On The Hill Magazine - March 2018

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CECIL SHARP HOUSE

Rachel Elliott takes us behind the scenes at the English Folk Dance and Song Society

JENNIFER LOUISE MARTIN

We talk to the local artist about her work and children’s art classes

PRIMOSE HILL IN WW2

David Edwards remembers playing on Primrose Hill bombsites

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Things to do in March

Primrose Hill in WW2 18

David Edwards remembers playing on Primrose Hill bombsites

behind the scenes at the English Folk Dance and Song Society

Primrose Hill People 24

We talk to artist Jennifer Louise Martin about her work and children’s art classes

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How to breathe

Book Review 27

The Outer Circle by Ian Ridley

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Contact details for local services

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ceiling and breathe. Now you might feel only movement in your upper chest.

6. Return to neutral posture and put a hand on each side at the bottom of your ribs. Take a few breaths ‘into your hands’ and feel how much movement there is laterally in your ribs.

7. Move your hands onto your tummy and take some more breaths. By touching these areas we give the brain a direction towards which to target muscle movement.

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I hope you notice that by being in neutral alignment you can expand your ribs 360° without the restrictions brought by poor posture or holding the tummy in. Practise this each time you sit down, and especially if you are feeling anxious or stressed.

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as you are impeding your breathing.

You take about 1,000 breaths an hour, For the diaphragm to be able to which equates to almost 8,760,000 a year. contract fully, you need to be in neutral Should you live to 100, that is almost alignment maintaining a good posture.

900 billion breaths! But are are they full, Let’s try it: nourishing breaths, or shallow ones at the top of your chest!?

Breathing Br eathing better has a positive 1. Sit on the edge of a dining chair, influence on numerous aspects of our feet flat on the floor, knees hip-width lives. It can give us better digestion, apart, spine vertical, shoulders relaxed improvedlet circulation, immune drawn back. You need to sit Please us knowstronger you can be a partand of head our team function, enhanced cardiovascular directly on your sit bones, so gently by emailing us at creative@onthehill.info health, more energy and can calm rock/tilt your pelvis forward and our minds minds.. It’s an automatic process that backward rolling over the bones (found we take for granted ... until perhaps we under your bottom!). Your lower back have a blocked nose. But did you realise will arch and then flatten. The point that your posture will also impact on how between these two ranges of movement you breathe? should be your neutral pelvis and you onthehill.info Often people breathe in the upper will feel like you are perched ‘on’ your chest, with the tummy and ribs not sit bones. moving at all. To clarify, you do not breathe into your tummy. You breathe 2. Take a long inhale though your nose, into your lungs, which are protected and feel where the air moves your body. by your ribs at the top and sides, and encased by your diaphragm muscle at the 3. Exhale through your mouth and relax. bottom. As you inhale, this dome-shape muscle contracts and flattens, pushin pushing g 4. Now slouch forward and breathe. You the liver and other organs down into your might observe that your ribs only move abdomen; this is why the tummy swells. at the back.

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The book highlights the cultural highs Primrose Hill has long been a favourite and lows of present-day Britain as it destination for film-makers (see (see p 12), 12), individuals but it also crops Welcome to up in books, notably Anna follows the story of five Primrose Hill caught up in the events in very TheDifferenza Folks That Live on the Hill by Kingsley Dé Dreams Postcards Amis and p 8 Primrose Hill by Helen Falconer. p 9 different ways. p 10 The Outer Circle is Ian Ridley’s first Now former sportswriter Ian Ridley novel, but as a sportswriter he wrote has written The Outer Circle, Circle, set, as the bestselling Addicted with the former the name suggests, in Regent’s Park, Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams, with much of the action occurring in which was shortlisted for the William Primrose Hill. It’s a page-turning thriller Hill Sports Book of the Year award; and which manages to reach beyond events he’s also been a sportswriter for The and raise hard-hitting questions, both Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and Mail on a personal and political level. on Sunday.

Sunday. In 2007 he was named Sports Set in the days immediately after Journalist of the Year. the London Olympics, when the city is Television credits include the Sky basking in self-congratulatory glory, a One drama series Dream Team, Team, and he’s terrorist attack occurs at the London currently writing a film script on the Central Mosque in Regent’s Park. The world champion boxer Darren Barker, following day, a reciprocal attack happens on the biography on which he in the park itself. The events plunge Get acquainted based with Primrose Hill’s newest restaurant. collaborated, A Dazzling Darkness.

London into chaos and uncertainty.

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Differenza

By Maggie Chambers

The best food and wine from Italy – in Primrose Hill

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Antonio Cerilli, the manager of Differenza, is passionate about sourcing the best possible ingredients. The restaurant’s meat is sourced from an organic farm near Stonehenge, the fish comes fresh from Billingsgate market and the pasta is made with organic flour and Italian eggs. The lentils are from Umbria and the desserts are all homemade. When I showed up for lunch, Antonio was excited to have just received a batch of fresh pesto from Italy.

Lunch is an à la carte menu from which you can eat amazing foods for a very good price. I tried a starter of buffalo mozzarella (which was the best

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I’ve tasted in a while), and some small plum tomatoes from Italy with a plate of pane carasau, carasau, a warm crispbread from Sardinia. The recently arrived pesto was served with pasta and left a clean, elegant taste. Antonio recommended a Gavi to accompany it. The ragu was perfect, especially with a softly spiced red such as Primitivo from Puglio, and I had just enough room for a melt-in-themouth tart cooked by chef Mario Bruno.

Antonio grew up on a farm outside Rome. His mother still makes bread with a thick crust which retains its freshness, and the restaurant will soon be introducing bread ovens. He believes

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in healthy eating – that is, eating to feel good and not just to fill ourselves – and he’s a big campaigner for preserving the environment and helping artisans.

His philosophy is to use only simple ingredients, but of the best quality possible. The aim is to have 70‒/80% of their food sourced organically.

Wine is Antonio’s other passion; he was once a professional sommelier.

Every month the restaurant holds a wine dinner consisting of four courses.

January’s dinner paired wines with calamari stuffed with artichoke, cod served with polenta, home-made ravioli filled with beef and truffle sauce and braised Dexter ribs. There were five white wines to sample, and two red, and all went perfectly with the food.

It is taste-bud heaven with the added advantage of no hangover as the wines are of such good quality.

The wines are all from Italy and tend to be from age-old vineyards. Antonio finds that organic wines without chemicals help the flavour to open out. He sources wines from an ancient vineyard near Mount Etna, and another where vines grow around Umbrian trees.

Future plans for the restaurant include opening for breakfast and providing a take-away menu. They are already very community-minded and have donated food to the homeless sleeping in the cold weather shelter across the road in St Mary’s church.

Antonio told me he has always been fascinated by science, and this is evident in the way he pairs his food and wine. “That is when food becomes art,” he tells me.

Be grateful, as it seems we have some genuine Italian alchemy right on our doorstep.

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It is not the accuracy of Jennifer Louise Martin’s portrait paintings that make them remarkable, but her ability to evoke the personality and the mood of her subjects.

Recently discovered by By Angela Kane the model and writer Laura Bailey on Instagram, Jennifer was commissioned to do a series of thirty paintings of famous people, including Sophia Loren, Britt Eckland, Claudia Schiffer ‘I live to make you smile.’ and Erin In of herAnna eleven-year This is O’Connor. the mantra Dé, career as by an exhibiting artist, inspired the track of one Jennifer of her has only ever done two maleLidell. portraits favourite musicians, Jamie She (Michael launched Caine andher David Hockney), recently event business, because is mainly in the Anna Déshe Dreams (puninterested intended!), psychology of the In many of that specialises infemale. wedding and party her paintings sheisuses images planning.

Anna inspired tofrom make fashion photography to provide herself your celebration dreams come true. with and faces that areAnna then A self-confessed sfigures elf-confessed romantic, transformed by paint or oil), truly understands just(acrylic how significant fabric and material is calling certain lifewhatever events can be. Central to to bephilosophy collaged. of Anna Dé Dreams is the Critics of her work readily pointtouch. the importance of the personal outAnna, how Jennifer is curious about and To weddings, engagements the contrast between the beauty and anniversaries are all celebrations of perfection of photographed models life and love.

Art, fashion, parties, and actors the reality, travel and and spending time beyond with loved filters:are that is perfect, ones allnobody personal passionsthat of it is OK to be flawed.

One of the questions Anna, and she channels this into that her work provokes about how creating bespoke eventsis for you. much need to change Bornwomen in north-west Londontheir to an natural father look (whether make-up Indian and an with English mother, or theIrish extreme plastic roots, surgery) with and of Scottish Anna in order to feel good ormultiple be socially has always straddled cultures. acceptable. express include the Some of herJennifer earliestmay memories conflict nature and nurture being inbetween awe of the beautiful and with female figures that invitations are faceless, ornate Indian wedding or others that havethrough disproportionate that would come the post, features.

Titles of herthis paintings and the excitement would include ‘Beauty is Perhaps an Affliction’ and something ‘Through generate. this has thedo Mist’. to withHer her2007 loveexhibition of specialat the Milo Gallery in LA was aptly named occasions, from the anticipation phase ‘Perfect Illusion’ her 2013with showAnna, at to the actual day.and Speaking thebecame Strand apparent Gallery inthat London called it she was would ‘(Re)Fashioning like to replicate the thisGaze’. feeling for her Despite her blessed life in as an artist clients, getting involved everything who has experienced international from building excitement around their success, despite her interest in event toand creating a flawless experience fashion modelsday. and glossy magazines, on the special Jennifer is aacademic genuine and grounded in With an background person. “My work is aboutand connecting International Relations European with the viewer,” she explains, want Studies, Anna embarked on a“I career to communicate. painting in International Through Consultancy.

