm, and in bed by 8.30pm.
bread out!!) for 80 people. I had rice with                       Friday 19th November
sweet corn and peas which was all I                                Alison Farr, Piano Recital                                   Day 2 Monday 13th
wanted as still not hungry.
                                                   Reception at 7.00pm with sparkling wine and canapés,                         Wake up call at 6.00am, keys handed in
                                                  three course dinner and concert. Programme to include:
   The time has finally arrived to start              Bach - French Suite No.5, Schumann - Papillons,
                                                                                                                                by 6.45 followed by breakfast and leave
cycling. We’re all taking photos and                    Brahms - Ballades and Chopin - Ballade No.1                             at 8am. The staff now ‘check’ all 40 odd
saddle up with a mixture of excitement
                                                        Price: £54.50 per person – table wines extra.                           rooms in case we have stolen the towels
                                                         Payable on booking. Dress code: Black tie.
and nerves but no hitches.                                                                                                      and light bulbs! Whether this is because
   Within 10 minutes I am most un-                            Christmas                                                         we are ‘big noses’ ie. foreigners or
comfortable but fortunately after half an                     & New Year                                                        whether it’s because this is what the
hour a 'tech van' is on the hard shoulder         Spend the festive season in the beautiful surroundings of                     Chinese do we never discovered.
so I get my saddle and handle bars
                                                  West Lodge Park. With stunning grounds and the highest                           Out to the bike before breakfast to get
                                                  rated four star hotel in Hertfordshire, what better place
altered - I'm a new woman but also now             to spend Christmas day, Boxing day or New Years Eve?                         the 'techs' to move my saddle forward in
the last rider so cycle with Adrian (one            Contact us now to find out more about our exciting                          the hope of alleviating the pins and
                                                      Christmas & New year events, menus and offers.
of the two male guides amongst 81                                                                                               needles. Breakfast is spring greens, rice
women!) and Tamsin the doctor. We                                                                                               and stuffed dumplings As we're
cruised along at the back discussing how                                                                                        assembling to leave, all the hotel staff,
many men learn too late that they've let                                WEST LODGE PARK                                         complete with chefs hats etc., come out
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they won't commit! The next thing I know                                                                                        forth with three flags which they raise to
we're at the 20 km stop.                                                                                                        the accompaniment of grand music
   Get told off for not drinking enough         on a mountain…. we are going to have to                                         played over loud speakers. Apparently
(only half of my water bottle) so down a        start 'going up' at some stage….                                                this spectacle is carried out every
bottle at the stop but still not hungry            We're all back on our bikes after lunch                                      morning rain or shine. On to the bikes.
enough to eat. It gets hot (30 degrees)         but at least half, including me, are                                            Claude reminds us that the brakes are
                   so I'm pleased that the      complaining that our bikes are causing                                          the wrong way around. Back brake on
                   next 23 km stop is in        aches and pains not encountered before                                          right, front on left and off we go. Whats
                   the shade. We're also        - most commonly numbness in the finger                                          ahead?
                   given bottles (of tap        tips or tennis elbow. I have the numbness                                       Nikki Forsyth
                   water) to pour over our      and a pain between the shoulder blades,
                   heads. This is going to      I don’t fancy 5 days of this.
                   require practice as my          However I enjoy the gentle terrain and
                   attempts resulted in         seeing trees laden with peaches. Every
                   sun cream in the eyes,       50 metres or so a man is sitting by a pile
                   water down the front         of peaches for sale. No one seems to
                   and not a lot in the hair.   stop, I’m tempted but put off by having to
                   I'm one of the last          barter and anyway I’m so useless on a
                   leaving the stop but         bike I’m not sure I could eat a fat juicy
feel really fab and ready to get the flight     peach and cycle at the same time.
out of my system. We head for a Buddha             We reach our next hotel. The Ping Gu
on the top of the hill that we've been able     International. We are impressed with the
to see for the last couple of kilometres.       size and quality of the room. I felt the first

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A Day in the Life of.                         to work fast and get it right. The others      chauffeur in Central London. Even drove
Bob at the Newsagents.                        in the room are the delivery team. Mike        for Gordon Brown. ‘Rude man’ says Bob
                                              Jacky Rob Derek and then Guy who rolls         ‘but don’t put that in’
                                              up on his bike with his usual cheery              Then he met Sangita (also from
                                              welcome. They move forward as their            Nairobi), they married and both worked
                                              batches become available, pack them            until their firstborn, a daughter, came
                                              into their shoulder bags and disappear         along. Bob worked at Martins (a chain of
                                              into the darkness. Bob and Raheem pile         newsagents) in the day and drove a
                                              the rest of the batches into the car and       minicab whenever he could. Finally they
                                              we drive off round Hadley Wood leaving         spotted a newsagents business for sale
                                              the bags at pre-arranged drop off points.      in St Albans and took it on. Sangita did
                                              Now it is back to the shop. Its 0600 hrs       the book-keeping. It was a tough area.
