The Bristol Eight - February 2015

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Feb ‘15 Issue 71

A free community magazine for the residents and businesses of BS8. Delivered each month through 8,000 le erboxes in Hotwells, Cli onwood and Cli on

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The Editor’s Small Piece I read recently that in an opinion poll the month least popular with the British public is February. In a way I can see why but I quite like February. It’s short, it feels as if the new year has started properly and when it is over we are into Spring, my favourite season.

The name February comes apparently from the Latin word februum which means puri ication and Februalia, a traditional time period when sacri ices were made to atone for sins. I think I prefer the Old English names for the month ‐ Solmonath, which means mud month, and Kalemonath, the month of cabbages. Whatever you call it I hope you enjoy it.

The March issue goes to print on 18th Feb so all entries in by 15th February please. It costs as little as £24 + VAT to advertise your business in The Bristol Eight. An advertiser wrote to me this month to say “Doing rather good business this month thanks to the mags!

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Right, off to enjoy some cabbage.

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Mrs PC - Friendly Computer Training Stories

It is in our nature to need stories. We grew up listening to stories our parents read to us, or told us about their lives. Every culture immerses their children in stories to explain how the world works and to engage and educate their emotions. Nowadays Disney and Pixar are probably the most powerful storytellers for children but youngsters are missing out on the art of listening and creating the images from their imagination.

The inborn hunger for listening to a story does not disappear in adults. To have a story read for you is a very different experience from reading a book or watching a movie.

Radio 4 have some wonderful plays and story books which are read by incredible actors.

Sometimes I have been driving and become so immersed in a tale being told on Radio 4 that I have arrived at my destination but been unable to leave my car because I wanted to hear the end of the story. I am sure this has happened to you as well.

The disadvantage of stories on Radio 4 is that you don’t always catch the beginning and can’t always hang around to hear the end. The programmes may not be on at times to suit you.

In the past I have both borrowed and bought story tapes and CDs to listen to at home and in the car. The library has a big catalogue of stories and you can reserve the ones you want from other branches if they are not available locally. CDs are more expensive to buy, and also more prone to being scratched. One thing I didn’t like about stories on CD was that you lost your place on them all the time. If another unsuspecting family member turned off the hi‐ i or changed the CD it was hard to ind where you had got to.

I overcame this situation by uploading some stories into iTunes, so I could listen when working at my desk or on my iPod, however I

could no longer listen to my music on shuf le because random story tracks would suddenly cut in.

The solution was Audible.co.uk. An online library of 1000s of storybooks af iliated to Amazon. I decided it was worth joining and now pay £7.99 per month, and get a credit for a story download per month. There are other packages available, but this one suits me. I created a “Wishlist” and placed the stories in there that I wanted to listen to. I choose one of them from the list each month. Some of the stories are very long: 17 hours or more, so it is very good value. Some of them are brand new and cost over £25 to buy, so that is good value too. They often have sales and you can pick up extra books then.

It is easy to download them to your computer and listen that way, but it is also possible and simple, to download the Audible App on your phone or tablet and download the story directly.

Listening to stories on your phone is the easiest and best way of doing so. The App is excellent and allows you to stream the story via Bluetooth to your car radio, or you can listen as you go about your day with your phone in your pocket or in a speaker dock.

If you have no time for reading but enjoy books, this is a very good solution. It makes journeys pass more quickly when you are travelling. It is also very relaxing to listen to a story. Give it a try and Happy Listening! Am off to do some gardening now, and looking forward to the inal chapter of Game of Thrones whilst I am working.

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No Prize General Knowledge Quiz

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Which Indian ci es were renamed as Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai between 1995 and 2001?

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Ashmead’s Kernel, Blenheim Orange and Gascoyne’s Scarlet are all English 13. varie es of which kind of fruit?

In your mobile phone what does the acronym SIM stand for?

Which record label did The Beatles found in 1968?

What colour or colours are the sixth in this sequence ‐ red, blue, white, black, orange, and … ?

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Name Henry VIII’s third wife.

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What are pachyderms?

