Inside Magazine (Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill) - November/December 2022

Chigwell & Buckhurst Hill

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Buckhurst Hill

Welcome to the November/December edition of Inside Magazine, the local magazine for Chigwell and Buckhurst Hill.

I recently bought a face wash that claimed to contain volcanic extract. “Thank goodness,” I thought. “I’ve not been using enough volcano on my face.”

When I got home and read the ingredients, I saw that the wash contained 1% volcanic soil extract. “Oh no,” I thought. “I’d hoped for maybe 20% volcano.”

The truth is, I hadn’t really been looking for volcanoes for my face. I had enough of that in my teens. But once the tube announced itself, I felt that it satisfied a need of which I had never been aware. “Need more volcano,” I said to myself as I washed.

Similarly, shampoos proclaim magic ingredients of which we have never heard, and which, indeed, may not exist. Protein G. Moxydoxypropazone. Ironically, one could build an equally persuasive campaign by guaranteeing the absence of these things. The implication is that rival products are riddled with the stuff. Hence, I’m bringing out a new face wash that absolutely contains No Rubber Substrate, and a shampoo that is Moxydoxypropazone-free. (Probably.)

No aardvarks were injured in the production of this magazine. We confidently assert that none of our competitors are currently claiming this.

David Young

NB. Copy deadline date for our next issue (January/ February) is December 2nd.

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HOME & GARDEN

Millionaire's Shortbread

Feature: Beauty Gifts For Every Budget

Feature: Dental Care

GENERAL

the Line

A gift that keeps giving

Feature: Get (back) on your bike

Feature: Best Christmas Markets in

COMMUNITY

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

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THE LINE SCULPTURE TRAIL

or Tracey, Trails and Trolleys

STORY: DAVID YOUNG IMAGES: DAVID YOUNG

Idon’t like being told what to do. I’ll generally do the precise opposite. I’ve been a rebel from my earliest years. When told to eat my rusk, I steadfastly looked my mother in the eye and said “Shan’t”. I rebelled at school, where, surprisingly, I learned very little but was really good at lighting matches. And I rebelled in later life, which was not approved of at all by a series of employers, who would politely ask me to look elsewhere for a living.

But put me on a footpath and show me a sign and I conform like a well-trained puppy. ‘Turn left’ –will do. ‘Go this way next’ – just try and stop me.

REACHING OUT BY THOMAS J PRICE

DNA DL90 BY ABIGAIL FALLS

Show me a sign and I meekly obey. If you suggest, for one moment, that we might try turning right, I’ll shout you down, saying “The sign says we must turn left.” To me there is nothing so pleasing as a Trail. They’ll tell you where to go and what to see and then they’ll tell you when to stop. They’ll tell you in advance how long to take and what to wear. I’ll never rebel when a Trail is involved.

Well you could have knocked me down with a feather (I’m old and frail) when someone told me there was an art trail in East London (I’m not very bright), leading from (or to) the Olympic Park. It was initiated in 2015 (I’m quite slow on the uptake).

The Line consists of three sections, connected by short hops on the public transport, and is principally waterside paths that lead you past various artworks by people so famous that even I had heard of them (I’m not very clever). Try Tracey Emin for size, or Anthony Gormley.

You get to walk in three boroughs – Greenwich, Tower Hamlets and Newham – and you broadly follow the Greenwich Meridian. This last bit of info is a bit spurious. You’re better off following the signs. I got a bit muddled at one point, but, on asking if anyone had seen a Greenwich Meridian,

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was met with puzzled stares. They’re stoical, the Tower Hamleters.

The art which you encounter along the way – no, go on, let’s be ultra-cool – the installations which you encounter in these spaces –are explained on panels. Some may say that art should need no explanation. To me, (I’m mainly befuddled) almost everything needs explanation. The words on the panels made a good deal of sense without seeming pretentious.

If you do the whole thing in one go, it’s about three hours of walking plus a couple of transfers between stretches. One of these is aboard the Emirate Air Line. I thought we’d be catching a plane, but, disappointingly, it’s that cable car.

If you like modern art, you’ll be happy. If you hate modern art, then you can have a really good time moaning about everything along the way. I did it twice, once humming appreciatively at the nuanced messages of the installations, then again tutting every time I saw anything and grumbling to anyone who would listen about declining values and shouting that they should have put up some Constables. Happy days. Don’t think the stoical Tower Hamleters thought much of me though.

If you don’t like art, you can enjoy the walk anyway Let me pick out a couple of highlights (or, if you’re a grumbler, a couple of bits of blithering nonsense). Near Three Mills in Stratford stands Thomas J Price’s statue called ‘Reaching Out’. Now I realise that this, in itself, is a phrase that

will set the grumblers a-grumbling. But bear with, bear with. It’s a most imposing bronze sculpture of a young woman looking at her phone, and it’s a juxtaposition of isolation and connectedness. Very good. (Or absolute garbage.)

I also liked (or hated) a spiral of shopping trolleys by Abigail Falls called DNA DL 90, with the spiral mimicking the helix of DNA, hinting at our obsession with consumerism.

