Out & About Magazine Chiswick, Isleworth and Brentford, December - January 2020 Edition

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Christmas EVENTS

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what’s on this winter

Planting of wildflowers • Exchange Theatre • Tucker Diaries • Fostering in Hounslow Networking with Hounslow Chamber • Sara Ward talks Christmas • Celebration Chocolate Cake • What’s on for Children this Christmas • Osterley House

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DECEMBER - JANUARY 2020

Contents INSIDE

Features

Regulars

Wildflowers 5

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Letter from the Editor

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Hen Corner Sara Ward talks Christmas

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To appear in parks and urban spaces

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Tucker Diaries ‘Life in a Pocket Diary’ exhibition

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GET IN TOUCH

Fostering in Hounslow Residents in Hounslow encouraged to think about fostering

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Networking With Hounslow Chamber

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Winter Events Christmas events for the whole family

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Christmas Services at your local Chiswick church

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Lightopia At Chiswick House and Gardens

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Osterley Head gardener’s notes

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Chiswick Playhouse Exciting winter plays

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EDITOR'S LETTER

Welcome Welcome to the Christmas edition of Out&About magazine. I am delighted to have taken over from Bridget, who has done an amazing job over a number of years creating and crafting interesting and very readable content for the magazine. I hope I can meet the high standard she has set, and all the team at FHW wish her the best for the future. To keep in touch with Bridget make sure you follow her Chiswick Calendar website.

This edition of Out&About focuses on Christmas.

Autumn is passing us by quickly, the clocks have gone back, fireworks have been launched and now Christmas is fast approaching. We have some great features in this edition about what is happening locally to get you in the festive spirit. Our regular Hen Corner page features a delicious recipe for a festive Chocolate Cake, and on page 12 there is a guide to where you can take the children.

We are already planning our features for next year; thank you to our readers who have sent in suggestions for people and places to feature in forthcoming editions. I am look forward to a lovely Christmas with friends and family. I wish you all the best for a lovely Christmas and New Year. I hope you enjoy this festive edition of our magazine, and please do support our advertisers, without whom the magazine would not be possible. See you again in 2020.

Best wishes,

Amanda

Editor: Amanda Rowley

COVER IMAGE Chiswick House & Gardens

Ionic Temple, Chiswick House & Gardens, photo by Richard Bryant.

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WILDFLOWERS

Wildflowers

TO APPEAR IN PARKS AND URBAN SPACES Hounslow Council have announced the planting of wildflowers throughout the borough.

approximately 1500 square metres of wildflowers arriving in spring 2020.

The project forms part of the Cleaner Greener Hounslow strategy that launched earlier this year and has involved working closely with community members at sites that will form the wildflower pilot. For urban areas, Hounslow Highways prepared by weed spraying and rotavating ahead of seed planting which commenced from November.

The parks division of the Environmental Services Team have also identified areas that support wildflowers in locations such as Ludlow Open Space, wildflowers here will be visible around similar timescales.

A specially selected seed mix has been chosen to ensure a good mix of flowers and grasses resulting in

Wildflowers across the borough will help to create an eco-friendly area that will attract birds and pollinators (such as bees, butterflies and other insects) which improve the local environment.

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THE TUCKER DIARIES

Tucker DIARIES ‘Life in a Pocket Diary’ exhibition

Volunteer researchers have located a miniature 1917 pocket diary which describes the life of a mechanic working at Hounslow Aerodrome during World War I.

for his complicated lovelife. While working at Hounslow during 1917 he dated at least ten different girls and sometimes went out with two individuals on the same night!

The 1917 diary is one of four covering the period 1916-1919, each measuring just 3”x2”, which detail Gordon Tucker’s experience as an air mechanic and rigger during World War I at Beaulieu, Hounslow and Wye aerodromes, which are now on display at Hounslow Library, Hounslow House, 7 Bath Road, Hounslow TW3 3EB until 29 November.

Gordon’s elaborate lovelife was perhaps not that unusual at the time. More airmen were killed in training during World War I than in actual combat and this perhaps inspired a desire to live life to the full while they could.

While Gordon was a mechanic, he frequently flew with the trainee airmen and describes hair-raising incidents throughout the diary when he could easily have lost his life.

