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August 2010<br />
CONTENTS<br />
1<br />
Welcome to the August<br />
edition.<br />
This month Monica McCusker<br />
from Manchester Nutrition<br />
shares a lovely tomato recipe.<br />
Two enterprising locals have<br />
recently launched a new<br />
website - scavenger.org.<br />
uk - with the hope of creating<br />
a user friendly forum to<br />
enable us to redistribute our<br />
unwanted stuff.<br />
Tom Astell contacted<br />
<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Index</strong> after picking<br />
up a copy at <strong>Didsbury</strong> Library.<br />
Tom is the publicity officer<br />
for Manchester Intervarsity<br />
Club and wanted to promote<br />
the group with a feature in<br />
<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Index</strong>.<br />
Are you involved in a<br />
community project or not<br />
for profit group? Perhaps you<br />
are looking for volunteers?<br />
If you’d like to feature in<br />
<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Index</strong>, please do<br />
get in touch, we’d love to<br />
hear from you.<br />
Lesley<br />
2<br />
6<br />
10<br />
12<br />
14<br />
Satyananda Yoga<br />
a growing community in<br />
<strong>Didsbury</strong><br />
Succulent Seasonal<br />
Tomatoes<br />
Monica’s recipe<br />
Make New Friends<br />
with Manchester IVC<br />
On the Sofa<br />
with Gilly Kingham<br />
www.scavenger.org.uk<br />
redistribute your surplus stuff<br />
Deadline for the Next Edition:<br />
13th August<br />
18<br />
Book Review<br />
by Gilly Kingham<br />
<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Index</strong> is printed on Forest<br />
Stewardship Council approved paper<br />
using vegetable based inks.<br />
Front cover photograph by Janet Walsh<br />
m1608r2703@yahoo.co.uk<br />
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Editor: Lesley Swann 0787 589 5604<br />
Sub-Editor: Sam Paechter<br />
lesley@communityindex.co.uk<br />
www.communityindex.co.uk
2<br />
Satyananda 2<br />
Yoga<br />
a growing community in <strong>Didsbury</strong> - by Sara Adler<br />
I grew up in London, though<br />
I came up North in the early<br />
eighties when I was 19,<br />
living in and around South<br />
Manchester. I remember<br />
clearly from those first<br />
years my almost<br />
instantaneous love<br />
for this city, its<br />
enormously diverse<br />
communities and<br />
the friendliness<br />
of its people – a<br />
feeling which still<br />
remains.<br />
At the end of 1997<br />
I set off to the other side of<br />
the world and lived most of<br />
the next decade in Australia.<br />
I went to my first yoga class<br />
whilst living in Milton, a small<br />
coastal town near Narrawallee<br />
on the South Coast of New<br />
South Wales. I still remember<br />
how it felt! Before then I had<br />
“I feel fitter and more flexible,<br />
able to cycle now with ease. Knee<br />
and back problems are improving<br />
all the time and I have an increased<br />
awareness on all sorts of levels.”<br />
student comment<br />
looked from a distance at<br />
other people practising yoga,<br />
I’d always been interested,<br />
but had never tried it.<br />
Just less than 2 years ago<br />
I had a strong sense that<br />
the time had finally come<br />
to return home to the<br />
community I had left behind<br />
in Britain. The moment<br />
had come for me to<br />
acknowledge that perhaps<br />
I had come home partly<br />
to share the yoga I had<br />
grown to love in Australia<br />
and somehow to combine<br />
it with my love of<br />
community.<br />
I’ve been teaching<br />
Satyananda Yoga in <strong>Didsbury</strong><br />
since the start of 2009.<br />
Classes have grown steadily<br />
Sara Adler<br />
Diploma Satyananda Yoga Teaching<br />
(Australia)<br />
Yoga in <strong>Didsbury</strong><br />
Morning, afternoon and<br />
evening classes<br />
Emphasis is placed upon systematic,<br />
safe teaching methods which adapt<br />
practices to suit the many individuals<br />
who make up our community<br />
Everyone is welcome<br />
For further information contact Sara<br />
0161 445 4626<br />
sara.sacredspace@gmail.com<br />
www.sacredspace.me.uk
3<br />
“The postures of<br />
Satyananda Yoga<br />
have been challenging<br />
but not in any<br />
way competitive.<br />
Particularly now<br />
at this later stage<br />
of my pregnancy<br />
the use of natural<br />
