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‘Cancer forced me to dance with the shadow of fear’
Occasional Inside Croydon contributor SUSAN OLIVER, pictured left, has not written for us for a while. Here she explains why Winter 2013 was lousy for me. And then it got a whole lot worse. The downturn started last November. I … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Education, Environment, Health, Susan Oliver
Tagged Cancer, Croydon, Health, NHS, St George's Tooting, Susan Oliver
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Our two-year-olds need a childhood, not lessons in Latin
SUSAN OLIVER, pictured left, wants the borough’s teaching professionals to come forward and make their voices heard, perhaps even to challenge the controlling orthodoxies of Michael Gove and Ofsted Children should be taught in schools from the age of two … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Riesco Collection, Schools, Susan Oliver
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Education, England, Michael Gove, nursery schools, Ofsted, schools
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Time to call out the Army? Croydon’s 22,000 victims of abuse
SUSAN OLIVER is very concerned about levels of domestic violence going on in Croydon, and wants to know why it is not being treated as a major health issue I have looked at the Domestic Violence and Abuse Report produced … Continue reading
Transition Town team ready to open community garden
SUSAN OLIVER on a couple of important Green events around the borough in the coming week Chard and turnip greens have already been reaped. The onions are coming along, the potatoes are starting to peep, and the calendula and cosmos … Continue reading
Art for heart’s sake: seeing the world afresh
SUSAN OLIVER, pictured left, ahead of the South Norwood Arts Festival, outlines how she discovered her own artistic bliss Most people know me as a gardener and bee-keeper. But quietly, in the background, I’ve been seeking my own personal revolution … Continue reading
Posted in Art, South Norwood, Susan Oliver
Tagged Croydon, England, London, Recreation and Sports, Religion, South Norwood, Susan Oliver
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Plan Bee: things you can do to help local hives thrive
Britain’s bees need your help. And even in built-up Croydon, you can put a buzz into your garden or window box, writes SUSAN OLIVER Spring can be a difficult time for bee-keepers. This is when, for the first time in … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Community associations, Susan Oliver
Tagged Bee, Beekeeping, Borage, Colony, European Union, Honey, Neonicotinoid, Sarah Raven
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Making a change and saving the planet, one step at a time
SUSAN OLIVER explains why Croydon needs to become a Transition Town You don’t have to look hard to find bad news about the state of the planet today. Whether it’s droughts, or floods, or Greenland’s ice melting, or the oceans … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Addiscombe West, Community associations, Education, Environment, Susan Oliver, Transport
Tagged Addiscombe West, Croydon, Greenland, Kinsale, Totnes, Transition Town, Twitter
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Ready, set, go: trowels at the ready to bury a bad idea
An initiative by the Royal Horticultural Society inspires SUSAN OLIVER to start thinking how the idea of competition is doing more harm than we think There is a lot of competitions on television these days. Contests involving baking, cooking, singing, … Continue reading
It is time the likes of Gove and Pollard listened to the teachers
O Levels, CSEs, and grammar schools in Croydon? Having read Councillor Tim Pollard’s recent article on Inside Croydon, SUSAN OLIVER responds by arguing that teachers should put their capes on and become the super-heroes of education they’re entitled to be … Continue reading