ThisI have a voice, and I really believe that it served to enhance her already is good for the outlook: soul.” Sheher alsocareer describes cosmopolitan painting cathartic, when the has takenasacross theand world, toincities past Brussels she suffered anxiety, the like andfrom Washington, DC. canvasthe wasrise her best friend with whom With of globalisation and she could express herin feelings, meditate technology, we live an increasingly and motivate herself. a whole interconnected world.There As aisresult, range of emotions conveyed celebratory occasions have within taken her paintings.

Though youAnna’s may see sadness on different trends. global or dejectedness in a certain female exposure and international lifestyle subject, Jennifer’s of colours have allowed her choice to keep her finger willthe make such With a painting also feel on pulse. an appreciation dynamic.

She believes that every colour of celebration styles across different has its own properties, andshe saysbrings that cultures, the perspective at present she is being drawn to pink, is invaluable.

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and offered her help. Designing prints on knitted jumpers is one of Jennifer’s artistic ambitions, and she says that her dream project would be to create her own knitwear range, selling in Liberty.

Certainly the images and patterns in many of Jennifer’s paintings seem wearable. She has a masterful use of colour, and she captures the glamour of the fashion world without glossing or varnishing over reality. Two of her artistic influences are Peter Pilotto and Marlene Dumas.

“Through painting I Anna in Chalcot Square | PHOTOGRAPH BY Lars ChristiansenWhen it comes to giving advice to have a voice, and I really people who would like to be artistic or believe that is good for to see the spiritual value of painting, Though Anna hasit enjoyed a JenniferAinsists that it is important to successful career consultancy, she self-confessed theinsoul.” listen to your instinct. “If your work felt a yearning to express herself romantic, Anna truly doesn’t come from within or connect It was atShe the often age offound fifteenherself that creatively. understands how to yourself, it will feel just meaningless.”

Jennifer,friends with the helping to encouragement organise events in Just as she collects 1960s and of her teacher, realised she had a her freearttime.

In 2017, a conversation significant certain70slife fabrics, patterns, wallpaper swatches talenta and love a young with friend ledfor topainting. an initialAs seed events can be. and looks around vintage shops for adult her parents her to of getthe a being planted, andurged by the end inspiration, she says that the best way ‘real’ Anna job, but she went to America, year, decided to take the plunge. to get started on a canvas or piece of tooktrained up residence in aUK dodgy part of of She with the Alliance paper is to go to a shop and find one downtownPlanners LA, and(UKAWP), did her first eight Wedding and fell or two things that fill you with joy. It big-sized portraits.

To this completely in love with all day thatshe party could be a florescent green chalk from remembers the advice a friend who planning entailed.

Herof love of styling, an art store, or a second-hand picture told her gonatural outsidedreaminess her comfortand zone sense of to fun, frame that you want to decorate. Then and be fearless.

It was then in hertofirst passion for organisation seemed it is all about enjoying the process of ever exhibition that she for soldthis a painting come together perfectly role. making and not judging the result. “Art forAnn $2,000. cold winter months Anna a Dé The takes pride in her ability is subjective,” declares Jennifer, “you working parents’ garage had to createin a her smooth experience for paid have do it for yourself. And you can’t off. These Jennifer hasto a studio her clients,days allowing them relax give up, even if you don’t like what spaceenjoy in London Bridge,Equipped whilst living and the process. with you with produce.

I always prefer the work I with‘dream her husband in top Primrose Hill. her team’ of suppliers Anna Harriet at Harriet Kelsall Bespoke Jewellery haven’t created yet.”

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BY Lars Christiansen As a qualified art teacher, Jennifer Jennifer’s work to to evolve. own role as thecontinues composer: ensure also runs andshe holiday art here someSaturday years ago, has immersed Her latest interest is inof knitting, and that all the elements an event workshops for children. take a look herself in local life, andDo feels proud she has just started a free weekly come together seamlessly to create a at the children’s in the Gallery at to be part of theart local community. group forexperience. aspiring knitters. “Knitting magical the site and You canwww.art-buddies.com find her having brunch atbe is fashionable and you know Based in thenow, heart ofdid Primrose Hill, prepared to be amazed.

Greenberry, enjoying a glass of wine at that you can actually knit Anna is always amazed atwith howyour the area www.jenniferlouisemartin.com The Engineer, or taking in the view of fingers?”

She describes the group has managed to retain how its ‘village feel’, @jenniferlouisemartin London from the hill. meets inbeing a locallocated pub, and despite so just nearlast to week the @artbuddieslondon www.annadedreams.com an experienced discovered them heart of centralknitter London.

Having moved which she feels is a calming colour.

It is no surprise that with a degree in psychology and neuroscience from Leeds University, a Fine Art degree from Central St Martins, and being a qualified art teacher, she is now looking to train as an art therapist. “I feel like I express my interest in the subconscious mind by painting with a lot of layers. I also want my work to live in the now – like the way that I include paint drips.”

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Cecil Sharp House By the Mole on the Hill

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Us moles have a good relationship with the folk singers you get down at Cecil Sharp House. You hear them up here. ‘I wish I was a mole, I’d tear that mountain down.’ And even when they’re on about mole-catchers they come out on our side. You know the story.

The mole-catcher catches the farmer up to his frolicks with his wife. ‘I’ll make you pay dearly,’ says the mole-catcher, ‘for tilling my ground and the money it’ll cop you no less than ten pound.’ ‘Ten-pound,’ says the young fellow, ‘That I don’t mind. It only works out about tuppence a grind.’

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Of her many achievements while IatNCecil T E R Sharp V I E WHouse, Rachel is most pleased about setting up the National Youth Folk Ensemble. Arts Council England funds, among other national youth music and dance organisations, the National Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Choir, the National Youth Jazz Collective, the South Asian Youth Music Organisation and now the National Youth Folk Ensemble, which is Did you know that an estimated led by its inaugural artistic director, the 2,000 people a week in the UK inspirational fiddle player Sam Sweeney. are converting to meat-free We were honoured to join the So everything is going with a swing MCM Comic Con Press Panel diets, and vegan food sales have at EFDSS, but there are still concerns in October 2017 to meet the increased over a thousand-fold about the arts in education. “It is in the last year? very talented actor, David very worrying. Music and the arts Transition Primrose Hill are Bradley. He is known for in general are being squeezed out of his Laurence Olivier Award trying to make eating vegetarian the curriculum because of the EBacc for Harold Pinter’s No Man’s and vegan meals fun and easy, [English Baccalaureate]. Schools are Land in 2009. However, we while giving our local restaurants a trying to channel their pupils into boost on quiet nights. After all, Primrose Hill boasts remembered him as the the approved subjects, so many dance,Hogwarts evil caretaker, Argus the oldest vegetarian restaurant in London, Manna in music, drama and art teachers are Erskine Road. We want to be at the forefront of the Filch, in Harry Potter: Potter: the first to go when there are cuts. It new trend towards vegan/vegetarian/flexitarian diets degrades the status of these subjects. “You ’orrible kids … Look at by helping more people enjoy eating meat-free meals.

This is crazy when you think how The popular hashtag #MeatFreeMonday has inspired the mess you’ve made. Out! important our creative industries are Out!” PHOTOGRAPHS BY: top left and bottom: usRoswitha to create our own initiative.

Every Chesher; top right: Rosie Reed GoldMonday in to the economy. But we are fighting March, restaurants, pubs and cafes in Primrose Hill back, and as an organisation we have We were surprised to see will be offeringwith a special or vegan a liftvegetarian now installed it is meal. wheelchair “Music and the arts in supported strong representations to how friendly Participating eating establishments will be listed and kind he was accessible, and the welcoming caféand is the government. The only way you towards widely promoted on social media, and there will a us, and heare evenbeing took a squeezed open to everybody.

Kennedy Hallbe has general can ensure that all young people competition forbeen the best oravegan menu floor selfie with Yousuf! donevegetarian up and has new dance of the have access to the arts is if they item. Diners will becurtains; encouraged share photos of their DB told out us: “When thecurriculum” and andtothe Ivon Hitchens have a strong presence as part of the BBC approached me about meals on Instagram, be a prize for the muraland hasthere been will cleaned and restored. arts tradition in athe school. It can curriculum in state schools. We work recreating bestbe photograph. and playing And don’t forget that this is where in one term.” closely withwith Camden Local vegan enthusiast converted being Doctor Who, I almost EFDSS has Sasha hosted, without afrom hiring fee, David Bradley Yousuf Music, and are oldestdestroyed depressing story, but Sharp lucky to have such a brilliant service inbit theirAhand three years by her carnivore off! However, I Cecilvegetarian many ofago, the persuaded Primrose Hill Community House is Doctor thriving.for If the you wantchef to revisit the feel borough, but they constantly portraying husband Miro who watched the documentary did a great deal of are responsibility, the Association and the library’s celebrated the 1960s, drop in to Sharp’s Folk up against it. We’re also with Special.”

‘TheClub Earthlings’ and stoppedevents. eating animal products William Hartnell fans inpartners the Christmas fund-raising on any Tuesday. There is no cloud of away. ‘It Us Camden Dance Development Group, straight hasmoles’d been alove funtoproject for us, visiting We asked: What was it like to work with Peter Capaldi? see some Morris dancers but apart from it markets: who still Capaldi managewas to have a schools thethat vegan Hackney is Hill. the best, and “Peter brilliant to work with, cigarette but theresmoke, was a natural and folk singersDowns up on the As long as nostalgia all over again. Thethe beautiful dance festival every year at Theme Place; Fat Gay Vegan great.