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What families do these specific colours belong to ‐ viridian, cerulean and vermilion?

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Which of these is the odd one out ‐ bonsai, origami, taekwon‐do and sushi?

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How long is a standard cricket pitch (in yards), the Epsom Derby (in miles, furlongs, and yards) and one side of a C90 audio casse e (in minutes)?

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In which decade was the Great Exhibi on at the Crystal Palace?

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In which decades did these famous railway routes open ‐ the Stockton to Darlington railway, the Channel tunnel and the Orient Express?

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Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Chad are the top three countries in the world in terms of what?

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Which UK ar st is credited as being the first to have simultaneous number 1 hits in the UK and USA?

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Who had a hit record with the 1975 disco hit “The Hustle”?

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In which bodies of water would you find the following islands ‐ Canvey Island, St Helena and Russky Island

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Name the six founder members of the EEC.

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Which sports teams would wear the following shirts?

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Hughie Green presented which television programme in the 1960’s and 1970’s?

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The avenues on the Downs And one of the Huntingdon Elms has survived,

standing proud at the end of Ladies Mile. The It is not often recognised that there are seven Old Stoke Road was planted mostly with young planted avenues on the Downs; the old Beech Beeches, some of them Copper. But in every avenue on the Promenade, and the very young generation healthy trees that still existed from beech avenue on the Old Stoke Road, the an older avenue were retained, so that on the Chestnut/Lime avenues on the Stoke Road, Old Stoke Road there are old Limes, a veteran and the Westbury Road, the mixed lime Ash where the road crosses the parish species avenue on Ladies Mile, and the boundary, even a Plane and three Black Chestnut Avenues on Westbury Park and on Walnuts.

Savile Road. They go back a very long way.

The present Stoke Road has alternate Common The 1746 Wilstar map makes it clear that the Lime and Horse Chestnut and one or two Red three major routes across the Downs, Old Chestnut, mostly dating from c 1930 but at the Stoke road, Stoke road and Westbury road southern end there are much larger and older already had avenues, and presumably they Common Limes which may go back to 1880. were there to ensure that, in the dark, in fog The Westbury Road avenue is also alternate and in snow, travellers could be certain where Chestnuts and Common Limes, but was they were, for even today it is easy to get lost probably planted around 1900, and one or two when walking across the Downs. We forget of the limes are much older and may go back that in the past roads were ill de ined tracks, before 1850. and that only the very rich on horse‐back

moved faster than ive miles an hour. The trees Westbury Park Road has a magni icent line of on the Wilstar map were probably successors Horse Chestnuts with girths of around four to trees planted centuries before, as we know metres, implying a planting in about 1850. from the Millerd map of 1688 that Bristolians They are succumbing to disease and three were even then planting trees around Queens have had to be felled this year. The Chestnuts Square. on the part of Savile Road linking Upper

Parry’s Lane to the Westbury Road at the But measuring white tree roundabout, originally a cross roads the trees that marked by a painted tree, are of a similar age, exist today and along the rest of Savile Road, created in makes it clear 1877, they are younger. that the oldest is not more The Promenade Beech avenue irst appears in than 200 years the Ashmead map of 1849, before many of the old, so that great houses were built, but none of the trees none of the in the avenue today are more than a century Wilstar trees old, and many of them, especially at the upper survive today, end, have only become established in the past and these few years, so that it is probably a iner sight avenues have today than at any point in the past hundred been replanted years. by every generation including our own. Many

of us remember the death of the Huntingdon If you enjoy the Downs, or use if for your sport, Elm avenue up Ladies Mile and along the Old why not become a Friend? Membership is just Stoke Road, great trees planted in the 1880s £10. Contact Robin Haward on 0117 9743385 destroyed by Dutch Elm Disease. They were or email robinhaward@blueyonder.co.uk intended to be replaced by the young Small‐

The Downs Recorder - Richard Bland

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Alison Dukes, Specialist Family Solicitor with AMD Solicitors and a trained Collaborative Lawyer explains how the Collaborative approach to relationship breakdown may be right for you.

