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The Battle of Barnet. Market manoeuvres. Hadley’s roads. Blocked.Cycling to the Great Wall. Chinese torture.A Day in the Life of: Bob.Mamacha. Peruvian patternsPrimary school. Leave the car at home Mum.Letting out your house? New laws.Bill and Ben Nevis

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EditorialFriends of Barnet Market(FOBM) have been keepingus up to date on develop-ments at Barnet Market. Mr

and Mrs Walsh who own the market havere-applied for planning permission toredevelop the St Alban’s Road site. Thisincludes fourteen flats to be built abovethe site. There are many objections totheir plan amongst them the fact that theMarket has now been included in theMonken Hadley Conservation Area.FBOM are opposing the plans and weare keeping a close eye on what ishappening there. We hope that whateverplan is agreed is satisfactory in terms ofits function, appearance and connectionto the rest of the Spires shopping area. Ifyou want to be involved or just find outwhat is happening please mail ChrisSmith at csdes@dircon.co.ukOn a different topic there are several

complaints about traffic issues. Anotherissue is the delay experienced as wedrive around Hadley Wood. You cannotblame Skanska for causing a hold up atthe top of Camlet Way. They have to getnew gas pipes across the roads there

and thankfully they chose half term weekto do most of it. There is also theblockage at the bottom of Beech Hill. Ifyou are driving from Cockfosters and turninto Beech Hill you come up against along line of parked contractors vehicleson the left. Cars coming down Beech Hillhave the right of way. A build up of trafficbehind the parked vehicles occurssometimes backing up into theCockfosters road. The contractors haveto do their job and they often have heavyequipment to move from van to the site.However a little thought on their part anda few gaps left in their line would make ita lot easier to navigate this section.Rod Armstrong

The Great Wall by bikeand diary. Part 2Beijing. Very smooth off the plane,through passport control and into theterminal on a train. (We learn that theairport has the largest roof structure in the world and that Beijing city has 25million people living in it, 5 ring roads and10 thousand new cars per WEEK! There’s 10km between ring road 4 and 5and 30kms between 5 and 6. They arealready starting on number 7). By 11amwe're on board a coach along with Pia myroom mate for the trip, who rather handily

speaks Chinese. The room is very basicbut fine, (We flop on to the beds todiscover they are rock hard with springscoming through). It's hard to describe thetown we are staying in. Wide boulevardswith 3 lanes each way but almost notraffic. A shopping mall that's actually justa concrete block with only one shop (avery posh gift shop/off licence withamazing bottles). Lots of signs saying"Buy a Shop, Build a City" - nice idea butdoesn't seem to be working!Dinner was a really good buffet but the

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said words to the effect of 'you've got tobe joking'!

Sunday 12th – Day OneOnly awake for about an hour in the night(if you move your hip bone off a spring, itonly puts your knee onto another one.Breakfast was a bit slow. One guy with a4 slice toaster (and metal tongs to get thebread out!!) for 80 people. I had rice withsweet corn and peas which was all Iwanted as still not hungry.The time has finally arrived to start

cycling. We’re all taking photos andsaddle up with a mixture of excitementand nerves but no hitches.Within 10 minutes I am most un-

comfortable but fortunately after half anhour a 'tech van' is on the hard shoulderso I get my saddle and handle barsaltered - I'm a new woman but also nowthe last rider so cycle with Adrian (one of the two male guides amongst 81women!) and Tamsin the doctor. Wecruised along at the back discussing howmany men learn too late that they've letthe woman of their dreams go becausethey won't commit! The next thing I knowwe're at the 20 km stop.Get told off for not drinking enough

(only half of my water bottle) so down abottle at the stop but still not hungryenough to eat. It gets hot (30 degrees)

so I'm pleased that thenext 23 km stop is inthe shade. We're alsogiven bottles (of tapwater) to pour over ourheads. This is going torequire practice as myattempts resulted insun cream in the eyes,water down the frontand not a lot in the hair.I'm one of the lastleaving the stop but

feel really fab and ready to get the flightout of my system. We head for a Buddhaon the top of the hill that we've been ableto see for the last couple of kilometres.

