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Kidd Rapinet Solicitors - Cybsafe - The Oiler Bar Sugar House Island - Papermill House - Sui Generis Badiani - Midnight Apothecary - Pamban Stone Street Studios - The Havering Hoard Greenwich Theatre - Puzzles - Waterstones

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Badiani Gelato from Florence, now on sale in Canada Place

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Probably the joint-cheapest sandwich on the Wharf (Tesco also do a plain cheese sarnie), the promise on the packet that this is “just egg and cress” misses out the potent presence of mayo and, naturally, the malted bread.

While this lunchtime grab-and-go option might be down the unfashionable end of the market, strip away its fully recyclable packaging and you’ll find a wholesome, satisfying snack.

The bread is toothsome and the egg mayo exudes a scent that screams fresh rather than sulphurous. Only the cress is a disappointment, more present on the design of the box than the tongue. Perhaps that’s simply to avoid putting punters with sensitive palates off.

More than that, the colour-coding on the fat, saturates, sugars and salt isn’t too bad to look at either.

All in all, this is value for money and even comes as part of Tesco’s meal deal. So, if you’re on a budget right now, it’s certainly worth considering – not world-beating, but a competent performer.

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Why the Havering Hoard is an intriguing, puzzling diversion

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All the pathways tessellate neatly into an overarching theme and feeling, of an insatiable curiosity about the world Oli Hunt, Waterstones

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The book treads a fascinating line between fiction and non-fiction, psychogeography and the novel, just as Sebald himself blurs the boundaries between physical and mental travel.

Like many of the best travel books, The Rings of Saturn is perhaps best read curled up at home, letting your mind wander along Sebald’s many pathways.

The pathways themselves wend their way between an incredible variety of subjects, from a Chinese Empress to herring fishing via Thomas Browne, to name only three.

But they all tessellate neatly into an overarching theme and feeling, of an insatiable curiosity about the world and everything in it, welded to a quiet and heartfelt concern over our natural rapacity and despoliation of the environment.

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best deal on the Wharf Plateau Canada Square The D&D stalwart has cut the price of its already good value set menu by £10 to £20 for two courses or £25 for three. Both include a glass of Sylvaner Vielles Vignes Cave de Turckheim 2017 (white wine, for the uninitiated).

Often courses on set menus can be a tad stingy, but not so here. Expect the calamari to be piled reasonably high and the flat iron steak to be a sizeable chunk of the beast.

Another winner is the gnocchi, served with a ratatouille-stuffed courgette flower – a winner whether you’re veggie, vegan, gluten-free or simply in need of a decent

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Cost of a single flavour in a cup or cone at Badiani – pay £4.50 and get two flavours of gelato

how gelato producer and retailer Badiani delivers the tastes and heritage of Florence to Wharfers’ mouths with its seasonal flavours and bright colours

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espite only having joined the company in February, Alice Guni exudes a genuine passion for Badiani. Appointed marketing manager for the brand a month before the UK went into lockdown, she’s seen customers embrace the notion of ordering gelato to their homes and Wharfers eagerly welcome the company’s latest branch to Canada Place, with early sales hitting targets.

“I’m actually from a small town near Florence, where Badiani comes from and I first tasted the gelato in Italy many years ago at its shop there,” she said. “When I was in London I was looking for a new opportunity and when I found Badiani, I said: ‘Wow, this is like a sign’.

“I applied for the position, got the job and it was like a pure love.”

The brand’s history dates back to 1932, with Idilio Badiani producing and selling gelato in Florence. It was taken over in 1993 by Orazio Pomposi and his sons Paolo and Patrizio, the company then expanded to London in 2015 with the Canary Wharf store its fifth in the capital. This growth was made possible by the opening of a central production unit in Battersea in 2018.

“We started in London with a kiosk in the Mercato Metropolitano at Elephant And Castle,” said Alice.

“Since then the branches we’ve opened all have a mono colour design – each is different, with Canary Wharf in red. Notting Hill is blue, Fulham orange and so on.

“What makes us different from the rest is that we only use amazing products that are 100% natural.

“We buy all of our dairy ingredients from the UK and our fruits come from Italy – we always choose the best products around and we never compromise on that.

“Even if we run out of something, we would never buy something else in. We just stop making that flavour.

“We follow absolutely the seasonality of the ingredients, so that’s why the flavours that are available change.

“Paolo Pomposi is our creative genius – he’s from the family that bought Badiani in 1993.

“He’s a master at what he does, has won lots of prizes and awards, and is responsible for our signature flavour – Buontalenti named for the architect who invented gelato in Florence during the Renaissance.

“There’s a lot behind every flavour – for example, the dark chocolate is the result of 25 years of research and development. Paolo travelled the world looking for the best chocolate and found it in Venezuela.

“He came back, put it into the recipe and this is how it is.

His view is that you can always improve.”

It’s not just ingredients that are key to Badiani’s impressive selection of gelato and sorbets.

“With the Buontalenti, nobody can replicate it,” said Alice. “The recipe is really, really easy. It’s egg, cream, sugar and milk – it’s very simple.

“But we have some special machinery inside our laboratory in Battersea, which is the biggest facility of its kind in Europe.

“It’s made for us and that’s down to Niccolo Pomposi – the

son of Paolo – who is an engineer. That is the secret behind the flavour. In terms of our shops, they are like boutiques.

“Our motto is ‘Be Inspired’, and when you taste the gelato, you can feel the inspiration inside you that’s coming from the artisinal history of the city of Florence.

“When you taste the gelato you need to think this is coming from history dating back to 1932. In coming to London we have renovated the brand but we are keeping the story with us – we tell it to customers through our gelato.”

Lockdown proved a fruitful time for the brand, which worked with Deliveroo and opened its own e-commerce store, using packaging capable of preserving the gelato for 45 minutes without melting.

Opening at Canary Wharf means Badiani’s products are now available to order within a five-mile radius of the store.

“We started to see lots of competitors shutting down when lockdown arrived,” said Alice. “My director said: ‘I think it’s time to invest, maybe it’s wrong, but it’s better to try’.

“We promoted our delivery service with the idea that

Badiani is best enjoyed in a socially distanced circle in Canada Square with the sun shining bright

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There’s a lot behind every flavour – for example, the dark chocolate is the result of 25 years of research and development Alice Gruni, Badiani

Badiani must bring the joy into people’s houses when they’re at home. We were lucky to have amazing weather and it was a super success.

“In May we closed the month better than in 2019 when we were fully open.

“Our Canary Wharf store has also performed well since it opened. It’s a perfect location, being opposite Waitrose – a really good demographic match for us. We are putting on hold our plans to expand in 2021 to Tokyo, the USA and Berlin at present though. We just need to wait a bit longer.”

With multiple flavours made fresh on a daily basis and distributed to its sales sites, what should Wharfers be trying?

“La Dolce Vita – a blend of Buontalenti with chocolate sauce and hazelnuts – and Buontalenti Pistachio, which right now is the most popular flavour in London, are the two to try,” said Alice.

“On social media, people say the pistachio is outstanding – and you can’t find anything like it anywhere else.

“Those are my favourite flavours too, although the sorbets we offer are really nice too and suitable for vegans.

“These follow the seasons so, in summer you can have mango and in the winter something else such as raspberry. For vegans, I’d also recommend, 100%, the dark chocolate.”

