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REGULARS6 Food & Drink

12 Cinema Paradiso

16 The Green Room

19 RSPCA

22 David Burrowes MP

24 Designer Secrets

30 The God Spot

34 Winchmore HillResidents' Association

36 Red Desk

38 Advertisers' Index

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“How old are you?” asked Archie the other day. “Old enough” I replied. “Old enough for what?” he countered. “For everything” was my sage retort. “When will I be old enough for everything?” he persisted. “Your time will come soon enough son” I remarked.

The above conversation continued for quite some time - Iwon’t bore you with the details. But isn’t it funny how aschildren we are so desperate to be older to do all those thingsthat dangle like forbidden fruit? Staying up late, using a drill,driving a car are just a few things Archie is hankering after.Conversely as you get older you want to hark back to thetimes when your parents did things for you e.g. having yourtea on the table, being a chauffeur, sorting out the washing.

One thing that none of us are too old or young for is aChristmas present list. As we head towards the jolly (if slightlymanic) season please do try and shop local and support yourlovely businesses when buying presents. From stocking fillersto main presents your local shopping centres have plenty tooffer. If you have children and are dreading the deluge of newtoys, perhaps now is a good time to encourage them to clearout older toys and donate them to those less fortunate. Andfor those that have everything and would like to spread thelove, perhaps a donation to a charity such as the RSPCAmight be just the ticket.Enjoy the build-up and remember – you are only young once!

PS: Talking of growing old ..... slightly miffed by commentfrom the launderette man to me - "yes, I remember it was yourson who dropped off the washing" "umm, no, it was myhusband!"

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ContributorsAbraham JosephBrian FoyleCaron WestbrookDavid Burrowes MPGeoff NewmanGrandma JoyceJames LuxfordJean Alderman

Jill ShooterLindsay MillerMargaret HobbsMartha FergusonRebecca EldridgeSacha PetrieTerri Green

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ritish Osteopathic Association member,

Jill Shooter, a local osteopath, warns

parents and teachers to think about the effect

of heavy school bags on childrenʼs health.

For Back Care Awareness week held inOctober, the British Osteopathic Associationcalled for parents and teachers to considerthe health implications of small bodiescarrying heavy school bags. The BOA wantsimages of children bowed down under theweight of their enormous school bagscrammed full of books to become a thing ofthe past.

Heavy bags can put pressure on the discsbetween the vertebrae which can cause longterm back pain in small and still-developingbodies and children can suffer muscularpain, headaches, tingling and numbness inthe arms and legs and even mobilityproblems.

Osteopath, Jill Shooter, from The Summit inHighgate and a member of the BritishOsteopathic Association, a parent herself, ontreating some of the damage caused bycarrying excessive loads, says: “Childrenshould never carry more than about 15% oftheir own body weight. Parents can help bypacking their children’s rucksacks andmaking sure that the heavier items are nearerto the child’s back. Heavier items on theoutside of the bag tend to throw out thechild’s centre of gravity out of balance, whichleads to bad posture and increases thechances of them straining their back. I findthis is an issue especially for those children inthe first few years at Secondary school,previously only having to deal with a lunchbox or book bag, suddenly having manybooks to deal with. Add to that a musicalinstrument and maybe a sports bag andproblems start!”.

Other suggestions from Jill include:

• A backpack is usually more comfortablethan a bag that puts strain on only oneshoulder, but even that shouldn’t beoverloaded.

• When buying a bag, buy a sturdy bag withwide, padded shoulder straps that reducespressure on the neck and shoulder area. Buya bag with adjustable straps which can bealtered as the child grows.

• Check your child’s posture with the bag on.If you notice them leaning forward orslouching, check if the bag is too heavy or ifit has been packed incorrectly.

• Make sure your child is only carrying theitems they need for school that day – removeany unnecessary books and equipment

• Can any equipment or books be left atschool? Lobby for lockers!

Don’t underestimate the long term effectsfrom carrying these heavy bags on earlydevelopment of posture.

For information on Jill, visitwww.jillshooterosteopath.com

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he Capon is my bird of preferenceduring the festive season, which I must

say I welcome given the challenges of 2011.

Ingredients: 3-3½kg (6 ½- 8lb) Capon, 2large onion peeled, 2 carrots, 1 stick ofcelery, 1 leek (green part only), 5 garliccloves, 2 bouquet garni, large bunch parsley,large bunch tarragon, chicken stock enoughto cover the capon.