There is a sort of numbness in my fingersand lots of others are complaining of thesame thing and also tennis elbow.At the next stop we sit in a tourist

covered area with other Chinese visitors.As people began to arrive it becomesapparent that there were quite a fewcasualties due to the heat (now 34degrees). They were 'picked up' by thebus amid much complaining. We take achair lift up to see the Buddha. The viewis good and we surmise where we aregoing tomorrow. The Great Wall is far onthe horizon and most definitely high up

on a mountain…. we are going to have tostart 'going up' at some stage….

We're all back on our bikes after lunchbut at least half, including me, arecomplaining that our bikes are causingaches and pains not encountered before- most commonly numbness in the fingertips or tennis elbow. I have the numbnessand a pain between the shoulder blades,I don’t fancy 5 days of this.However I enjoy the gentle terrain and

seeing trees laden with peaches. Every50 metres or so a man is sitting by a pileof peaches for sale. No one seems tostop, I’m tempted but put off by having tobarter and anyway I’m so useless on abike I’m not sure I could eat a fat juicypeach and cycle at the same time.We reach our next hotel. The Ping Gu

International. We are impressed with thesize and quality of the room. I felt the first

day had been very manageable butdecide to keep quiet as not many othersagree. Especially as it was so hot.Dinner is in a huge, characterless

dining room. This time they bring thedinner to the table. There's an amazingselection of dishes, mostly gone cold buta huge variety and delicious. We'refinished by 8pm, and in bed by 8.30pm.

Day 2 Monday 13thWake up call at 6.00am, keys handed inby 6.45 followed by breakfast and leaveat 8am. The staff now ‘check’ all 40 oddrooms in case we have stolen the towelsand light bulbs! Whether this is becausewe are ‘big noses’ ie. foreigners orwhether it’s because this is what theChinese do we never discovered.Out to the bike before breakfast to get

the 'techs' to move my saddle forward inthe hope of alleviating the pins andneedles. Breakfast is spring greens, riceand stuffed dumplings As we'reassembling to leave, all the hotel staff,complete with chefs hats etc., come outand stand to attention while others marchforth with three flags which they raise tothe accompaniment of grand musicplayed over loud speakers. Apparentlythis spectacle is carried out everymorning rain or shine. On to the bikes.Claude reminds us that the brakes arethe wrong way around. Back brake onright, front on left and off we go. Whatsahead?Nikki Forsyth

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A Day in the Life of. Bob at the Newsagents.

Its about 5.15 am. Dark and cold.Wondering what ever possessed me todecide on this article I creep across adeserted and silent Crescent West andstumble round the back of the shops tothe basement below Londis/TJ Blake’s. Iam meeting Bob Ruparelia. You knowBob of course. He’s the big bloke incharge of the newsagents whodispenses newspapers, food, cigarettesetc. He also dispenses a high standardof banter, cheerfulness and humour.Listening to him, he reminds me of atypical Cockney but unless you can hearBow Bells in Kenya he probably does notqualify. In fact his grandparents hail fromIndia. He was born in Nairobi beforecoming here as a child. Anyway as I wassaying. I reach the basement room. Itslike a scene from a French gangstermovie. A bare room illuminated by asingle light bulb. Under the light a longtrestle table covered with piles of papers.Two men are bent over the table, workingand writing frantically. Behind them I canmake out two or three shadowy figures.A woman leans against the wall. Theatmosphere’s tense. But wait a minute.These are no gangsters. Its Bob andRaheem addressing the 300 dailynewspapers for Hadley Wood! They have