In my practice I find that most new clients have heard of mediation as a form of dispute resolution but very few clients have heard of the collaborative approach. Collaborative Law is a way of resolving disputes on divorce or relationship breakdown that does not involve going to court. It involves former partners sitting down together and, with the help of their solicitors, working out for example how to share financial assets or responsibilities for any children, as they each go their separate ways.

At the start of the collaborative process each party and their adviser (a trained Collaborative Lawyer) signs a formal agreement confirming that they will reach a solution without going to court. The lawyers involved in the collaborative process are not allowed to represent their clients in any subsequent court proceedings, so that it is in everyone’s interests for a solution to be found by agreement.

The process requires a genuine desire on both sides to make it work and a willingness to disclose fully and honestly information about all assets. Negotiations take place at meetings at which each client is present together with their lawyer and it is the clients who set the agenda and the pace of the process. They share their hopes and expectations for the future as they work with their solicitors to try to find a solution

Advice Making a Difference

which each will find acceptable. Where appropriate, the assistance of other specialists such as accountants and counsellors can be (GWAAC4) called upon to help resolve outstanding issues or to assist in finding solutions in a particular area of dispute.

Where an agreement can be reached through collaboration there may be significant benefits to the family as a whole. The costs and stress of court proceedings will have been avoided and the assets available to be divided will not have been pointlessly reduced by each side funding heavy litigation costs.

Perhaps most importantly, the relationship between the couple may not have deteriorated to the extent that is sadly common amongst those who have faced a court battle. This is of course vital where there are children involved, so that the parents will need to communicate and cooperate for many years to come.

Agreements reached during the collaborative process can be recorded in a Deed of Separation or, if there are divorce proceedings, in an order that the court makes “by consent” which means that the couple will not have to attend court in person.

Collaborative practice will not be appropriate for every couple experiencing family breakdown. Couples who are “warring” are unlikely to choose to adopt a collaborative approach, nor is it appropriate if one party has already decided the specifics of the outcome they are looking for. There will be cases where the more traditional and adversarial route of determining the division of family assets will be inevitable, although many of those cases will be still capable of resolution without the need for any court hearing. However, for those who know they want a negotiated jointly “owned” settlement which minimises the emotional cost of divorce or family breakdown, collaborative law will be an attractive and constructive approach.

Alison can be contacted on 0117 9621460 or by e-mail alisondukes@amdsolicitors.com.

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Tax year end approaches – me for some planning

Its early January as I write this, so I have taken a few minutes away from preparing the large number of tax returns that are s ll be filed before the end of the month.

We are heading towards the last months of the tax year and if you have any money le a er Christmas then now is a me to think about a li le bit of tax planning.

Perhaps it’s more important this year than last as we are heading towards an elec on in May and this could result in a number of tax changes in the coming year.

ISA allowances have increased significantly in recent years and so if you have not used the allowance this year and have spare funds then ISA’s can be a good way of saving. There is no tax relief on the investment but the savings grow tax free.

Pension rules have also changed dras cally in the past 12 months and for many, these are now a much more a rac ve op on. What’s more you get tax relief on your investment at your highest tax rate.

It’s not possible to go into any detail in a short ar cle and in any event people’s circumstances differ, what may be a good strategy for one person may not work for another.

But if you have an accountant or financial adviser then now is the me to talk to them.

An extended version of this ar cle, can be found online at h ps://boostbristol.wordpress.com/

If you have any par cular ques ons you would like answered in this column, please don’t hesitate to get in touch by email pjones@wilkinsonandpartners.co.uk

Un l next month…

Phil Jones is a director of local independent tax & accountancy firm, Wilkinson & Partners based on Jacobs Wells Road, BS8. www.wilkinsonpartners.co.uk or call 0117 921 1222.

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19 Good Reads book reviews by Bruce Fellows

Bristol author Penny Kline’s recent novel involving excursions into early psychoanalysis, the excellent Ursula’s Arm, is now followed by an intriguing thriller, Nobody’s Baby. Hearing a strange wailing, Izzy Lomas opens her door and inds the baby in question. A note reveals her name is Cressy. Izzy soon begins to suspect the baby may have been placed rather than abandoned.