Preheat the oven at 240C (475F, Gas 9)soften about 50g of butter and combine withfreshly mixed herbs or dried mixed herbs andreturn to fridge. Wash drain and pat drycapon, and Wash thetarragon and parsleyand set aside, place1 large onion,together with thetarragon andparsley in thecavity of thecapon. Trussthe caponsecurely andplace in a largeenough pan andcover with stock.Heat gently untilsimmering, then cover andsimmer gently for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, dice the carrots, chop theremaining onion, chop the leek, dice thecelery, and crush two garlic cloves.

Drain the capon well and transfer to aroasting tin/pan. With herb butter dot thecapon and roast in the preheated oven for 30minutes then reduce heat to 220C (425F, Gas7) and cook for a further 30 minutes. Bastethe capon well, and then add the preparedvegetables and bouquet garni turning the

vegetables in the juicescook for a further 30minutes to 1 hourbasting frequently untilcapon is cooked. Toavoid caponbecoming too browncover with foil.

For the Pumpkin gratin youwill need a 3kg (6 ½ lb) peeleddeseeded and cut into wedges. Place thewedges, 3 garlic cloves, in a roasting tin/pandrizzle with vegetable oil and season with saltand pepper, cook for 15 minutes or untiltender. In a large gratin dish press the garliccloves across the bottom of the dish. Then

coarsely mash the pumpkin with a fork,add a little grated nutmeg and cayennepepper. Spread pumpkin out evenly indish and then pour 400ml of heavydouble cream over the pumpkinsprinkled with Gruyere cheese about100gm return the pumpkin to the ovenfor the final 15 minutes of the capon’s

cooking time or until golden brown.

The SauceSkim off the excess fat in the roasting tin.Add 100ml dry white wine to the remainingvegetables. Boil until reduced and nearlydry. Pour in 250ml chicken stock and bringto the boil for 1-2 minutes, scraping all thecooking juices into the liquor. Strain througha fine sieve and return to the heat in a cleansauce pan. Bring to the boil and reduce andwhisk in a knob of butter and serve with thesliced capon. Until next time enjoy and bekind to each other AJ.

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IMMORTALS(11th November).A “300”-style Ancient Greekaction movie, starring HenryCavill (who is currentlyfilming he next Supermanmovie) as a peasant calledTheseus who is charged withsaving the universe when atitan named Hyperion (Mickey Rourke) declares war onhumanity, and the gods, as Zeus puts his faith inTheseus. A loud, CGI-filled spectacular that lookswonderful but does not deliver a coherent story. Rourkeand Cavill are solid leads, and “Slumdog Millionaire”star Freida Pinto adds some class as the love interest,but director Tarsem Singh opts for visuals over content. CP Rating: ��

THE RUM DIARY (11th November).Superstar Johnny Depp takes the lead in thisadaptation of an early book by his old friendHunter S. Thompson (whom Depp played inthe 1998 film “Fear & Loathing in LasVegas”). He plays Paul Kemp, an Americanjournalist in the early 60’s who decamps toPuerto Rico to work for a newspaper there,developing an obsession for a mysteriouswoman (Amber Heard) and rum. Much likethe book itself, the film feels a lot simplerand less challenging than Thompson’s laterwork, but Depp is a strong lead and thisirreverent comedy just about passes byamiably. CP Rating: ��

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWNPT. 1 (18th November).Get ready to squeal ‘Twi-Hards’! StephenieMeyer’s world of lovelorn vampires and six-pack sporting werewolves is back for thefourth instalment, the first part of the finalbook in the series (similar to the money-spinning idea the “Harry Potter” films hadwith “The Deathly Hallows”.) Bella (KristenStewart) and her beloved Edward (RobertPattinson) are now married, but their bliss isshort-lived, as a series of betrayals and outside threats will test theirrelationship like never before. At this point in the series, it’s a ‘love itor hate it’ movie, as the characters are so far developed you’re eitherinvested or not. The ending (or rather, mid-point) is jarring, but it’ssure to delight and dismay depending on your persuasion.CP Rating: ��

50/50 (25th November).A big winner at this year’s London Film Festival,“50/50” is a comedy about a young man (JosephGordon-Levitt) who develops a rare form of cancer, andhis attempts to fight the disease with the help of anoverbearing mother (Angelica Huston) and a best friendwho just tries to get him ‘sympathy hook ups’ (SethRogen). A comedy about an awful disease may not bean obvious choice, but this is a moving, hilarious anddelicately handled film, thatattacks a serious subjectwith warmth and realism.Will split your sides and puta lump in your throat.CP Rating: ��

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a national network of over 350 Christmascard shops.

It aims to make a wide selection of charitycards available to the public and at the sametime secure the highest possible return forthe participating charities. Shops are set upin a variety of venues such as churches,libraries, museums, civic centres etc in theweeks leading up to Christmas.