Badiani serves gelato in cups and cones to eat and packages to take home. It also sells crepes as well as milkshakes made with its gelato.

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Marketing manager Alice Gruni first tasted Badiani long before she joined the company, having grown up near Florence

Signature flavour: Badiani’s Buontalenti has a simple recipe but a finish that’s impossible to replicate

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Partially exposed: Part of the hoard in situ in Havering and, below, an x-ray of an axe head showing further broken objects stuffed inside for reasons we can only guess at

just why were these metal objects buried in the earth how Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery is the thrill of discovery plus a potent puzzle

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eligious rite, metalworker’s stash, casualty of the rise of iron or attempt to skew the economy? Quite why 453 bronze objects dated to between 900-800BCE were carefully placed in the ground at Rainham remains a puzzle.

While Havering Hoard: A Bronze Age Mystery, which recently opened at the Museum Of London Docklands on West India Quay, doesn’t provide the answer, it is an intriguing exploration of the various theories. It’s also a chance to get close to the baffling mixture of artefacts, discovered in 2018 on a site prior to its development as a quarry for gravel.

This was my first trip to a museum since lockdown ended, but wearing a mask for a prolonged period was little hardship as the exhibition quickly sucked me in. Taking time to place bronze in the pantheon of revolutionary materials discovered by humanity it moved to show how a

simple, bellows-charged charcoal fire could be used to cast the stuff and even recycle it.

Then the theories come thick and fast along with displays demonstrating the depth and texture of the find – the weapons, tools and indeterminate lumps of metal – placing the site in the wider context of a connected world. Why were Scan this code to make a booking

so many of the objects deliberately broken?

Were they buried because they’d have been too heavy to transport or does the location of the various items indicate a special significance within the context of the site itself? Was the local lord increasing the rarity of the metal by hiding so much of it away?

Set to the backdrop of a calming video projection of Rainham Marshes – a landscape that looks now very much as it would have done the best part of 3,000 years ago – the galleries offer bright green nuggets of diversion, a glimpse into a simpler time and the work done to uncover and study the finds.

But ultimately this exhibition raises more questions than it answers and, in so doing, perfectly captures the thrill that must have been felt by young archaeologist Harry Platts who, four weeks into his job with Archaeological Solutions found the first of what turned out to be a hoard of artefacts. An enduring enigma – visit now.

Above, just some of the hundreds of finds that make up the Havering Hoard Left, pieces of a Bronze Age sword discovered at the site and now on display at the Museum Of London Docklands Below, the exhibition tells the complex story of how bronze was made using charcoal fires supercharged by pumping bellows

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Varieties of chai are served up at the kiosk which opened in Canada Place in September

why a blend of cultures, flavours and friendship help hot drinks business Pamban stand out in a busy market Street Baristas, while Mayhul worked for a startup coffee shop, learning everything he could about heap caffeine hits are being a barista. easy to come by, espeHe said their families were cially at the moment, surprisingly supportive of the but the owners of dramatic career change. recently-opened “We come from a generation Pamban want to appeal whose parents arrived here with to those with more refined palates nothing and the aim was to get a in Canary Wharf. professional job,” said Mayhul.

The exotic aromas of cardamom, “But all my generation want to rose, saffron and fennel waft from leave that behind, because you its shiny unit in Canada Place, realise your brain isn’t used as which intends to bring traditional much in the corporate world as it Indian chai tea to the mainstream. is when you do your own thing.

“In Asia, chai is drunk on every “When you start something, street corner, and is good for your creative brain is unleashed.” you – it’s delicious and tasty,” said The entrepreneurs got a running co-founder Mayhul Gondhea, 37. leap into the small business world “But what you get in the when they beat 50 other London coffee scene are pitches to land a prime chai lattes made from 1,000sq ft retail space in artificial syrup or Camden Market. concentrate and not Pamban launched the proper stuff.” a few months Pamban’s secret later – in July 2017 blend is made – serving up chai using black tea alongside specifrom two estates in ality coffee and India, infused with an Asian inspired spices imported brunch menu. from South East Asia “It was a big move, A pink faluda to create seven varieties but naivety is sometimes of chai, including rose, key in business, so we just milkshake saffron and vegan. went for it,” said Mayhul.

The spices are ground in a pestle Pamban takes its name from the and mortar and the chai brewed by island that connects India – where hand, just how Mayhul’s mother Mayhul’s family hail from – to made it for him as a child.

Sri Lanka – where Aruna’s family “Chai is the centrepiece of any originates. gathering in my culture,” said It was chosen to embody their Mayhul, who is of Indian origin aim – creating a meeting of and grew up and still lives in cultures and tastes by mixing the Harrow. best of the capital’s cafe culture “Coming home from Uni and with the spirit of South Asia. having the chai my mum made is “We are not just a chai house or one of my fondest memories. coffee house, we are both in equal “As I grew older I started to weighting,” said Mayhul. make it myself and experiment “We are very much a western with it and my relationship with brand but bringing our heritage chai evolved.” through the products.”

One of the people he tried out At Canary Wharf the smell of recipes on was his co-founder chai mingles with a heady hit of Aruna Sellahewa, 38, who he met freshly brewed espresso. at Durham University.

The menu includes the familiar They came up with the idea to coffee choices but also a rose hot turn chai into a business four years chocolate, a red cappuccino made ago while both working in finance with caffeine-free rooibos, a probiin the City and Canary Wharf. otic lassi and an iced muddled “We got talking about why you mint coffee made with jaggery. don’t get chai in artisan coffee There is also something for the shops,” said Mayhul. “It’s almost Instagrammers – a pink faluda unbelievable that no-one has done milkshake made with rose milk this before.”

They spent six months Scan this researching and looking at the code for more numbers and competition before information deciding to take the plunge at the on Pam Ban start of 2017. They quit their jobs and Aruna took a role at Taylor

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Pamban founders Mayhul Gondhea and Aruna Sellahewa, seen below left, both previously worked in finance in Canary Wharf and the City Images by Matt Grayson – find more of his work at graysonphotos.co.uk or @mattgrayson_photo on Insta

Ready to drink: Hot Chai from Pamban

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brewing new flavours

and sprinkled with pistachios and rose petals.

“The London coffee scene for us had become quite samey with a similar offering and our selling point was to bring some different drinks and a new approach,” said Mayhul.

“Instead of going into Starbucks and getting a frappuccino, come to us and get something different.”

They have the same approach to the coffee and will have a rotation of rare, single-origin filter options from around the world.

Milk comes from Guernsey cows in the Chew Valley and they also offer soy, almond and oat alternatives. or now, Canary Wharf is only offering snacks such as Bombay Mix but Mayhul hopes to launch a lunch menu next year.

In the meantime the founders are focused on educating customers about chai, which Mayhul said could help physical and mental wellbeing thanks to its blend of spices.

“We’re not just a big company sitting behind the till taking money,” he said.

“There are so many ways to make chai. It’s very much an experience and the fun is in the approach you take.

“The complexity of tea is what people take for granted and don’t understand.

“That’s one of the missions of Pamban, to showcase that complexity, the same way shops do with coffee, and be that specialty chai place.

“We use a balance of spices and blend of two teas, a malty and oral one to get a depth of avour.

We only use filtered water and make it the traditional way – batch brewed in front of the customers.”

Merchandise is also a big part of the business and they sell their chai blends to other coffee businesses as well as to the public so they can make their own hot beverages at home.