How important is a memory sparked by the name Cressy? Could a rejected boyfriend be involved? Do the police suspect Izzy herself and what will happen to Cressy?

This enthralling and skilfully built thriller gains pace and simply zooms along to a chilling climax that answers all our questions.

What happens when rain becomes catastrophically toxic? Another local writer, Virginia Bergin tells us in The Rain, her gripping new novel for young adults. Ruby is snogging Casper at a teenage party when the nightmare begins. ‘It’s in the rain!’ – a deadly toxin that rapidly brings agonising death. As civilisation collapses, Ruby inds herself on a quest to ind her father and some drinkable water. Bergin’s tale moves at breakneck speed and simply drags the reader along. Put it down if you can!

In Tang, by Carole Boyer, also from Bristol, schoolchildren Jack and Zelda arrive home at their father’s Emporium – a treasure house of statues, marble clocks and stuffed owls. They ind a luminescent coat and try it on but then leave it lying around. Later, they smell burning; the dragon design on the coat has come to life – Tang. Available only as an e book at present, this is a charming and exciting story to read to younger children and for older ones (eight?) to read themselves.

Gita Gyorffy’s illustrations are also excellent.

Away from Bristol now, in The Churchill Factor, Boris Johnson claims to be Winston Churchill’s number one fan. Rather than plough through the great man’s life from year to year, he lights on world events and outlines WSC’s decisive in luence for good: pensions, World War Two; and bad: Gallipoli, the Gold Standard. He also examines key in luences like father, Randolph, and mother, Jennie. Ruthless in war, disloyal in politics, though ever generous in private life, he was hopeless at school, but wrote more words than Shakespeare and Dickens combined. He in luenced world events for the better, Johnson concludes. Written with the brio you’d expect, this informative and entertaining romp through history is a magni icent introduction to anyone who may think Churchill is just a dog who sells insurance.

If she allows the separation of Siamese twins, one of them will certainly die. That’s the kind of life and death decision High Court judge Fiona Maye is used to making. She writes elegant and supremely wise judgements on all kinds of cases that appear before her but when her husband announces he plans to have an affair, her experience in helping families out of crises is no use to her. In his terri ic new novel, The Children Act, Ian McEwan offers deep insights into the work of a High Court judge and shows how dif icult it must be to remain immune to the sufferings of those who come before the Bench.

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We are s ll at the mercy of the seasonal winter residen al market and that means rela vely few proper es for sale in BS8. Each new property garners lots of a en on but there is also a sense that many buyers are hanging on to see what might appear in the coming weeks.

In the Le ngs market things are as buoyant as ever. New proper es are snapped up quickly by what appears to be a never ending supply of ‘would be’ renters here in Bristol.

Poli cal canvassing will no doubt begin in earnest shortly, in fact many flyers have already dropped on mats. Whether a General Elec on will dampen people’s appe te for buying, selling or le ng this spring remains to be seen? Certainly my view is that many of us will s ll need to move (for work reasons, reloca on, growing family, shrinking family) and will con nue to do so regardless of the poli cs.

We cannot help if you are undecided how to vote but we can help if you are considering a move. As always the team here at CJ Hole Cli on would be delighted to offer you a FREE NO OBLIGATION valua on on your property whether you are considering selling or le ng. All you have to do is give one of the team a call on 0117 923 8238.

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Plan ng a Forest Today for a Be er Future Tomorrow.

Tree Plan ng Holidays is determined to help to reforest the planet, one tree at a me. Research is showing that replan ng is more effec ve at comba ng climate change if it is done in the tropics. In line with this, we have chosen Botswana as our first holiday des na on, and our aim is to plant 1 million trees as quickly as possible.

Every year, we fell or burn down another 130,000 square kilometres of forest, which means that we lose at least 10 million trees every day according to the billion tree campaign. We replant ten percent of the trees that we fell. Trees are an extremely important part of our ecosystem – they provide rain, food, medicine, mber, shelter, oxygen, and much more.