                                              and the first customer drops by. A City        Nice people but lots of youngsters ready
                                              gent by the look of him. Picks up the          for trouble. ‘Bit different from Hadley
                                              Times,      offers   some      derogatory      Wood’. Finally after a heart attack, an
                                              comments about Liverpool football club         angioplasty and a good recovery they
Its about 5.15 am. Dark and cold.             (Bob’s team) and he’s on his way. Things       heard TJ Blakes was available and they
Wondering what ever possessed me to           seem a bit calmer and Raheem hands             took over from Jeremy.
decide on this article I creep across a       round cups of tea. The door opens. It’s           ‘Jeremy has been a great help’ says
deserted and silent Crescent West and         the man from Warburtons. Big lorry.            Bob.’ I don’t know how we would have
stumble round the back of the shops to        Goodness knows what time he started            managed without him. He still comes in
the basement below Londis/TJ Blake’s. I       work. The bread is unloaded and Bob,           on Saturdays and Sundays to help. And
am meeting Bob Ruparelia. You know            exchanging a few more of his usual             Irene thank goodness ’. ‘What is so
Bob of course. He’s the big bloke in          pleasantries, checks the invoice and           special about the weekend?’ I ask
charge of the newsagents who                  counts everything in. Later he tells me.’ I    ‘Saturdays and Sundays’ says Bob ‘are a
dispenses newspapers, food, cigarettes        always try and be the first drop for the       nightmare. There are 300 bundles of
etc. He also dispenses a high standard        delivery men. If you upset the delivery        papers to sort out including all the
of banter, cheerfulness and humour.           boys you go down their list and                magazines that come at the weekend.
Listening to him, he reminds me of a          everything just gets later and later’. I ask   We have to insert those by hand. Much
typical Cockney but unless you can hear       him how he learned all this. ‘Started          heavier for the delivery team too’.
Bow Bells in Kenya he probably does not       about 13 years ago’ he says ‘helping my           Customers are coming in and out faster
qualify. In fact his grandparents hail from   brother’ then branched out on his own          now as the morning rush for the trains
India. He was born in Nairobi before          with Sangita. ‘She’s the brains behind the     start. Everyone’s in a hurry. The sandwich
coming here as a child. Anyway as I was       operation’ he says. ‘but don’t tell her’. (I   van arrives. More unpacking and
saying. I reach the basement room. Its        resolve to do so at the first opportunity).    counting. More banter. Bob has a laugh
like a scene from a French gangster           ‘What about before that?’ I ask. ‘My Dad       with the delivery man. ‘He’s a Man.City
movie. A bare room illuminated by a           brought us over from Nairobi. Used to          supporter’ he says to me as an aside,
single light bulb. Under the light a long     have a business there. When we got here        ‘poor chap’.
trestle table covered with piles of papers.   he started as a bus conductor. Worked             A lady appears at the door. ‘Hi Bob’
Two men are bent over the table, working      nights in a factory. Mum worked as well.       She smiles, grabs a paper and dashes
and writing frantically. Behind them I can    Lyons cakes. We rented a flat in Wembley       for the train. Another lady customer. In a
make out two or three shadowy figures.        until enough money was saved for a             hurry. ‘Just taken a milk Bob. Can I pay
A woman leans against the wall. The           deposit on a house’.                           you later?’ ‘Course you can my darling’.
atmosphere’s tense. But wait a minute.          After leaving school Bob became a            So it goes on, the flow of delivery men
These are no gangsters. Its Bob and           security man at the air base in Ruislip.       being replaced by the early city workers,
Raheem addressing the 300 daily               Tough job trying to keep brawling              then the office workers.
newspapers for Hadley Wood! They have         American servicemen in order. Then a              The repartee varies, suited to the type




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of customer. Then the Mums start              Pilates Teacher - Personal Trainer
popping in before dropping off the kids       Established lower back specialist
at school. Later Sangita will take over.       Would you like a more toned, more flexible, longer,
She’s dealt with the children (daughter               leaner, stronger look to your body.
12 and son 8 yrs) fixed the house and         These are just a few of the benefits Pilates offers. Private sessions
                                              are becoming increasingly popular as exercises can be adapted to
done the shopping. Sangita knows how                             suit peoples individual needs.
to run a business. Aged 16 years she         The sessions enable you to have a more personal method of learning.
worked at a local Argos store on               Don’t live with back pain book now to see a specialist
Saturday mornings. Six years later she         Lower back pain is extremely common and can be acute enough
                                                   to stop people functioning normally on a day to day basis.
was Manageress, moving around their             Pilates is a key exercise method for helping to improve posture
different stores in London. She sends                       and therefore relieve daily aches and pains.

Bob home to have a sleep. ‘Unless                         Contact Stuart on: 07787 552326
                                                         or email: stuart@pilates-stuart.co.uk
Liverpool are playing’ says Bob ‘in which
case I will stay up and watch.’ Its 0900.
Unable to postpone my breakfast any
longer and seriously considering going       feature film of Wuthering Heights, this                                 has received the generous support of the
back to bed, I make my excuses leaving       sustainable development project has                                     Head Knitwear Designer of a well known
Bob Sangita and Raheem to carry on in        been able to send over £35,000 to needy                                 high street brand who has designed a
the shop. They’ve only got another 10        communities in Peru over the last two                                   new range of women's alpaca clothing.
hours to go (six and a half days a week)     years.                                                                  She has also completed a Business
before closing. And I thought I used to           The project currently involves                                     Course at the Centre for Sustainable
work hard.                                   approximately 150 rural and urban                                       Fashion at London College of Fashion,
Rod Armstrong                                women in Peru and enables them to earn                                  and is currently working on some
                                             a fair wage producing high quality hand                                 garments that will be shown at London
                                             knitted items for Mamacha, in a country                                 and Paris Fashion Week as part of a
Mamacha                                      where 45% of the population live below                                  collaboration with another designer
2010 has been an exciting year for           the poverty line.                                                       brand's collection.