Mymole-catchers. favourite cookbook rivalry between us. He greeted with the is words: theyblog don’tissing about perma-garden is looked after at by the a moment isTo and as part that, weyou currently Vegan JeanSharp Christian Jury; it ‘Hello.

Letofme show aroundhave MY aTardis!’ viewby Cecil House’s teamtoofgreet Camden the whole morris dance project atvisited St Paul’s goes round theprogramme world and has recipesgo forto: all kinds of “When my relatives theSchool. set, he rushed themvolunteers; before of events building has been refurbished,comfort and food.’ www.cecilsharphouse.org takes get tento years to build up a strong IItcould them: The Forest Green Rovers recently hit the headlines ‘Would you like a tour around the best Tardis?’” as the first vegan football team, and top tennis On several occasions the different Doctors do regenerate in time player Novak Djokovic has recently opened a vegan and space and meet, especially when there are Daleks and cybermen restaurant in Monte Carlo. He says, “I do eat fish about to take over the world. occasionally, but other than that it’s all plant-based, This made us wonder, could the oldest Doctor return and work organic living foods. I’m not saying that’s the way with the first female Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker? everyone should eat ‒ each body has its own needs and It was strange that in the Christmas Special, the actress playing preferences ‒ but I have found this to be the lifestyle his assistant, Claudia Grant, was barely used. We wondered, could that gives me the most success on and off the court.” the reason be that she is coming back?

As Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh has said, making the We knew that David Bradley would ‘bite’ the BBC’s hand off to transition to a plant-based diet may be the most effective play the character again, but was it really feasible? When asked, way for an individual to have an impact on climate change. there was a huge silence.

One acre of land can yield 11,000 kilos of potatoes, but only Then DB said: “The newest Doctor and the oldest Doctor meeting 110 kilos of beef. Nearly a third of greenhouse gases come in space and time would bring together two totally different eras, from eating meat and from raising cattle, more than cars, with the attitudes of their time. This would create conflict, and planes, and other forms of transport put together. conflict is central to any great drama.”

At the time of going to press the Princess of Wales, We still don’t know, and we’ll watch the new Doctor Who series for The5BJ Queens, Primrose Bakery, The Engineer, Lemonia, clues, but we really hope that the first Doctor returns.

Thank you, 64 Belsize Lane, London NW3 the Lansdowne, Greenberry, L’Absinthe and last but not David Bradley.

Wed - Fri: 11am - 6.30pm, Sat: 10am - 6pm, least Sylvia’s Diner, the Oldfield Lunch Club, have all Doctor Who will be broadcast on BBC One in the Sun:autumn.

10am - 4pm (also by appointment) signed up to do special vegan or vegetarian menu items t: 020 7443 5990 e: info@sylvesterfineart.co.uk Ken Matsuzaki, Yohen Teoke Water Container Sonia Delaunay, La Femme au Paravent, 1924, on Mondays in March. See onthehill.info for more Yousuf (Y9), Shamarke (Y11), from Haverstock School; andwww.sylvesterfineart.co.uk Joshua (Y10) hand coloured pochoir great offers in the pipeline. from Stormont House School

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Children from Haverstock School’s journalism course interviewed actor David Bradley.

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in Bloomsbury and across the UK, and has taken contemporary dance to every special school in Camden.

“I worked with Green Candle Dance Company, directing a show for hospital wards. We had four dancers and a musician and the performance was sensitive to the confined space. Our aim was to bring colour, joy and relaxation to the children and involve them in some interaction. I studied British Sign Language and did a lot of work with deaf young people, including directing the Deaf Dance Summer School at Sadler’s Wells for nine years.”

For the past ten years Rachel has been Education Director at EFDSS. It was a new post that gave her responsibility for music education as well as dance education.

“My biggest challenge was the music side. I had always sung the traditional songs of the north-east. Just get me started and I’ll sing you ‘The Lampton Worm’ or ‘Cushie Butterfield’, but I had to get to grips with the way music is organised ‒ the music curriculum, the music education hubs in local authorities and national music organisations ‒ and I had to learn how to work with them.”

Beautiful St Georges Square (now Chalcot Square) around 1905. The EFDSS owns the building on image was taken from Chalcot Road, looking in the direction of Berkley Regent’s Road, which Road. On the right, you can just about make out, Park hiding behind the houses trees, its specialist Vaughan Williams Memorial numbers 31, 32 and, located on the corner of the square, number 33. On (VWML), and many activities the left there is a clear view of numbersLibrary 34 and 35. place there. have Jane adult, The postcard was written and posted take in September 1905They

by Annie youth family activities; numerous Knowles, a 43-year-old butcher’s wife who livedand at 20 Princess Road with regular classes her husband Thomas and her children Florence, Alfred for andaccordion, Winifred. banjo, guitar and other According to the 1901 census, they shared the house with folk four instruments, boarders and English country dancing; and another family: Percy and Elizabethmorris Sprague and their four children. therethey is the seventy-strong Cecil Sharp By the time of the 1911 census, it seems that could afford the whole Choir with waiting list for house: the Spragues had dissapeared byHouse then, and only twoaboarders new members; monthly remained. Their 23-year-old daughter Florence is listed popular as working as a family barn-dances, youth courses schoolmistress, so this extra income might have helped withholiday covering the and ceilidhs. costs.

However, EFDSS is not just a jewel in Camden’s crown. It is the folk arts Rachel Elliott, now Education Director at development organisation for England. the English Folk Dance and Song Society, The stress is on English folk traditions, is aptly named: just like Billy Elliott, she although there are many overlaps and left Gateshead in north-east England interconnections with dance and song when she was thirteen. from Scotland, Ireland, North America “I went to study at a residential ballet and beyond. school fully funded by the Gateshead “Of course we work with schools.

Metropolitan Borough council, probably At the moment we have a big project the last one to benefit before the with Essex Music Services, working Thatcher cuts put paid to all that. I went in primary and secondary schools on to study for three years at the Rambert uncovering Essex folk songs. Our School of Ballet and Contemporary London Youth Folk Ensemble has a Dance, and I worked in dance until I got joint project with Camden Music’s the job at the English Folk Dance and New Camden Jazz Ensemble combining Song Society (EFDSS) in 2008.” jazz and folk; and there will be two Her very first job was with Focus On performances: one at LSO St Luke’s Dance in the 1980s, which brought her and one at Cecil Sharp House on 27 to Cecil Sharp House for rehearsals.

March to celebrate the collection of Since then she has lived in Camden and James Madison Carpenter joining our done much of her work here. For sixteen online digital archive. The free evening years she taught dance in Great Ormond will also feature our choir, a choir from Street Hospital, worked for London Scotland, songs and archive film.”

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Leonardo Shaw is a 15-year-old Primrose Hill resident who has lived his whole life in the area.

He is a film buff who loves all kinds of films, whether or not they are made in Primrose Hill.

TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF.

I was simply never interested in working for a big corporate machine, perhaps because my family always ran their own small businesses. I landed a fast-paced job when I first moved to London, working on a national enterprise campaign called StartUp Britain, an initiative to increase the levels of start-up activity in the UK. At the time of launch in 2011, becoming your own boss was seen as pretty risky, but steadily over the years the entrepreneurial appetite in Britain has exploded. In 2017, over 600,000 people became their own boss – how A literary and film classic This guilty-pleasure great is local that?to Chalcot If you cross under the Anyone 101 Dalmatians has captured chick-flick was embraced railway and over the canal, Square might have come the hearts of children and by a generation of young across Hugh Bonneville and A before you get to Camden IS ENTREPRENEURSHIP adults alike. Up at the top flamboyant Brits and went Market, you will come round his furry friend filming round VIABLE CAREER PATH? of Primrose Hill, Pongo and on to inspire two very another famous crescent, the crescent.and These familyAbsolutely, there’s so much support his wife Perdita barked a popular sequels. Our local Crescent. This friendly ventures to access!

Profit iswere the lifeblood ofGloucester any call for help to find their scene is the opening dream adored bybut many business, weand are truly seeing morestreet peopleused to be home to missing pups. Many a time sequence in the second playwright Alan Bennett embraced pantomime-or starting becoming the self-employed a has a passing tourist waited of the trilogy. It entails and esque story involving a little new enterprise not just because of thean eccentric lady living through the bitter cold our heroine skipping and his driveway. After many bear from Peru. uncapped earning potential, but in often evening in an attempt to dancing around on the top different interpretations of because they can craft a career that is hear the starlight barking. of Primrose Hill. This iconic the book, 2015 brought the more creative, satisfying and aligned However, it does not exist. viewpoint epitomises the story to the silver screen. with their individual values.

Oh well … you win some, youUS ABOUT the peaceYOUR of the hilltop Filming in Alan Bennett’s I’m now working at the UK’s TELL OWN WHAT’S YOUR CONNECTION lose some. contrasted with the old house, WITH MaggiePRIMROSE Smith most active small business network, VENTURE, LUNA EVENTS. HILL? backdrop of crazy Enterprise Nation. We run over aand Alex Jennings I moved took to Primrose Hill in 2016 I have my own miniature sidebustling hustle, London hundred events a year as well as us on a crazy andjourney I just adore it. I probably live in which is called Lunacity.