They literally help us to breathe‐ they are the lungs of the planet. As we breathe out‐ they breathe in. As they breathe out, we are able to breathe in.

Caroline Ne le is a passionate lover of the planet and all her wonderful ecosystems. She has launched a fundraising campaign to raise the funds to be able to go and plant a forest in Botswana, providing food, and revenues to the local popula ons, as well as refuge for wildlife. A variety of different events are planned in line with celebra ng Bristol being the green capital of Europe this year. Sponsorship packages and other fundraising ac vi es are also available on www.treeplan ngholidays.com . If you would like to get involved in the project in anyway, please get in touch via email ‐ info@treeplan ngholidays.com or call Caroline on 07886 177 907

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26 understand the theory of relativity or the still undiscovered theory of everything as they cannot be fully explained in ordinary language. However there are one or two good The Theory of Everything scenes where Hawking is trying to make his Directed by James Marsh way at Oxford University in the intimidating

presence of the best and brightest The Theory of Everything stars Eddie mathematicians of the age.

Redmayne as Professor Stephen Hawking

who collaborated extensively in the making of But let’s forget the science and concentrate on the ilm. Redmayne spent six months the life of Stephen Hawking as portrayed in researching the great scientist’s life and he the ilm. He irst meets Jane at Oxford where richly deserves the recent Golden Globe she is studying for a Ph.D in medieval Spanish award for best actor. It is a great performance poetry. At irst they are an unlikely couple, and major step forward in a ilm career that Jane is a staunch Church of England christian, until now has he is a geeky atheist physicist. Perhaps not consisted of enough is made of their arguments about the relatively existence of god. These are rather too good minor roles in natured and lead only to a less than romantic My Week “I’ll love you anyway” conclusion.

With Marilyn

and Les The ilm deals extensively with the impact of Miserables.

Hawking's disability on his family and his

Felicity Jones, Dr Stephen marriage. This is a remarkable story although Hawking & Eddie Redmayne it does sometimes feel like a cliché d triumph

in the face of adversity. The more realistic For director James Marsh this ilm was scenes include a fraught discussion between familiar territory – he has built most of his Jane and Stephen’s waspish father soon after career so far on documentaries including his disability is diagnosed and a scene where biopics of Marvin Gaye and Elvis Presley and Stephen is rescued by Jane as he is choking on Project Nim, a documentary about a failed some food. attempt to teach a chimpanzee sign language.

Stephen Hawking’s irst wife Jane is played by the excellent Felicity Jones who co‐ starred in The Amazing Spiderman 2 in 2014 and whose ten year career in ilms includes a great performance in Cemetery Junction directed by Ricky Gervais ‐ a ilm that I highly recommend.

The science in the ilm will be of no consolation to the millions of people who In the inal scene as he and Jane are watching bought a copy of A Brief their children play Stephen types “look what History of Time and did we have made” into the voice synthesiser, a sentiment that every parent will understand. not inish reading it.

Unless you have a Ph.D in maths or physics you Chris Worthington chrisworthington32@yahoo.com will never really

Film Review - with Chris Worthington

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Bristol Cabot Choir is a long‐established, friendly and enthusias c mixed‐voice group of around 60 members.

We sing three major concerts each year in venues such as Bristol and Cli on Cathedrals.

We also join with other choirs to undertake works requiring larger forces (we performed Mahler’s 8th Symphony with local groups and the Brunel Sinfonia in 2013, and the Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony with the Bristol Choral Society and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is planned for 2016).

We have been led with considerable success since 2011 by Musical Director Rebecca Holdeman, and whilst our work remains firmly in the choral tradi on, it encompasses everything from renaissance music to contemporary work commissioned by the choir.

We work with professional soloists and orchestras, and have a strong rela onship with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, providing opportuni es for young soloists who may go on to become household names.

Whilst the choir’s main purpose is to enable people to enjoy both performing and listening to choral music, each year it nominates a local Charity of the Year. This year’s charity is the Julian Trust, for which the choir raised over £2400 from its Christmas ac vi es.

