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“Like a lot of people, I didn’t have an understanding of Social Care until a family member required care ”, says Ajit Patel, Director of Homecare Comforts. He did not know where to start at a time when the family faced huge challenges in finding the right care which was reliable and flexible.
Homecare Comforts website www.homecarecomforts.co.uk. Tel: 0203 585 4027. Twitter: @HomecareComfor1
The family member having received care in Kent and subsequently in Westminster following a period in hospital due to having a stroke proved more challenging. Ajit knew his family member deserved better care and thought there must be a better way of doing this – so Ajit and his family decided to start their own care business serving the borough of Westminster and surrounding areas.
PIMLICO: YOUR SHOPS AND RESTAURANTS NEED YOU!
We are now just over a month into post lockdown in Pimlico with restaurants, pubs and cafes re-opening. So is everything in the Pimlico garden rosy? Well up to a point.
Homecare Comforts was approved by the regulatory body the Care Quality Commission (CQC) on 19th June to provide personal care in the individual’s own home. We all have a passion for care and are focused to assist our clients in a person-centred way to meet their needs; from helping clients with Dementia, preparing meals to personal tasks, such as bathing, dressing, shopping and much more. Our aim is that you do as much as you can yourself but with a little help from us as you continue to live independently in your own home. We have a friendly team of qualified carers who make sure you can continue doing the things that you like to do.
Because we are so close to Victoria and the large offices, the area has traditionally had a “ lunchtime economy ” substantially reliant on officer workers and an “evening and weekend economy ” in which local and nearby residents play a bigger role. Current estimates suggest that the office population could return to just 50% of pre C-19 levels, and only in the medium/longer term. This is a serious challenge for the short term operations of the independent businesses that are so valued in Pimlico and make our area different.
So how are we going to do things differently? We offer a unique service of personalised care visits, from check-in visits to full live-in support. We are technology enabled and use the latest technology which provides real time updates and live status reports of the care being provided and promote a paperless environment. We provide a unique private login for families to access daily reports, providing peace of mind and transparency in all that we do. Regular feedback from clients, families, carers, continued training and annual questionnaires further underpin how we improve year on year.
There has been a small silver lining in the lockdown. People working at home have been an evident part of lockdown and have needed a break by buying coffees and going to the shopping areas for a change of scene. And the greengrocer (Ian Maclaren) and butcher (Franky Frankland) in Tachbrook market have really stepped up to help locals who cannot go out to shop by staying open and delivering. It’s even harder than before to predict the long term future for Pimlico shops and restaurants. But we can all do something to help them through the next months: • Please use the local shops and the greengrocer, butcher and ... fishmonger in the market
• Buy a morning coffee from the shops and cafes
• Use the restaurants, pub and cafes for meals (using the half price ... scheme) and for takeaways
•...If you can, do your supermarket shopping live rather than online,
....so that the local Sainsbury, Tesco and Waitrose get your custom.
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Our Pathway Our aim is to focus on not just recruiting “jobs ” for carers but setting what we call our Pathway to Success for those who see themselves with a career in Social Care. We start as soon as an employee walks through our doors.
Ajit says “We have a great team working consistently towards achieving
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Nursery Groups: Play and Language Support
We are based in Westminster
We specialise in working with clients and their families who require care in their own homes.
Does your toddler have a speech or communication
We offer a unique service of personalised care visits, from check-in-visits to full live-support.
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We use the latest technology which provides real time updates and a live status reports of the care being provided.
This provides a unique private login for families to accesss daily reports, providing peace of mind and transparency in all that we do.
Starting in mid-September, we will be running small specialist language and communication support
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3.5years old at the Blue Sky Autism Centre, 22 Sussex St.
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George IV’s brother, William IV, ascended to the throne, and had no interest in relocating to the newly built Buckingham Palace. He preferred his princely home, Clarence Palace, instead. William IV offered Buckingham Palace as the new home of the legislature when the House of Parliament was destroyed by fire in the 1830s,
and gardens are an important site of ceremonial and political affairs as well as a tourist attraction. But for a monarchy that dates back almost a thousand years, it is a relatively new home.
In 1845, Queen Victoria asked Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, about the ‘urgent necessity of doing something about Buckingham Palace ’. She found the building inadequate and required proper accommodation for her family, more space for entertaining and improved offices for the staff of the royal household.
In 1845, the architect Edward Blore was retained to enclose Nash’s forecourt on the eastern side, for the construction of staterooms and ballrooms. The Palace’s triumphal arch was moved to Hyde Park. The work would be funded by the sale of Brighton Pavilion
The Palace c 1837. depicting the Marble Arch, which served as the ceremonial entrance to the Palace precincts.
Blore used soft Caen stone, which rapidly blackened and deteriorated in London’s polluted air. Construction was completed in 1853. Edward VII is credited with the interior redesign of the palace.
For more than 300 years, from 1531 until 1837, the King of England’s official residence in the capital city was St. James’ Palace.
The land on which Buckingham Palace sits, has been in the hands of the monarchy for more than 400 years. Originally marshland along the River Tyburn, the site had a series of owners, including William the Conqueror and monks of Westminster Abbey. King James acquired it for use as a sort of garden for the royals.