Events.. It’s still fifteen years. place Not in the village, but offering practical online support,spanning and the smallest evolving, but I see it as a one-stop shop film care attract I adore meeting dynamic start-uponly did this I don’t because the area is so for people to discover wellness, career praise, butand we vibrant. business owners from all walks ofunanimous life. welcoming and lifestyle events that can help them ablehave to had the longest, One thing that always strikes meare is lucky to Ibecan live their best life. revisit the hardest scenic crescent that they never have any regrets about day at work, but turning I love offline experiential events and on our wayaround to the after tube. the short walk up the leaving the traditional 9 to 5. They seeing groups of people getting together. I all appreciate the fact that whatever hill to see that stunning London ran my own Valentine’s party at St Mary’s happens, they are in charge of their skyline can instantly turn my frown church in Primrose Hill last February. The own destiny. into a big smile! I’m also extremely event raised money for a mental health While it’s undeniable that a lot of proud that our village doesn’t charity, and I’m keen to do another one From Paddington to Bridget Jones , our seems representthis a year in the local community. Watch graft is needed to make any business a Jones, look likevillage every other hightostreet: success, good support there, and whichit’s is clear it’s delightfully dotted with peculiarly Britishisvibe, that Hollywood has lovely picked upthis onspace and get involved! why so many people turn to Enterprise independent shops and cafes run I’m always on the look-out for likePrimrose Hill showcasing the best of Britain. Perhaps one day weminded can people, so please feel free to write Nation for daily support and a friendly by entrepreneurs; and I hope that truly claim to be the individuals.

Hollywood of Europe. community of like-minded never changes. to me at lorna@enterprisenation.com

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I thought I saw Ted Hughes the other day, brooding on a bench outside the library.

Perhaps it was just a trick of the light, or too much sun or heat, but strolling the streets of Primrose Hill oft-times I think I see, Patients of Primrose Hill surgery in Primrose Hill Road were shocked to half hidden in a doorway, in a café, see an auction sign above the door to or in the dark shade of a tree, Weaving the strands of family history, the reception at the end of January. with the wider experience of Canada’s the spirit of a long-dead resident.

The family who owned the premises First Nation Cree people, Melody Do others see them too, on their way to the shops, sold to The Hacking Trust, with or sauntering across the park to the zoo? Thompson spoke at Primrose Hill the assurance that they specialised Community Centre in January. Melody, As the swings creak and squeak in letting to doctors and vets. No in the children’s playground, Sylvia Plath who took part in a Canadian Truth sooner had the contract been signed, and Reconciliation process with the sitting beside the sandpit, pen in hand? but before completion, they were aim of healing the wounds of a policy Artist William Roberts painting outside Lemonia, marketing the building to the highest which Cree children from Roger Fenton snapping local celebs for the Ham andseparated High bidder. At the time of going to their families and culture, talked about a far cry from the Crimean War. press we do not know who the next And isn’t that Laurence Olivier declaiming: the impact across several generations purchaser is. of her family. She is actively involved ‘To be or not to be’, while striding The Primrose Hill Patient in efforts to bring this history to to his drama school nearby?

Participation Group organised greater prominence.

Do I see history prof AJP Taylor a meeting at the library on 30 reading behind that shimmering wet window?Open House regularly stages events January, and over 40 people at the Community Centre. There is And the fellow with the Father Christmas beard attended. Dr Abanti Paul, the activity (film, talk or performance) is surely Friedrich Engels, opening his front an door only partner at the moment as Dr followed by tea, cake and chat. Events to welcome his old comrade Karl Marx.

Jane Lim has recently retired, told See What’s On (p16) for details.

While across the road, not going gentle intoare thefree.

Queens, the meeting that NHS England Tracey Mitchell the diminutive figure of Dylan Thomas and the Camden Commissioning over from Delancey Street to talk poetry with Yeats.

Group were being supportive, and a If the dead remain with us, live alongside us, statement was read out reassuring www.soundcloud.com/susan-greenhill-poetry what better place to be – for all eternity ‒ than Primrose Hill. patients that continuity of care was expected.

Welcome to Studio Acca at 148 Gloucester The Patient Participation Group is Avenue. working to list 99 Regents Park Road They are a Japanese hair salon with Found: a silver as an ‘Asset of Community Value’ with professional experience from both Japan and ear-ring (see photo).

Camden Council. Email London, allowing them to create a style best Also a tasselled primrosehillppg@gmail .com to be suited to their client’s lifestyle. They only use necklace and a beaded added to the mailing list. Fuller notes products which are gentle to the hair and scalp, bracelet. of the meeting are on the surgery and colour treatments contain minimum Contact ammonia to give the maximum results. Drop editor@onthehill.info website: www.primrosehillsurgery. co.uk/ppg.aspx by and create a ‘new you’ with them. for details.

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Primrose Hill has seen its fair share of movie crews, careering around with their trailers and props. Although they can cause traffic jams, for all thedigital strife,start-up it is fun to try and poke your head through the crowd to Local see if there are anySavic famous entrepreneur Petar talksactors in the neighbourhood. It’s great to some the start-ups and that the of place we choose to live is also the place where so many of small businesses running from the world’s film-makers choose to set their stories. Some of these Primrose Hill.

This month he crews have gone on to create… well, not always masterpieces, but meets Lorna Bladen. definitely some fun films. Here are just a few of the best.

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He warned that Brexit would make it impossible to fix the Sir Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, urged funding crisis in the NHS as the economy would continue to leak opponents of Brexit to fight to reverse a decision that he said of millions of pounds. he would do so much hard to the country’s young people.

This was the latest sell-out event organised by Open In a rousing speech delivered to a packed hall at Fleet odd,will isn’t In 1946 the term, ‘bomb sheets corrugated iron against the Britain Hampstead.

They beit? holding a free, open meeting Primary Sir Nick called MPs of all parties to of hold the We livedSchool, at 154 Regent’s Park Road, site’ was at in Fleet common parlance. ceiling and propped up with atthe 7pmroof on Thursday 8 February Primary SchoolNow, to government to My account for its failure on the promises Primrose Hill. grandfather had a to deliver seventy years later, you hardly hear it. steelspending posts. There a panel low down formulate the next steps in our campaign to highlight made during the referendum campaign on washelp shop in the terrace that led up to the for more TheBrexit bombwill sites were the equivalent in one wall which came and impact that theaway, negative have on local people’s the host new was trade deals. “Democracy without hill.NHS The and fronta of theofshop boarded of and today’s adventure behind it was an emergency shaftjob that wellbeing, prospects health services.playgrounds, Phil Thornton all accountability not democracy, ” he said. up with roughissawn boards salvaged provided courtesy of Herman Göring. took you up to the street via a manhole. from bomb-damaged houses, and if you The boys who lived closest to the sites Frankly, I am often amazed at what was were not careful you could get splinters claimed them for their own. You sort accomplished in such a by short period from them. A small bomb had exploded meeting was convened Central and of had to have their permission to of ourin history, were short of on the kerb outside the shop and Cecil, whichwhen they we then officially play on them. Camps were established both men residents and materials. blown out the fronts of both our shop informed aboutGrandpa the staffdid on them and many happy hours not reckon much to the shelter. He said and the hardware shop next door. The dismissals.

Director of Services, spent in Letter play. Health were that if a Atkinson, bomb hit the house would owner had evidently come downstairs Yvonne could giveitno clear Editor thesafety toand unheard of then! fall downtoonto manhole so that you and looked at his shop in chaos. There answers any the of the questions posed The biggest site, reputed to have wouldn’t be able outstaff anyway. were tin-tacks in the broken jar of to her, except to to sayget that had been blown up by a parachute mine, On interviewed the night thefor bomb fell, Grandpa pickles, soapflakes the putty Road and the been their own jobs, The Oldfield Estateinon Fitzroy Dear Editor, was between King Henry’s Road and was because down at the Chalk Farm Underground pails, and and kettles full of by mothballs. but specifications of the is owned managed Central I As an octogenarian, Oppidans Road. A hugewho, area during was my station there.had Mynot mother remember feeling aTrust, bit aggrieved that job hadsheltering changed they been and Cecil Housing a sheltered devastated.

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I’m running the London marathon (ARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHH) this year and I’m hoping to get a few quid in donations. It’s for Cancer Research UK (I actually work there).

So Running isn’t really my thing and before this I hadn’t run for a long time.

I did a 10k in 2011 and then stopped running. I’m not sure why I haven’t used that to learn that maybe I don’t like running much, but sometimes your brain forgets, doesn’t it? Perhaps that’s why some people drink on a hangover day. I have worked at Cancer Research UK for a long time – about eight years now (I’m like the Ken Barlow of Cancer Research UK) and I’ve seen some amazing do some There was a youngpeople lad in my class amazing things I thought at Princess Roadthere.

Primary School it (now was aboutHill time I did some real the proper Primrose School) who had same fundraising to help raise money birthday as me.

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He was injured whilst playing with a phosphorus bomb that he and two friends had found. The other two lads were killed. Mum always said never to pick up anything we found on Primrose Hill, but of course we did.

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jolly up to Mt Kilimanjaro are they?! A marathon seemed like just the thing.

No one can deny the seeming horror of running for five hours, can they?

It’s just not natural.

When I got the place I felt a bit sick and wondered if I could backtrack.

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NEW THIS MARCH SATURDAY 3 MARCH By popular request ‘Have Your Magic Healing’ of Primrose Hill presents another workshop to destress, and rebalance.

PART 1 – ‘CHAKRADANCE’ As recommended by Deepak Chopra A guided therapeutic dance practice with visualisations, and beautiful music. A dynamic moving meditation.

PART 2 – SOUND HEALING Discover the healing powers of sound.

Enjoy a blissful healing gong bath, with drumming, channelled voice, and tuning forks to honour and empower you.