Ealing resident Aruna said their friendship and business savvy were both important ingredients in Pamban’s success.

“We have known each other a long time so we have an underlying trust and respect for each other’s opinions,” he said.

“We might not always agree, but

always work towards getting the outcome that’s right for Pamban.”

He spent seven years at Premier Asset Management before launching the chai and coffee house, while Mayhul previously worked at Mc insey And Company and Big Issue Invest.

Like most small food and beverage company owners, the pandemic has tested their business accumen.

“Post-Covid, cardamom has tripled in price and we’re struggling to get it because there is a massive backlog of shipments,” said Mayhul.

Lockdown saw their Camden site shut until July 4 and also meant that taking possession of their Canary Wharf site was delayed.

“Luckily the landlord has been very understanding,” said Mayhul, who credits Canary Wharf Group’s former managing director Camille Waxer with helping to bring Pamban to the estate.

“She really liked the concept of our brand, but there wasn’t much retail space available so they converted this, which was previously an advertising space, into a unit for us.

“In Canary Wharf there weren’t many independents, it is quite chain led and it’s not stuff from different origins.

“They felt like our fun approach would appeal to a wider audience and loved that we could bring something different to the estate and its coffee scene.

“We’re in a great location here but the footfall is low at present.

Usually it would be heaving but, day-by-day, people are coming back, but mainly to the smaller companies. That’s quite frustrating.”

Mayhul said it was not the first time they have had to overcome obstacles and he always reminded himself to enjoy every “win”.

“I wouldn’t change it for the world,” he said. It’s an ama ing but very di cult journey. “ ou lose that thing of leaving your job at 6pm when you start a business, but you adapt to that and the challenges and successes it brings.

“When you look back, you see it was the journey that was the fun part and that’s what makes you who you are.”

Head of coffee Dino Corrado prepares a pour over brew

Latte art (above) and some of Pamban’s tinned chai (right)

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We are a chai and coffee house in equal weighting and very much a western brand, but bringing our heritage through the products Mayhul Gondhea, Pamban

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a word from Dino on the blend When it comes to Pamban’s coffee, Modestino “Dino” Corrado is the maestro.

Raised near Naples he grew up drinking espresso but was “never that into coffee” until he moved to the UK. The trained chef had his introduction through Starbucks and honed his talents at Taylor Street Baristas before joining Pamban in mid-January.

“I believe in their project and felt really good energies coming from them,” said the head of coffee.

Pamban’s beans come from Origin Coffee Roasters and Beanberry Coffee.

Dino said:”We are really proud to use Origin because they just got a B Corporation certificate which means everything they do is Fairtrade and traceable.”

He drinks up to four espressos every morning as he dials in the coffee on their La Marzocco machine to balance the dose, grind, output weight, and extraction time.

“In the cup you have a coffee that everyone expects from espresso,” he said, “with loads of nuttiness coming through and a dark chocolate aftertaste.

The Langdon Park resident likes to spend his time in the brew kitchen, dubbed “The Lab”, experimenting with new flavours.

“We’re starting a world coffee journey beginning with Amsterdam and picking up some coffees from Friedhats, which I believe is one of the best micro coffee roasteries in Europe, maybe the world,” said Dino. “We are living the famous third wave of specialty coffee where there are brew bars and people know about traceability.

With Pamban we want to bring the fourth wave, hand-in-hand with speciality chai.”

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how the founder and CEO of Cybsafe helps organisations to tighten up their security systems

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Years Oz served with the Parachute Regiment before going on to found Cybsafe

Oz’s Canary Wharf-based company helps businesses and other organisations identify the risks that arise from human error and the

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or Oz Alashe, cyber security is people. The CEO and founder of Cybsafe – based at Level39 in Canary Wharf – is on a mission to get companies and organisations to not only take the subject seriously, but to recognise the true importance of the human being as a component in their systems.

“We are a software company, focused on transforming the way society addresses the human aspect of cyber security,” said the former Parachute Regiment and special forces o cer.

“At Cybsafe we help organisations identify the risks that arise from human error and the security behaviours of everyday people.

“We use data and evidencebased interventions to adjust those behaviours and to predict where risks are likely to happen in the future.

“Most organisations, when they think of cyber security, need to be convinced it is worth taking seriously. A three-legged stool – people, process and technology – is often talked about and it’s the people aspect that is often glossed over.

“The risks organisations face as a result of their people, are also some of the opportunities they have. The most common ways that organisations end up with cyber incidents are either by mistakes their people have made or by would-be attackers trying to con us into doing things that we shouldn’t do – clicking on a link, sending some information that we shouldn’t or exposing some information on social media.

“With access to your password they can force group attacks on the organisation because they’ve got access to lots of passwords.

“There are so many things cyber criminals do and more than 80% of those that lead to a cyber incident actually involve a human being – a person who’s just trying to get through the day, using technology to do their job or carry out their life.”

That’s not to say, however, that people are to blame – Cybsafe’s approach places the human at the

security behaviours of everyday people

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The idea that you can design-out the person or simply tell them what to do and they’ll use the technology better, is all nonsense Oz Alashe, Cybsafe

heart of its products rather than seeking to demonise the user as the root of calamity.

“When people think of cyber security or information security, they cannot get that people are important,” said Oz. “The idea that you can design-out the person, or simply tell them what to do and they’ll use the technology better, is all nonsense. It’s one of the reasons why we see so many breaches.

“Traditionally, people have said human beings are vulnerable – we have often heard: ‘They are our weakest link’.

“That is inappropriate. Not only is it wrong – a strange thing to say, because there is no other link, rather like saying the weakest link in a football team is the players – more importantly it is placing blame.

“People are human beings and make mistakes. Also, they’ve got other stuff going on.

“We need to think about security and technology all the time and build it with people in mind. We would see fewer mistakes if that were the case.

“Our security controls would be better if we developed them with people in mind – that’s why we’re really obsessed with research and the evidence at Cybsafe.

“We focus heavily on the academic research – what it takes to change behaviour and why people make the decisions they do – as well as the data.

“We have an intelligent software platform that can predict mistakes people are likely to make in the future and where the risks are, because we can use data to illuminate and provide insight.

“That’s a game-changer for the industry and something we’re really proud of.”

Cybsafe divides its services into three key hubs with an option for companies to buy solutions for each area separately or as a combined product.

“The Awareness Hub is focused on what people know, the skills

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people have and what they understand,” said Oz. “That’s all about organisations’ security teams supporting people in various areas.

“It’s really important when it comes to behavioural change.

If somebody’s aware, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they care.

“But it’s unlikely that they’re going to be able to change their behaviour, if they aren’t aware.

“This hub makes it really easy for organisations to address that particular issue – what do people know? How much do they care about what they know? How much do they understand? Do they have the skills to put some of this into practice?

“The Behaviour Change Hub is focused very specifically on security behaviours. We collaborate with a number of academic institutions and produce our own work. One of the things we’ve done recently is to launch the world’s most comprehensive security behaviours database.

“It’s called SebDB and it’s been built by the community over the last two years.

“This hub really builds on that understanding of all of the security behaviours we’ve got compiled there and it will continue to evolve over time.

“It’s not important that every single person knows every behaviour, but now an organisation can pick and choose to decide which ones are important to it and how they can affect those.