The diary was kept by Corporal Gordon Tucker and is notable not just for the descriptions of numerous crashes that he had to deal with on a daily basis, but also

In fact, he survived the war and took up a job at a coal distributing company. The diary, however, is full

of brief reference to those who were not so lucky. In one entry for 2 July, for example, he records: ‘Lovely day. Two Curtis smashes. In the evening go to the Alcazar to see the Battle of Arras. Not up to much.’

Extracts from the diaries have been compiled into a small exhibition along with Gordon Tucker’s VPK camera, personal photo albums, uniform and detailed handwritten rigging manuals.

Schools and local history groups can arrange visits to view the exhibition by emailing communications@hounslow.gov.uk.

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FOSTERING IN HOUNSLOW

Fostering

IN HOUNSLOW

Residents in Hounslow encouraged to think about fostering There are more than 320 babies, children and young people who are currently being looked after by Hounslow Council. The Council team work hard to help give these children the best possible start in life by placing them with loving carers who can give them the stability and security they so desperately need. However, there is always a need to recruit new people to become foster carers. Anyone can be a foster carer - you can be one too, so long as you are passionate about children and young people and are willing to open your home – and heart – to vulnerable children who have not had the best start in life. You do not need to have any formal qualifications to be a foster carer but you do need be passionate about making a real difference to a child’s life.

To be considered, you must be aged over 21 have a spare room, if fostering children aged over two live or work in the borough, or within reasonable distance of the borough of Hounslow are able to take children to and from school are able to take children to and from contact with their family take a child to health appointments be

there for a child whenever they need you – physically and emotionally.

You don’t have to have experience of looking after children to apply. Carers come from all walks of life – some work full or part time while others don’t work at all. You can be married, single, cohabiting or a same sex couple. We also welcome applications from disabled people You do not have to own your home to be a foster carer.

It takes just minutes to find out if you’d be a suitable foster carer. Our highly experienced and friendly fostering team provide support to carers throughout their placement – and beyond. As well as a generous allowance – up to £860 per fortnight - carers are offered specialist support and retention packages, regular specialist training, free fusion leisure and Merlin entertainment passes for the family. Hounslow foster carers also receive a refund for Council Tax paid while looking after a child in their care.

If fostering is something you would like to consider please call to find out more.

Call 020 8583 3426 for a friendly chat. If you know anyone who you think would make a great foster carer please forward this information to them.

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NETWORKING WITH HOUNSLOW CHAMBER

NetworkingWITH Join them for their networking events this winter Ealing Business Breakfast

Business Breakfast at the Bulldog

20 November 2019 18 December 2019

21 November 2019 19 December 2019

09:00 - 10:30

09:00 - 10:30

Royal Harvester, Boston Manor Road London W7 2AX (Large car park!)

556 London Road, Ashford, TW15 3AF

£9 for a full breakfast plus tea and coffee

£10 for full breakfast plus limitless tea and coffee.

Joint event with Branduin Business Support, Brentford Chamber of Commerce and Contactus Ealing

Joint event with Spelthorne Business Forum & Surrey Chambers.

Chiswick Park Business Breakfast 04 December 2019 08:30 - 10:00 Chiswick Park, Building 3, 566 Chiswick High Road London, W4 5YA £8 for networking, coffee and croissant Nicholas Woolf & Co solicitors is offering a complemintary legal clinic at the breakfast. Nicholas Woolf & Co are a commercial firm of lawyers with a wide range of experience in all matters that affect your business. So if you have any legal problem bothering you please just come along and ask!

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RECIPES FROM HEN CORNER Photography credit: Pam Wade

FEELING

Festive

Sara Ward talks Christmas and shares her delicious celebration chocolate cake recipe

We love Christmas, it’s an opportunity to gather together all that is dear to us. Bringing nature from the outside into the home with trees and garlands, inviting friends together to celebrate as we remind ourselves of all that we are thankful for.

The front room of our Brentford terrace house isn’t big enough for a Christmas tree, so with lights decorating the trees in the back garden, I make a long garland to drape over the fireplace using evergreens. Yew is soft and pliable to form a base secured with florist’s wire that can then be layered up with tendrils of ivy and sprigs of variegated laurels. I weave some vintage fairy lights

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throughout the length and tie ribbons, orange slices and cinnamon sticks in clusters.