Author talk James MacManus, managing director of the Times Literary Supplement, Supplement, on his sixth novel, Ike and Kay, Kay, about the infamous romance between Eisenhower and an ambulance driver in the Blitz. PHCL. 7pm. £2 at the door.

SATURDAY 17 MARCH PHCA annual jumble sale Quality clothes, bric-a-brac, books, toys and games, accessories and refreshments. PHCC. 11am–1.30pm. £1 entry.

Contact Nicole for full details: Haveyourmagic@gmail.com www.haveyourmagic.com

Open House Quilts: From Utility to Art. A slide talk featuring antique and contemporary quilt artists, by Linda Seward. PHCC. 2pm. Free.

SUNDAY 4 MARCH Youth Ceilidh A fun, friendly social event for 12–19 year olds, with energetic live music from top bands. CSH. 6pm.

TUESDAY 6 MARCH Film Show at the Library Touch of Evil (1958/1998), the restored version of the pulp-town classic, directed by Orson Welles, introduction by Walter Murch. PHCL. 7pm. £8, includes a glass of wine, in cash, in advance at PHCL or on the door.

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WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH Open House Regent’s Canal Walk. Meet 2pm by The Engineer, NW1 8JD, for a canalside walk.

Author talk Katie Ruth Davies talks about her latest YA book set in Georgia. PHCL. 7–8pm. Suggested donation £2.

TUESDAY 13 MARCH Exhibition opening of the Golden Thread Project With performances from the Arcadia 78RPM DJ Orchestra, King Toad (Peter Lloyd), Jonny Hannah, and Sharp’s Folk Club. CSH. 6.30pm.

WEDNESDAY 14 MARCH Open House The Silk Route. Illustrated talk by Graham Francis on his travels. PHCC. 2pm. Free.

Evening Open House Planning and the Built Environment. PHCC. 7.15pm. Free.

THURSDAY 15 MARCH Community Contact Session An opportunity for individuals to speak to police officers, receive crime prevention advice, report crime or be signposted to services provided by other partner agencies. PHCC. 2–4pm. Free.

TUESDAY 10 APRIL Film Show at the Library High Hopes (1988), Slice-of-life comedy about changing London, directed by Mike Leigh, PHCL. 7.15pm. £8, includes a glass of wine, in cash, in advance at PHCL or on the door.

FRIDAY 18 MAY Top of the Hill Quiz Plan ahead for the 15th consecutive Top of the Hill Quiz evening, with a mixture of taxing questions and silly ones. Recruit a table of up to 8 neighbours, or just come yourself and join in with a team. PHCC. £10 per person (includes a glass of wine). Book your team in early on 0207 586 8327.

FOR KIDS Ready Steady Go ABC classes Fun and educative groups for toddlers and babies aged 6–18 months with their parents and carers.

PHCC. 9.30–11am. £120 per term (pro-rated when joining), trial classes available. Contact 020 7586 5862 to register or for more information Rhyme Time Library Rhyme Time for under 5s. PHCL. 10.30–11.15am. Suggested donation £2. Contact 020 7419 6599

Keep Fit for over 60s PHCC. 3–4pm. Free. Contact 0207 586 8327

SATURDAY Jinglee Jam Music Jingl Music Music classes with a jazz flavour. Babies of 3 months to walking at 10.10am; walking to 5 years at 11.10am.

11.10am. Contact Emily Dankworth Dankworth 07905 979 024, www.jinglejamkids.co.uk www.jinglejamkids.co.uk SUNDAY Drama, dance and singing classes A unique mix of drama, dance and singing to bring out every every child’s true potential. potential. Ages 4–7. PHCC. PHCC. 10–11.30am and 11.30am–1pm. Try a free class. class.

Contact 020 020 7255 7255 9120, 9120, enqui enquiries@per ries@perform.org.uk, form.org.uk, www.perform.org.uk www.p erform.org.uk

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First Fi rst Clas Classs Learning English and Maths tuition. PHCL. 3.30–6.30pm.

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Pitta Patta Funky dance classes. Ages 4–16. PHCC. 4–7.15pm.

Contact Juliet 07971 916 174, Juliet Juli et@pittapattadance.co.uk @pittapattadance.co.uk,, www.pittapattadance.co.uk

TUESDAY 27 MARCH A Celebration of Carpenter Folk Online 40,000 Miles in Quest of Tradition. Performances by the Cecil Sharp House Choir, the Mearns Singers, London Youth Folk Ensemble with members of New Camden Jazz Ensemble and more. CSH. 7pm.

WEDNESDAY 28 MARCH Open House Maudie.. Film drama based on the life of Canadian Maudie folk artist Maud Lewis. PHCC. 2pm. Free.

TUESDAY ESOL Cla Class ss Learn English English at the Library. PHCL. PHCL. 12noon–1.30pm.

Free. Contact jojarrold@gma jojarrold@gmail.com il.com

Circus Glory Trapeze for for ages 3–12. All levels welcome. PHCC. 2.30–6.30pm. Contact Genevieve Genevieve 07973 451 451 603, 603, gmonastesse@go gmonas tesse@googlem oglemail.com ail.com

TUESDAY 20 MARCH Open Mic PHCL. 7–9pm. Suggested donation £3. Contact events@phcl.org

Highgate Library, Civic & Cultural Centre, NW5 1HB.

Mini Mozart Musical story time. PHCL. PHCL. 9.30am for young children; 10.15am for babies.

Contact hello hello@minimozart.com @minimozart.com

FRIDAY Mothers’ Mother s’ Mornings Meet other mother motherss while your children pl play. ay. PHCL. PHCL. 10.30–11.30am. Free. Contact 020 7419 6599

SUNDAY 18 MARCH Family Barn Dance Bring the entire family and take part in lively dances from the British Isles in a supportive and fun environment. CSH. 3pm.

WEDNESDAY 21 MARCH The Ghostly Crew A fascinating exploration of ghost lore in folksongs

by Paul Cowdell. CSH. 7.30pm.

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Circus Glory Trapeze for ages 3–12. All levels welcome. PHCC. 3–6.30pm. Contact Genevieve 07973 451 603, gmonastesse@googlemail.com Homework Club Do your homework in the Library with a qualified teacher. PHCL. 4–6pm. Free.

Contact 020 7419 6599 TUESDAY Hartbeeps Baby Sensory Multi-sensory class of mini music productions for the very young. PHCC. 1.30–5.15pm. Classes £8.

Contact Clare 07528 688 734 Monkey Music Award-winning music classes for babies and toddlers: music, movement, percussion, bubbles and fun. Contact 020 8438 0189 for a free trial class Music and Rhyme for under 4s Drop-in sessions. PHCC. 4.30–5pm. £1. Contact 0207 586 8327 WEDNESDAY Ready Steady Go Yoga Baby and Me, age 6 weeks–9 months, with Lily.

PHCC. 9–10am. £60 for 5 weeks (first class free).

Contact yoga@readysteadygo.org to register or for more information

Circus Glory Trapeze for ages 3–12. All levels welcome. PHCC. 2.30–6.30pm. Contact Genevieve 07973 451 603, gmonastesse@googlemail.com

Primrose Hill Children’s Choir Learn to sing, enjoy fun songs and games. Ages 4–11. St Mary’s Church, NW3 3DJ. 4–5pm. First time free, then £8 per week. Contact Matthew 07817 234 925, www.primrosehillchoirs.com

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Homework Club Do your homework in the Library with a qualified teacher. PHCL. 4–6pm. Free.

Contact 020 7419 6599 All-ages Chess Club Join us for a game of chess. PHCL. 6.30pm. Free.

Contact 020 7419 6599, events@phcl.org THURSDAY Mothers and Babies Pilates Want to tone your limbs, flatten your tummy and strengthen your pelvic floor? PHCL. 10am and 11am.

Contact pilateswithpaulette@gmail.com, facebook.com/pilateswithpaulette Drop-in for under 4s Drop in and take part in a variety of activities.

PHCC. 11.15am–1pm. £2.50 to include snack, tea and coffee for mums. Contact 020 7586 8327 Music and Rhyme Time for under 4s Drop-in at PHCC. 4.30–5pm. £1.

Contact 0207 586 8327 Catherine’s Ballet, Chalk Farm School of Dance for under 5s Ballet classes at PHCC. 4–5pm. Contact info@ chalkfarmschoolofdance.co.uk, www.chalkfarmschoolofdance.co.uk

FOR ADULTS MONDAY ACOL Bridge Bridge Club PHCC. 1.45–3.45pm. £3. Contact Maureen Betts 07919 444 187 Bridge Br idge Cla Class ss Beginners/intermediate.

Beginners/inter mediate. Join Join us in the Library for a game of bridge. bridge. PHCL. PHCL. 6.30pm. Contact Contact jojarrold@gmail jojar rold@gmail.com .com Chilled Strin Strings gs Small amateur string chamber chamber orchestra, guided by professional tutor Kwesi Edman. PHCC. 6.30–8.45pm.

6.30–8.45 pm. £10 for each evening evening.. Contact sueandhercello@gmail.com sueandhercello@gmail .com Primrose Primr ose Hill Communit Communityy Choir Love to sing? Try us out! All welcome. PHCC. 7.30–9.30pm. £6. Contact Contact Matthew 0781 723 4925, www.primroseh www.primros ehillchoi illchoirs. rs.com com Circus Glory Trapeze for for adults. All levels welcome. PHCC. 1.30–2.45pm.

