The monthly newsletter for The Richmond Charities Almshouses August 2021 Welcome to your Almshouse News Your Gardens Pizza Discount! Holiday Getting to know Summertime! Memories You August Notebook Osteoporosis Community & Crossword Local Events Poetry ALMSHOUSE NEWS - Contents Contents Welcome to Our New News Resident Letter from Debbie Flaherty 3 Community News 4-7 We offer a warm welcome to a new August Notebook 8-9 resident who has recently joined our Getting to Know You 9 community: Hazel Atkinson Local News 10-11 Local Events 12-13 National Awareness Days 14 Winner of the Towns & Health & Wellbeing 15-17 Summertime Cities Competition Past Events: Friends & Neighbours 18 Holiday Memories 19-22 Thank you to everyone that submitted a Entertainment competition form. Picked at random, the TV Recommendation 23 winner this month is: Crossword Competition 24-25 Joy Sayles. Recipe & Answer Page 26 Congratulations! By Our Residents: Quiz & Song 27 Answers from last month's competition Poetry Corner 28 are on page 26. This month's crossword competition is on pages 24 & 25. Deadline for Next Issue Front Page - Your If you wish to submit an article for the next issue, the deadline is: Garden FRIDAY 20 AUGUST 2021. Email your contribution to The photos on the front page are from Chantal Richards: c.richards@ our new feature 'Your Garden'. richmondcharities.org.uk or give to your Front page (left column) is Gwen's Scheme Manager. garden at Candler Almshouses. Credits Displaying red dahlias, coneflowers, nemesia and blue balloon-flowers. Editorial Committee: Juliet Ames-Lewis, Front page (right column) is James's Debbie Flaherty, Chantal Richards, Gennie garden at Hickey's Almshouses. A large collection of Bonsai trees are populated Thompson & Mike Townsin with Chinese and Japanese stone Design & Photography: Chantal Richards warriors and statues. 2 Letter from Debbie Flaherty - ALMSHOUSE NEWS Letter from Debbie Flaherty, Editorial Committee Welcome to the Summer For those sports fans among us it has Edition of the Almshouse been an exciting time with England getting News. through to the European Championship Finals, Wimbledon, Cricket, The Golf As Covid- 19 restrictions Open and, so far so good, for the British ease and the vaccination programme is medal winners at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic rolled out, life is slowly returning to some Games, kind of normality but obviously still with a degree of caution. I look forward to seeing you out in the gardens enjoying the lovely weather and I am happy to say that we are all so I must say your personal gardens are looking forward to seeing those who are looking beautiful and in full bloom. attending The Summer 60’s Party. It should be a lot of fun and it will be great Enjoy the rest of the Summertime it is once again to meet up with those that we always a beautiful time of the year. haven’t been able to see for a long time. Best wishes, Also with the clubs, coffee mornings and activities all resuming this will be a good time to be able to once again see each other. £6 Pizza for ALL Almshouse Residents at The Mitre Pub All of our pizzas start as a Margherita and you then choose your toppings - whichever you want and as many as you want! MARGHERITA £8.50 The Mitre pub in St Mary’s Grove has a new San Marzano tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil & extra-virgin olive oil TOPPINGS £1 EACH pizza kitchen and is cooking delicious pizzas from Chestnut Mushrooms Rocket Parmesan Shavings Cherry Tomatoes Olives Blue Cheese Wednesdays – Sundays, either to eat in or takeaway. Caramelised Onions Ham Neapolitan Salami Fresh Chilli / Dried Chilli Throughout August and September the Mitre is offering £1.50 EACH Parma Ham Nduja to all almshouse residents discounted pizzas for just DIPS £2 EACH £6 each (any pizza of your choice including additional Spicy Garlic SMALL PLATES toppings) – a bargain! Bread & Mixed Olives £4 Garlic Bread £2.50 add Pesto & Parmesan/Mozzarella £4 Caprese - Buffalo Mozzarella, Tomato, Oregano, Olive Oil &Basil £4 Rocket, Parmesan, Cherry Tomatoes Salad w Balsamic Glaze £5 Parma Ham, Rocket & Parmesan Salad w Balsamic Glaze £6.50 To claim your discounted pizza, just take your copy Burrata w Rocket, Cherry Tomatoes & Balsamic Glaze £6.50 of the Almshouse News along to the Mitre. Enjoy! SANDWICHES Pesto, Cherry Tomatoes, Rocket & Buffalo Mozzarella £5 Salami, Fresh Chillies, Caramelised Onions & Blue Cheese £6.50 Parma Ham, Rocket, Parmesan & Mayo £6.50 20 St Mary’s Grove, Richmond WWW.THEMITRETW9.CO.UK THEMITRETW9 TW9 1UY 0208 940 1336 3 ALMSHOUSE NEWS - Community News FREE Mobile & iPad Clinic Our