“The Culture Hub really looks at the security culture of an organisation – specifically, to what extent it has a people-centric security culture, because it’s that which enables people to make mistakes, and for the organisation not to be devastatingly impacted by them.

“It’s also a people-centric security culture that makes it less likely people will make mistakes in the first place because the culture of the organisation engenders the spirit and the ethos of security that is realistic and takes into account the human being.

“We start with an assessment, which helps an organisation, via a very short diagnostic survey, identify where its strengths and weaknesses are and predict where it’s likely to have problems in the future so it knows what to do about them.”

Cybsafe, which was founded in April 2017 and serves hundreds of customers, employs a team of 33 people.

While currently working remotely due to the pandemic, it intends to use its Canary Wharf base as a hub while preserving exible arrangements for staff.

“One of the things which is important to us, and we know to others, is exibility,” said O .

“We hire the best talent and

entrepreneurial spirit

lessons learned along the way What skills from your military background have helped you in setting up and running Cybsafe?

“The most obvious one that comes to mind is leadership,” said Oz. “Quite often many people don’t think about it, but the military thinks about leadership quite a lot, not least because, in order to do what we need to do – I served for 17 years – we require leaders at every level.

“We believe that leaders create leaders, and I carry that with me. I very much believe, regardless of what role you find yourself in, you are a leader, of projects, or a task force, of a group, of a team, of an organisation, a department – whatever. It might be of your family or your household or your neighbourhood.

“The importance of trust, integrity and purpose are others. Those three things, combined with leadership, were found in abundance in the military and I continue to find them in abundance at Cybsafe.”

What advice would you give your earlier self?

“The most important thing is that success in all our endeavours is not about who we are as individuals, but our ability to attract the right talent,” said Oz. “I now know some things about attracting certain types of talent and we’ve had to learn as we’ve gone along. I’d probably tell myself that, so that I would have learned them a bit faster “The team at Cybsafe is incredible – a passionate, talented, diverse group – and that is why we’re having success.”

want to create the conditions for them to do their best work. For most of our team, that is actually spending time with people you like, trust and value, and who value and respect you.

“That that might be at home, in a cafe, on a beach and we’re going to sei e that exibility with both hands.

“We miss being together, and so our hub, other than our single base, is also the ability for people to come together if they want to.

“I chose to base Cybsafe at Level39 because, as an organisation and a mechanism for being part of this vibrant UK tech community, it’s brilliant.

“Also, we’re surrounded by lots of potential customers. The majority of our clients come from the regulated market and the largest group by far is financial services.

“When it comes to security, there is no one-si e-fits-all. What we offer is a software solution where organisations can choose to address the problem that is most important to them and that has to fit with the stage they are at in the maturity of their organisation.

“It doesn’t matter what stage you’re at, you’ll find something in there for you.”

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how three generations of creativity come together in Sui Generis’ greetings cards

£2.75

Typical price for a Sui Generis card online, although some are available for £2.50 in the current sale

Photographer and Sui Glintenkamp with, inset, a selection of her images used on the company’s greetings cards, sold locally and online

Pamela Glintenkamp, Sui Generis

by Jon Massey

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amela Glintenkamp has been taking photos since she was six. While her professional life as a media producer, writer, editor and oral historian has seen her create audio guides, podcasts, video and a book on the history of Lucasfilm’s special effects giant Industrial Light And Magic, a passion for taking still images has been a constant in her life.

Partly as an outlet for those photographs, the Limehouse resident launched stationery company Sui Generis, which translates from the Latin as “of its own kind”.

Producing greetings cards that are on sale both online and locally at Three Colt Gallery, the business’ name is especially apt. ot only are Pamela’s cards the only ones to feature her selected images, to some extent they’re also the product of a creative lineage dating back to 1920s Limehouse and beyond.

“My grandfather, H Glintenkamp, was a fairly well-known graphic artist who specialised in woodcuts and engravings,” said Pamela, who was born in New ork and first came to London to study the history of design at the A after working in the film industry.

“Some of his works can be seen in the British Museum’s prints and drawings department and he lived in Battersea for a brief period in the 1920s. For the rest of his life he was in New York and Mexico and was friends with people like Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.

“I have a photo of him making a sculpture in his London studio, but I only have one image he created in the two years he was here – a woodcut of Limehouse Causeway in 1921.

“I never met my grandfather, so we can only imagine, but Limehouse at the time was the centre of London’s Chinatown and had a bad reputation – it was supposedly notorious for opium dens and other nefarious activities.

“As a bohemian artist, he may have been drawn to the area and this is a view representing his experience of the neighbourhood.

I discovered the print before I

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I’m extremely attached to Limehouse. I love the history here and then there’s this very personal connection with my grandfather

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cards on the

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moved to the area and I didn’t seek out living here, but I think about it every time I walk by and I have the print up in my house. The image is one of the cards available at Three Colt Gallery and there’s also a woodcut I’ve done myself as an homage. It’s of my dog – Maddow The ELO – named after achel Maddow the American broadcaster who brings me the news every morning.

“My father gave me woodcutting tools when I was a kid and while I haven’t done it a lot, because sculpture is more my thing, I know how to do enough that I think it looks like Maddow.

“I’m extremely attached to Limehouse. I love the history here and then there’s this very personal connection.”

Sui Generis is all about personal connection. Created to encourage more people to send physical greetings as an antidote to the often impersonal and shallow world of digital communication, it offers its customers the opportunity to choose an image that means something to them and their chosen recipient, along with a handwritten message.

“For most of us, a large part of every day is spent with fingers on our keyboards, tablets or phones, and personalisation is reduced to choice of font, a quickly dashed off message or an emoji,” said Pamela.

“The idea behind Sui Generis is that there’s a value in communicating in a much more personal way – particularly in this unusual time of social distancing – there’s a feeling of connection when you actually receive a handwritten card that may have more significance than in pre-Covid days.

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from Page 14 you’ve held and written on the card your friend, colleague or lover holds in their hand.

“Electronic communication encourages us to write quickly – telegraphically – with a little less consideration. With ink and paper, that’s it. You can’t hit backspace.

“In a world of birthday texts and posts, to me, getting a card in the mail is very different.

“Sui Generis’ ambition is to revive that joy of sending and receiving handwritten cards – it might be to cheer someone up, to surprise them or to just say hello.”

Sui Generis also ultimately owes its creation to the in uence of Pamela’s father – H’s son.

“He was a professional photographer – I grew up in a professional studio in New York,” she said. “He handed me an analogue camera when I was very young – it didn’t have a meter, so I would understand F-stop, shutter speed and what a certain ISO was for. That meant I would also know when one with an automatic meter was wrong and how to adjust creatively to get what I wanted.

“He encouraged me to pursue photography as a hobby – submitted my work for various competitions and so on – so it’s always been a part of my life.

“Sui Generis was really a nice outlet for all of the images I create.

It was a case of thinking: ‘There’s an image that would work on a card’. It’s been really gratifying because it’s a place for those photographs to go – a way to share them and a way to promote these ideas.

“My favourite part of what I do professionally is the editing. You have your materials together and it’s: ‘What am I going to make out of this?’. That’s true with the images too – which ones make sense as cards? Which ones sit well on the format?

“I’ve always loved stationery supplies and writing letters. I write lots of emails, but it’s just not the same. I’m one of those people who still sends birthday cards.

“If I’m invited to dinner, I’ll send a thank-you note because you’ve gone to the physical trouble of preparing a meal and then I’ve gone to the physical trouble of writing a card and sending it.