Our next concerts, for which we rehearse on Monday evenings from 7‐30 un l 9‐30 at Redland United Reform Church, are the Puccini Messa di Gloria and the Vivaldi Gloria in Cli on Cathedral (25th April), and the English Folk Song tradi on in Christchurch Cli on (27th June).

We are keen to increase our numbers somewhat and at present have vacancies in all voice parts. Why not join us, enjoy singing in wonderful venues and taking music to friends and the public, at the same me raising money for local causes? Although formal entry to the choir is by short audi on, we very much welcome intending members to sing with us for two or three rehearsals prior to audi on. We prefer confident singers with some sight‐reading abili es, but the most important a ributes we seek are enthusiasm and the shared enjoyment of choral singing.

For further informa on please look at the choir’s website, bristolcabotchoir.org, or contact the secretary at m.h.morse@b nternet.com

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What’s On & Community News Listings for community events, not‐for‐pro it clubs and charitable activities are free of charge. If you have something of this nature that you would like listed please get in touch with Andy Fraser by telephoning 0117 968 7787 or 07845 986650, post details in to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY or emailing andy@bcmagazines.co.uk (in email or Word format ‐ no PDF’s please). All notices must be received by the 12th of the preceding month to guarantee consideration for inclusion.

Exhibitions, Markets, Lectures etc.

Torwood House School present ‘A Centenary’ ‐ Exhibition of art by pupils aged 4‐11. Over February half‐term, pupils from Torwood House School will be exhibiting paintings, sculptures, drawings and more at the Edwardian Cloakroom in the city centre. To celebrate the school's 100th year each child has been given the opportunity to show their work, so that voices usually con ined to the classroom might be heard across the city. Art empowers children; it expands their creativity and it shows them the possibilities of thought, feeling, materials and space. The exhibition will be open for public view with a focus on Bristol over the last 100 years, the school's connection to the city, and the pupils’ views on place, past and future.

Please come along and see this unique and exciting show! The exhibition will be open to the public 11am‐6.00pm Saturday 14th February ‐ Saturday 21st February. The Edwardian Cloakroom, Park Row / Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol BS1 5LS

Free lecture arranged by the Institution of Engineering and Technology on one of the greatest planes that never were, the cold‐war BAC TSR‐2, by Brian Mann (one of the engineers that designed it). Monday 16 February, 6.30 for 7pm, at UWE, 2Q49. More info and registration at www.theiet.org/ bristol

On Friday 6 March at 7pm, best‐selling travel writer, Sara Wheeler, will visit Redland High School (BS6 7EF) to talk about her career (GWAAC4) including her time as writer‐in‐residence at the South Pole. Tickets, which include a drink and canapé s, cost £12.50 for adults and £8 for those in full‐time education and are available from the Development Of ice of Redland High School. For more details or to book tickets please ring Linda or Emily on 0117 916 6711 or email development@redlandhigh.com. Sara has been described by The Independent as producing ‘Some of the greatest travel books of our time’ and this should be a truly inspirational evening.

Bristol Branch Embroiderers’ Guild Exhibition February 20‐22nd 2015. Stoke Lodge Adult Education Centre, Shirehampton Road, Bristol, BS9 1BN. Open: Friday and Saturday 10am ‐5pm. Sunday 10am‐4pm Admission £3. Light refreshments. Sales Table. For more details EmbroiderersGuildBristol@googlemail.com

Bristol Vintage Market is a new market for Bristol on Sat 14th March selling all things vintage, including clothing, homeware, furniture and vinyl. Our irst market is being held at The Elmgrove Centre (BS6 6AH) in Redland, just off the Gloucester Road. 10am ‐ 3.30pm. FB www.facebook.com/ BristolVintageMarket Twitter @bristol_vintage

Clubs and Companionship

The Clifton WI. Please come & join us Every last Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm at Alma Church, Alma Road, Clifton BS8 2ES. Drop–in Taster Evening £3 (Max 3x per year). Annual Membership £36.00. Monthly guest speakers, demonstrations, discussions and local fundraising. Outings & social events including dining clubs, walking groups, theatre groups, bridge and more. Everyone welcome. Enquiries: thecliftonwi@gmail.com or www.cliftonwi.co.uk . February 25th ‘How (ConƟnued on page 38)