breath awareness<br />
and meditation have<br />
helped greatly in the<br />
time before sleep.”<br />
student comment<br />
from small beginnings, where<br />
a few people attended free<br />
classes in a room in my home.<br />
These past 18 months have<br />
been a journey, and I am<br />
now teaching at a beautiful<br />
local space, offering regular<br />
chanting evenings at my<br />
home for students, partners,<br />
children and friends followed<br />
by shared suppers. There<br />
have also been three Sunday<br />
workshops with different<br />
Satyananda teachers this<br />
year, and an annual retreat<br />
this June at an Ashram in<br />
Wales. At the end of my<br />
first year of teaching we<br />
celebrated together by<br />
gathering at a local restaurant<br />
and also welcoming our first<br />
Satyananda Yoga baby.<br />
I teach systematically and<br />
safely, drawing on the<br />
teachings of Satyananda Yoga<br />
and personal experience over<br />
the past 11 years. My vision<br />
is to teach in a way that<br />
fully includes each and every<br />
person in the group, nurturing<br />
a place of trust where<br />
students are encouraged to<br />
explore life. Teaching this<br />
way enables people to open<br />
up the possibilities that Yoga<br />
“Yoga has enabled<br />
me to listen to my<br />
body and my mind,<br />
not just within the<br />
sessions of yoga<br />
practice but within<br />
everyday life.”<br />
student comment<br />
can offer, looking at how to<br />
take yoga off the mat at the<br />
weekly class and out into<br />
their everyday life, enabling<br />
an expanding sense of<br />
awareness of each aspect of<br />
life in the City.<br />
Everyone is most welcome to<br />
come along.<br />
www.sacredspace.me.uk<br />
0161 445 4626<br />
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5<br />
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Pauline Moffatt, PG Dip Ac, MBAcC<br />
Acupuncturist<br />
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Acupuncture helps to maintain the bodyÕs balance by focussing on all aspects of wellbeing;<br />
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Pauline trained for 3 years in Acupuncture (Traditional Chinese Medicine) at the Northern<br />
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6<br />
Succulent Seasonal Tomatoes<br />
by Monica McCusker<br />
We can see succulent,<br />
tasty local and European<br />
tomatoes in our greengrocers<br />
throughout the year, but the<br />
tastiest ones are available<br />
from July to September.<br />
Tomatoes are such versatile<br />
and tasty vegetables and<br />
a great accompaniment to<br />
most meals as part of a salad,<br />
stuffed or cooked as the base<br />
of a stew, curry or casserole.<br />
Technically tomatoes are<br />
vine fruits, like cucumber,<br />
squashes, peas and beans, but<br />
most people refer to them as<br />
vegetables.<br />
You can buy tomatoes in a<br />
range of sizes and types from<br />
the smallest cherry tomatoes<br />
through to the larger<br />
beefsteak, not forgetting<br />
the wonderful concentrated<br />
flavour of sundried versions.<br />
Almost all tomatoes in Britain<br />
are grown in glasshouses.<br />
They are produced in<br />
our natural season and<br />
harvested between March and<br />
November.<br />
Tomatoes are a powerhouse<br />
of nutrients needed for<br />
health. They contain vitamins<br />
A, C and E as well as beta<br />
carotene, which all function<br />
as antioxidants to combat<br />
the ageing process and keep<br />
chronic diseases at bay. In<br />
addition reasonable quantities<br />
of vitamin K, potassium,<br />
magnesium, the B vitamins<br />
and iron can also be found.<br />
One phytonutrient found<br />
in tomatoes, which has<br />
undergone a lot of research<br />
recently, is lycopene. This is<br />
a powerful antioxidant and is<br />
part of the carotenoids group.<br />
It has been shown to inhibit<br />
prostate cancer. One study<br />
showed that men who ate<br />
10 or more helpings<br />
per week had<br />
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their risk of<br />
developing<br />
prostate<br />
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Another study<br />
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tomato’s been cooked, such<br />
as in tomato sauce or paste.<br />
Tomatoes are great for making<br />
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Tomatoes stuffed with quinoa<br />