“This is a small way to encourage more of that.”

Sui Generis cards are available at Three Colt Gallery in Three Colt Street, Limehouse with a wider selection for sale online.

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EVENT | Abode In The Dock At the time of going to press, tickets were still on sale for this dance extravaganza, presumably taking place in a socially distanced manner, Covid allowing.

Oct 17, noon-10pm, from £45, tobaccodocklondon.com

Limehouse Causeway 1921 by H Glintenkamp, Pamela’s grandfather

BOOK Wilton’s Music Hall Wapping

STAGE | FRIEND (The One With Gunther) Tickets for Brendan Murphy’s show where we learn the true story of Ross, Rachel, Phoebe, Chandler, Monica and Joey, are on sale from October 5.

Feb 1-6, times vary, £TBC, wiltons.org.uk VISIT The Craft Beer Co Limehouse

A card for an adventurous friend: One of Pamela’s images of a warning to ‘boys and others’ tempted to swim in the Thames at Limehouse

PUB | Enjoy A Range Of Ales Settle on a brightly coloured stool and sup beers from the likes of Kent Brewery, 71 Brewing, Wylam, Lilley’s and Pillars with Laotian and Thai food.

Open daily, times vary, thecraftbeerco.com

bright sparkles

Check out the wide range of jewellery available from Limehouse-based Karst featuring a wide array of stones and settings plated by Amber Rand with 18ct yellow and rose gold. Go on, treat yourself karstjewellery.co.uk

Pamela’s dog Maddow The ELO is often to be spotted in Limehouse and also features in woodcut form on Sui Generis cards as an homage to H

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£18m

Price paid by Inspiration Healthcare for SLE, which was advised by Isle Of Dogsbased Kidd Rapinet on the deal

how Kidd Rapinet Solicitors were able to help deliver the sale of ventilator firm SLE despite lockdown

by Jon Massey

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ockdown may have meant a lengthy break from their usual activities for some.

For others, the wheels of business continued to turn. In the case of Chris Henniker and Randeep Thethy – both partners at Harbour Exchange-based Kidd Rapinet Solicitors – that meant working remotely to help deliver an £18million deal.

“We were acting for the shareholders of SLE – a private family company founded in 1956 that manufactures, markets and exports infant ventilators to all sorts of places around the world,” said Chris. “It’s a common theme when you get management of a certain age who don’t have any succession in place, that they decide to sell – they want to realise the money.”

FTSE AIM listed Inspiration Healthcare Group PLC was the buyer, acquiring SLE to roughly double the size of its business and take a leading position in the field of neonates by providing technology to help improve the health of some of the world’s tiniest babies.

While Chris’ involvement in the deal began in May 2019 and the process took a pause in March as the pandemic arrived, the firms and their legal teams were able to tie up the loose ends in June.

Chris said: “With this deal, everybody had a very good reason to do it. The price was negotiated and pinned down early on. There wasn’t much that came out later that led to any issues.

“It was a great team effort by all involved and a real pleasure to see the amazing products and skill sets of both companies coming together for the greater good.”

With much economic and social uncertainty in the pipeline as Covid-19 continues to ravage the UK, it’s likely many companies will be bought and sold in the coming months, with solicitors standing ready to help protect the interests of both buyers and sellers.

Randeep, who worked on the property aspects of the SLE deal, said: “If there’s anything we’ve seen as a result of the pandemic and lockdown, it’s that a lot of people have had time to re ect – to see where they are – and a lot of businesses will have to make changes for the future. “It could be a change of model that drives people to sell or buy after asking:

‘Are we doing the right things?’.”

Chris added: “There will be lots of assets in the wrong place now and, I suspect, a lot of people of a certain age will be saying: ‘Look, the next few years aren’t going to be easy – do I need that?’. There are also a whole load of businesses that are doing OK. “Acting on a sale, you are advising the client on the acquisition agreement, which nowadays, for anything of any size, is going to be quite a complicated document.

“It’s really making sure that your client doesn’t start going down a path to a destination they don’t want to end up at. Because we’ve done it many times before, hopefully we can see that coming.

“My job is to fit into the jigsaw at the end of the process – you’re always thinking: ‘How is this going to end? How do we make sure that this goes in the right direction?’. I have to get an understanding of what my client does, because I need to know what really matters and what really concerns them in the business.

“It’s also about explaining why I’m worried about certain areas, such as warranties, to them so that they understand the issues and can guide me in what’s relevant and what isn’t.

“As a firm, we’ve got lots of experience in acting for purchasers and sellers of businesses as well as spending a lot of time providing business advice.”

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rom its base on the Isle Of Dogs, and with five other branches spread throughout London, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire, Kidd Rapinet is able to draw on the significant resources and many areas of expertise a multi-service firm offers in relation to the complex area of commercial law.

Randeep said: “For the SLE deal, for instance, we were able to keep everything in-house.

“We cover a broad range of areas with Chris and his team specialising in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and my team dealing with the property aspects of the deal.

“People can come to us with deals that involve many different

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My job is to fit into the jigsaw at the end of the process – you’re always thinking: ‘How do we make sure that this goes in the right direction?’

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Chris Henniker, Kidd Rapinet

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areas of the law – we have a wide range of expertise.”

Chris said: “The other thing is that we’ve done enough of these deals over the years to be 100% comfortable in working with other people too.

“We cover most areas and we’ve got a good understanding of what goes into a deal beyond that but where we do need specialist input, that’s fine.

“What we do, in short, is we get the deal done. If a client wants to sell a business, that’s what they’re paying us to do.

“We need to make sure they understand what we’re doing and what the risks are. We’re also there to ensure they get what they were expecting from the deal.

“If a client is buying, it’s more complicated, but in essence we’re there to see that they get what they think they’ve bought and that can involve a whole lot of compromises.

“It doesn’t involve someone putting a document on my desk and saying: ‘Take it or leave it’.”

Randeep added: “You are always acting in your client’s best interests – what outcome do they expect to get from the deal?

“That’s the ethos we work within and we use a sensible, commercial, pragmatic approach.

“For the SLE deal, we were right in the middle of lockdown and there were some significant challenges.

“Working remotely and not having the team around you, not having access to industrial-size scanners or photocopiers, people struggling with broadband connections – but we managed and delivered for our client.” idd apinet offers a wide range of services including employment law, residential and commercial property, personal injury, corporate and commercial, debt recovery, con ict and disputes, immigration divorce and separation and wills and probate.

The firm also operates the In And Around Canary Wharf networking group, which brings local companies together to meet, socialise and do business.

For more information about the services Kidd Rapinet provides, call 020 7205 2115 or go to kiddrapinet.co.uk.

STAGE | In Bad Taste Eat the rich, literally in this case. Enjoy an evening of cannibalism-meets-feminism as performers chew the fat. Book by September 29 for 20% off.

Oct 15-17, 8pm, £15, space.org.uk ART Trinity Buoy Wharf Leamouth

INSTALLATION | Sonic Ray This piece by Artangel sees the sound of 1,000-year musical composition Longplayer beamed across the Thames from Trinity Buoy Wharf’s lighthouse.

Oct 30-Dec 6, times vary, £7.50, trinitybuoywharf.com DINE Capeesh Isle Of Dogs

BOOK | A Table Find superb pizza and pasta, sports screened and DJs at the weekend, at this dockside restaurant offering a reliably delicious taste of Italy.