Mamacha. From receiving orders for             Hadley Wood’s Amy Yates has been                                         Mamacha will be at Ethical Just Got
their products from Amnesty International    working with the same small community                                   Fabulous pop-up shop in Notting Hill on
and New Internationalist catalogues, to      groups in Peru for over five years, and                                 Saturday 4th – Sunday 5th December
supplying knitwear for the actors in a new   has seen women's lives transformed. She                                 (www.ethicaljustgotfabulous.com).
                                                          is passionate about keeping                                Closer to home, we will also be opening
                                                          traditional skills alive, and                              our doors at 53 Crescent West on
                                                          pays a premium for hand-                                   Thursday 9th December 2010 from 9am
                                                          crafted       items       that                             to 8pm. All are welcome to view our
                                                          demonstrate        age     old                             products – alpaca hats, scarves, snoods,
                                                          skills. As the company                                     gloves, fingerless mittens, socks,
                                                          places regular orders – rare                               jumpers, alpaca and silk wraps, bags,
                                                          in the fashion world – the                                 and a wide range of childrens' clothing.
                                                          women can plan ahead,                                      Please contact Amy on 020 8441 4028
                                                          feed their family and send                                 or amy@yates.net or visit
                                                          their children to school.                                  www.mamacha.co.uk for more
                                                             As well as supplying the                                information.
                                                          Amnesty          International                             Mamacha
                                                          catalogue with jumpers,
                                                          hand painted coasters and
                                                          Christmas decorations, Amy




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Hadley Wood
Primary School.
Mrs Loizides has been telling the HW News
about WoW. A charity known as Living Streets
has been running a campaign since 1996
aimed at encouraging children to walk to
school. The campaign’s aim is to encourage
all parents, children and young people to
make walking to school part of their daily
routine. This builds a habit of walking which
they hope will remain with them for the rest of
their lives. The campaign for Primary schools     part in a mass walking relay which involved
is called the Big WoW. (Walk once a Week).        schools      across     London         travelling
This year thirty three London boroughs took       anticlockwise from Havering, through every
                                                  borough and ending at Greenwich. To mirror
                                                  the London relay, Enfield schools also took
                                                  part in relays throughout October. Forty five
                                                  primary, secondary and special needs
                                                  schools walked from their school to the next
                                                  school on the route. Approximately 225
                                                  children took part in the relay. The photo
                                                  shows the Westgrove school children handing
                                                  over the baton (a cylinder filled with pledges)
                                                  to the Hadley Wood children.


Autumn in Hadley Wood
John Leatherdale




                                                                                 Top: Jack’s Lake. Above: Kite flying at Bartrams Lane.
                                                                                 Left: Walking in Hadley Wood.


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under a common law tenancy. The
                                                                                         landlord of a property originally let on a
                                                                                         common law tenancy that became an
                                                                                         AST from 1st October should be
                                                                                         especially careful to follow the correct
                                                                                         procedure for gaining possession,
                                                                                         regardless of the contractual terms of
                                                                                         the tenancy.
                                                                                           When the £25,000 annual rent
                                                                                         threshold was originally set it excluded a
                                                                                         relatively small number of luxury lettings
                                                                                         from AST protection. Nowadays a
                                                                                         £25,000 annual rent is by no means
Letting your property.                                                                   exceptional, especially in Greater
1st October this year brought about an                                                   London. Increasing the rent threshold to
important change in the law in England                                                   £100,000 should go some way to re-
relating to the Assured Shorthold Tenancy   the special rules that apply to AST’s,       balancing the market so that only truly
(AST) - the most popular method of          particularly:                                luxury properties are outside the AST
letting residential property.                 The duty to protect rent deposits          regime.
   Before 1st October, if the annual rent     The procedures for gaining possession      Guy Wheatcroft, RHY Law LLP
under an assured tenancy was more than        An AST landlord must protect the           gwheatcroft@rhylaw.com
£25,000, that tenancy could not be an       tenant’s deposit by using an authorised
AST, instead being a “common law            tenancy deposit scheme (TDS) operated
tenancy”. From 1st October that threshold   by an approved scheme administrator. It       Hadley Wood’s Jewish
is increased to £100,000, meaning that a    is not yet clear how the TDS legislation      Community
common law tenancy granted before 1st       will apply where a common law tenancy
October with an annual rent between         became an AST from 1st October, where         There is an active Community in Hadley
£25,000 and £100,000, that would            the deposit may have been paid months         Wood which is known for its warm and
otherwise have been an AST but for the      or years before.                              friendly atmosphere. All Jewish families
high rent exclusion, qualified as an AST      Generally, the grounds on which a           are extremely welcome. For information
on 1st October.                             landlord can obtain possession of a           on the events and services in Hadley
   This means there will be more            property let on an AST provide the tenant     Wood, please contact Rabbi Yoni
landlords who will need to comply with      with greater protection than that afforded    Birnbaum on 07905964207. Yoni and
                                                                                          his wife Elisheva live in Hadley Wood
                                                                                          and organise regular services and
 Letters to the Editor                                                                    social and learning activities.
