Category archives: Keep Things Local

Life Coaching – Olivia Read Top Tips to Lighten your load ‘Summer is here and change is in the air. It’s time for us to stop running around like headless chickens and to add a spring back to our step. Here are some top tips to lighten your load: 1….

Speaking in a booming voice down a crackling telephone line from Lapland in the Arctic Circle, Father Christmas reveals the history of his many names, his reliance on technology and the challenges of not waking children when delivering presents Q. Hello. Am I really talking to Father Christmas? You certainly…

John Stenton Family Butchers are taking Christmas orders now until 15 December 2017. To place your oder please call us on 020 8748 6121 – Free range Norfolk black turkeys – Packington Farm free range capons – Judy Goodman free range geese – Smoked gammon – Homemade wheat-free sausages and…

Shoots and Leaves are giving vouchers to schools, churches and sports clubs to sell and raise money. For details call 020 8563 7733 or visit: http://www.christmastrees.london Shoots and Leaves prides itself on buying direct from the growers, cutting out any middlemen costs. Earlier in the year staff are sent out…

We ask Elliot Rowe, head of Hammersmith sales at Douglas & Gordon, what he loves about the area and why he made it is home Why did you move to Brackenbury Village? I moved from Clapham to the area more than a year ago because I love it here. When…

BUILDING DRAMA Hammersmith hosts one of the most significant cultural developments in West London with this month’s re-opening of the Lyric. Artistic Director, Sean Holmes, discusses his love of surprising audiences and his first production to launch the re-opening Q. What’s your attraction to theatre? I was drawn to directing…

HIS WORLD’S A STAGE The Lyric re-opened with the hit musical Bugsy Malone. One of its cast, Hammed Animashaun, takes time out of rehearsals to discuss youth theatre, Heath Ledger and fishnet stockings Q. What first attracted you to acting? I’ve always loved performing. As a kid I did my…

(or Seniors can surprise you) Living in Brackenbury Village and working at the Grove Neighbourhood Centre has opened my eyes to previously unrealised antics that some of the septuagenarian and octogenarian residents of Hammersmith and its environs get up to. I have lived in the area for 25 plus years…

We all want to be happy, stress and pain free. We all want to feel safe and unthreatened. So how do we accomplish this ultimate desired goal? Massage therapy takes us to the core of the matter. It can raise us high without isolating us from a reality. Through massage…

Interview with David Ling, General Manager – Hammersmith Fitness First Q. What’s new at Fitness First? We’ve spent £1.8m on our recent refurb to completely rejuvenate the club including a 17.5m pool, three studios (now including hot yoga), brand new CV and strength training equipment and two Olympic Lifting platforms….