Open daily, capeesh.co.uk

in the arts

October 6 is the deadline for pledging money to The Space’s crowdfunding campaign Save Our Space, which aims to raise £15,000 to support the venue. Donors will be entered into a prize draw for an online Q&A with the charity’s patron Sir Ian McKellen Scan this code for full details of the campaign or to pledge a donation to the cause want more? @wharflifelive

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how catching a spot at Midnight Apothecary is still just possible, but you’ll need to be quick about the booking

ART | Now Dark - Now Glittering Catch Aby Floyd’s artworks as the gallery-cum-bar is filled with oils embellished with textiles, glitter, embroidery, crystals and gold leaf. Rich, glorious.

Oct 1-4, times vary, deptforddoesart.com EAT Bone Daddies Bermondsey

JAPANESE | Bone Daddies Dine in the chain’s development kitchen as its head chefs toil to create new dishes under railway arches to the sound of rock’n’roll. Banging spice.

Open Friday-Sunday, bonedaddies.com From top, the

SEE The Albany Deptford

Woodland Martini and Nasturtium And Grapefruit Paloma

The romantically lit drinks station at Midnight Apothecary’s terrace in Rotherhithe

by Jon Massey

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here’s still just about time to catch Midnight Apothecary’s pop-up terrace outside the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe. While less glamorous in some respects than the brand’s garden cocktails and Thames Tunnel entrance tours, the uber-spacing of the tables plus food from The May ower pub nearby lend the brick-built square an injection of Covid-secure conviviality.

Booking is free for tables of up to six and service is via app to the tables, dotted about and divided up with movable planters filled with verdant leaves.

Available until September 25 – although few would bet against some form of winter reappearance,

pandemic permitting – it’s a chance to get to grips with owner Lottie Muir’s extraordinary way with the local ora.

We start with Woodland Martinis – potent glasses filled with vodka, dry vermouth, smoked sage and wormwood bitters.

They come almost instantly thanks to an engaging masked waiter, perfumed and garnished with a sprig of spruce.

Warming deep down, despite the coolness of the pine resin and the sharpness of the bitters, they’re an ideal starter as the sun dips away.

The decor is as sharp as the service, with lights strung above

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the busy little bar and the twinkling of fairy bulbs in the planters.

The atmosphere is warm and friendly despite the gaps between the customers. A nearby table discusses the merits or otherwise of watching Battlestar Galactica.

It’s just enough of a diversion to prevent us wondering where the second drinks have got to before I realise I failed to send the request via the app. They turn up in short order and I’m left gently falling into the embrace of the leaves that both dominate our table and infuse the asturtium And Grapefruit Paloma.

This punchy tequila concoction, enhanced with Himalayan salt, honey, limes and a generous chunk of the citrus fruit is everything about the experience summed up in a glass. Joyous, complex and deserving of a repeat order.

Go to themidnightapothecary.co.uk

MUSIC | Charles Hayward Presents The musician and sound activist presents a mix of south-east London sounds to dazzle and amaze from Harmergeddon to Agathe Max. Oct 9, 7.30pm, on sale soon, thealbany.org.uk

oh beehive

Join Bermondsey-based Hiver Beer for a trip to Kennington Park to see the hives where the honey for its brews is made. Tickets cost £42 and include socially distanced tasting and appropriate protective clothing hiverbeers.com Scan this code for more information about Hiver or to book at beehive tour and tasting session want more? @wharflifelive

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SEE | Solar System Discovery Enjoy a virtual planetarium show from the comfort of your own desktop as an astronomer from the Royal Observatory takes you through the cosmos.

Saturdays, ongoing, free, rmg.co.uk (to book) SEE National Maritime Museum Greenwich

IMAGES | Astronomy Photographer Of The Year See the winners and shortlisted images from the 2020 competition in their glorious, star-lit majesty.

Tickets must be booked prior to arrival.

Oct 23-Aug 8, daily, £10, rmg.co.uk SHOP Royal Arsenal Riverside Woolwich

VISIT | Farmers Market Purchase food, ingredients and products sourced from small businesses at this charming market that takes place regularly in Artillery Square.

Selected Saturdays, free, rare.london/farmers-market

and in the arts

Get some of the best views in London with a socially distanced trip Up At The O2 – expect fresh breezes and plenty of landmarks at the attraction that takes guests onto the roof of the most famous tent in the capital theo2.co.uk To book a climb or find out more about Up At The O2, simply scan this code with your phone want more? @wharflifelive

how Greenwich Theatre’s return to live events promises social distancing, stories, digital innovation and a festive, wintry tale

by Jon Massey

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t was bloody heartbreaking,” said James Haddrell. “I’ve worked at Greenwich Theatre for 20 years and, overnight, it all stopped and we had to close the doors. Because of our connections with Broadway as an industry, we perhaps saw it coming as shows in the States were being cancelled, but that didn’t make it any easier.”

Little wonder then that Greenwich Theatre’s executive and artistic director can’t wait for its forthcoming autumn programme to start as the venue is set for a gradual return to live performance.

While this year’s panto – The Queen Of Hearts – has been rescheduled for dates over Easter 2021, the theatre will be hosting a re-imagined festive season, producing a live version of Joan Aiken’s 1962 classic The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase as well as putting on family stand-up show Comedy Club For Kids and a version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Before that though, the venue will see a series of performances starting this month.

“We’ve got a range of productions, but what I really didn’t want was a season of one-man shows where someone comes on, changes hats a lot and plays lots of characters,” said James. “You can do that, but I think it’s only interesting for a certain length of time.

“Instead we’ve got lots of different types of shows. We kick off with Steve Richards with Rock’n’roll Politics – something he’s done at King’s Place for quite a while and, during lockdown, has been doing online.

“It’s on the edge of stand-up, an interrogation of what goes on at Westminster and I can’t think of a better time than now for that.

“Then we have David Harper’s A Romp With The Georgians and anyone who knows him from Antiques Roadshow will know what to expect.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had a show that’s noted for the brightly coloured trousers of its star before.

“We’ve also got music – Katrina Beckford will be doing her show God Bless The Child about the life of Billie Holiday along with a live pianist. She

has an absolutely incredible voice.

Flipping the spirit, we have a show called Politically Incorrect: The Songs Of Tom Lehrer, which will be a lot of fun.

“We’re also working on a season of work for kids during half term, including a show called Roald Dahl And The Imagination Seekers, which is the only production of its kind approved by the late writer’s estate.

“The idea is all of his stories have been wiped from the world and the play asks how we can save them.”

While closing the theatre was tough, it was also an opportunity for James and the venue’s team to explore online engagement with its audience.

“We quickly launched Greenwich Connects, which is our online programme – so we were issuing weekly challenges for writers and actors, streaming shows.

“Then I thought: ‘I want to make something. It’s all very well showing old stuff but, either people have seen it, or it doesn’t engage through the medium in the same way’.

“So we made a new piece to stream for free linked to our work with emerging artists and young actors – The Secret Love Life Of Ophelia, which is a Steven Berkoff play – complete with an appearance from our patron Dame Helen Mirren. Thousands of people watched and we started to realise there was an opportunity to engage beyond our local area.

“That worked, and we’ve found doing things online has been a way to connect with new audiences, so we’re definitely going to keep doing it.

