Are you in a WhatsApp group for your Road? Why not join the Street Admins group. Nominate one person from your Road group to join the Street admin WhatsApp group, then if anything good/bad is going on in a local road, we pop it into the group and then you can quickly forward the info to residents of your road group. We currently have representatives from 16 roads in the group, we would love to expand.

EG Catalytic Convertor theft in Ashleigh Rd, is then shared with the street admins group, who can quickly send it to their own road. Just drop me an email [email protected]

Page 2 Welcome to the March magazine Inside

Great news to hear the Prime Minister layout our roadmap to open up local business and life generally. It will be onderful to pop to our local 9 shops, enjoy a chilled glass of wine in a pub garden, oh and who needs to go to the hairdressers! The next issue of the magazine should be a hard copy going through residents doors, can't wait to be back to a sort of normal!

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To let you know Mother's day is on the horizon pop the date in your diary if you haven't already -14th March!

Going out for a meal will still be a no no, but we have some excellent other ideas in the mag. What about a beautiful bouqcake? No i didn'tidn't spelt that wrong, take a look at P23. There's many other ideas too a mothers day gift box P22, a painting from Zoe or from Al Giglio gallery.gallery. Not to mention our lovely takeaways!

Whilst we can't follow our traditions, we do wish you happy St David's Day and happy St Patricks day, falling on the 1st and 17th respectively.

We have some fantastic articles within, from saving money on your fuel to an update from Ellie Reeves our MP.

And finally if you have eaten way to much in lockdown (who can blame We hope you enjoy you) We have two different local business that can help you get the diet and health back in order. this issue. Please mention SE20 As always thank you to all the businesses inside for advertising and thank you to you all for reading SE20 Community Magazine. Please Community mention the mag if you use any of the business within our pages oror onon Magazine when our website. our website. responding to IfIf youyou wouldwould likelike toto advertiseadvertise inin thethe nextnext issue,issue, pleaseplease getget inin touch.touch. adverts

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Page 3 GuinnessGuinness chocolatechocolate puddingspuddings Serves 4 Ingredients 150g unsalted butter , plus extra for the ramekins 200g dark chocolate (70% cocoa), roughly chopped 90g golden caster sugar 3 large eggs 90ml Guinness or other stout clotted cream or thick double cream, to serve (optional)

Method Butter four 9 x 5cm ramekins and set aside. Tip the butter, chocolate and a generous pinch of salt into a heatproof bowl. Set over a small pan of just-simmering water and stir until melted, then remove from the heat and leave to cool a little.

Put the sugar and eggs in a large mixing bowl and beat with an electric whisk until pale, almost doubled in volume and thick enough to leave a trail when the beaters are lifted up. Gently fold in the melted chocolate and the Guinness. Spoon the mixture into the ramekins, then chill in the fridge for 1 hr. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and put a baking tray on the top shelf to heat up.

Place the ramekins on the hot baking tray and bake for 18 mins. Remove from the oven and leave to stand for a minute, then serve with a dollop of cream, if you like.