to work fast and get it right. The othersin the room are the delivery team. MikeJacky Rob Derek and then Guy who rollsup on his bike with his usual cheerywelcome. They move forward as theirbatches become available, pack theminto their shoulder bags and disappearinto the darkness. Bob and Raheem pilethe rest of the batches into the car andwe drive off round Hadley Wood leavingthe bags at pre-arranged drop off points.Now it is back to the shop. Its 0600 hrsand the first customer drops by. A Citygent by the look of him. Picks up theTimes, offers some derogatorycomments about Liverpool football club(Bob’s team) and he’s on his way. Thingsseem a bit calmer and Raheem handsround cups of tea. The door opens. It’sthe man from Warburtons. Big lorry.Goodness knows what time he startedwork. The bread is unloaded and Bob,exchanging a few more of his usualpleasantries, checks the invoice andcounts everything in. Later he tells me.’ Ialways try and be the first drop for thedelivery men. If you upset the deliveryboys you go down their list andeverything just gets later and later’. I askhim how he learned all this. ‘Startedabout 13 years ago’ he says ‘helping mybrother’ then branched out on his ownwith Sangita. ‘She’s the brains behind theoperation’ he says. ‘but don’t tell her’. (Iresolve to do so at the first opportunity).‘What about before that?’ I ask. ‘My Dadbrought us over from Nairobi. Used tohave a business there. When we got herehe started as a bus conductor. Workednights in a factory. Mum worked as well.Lyons cakes. We rented a flat in Wembleyuntil enough money was saved for adeposit on a house’. After leaving school Bob became a

security man at the air base in Ruislip.Tough job trying to keep brawlingAmerican servicemen in order. Then a

chauffeur in Central London. Even drovefor Gordon Brown. ‘Rude man’ says Bob‘but don’t put that in’Then he met Sangita (also from

Nairobi), they married and both workeduntil their firstborn, a daughter, camealong. Bob worked at Martins (a chain ofnewsagents) in the day and drove aminicab whenever he could. Finally theyspotted a newsagents business for salein St Albans and took it on. Sangita didthe book-keeping. It was a tough area.Nice people but lots of youngsters readyfor trouble. ‘Bit different from HadleyWood’. Finally after a heart attack, anangioplasty and a good recovery theyheard TJ Blakes was available and theytook over from Jeremy. ‘Jeremy has been a great help’ says

Bob.’ I don’t know how we would havemanaged without him. He still comes inon Saturdays and Sundays to help. AndIrene thank goodness ’. ‘What is sospecial about the weekend?’ I ask‘Saturdays and Sundays’ says Bob ‘are anightmare. There are 300 bundles ofpapers to sort out including all themagazines that come at the weekend.We have to insert those by hand. Muchheavier for the delivery team too’. Customers are coming in and out faster

now as the morning rush for the trainsstart. Everyone’s in a hurry. The sandwichvan arrives. More unpacking andcounting. More banter. Bob has a laughwith the delivery man. ‘He’s a Man.Citysupporter’ he says to me as an aside,‘poor chap’. A lady appears at the door. ‘Hi Bob’

She smiles, grabs a paper and dashesfor the train. Another lady customer. In ahurry. ‘Just taken a milk Bob. Can I payyou later?’ ‘Course you can my darling’.So it goes on, the flow of delivery menbeing replaced by the early city workers,then the office workers.The repartee varies, suited to the type

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of customer. Then the Mums startpopping in before dropping off the kidsat school. Later Sangita will take over.She’s dealt with the children (daughter12 and son 8 yrs) fixed the house anddone the shopping. Sangita knows howto run a business. Aged 16 years sheworked at a local Argos store onSaturday mornings. Six years later shewas Manageress, moving around theirdifferent stores in London. She sendsBob home to have a sleep. ‘UnlessLiverpool are playing’ says Bob ‘in whichcase I will stay up and watch.’ Its 0900.Unable to postpone my breakfast anylonger and seriously considering goingback to bed, I make my excuses leavingBob Sangita and Raheem to carry on inthe shop. They’ve only got another 10hours to go (six and a half days a week)before closing. And I thought I used towork hard.Rod Armstrong

Mamacha2010 has been an exciting year forMamacha. From receiving orders fortheir products from Amnesty Internationaland New Internationalist catalogues, tosupplying knitwear for the actors in a new

feature film of Wuthering Heights, thissustainable development project hasbeen able to send over £35,000 to needycommunities in Peru over the last twoyears.