“We know, from running test events, that we can put live shows on in a safe, socially distanced way and we want people to come to them. But we’ll also continue to work online.

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We know, from running test events, that we can put live shows on in a safe, socially distanced way and we want people to come to them James Haddrell, Greenwich Theatre

“For example, The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase is a classic, wintry, snowy story about a fictional version of England where wolves have invaded and are prowling the countryside. It’s a lovely adventure story.

Both cast and audience will be socially distanced and we can have about 130 people watching, but we’re also going to have a parallel online experience.

“We won’t be live streaming the show itself, but people will be able to buy a ticket to join the cast where they play one of the characters. The digital version will be for 12 children at a time – the actors will be on script and it will be like a ‘choose your own adventure’ tale where the kids will need simple props to participate.

“I hope people will do both. But for those who can’t come, they will be able to do that.”

The rescheduling of the panto, which is still to feature Andrew Pollard and devilish villain Anthony Spargo on the new dates, is itself something of an experiment.

James said: “Panto at Easter has certainly been tried, but there’s never been this kind of scenario where people’s festive appetite has been frustrated. If there was ever a time to try it again, it’s now.

“The pantomime is incredibly important – it earns us more than public subsidy through the year, more than everything else we do through the year put together, actually. It’s financially crucial.

“We don’t know if that will be socially distanced or not, but we’ve worked out a way to make it viable.

“However, rescheduling still means rolling it back to a period after this financial year – we still have to get to Easter. A big part of that is hinging on an Arts Council application, like many other venues. So far we’ve been kept open by a whole series of donations, which we are eternally grateful for, but we still need support.

“We are appealing to people to buy tickets, come and see a show, buy a brick in our latest campaign or donate through the website. We’re resolutely upbeat about the future and we want to be here to welcome everyone to the panto next Easter.”

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Greenwich - Peninsula - Woolwich

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Cost of a People’s Brick at Greenwich Theatre inscribed with the donors’ name

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upcoming shows at Greenwich Theatre

Greenwich Theatre will operate all shows in a Covid-secure, socially distanced manner during its autumn season. Audience members can sit together in groups of up to six provided they are in a social bubble together. Here are some highlights to watch out for POLITICS | Rock’n’roll Politics Political commentator and presenter Steve Richards talks, Cummings, Johnson, Covid and Brexit. Could there be a better time to disect Westminster’s foibles?

Sept 26, 7.30pm, £15 HISTORY | A Romp With The Georgians Antiques expert and TV presenter David Harper slips into his trademark ostentatious trews for a historical stand up show on Brits from 1714-1830. Shocking.

Oct 1, 7.30pm, £16 MUSIC | God Bless The Child Katrina Beckford performs as Billie Holiday, taking the audience on a journey through her misspent youth to the jazz joints of 1930s Harlem and stardom.

Oct 24, 7.30pm, £17.50

James Haddrell says the theatre continues to need support as it opens its doors and works towards putting on an Easter panto and a re-imagined festive season

GIG | Politically Incorrect Pianist and singer Peter Gill performs the preposterous ditties of Tom Lehrer including Pollution, Smut and Oedipus Rex – he really loved his mother.

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Allan Gonsalves runs London Orgone in Greenwich Market, specialising in orgone energy jewellery and striking design pieces for the home and garden.

He said: “We make unusual items including furniture out of reclaimed materials such as car parts. The shop’s main theme is orgone – a layering of inorganic and organic materials, which is used all around the world to soften electromagnetic fields.”

Top right, Orgone heart, amethyst and rose quartz, £70

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bright colours and flavours are the order of the day at Emmanuel La Gona’s stall Latin Bros. he said: “We do Latin American fusion food – burritos, tacos and Cuban sandwiches. Everything is fresh – made on the spot. Our pork burrito is very popular – we slow cook the meat for 12-13 hours.”

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Tailor & Forge, founded by Scott Blumsom and Driss Ziani, brings together homeware and gifts under one roof in its Greenwich Market store

catch Tasnim Mandy at the Greenwich outpost of Turnips as she and other members of the team serve the good stuff. she said: “We do fresh juices and cheese toasties. This is an extension of the Borough Market business, using surplus produce from the shop there and our wholesale business, as ingredients.”

Scott, right, said: “Tailor & Forge is an independent, family-run curated boutique. We specialise in furniture, kitchenware and retail products – everything you need for your home.”

Knitted bear, £34.95, from Tailor & Forge

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Hot stuff: Tommy serves a range of street food from his stall, including the chicken burger, bottom right, which costs £7.50 and comes with either Buffalo, Chuckling Zing or Mum’s sauces

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for fried chicken, it has to be a stop at Chuckling Wings. run by Tommy Nguyen, this stall offers free range meat in the form of burgers, boneless thighs and, of course wings.

Tommy said: “If you want to try great fried chicken, come to Greenwich Market. For our burger, we use a brioche bun, add some lettuce, fried onions, pickled cabbage and sauces made to our own secret recipes.”

stop by Ideal Espresso, run

by Jonathan Oldham for some seriously good coffee.

he said: “Our whole philosophy is one of trying to make the best cup of coffee that we can we firmly believe that everything else will look after itself. We try to make each cup to the very best of our ability. We use beans from ission offee Works, which owns the Mousetail cafes, serving their house blend on a daily basis.”

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Natalie Walker is all about the sweet stuff, selling Doreen’s Jamaican Handmade Rum Cakes.

find Patch Hyde, wielding giant implements and feeding visitors to The Fudge Patch indecent quantities of free vegan fudge, as he spreads his sugary, gospel laced with hemp milk.

she said: “Traditionally known as black cake, ours is made with Wray & Nephew Superproof rum. We do lots of other desserts too. It was my mum’s recipe and my sister, Jackie Christian, and I named the business for her.”

he said: “Vegan fudge tastes so much better don t believe us ome into our sho and we ll let you try every flavour free of charge. We’ll put our fudge where your mouth is.”

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tasting the finest selling scotch eggs, sausage rolls and face masks (from 1 Emma Taylor can be found holding the fort at Finest Fayre for her friend Nikki O’Kane she said: “We’ve got stalls across London. The main thing is that people know we’re here in Greenwich.

We sell a variety of scotch eggs the classic, the black udding, the chori o and a breakfast recipe with Cumberland sausage, wild mushrooms and bacon.

Salad boxes cost £7.”

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a must in Greenwich is the taste of the plump, delicious shellfish from Oyster Brothers. harvested fresh at Mersea Island in Essex by Jacek Kolasinski, these can be enjoyed at his stall on their own (from £2) or with a glass of fi for 12.

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he said: “We were established five years ago. We harvest them ourselves every day except Sunday, purify them and bring them to the market to sell.”

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how The Oiler Bar offers a slick combination of locally brewed beer and expertly produced pizza on the quay

KIDS | Wondering Wanders Download two maps – Seeking The Sleeping Giant and Ride To The Heart Of The Docks – designed to guide families around the area’s sights and icons.

Ongoing, free, royaldocks.london ONLINE Millennium Mills Royal Docks

FILM | Unearthed: Royal Docks x Boy Blue The east London street dance company explore the capital’s identity in a new solo piece filmed in the iconc Millennium Mills building. Well worth a look.

