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September & October 2022Inside Magazine, Chigwell & Buckhurst Hill4 David Young E4 Publishing cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions or endorse companies, products or services that appear in this magazine. Copyright © 2022 E4 PUBLISHING All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior written consent of the publisher. CONTENTS PUZZLES Sudoku 12 Crossword 14 Fun Quiz 24 HOME & GARDEN Finance: Free Money 6 Baking: Watercress & Vanilla cake 18 Beauty Feature: Save Money on Beauty 20 GENERAL Thermometers 8 Motoring Feature: Ford Fiesta 10 Travel Feature: Cape Verde 25 COMMUNITY Community Events 22 Local Useful Numbers 28 INDEX OF ADVERTISERS 30 inside Printed on FSC accredited paper. For every tree felled significantly more are planted. Vegetable based inks are used throughout, which are far more environmentally friendly than oil based inks. Waste paper from the printing and binding process is recycled and goes back into providing pulp for recycled paper products. Please recycle when finishedyou’vewithit. Inside Magazine (Chigwell & Buckhurst Hill) is published bi-monthly by E4 Publishing. Editor: David Young Features Editor: James McGowan Sales Manager: Andy Green Proprietor & Publisher: Peter Atkinson, E4 Publishing Inside Magazine Tel: 0800 610 2240 e: sales@insidemagazinelocal.co.uk w: www.insidemagazinelocal.co.uk E4 Publishing, PO Box 64950, Chingford, London, E4 0BG W elcome to the September/October edition of Inside Magazine, the local magazine for Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill. Now I don’t mean to brag, but I am the criterion against which all else is judged. At least I think so. To me I am. Recently someone pointed out that halfway between now and 1940 was 1981. I checked the sums and they’ve only gone and got it Yetright.it can’t be so. 1940 was the start of World War Two and was really long ago. The 1980s were the era of the Falklands and Bros. That’s not history – that’s dead dead recent. At least I think so. To me it is. And so it is that one judges the world around us. To me, the perfect point is the one where I find myself. The maths that I learned was proper maths. Before that, they were primitive. After me, all new-fangled nonsense. We think of ourselves as the centre point of time, the time when everything was proper. Anything else is fiddle-faddle (as we used to say in proper times). NB. Copy deadline date for our next issue (November/ December) is October 14th. 18
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“Really I just meant that I’m hot. A somethinginventedGalileofound.Here’sagain.neverquickly,met.whentemperature,measurementhistorytoIthat,notsnorted.“Hmmph,”conversational.”merelyreplied.notpercenthundredhot.Like,cold,”I“ButIwasbeinghe“You’reverygoodatareyou?”quicklydecidedinvestigatetheoftheofforwenextJustasIdecidedtomeethimwhatIOriginally,Galileicalled a thermoscope. He did this between discovering Jupiter’s moons and reinventing the compass. Then he had tea. But you know what they say about all work and no play. Bet he was no fun down the pub. This thermoscope could detect the rise or fall of temperature but did not measure temperature itself. So, not a thermometer. Pull your socks up, Galileo. Oh, sorry – he’s busy disproving Theheliocentrism.thermoscope was improved upon by another Italian, Santorio Santorio. Funny thing with 17th century Italians – all seemed to have the same first and last name. Santorio took a simple air thermoscope and applied a scale to it, whereupon it became officially a thermometer. The suffix -scope comes from the Greek for observation, whereas the suffix -meter comes from Greek (or French) for measurement. But I know what you’re thinking. Silly Santorio had neglected to account for variations in air pressure. Spot on, dear reader. The early thermometers fluctuated in their accuracy.
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September & October 2022Inside Magazine, Chigwell & Buckhurst Hill8 or Celsius, Scopes and Scorchers “ Phew, what a scorcher!” I observed. “It ain’t half hot!” It was one of those occasions when you realise that your conversational skills are “Aha!”lacking.myfriend said. (I should explain that he is something of a pedant and therefore has even fewer friends than I have. In fact, even I don’t like him much. He says “Aha!” a lot.) “Aha!” he repeated. “You imply that it isn’t fifty percent hot. But what does that mean? Half of what? How do you know? Can you measure heat through your senses, or do you have a device on you that can perform the same function?”
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“Is it hot?” they’d ask. “It’s about halfway up my glass bit,” would be the reply. A universal system was needed. Fahrenheit produced a scale in 1724. It was, to be honest, a tad clunky. He set his zero as the point at which a bath of salty water froze. He then set the freezing point of water as 32F, and the body temperature as 96F. The difference of 64 degrees was convenient. Hence the logic. This was later recalibrated so that water’s boiling point would be 180 degrees above 32F. This recalculation now recorded body temperature as 98-ishF. Now I like a good number, but that’s just a mess.
Luckily, in 1742 there lived a Swedish astronomer called Anders Celsius. You’ll immediately notice that his Swedish parents haven’t called him Celsius Celsius. Already we’re dealing with a much more systematic way of doing things. He measured two temperatures –the freezing and the boiling points of water, then called one 0 Celsius, and the other 100 Celsius. Whew. Thank Heavens. Common sense prevails. Except… wait for it… he had them upside down, so that, in his original scale, water froze at 100C then boiled at 0C. Jean Pierre Cristin turned the scale upside down in 1743 and called his new-ish scale Centigrade. Then, in 1948, Cristin’s scale was renamed (or re-re-named) ThermometersCelsius.thenceforth develop at a exponential speed. Nowadays it doesn’t cost much to have a magnificent digital display on one’s bookcase which will tell you all sorts of stuff that you neither need to know nor “Isunderstand.ithotout?” my wife recently asked. “Not a clue,” I replied. “But the Hang Seng index has taken a tumble.”