Serves 2<br />
2 beefsteak or other large tomatoes<br />
100g quinoa<br />
250ml vegetable stock<br />
2 tablespoons olive oil<br />
1 onion (approx 100g) chopped<br />
1 garlic clove<br />
1 tablespoon lemon juice<br />
Grated zest of ½ lemon<br />
2 tablespoons pine nuts<br />
1 tablespoon chopped fresh coriander<br />
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley<br />
Freshly ground black pepper<br />
1. Heat the stock in a saucepan, add the<br />
quinoa, stir and simmer for 15 minutes or<br />
until the quinoa is tender. If all the stock is<br />
not absorbed, drain the quinoa.<br />
2. While the quinoa is cooking, slice the<br />
top off the tomatoes and<br />
scoop out and eat or compost<br />
the seeds, taking care not to<br />
break through the pith and<br />
skin. Grind some black pepper<br />
into the tomatoes. Preheat the<br />
oven to 180°C/gas mark 4.<br />
3. Heat the oil in a saucepan,<br />
add the onion and garlic and<br />
cook until golden. Add the quinoa, lemon<br />
juice, zest, pine nuts and chopped herbs<br />
and mix well.<br />
4. Spoon the mixture into the tomatoes<br />
and top with the ‘lids’. Put them<br />
in an oven proof dish, cover<br />
and cook for 15 minutes or<br />
until the tomatoes are soft.<br />
Serve with a small<br />
baked potato and a<br />
green salad or extra<br />
quinoa.<br />
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Have you had your<br />
<strong>Community</strong> <strong>Index</strong>?<br />
Now in our fourth month publishing<br />
here in <strong>Didsbury</strong>, we have been<br />
delighted by the response from both<br />
readers and advertisers.<br />
We are independently owned and<br />
produce a monthly magazine with<br />
community focused editorial content<br />
both in <strong>Didsbury</strong> and in neighbouring<br />
Chorlton and Whalley Range. We<br />
hope to provide a forum for local<br />
organisations, charities and not for<br />
profit groups to publicise their work<br />
within the community.<br />
There are also lots of adverts which<br />
provide all of our funding. We<br />
offer affordable and flexible advertising packages to local<br />
independently owned businesses. Give us a call if you run a<br />
local business and would like to advertise.<br />
We deliver to a third of all the homes in <strong>Didsbury</strong> each<br />
month. So, you should receive a copy through your letter box<br />
once every 3 months.<br />
If you’d like to read it every month, we’ll make copies<br />
available for you to pick up when you’re out and about in<br />
<strong>Didsbury</strong>.<br />
Or, send us an email to list@communityindex.co.uk and we’ll<br />
send you a link to the online version each month.<br />
We’d love to hear from you if you’d like to contribute<br />
an article. We are particularly keen to include projects,<br />
organisations and groups which promote sustainable and<br />
resilient lifestyles.<br />
Lesley Swann<br />
Editor<br />
New free magazine - 4,000 copies distributed in <strong>Didsbury</strong> every month<br />
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10<br />
Make New Friends<br />
and influence people - Manchester Intervarsity club<br />
Are you new in town or would<br />
like to increase your circle of<br />
friends?<br />
Manchester Intervarsity<br />
Club offers informal social<br />
and cultural activities for<br />
professional and like-minded<br />
people with the emphasis on<br />
making new friends who share<br />
interests.<br />
Many IVC members live<br />
in the <strong>Didsbury</strong> area and<br />
its atmosphere makes it a<br />
popular venue for pub nights<br />
and meals. The book club is<br />
held locally as was our annual<br />
garden party.<br />
Who are we?<br />
As a non-profit making<br />
organisation, our members<br />
put on events for each other,<br />
share interests and develop<br />
friendships. Although it’s<br />
definitely not a singles club,<br />
there have been many IVC<br />
weddings over the years.<br />
Whilst the majority join in<br />
their forties many remain<br />
members into their fifties.<br />
What do we do?<br />
We organise more than one<br />
event a day, on average,<br />
all year so provide a social<br />
calendar to plan with or dip<br />
into as the fancy takes you.<br />
Choose from:-<br />
book club, bridge, cinema,<br />
concerts, cycling, dancing,<br />
discussion groups, holidays<br />