Online from Sept 26, free, royaldocks.london LISTEN Emirates Air Line Royal Victoria Dock

Pizzas can be taken away and enjoyed in the public areas of Royal Docks in a socially distanced manner

by Jon Massey

W

hile the warm weather can’t last forever, current Covid conditions might make it necessary for the British public to get a little bit more used to wrapping up warm and eating outside.

In Royal Docks, there are few better places to do that than The Oiler Bar. While social distancing and a no reservations policy mean securing a table at this popular spot can be tricky, it’s still an excellent base of operations, with both takeaway drinks and freshly baked pizza available.

Better still, it’s possible to get a real avour of the area with local brewery Husk’s IPA on tap, created a few minutes’ walk away in a unit

under the nearby yover. There’s something especially satisfying about relaxing at the very end of the vast waters of Royal Victoria Dock and tasting the supple bitterness of a cloudy beer that’s been brewed locally.

Combine that with the fine simplicity of its crispy pizzas – served baking hot on warmed tin plates and brown paper for immediate consumption – and you have all the ingredients for an extremely pleasant evening.

At a little over £10 per pizza, the cooking is both rapid and full of verve with big ingredients strewn about the bases offering a barrage

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of tastes offset by the fiery scorch of the smoky dough.

It’s everything the Italians meant fast food to be – quick, keenly priced and delicious – the ideal accompaniment to a pint or two of Husk as the sun dips down over the docks.

Hang around and, even those unable to get on the boat itself or its dockside terrace can enjoy the slick moves of those braving the water on the wires of the neighbouring WakeUp Docklands watersports centre at twilight.

The Oiler regularly entreats its followers on social media to #staylubed and its slickly applied Covid-secure measures make that easy to do.

This is an operation where all the parts are well greased so the machine’s masters can operate it with confidence.

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AUDIO | Sanko-time British-Ghanaian artist Larry Achiampong has created two works to accompany a round trip on the cable car responding to Britain’s colonial past.

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Find our more about the recently relaunched House Of Mass – based in The Silver Building, this movement and dance studio offers classes for all levels as well as space for hire and opportunities for collaboration @houseofmass on Insta Scan this code for more about House Of Mass and the programmes if offers in Royal Docks want more? @wharflifelive

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Artists’ works are featured in Somewhere I Live at Cody Dock

how Adeyam Tsehaye and Judith Kusi are drawing artists from Newham and Tower Hamlets together at Cody Dock

by Jon Massey

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he ower-filled wilds of Cody Dock – sat on the border between ewham and Tower Hamlets – provide the backdrop to Somewhere I Live. Co-curated by Adeyam Tsehaye and Judith usi, the exhibition brings together their work with pieces by 10 other artists who either live in, or have a strong connection to, one of the two east London boroughs.

Laid out in the dock’s gallery space and its outside areas, the show is set to run until October 1 and was conceived to foster allyship between ewham and Tower Hamlets amid the Covid pandemic and the global focus on racial injustice.

“It’s something we came together to work on to bring the community together and see how our boroughs have been coping and dealing with the many things we’ve been going through in 2020,” said Adeyam, who grew up in ewham and continues to live there. “It felt like it came together organically – we didn’t have to think too hard. Things fell into place and it’s worked out really well.”

Judith, who lives in Tower Hamlets, said “I somehow managed to be included in Drink Shop And Do’s Celebrating Black Creatives and I really loved its response to George loyd’s murder and the amplification and focus of

that. They pulled it together very quickly and there’s been a lot of talk about people doing what they want to do – taking up their own authority “In some strange way I had the resources to put this exhibition together so long as there was some participation, and Adeyam was the first person that came to mind because she lives in ewham.

“We had a chat about doing something where we could celebrate black creatives and I walked through Cody Dock during lockdown, saw the gallery space, did a little Google, and just asked whether it was possible.

“It evolved from a focus on the Black Lives Matter movement into wellbeing, from everybody’s experiences of the health crisis – watching those horrifying scenes – it felt really useful and important to have spaces that people could go to that weren’t very far away from home “This is our first experience of co-curating – we definitely wanted

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Having a photo of the artists on the wall is part of our journey in finding them and understanding their connection to the area Judith Kusi, Somewhere I Live

The exhibition takes place both indoors and outdoors at Cody Dock

to do something together. Then it was about figuring out how to find the artists, because people often don’t identify themselves as being from a particular area.”

“There was a lot of searching, looking through hashtags and Googling,” said Adeyam.

“It was about trying hard to find a variety of artists and people to get a range of different perspectives.”

Adeyam, who worked as a graphic designer before choosing to focus on art full-time, tackles themes of connecting people, self discovery and mental health in her pieces.

She said “In the lockdown, I spent a lot of time in my local area exploring. I think that was one of the first times I’d looked at what ewham had, even though I’ve lived there almost all my life – it was taking the time to take long walks.

“As much as I am a homebody, I had to get out and explore, getting some sunlight and some greenery and ewham really became that for me. or example, I had no idea Cody Dock was here. I didn’t even know about it.

“When I first started talking to Judith about the exhibition I realised that, while ewham just felt like somewhere I live, it was really much more than that.”

Judith, who works as an educational psychologist in Tower Hamlets, began making art in 201 while completing her doctoral research.

She said “I think my artwork has been inspired by Tower Hamlets where I grew up. My art is very much focused on figurative work – on human beings and their interaction.

“Growing up in the borough, it just felt like everybody was quite equal. But I guess when I go to different places – when I’m in different positions – whether that’s professionally, personally or in the art realm of my life, people interact with me in such different ways.

“My art is very focused on trying to depict the application of psychology to the concept of race at the moment.

“There’s an aspect of my work that looks at the spaces between people and draws on social

Emergence (2020) by Adeyam Tsehaye Acrylic on canvas

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United By Colour (2020)

by Judith Kusi and, inset below, Let Me Breathe (2020) by Drew Sinclair

Foundation (2019) by Antonietta Torsiello Acrylic and graphite on canvas

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constructionism. I paint the negative spaces between figures to draw attention to the place where we co-construct the reality about race and I use colour to show just how arbitrary the concept is in a lot of ways.”

Growing up, neither Judith nor Adeyam said they thought becoming an artist was a possibility, opting instead for more stable careers as they went through school and university.

Somewhere I Live features more than just the names of the artists featured on its walls – it has images of the people who made the work and information about their connections to Newham and Tower Hamlets.

Judith said: “I would like people to see themselves in the work.

We’ve put images of all the artists featured on the wall for a reason – I want people to see people who look like them, and have a feeling that if art is something they want to explore, then it’s possible for them to do that. I didn’t think that was the case for me – it was get a PhD as a minimum.”

“It was very similar for me,” said Adeyam. “I didn’t think I could have a career in art. There are very traditional roles you’re expected to go into – lawyer, doctor. At least I could get a steady job designing things, but I like to paint and draw and put my emotions into that – you can’t really do that when you work for other people.

“Doing something like this exhibition is really helping to open the eyes of my family – my art was always thought of more as a hobby and, for a long time, that’s the way I saw it too. Having those photos is a connection to the viewer because we have based the exhibition on our local areas.”

Judith added: “Curating the exhibition was not necessarily about the pieces, but the people – using our criteria of geography to ask them to choose or produce artwork that fitted our theme.

“Having a photo of the artists is part of our journey in finding the person and understanding their connection to the area – it’s really important. The idea that someone who lives locally might come in and see the artists is exciting – a way to take a little more ownership of their home. We can’t wait to welcome them.”

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