10 tips for saving energy

With most of us spending more time at home than 7) Doing the washing ever before keeping your energy usage under It’s a cliche, but it’s true: baths do use up more hot water control has never been more important. To help than showers. And obviously, the shorter the shower, the with this Utility Warehouse have put together these more energy you save. top 10 tips for saving energy. When washing clothes, think about using a shorter cycle and lower temperatures. Most germs are killed at 40 1) Focus the heat degrees, meaning you don’t need to go any higher when If you’re spending all your time in one room, think doing the laundry. about turning off the heating in other parts of the house. 8) Layer up when possible We’re not advocating piling on 6 jumpers and 3 pairs 2) Bleed your radiators of trousers instead of switching on your radiators for a If you switch on your radiator and the top of it stays couple of hours a day. However, there may be times cold, it means it needs bleeding. Don’t worry, it’s not as when you can save some pennies by turning down the daunting as it sounds. A quick google will reveal plenty heat a little and pulling on your favourite sweater of easy ‘how to’ guides. instead. 3) Invest in a room thermostat 9) Boiling water Think about investing in a room thermostat, As a nation, we drink a lot of tea – 73 billion cups of it programmer and thermostatic radiator valves. They’re every year, apparently. And long may that tradition last. a good way to have different temperatures in specific However, overfilling the kettle when brewing a cuppa parts of your home. According to Which? It could save uses up unnecessary energy. It might seem like nothing the typical home around £75 a year. at the time, but it all adds up in the end. In a similar vein, stick a lid on pots when cooking. Dinner 4) Plug the gaps will be ready quicker and you’ll save on gas. Win win! Draughts can be a costly annoyance. Luckily, they’re easily fixed. It might require a bit of handiwork, but 10) Think about your electricity getting a draught-proofing kit from your local (or online) Lastly, don’t forget to be as efficient as possible with your DIY shop is easy and pretty cheap. Plus, it will save electricity usage. Turn off consoles when they’re on you around twenty quid a year. stand by, you could pay £35 less every year. All money that can be used to heat up the house that little bit longer Make sure to look for gaps around your door and on frosty mornings instead. window frames. Chimneys and fireplaces are also a big source of draughts. The Energy Saving Trust predicts that closing an open chimney could save you £15 a If you would benefit from reducing your bills or a free year. Not bad bill review Kate Thompson is happy to help. Kate is . an authorised business partner with Utility 5) Insulate Warehouse, the UK’s only genuine multi service If you have the time and money, it’s a good idea to provider. Trusted by over 650,000 customers and insulate your loft and any cavity walls. It could shave fully regulated by Ofgem, Ofcom and the Financial off up to £315 from your yearly bill. Conduct Authority. 6) Recycle heat There’s a couple of easy, free ways that can maximise 07917 815634 the warmth that’s already in your house. [email protected] One is to leave your curtains open when it’s sunny during the day (to let the heat in) and shutting them as soon as it gets dark (so it doesn’t escape again). Another is to consider leaving the oven slightly ajar after you’ve cooked, releasing the heat into the kitchen – take all the necessary precautions when doing this.

Ovarian and Prostrate Cancer We run this article written by Dr Helen McCalvey last March when Trinity Medical was still open. It's a very important topic and as it is Ovarian Cancer awareness month, i thought it good to rerun it.

Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cancer Prostate Cancer is now the most common in women, and there are approximately 7500 new cancer affecting men in the UK, and there are just cases diagnosed in the UK each year. under 50,000 new cases diagnosed per year. Sometimes prostate cancer grows too slowly to You have a higher risk of developing ovarian cause any problems or affect how long you live, cancer if you have a family history of ovarian or and many men with prostate cancer will never breast cancer, particularly where there are two or need any treatment. Sometimes prostate cancer more members from the same side of the family grows quickly and needs treatment to stop it affected. spreading. Ovarian cancer is more common in women after You are more likely to develop prostate cancer if menopause, but can affect younger women. There you are aged 50 or over, your father or brother is a higher risk of ovarian in cancer in women who have had prostate cancer, or you are of African or smoke, who have used HRT, or who are Afro-Caribbean descent. overweight. Prostate cancer may not produce any symptoms, Ovarian cancer often causes symptoms that are particularly in the early stages. Symptoms can similar to other more common and less serious include changes in urination such as difficulty conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). starting urinating, a weak flow, dribbling after Symptoms can be mild in the initial stages. These urinating, needing to urinate more at night. More factors can make it difficult to diagnose early, advanced symptoms can include back pain, blood before the cancer has spread. in urine or semen, or weight loss. Symptoms which could indicate ovarian If you are concerned you have symptoms, or want cancer include: to discuss your risk of prostate cancer you should make an appointment with your GP. Your GP Bloating or swelling in the tummy would take a history from you, and discuss your Abdominal or pelvic pain concerns. They might recommend a blood test for Increased urinary frequency PSA (prostate specific antigen) and a rectal Feeling full, loss of appetite, nausea examination. Other symptoms including back pain, Screening Tests There are no national screening programmes for change in bowel pattern, pain during sex, ovarian cancer or for prostate cancer currently. weight loss, fatigue, unexpected vaginal Please take part in the screening for cervical, bleeding breast and bowel cancer when you are invited. We know that the uptake for these health checks If you have concerns you should arrange to see are lower in SE20 than in neighbouring areas. your GP, and talk about your symptoms and your Dr Helen McCalvey MBChB MRCGP Trinity concerns. Your GP should take a history from you Medical Centre and examine you. They may arrange for you to have a blood test and an ultrasound scan