At Palmers Green United Reformed ChurchFox Lane we are in our 18th year supportingCards for Good Causes.

We have cards from 36 National Charitiesincluding The North London Hospice and aselection of Christmas goods.

The Mayor of Enfield Cllr. Christiana Duringwill open the shop on Saturday 29th Octoberat 11am.

We are open 10am - 4pm Monday toSaturday from until Tuesday 14th December.

75p in the £ is the minimum Cards for GoodCauses gives back to charities for every cardsold. From this the charities have to pay forthe production and distribution of their cardsand any VAT. In the last five years charitieshave received over £20 million from their cardsales through Cards for Good Causesoutlets.

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ow is the perfect time for baking yourChristmas cake to ensure it is wonderfullyfull of flavour on Christmas Day!

Ingredients:

110g/4oz glace cherries

50g/2oz mixed peel

450g/1lb raisins

275g/10oz sultanas

110g/4oz currants

225g/8oz butter

225g/8oz brown sugar

5 eggs beaten

275g/10oz of plain white flour

2 tsp sweet mixed spice

110g/4oz ground almonds

Grated zest of 1 orange plus juice

7 fl oz beer or sherry

1 large tablespoonful of black treacle

Use an 8" square or 9" round cake tin

Method:

1. Set oven 170c/325f/gas mark 3.

2. Grease and double line the tin with greaseproofpaper.

3. Cream the butter until soft. Add the sugar andbeat until light and fluffy.

4. Slice the cherries, toss in some of themeasured flour and mix with the rest of the fruit.

5. Add the eggs one at a time to the creamedmixture. (If the mixtures starts to curdle add alittle of the flour.)

6. Fold in the flour, mixed spice, orange zest,beer/sherry and orange juice, and black treacle.(If mixture is still stiff a small amount of milk canbe added.)

7. Add the fruit and ground almonds.

8. Put mixture in prepared tin and make a hollowin the middle.

9. Bake for 2 ½ hours, or until skewer emergesclean from the middle of the cake.

10. Cover the top of the cake with brown paperfor the final hour if required.

11. Cool the cake on a wire rack. Oncecompletely cold wrap in foil and store in anairtight container in a dry cool place untilChristmas. Every two weeks unwrap the cake to"feed" it: prick the top with a long skewer andspoon over 1-2 tablespoons brandy. Reseal andcontinue to store.

Quick easy steps to decorating your cake

1. Lightly dust a clean surface with icing sugarand roll out a circle of golden marzipan roughly1/2cm thickness and big enough to cover theentire cake (or half the cake if you want to keepsome of it to have with cheese as a light supper).

2. Brush the cake with some warmed apricot jam,cover with the rolled out marzipan and trim anyexcess.

3. Lightly dust the surface oncemore with icing sugar androll out some ready-to-rollicing in the same wayas the marzipan. Brushthe marzipan verylightly with a littlewater then drape theicing over it. Smooth outusing your hands workingfrom the centre to the edgesand down the sides. Finally trim any excess.

4. Allow the icing to harden for 24 hours and thenarrange your cake decorations around and on topof the cake.

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For the cats

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5. Treats

6. Toys and scratching posts

7. Cat beds and blankets

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2. Cans of wet food – all flavours and brands

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If you have anything available to donate (1 tin, 10 tins apacket of treats – all donations gratefully accepted),please drop it into the centre. We will put it to good use.Thank you.

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Enfield’s Law gets tough on knife crimeDavid

Burrowesn April, a 15-year-old called NegusMcClean was stabbed and killed whiletrying to prevent a gang stealing his

brother’s phone. In July, two rival gangspublicly fought with machetes, knives andguns. The members of these gangs wereyouths, and a sixteen year old was stabbedin the hand.

These two harrowing cases have threestriking similarities. The first is that they bothinvolve knife crime. The second is that bothinvolve youths. The third is that bothoccurred in our borough of Enfield.

Knife crime has become an all too familiaroccurrence. Knife attacks are no longershocking; and have become a permanentfixture in the local paper. Almost every weekthere is a story of knife crime that has yetagain blighted the community. Enfield, ofcourse, is not alone in feeling thedevastating affects of knife crime but it is aproblem that is becoming synonymous withthe London Borough due to its frequency.

Against this background togetherwith my constituency neighbourNick de Bois MP we havechampioned the need to gettougher on knife crime. I havebeen able to draw on myexperience as a solicitor in youthcourts for the last 17 yearsseeing knife crime as a ‘blindspot’ when it comes tosentencing. Together we havemade a compelling case toministers for change tolegislation.