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interested in making new friends, building business contacts and using their skills to help others. We meet Wednesday (GWAAC4) lunchtimes at Redland Lawn Tennis and (ConƟnued from page 36) Squash Club. Please ind out more about us by visiting www.cliftonrotary.org or emailing to Live a Long & Happy Life’ ‐ George Cooper, secretary@cliftonrotary.org

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us to make the best choices for our health Twytford Art Club. We are a small group of and wellbeing. artists of mixed ability, we meet at the Public

hall, Station Rd., Shirehampton, 10am to The Over 40’s Club is a non‐pro it making 12am Mondays and Wednesdays, chose your social club. New members always welcome.

Our weekly club nights start at 8.30pm every day or days. New members are warmly welcome, help and advice given. For more Thursday. We have a varied programme of information visit www.shirepubhall.org.uk events ranging from meals out and walks to then click hall users, contact John Case: Tel: gliding and badminton. For further info 01179507916, email please contact our New Members Secretary jcase@blueyonder.co.uk Lynn on 07757780201 or visit our website

www.bbivc.org.uk The Bristol Dowsers meet monthly at The

Theosophical Society, 14 Tyndalls Park Road, Bristol Cabot Probus Club is for retired and Clifton, Bristol BS8 1PY. We hold talks and semi‐retired professional and business men demonstrations and ield trips in the to maintain contact and fellowship with summer. Come along and learn the ancient people of similar interests. Meets third art of dowsing! Our next meeting will be Wednesday each month in BAWA Club held on Friday20 February 2015 at 7.30 pm.

Southmead Rd, for lunch followed by a Our speaker is David Finch and the title of his speaker on a wide range of interesting talk is “Dragon Sounds, Psychoacoustics and subjects. Extensive programme of social Ancient Instruments.” This is an exceptional, events including holidays, day trips, Sunday unique one‐off talk that should not be lunches and skittles to which ladies and friends are welcomed. Contact John Howard‐ missed. Even if you have never dowsed before, come along and learn something new!

Cairns on 968 3134 for more details.

We are a friendly group and you will meet

like‐minded people. Admission: £5

(including tea/coffee/biscuits). For further Rotary Club of Bristol – we meet at the information, please telephone: 01749 678 Bristol Hotel, Prince Street, Bristol BS1 4QF at 7.00pm for 7.30 pm on the 1st, 3rd and 5th 834 or write to leasurs@tiscali.co.uk Mondays and at 12.30pm for 1.00 pm on the 2nd and 4th Mondays. Meetings start with a The Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. On Monday 23rd February at 7.45 meal and are followed by a speaker. New pm in the Apostle Room in the basement of members are very welcome – see Clifton Cathedral, Pembroke Road, Clifton, www.bristolrotary.org or contact our Club Andrew Hill will talk on “Biscuits Banquets Secretary Martina Peattie at & Bollinger: the story of Cater, Stoffell & mpeattie@btopenworld.com for more Fortt Ltd.”. This family irm were grocers, details. wine merchants and caterers renowned

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Like making Air ix models? Avon Branch of the International Plastic Modellers Society meets on the third Wednesday of every (GWAAC4) month at the BAWA on Southmead Road at (ConƟnued from page 38) 8.00pm. New members are very welcome.