                                                                                          Some of the upcoming events are:
 Dear Editor                                                                                 Regular Friday night and
 In six weeks time at 5.30am on November                                                  Saturday morning services
 the 28th, I (BILL MORRIS) will be                                                           A Chanucah show and talk on
 commencing a 100 mile walk from                                                          Jewish Humour
 Glasgow to the peak of Ben Nevis (and                                                       Regular activities for men and
 down again hopefully!) in aid of Help For                                                women including well known guest
 Heroes. 14 colleagues from the Television                                                speakers
 Outside Broadcast Industry will be joining                                                  A ‘Cheder’ for young children
 me, the majority of whom are ex services.                                                where they can learn with excellent
 I am aware of the charitable burden                                                      teachers
 placed upon us all, so please excuse this blatant plug for a most superb and             Do give Rabbi Yoni a call and get
 worthwhile cause.                                                                        involved
    No matter how cold and wet, how exhausted, how much stick the two non-
 military members of the team are getting from the ex-service members, you can
 rest assured that any donation large or small will help support this most fantastic
 charity. Our injured servicemen and servicewomen get little or no long term
                                                                                            The Hadley Wood
 financial help from the Government, yet with your valuable support we hope to                Association
 raise much needed funds for ‘Help for Heroes’ vital work. Please help us by
 donating whatever you feel you can via our fundraising website:                           Annual General Meeting
 www.bmycharity.com/highlands4heroes                                                        Wednesday November 24th
    We will be posting pictures and updates every day of the trek, so that you can
 share the peaks and troughs, the drama and pain of every step.
                                                                                                     at 7.30pm
 Thank you for your time and consideration,                                                 In the Hadley Wood Centre
 Best Regards                                                                               at the far end of the tennis
 Bill Morris                                                                                  courts in Crescent East.

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                                                       RIDGE                                                                             ESSENDON                                                                        HADLEY WOOD
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Hadley Wood News November 2010

  • 1. INSIDE THIS MONTHS ISSUE The Battle of Barnet. Market manoeuvres. Hadley’s roads. Blocked. Cycling to the Great Wall. Chinese torture. NOVEMBER 2010 ISSUE HADLEY WOOD NEWS A Day in the Life of: Bob. Mamacha. Peruvian patterns Primary school. Leave the car at home Mum. Letting out your house? New laws. Bill and Ben Nevis DESIGNED & PRINTED BY KALL KWIK BARNET TELEPHONE: 020 8441 4482
  • 2. Editorial The Great Wall by bike Friends of Barnet Market and diary. Part 2 (FOBM) have been keeping us up to date on develop- Beijing. Very smooth off the plane, ments at Barnet Market. Mr through passport control and into the and Mrs Walsh who own the market have terminal on a train. (We learn that the re-applied for planning permission to airport has the largest roof structure in redevelop the St Alban’s Road site. This the world and that Beijing city has 25 includes fourteen flats to be built above million people living in it, 5 ring roads and the site. There are many objections to 10 thousand new cars per WEEK! their plan amongst them the fact that the There’s 10km between ring road 4 and 5 Market has now been included in the and 30kms between 5 and 6. They are Monken Hadley Conservation Area. and thankfully they chose half term week already starting on number 7). By 11am FBOM are opposing the plans and we to do most of it. There is also the we're on board a coach along with Pia my are keeping a close eye on what is blockage at the bottom of Beech Hill. If room mate for the trip, who rather handily happening there. We hope that whatever you are driving from Cockfosters and turn plan is agreed is satisfactory in terms of into Beech Hill you come up against a its function, appearance and connection long line of parked contractors vehicles to the rest of the Spires shopping area. If on the left. Cars coming down Beech Hill you want to be involved or just find out have the right of way. A build up of traffic what is happening please mail Chris behind the parked vehicles occurs Smith at csdes@dircon.co.uk sometimes backing up into the On a different topic there are several Cockfosters road. The contractors have complaints about traffic issues. Another to do their job and they often have heavy issue is the delay experienced as we equipment to move from van to the site. drive around Hadley Wood. You cannot However a little thought on their part and blame Skanska for causing a hold up at a few gaps left in their line would make it speaks Chinese. The room is very basic the top of Camlet Way. They have to get a lot easier to navigate this section. but fine, (We flop on to the beds to new gas pipes across the roads there Rod Armstrong discover they are rock hard with springs coming through). It's hard to describe the town we are staying in. Wide boulevards with 3 lanes each way but almost no traffic. A shopping mall that's actually just a concrete block with only one shop (a very posh gift shop/off licence with amazing bottles). Lots of signs saying "Buy a Shop, Build a City" - nice idea but doesn't seem to be working! Dinner was a really good buffet but the man behind the bar laughed when he looked up the translation of 'vodka' and The PARK VETERI ARY PARK VETERINARY VETERINARY PRACTICE P Cockfosters Cockfosters foste Clean • Spacious • Air-conditioned Spacious Air-conditioned The only local practice to p Fully Equipped. Fully • Operating theatre • Xrays • Dental Wo the eatre Workshop orkshop be FSA approved for A • Laboratory • Ultrasound • Endoscopy Laboratoory Endoscopy insurance claims. insurrance • Advanced Anaesthetic Monitoring Advanced Monitoriing Puppy • Puppy Parties • Geriatric care e Call for details on how to Register d Regis ster 020 8275 0330 (24 hrs) 8275 h or visit www.theparkvets.com ww ww.theparkvets.co om Fr i e n d l y, Friendly, Compassionate The Place for Puppy e g & Caring Professionals. Parties! 2
