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Welcome Welcome to the November issue of Chadderton Life. Hope you had a great time at the various firework displays and celebrations. I suppose now everyone will be preparing for Christmas. If there are any jobs to be done then you need to get a move on with them. I’ve received quite a few good reports about advertisers, but keep sending the feedback about any of them that you use, as it’s always useful information. Take a look at our website and if you are impressed then please ‘like it.’ If you have anything interesting for next months Christmas issue, then please contact me.
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Bill Keeth
with a Prix Goncourt winner to be
read at one sitting
“A highly original piece of work, at once charming, moving, and
gripping,” says Martin Amis, Manchester University’s erstwhile
literary carpetbagger, about this most unusual book title. Through
gritted teeth, presumably. Because, though umpteen reviews of the
book are available to be read on the internet, not a word by Amis is
listed amongst them.
But certainly Laurent Binet’s debut novel is truly original
in that it is a particularly distinctive example of meta-fiction.
That is to say, the author relates the true story of the assassi-
nation of Reinhard Heydrich, Deputy Reich Protector of
Bohemia and Moravia, by two Czech nationals who were trained at Manchester Ring-
way in part before being parachuted into their native Czechoslovakia at New Year,
1942. Meanwhile, the author introduces his present-day self into the story so as to give
voice to his countless artistic misgivings with regard to exactly how (that is to say, how
truthfully) he might present this most exciting, yet harrowing of tales. For instance, is
the car in which Heydrich is travelling when confronted by his assassins black or green
in colour? And ought the author to state a preference, no evidence being ready to hand?
Making landfall, our parachutists are looked after by various members of the Czech
resistance as they plan their well nigh impossible mission. Because Reynard Heydrich is
Heinrich Himmler’s No. 2, of whom it is said (an SS in-joke, apparently) that Himmlers
Hirn heisst Heydrich (“Himmler’s brain is called Heidrich”): HHhH, in short – hence
the odd title of the book suggested by Laurent Binet’s publisher, as opposed to the more
mundane Operation Anthropoid.
Readers should not imagine that the aptly-nicknamed Butcher of Prague, (“Hitler’s
Hangman”, as Thomas Mann called Heydrich) deserves anything other than a death
sentence. Had he lived, he would certainly not have survived Nuremburg. Because Hey-
drich, it was, who orchestrated the Night of the Long Knives . . . instigated Kristal-
nacht . . . arranged for executed German jailbait dressed in Polish army uniforms to be
planted within a radio station on German soil, thereby starting WW2 . . . and Heydrich,
it was, too, who chaired the infamous Wannsee Conference at which the so-called Final
Solution was given the go-ahead.
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Our two parachutists (serving Warrant Officers with the Czech military contingent in
the UK) are, therefore, the bravest of the brave. Not their mission is effected with any-
thing amounting to aplomb.
On the day the deed is to be done our heroes are, quite naturally, nervous as hell,
awaiting the moment of confrontation. Meanwhile, a characteristically arrogant Hey-
drich is travelling to work in an open-top saloon car, accompanied only by his driver.
Whereupon Jozef Gabcik steps smartly into the road as the car slows to take a sharp
right-hand bend, then takes aim with a Sten gun which jams – and repeatedly fails to
fire!
Heydrich leaps to his feet, barking an order for the driver to stop, at which point Jan
Kubis lobs a bomb that falls short of the car but, hitting the right-hand vehicle exterior,
blows asunder the passenger door, seat squab and rear bumper, too. Whereupon shrap-
nel from all three infiltrate Heydrich’s internal organs, his spleen in particular. Notwith-
standing which, Heydrich jumps out of the car and gives chase; so, too, does his driver
until Heydrich collapses in the road and has to be rushed to hospital in a van belonging
to the Bata shoe shop.
The upshot is that despite the ministrations of the best doctors available, Heydrich
develops terminal septicaemia which (quite appropriately – that is to say, Gestapo-like)
tortures him cruelly and relentlessly for every second of every minute of every hour of
the concluding seven days of his evil life.
Hitler immediately demands that 10,000 Czechs be killed by way of recompense.
Luckily, Heydrich’s deputy, needing a slave workforce for the morrow, suggests a lesser
figure. So the sternest kind of martial law is imposed instead under which the village of
Lidice is razed to the ground, its menfolk murdered, its women imprisoned, its children
sent north to be Germanised.
Jan Kubis, Jozef Gabcik, can do no more than secrete themselves together with five
comrades in arms in the crypt of the Cathedral of SS Cyril and Commodius where
(betrayed by a countryman) they hold 800 Germans at bay before succumbing to superi-
or numbers – but not to capture. Jan Kubis alone dies from wounds sustained; each one
of his companions – heroes all! – makes sure he saves his last round of ammunition for
personal use.