Whilst a lot of our festivities are with close friends and family at home, we love to join in with larger community events that welcome all to celebrate this time of year. Outside our house is an old Victorian square and we help to organise Carols in the Park just days before Christmas to share mulled wine and mince pies with our neighbours as we sing along to a brass band whilst lights twinkle in the trees above us. We even have a mobile farm bring live animals to help us remember that first Christmas in Bethlehem 2,000 years ago.

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RECIPES FROM HEN CORNER

CELEBRATION

Ingredients:

Chocolate Cake

100 g good-quality dark chocolate 250 g grated raw beetroot 4 large free-range eggs 100 g ground almonds 150 g golden caster sugar 2 tablespoon good-quality cocoa powder 2 tsp mixed spice 1 teaspoon baking powder (gluten free if required) Decorations of your choice: icing sugar, chocolate shavings, almond slivers, etc.

Method:

1) Preheat the oven to 180c and line a 20cm round cake tin with baking parchment.

2) Melt the chocolate in bowl over hot water.

2) In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, almond, sugar, cocoa powder, mixed spice and baking powder.

3) Fold in the melted chocolate, followed by the grated beetroot 4) Pour mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes, it’s cooked throughout when a clean metal skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.

5) Allow to cool and decorate as you choose

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WHAT’S ON FOR CHILDREN THIS CHRISTMAS

Winter Events Celebrate Christmas with the whole family

CINDERELLA

CHRISTMAS AT KEW

WATERMANS CHRISTMAS SHOW

Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith When: Saturday 16 November 2019 – Sunday 5 January 2020

Now in its seventh year, the 2019 winter trail takes a magical new route and includes a host of all-new installations. Framed by glittering spiral trees, dynamic laser projections will illuminate the iconic Temperate House.

A highly visual, acrobatic version of the classic tale, perfect for the whole family this Christmas. A very shady fox and cat, a larger than life ringmaster, a cheeky cricket and anglerfish blues band are just some of the characters that Pinnochio and our narrator, Gepetto, encounter on their adventures. Packed full of the type of fun, mischief and magic that normally only happen when grownups turn their backs, this unmissable Christmas show enchants the whole family. Using jaw-dropping circus, puppetry and a healthy dose of bubbles, the show asks what it takes to be a real boy… and a real father.

Polish your glass slippers, dust off your carriage and join Lyric as the clock strikes midnight for the Fairy Godmother of pantomimes, Cinderella. Expect the usual Lyric twist on Wicked Stepmothers, Ugly Stepsisters, pumpkins, mice and more. You shall go to the ball with this festive fairy tale treat. Word has it that if you leave it too late to book, you might turn into a pumpkin…

Entrance: Tickets £10-£42. For further information visit lyric.co.uk/shows/ cinderella

A dazzling arch leads to a cascade of glowing silvery shards at the Treetop Walkway. Walk amongst immersive vines as they surprise with changing ribbons of light, and wander beneath the branches where mysterious fairy-fire known as Will-o’the Wisp softly glows.

Tickets: www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whatson/christmas

When: Various times, Saturday 7 December – Monday 30 December Where: Watermans Arts Centre 40 High St, Brentford TW8 0DS

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CHRISTMAS CHURCH SERVICES

CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY SERVICES IN THE CHISWICK CHURCHES

ST PAUL’S, GROVE PARK

CHRIST CHURCH, TURNHAM GREEN

ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

4.00pm – Family Carols

4.00pm – Crib service for families with pre school children. Informal, with contemporary worship. 60 mins + refreshments at the end.

4.00pm – Crib Service for Children

11.30pm – Midnight Mass Christmas Day 10.00am – Family service with nativity

11.15pm – Midnight Communion with contemporary worship, teaching and prayer ministry. 60 mins Christmas Day

ST MICHAEL’S ELMWOOD ROAD

10.00am – Christmas day all-age celebration service.

Christmas Eve 3.30pm – Family Carols and Crib service. Dress up, sing songs, hear the Christmas story and eat Christmas cookies!

11.15am – Christmas Day Holy Communion service.