  • 3. There is a sort of numbness in my fingers and lots of others are complaining of the same thing and also tennis elbow. At the next stop we sit in a tourist covered area with other Chinese visitors. As people began to arrive it becomes apparent that there were quite a few casualties due to the heat (now 34 TAILORING AND REPAIRS BY EXPERTS degrees). They were 'picked up' by the bus amid much complaining. We take a chair lift up to see the Buddha. The view is good and we surmise where we are going tomorrow. The Great Wall is far on the horizon and most definitely high up said words to the effect of 'you've got to day had been very manageable but be joking'! decide to keep quiet as not many others agree. Especially as it was so hot. Sunday 12th – Day One Dinner is in a huge, characterless Only awake for about an hour in the night dining room. This time they bring the (if you move your hip bone off a spring, it dinner to the table. There's an amazing only puts your knee onto another one. selection of dishes, mostly gone cold but Breakfast was a bit slow. One guy with a a huge variety and delicious. We're 4 slice toaster (and metal tongs to get the Concert Dinner finished by 8pm, and in bed by 8.30pm. bread out!!) for 80 people. I had rice with Friday 19th November sweet corn and peas which was all I Alison Farr, Piano Recital Day 2 Monday 13th wanted as still not hungry. Reception at 7.00pm with sparkling wine and canapés, Wake up call at 6.00am, keys handed in three course dinner and concert. Programme to include: The time has finally arrived to start Bach - French Suite No.5, Schumann - Papillons, by 6.45 followed by breakfast and leave cycling. We’re all taking photos and Brahms - Ballades and Chopin - Ballade No.1 at 8am. The staff now ‘check’ all 40 odd saddle up with a mixture of excitement Price: £54.50 per person – table wines extra. rooms in case we have stolen the towels Payable on booking. Dress code: Black tie. and nerves but no hitches. and light bulbs! Whether this is because Within 10 minutes I am most un- Christmas we are ‘big noses’ ie. foreigners or comfortable but fortunately after half an & New Year whether it’s because this is what the hour a 'tech van' is on the hard shoulder Spend the festive season in the beautiful surroundings of Chinese do we never discovered. so I get my saddle and handle bars West Lodge Park. With stunning grounds and the highest Out to the bike before breakfast to get rated four star hotel in Hertfordshire, what better place altered - I'm a new woman but also now to spend Christmas day, Boxing day or New Years Eve? the 'techs' to move my saddle forward in the last rider so cycle with Adrian (one Contact us now to find out more about our exciting the hope of alleviating the pins and Christmas & New year events, menus and offers. of the two male guides amongst 81 needles. Breakfast is spring greens, rice women!) and Tamsin the doctor. We and stuffed dumplings As we're cruised along at the back discussing how assembling to leave, all the hotel staff, many men learn too late that they've let WEST LODGE PARK complete with chefs hats etc., come out YO U R C O U N T RY R E T R E AT the woman of their dreams go because Cockfosters Road, Hadley Wood, Herts, EN4 0PY. T: 020 8216 3900 and stand to attention while others march HWN46 Email: wlpreception@bealeshotels.co.uk Web: www.bealeshotels.co.uk they won't commit! The next thing I know forth with three flags which they raise to we're at the 20 km stop. the accompaniment of grand music Get told off for not drinking enough on a mountain…. we are going to have to played over loud speakers. Apparently (only half of my water bottle) so down a start 'going up' at some stage…. this spectacle is carried out every bottle at the stop but still not hungry We're all back on our bikes after lunch morning rain or shine. On to the bikes. enough to eat. It gets hot (30 degrees) but at least half, including me, are Claude reminds us that the brakes are so I'm pleased that the complaining that our bikes are causing the wrong way around. Back brake on next 23 km stop is in aches and pains not encountered before right, front on left and off we go. Whats the shade. We're also - most commonly numbness in the finger ahead? given bottles (of tap tips or tennis elbow. I have the numbness Nikki Forsyth water) to pour over our and a pain between the shoulder blades, heads. This is going to I don’t fancy 5 days of this. require practice as my However I enjoy the gentle terrain and attempts resulted in seeing trees laden with peaches. Every sun cream in the eyes, 50 metres or so a man is sitting by a pile water down the front of peaches for sale. No one seems to and not a lot in the hair. stop, I’m tempted but put off by having to I'm one of the last barter and anyway I’m so useless on a leaving the stop but bike I’m not sure I could eat a fat juicy feel really fab and ready to get the flight peach and cycle at the same time. out of my system. We head for a Buddha We reach our next hotel. The Ping Gu on the top of the hill that we've been able International. We are impressed with the to see for the last couple of kilometres. size and quality of the room. I felt the first 3