It was also, it has to be said, a fascinating walk through the landscape along the River Lea to the Thames, some of it unreconstructed wastelands waiting to happen, or the modern world of the Olympic Park, or the stubborn eighteenth century house standing against a backdrop of City skyscrapers across a landscape of reeds. The perfect scene at which to smile and to sneer simultaneously, to love and to hate at the same time. Ironically, you also pass the West Ham ground – now there is something you either love or hate.

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CROSSWORD

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Across

Scottish hillside (4)

Type of tree (8)

Tropical plant with large brightlycoloured flowers (8)

Sound of a bell (4)

Cymru (5)

Adult male chicken (7)

Shrub with fruits similar to the grapefruit (6)

Special design or symbol (6)

Attack with artillery (7)

Sacred writings of the Christian religion (5)

Ring slowly (4)

Professor who is retired from assigned duties (8)

Large two-winged insect that stings or bites animals, also known as a cleg (8)

Electrical power cord (4)

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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.

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COMMUNITY EVENTS

CHRISTMAS AT ST

EDMUND'S

FORTHCOMING

CONCERT

Chingford Parish Church, The Green, E4 7EN

Saturday December 3rd, 7.30pm

South West Essex Choir Mozart: SOLEMN VESPERS. Haydn: ST NICHOLAS MASS Andrew Sackett, conductor Tickets: see website www.southwestessexchoir.org.uk

CONCERT

Chingford Parish Church, The Green, E4 7EN

Saturday December 17th, 7.30pm

Reserve your tickets now for the 39th GRAND CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Popular seasonal choral and orchestral music with Chingford Parish Church Choirs, The Chingford Singers Chingford Sinfonia Gallery: sold out. Forward half of building £23.00 (Concessions £21.00).

Rear half £21.00 (Concessions £19.00)

Under 18s £10 in front or back of church, but full price in gallery. email music@parishofchingford.org.uk or phone 020 8529 6092

Larkswood Road, Chingford E4 9DS

Sunday 18 December

6.30 p.m. Traditional Service of Nine Lessons & Carols Christmas Eve, Saturday 24 December

4.30 p.m. Crib Service with Christingle Oranges

11.45 p.m. Candlelit Midnight Service with Communion

Christmas Day, Sunday 25 December

10 a.m. Christmas Communion

CONCERT

Chingford Parish Church, The Green, E4 7EN

Thursday December 22nd, 8.00pm

The traditional Christmas service of Nine Lessons and Carols

Sung by the boys, girls and men of the Parish Church Choir

No admission charge –collection ONGOING

GETTING TO KNOW YOU

On Wednesday 16th November, 14th December, 18th January 2023, 10.00am –Noon.

At WAKE CUP, 52-54 STATION ROAD, CHINGFORD, LONDON. E4 7BE.

‘Getting To Know You’ (a song in The King & I) is a new group that will meet monthly, starting on Wednesday 16th November, 10.00am – Noon at WAKE CUP, 52-54 Station Road, Chingford. E4 7BE

The group aims to encourage and enable a multi generation

and what’s on...

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 multigenerational get together. For various reasons many people young & old may not see much of their family, that can mean older people don’t have much connectivity with children and in turn children may miss out by not having much contact with the older generation.

This Community group aims to bring people of different ages together. Perhaps you are new to the area, working from home and missing one to one contact, an older person looking to meet other people, a parent who’d like to meet up - babies & children welcome (there isn’t a designated play area as such, so bring a few toys). Basically this group is for anyone who wants to get to know more local people of varying ages.

It would be appreciated if dogs (except guide dogs) were not in attendance. Thank you for your understanding with regards to this.

If you’re interested in the chance to catch up with local people over a coffee and would like to come along please let me know in advance if possible so I can give the venue some idea of attendance.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Irene & Harley Contact: Irene Bull T: 0208 559 4500email irenebull@hotmail.co.uk Or Harley Johnson T: 07957 484697 –HQAJohnson@hotmail.com

Orion Harriers has been Chingford and Highams Park's local running club since 1911. We have 700 members of all abilities, who run from our base in Epping Forest near Chingford Station.

14th January 2023 will see the 100th running of our annual 10 mile cross country run. We have held the run every year since 1911, except where prevented by war or disease. The route has varied over the years, as the forest and traffic have changed, but has always included plenty of mud and hills, including Pole, Hawkswood, Yardley, Woodridden and Wellington Hills. The 100 races have seen many epic battles between local runners and with the course, including our very own World Ironman Champion triathlete Lucy Charles-Barclay (see picture, right).

We are a friendly club and welcome everyone. All are welcome to join training. Our juniors (from age 8) and our beginners groups go out on Wednesday nights from our club: Jubilee Retreat, Bury Road, Chingford. If you are interested, check out the website or simply drop in.

If you would to take part in this historic race, please see website for more details but we will be taking entries on the day. www.orionharriers.com

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Down: 2 Raita, 3 Evil eye, 4 Sock, 5 Customer, 6 Mares, 7 Elgar, 12 Eve, 13 Four-leaf, 15 Ono, 17 Bailiff, 18 Batch, 19 Bolus, 21 Louse, 22 Bevy.

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