We have now had accepted an amendmentto the Sentencing Bill to have mandatory

sentences handeddown to offendersaged 16 and 17 andover who use knives in athreatening manner. I recognise thatinterventions need to happen a whole lotearlier to tackle the knife culture that hasdeveloped in Enfield and elsewhere.However the reality is that any youthwielding a knife and threatening someone’slife should already expect to be locked upfor longer than 2 months. Threateningsomeone with a knife is a very seriousoffence that deserves to be punished with alengthy sentence. The new law simplymakes it clear that if you are 16 or aboveyou must go to prison for a minimum time.

In the wake of the August riots and withescalating knife crime the nation wasshaking its head in disapproval at Enfield.Now with what we now call Enfield’s law thenation can nod its head in approval.

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n this month’s finance section I will give you somethoughts on what is going on in the globaleconomy then return to the subject of saving and

answer last month’s teaser on pensions.

Well after all the autumnal sunshine the weatherseems to have broken and we are getting somemuch needed rain, a bit like the Eurozone really, it’sbroken but politicians have at last reached asolution by putting a sticking plaster over theproblem and given us some breathing space!

Undoubtedly it is in all our interests for theEurozone to work and have a healthy economy,after all half our trade is donewith Europe but the problem iswe are in a period whereindividuals, companies andgovernments are all paying offdebt at the same time. Theinevitable consequences of thisare lower growth, higherunemployment and lowerstandards of living.

And the response to this by governments is to defythe markets and effectively turn Europe into onelarge command economy……….and we knowwhat happened to the Soviet Union, the last largecommand economy!!

After years of spending and taking on personaldebt the “baby boomer” generation (yes, I’m one ofthem) is telling its offspring to save more for thefuture, which is very difficult to do when any sparemoney is being used to either pay off student debtor maintain lifestyle as real incomes decrease. Sothe paradox is that saving is incompatible with adebt laden economy.

Wow where does that leave us? Going back to lastmonth’s article I commented that:

“Even if you are not in a company scheme you canset up your own personal pension where you caneither make monthly contributions or a lump sum ofup to £50,000 each year. Why would I do that I hearyou say when the investment market is souncertain at the moment.......”

Well the government are very generous with regardto tax relief on pension contributions. If you haveset up your own pension, a personal pension, youpay Income Tax on your earnings before anypension contribution, but the pension providerclaims tax back from the government at the basicrate of 20 per cent. In practice, this means that for

every £80 you pay into your pension,you end up with £100 in your pensionpot. If you pay tax at higher rate, youcan claim the difference through yourtax return or by telephoning or writingto HMRC. If you're an additional ratetaxpayer you'll have to claim thedifference through your tax return.

In addition, any increase in the value of yourpension pot over the years is free from capitalgains tax.

Clearly these are great benefits but what is thecatch? For a twenty five year old one catch wouldbe that you can’t get at the money until you are fiftyfive (under the current rules) although some wouldsay this is a good thing!

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he ‘Friends’ superstar discussesgetting nasty in her film “HorribleBosses”.

She’s always been everyone’s favourite ‘Friend’ asthe lovable Rachel Green during the 1990’s, butthis month we see a different side to her in theDVD release of her summer hit, “Horrible Bosses”.She plays a sexually inappropriate boss harassingher male assistant (comedian Charlie Day), butdid this darker role worry her? “No!Not at all and that was the fun of it…how far it went” she replies. “And itreally went for it… the whole entiremovie really went for it. It didn’t do‘sort of Horrible Bosses’! They werereally horrible.”

Getting ‘horrible’ involved being insome compromising situations,particularly with her co-starDay, where amongother things sheappears half naked,with her modestycovered by a dentist’sovercoat! Althoughshe was more thangame she foundfilming uncomfortableat times. “It wasembarrassing for me tohave to basically meetCharlie [Day] and afterone day have to straddle him. I was embarrassedfor myself. I hope he forgives me!”

Outside of the movie, she has had a great career

on the big screen, but viewers will forever knowher as Rachel from the defining 90’s TV show“Friends”. How does she feel about thisassociation, and how does she look back on the

character? “Fondly… I look backat her fondly” she nods. “She wasa lot of fun. As for fans, I getpeople still referring to me asRachel. But nobody is upsetabout this” The momentum hasmeant, recently, she earned a staron the Hollywood walk of fame. “Itwas an unbelievable honour. It wasamazing and surreal” she beams.