We are raising money for new park benches – our parks are so important to us in these difficult times. Can you help us? Have you enjoyed sitting in your local parks in 2020/21? We’d love to make everyone that little bit more comfortable by adding an extra bench to each park. The Friends set up two crowdfunding pages last year. As we have been unable to fundraise in our normal ways this year, we hope you can help us with a donation, however large or small, for this Easter in the Parks: Spring Word project. With the footings, benches are Treasure Hunt. Come to Cator Park and around £1650 each so they are not cheap to Alexandra Rec on Good Friday 2nd April install but we think they would make great from 10:00 to Easter Monday 5th April and necessary additions to the parks. At the 1600 for an Easter Egg hunt. There is a time of writing, we have received the different word in each park, so you can following donations, £682 for the Cator Park enter twice if you want. Bench and £355 for Alex RG. It would be great to have a boost to these pots before Find the 9 letters written on eggs or the end of Spring. bunnies tied to trees and benches around the parks, unscramble the letters and take a photo of one of the letters, take it and say the word to Alexandra Nurseries for Alexandra Recreation Ground. Kent House Coffee and flower Shop for Cator Park, and collect a small prize and colouring in certificate. Post your hunt photos - FB:@catorandalexandra https://www.gofundme.com/f/park-bench-for-alexandra-recreation-ground https://www.gofundme.com/f/park-bench-for-cator-park-beckenham Twitter: @catoralexandra

Membership for Friends of Cator Park & Alexandra Recreation Ground. We have a small membership scheme where annual subscriptions from as little as £3.00 support many park activities including bulb planting, bench maintenance & free to attend events.

We really need your support to continue this work. It’s easy to join email us for information [email protected] or visit our website www.friendsofcatorandalexandra.com