The project currently involvesapproximately 150 rural and urbanwomen in Peru and enables them to earna fair wage producing high quality handknitted items for Mamacha, in a countrywhere 45% of the population live belowthe poverty line. Hadley Wood’s Amy Yates has been

working with the same small communitygroups in Peru for over five years, andhas seen women's lives transformed. She

is passionate about keepingtraditional skills alive, andpays a premium for hand-crafted items thatdemonstrate age oldskills. As the companyplaces regular orders – rarein the fashion world – thewomen can plan ahead,feed their family and sendtheir children to school.

As well as supplying theAmnesty Internationalcatalogue with jumpers,hand painted coasters andChristmas decorations, Amy

has received the generous support of theHead Knitwear Designer of a well knownhigh street brand who has designed anew range of women's alpaca clothing.She has also completed a BusinessCourse at the Centre for SustainableFashion at London College of Fashion,and is currently working on somegarments that will be shown at Londonand Paris Fashion Week as part of acollaboration with another designerbrand's collection.

Mamacha will be at Ethical Just GotFabulous pop-up shop in Notting Hill onSaturday 4th – Sunday 5th December(www.ethicaljustgotfabulous.com).Closer to home, we will also be openingour doors at 53 Crescent West onThursday 9th December 2010 from 9amto 8pm. All are welcome to view ourproducts – alpaca hats, scarves, snoods,gloves, fingerless mittens, socks,jumpers, alpaca and silk wraps, bags,and a wide range of childrens' clothing.Please contact Amy on 020 8441 4028or amy@yates.net or visitwww.mamacha.co.uk for moreinformation.Mamacha

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part in a mass walking relay which involvedschools across London travellinganticlockwise from Havering, through everyborough and ending at Greenwich. To mirrorthe London relay, Enfield schools also tookpart in relays throughout October. Forty fiveprimary, secondary and special needsschools walked from their school to the nextschool on the route. Approximately 225children took part in the relay. The photoshows the Westgrove school children handingover the baton (a cylinder filled with pledges)to the Hadley Wood children.

Hadley Wood Primary School. Mrs Loizides has been telling the HW Newsabout WoW. A charity known as Living Streetshas been running a campaign since 1996aimed at encouraging children to walk toschool. The campaign’s aim is to encourageall parents, children and young people tomake walking to school part of their dailyroutine. This builds a habit of walking whichthey hope will remain with them for the rest oftheir lives. The campaign for Primary schoolsis called the Big WoW. (Walk once a Week).This year thirty three London boroughs took

Top: Jack’s Lake. Above: Kite flying at Bartrams Lane.Left: Walking in Hadley Wood.

Autumn in Hadley WoodJohn Leatherdale

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Letters to the EditorDear EditorIn six weeks time at 5.30am on Novemberthe 28th, I (BILL MORRIS) will becommencing a 100 mile walk fromGlasgow to the peak of Ben Nevis (anddown again hopefully!) in aid of Help ForHeroes. 14 colleagues from the TelevisionOutside Broadcast Industry will be joiningme, the majority of whom are ex services. I am aware of the charitable burdenplaced upon us all, so please excuse this blatant plug for a most superb andworthwhile cause. No matter how cold and wet, how exhausted, how much stick the two non-

military members of the team are getting from the ex-service members, you canrest assured that any donation large or small will help support this most fantasticcharity. Our injured servicemen and servicewomen get little or no long termfinancial help from the Government, yet with your valuable support we hope toraise much needed funds for ‘Help for Heroes’ vital work. Please help us bydonating whatever you feel you can via our fundraising website:www.bmycharity.com/highlands4heroesWe will be posting pictures and updates every day of the trek, so that you can