at home and abroad, jazz,<br />
lectures, meals, parties,<br />
pub nights, slide shows,<br />
talks, theatre, museums, art<br />
galleries and walks.<br />
Our weekly discussion circles<br />
cover science, history,<br />
philosophy and current<br />
affairs. There’s a comedy
workshop run by our own<br />
stand-up comic, Diane, a<br />
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12<br />
On the Sofa<br />
with Gilly Kingham<br />
A Single Man<br />
George (Colin Firth) lives in<br />
the suburbs of Los Angeles in<br />
a glass house. Such flaunting<br />
transparency which announces<br />
nothing to hide is of course<br />
the perfect camouflage for a<br />
man receded into a grief that<br />
in the America of 1962 has no<br />
acceptable public discourse.<br />
For George’s heart has been<br />
broken – a circumstance<br />
literalised into a diseased<br />
heart – by the death of his<br />
partner of 16 years, Jim<br />
(Matthew Goode), who, we<br />
learn in a series of dream<br />
sequences and flashbacks,<br />
has been killed in a car<br />
crash while visiting family in<br />
Colorado.<br />
Based on a novella by<br />
Christopher Isherwood, Tom<br />
Ford’s film traces a single day<br />
in George’s life. This is to be<br />
George’s death day – a fact<br />
rather clunkily foreshadowed<br />
by the pistol that George carts<br />
about all day in his brief case.<br />
Still, Ford’s camera invests<br />
the outward almost-normalcy<br />
with which this English<br />
Literature professor pursues<br />
his day with the wonder of<br />
moments as if seen for the<br />
last time. Such a construction<br />
of inward perception is<br />
given greater poignancy in<br />
its contrast with George’s<br />
strictly phatic interactions<br />
with the Kodachrome-bright<br />
all-American nuclear family<br />
that lives opposite and his<br />
work colleagues.<br />
Even his long-standing friend,<br />
fellow Brit, Charley (Julianne<br />
Moore) – a woman washed-up<br />
in middle-age, the gin-soaked<br />
flotsam of a feminine<br />
stereotype which she has<br />
discovered too late has an<br />
upper-age limit – fails to<br />
comprehend George’s despair,<br />
adding to the accumulating<br />
cruelties of a heterosexual<br />
world by suggesting that his<br />
relationship with Jim was<br />
somehow not ‘real’. It is<br />
only George’s student, Kenny<br />
(Matthew Hoult), noticing<br />
the ‘almost’ in George’s<br />
behaviour – the lecture on<br />
Aldous Huxley’s ‘After Many a<br />
Summer’ diverted by a bored<br />
question into a consideration<br />
of the basis of all prejudice<br />
in fear of the other; more<br />
prosaically, the clearing of<br />
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by means of the refracting<br />
mirrors of a self-ironising<br />
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however, proves not so easily<br />
deflected.<br />
Firth is marvellous in his<br />
portrayal of repression<br />
articulated in metonymies<br />
– the flinch of a jaw muscle,<br />
the tic of an eyelid, the spill<br />
of a tear – and captured by<br />
Ford’s insistent close-up<br />
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It is of course ironic that<br />
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as its historical context the<br />
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of those defining moments in<br />
the encounter with the Soviet<br />
other against which America<br />
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Book Review<br />
by Gilly Kingham<br />
A Gate at the Stairs<br />
by Lorrie Moore<br />
(Faber and Faber, 2009;<br />
£16.99)<br />
Moore, never much interested<br />
in plot, constructs her<br />
novel as an accumulation of<br />
moments which apparently<br />
drift as casually as her<br />
narrator, Tassie Keltjin’s<br />
fresher year at college. And<br />
yet, the attentive reader<br />
will sniff a tension in the<br />
atmosphere, a sense of<br />
impending ambush hinted<br />
at in the opening sentence:<br />
‘The cold came late that<br />
fall and the songbirds were<br />
caught off guard.’ That the<br />
birds have been ‘suckered’<br />
by a tricksterish nature may<br />
lead us to suspect that the<br />
dupery of larger forces lurks<br />
cruelly ahead, for Tassie’s<br />
retrospective narrative opens<br />
portentously in the autumn of<br />
2001. At first, History seems<br />