Five Years, 2 Towns & 323 Artworks

Here we are again with the help of Something which has been achieved this wonderful publication to spread a through a combination of the extreme bit of the creativity appearing all talent of the artists from London, the around SE20 and we thought this UK and around the world we have been month we would take a look back at privileged to find a space to work as the wider project as a whole as last well as the enormous support and generosity of so many local residents month marked five years since we in supporting the project in providing started this project around and spaces, ladders and anything else Anerley.Since that now fateful cold needed to make art. We are only the Sunday in February 2016 painting middle man here, we have made this Nemo's Chip Shop shutter along happen, but its the artists and Maple Road our SprayExhibition20 residents who allowed it to happen. Community Street Art Project, has to Community spirit combined with the date seen some 323 artworks placed generous support of artists who have up around Penge and Anerley over given their time to paint for free have the last five years - something we certainly continued to provide a never thought this would be possible perfect atmosphere for the relentless when we started the blog or addition of a splash of colour and facilitating spaces for artists to creativity to SE20. We would as always showcase their talents. Of the 323 wish to say thank you to everyone artworks placed up, how many have involved over the last five years you seen?It's fair to say no supporting this project, we have had residential town(s) in London have an incredible time and have lots more ever embraced Street Art on such a things in the pipeline for when life scale. This project has blossomed to allows! As always if anyone wishes to a point where SE20 boasts one of the participate and support the project further by offering up their public largest urban art galleries in the spaces we can find someone to paint C a p i t a l . it, please email us at [email protected] Page 15 Crowdfunding campaign launched for a new stage at the legendary Crystal Palace Bowl Crowdfunding campaign launched for a new stage at the legendary Crystal Palace Bowl The legendary Crystal Palace Bowl in South London once hosted the likes of and , while in 2021 the unique lakeside venue celebrates its 60th birthday. However, its striking This is the Trust's first significant outdoor sculptural stage has been project: helping to 'Reboot the Rusty dormant for more than a decade and sadly Laptop' - as it's affectionately known by fallen into a state of disrepair over recent locals. This would allow the stage to years, becoming known as a 'Sleeping form a striking backdrop to live music giant among the capital's outdoor venues' and performance, making the space safe [The Stage Magazine] Having been for community arts, educational and recently registered as an Asset of fitness activities, while taking a big step Community Value, an ambitious new towards defining its long term future. campaign is being launched to The sculptural outdoor stage at Crystal #BackTheBowl, crowdfunding £55,000 for Palace Bowl is an award-winning, a new stage surface to be installed and Stirling Prize-nominated piece of public helping to bring this iconic lost venue architecture, designed by Ian Ritchie back to life. In addition to crowdfunding, Architects in 1997 and clad in corten the project is also pitching for backing steel - the first building of its type in the from the Mayor of London's #MakeLondon UK to use the material. It sits within the fund, which supports creative, locally-led historic Joseph Paxton landscaped proposals that bring people together, grounds of the Grade II* listed Crystal improve public spaces and support Palace Park; with a spacious grass community hubs and high streets. The amphitheatre and an ornamental lake campaign is being led by the Crystal separating the stage from an audience, it Palace Park Trust, a charitable also represents an opportunity for a organisation working with Bromley socially-distanced venue, as we look to Council to shape a sustainable long-term transition to a post-Covid era for the future for . arts. We're now calling on local residents, businesses and all lovers of live music, to #BackTheBowl, helping us fund a new stage and a new start for the Rusty Laptop in Crystal Palace Park!

Please pledge what you can at: www.spacehive.com/crystalpalacebowl

Instead, leaseholders of these buildings will have to take on low-interest loans to remove the cladding as well as face the extra costs due to interim safety measures. These are innocent residents footing the bill for problems they did not cause. This is completely unjust especially as the Government has repeatedly promised that they would not have to pay for this. There are a number of buildings in my constituency that are below 18m and need remediation work and I raised this point in the Government’s statement last week. For example, residents of Austen Apartments in Penge MP Ellie Reeves are facing an estimated £30,000 per flat to Labour Member of Parliament for Lewisham West & Penge remove the cladding. They also face the prospect of increased service charges for a fire marshal Almost four years on from the dreadful and have received a notice from the building Grenfell disaster the Government has failed owner that the installation of a new alarm system to get a grip of the cladding scandal. costing £81,000 will be billed to residents. My Despite repeated promises that leaseholders constituents bought their flats in good faith, only would not bear the cost of fixing this to then find out their homes are a potential fire problem, there are countless families across hazard. The Government should be doing the country still living in flammable buildings, everything possible to protect leaseholders from facing colossal bills for repair work and these costs and pursue those responsible for the increased service charges to pay for interim cladding crisis but instead, they are forcing my safety measures. Inaction has gone on too constituents to take on debt to make their homes safe. Going forward along with my Labour long and on Monday 1st February Labour colleagues we will be pushing for and supporting forced a vote in Parliament calling on the amendments to the Fire Safety Bill that will hold Government to provide upfront funding and the Government to their initial promise and help to protect leaseholders from the cost by ensure that leaseholders are protected from unfair pursuing those responsible for the cladding fire safety costs. For the sake of my constituents crisis. I spoke in this debate and raised the and the thousands like them across the country, I moving cases of a number of my constituents hope the Government will finally listen and take affected by this. A week later the meaningful action to resolve this injustice. Government committed an extra £3.5 billion to the £1.6bn announced last year for the removal of unsafe cladding. This will help, [email protected] but it will not cover all buildings needing 020 7219 2668 work and it does nothing to account for the extra costs leaseholders have faced through waking watches, increased insurance premiums and repairs of fire safety defects. But of even greater concern is that any building below 18m high will not be eligible for this fund.