Check out Wikipedia, please do. Try YouTube, too, for an epic feature about Operation
Anthropoid and an interview with Laurent Binet. Best of all log on to the official Czech
document of 95 pages: www.army.cz/images/id_7001_8000/7419/assassination-en.pdf
Alongside documentation such as this, fresh-faced, hirsute, garrulous, leather-
jacketed, laddishly personable Laurent Binet’s whingeing literary concerns
don’t amount to a hill of beans. Nope, Laurent Binet is just the sort of no ac-
count 21st Century kind of guy we need to sell us sun cream, aftershave, beach
holidays, Smirnoff and books.
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NOVEMBER IN THE GARDEN I know it's tempting, but don't hang up your trowel just yet as there's still a few bits and piec-es left to do around the garden. You may be losing motivation, but whatever you do now to put your plot to bed for the winter will pay dividends next spring when you'll be ahead of the game. It's time to tidy up, cut back any unsightly plant growth for the compost bin, don't be too fastidious though and leave some stems and seed heads for the wildlife. Pull any weeds and if you're feeling particularly energetic and the weather's good, mulch the borders with some well-rotted manure. The winter weather will break it down and you can dig it into the soil next spring, your plants will love you for it. Roses, buddleia, lavatera and cornus can be cut back by half now to prevent wind rock damage. If the weather allows you can still plant new trees, shrubs and roses, as long as you follow the planting and care in-structions they'll be fine. Don't forget to lift any dahlias out of the ground before the frosts kill them, dry them off and store somewhere cool and dry ready for replanting next year. If you haven't planted any tulips yet you'd better get a move on and if you want a bit of winter colour plant up wallflowers, primulas and forget-me-nots before the ground gets too cold and winter really sets in. Mow the lawn if it really needs it, but keep the cut high. It's too late now to use lawn weed killers, but you can still encourage healthy roots with autumn treatments which are rich in potassium and phosphorous. Don't be tempted to use leftover summer feeds which encourage lush growth, it's too cold for that now. When you've finished with your tools, clean and oil them and store them away properly, they'll do a better job and last longer if you look after them. JOB OF THE MONTH
If there's one job to do this month it's got to be collecting leaves to make leaf mould. Any gardener will tell you that leaf mould is worth its weight in gold as a soil improver, what's more it's free and incredibly easy to make. You can add leaves to the compost bin, but being high in carbon they take a lot longer to rot down and will slow the whole bin down. Too many leaves in the compost bin form unhelpful mats that exclude worms and air, so it really is better to make leaf mould separately to compost. Every garden should have an area for things like the compost bin, leaf mould and other bits and pieces, consider it the engine room of the garden. It's often somewhere like the back of the shed, but it doesn't have to be hidden away.
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The hardest bit of making leaf mould is collecting the leaves. You can make life easier by waiting for a calm day after wet and windy weather, the leaves will be blown into piles, gathered in corners and drains and generally less scattered about. Don't put in any evergreen leaves such as holly and laurel which take far too long to decompose. Once you've collected them you'll need to store them in something. The quickest answer is to use good quality black bin liners, just fill them up, add a bucket of water, tie the top and them pierce a few holes in the bottom and sides of the bag. Stash them away somewhere and forget about them. Alternatively you can make a wire mesh bin out of posts and chicken wire. For moisture retention it should be no smaller than 1m (3ft) high and 1m (3ft) wide, it'll also need to be covered on top with a bit of carpet or something simi-lar. The length of time it takes for the leaves to rot down will vary according to the type of leaf and the conditions, but 2 years is a reasonable guess. Huge bags will reduce down to next to nothing. I've used leaf mould that is just over a year old as a rough mulch and it's been fine, but if you want it for planting or potting you'll need to leave it until it no longer resembles leaves at all, it should be a fine, crumbly mixture that's not unpleasant to handle GARDEN NEWS Gardeners are being asked to help with a six-month study investigating the fruits and berries garden birds prefer to eat, the study runs until March 2013. For information, advice and study packs contact the BTO on 08142 750050 From the 1st November RHS members can claim an early bird discount when booking for next year’s flower show at Tat-ton Park. To claim your dis-count members should call 08443387539 before the 1
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December. If you have a bonfire this month save any wood ash for the garden, it’s high in potassium and you can very easi-ly add it to the soil by simply sprinkling it on the soil when it’s dry and gently forking it in. Be careful not to overdo it as too much potassium can make the soil over limy. If you have a bonfire this month save any wood ash for the garden, it’s high in potassium and you can very easily add it to the soil by simply sprin-kling it on the soil when it’s dry and gently forking it in. Be careful not to overdo it as too much potassium can make the soil over limy.
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November Chadderton Christmas Market A festive Christmas Market with school choirs, bands, danc-ers, an ice rink the lights switch on and a firework display not to be missed. 12-7pm, lights switch on at 6.30pm Chadderton Shopping Mall
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