1.30–2.45 pm. Contact Genevieve Genevieve 07973 451 451 603, 603, gmonastesse@go gmonas tesse@googlem oglemail.com ail.com Neighbour Neighb ourhoo hoodd Information Information Centre Drop-in advice Drop-in advice centre. centre. PHCL. PHCL. 2–4pm. Free. Contact 020 7419 6599 Trauma Release Exercises (TRE) Trauma New drop-in class class to releas releasee chronic tension tension patterns and return the nervous system to balance.

PHCC. PHC C. 4–6pm. £15 per clas class, s, or 5 for £50. Contact Tim Kirkpatrick, www.back2base.co.uk www.back2base.co.uk

Laban Movement Movement Workshop To practise and explore Rudolf Laban’s Scales and Efforts. PHCC. 12–1pm. £10. Contact 07970 536 643, jennyfrank jennyfrankel.laban@gmail el.laban@gmail.com .com Morris Danci Dancing ng Learn lively Cotswold Morris dancing with handkerchiefs and sticks, led by tutor Andy Richards. No exper experience ience necessary. CSH. CSH. 6.30–9pm.

Pilatess Pilate PHCL. Dynamic sessions, 9am and 10.15am; gentler PHCL. gentler session 11.30am–12.30pm. £12 per clas class, s, £100 for 10 classes. classes. Contact lizacawthorn@gmail.com General Yoga General PHCC. PHC C. 6.30–8pm. Contact Catriona 020 7267 5675, cat.b1@bl cat.b1@ blueyonder ueyonder.co.uk .co.uk Hatha Yoga An open-level class combining mindful flow with alignment-bas alignment -based ed instructions and breathing techniques. PHC PHCC. C. 1.30–2.30pm. Contact Emma 0780 855 3599, emma.lecoeur@ emma.lecoeur@gmail gmail.com .com WEDNESDAY Pilatess Pilate With Pelin Pelin Adlan. PHCL. PHCL. 10–11am. For prices contact happilates111@gmail contact happila tes111@gmail.com .com

Narcotics Na rcotics Anonymous Anonymous PHCC. 1.30–3.45pm.

PHCC. 1.30–3.45pm. Free.

Mother and Baby Postnatal Postnatal Pilates Pilates Activate your pelvic floor, tone your tummy, strengthen your back and and improve your posture. posture.

PHCL. 11am. Book your place on the next course at pilateswithpaulette@gmail pila teswithpaulette@gmail.com, .com, Facebook.com/pilateswithpaulette/reviews Facebook.com/pila teswithpaulette/reviews

Pregnancyy Yoga Pregnanc An open level class helping mums-to-be to stay healthy in mind mind and body during pregnancy. pregnancy. PHCC. PHCC. 5.15–6.15pm. Contact 07808 553 599, emma.lecoeur@ emma .lecoeur@gmail gmail.com .com Primrose Primr ose Hill Yoga Strengthen,, stretch, relax Strengthen relax and re-ener re-energis gise. e. PHCC. PHCC. 5.30–6.30pm. £11 drop-in, £50 for series of 5, student and and unemployed discount available. available.

Contact carolineshawyoga@gmail carolineshawyoga@gmail.com .com Yoga for seniors seniors PHCC. 7–8pm. Free. Contact 020 7586 8327 FRIDAY Circus Glory Trapeze for for adults. All levels welcome. PHCC. 1.30–2.45pm.

1.30–2.45 pm. Contact Genevieve Genevieve 0797 345 1603 1603,, gmonastesse@go gmonas tesse@googlem oglemail.com ail.com Mothers’ Mother s’ Mornings Meet other mother motherss while your children pl play. ay. PHCL. PHCL. 10.30–11.30am. Free. Contact 020 7419 6599 Aerial Pilates PHCC. PHC C. 9.45–11.15am.

9.45–11.15am. Contact circusbodies@gmail cir cusbodies@gmail.com .com

All-ages Chess Club All-ages Join us for a game of chess. PHCL. 6.30pm. Free.

Contact 0783 010 7477, a.bruce@pardesgrammar.co.uk a.bruce@pardesgrammar .co.uk

Dynamic Pilates Strengthen core, prevent back pain and improve Strengthen posture. All levels and abilities welcome. Own mat needed. PHCC. PHCC. 8–9am. Contact Natalie 0770 95 9544 3581, natalienicollfitness@gmail natalienicollfitness@gmail.com .com

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English Folk Dance Club Camden Great fun for dancers of all abilities or none. No partner needed. PHCC. PHCC. 7.30–10pm. Drop-in Drop-in charge £6. Contact camdenfolkdance@yahoo.com Contact camdenfolkdance@yahoo.com

SUNDAY Hopkinson Hopkin son’s ’s Bar Meet for a drink with your neighbours. neighbours. All wel welcome. come.

PHCC. 12 noon–2pm. Contact 020 7586 8327

Gentle Pila Pilates tes Gentle Gent le but effective effective clas class. s. PHC PHCL. L. 12.30–1.30pm. £10 per session. Contact annie@mactherapy annie@mactherapy.org .org

Feldenkrais Feldenk rais PHCL. 10.30–11.30. For prices contact PHCL. info@somaticcircles.com info@somaticcircles. com

Circus Glory Trapeze for for adults. All levels welcome. PHCC. 1.15–2.15pm. Contact Genevieve 07973 451 603, gmonastesse@go gmonas tesse@googlem oglemail.com ail.com

SATURDAY Primrose Primr ose Hill Mar Market ket St Paul’s School playground, Elsworthy Road, NW3.

10am–3pm.. Contact www.primroseh 10am–3pm www.primrosehillmarket.com illmarket.com

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Open House A regular regular activity (film, talk, performance) followed followed by tea, cake and chat. PHCC. 2pm. Free. Contact 020 7586 8327 THURSDAY Pilatess Pilate All abilities welcome. PHCC. 8–9am. £12 drop in or £60 for 6. Contact Sue Johnson, 0781 513 0883, suejohnson22@hotmail.com suejohnson22@hotmail .com Englishh Country Englis Country Dancin Dancingg Learn English country country and ceilidh ceilidh dancing with tutor Mike Ruff. Musicians welcome to join the band led by Ian Cutts. No need to bring a partner, no experienc experiencee necessary. CSH. CSH. 7.30–10pm.

Life-drawing Li fe-drawing Beginners to professionals, just drop in! PHCC. Beginners PHCC. 7–9.20pm. £8 or £6 concession. Contact 020 7586 8327, phlifedrawing@gmail.com, www.meetup www.meet up.com/Primro .com/Primrose-Hill se-Hill-Life-Drawing-Life-DrawingLondon, Instagram: London, In stagram: @lifedrawingph

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sheets of corrugated iron against the ceiling and propped up the roof with steel posts. There was a panel low down in one wall which came away, and behind it was an emergency shaft that took you up to the street via a manhole.

Frankly, I am often amazed at what was accomplished in such a short period of our history, when we were short of both men and materials. Grandpa did not reckon much to the shelter. He said that if a bomb hit the house it would fall down onto the manhole so that you wouldn’t be able to get out anyway.

On the night the bomb fell, Grandpa was down at Chalk Farm Underground station sheltering there. My mother and I were asleep in one of the upstairs rooms. When the bomb hit, my mother told me she’d lain across my cot to shield me from the blast. Amongst the other damage from the bomb was that it broke the lid of a cut-glass decanter that had been a wedding present to my mum and dad. In spite of everything else that upset my mum, I don’t think she ever forgave the Germans for that!

The bomb chipped great lumps of granite from the kerb and from the base of the iron lamp post. The kerb stones have been replaced, but you can still see the scars on the lamp post. All around the area there were bomb sites. It is

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We lived at 154 Regent’s Park Road, Primrose Hill. My grandfather had a shop in the terrace that led up to the hill. The front of the shop was boarded up with rough sawn boards salvaged from bomb-damaged houses, and if you were not careful you could get splinters from them. A small bomb had exploded on the kerb outside the shop and blown out the fronts of both our shop and the hardware shop next door. The owner had evidently come downstairs and looked at his shop in chaos. There were tin-tacks in the broken jar of pickles, soapflakes in the putty and the pails, and kettles full of mothballs. I remember feeling a bit aggrieved that our shop had only a pane of high-level glass, whereas the ironmonger had found quite a big bit of glass to repair his shop window, which allowed him to put up a small window display.

Up and down the main line from Euston, either side of the tracks were bomb sites. Our house was about 300 yards from the railway, and my dad said that the Germans must have been pretty accurate in their bombing to be able to fly so high over their target. Our basement was just one room, made over

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odd, isn’t it? In 1946 the term, ‘bomb site’ was in common parlance. Now, seventy years later, you hardly hear it.

The bomb sites were the equivalent of today’s adventure playgrounds, all provided courtesy of Herman Göring.

The boys who lived closest to the sites claimed them for their own. You sort of had to have their permission to play on them. Camps were established on them and many happy hours spent in play. Health and safety were unheard of then!

The biggest site, reputed to have been blown up by a parachute mine, was between King Henry’s Road and Oppidans Road. A huge area was devastated. We played in the ruins of rubbish-strewn stairs and musty cellars, and chucked bricks into the remains of ornamental ponds that had once been features of cultivated gardens.

Here and there some sites were cleared and cellars turned into emergency water supplies. The walls were coated in thick bitumen and low walls built around the outside from salvaged bricks. A wooden door was set in the wall and the initials ‘EWS’, standing for ‘Emergency Water Supply’, were painted on the door. This gave the fire brigade water when the mains were fractured.