II, (Ferdy to his friends) developed a sealed-glass thermometer, filled with alcohol. The liquid would rise or fall as the temperature made it expand or contract. But even now there was no recognised scale against which to base Gabrielmeasurements.Fahrenheit, in 1714, produced a thermometer using mercury. Progress in the use of glass allowed more accurate measurements. This was good, but, there was no way to inform others of the temperature.
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Armed with this fulsome history, I almost wish that I could be bothered contacting that pedantic friend (let’s call him Twistleton “ItTwistleton).ain’thalf hot again,” I’d say. “Aha!” he’d inevitably reply. “But how hot is it “It’sreally?”27 Celsius, or 81 Fahrenheit. Or, using the original Celsius scale, it’s 73. Or, on Galileo’s thermoscope, about an inch and a half.”
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September & October 2022Inside Magazine, Chigwell & Buckhurst Hill22 FORTHCOMING WOODFORD NATIONAL TRUST CENTRE SPECIAL AT COPPED HALL A talk on Knole House, which is linked to Copped Hall, will be given by Nathalie Cohen at 11 am 19th October at COPPED HALL, Epping, followed by a tour of Copped Hall details of which are in our NT Newsletter for members, or information from Chairman Richard House.conservationtheandArchaeologistNathalieHouse.usforeverdisplaymanytotheseCoptenormousquantity1679Royaltreasures,endowedofconnectionsChrlesEarlsHallmagnificentIncliveboon@hotmail.co.uk.Clivespeller643@btinternet.comSpeller,orBoon,the17thCentury,theElizabethanCoptwasowned,firstbytheofMiddlesexandthenSackville.Withclosetotothemonarchstheperiod,Copthallbecamewithmanypricelesstransferredfromthepalaces.Aninventoryofrevealed"astaggeringoffurnitureofanhousehold".Whenhallwassoldin1701,treasureswereremovedKnoleHouseinKent,whereofthemcanbeseenontothisdaycreatingaspecialbondbetweenatCoppedHallandKnoleCohenistheRegionalatKnoleHousehasbeendeeplyinvolvedinrecentmulti-millionpoundsprojectatKnole WANSTEAD VINTAGE the quarterly vintage fair that's worth waiting for! We're really looking forward to opening our doors again and seeing you all at our Christmas Fair on Saturday 17th OurDecember2large halls will be filled with stallholders selling an array of antique and vintage items from the 1800s through to 1990, we will have amazing Indigo textiles, designer fashion from the likes of Chanel and Hermes to name but 2, gorgeous jewellery from classic makes such as Monet and Oscar de la Renta, stunning silver cutlery and object d’art, fabulous and practical furniture, iconic posters, beautiful pictures, amazing Everythinglighting... you need for your home and wardrobe.
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ONGOING GETTING TO KNOW YOU is a new group initially meeting on a mid-week morning once a month, possibly fortnightly eventually. Its aim is to enable and encourage a multigeneration meet up for anyone who would like the opportunity to meet new people of varying ages in their community. Although there are various clubs aimed at specific ages I don’t think there is one that aims at a multi generational get together. If for various reasons many people young & old don’t see much of their family, that can mean that older people don’t have much connectivity with children and in turn children don’t have much contact with the older generation. This Community Group aims to bring people of different ages together. Perhaps you are new to the area, an older person looking to meet other people, a parent who’d like to meet upbabies and children welcome. Venue, dates and times to be confirmed. If you would like to be kept in the loop once these have been sorted or would like more information please IrenecontactBull T: 0208 559 4500 or email irenebull@hotmal.co.uk N.B. In the meanwhile I’m looking for a comfortable venue in or around The Station Road, Chingford area that would be suitable for the above to host the above activity - perhaps you are a cafe or a bar that is interested in providing this space for people to get together once a month for tea, coffee and conversation. Then please contact me, Irene, details above. and what’s on...
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We bought the villa in late 2018 after battling months of red tape. We didn’t buy it to get rich, but wanted to create something that would be truly special for us, our friends, and for local people to enjoy (I live in Buckhurst Hill), making best use of our retirement pot. We thought of things that annoy us when going away; the first was arriving to pick up a rental car, only to be told we have to get a bus 15 minutes away, and then fill in endless forms. So we decided to make no charge for Bertie, our wonderfully reliable and fuel-efficient automatic car, and garage it close to the airport, delivered when you get off the plane.
Then we considered having to rent parasols and sunbeds at the beach, which for a family of 6 adults can cost €100 per day (parasol and sunbed each), so we provide everything to take down there. This attitude is everywhere at the villa; a real home from home with everything catered for.
Families are welcome, but as the pool is not fenced and the villa has an exterior staircase, sadly, we can only offer the villa to those with children of at least secondary school age (11+).
Our villa has 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and a 10 metre pool Rates start from £120 per night, depending on season Check out our 360 Virtual Tour to get a real flavour of what it’s like, visit tinyurl.com/villa360
Located close to wonderful beaches on the sun-drenched Costa Blanca just an hour from Alicante Airport, in the Moraira region, and about £200 per week cheaper than comparable properties. (Even cheaper than a cottage in Cornwall)
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