share the peaks and troughs, the drama and pain of every step. Thank you for your time and consideration,Best RegardsBill Morris

the special rules that apply to AST’s,particularly:The duty to protect rent depositsThe procedures for gaining possession An AST landlord must protect the

tenant’s deposit by using an authorisedtenancy deposit scheme (TDS) operatedby an approved scheme administrator. Itis not yet clear how the TDS legislationwill apply where a common law tenancybecame an AST from 1st October, wherethe deposit may have been paid monthsor years before.Generally, the grounds on which a

landlord can obtain possession of aproperty let on an AST provide the tenantwith greater protection than that afforded

Letting your property.1st October this year brought about animportant change in the law in Englandrelating to the Assured Shorthold Tenancy(AST) - the most popular method ofletting residential property.Before 1st October, if the annual rent

under an assured tenancy was more than£25,000, that tenancy could not be anAST, instead being a “common lawtenancy”. From 1st October that thresholdis increased to £100,000, meaning that acommon law tenancy granted before 1stOctober with an annual rent between£25,000 and £100,000, that wouldotherwise have been an AST but for thehigh rent exclusion, qualified as an ASTon 1st October.This means there will be more

landlords who will need to comply with

Hadley Wood’s JewishCommunity There is an active Community in HadleyWood which is known for its warm andfriendly atmosphere. All Jewish familiesare extremely welcome. For informationon the events and services in HadleyWood, please contact Rabbi YoniBirnbaum on 07905964207. Yoni andhis wife Elisheva live in Hadley Woodand organise regular services andsocial and learning activities. Some of the upcoming events are:

Regular Friday night andSaturday morning services

A Chanucah show and talk onJewish Humour

Regular activities for men andwomen including well known guestspeakers

A ‘Cheder’ for young childrenwhere they can learn with excellentteachers Do give Rabbi Yoni a call and getinvolved

The Hadley WoodAssociation

Annual General MeetingWednesday November 24th

at 7.30pmIn the Hadley Wood Centre at the far end of the tenniscourts in Crescent East.

under a common law tenancy. Thelandlord of a property originally let on acommon law tenancy that became anAST from 1st October should beespecially careful to follow the correctprocedure for gaining possession,regardless of the contractual terms of the tenancy. When the £25,000 annual rent

threshold was originally set it excluded arelatively small number of luxury lettingsfrom AST protection. Nowadays a£25,000 annual rent is by no meansexceptional, especially in GreaterLondon. Increasing the rent threshold to£100,000 should go some way to re-balancing the market so that only trulyluxury properties are outside the ASTregime. Guy Wheatcroft, RHY Law LLPgwheatcroft@rhylaw.com

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The Hadley Wood News is published usually during the first weekend of each month. It is a community publication with the objective of bringing local news,views and events to the residents and friends of Hadley Wood. It is non-profit making with any surplus going to the Hadley Wood Association (HWA) for thedirect benefit of residents. Content is produced voluntarily with the make-up, printing and distribution paid for by advertising. Thank you to all our advertisers,without whom this magazine would not be possible. If you would like to contribute to a future issue or receive updates via email, please contact the Editorand Publisher . The HWA and anyone associated with the content of this newsletter cannot accept any responsibility for the accuracy, claims or viewsexpressed. The Hadley Wood News does not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the advertisements or other information accesseddirectly or indirectly from this publication, nor the quality of any products, services, information or other materials displayed, purchased or obtained byanyone as a result of an advertisement or any other information or offer in connection with those products, services, information or other materials.HadleyWood News shall not be responsible for any errors or omissions contained in any advertisement or other information within this publication.The Publisher reserves the right to amend, abridge or reject any copy supplied for publication. E&OE HWA June 2010

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