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At this point they will often start to seem better in themselves before becoming really unwell. If you have any concerns that your pet may have drunk antifreeze contact your vet as early as possible as treatment is much more effective if pets are seen before becoming unwell.

Treatment includes intravenous fluids to help support the kidneys and inducing vomiting if we know they have eaten it recently. Treatment with ethanol can reduce the effects of toxicity on the kidneys if caught early so there’s often a stray antifreeze is incredibly toxic bottle of vodka in the veterinary practice for cats & dogs Dan Burnand Winter has seemed to last forever in 2021 and with 020 8299 2388 lockdown, cold temperatures, snow and storms continuing this never seems to come to an end. Commonly we find ourselves reaching for antifreeze and it is important to remember that it is incredibly toxic to dogs and cats.

Ethylene glycol, the active ingredient in antifreeze, is sweet tasting and despite its toxicity, dogs and cats will often lick up any spills. Cats can also walk through spillages and later clean them off their paws. Consider using other antifreeze products like ones that contain propylene glycol instead. Think about how antifreeze is being stored. Always make sure the container remains capped and any leakages or direct spillages need to be cleaned up.

To clean spillages: use an absorbent product like sawdust, baking soda or cat litter and put paper towels on top. Leave for a few hours (making sure your pets cannot gain access) then remove the debris and clean the area with detergent.

If your pet does manage to get hold of some antifreeze then ingesting only small amounts can lead to gastrointestinal signs and severe kidney disease. It is sadly often fatal. Initially your pet may appear wobbly as if drunk, drink more and vomit.

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MOTHER'S DAY CRAFTS On a shoestring Kids can get creative and paint inside and/or outside the jars then fill them with flowers, maybe from the garden or what about putting a tealight candle inside, perhaps a battery- operated "candle" is safer for them to handle. If the jar is very nice a ribbon round the outside, something suitable written outside and then filled with the scrumptious biscuits that you have baked !

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Page 26 Having now achieved my dream of being able to She became his model (naming his painting after sustain myself as a professional artist, I look back her, ‘Zoe’) and friend, he became her much-loved with fond memories of the path I took to realise my mentor. With Euan she attended private views and ambition. My childhood spent with artists and benefited from his extensive knowledge. Through musicians, influences were wide and varied. association with such a respected artist and her Continuous studies and quest for my own identity ongoing studies, Zoe has matured as an artist in her has developed over many years. under the watchful own right. Extensive ongoing travels in Europe, eye of my friend Euan Uglow, He would often set up Australia and America influence Zoe’s choice of subject and approach to her work. She now has a still-life for me to paint and it was on his advice developed her own style, heavily influenced by the that I applied and was accepted into Chelsea School Impressionists, which is apparent in her work today. of Art. My paintings became not only about Zoe exhibits regularly in London and abroad. She composition but about mood and the effect of light, has private collectors including Briany Kapoor, has tone and colour. Thus leading me into the wonderful consistent commissions and teaches art.... keeping world of Impressionism. Euan was a master of his Art her busy and out of trouble! From Cadogan Hall, and instilled in me a discipline and creative passion Mossimans, Dulwich Gallery to her beloved studio that I feel and work with today, for which I will be nestled in the heart of Penge, South London...You forever greatful. Zoe Webster grew up in Beckenham will find Zoe avidly painting away behind her and studied fine art and sculpture at Chelsea School easel.... contentedly loving every moment.Zoe is of Art. Surrounded by a family of professional artists currently running tours around her personal and musicians, her exposure to art at an early age, professional studio and demonstrating how she combined with her interest in design and drawing paints, join her on her virtual tour... it’s fun, free and skills, led Zoe to her creative calling as a professional a true insight into the artist herself! artist. It was in 1990 that Zoe met the late noted artist Euan Uglow. https://www.virtualtrips.io/tours/zoes-art-studio- tour-creating-a-painting-on-canvas-live Website: zoewebster.com Instagram: zoe_websterartist DC LOCAL LOCKSMITHS Genuine 24-hour emergency service No call out charge Reasonable Rates

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