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removed and squatters had moved into the old army huts. Grandpa was a bit wary of squatters, thinking they might pinch things when in his shop, which was typical of the attitude that abounded in those days. Anybody you were not sure about was a dodgy type.

But as far as I can recall, most were ordinary folk who had been bombed out of their homes and were victims of the war.

The shelters and ammunition stores around the gun emplacements were a super playground, although you had to be wary of all the barbed wire that was strewn about. Like the bomb sites, they smelt a bit. There was an enormous concrete well in the centre of the site which we always said was the base of a big gun. But in reality I suspect it was for a rangefinder or something like

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that. Around this centre pit were the remains of the bases for other guns.

There may have been four or more. All that remained were the cut-off bolts that had held them in place.

To us kids the pit seemed very deep, but it was probably only about five feet deep. It was accessed via a trapdoor and a ladder, and the game was to send someone down into the pit and not let him back up the ladder.

Places on Primrose Hill had been turned into allotments (Dig for Victory) and we had one. We knew people who worked at nearby London Zoo and Grandpa could get dung from there for the allotment. Rumour had it that he had elephant dung for his marrows and giraffe dung for his runner beans. The allotments remained there for several years after the war.

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There was a young lad in my class at Princess Road Primary School (now Primrose Hill School) who had the same birthday as me. He was the son of the BBC music conductor Eric Robinson and was called Drury. One day on the way home from school he stopped to play on a bomb site and was killed by some falling masonry.

There were other dangers. A boy, older than me, called Peter Brown, used to walk around for as long as I can remember with his ears bandaged.

He was injured whilst playing with a phosphorus bomb that he and two friends had found. The other two lads were killed. Mum always said never to pick up anything we found on Primrose Hill, but of course we did.

There had been a gun battery on Primrose Hill. The guns had been

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I thought I saw Ted Hughes the other day, brooding on a bench outside the library.

Perhaps it was just a trick of the light, or too much sun or heat, but strolling the streets of Primrose Hill oft-times I think I see, half hidden in a doorway, in a café, or in the dark shade of a tree, the spirit of a long-dead resident.

Do others see them too, on their way to the shops, or sauntering across the park to the zoo?

As the swings creak and squeak in the children’s playground, Sylvia Plath sitting beside the sandpit, pen in hand?

Artist William Roberts painting outside Lemonia, Roger Fenton snapping local celebs for the Ham and High a far cry from the Crimean War. And isn’t that Laurence Olivier declaiming: ‘To be or not to be’, while striding to his drama school nearby?

Do I see history prof AJP Taylor reading behind that shimmering wet window?

And the fellow with the Father Christmas beard is surely Friedrich Engels, opening his front door to welcome his old comrade Karl Marx.

While across the road, not going gentle into the Queens, the diminutive figure of Dylan Thomas over from Delancey Street to talk poetry with Yeats.

If the dead remain with us, live alongside us, what better place to be – for all eternity ‒ than Primrose Hill.

Local digital start-up entrepreneur Petar Savic talks to some of the start-ups and small businesses running from Primrose Hill. This month he meets Lorna Bladen.

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I was simply never interested in working for a big corporate machine, perhaps because my family always ran their own small businesses. I landed a fast-paced job when I first moved to London, working on a national enterprise campaign called StartUp Britain, an initiative to increase the levels of start-up activity in the UK. At the time of launch in 2011, becoming your own boss was seen as pretty risky, but steadily over the years the entrepreneurial appetite in Britain has exploded. In 2017, over 600,000 people became their own boss – how great is that?

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Absolutely, and there’s so much support to access! Profit is the lifeblood of any business, but we are seeing more people becoming self-employed or starting a new enterprise not just because of the uncapped earning potential, but often because they can craft a career that is more creative, satisfying and aligned with their individual values.

I’m now working at the UK’s most active small business network, Enterprise Nation. We run over a hundred events a year as well as offering practical online support, and I adore meeting dynamic start-up business owners from all walks of life.

One thing that always strikes me is that they never have any regrets about leaving the traditional 9 to 5. They all appreciate the fact that whatever happens, they are in charge of their own destiny.

While it’s undeniable that a lot of graft is needed to make any business a success, good support is there, which is why so many people turn to Enterprise Nation for daily support and a friendly community of like-minded individuals.

WHAT’S YOUR CONNECTION WITH PRIMROSE HILL?

I moved to Primrose Hill in 2016 and I just adore it. I probably live in the smallest place in the village, but I don’t care because the area is so welcoming and vibrant.

I can have had the longest, hardest day at work, but turning around after the short walk up the hill to see that stunning London skyline can instantly turn my frown into a big smile! I’m also extremely proud that our village doesn’t look like every other high street: it’s delightfully dotted with lovely independent shops and cafes run by entrepreneurs; and I hope that never changes.

TELL US ABOUT YOUR OWN VENTURE, LUNA EVENTS.

I have my own miniature side hustle, which is called Luna Events.. It’s still evolving, but I see it as a one-stop shop for people to discover wellness, career and lifestyle events that can help them live their best life.

I love offline experiential events and seeing groups of people getting together. I ran my own Valentine’s party at St Mary’s church in Primrose Hill last February. The event raised money for a mental health charity, and I’m keen to do another one this year in the local community. Watch this space and get involved!

I’m always on the look-out for likeminded people, so please feel free to write to me at lorna@enterprisenation.com

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Us moles have a good relationship with the folk singers you get down at Cecil Sharp House. You hear them up here. ‘I wish I was a mole, I’d tear that mountain down.’ And even when they’re on about mole-catchers they come out on our side. You know the story.

The mole-catcher catches the farmer up to his frolicks with his wife. ‘I’ll make you pay dearly,’ says the mole-catcher, ‘for tilling my ground and the money it’ll cop you no less than ten pound.’ ‘Ten-pound,’ says the young fellow, ‘That I don’t mind. It only works out about tuppence a grind.’

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Rachel Elliott, now Education Director at the English Folk Dance and Song Society, is aptly named: just like Billy Elliott, she left Gateshead in north-east England when she was thirteen.

“I went to study at a residential ballet school fully funded by the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough council, probably the last one to benefit before the Thatcher cuts put paid to all that. I went on to study for three years at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, and I worked in dance until I got the job at the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) in 2008.”

Her very first job was with Focus On Dance in the 1980s, which brought her to Cecil Sharp House for rehearsals.

Since then she has lived in Camden and done much of her work here. For sixteen years she taught dance in Great Ormond Street Hospital, worked for London Contemporary Dance Trust at The Place

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“Music and the arts in general are being squeezed out of the curriculum”

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A depressing story, but Cecil Sharp House is thriving. If you want to revisit the 1960s, drop in to Sharp’s Folk Club on any Tuesday. There is no cloud of cigarette smoke, but apart from that it is nostalgia all over again. The beautiful perma-garden is looked after by a team of Camden volunteers; the whole building has been refurbished, and

with a lift now installed it is wheelchair accessible, and the welcoming café is open to everybody. Kennedy Hall has been done up and has a new dance floor and curtains; and the Ivon Hitchens mural has been cleaned and restored.

And don’t forget that this is where EFDSS has hosted, without a hiring fee, many of the Primrose Hill Community Association and the library’s celebrated fund-raising events.

Us moles’d love to see some Morris dancers and folk singers up on the Hill. As long as they don’t sing about mole-catchers.

To view Cecil Sharp House’s programme of events go to: www.cecilsharphouse.org

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Of her many achievements while at Cecil Sharp House, Rachel is most pleased about setting up the National Youth Folk Ensemble. Arts Council England funds, among other national youth music and dance organisations, the National Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Choir, the National Youth Jazz Collective, the South Asian Youth Music Organisation and now the National Youth Folk Ensemble, which is led by its inaugural artistic director, the inspirational fiddle player Sam Sweeney.

So everything is going with a swing at EFDSS, but there are still concerns about the arts in education. “It is very worrying. Music and the arts in general are being squeezed out of the curriculum because of the EBacc [English Baccalaureate]. Schools are trying to channel their pupils into the approved subjects, so many dance, music, drama and art teachers are the first to go when there are cuts. It degrades the status of these subjects.

This is crazy when you think how important our creative industries are to the economy. But we are fighting back, and as an organisation we have supported strong representations to the government. The only way you can ensure that all young people have access to the arts is if they have a strong presence as part of the curriculum in state schools. We work closely with Camden Music, and are lucky to have such a brilliant service in the borough, but they are constantly up against it. We’re also partners with Camden Dance Development Group, who still manage to have a schools dance festival every year at The Place; and as part of that, we currently have a morris dance project at St Paul’s School.

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in Bloomsbury and across the UK, and has taken contemporary dance to every special school in Camden.

“I worked with Green Candle Dance Company, directing a show for hospital wards. We had four dancers and a musician and the performance was sensitive to the confined space. Our aim was to bring colour, joy and relaxation to the children and involve them in some interaction. I studied British Sign Language and did a lot of work with deaf young people, including directing the Deaf Dance Summer School at Sadler’s Wells for nine years.”

For the past ten years Rachel has been Education Director at EFDSS. It was a new post that gave her responsibility for music education as well as dance education.

“My biggest challenge was the music side. I had always sung the traditional songs of the north-east. Just get me started and I’ll sing you ‘The Lampton Worm’ or ‘Cushie Butterfield’, but I had to get to grips with the way music is organised ‒ the music curriculum, the music education hubs in local authorities and national music organisations ‒ and I had to learn how to work with them.”

EFDSS owns the building on Regent’s Park Road, which houses its specialist Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML), and many activities take place there. They have adult, youth and family activities; numerous regular classes for accordion, banjo, guitar and other folk instruments, morris and English country dancing; there is the seventy-strong Cecil Sharp House Choir with a waiting list for new members; popular monthly family barn-dances, youth holiday courses and ceilidhs.

