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Chislehurst Issue 13 - September 2010
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• Chislehurst Editor’s Letter
• Mottingham
• New Eltham Welcome to The Local Stuff’s first birthday issue! I can’t
• Petts Wood believe that a whole year has past since I nervously hit the
• Sidcup send key for the first issue to go to print. Read more about
the last year in my interview on page 22.
The local stuff is hand delivered
to over 6,700 homes in
Chislehurst and BR7.
Over the year I have welcomed many new advertisers, and
hopefully will welcome many more in the future. However,
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the magazine would not have got off the ground without the
Bromley advertisers that decided to benefit from the very first issue,
Kent and I would like to thank them.
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I would also like to thank the readers too, the distribution of
The Local Stuff makes every effort to
the magazine has grown over the year, and the readership
ensure the accuracy of its contents. has grown both of the printed and the online editions of
However, The Local Stuff accepts no
responsibility or liability for any errors, the magazine. This has been shown by the number of
omissions, the accuracy of statements
made within the publication or any loss
competition entries received. It has been a wonderful
arising from the publication or non- and successful year, and I very much look forward to your
publication of an advertisement. The
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service, business or event included in its
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On 4 September 1962, The Beatles recorded their first single “Love Me Do” at the Abbey Road Studios
with EMI. This was just after Ringo Starr had joined the band, replacing the previous drummer Pete Best.
The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts more commonly known as The Proms, has it’s last night on the 11
September and has been going since 1895.
The Gregorian calendar was adopted in Great Britain on 14 September 1752. It counts days as the basic
unit of time, grouping them into years of 365 or 366 days. It repeats completely every 146,097 days, which
fill 400 years. This gives an average calendar year length of exactly 365.2425 days, or 365 days, 5 hours,
49 minutes and 12 seconds. That’s 10 minutes, 8 seconds less than the 365.25 days that we work on.
The 23 September is the autumn equinox. This is when the sun appears directly over the equator. It
marks the mid point between summer and winter, where daytime and nighttime are exactly 12 hours each.
Michaelmas Day falls on 29 September. It is the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. St. Michael is the
patron saint of the sea and maritime lands, of ships and boatmen, of horses and horsemen. He was the
Angel who hurled Lucifer (the devil) down from Heaven for his treachery.
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Day one – rain - set up tent, got cross, “Isn’t it lovely!” she said, eyeing my rumpled
shouted quite a bit, set up stove, felt better. attire, “just to get back to nature and not
Day two – rain – sat in tent and read book, bother with how one looks!”
leak in tent, got wet, got cross, cooked
dinner, felt better I pulled myself up to my full 5’2” and smiled
Day three – beach, fossil-hunting, drizzly briskly as she ran past, tripped over a rock
rain, was happy as larry (apart from and fell flat on her face. “Oh you poor
unstyled hair) dear,” I said, helping her to her feet, “are
Day four - the horror of the shared shower – you hurt?”
no hot water for whole campsite!
Day five – rain - didn’t care about hair, “No, no,” she said, smiling through gritted
cooked dough sticks (made up just-add- teeth, face covered in mud, grass and bits
water breadmix and twizzled dough of stick - “it’s all part of the fun!”
around sticks with the bark shaved off.
Toasted over little stove.) Very happy. I’ll definitely be going next year!
Day six – still raining, didn’t care, given up love
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Day seven – home – glad to be in bath!
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competition
Thanks to the Cineworld Cinema, Bexleyheath for the prizes for this month’s competition.
For your chance to win one of two pairs of cinema tickets, simply answer the following
question:
Megan Fox stars in “Jonah Hex” released this month,
which actor did Megan marry earlier this year?
a) Tom Green
b) Seth Green
c) Brian Green
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competition 2
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businesses go unnoticed if they don’t have the right note to match what readers
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fun magazine that had plenty of content the magazine poorly and cheaply so
to keep readers interested each month. I that readers don’t like the look of it, and
started with a very clear vision that the being so glossy and overly designed that
magazine had to be appealing to both readers assume everyone advertising is
advertisers and readers, and ultimately going to be too expensive. I’ve found that
it should introduce the two groups. The balance; The Local Stuff offers a good
magazine has evolved to do this, and I quality magazine that promotes good value
believe it does this well. businesses.
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Look Good, Feel Good • Cineworld Cinema 8 • 2gether 25
• Barbers of Bromley 13 • Stag Theatre 8 • Abbeyfield 19
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