Summer Party! ‘How to get the most out of your equipment ’ Tuesdays 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th August by Joanne Davison 10am-12 noon Thursday 12 August, Would you like some one-to-one advice on getting more out of your mobile, ipad or 1pm - 4pm tablet? The Lawn at Hickey’s Our IT expert, Paul, will be at The Club to help you: Put your favourites on speed dial Enlarge your keyboard to make Great News!! We can confirm that the party texting easier on 12th August will go ahead. Show you how to increase volume or switch to silent Change your ring tone for one that you like See how colour filters can make it easier to read All invitations were delivered in July, but if your screen Enter contacts on your phone you haven’t RSVP’d by 23rd July deadline Learn how to make a WhatsApp group don’t worry just let your Scheme Manager …...and anything else you may want to know know asap and they will add you to the To book a slot or for further information, contact The Avenue Club guest list, the more the merrier! Tel: 8948 8807 E-mail: [email protected] 60s Theme: As you know from the invitation it is a 60s themed party so we are Update on Resident Activites encouraging everyone to dig out their 60s gear and there will be a Prize For The Best by Gennie Thompson Dressed. There will be a trio of singers entertaining us throughout the day so feel Now that the rule of six free to get up and have a boogie if the is no more, it means mood takes you. that many more activities, particularly indoors, can Dietary Requirements: Please inform begin! Finally, coffee mornings can your Scheme Manager of any dietary go ahead! requirements. These will be passed on in advance to the Fish and Chip van that will Claire and I will finally be publishing be catering for us on the day. the monthly events leaflet which will have information on all the activities Transport: Do you need transport to and running so far, so keep your eyes from the party? Please inform your Scheme peeled for this. We are always open Manager by Monday 9 August (if you to any suggestions, new ideas, clubs haven’t done so already) We look forward or anything social you may like to to finally all being able to get together! try out so please let your Scheme Manager know if you have any. 4 Community News - ALMSHOUSE NEWS Friends & Neighbours Meeting Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions by Juliet Ames-Lewis by Pat Platt As you will be aware, At long last we can many of the restrictions have meetings again, that have been part of our so please join us to daily lives since March 2020 were lifted by discuss the next few months. The the Government in July, most notably the meeting will be held in Hickey’s requirement to maintain social distancing, Chapel on Tuesday 24 August the rule of 6 inside and the rule of 30 2021 at 3pm. Looking forward to outside. seeing you again and welcoming some new residents. As we emerge from lockdown and enter this new phase, it is really important that we are aware of how others may Callers At Your Door be feeling about the removal of these restrictions and respect each other’s by Joanne Davison views. Some in our community may be relieved that restrictions have eased, We’ve been made whilst others will be anxious. The aware that at some Government wants us all to take personal estates the ‘NHS’ responsibility from now on for our safety have been knocking on doors to ask and the safety of others. Some people if residents have had their COVID-19 will feel comfortable mixing in groups Vaccinations. Please be aware that and crowds again and others will still be members of the NHS team should be wary. We all need to be sensitive to each wearing tabards with a clear logo and other’s feelings and aware that others will carry ID, which we encourage may not feel the same way as we do. people to check. They should also be dropping leaflets through doors We will be gradually getting more events before visiting to ensure everyone is and activities up and running again within aware that the team is genuine. our community but it will be for each individual resident to decide what they As always please make sure you feel comfortable attending. That said, check the callers-ID and there should Trustees and I very much hope to see you be no reason for them to have to all in the coming weeks, starting with our enter your house. summer party on 12 August! 5 ALMSHOUSE NEWS - Community News A Charity That Could Are You A Budding Help You With Fuel Bills David Bailey? by Lorraine Bradley The Almshouse Association is launching a summer photography competition to coincide with their 75th anniversary.