  • 4. A Day in the Life of. to work fast and get it right. The others chauffeur in Central London. Even drove Bob at the Newsagents. in the room are the delivery team. Mike for Gordon Brown. ‘Rude man’ says Bob Jacky Rob Derek and then Guy who rolls ‘but don’t put that in’ up on his bike with his usual cheery Then he met Sangita (also from welcome. They move forward as their Nairobi), they married and both worked batches become available, pack them until their firstborn, a daughter, came into their shoulder bags and disappear along. Bob worked at Martins (a chain of into the darkness. Bob and Raheem pile newsagents) in the day and drove a the rest of the batches into the car and minicab whenever he could. Finally they we drive off round Hadley Wood leaving spotted a newsagents business for sale the bags at pre-arranged drop off points. in St Albans and took it on. Sangita did Now it is back to the shop. Its 0600 hrs the book-keeping. It was a tough area. and the first customer drops by. A City Nice people but lots of youngsters ready gent by the look of him. Picks up the for trouble. ‘Bit different from Hadley Times, offers some derogatory Wood’. Finally after a heart attack, an comments about Liverpool football club angioplasty and a good recovery they Its about 5.15 am. Dark and cold. (Bob’s team) and he’s on his way. Things heard TJ Blakes was available and they Wondering what ever possessed me to seem a bit calmer and Raheem hands took over from Jeremy. decide on this article I creep across a round cups of tea. The door opens. It’s ‘Jeremy has been a great help’ says deserted and silent Crescent West and the man from Warburtons. Big lorry. Bob.’ I don’t know how we would have stumble round the back of the shops to Goodness knows what time he started managed without him. He still comes in the basement below Londis/TJ Blake’s. I work. The bread is unloaded and Bob, on Saturdays and Sundays to help. And am meeting Bob Ruparelia. You know exchanging a few more of his usual Irene thank goodness ’. ‘What is so Bob of course. He’s the big bloke in pleasantries, checks the invoice and special about the weekend?’ I ask charge of the newsagents who counts everything in. Later he tells me.’ I ‘Saturdays and Sundays’ says Bob ‘are a dispenses newspapers, food, cigarettes always try and be the first drop for the nightmare. There are 300 bundles of etc. He also dispenses a high standard delivery men. If you upset the delivery papers to sort out including all the of banter, cheerfulness and humour. boys you go down their list and magazines that come at the weekend. Listening to him, he reminds me of a everything just gets later and later’. I ask We have to insert those by hand. Much typical Cockney but unless you can hear him how he learned all this. ‘Started heavier for the delivery team too’. Bow Bells in Kenya he probably does not about 13 years ago’ he says ‘helping my Customers are coming in and out faster qualify. In fact his grandparents hail from brother’ then branched out on his own now as the morning rush for the trains India. He was born in Nairobi before with Sangita. ‘She’s the brains behind the start. Everyone’s in a hurry. The sandwich coming here as a child. Anyway as I was operation’ he says. ‘but don’t tell her’. (I van arrives. More unpacking and saying. I reach the basement room. Its resolve to do so at the first opportunity). counting. More banter. Bob has a laugh like a scene from a French gangster ‘What about before that?’ I ask. ‘My Dad with the delivery man. ‘He’s a Man.City movie. A bare room illuminated by a brought us over from Nairobi. Used to supporter’ he says to me as an aside, single light bulb. Under the light a long have a business there. When we got here ‘poor chap’. trestle table covered with piles of papers. he started as a bus conductor. Worked A lady appears at the door. ‘Hi Bob’ Two men are bent over the table, working nights in a factory. Mum worked as well. She smiles, grabs a paper and dashes and writing frantically. Behind them I can Lyons cakes. We rented a flat in Wembley for the train. Another lady customer. In a make out two or three shadowy figures. until enough money was saved for a hurry. ‘Just taken a milk Bob. Can I pay A woman leans against the wall. The deposit on a house’. you later?’ ‘Course you can my darling’. atmosphere’s tense. But wait a minute. After leaving school Bob became a So it goes on, the flow of delivery men These are no gangsters. Its Bob and security man at the air base in Ruislip. being replaced by the early city workers, Raheem addressing the 300 daily Tough job trying to keep brawling then the office workers. newspapers for Hadley Wood! They have American servicemen in order. Then a The repartee varies, suited to the type 4
  • 5. of customer. Then the Mums start Pilates Teacher - Personal Trainer popping in before dropping off the kids Established lower back specialist at school. Later Sangita will take over. Would you like a more toned, more flexible, longer, She’s dealt with the children (daughter leaner, stronger look to your body. 12 and son 8 yrs) fixed the house and These are just a few of the benefits Pilates offers. Private sessions are becoming increasingly popular as exercises can be adapted to done the shopping. Sangita knows how suit peoples individual needs. to run a business. Aged 16 years she The sessions enable you to have a more personal method of learning. worked at a local Argos store on Don’t live with back pain book now to see a specialist Saturday mornings. Six years later she Lower back pain is extremely common and can be acute enough to stop people functioning normally on a day to day basis. was Manageress, moving around their Pilates is a key exercise method for helping to improve posture different stores in London. She sends and therefore relieve daily aches and pains. Bob home to have a sleep. ‘Unless Contact Stuart on: 07787 552326 or email: stuart@pilates-stuart.co.uk Liverpool are playing’ says Bob ‘in which case I will stay up and watch.’ Its 0900. Unable to postpone my breakfast any longer and seriously considering going feature film of Wuthering Heights, this has received the generous support of the back to bed, I make my excuses leaving sustainable development project has Head Knitwear Designer of a well known Bob Sangita and Raheem to carry on in been able to send over £35,000 to needy high street brand who has designed a the shop. They’ve only got another 10 communities in Peru over the last two new range of women's alpaca clothing. hours to go (six and a half days a week) years. She has also completed a Business before closing. And I thought I used to The project currently involves Course at the Centre for Sustainable work hard. approximately 150 rural and urban Fashion at London College of Fashion, Rod Armstrong women in Peru and enables them to earn and is currently working on some a fair wage producing high quality hand garments that will be shown at London knitted items for Mamacha, in a country and Paris Fashion Week as part of a Mamacha where 45% of the population live below collaboration with another designer 2010 has been an exciting year for the poverty line. brand's collection. Mamacha. From receiving orders for Hadley Wood’s Amy Yates has been Mamacha will be at Ethical Just Got their products from Amnesty International working with the same small community Fabulous pop-up shop in Notting Hill on and New Internationalist catalogues, to groups in Peru for over five years, and Saturday 4th – Sunday 5th December supplying knitwear for the actors in a new has seen women's lives transformed. She (www.ethicaljustgotfabulous.com). is passionate about keeping Closer to home, we will also be opening traditional skills alive, and our doors at 53 Crescent West on pays a premium for hand- Thursday 9th December 2010 from 9am crafted items that to 8pm. All are welcome to view our demonstrate age old products – alpaca hats, scarves, snoods, skills. As the company gloves, fingerless mittens, socks, places regular orders – rare jumpers, alpaca and silk wraps, bags, in the fashion world – the and a wide range of childrens' clothing. women can plan ahead, Please contact Amy on 020 8441 4028 feed their family and send or amy@yates.net or visit their children to school. www.mamacha.co.uk for more As well as supplying the information. Amnesty International Mamacha catalogue with jumpers, hand painted coasters and Christmas decorations, Amy 5
  • 6. Hadley Wood Primary School. Mrs Loizides has been telling the HW News about WoW. A charity known as Living Streets has been running a campaign since 1996 aimed at encouraging children to walk to school. The campaign’s aim is to encourage all parents, children and young people to make walking to school part of their daily routine. This builds a habit of walking which they hope will remain with them for the rest of their lives. The campaign for Primary schools part in a mass walking relay which involved is called the Big WoW. (Walk once a Week). schools across London travelling This year thirty three London boroughs took anticlockwise from Havering, through every borough and ending at Greenwich. To mirror the London relay, Enfield schools also took part in relays throughout October. Forty five primary, secondary and special needs schools walked from their school to the next school on the route. Approximately 225 children took part in the relay. The photo shows the Westgrove school children handing over the baton (a cylinder filled with pledges) to the Hadley Wood children. Autumn in Hadley Wood John Leatherdale Top: Jack’s Lake. Above: Kite flying at Bartrams Lane. Left: Walking in Hadley Wood. 6
  • 7. under a common law tenancy. The landlord of a property originally let on a common law tenancy that became an AST from 1st October should be especially careful to follow the correct procedure for gaining possession, regardless of the contractual terms of the tenancy. When the £25,000 annual rent threshold was originally set it excluded a relatively small number of luxury lettings from AST protection. Nowadays a £25,000 annual rent is by no means Letting your property. exceptional, especially in Greater 1st October this year brought about an London. Increasing the rent threshold to important change in the law in England £100,000 should go some way to re- relating to the Assured Shorthold Tenancy the special rules that apply to AST’s, balancing the market so that only truly (AST) - the most popular method of particularly: luxury properties are outside the AST letting residential property. The duty to protect rent deposits regime. Before 1st October, if the annual rent The procedures for gaining possession Guy Wheatcroft, RHY Law LLP under an assured tenancy was more than An AST landlord must protect the gwheatcroft@rhylaw.com £25,000, that tenancy could not be an tenant’s deposit by using an authorised AST, instead being a “common law tenancy deposit scheme (TDS) operated tenancy”. From 1st October that threshold by an approved scheme administrator. It Hadley Wood’s Jewish is increased to £100,000, meaning that a is not yet clear how the TDS legislation Community common law tenancy granted before 1st will apply where a common law tenancy October with an annual rent between became an AST from 1st October, where There is an active Community in Hadley £25,000 and £100,000, that would the deposit may have been paid months Wood which is known for its warm and otherwise have been an AST but for the or years before. friendly atmosphere. All Jewish families high rent exclusion, qualified as an AST Generally, the grounds on which a are extremely welcome. For information on 1st October. landlord can obtain possession of a on the events and services in Hadley This means there will be more property let on an AST provide the tenant Wood, please contact Rabbi Yoni landlords who will need to comply with with greater protection than that afforded Birnbaum on 07905964207. Yoni and his wife Elisheva live in Hadley Wood and organise regular services and Letters to the Editor social and learning activities. Some of the upcoming events are: Dear Editor Regular Friday night and In six weeks time at 5.30am on November Saturday morning services the 28th, I (BILL MORRIS) will be A Chanucah show and talk on commencing a 100 mile walk from Jewish Humour Glasgow to the peak of Ben Nevis (and Regular activities for men and down again hopefully!) in aid of Help For women including well known guest Heroes. 14 colleagues from the Television speakers Outside Broadcast Industry will be joining A ‘Cheder’ for young children me, the majority of whom are ex services. where they can learn with excellent I am aware of the charitable burden teachers placed upon us all, so please excuse this blatant plug for a most superb and Do give Rabbi Yoni a call and get worthwhile cause. involved No matter how cold and wet, how exhausted, how much stick the two non- military members of the team are getting from the ex-service members, you can rest assured that any donation large or small will help support this most fantastic charity. Our injured servicemen and servicewomen get little or no long term The Hadley Wood financial help from the Government, yet with your valuable support we hope to Association raise much needed funds for ‘Help for Heroes’ vital work. Please help us by donating whatever you feel you can via our fundraising website: Annual General Meeting www.bmycharity.com/highlands4heroes Wednesday November 24th We will be posting pictures and updates every day of the trek, so that you can share the peaks and troughs, the drama and pain of every step. at 7.30pm Thank you for your time and consideration, In the Hadley Wood Centre Best Regards at the far end of the tennis Bill Morris courts in Crescent East. 7