Finally, as her co-star in the filmKevin Spacey has been associatedwith The Old Vic Theatre for years,would she ever consider treadingthe boards? “Oh yes, I have and Iwould love to” she says. “I did the24-Hour Plays. I started at bad

theatre in New York, I did public theatre andthings that aren’t remembered! But yeah, I lovethe theatre and I would love to go back to it if theright thing presented itself.”

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Bobble – Making Water BetterFollowing the popularity of last months article on Green Pan, we thought we would introduce you

to another eco-friendly brand available at Papylon, Winchmore Hill.

Bobble was founded in 2008 by two design entrepreneurs

whose mission was to protect our environment by designing

affordable, sustainable products. Having discovered that

the world consumes more than 200 billion single-serve

bottles of water each year, the pair decided to create a

stylish alternative. Their first product bobble is a re-useable,

filtered water bottle engineered to change peoples drinking

habits by slowing the mass consumption of single-serve water bottles.

Designed with an internal carbon filter to remove chlorine and organic contaminants,

bobble makes municipal tap water healthier and better with every sip. Each filter

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from our taps, we can remove thousands of plastic bottles from our environment

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Like Green Pans, bobble water bottles are a convenient and easy way for us to

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BUS ROUTE 318The London Borough of Enfield’s Public TransportConsultative Group, upon which sits a CommitteeMember of the Residents’ Association, has beencampaigning for many years on an extension ofthe 318 bus route from North Middlesex Hospitalthrough Winchmore Hill to Highlands Village. Theroute would extend through Silver Street, HedgeLane, Firs Lane, Barrowell Green, Green Lanesand Green Dragon Lane and readers will note thiswill serve a number of passenger generatingcentres.

However, Transport for London has persistentlydenied that this would have any benefit and haveraised the issue of negative cost benefit. This isnow arguable due to several recent decisions.

1. The construction of the North London HospiceOutreach Centre in Barrowell Green.

2. The extended school provision at Highlandsand Firs Farm.

3. The increased usage of North MiddlesexHospital due to changes envisaged at ChaseFarm.

One of the measurable criteria formulated by TFLfor deciding on the need for a bus route is themaximum distance of 500m. of pedestrian travelto any bus route. An area around Firs Lane andBarrowell Green falls well outside this distance.

To date Transport for London are maintaining animmovable stance but with the constant changesin the District we feel convinced that the need willcontinue to grow.

PLANNINGMATTERSIn monitoring the planning applications submitted

to the Council we note there is a continuing andgrowing number of householders wishing toextend their houses. While the need for largeraccommodation may be to just increase space orsatisfy increased family size, it will in itselfultimately create a mix of dwelling types which willnot match the demographic shape of thepopulation. Far too many larger dwellings will beavailable at too great a cost. The affluent timeswe have experienced will no longer be there andthe affordability of houses too large for needs willnot be achieved.

In addition to this, many houses are beingenlarged to such an extent that the space aroundthem is totally disappearing. Where the classicsemi-detached house with space for a garagebeside it was common in Winchmore Hill, thesespaces are being filled and we are ending upwith, to all intents and purposes, a continuousterrace. Is that what we really want to see inWinchmore Hill?

This need for expansion is also happening in ourmost luxurious roads where large houses arebeing demolished and replacement houses two orthree times larger are constructed. What is thepoint of all this space which inevitably ends upwith increased energy consumption and a furthernail in “green” credentials?

WHRA, PO Box 34037, London N21 2ZBEmail: [email protected]

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This month I’ve been taking some

time to look at Paper Tiger a digital

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There are two aspects to this programme,

firstly it’s a great place to store documents

online, in a secure location ,allowing them to

be shared between computers and users;

secondly, the other very useful aspect is that

it allows you to manage your existing paper

files.

If you run the type of business that requires

large amounts of paper documents to be

easily accessed then this could be great for

you.

The beauty of this

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It’s easy to use and

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The basics are that

you create an online location to mirror your

paper / physical location and you give them

both the same name i.e Draw A. Then you

divide the location into the same amount of

folders giving them all corresponding names,

Paper Tiger even creates the labels for you

to print off. The really clever bit is that you

can add several ‘keywords’ to your online

document, these can be anything that helps

to identify it. When the next person needs to

search for the document they can use the

online search box, simply typing in a word

just as if they were searching Google.

There are other great features like

‘Categories’ which allow you to link files that

contain related information and you are

alerted if you try to create a duplicate file.

So the essence of this programme is that it

means you can search for a file by its

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This could be a great time saver if your

business depends on keeping lots of

paperwork, but it also allows you to turn your

paper documents into PDFs and store them

online so you can actually eliminate the need

for a paper copy.

The basic online package is $4

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