11.00pm – Midnight Mass

Christmas Day 12.00am – Midnight Mass 10.00am – Choral Parish Mass, With Choir and mini panto homily: Mthr Sarah Lenton & Fr Kevin Morris, Vicar ST NICHOLAS Christmas Eve 4pm – Crib Service 11.00pm – Carols and Readings 11.30pm – Midnight Mass Christmas Day 10.30am – Christmas Service

Christmas Day 10.30am – Family Communion with St Michael’s Choir

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CHISWICK HOUSE LIGHTOPIA

CHISWICK HOUSE AND GARDENS TO HOST NEW WINTER LIGHT EVENT

“Lightopia”

Chiswick House and Gardens is pleased to be welcoming Outreach Creative in early 2020 to transform the gardens with their new event “Lightopia”, an immersive experience inviting visitors to become Lightopians and explore the interactive and immersive city of light and stories. The event will be hosted between 22nd January and 1st March 2020.

The event will feature acrobats, musicians and 45 groups of light installations, including the Tree of Life centrepiece - a 10m tall sculpture surrounded by 20 drums which Lightopians use to change the tree’s colours illuminating the night sky ensuring an everchanging installation which allows visitors to become a part of the artistic experience.

Lightopians are enable to explore the illuminated wonderland using touch pads and drums to control extraordinary sculptures.

The handmade silk installations combine ancient techniques of Chinese lantern making with modern technology to create a magical new world with the theme for this year’s inaugural event being “Harmony.”

Elsewhere, a stunning 18m long peacock will synchronise with music as light pulses through its wings in time with the beat. And a breath-taking field of 70,000 individual roses will flicker and blaze across an expanse of land.

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Other installations include enormous glowing eggs which change colour when rocked, musical buttons on the floor which

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create musical light shows when stepped on; paths of wintry flowers, an interactive Zodiac Sign piece in which light and sound ingeniously travel together and illuminated honeycomb arches surrounded by busy glowing bees.

The Keys of Life piece invites guests to walk through illuminated keyhole-shaped doors, while the Rainbow Tunnel and Angel Wings provide the perfect backdrop for Instagram-ready photographs.

Plans propose using Chiswick House, the 18th Century villa at the heart of the estate, in a key role in the exhibition as state-of-theart 3D video mapping creates a visual masterpiece across its grand exterior bringing the story of Lightopia to life.

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CHISWICK HOUSE LIGHTOPIA Lightopia will incorporate street food stalls, licensed bars and a kid’s zone where children can enjoy a fairytale world of candy, flowers and rides.

Ian Xiang, Creative Director of Lightopia, says: “We have designed a world in which light, sculpture and art combine with traditional Chinese lantern-making techniques to create something London has never seen before - a world where guests are not just invited to view the show, but to become a vital part of it.

to announce this new event to be hosted at Chiswick House and Gardens this winter. As an estate which is pioneering for its creativity with both House and Gardens in the 18th Century it seems right them in the 21st Century we should be hosting events that continue to explore creativity in new and exciting ways.”

be able to announce this winter’s event and really hope that everyone comes and enjoys it.”

Tickets for Lightopia cost £20 for adults, £13 for children and £58 for family tickets (1 adult and 3 children, or 2 adults and 2 children).

“We are contacted regularly from late summer onwards for details of what winter light event we will be hosting and so are excited to finally

“Many of the exhibits will react differently depending on who is manipulating the lights, so the experience will change from person to person, night to night.

“Lightopia is a celebration of techniques old and new, of art and design and of course, the people who come to experience it. We are inviting you to become a part of Lightopia and help create art as you move around the beautiful gardens of Chiswick House.”

The installations have been designed by contemporary artist Ava Moradi, with a mission to create an immersive artistic experience for visitors of all ages.

She adds: “All of the pieces explore this year’s theme of Harmony which is central to the world of Lightopia.

“Visitors must work in harmony to control the pieces, and each installation is loaded with stories and symbolism exploring this powerful theme.”

Caroline Busby, Chiswick House and Gardens Trust Director, says “We are delighted to be able For more information visit: info@lightopiafestival.com

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HEAD GARDENER’S NOTES and thus a heavier crop this autumn so as to ensure their survival.

This got me to thinking about the hollies and other plants that we grow at Osterley to provide a colourful display throughout the autumn and winter months – many of which are suitable for a small garden or even pots on a patio.

Andy Eddy, Head Gardener at Osterley Park writes:‘’Over the last few weeks I have been getting calls and emails from various newspapers and other news media asking about holly berries – is this the best year ever for their fruiting?