However, EFDSS is not just a jewel in Camden’s crown. It is the folk arts development organisation for England.

The stress is on English folk traditions, although there are many overlaps and interconnections with dance and song from Scotland, Ireland, North America and beyond.

“Of course we work with schools.

At the moment we have a big project with Essex Music Services, working in primary and secondary schools uncovering Essex folk songs. Our London Youth Folk Ensemble has a joint project with Camden Music’s New Camden Jazz Ensemble combining jazz and folk; and there will be two performances: one at LSO St Luke’s and one at Cecil Sharp House on 27 March to celebrate the collection of James Madison Carpenter joining our online digital archive. The free evening will also feature our choir, a choir from Scotland, songs and archive film.”

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It is not the accuracy of Jennifer Louise Martin’s portrait paintings that make them remarkable, but her ability to evoke the personality and the mood of her subjects. Recently discovered by the model and writer Laura Bailey on Instagram, Jennifer was commissioned to do a series of thirty paintings of famous people, including Sophia Loren, Britt Eckland, Claudia Schiffer and Erin O’Connor. In her eleven-year career as an exhibiting artist, Jennifer has only ever done two male portraits (Michael Caine and David Hockney), because she is mainly interested in the psychology of the female. In many of her paintings she uses images from fashion photography to provide herself with figures and faces that are then transformed by paint (acrylic or oil), fabric and whatever material is calling to be collaged.

Critics of her work readily point out how Jennifer is curious about the contrast between the beauty and perfection of photographed models and actors and the reality, beyond filters: that nobody is perfect, that it is OK to be flawed. One of the questions that her work provokes is about how much women need to change their natural look (whether with make-up or the extreme of plastic surgery) in order to feel good or be socially acceptable. Jennifer may express the conflict between nature and nurture with female figures that are faceless, or others that have disproportionate features. Titles of her paintings include ‘Beauty is an Affliction’ and ‘Through the Mist’. Her 2007 exhibition at the Milo Gallery in LA was aptly named ‘Perfect Illusion’ and her 2013 show at the Strand Gallery in London was called ‘(Re)Fashioning the Gaze’.

Despite her blessed life as an artist who has experienced international success, and despite her interest in fashion models and glossy magazines, Jennifer is a genuine and grounded person. “My work is about connecting with the viewer,” she explains, “I want to communicate. Through painting I have a voice, and I really believe that it is good for the soul.” She also describes painting as cathartic, and when in the past she suffered from anxiety, the canvas was her best friend with whom she could express her feelings, meditate and motivate herself. There is a whole range of emotions conveyed within her paintings. Though you may see sadness or dejectedness in a certain female subject, Jennifer’s choice of colours will make such a painting also feel dynamic. She believes that every colour has its own properties, and says that at present she is being drawn to pink,

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Mist. 275 x 180cm acrylic, spray paint and velvet on canvas (2017)

which she feels is a calming colour.

It is no surprise that with a degree in psychology and neuroscience from Leeds University, a Fine Art degree from Central St Martins, and being a qualified art teacher, she is now looking to train as an art therapist. “I feel like I express my interest in the subconscious mind by painting with a lot of layers. I also want my work to live in the now – like the way that I include paint drips.”

210.0 x 297.0mm “Through painting I have a voice, and I really believe that it is good for the soul.”

It was at the age of fifteen that Jennifer, with the encouragement of her art teacher, realised she had a talent and love for painting. As a young adult her parents urged her to get a ‘real’ job, but she went to America, took up residence in a dodgy part of downtown LA, and did her first eight big-sized portraits. To this day she remembers the advice of a friend who told her to go outside her comfort zone and be fearless. It was then in her first ever exhibition that she sold a painting for $2,000. The cold winter months working in her parents’ garage had paid off. These days Jennifer has a studio space in London Bridge, whilst living with her husband in Primrose Hill.

Energetic and creative as she is, Jennifer’s work continues to evolve.

Her latest interest is in knitting, and she has just started a free weekly group for aspiring knitters. “Knitting is fashionable now, and did you know that you can actually knit with your fingers?” She describes how the group meets in a local pub, and just last week an experienced knitter discovered them

and offered her help. Designing prints on knitted jumpers is one of Jennifer’s artistic ambitions, and she says that her dream project would be to create her own knitwear range, selling in Liberty.

Certainly the images and patterns in many of Jennifer’s paintings seem wearable. She has a masterful use of colour, and she captures the glamour of the fashion world without glossing or varnishing over reality. Two of her artistic influences are Peter Pilotto and Marlene Dumas.

When it comes to giving advice to people who would like to be artistic or to see the spiritual value of painting, Jennifer insists that it is important to listen to your instinct. “If your work doesn’t come from within or connect to yourself, it will feel meaningless.”

Just as she collects 1960s and 70s fabrics, patterns, wallpaper swatches and looks around vintage shops for inspiration, she says that the best way to get started on a canvas or piece of paper is to go to a shop and find one or two things that fill you with joy. It could be a florescent green chalk from an art store, or a second-hand picture frame that you want to decorate. Then it is all about enjoying the process of making and not judging the result. “Art is subjective,” declares Jennifer, “you have do it for yourself. And you can’t give up, even if you don’t like what you produce. I always prefer the work I haven’t created yet.”

As a qualified art teacher, Jennifer also runs Saturday and holiday art workshops for children. Do take a look at the children’s art in the Gallery at the site www.art-buddies.com and be prepared to be amazed. www.jenniferlouisemartin.com @jenniferlouisemartin @artbuddieslondon

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Now former sportswriter Ian Ridley has written The Outer Circle, Circle, set, as the name suggests, in Regent’s Park, with much of the action occurring in Primrose Hill. It’s a page-turning thriller which manages to reach beyond events and raise hard-hitting questions, both on a personal and political level.

Set in the days immediately after the London Olympics, when the city is basking in self-congratulatory glory, a terrorist attack occurs at the London Central Mosque in Regent’s Park. The following day, a reciprocal attack happens in the park itself. The events plunge London into chaos and uncertainty.

The Outer Circle is available now from Primrose Hill Books.

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For the diaphragm to be able to contract fully, you need to be in neutral alignment maintaining a good posture.

Let’s try it:

1. Sit on the edge of a dining chair, feet flat on the floor, knees hip-width apart, spine vertical, shoulders relaxed and head drawn back. You need to sit directly on your sit bones, so gently rock/tilt your pelvis forward and backward rolling over the bones (found under your bottom!). Your lower back will arch and then flatten. The point between these two ranges of movement should be your neutral pelvis and you will feel like you are perched ‘on’ your sit bones.

2. Take a long inhale though your nose, and feel where the air moves your body.

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ceiling and breathe. Now you might feel only movement in your upper chest.

6. Return to neutral posture and put a hand on each side at the bottom of your ribs. Take a few breaths ‘into your hands’ and feel how much movement there is laterally in your ribs.

7. Move your hands onto your tummy and take some more breaths. By touching these areas we give the brain a direction towards which to target muscle movement.

I hope you notice that by being in neutral alignment you can expand your ribs 360° without the restrictions brought by poor posture or holding the tummy in. Practise this each time you sit down, and especially if you are feeling anxious or stressed.

For further information, please check out facebook. facebook.com/ com/ pilateswithpaulette or email me at pilateswithpaulette@gmail.com to find out how I can improve your posture and breathing.

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When we breathe, we know we are alive.

You take about 1,000 breaths an hour, which equates to almost 8,760,000 a year.

Should you live to 100, that is almost 900 billion breaths! But are are they full, nourishing breaths, or shallow ones at the top of your chest!?

Breathing Br eathing better has a positive influence on numerous aspects of our lives. It can give us better digestion, improved circulation, stronger immune function, enhanced cardiovascular health, more energy and can calm our minds minds.. It’s an automatic process that we take for granted ... until perhaps we have a blocked nose. But did you realise that your posture will also impact on how you breathe?

Often people breathe in the upper chest, with the tummy and ribs not moving at all. To clarify, you do not breathe into your tummy. You breathe into your lungs, which are protected by your ribs at the top and sides, and encased by your diaphragm muscle at the bottom. As you inhale, this dome-shape muscle contracts and flattens, pushin pushing g the liver and other organs down into your abdomen; this is why the tummy swells.

The book highlights the cultural highs and lows of present-day Britain as it follows the story of five individuals caught up in the events in very different ways.

The Outer Circle is Ian Ridley’s first novel, but as a sportswriter he wrote the bestselling Addicted with the former Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award; and he’s also been a sportswriter for The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Observer and Mail on Sunday.

Sunday. In 2007 he was named Sports Journalist of the Year.

Television credits include the Sky One drama series Dream Team, Team, and he’s currently writing a film script on the world champion boxer Darren Barker, based on the biography on which he collaborated, A Dazzling Darkness.

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Melt the butter and golden syrup in a saucepan over a low heat, stirring constantly.

Add the Mars bar pieces and keep stirring until just melted. Remove from the heat and gently stir in the cornflakes until coated, taking care not to crush them.

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In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter, icing sugar, milk and vanilla extract until smooth; this can take a few minutes with an electric hand-mixer. Add the melted chocolate and beat again until thick and creamy.

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They are not really cupcakes, but are incredibly easy to make and look great with Easter decorations. It is surprisingly hard to resist eating more than one, but they can be stored in an airtight container for up to three days.

Ingredients (makes 10 regular or 30 mini cupcakes)

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