There was a house on the property at the time, and it passed through a succession of owners until 1698, when it was sold to a man named John Sheffield. He later became the Duke of Buckingham, and it is for him that the house on the property was ultimately named. Sir Charles Sheffield decided to build a new residence on the site in the early 1700s It was designed and built by William Winde and John Fitch, and was “Buckingham House ” completed around 1705. It was briefly considered as the site for the British Museum. King George III purchased Buckingham House in 1761 and commissioned a £73,000 renovation of the structure.The plan was to use it as a home for his wife, Queen Charlotte, and their children. And, after his family moved in, the building became known as the “Queens House.”
Buckingham Palace has a chapel, post office, swimming pool, cafeteria, doctor’s surgery and cinema. There are 775 rooms; these include 19 state rooms, 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms. There are 1,514 doors, 760 windows and more than 40,000 light bulbs. It has the largest private garden in London. There are secret tunnels under the streets of London connecting Clarence House to Buckingham Palace, and the Houses of Parliament.
George IV wanted to make it the official royal residence, and hired architect John Nash to expand and renovate the structure. Nash designed and built out Buckingham House into a large, U-shaped structure faced. His design expanded the main section of the building, adding west wings, as well as branches to the north and south.
Buckingham Palace has been the home of Queen Elizabeth II, and her family since 1952.
The wings of the new palace enclosed a large court, and the architect built a triumphal arch—with images depicting military victories—at the center of the palace’s forecourt to create an imposing entrance for visiting dignitaries. Nash was dismissed by British government officials soon after George IV’s death in 1830 on ground of cost. The cost British taxpayers more than £400,000 to build. Pimlico & Belgravia Eye September 2020
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I have been cooking with domestic induction cookers for several years. Recently I replaced my double cooker with a pair of Tefal Induction Cookers. They cost less than £50. each and perform much more easily than the previous ones. I find it curious that professional ones and those for "designer kitchens " cost many times what these robust little gadgets do. I am beginning to find the word "designer " anathema.
The Coronavirus pandemic has accelerated a great many changes that were already in train, from how we shop to where we work.
On the global stage it has accelerated a power shift that had already started to become apparent in recent years. As America, under its isolationist President, has retreated from the world, China has hastened to fill the vacuum. And Russia, having shaken off the hangover induced by the collapse of the Soviet Union, has proved itself to be a useful ally in that enterprise.
Friends asked about employing them. They use a conventional cooker, but a male friend had no working cooking facility. He did so little cooking for himself that he brought them a box of a dozen eggs to hardboil for him to take home again and eat. On my recommendation, they bought him one of the Tefal units and because induction cooking requires steel utensils they also purchased a small frying pan and a few saucepans as well.
Of course, there is nothing new in this. America has been isolationist in the past. China has been the world’s largest economy for most of the last two thousand years, with the last two centuries having been an aberration. And Russia has never hesitated to leverage its vast landmass and huge population whenever and wherever it thought it could get away with it.
He has become fascinated with the speed, ease along with the simple cleaning of pans and hob that he is developing an interest in ambitious cooking, extending his range and converting himself onto a healthy diet.
In less than 200 years we have progressed from cooking over fossil fuel to stoves heated with piped gas to ones employing electricity which in turn have changed format with varied elements for hobs to ceramic surfaces to microwaves and now induction, doubtlessly there are designers working on yet another variation. Each major change brought with it the same objections from consumers with suspicious natures. They claimed there would be harm to users of these new implements. The most recent and silliest of these was to microwaves which are now becoming a standard much employed tool. Each change has demanded a different technique in food preparation to adjust to these essential tools. If we reject them all and wish to revert to something similar to what early man used; there is always the barbeque.
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Meanwhile Putin’s Russia nibbles at eastern Ukraine, swallows Crimea whole, threatens Estonia, and tries to bully Belarus back into the ‘motherland ’. Despite weak energy prices the Red Army has succeeded in securing such a large proportion of the nation’s GDP that it has been able to develop and deploy an array of sophisticated weapons systems that have NATO general’s nervously clutching their medals.
So much of the skill we acquire as we develop as cooks derives from accident or chance. My newest "trick" is frying bacon with less fumes and an easily cleaned pan. Take a clean frying pan and add a few spoonfuls of water. Lay the bacon over this, neatly spread and cook on a moderate heat, turn the strips once or twice until done and crisp. The water will have steamed away and the bacon evenly done and uncharred.
Unless America and Europe quickly wake up they will find the western end of the Eurasian landmass dominated by Russia, and the eastern end dominated by China. The Faustian pact between these two dictatorships works geographically and historically. Russia has always failed when it tried to spread its influence to the east, while China has little interest in in the western end of a continent it regards as being in permanent decline.
An art collector showed a crude utensil of great age with a wonderful description. It was prehistoric. Examining it closely showed the texture of woven reeds, but it was of crude baked clay. He explained that it was an early form of basket which had been slathered with mud rich with clay to make it hold liquid. It had been used in a wood fire as a crude cooking pot and besides cooking the food, the clay had been fired. And magically ceramics had been born.
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What has changed is that neither China nor Russia now bother to hide their ambitions. The former aims to become the world’s largest economic power this decade. It ignores protests about Tibet and the Uighurs, tears up the Sino-British Hongkong treaty, and openly threatens Taiwan with military invasion. Its diplomats, who would previously have sought to draw a silk veil over these aggressive acts, now
It certainly is not too late for liberal democracies to wake up to this twin threat, but quite soon it will be. This is not just a clash of ideologies, but a clash of civilisations. And the outcome is very much in the balance.
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