Well it certainly is the best for a generation and no the holly trees can’t predict the future and we may or may not get a hard winter this year. However the reason for the extra berries this year is due to last summer’s extreme heat, this put undue stress upon the plants and they have responded by producing more flower buds this spring

Kate Peacock Garden Design & Maintenance Telephone 07594 622547 katepeacock@hotmail.co.uk

kate: the gardener

The two main hollies that we grow in our Winter Garden are Ilex aquifolium ‘Silver Queen’ and ‘Golden King’ interestingly the female is the ‘Golden King’ and the male plant is ‘Silver Queen’ – I think that the botanist who named these was having a joke at our expense! Joking aside these two plants are stalwarts in our display and I have planted them as very small specimens i.e. 50cm tall in groups of five so as to give added drama, you can however plant one in a pot and keep it pruned to whatever size is convenient to you and they will still berry. As you can see in the accompanying picture they have now grown to head height and I will prune one in each group to ground level every two years so that every ten years the whole group is refreshed and thus they will not grow into large, unmanageable trees. These hollies provide the perfect foil for the other plants that we grow in this area such as the brightly coloured dogwoods and willows with their stems pruned hard every spring to give the brightest possible colours during the gloomy winter months.

The other picture shows one of our rarest and most spectacular plants the ‘Chinese Paperbush’ – Edgeworthia chrysantha, hailing as its name suggests from China, this small shrub has wonderfully prehistoric looking branches that are clothed at their extremity with loose clusters of bright yellow flowers that are reminiscent of a chrysanthemum – hence the name. These flowers are strongly scented with a powerfully sweet fragrance that is also quite sharp and aromatic even on the coldest of days and cuts through the gloom and stops you in your tracks wanting to find out where this evocative smell is coming from. It gets its common name for its use in Japan to make paper of the highest quality, so prized in fact that it is was used to make high denomination currency.

As a head gardener I wouldn’t be without these hard working, easy to grow and splendid specimens for the gloomy British winter and think that they deserve a place in even the smallest of gardens to lift the soul and brighten up even the darkest of corners on a cold, winter’s day.’’

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HEN CORNER

Playhouse

CHISWICK

Here’s a snapshot into some exciting plays showing this winter

Hansel and Gretel

Could It Be Magic?

4th December 2019 4th January 2020 Performance times vary

14th - 18th January 2020, 7.30pm Paul Aitchison

A tale of magic, mischief, houses made of sweets and other sustainable food sources.

‘Once there was a brother and sister, and they lived by a motorway that curled around the city like a wall.

Few people strayed beyond this barrier for beyond was a forest of silver trees and silence that their stepmother called, The Forest of the Dead…’

In a unique mix of mind-melting magic and bonkers character comedy, one performer plays four contestants in a hilarious and manic magic competition.

Written and performed by Comedian and Magician Paul Aitchison, as seen/heard performing on BBC Radio 4, West End stages and on your tellybox.

So begins Chiswick Playhouse’s irresistible production of Hansel and Gretel. This children’s adventure will take the audience far from their city life, their Xboxes and Insta likes, into a world of lollipop houses, tap-dancing cockroaches and a witch with a penchant for single use plastic and the only remaining sustainable food source: children.

Music, puppetry and escapades for all the family to enjoy. Ages 6+.

Best known to Fringe audiences as co-writer and performer in award-winning sketch act Mixed Doubles (Guardian Top Five recommendation and Dave Comedy Peoples Choice winners) Aitchison brings the word of mouth sellout hit from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the Chiswick Playhouse.

Feel-good comedy meets stupendous sleight of hand, magnificent mind reading, and truly top draw bamboozlement!

It’ll be fun but… Could It Be Magic?

Christmas At Chiswick Playhouse 8th, 15th, 22nd December 2019 Sundays 8pm To immerse yourself in the Christmas spirit, Chiswick Playhouse is pleased to present a series of Sunday concerts featuring stars of the West End. With credits including Wicked, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia, The Phantom Of The Opera, School Of Rock, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, West Side Story, Singin In The Rain and many others, a host of the UK’s leading musical talent will present songs from the shows and Christmas classics.

Rogers & Hammerstein, Sondheim, Bernstein and Coward abound alongside a Bleak Midwinter and a Little Town Of Bethlehem.

With a free glass of mulled wine and a liberal dose of yule tide spirit, Christmas at the Chiswick Playhouse is the perfect evening to put one’s troubles aside and indulge in the festive mood. Anything but A Silent Night!

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