  • 8. BARNET TOTTERIDGE HADLEY WOOD BROOKMANS NEW HOMES PARK RADLETT SHOWCASE 020 8449 3383 020 8445 3694 020 8440 9797 01707 661144 01923 604321 020 8441 9555 PREMIER LETTINGS 020 8441 9796 ENFIELD HADLEY WOOD HADLEY WOOD OIEO £5,000,000 £3,290,000 £3,000,000 Freehold Freehold Freehold Sole Agents Sole Agents Sole Agents 020 8440 9797 020 8440 9797 020 8440 9797 An ambassadorial style hous ein need of some refurbishment, in mature This charming and spacious detached family home is situated on the areas A beautifully presented detached family residence which has been extended grounds of approx. 23 acres, approached through a private gated entrance. premier road and benefits from well presented accommodation arranged over and refurbished to a very high standard by the current owners and benefits 3 reception rooms, study, office, 2 kitchens, 2 cloakrooms, indoor swim- 3 floors. Wrought iron gated carriage driveway, guest cloakroom, extensive from an extensive rear garden with a heated swimming pool. Study, drawing ming pool, gym, 6 bedrooms (all en suite), self contained 1 bedroom staff drawing room, dining room, family room, morning room, study, kitchen/break- room, family/dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, laundry room, cottage, 1 bedroom lodge, range of outbuildings, all weather tennis court. fast room, utility room, master bedroom suite with his & hers dressing rooms 4 bedrooms (4 en suites), family bathroom, rear garden, single garage. & luxurious en-suite bathroom, 6/7 further bedrooms, 4 further bathrooms (2 en-suite), rear garden approaching a quarter of an acre. RIDGE ESSENDON HADLEY WOOD £2,500,000 £2,250,000 £1,850,000 Freehold Freehold Freehold Sole Agents Sole Agents 01923 604321 01707 661144 020 8440 9797 Set behind a private gated entrance and surrounded by the beautiful A substantial traditionally built country home in a parkland setting offering A beautifully presented 5/6 bedroom detached family residence situated Hertfordshire countryside on the outskirts of the village of Ridge is this an unrivalled quality of living in a secure and gated environment. Featuring a in this peaceful turning in the heart of Hadley Wood and benefiting from a secluded individualistic barn conversion which in part dates back to the ‘Mark Wilkinson’ kitchen, 4 reception rooms, 5 bedrooms (3 En Suite), Study, landscaped southerly aspect rear garden with a heated swimming pool. 5 18th Century with 19th and 20th Century influences. Deeves Hall Barn is Detached Double Garage and panoramic views on a plot of approximately reception rooms, 5 bathrooms (2 en suites), rear garden, heated swimming a spectacular 6,900 sq ft minimalist interior designed barn conversion with 0.7 acres which encircles the property. pool. an indoor pool and gym complex. 3 reception rooms, 4 bedrooms, 4 en- suites. NEW BARNET TOTTERIDGE HADLEY WOOD £1,295,000 £749,950 £649,000 Freehold Freehold Leasehold Sole Agents Sole Agents Sole Agents 020 8449 3383 020 8445 3694 020 8440 9797 *CHAIN FREE* A charming 1870’s Victorian detached gated character A beautifully presented detached home situated in this sought after residential A ground floor apartment built by Messrs. Laing Homes, 1 of 7 apartments residence. The property retains many original features. The property is cul-de-sac. 3 Double Bedrooms, Lounge, Dining Room, Kitchen, Breakfast in this exclusive development. 2 reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room, arranged over 3 floors. 3 reception rooms, kitchen, study, 5 bedrooms, 2 Room, Secluded Rear Garden, Potential to extend (subject to Planning study, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (1 en suite), 2 allocated parking spaces, bathrooms, rear garden with southerly aspect, garage. Permission). substantial terracing. The Hadley Wood Association 7, Crescent East, Hadley Wood, Herts. EN4 0EL 020 8449 7193 hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com www.hadleywood.org.uk Chairman Graham Sharp 02084492133 grahamjsharp@tiscali.co.uk Editor and Publisher Rod Armstrong 0208449 5924 rodarmstrong@btinternet.com Assistant Editor Rosa Ferguson Lobo Advertising and Centre Manager Lisa Winston 020 8449 7193 hadley.woodassoc@btconnect.com Hall Bookings Karen Fernandes 07831 753 268 Security Task Force Membership secretary/Admin Caroline Berlyn 0208 4418020 Safe Neighbourhood Team Police Sergeant D. Walker 02087212688 or 07920 233775 The Hadley Wood News is published usually during the first weekend of each month. It is a community publication with the objective of bringing local news, views and events to the residents and friends of Hadley Wood. It is non-profit making with any surplus going to the Hadley Wood Association (HWA) for the direct benefit of residents. Content is produced voluntarily with the make-up, printing and distribution paid for by advertising. Thank you to all our advertisers, without whom this magazine would not be possible. If you would like to contribute to a future issue or receive updates via email, please contact the Editor and Publisher . The HWA and anyone associated with the content of this newsletter cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy, claims or views expressed. The Hadley Wood News does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the advertisements or other information accessed directly or indirectly from this publication, nor the quality of any products, services, information or other materials displayed, purchased or obtained by anyone as a result of an advertisement or any other information or offer in connection with those products, services, information or other materials.Hadley Wood News shall not be responsible for any errors or omissions contained in any advertisement or other information within this publication. The Publisher reserves the right to amend, abridge or reject any copy supplied for publication. E&OE HWA June 2010 To download a copy of this and/or previous issues of Hadley Wood News, please visit www.hadleywood.org.uk 8