to impinge little into her<br />
life, its terrors incorporated<br />
and subdued by the exquisite<br />
egoism of young adulthood.<br />
The novel is structured in<br />
the shifting focus between<br />
Midwestern town and<br />
countryside. A half-Jewish<br />
farmer’s daughter, Tassie<br />
has arrived in the university<br />
town of Troy (‘the Athens of<br />
the Midwest’) without ever<br />
having had Chinese food.<br />
Posed ludicrous questions by<br />
fellow students like ‘Is it true<br />
that if you eat a bear’s liver<br />
you’ll die?’, she nonetheless<br />
possesses the syncopated<br />
vision of the hick being less<br />
impressed by her professor’s<br />
series of lectures on Henry<br />
James’s masturbation of the<br />
comma than the fact he wears<br />
jeans and a tie! Back home<br />
in Dellacrosse for Christmas<br />
vacation, Tassie finds her<br />
mother still placing mirrors<br />
at the back of the flowerbeds<br />
and her brother, Robert<br />
flunking out of high school and<br />
set to join the army just as<br />
America gears up for war in<br />
Afghanistan.<br />
Her father, grows heirloom<br />
potatoes which he sells<br />
to upmarket restaurants.<br />
Indeed, it is the Keltjin<br />
potato that lands Tassie a<br />
part-time job as a baby-sitter<br />
for restaurant-owner, Sarah<br />
Brink – made-up and decked<br />
out on first meeting in shades<br />
of brown which, Tassie<br />
observes, made her look like<br />
‘a highly controlled oxidation<br />
experiment’ – and her oddly<br />
disengaged husband, Edward<br />
Thornwood. The Thornwood-<br />
Brinks are planning to adopt<br />
and Sarah insists that Tassie<br />
participate fully in the process<br />
including accompanying<br />
them to meetings with the<br />
birth mothers of potential<br />
adoptive children where she<br />
finds herself squirming under<br />
puzzled gazes as to who<br />
the hell she is. Eventually,<br />
the couple settle on a two<br />
year old mixed-race toddler,<br />
Emmie, whose opening<br />
‘Uh-oh’ as Tassie takes charge<br />
on her first baby-sitting<br />
assignment proves ominously<br />
proleptic.<br />
Thus, as Tassie occupies<br />
herself comfortably between<br />
her studies, her Brazilian<br />
boyfriend, Reynaldo and her<br />
baby-sitting duties - which<br />
seem to consist chiefly of<br />
acting as nursery maid for the<br />
support group Sarah has set<br />
up for parents of mixed race<br />
children, the novel cranks up<br />
to calamity. The horrifying<br />
secret of the Thornwood-<br />
Brinks unravels and Reynaldo<br />
proves to be other than<br />
he seems. In Dellacrosse,<br />
international tragedy comes<br />
home to the Keltjin farm.<br />
For me, the multiple pile-up<br />
of catastrophe at the novel’s<br />
finale seems too contrived<br />
to be satisfying, which is not<br />
to detract a jot from the<br />
breath-taking way in which<br />
Moore crafts her language<br />
into forensic observations<br />
which overspill with black<br />
merriment.<br />
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<strong>Didsbury</strong> Civic Society<br />
www.didsburycivicsociety.org.uk<br />
<strong>Didsbury</strong> Cricket Club<br />
http://didsburyccsports.co.uk<br />
<strong>Didsbury</strong> Good Neighbours<br />
www.didsburygoodneighbours.com<br />
Marie Greenhalgh<br />
07749 504298<br />
Disbury Over 50s Group<br />
247 2323<br />
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Roofer<br />
M Duffin 16<br />
Therapy & Healing<br />
Manchester Nutrition 7<br />
Peter Rigg 5<br />
Windows<br />
TWS 17<br />
Yoga<br />
Sara Adler 2<br />
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<strong>Didsbury</strong> Village East Residents<br />
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www.dvera.co.uk<br />
<strong>Didsbury</strong> Village Women’s Institute<br />
http://didsburyvillagewi.wordpress.<br />
com<br />
Friends of <strong>Didsbury</strong> Park<br />
www.friendsofdidsburypark.co.uk<br />
Friends of Fletcher Moss Park<br />
Friends of Marie Louise Gardens<br />
www.marielouisegardens.org.uk<br />
Oxfam <strong>Didsbury</strong><br />
434 5380<br />
South Manchester Camera Club<br />
www.smcc.org.uk<br />
West <strong>Didsbury</strong> Residents Association<br />
www.westdidsbury.org.uk<br />
Pam Siddons 445 5406<br />
West <strong>Didsbury</strong> Society for Writers<br />
Jane Woolley 957 1663
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