For more information contact Andy White on for their quality, variety and service. Andrew 0117 3732798 or visit www.ipmsavon.org.uk

Hill’s illustrated talk, will describe the rise, success and sudden decline of this company, We are the Bristol U3A – an organisation of lively and interesting people who run all and its relationship with an equally famous sorts of groups for enjoyment, friendship and family concern, Harveys of Bristol. learning. If you are no longer in full‐time

18th February, Bristol Society for the Arts of work, we offer a wide range of over 100 different activities, including art, computing, Asia lecture 'A Roman Silverware Design Copied in Chinese Porcelain‐ the Romance of languages, music, walking, and science. the Corbridge Lanx', speakers Alison Cooper, Please visit one of our social groups, phone Barbara 0117 9629331, meeting at the Curator (Decorative Art), Plymouth City East ield Inn, Henleaze, on Mon 2nd Feb & Museum & Art Gallery, and Rachel Hunt, Mon 2nd March at 10.30am; or phone Jenny House and Collections Manager, Cotehele, 0117 9043697 for meetings at Browns National Trust; 6.30 to 8 p.m. at 3/5, Restaurant by the Museum on Wed 18th & Woodland Road (Entry 1), Clifton, Bristol, Thurs 26th Feb at 10.15am. non‐members welcome but donation of at Details: www.bristolu3a.org.uk. Don’t stay at least £7 required; University students home, come and join the Bristol U3A! welcome free of charge on sight of their

student I.D. card.

Music, Theatre and Concerts

The Bristol Branch of the English Speaking Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston in Concert.

Union welcomes guests to their meetings which are held in the Apostle Room of Clifton Bene it for Parkinson’s UK, Westbury On Trym Village Hall, East ield Road, Westbury Cathedral at 7.15 p.m. for 7.45 p.m. There is ample parking and entrance is £5. The aim of on Trym BS9 4AG. Friday 27th February.

8pm (doors 7.30). In the space of 2 short the English Speaking Union is to encourage friendship and global understanding through years, Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston have emerged to become one of the most sought English. Our forthcoming meetings include on February 12th "800 years since the Magna after duos on the English folk & roots scene.

Carta" with Sir Robert Worcester, founder of The striking combination of the lame headed double bass player & virtuoso mandolin MORI polls and Chairman of the 800 Magna player create music that Folk Roots say is “A Carta Committee, and on March 3rd “the Family Court” with Judge Richard Bromilow. musical partnership made in heaven.

Scintillating, sensitive and brilliant!”. The duo Do come along to any of our meetings, are embarking on an extensive tour of the preferably by telephoning the Chairman, Tony Williams on 2393187 or the Secretary, British Isles in support of their arresting new CD “Sing A Full Song”. Tickets £12‐00 from Jenny Haines, on 9628075.

Drmikecohen1@gmail.com ‐ 0117 9623706.

The Bristol Philatelic Society meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month in the Henbury Singers welcome new members. We are a mixed choir and we meet at Stoke meeting room of the United Reform Church Bishop Primary School in Cedar Park on at the bottom of Blackboy Hill (Whiteladies Road) starting at 7.30 p.m. Contact 0117 956 Thursday evenings ‐ 7:45 to 9:15 pm. Fees 7853.

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Would you like to help rid the world of polio forever? There is currently a Global Ini a ve to complete the job by 2018. There are just 3 countries le with endemic polio. Un l these countries are polio free there is the possibility of the disease spreading back into countries currently free of polio ( as recently happened in Syria).

There is no cure for polio only immunisa on against it.

Rotary started the campaign to eradicate polio in 1985 and Rotary Clubs in Bristol are determined to help complete the job by raising funds to vaccinate children in countries where the disease is found. We have therefore launched a campaign to raise a mile of coins on one foot coin strips totalling £2.90 each or dona ons on‐line or by text. All money raised will be trebled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Founda on. Please see our website www.bristolpoliomile.org.uk The coin strips will be laid out in The Mall, Cribbs Causeway on the 21st February 2015.

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are currently £40 per term. There is no audition. We sing mainly choral music from a classical tradition, but we also sing carols, songs from musicals, gospel and folk songs.

Contact Maggie Cavanna secretary@henburysingers.org, ring 0117 973 4794 or visit www.henburysingers.org

West Bristol Orchestra. A Chamber Orchestra, playing a wide range of Classical Music arranged for the smaller orchestra, meets at the United Reformed Church, Muller Road on Thursdays 7.15pm.to 9.15pm.

Additional String players of Grade5+ standard welcomed. Experience of orchestral playing not essential. For more info please contact the Secretary on 968 3998.

Volunteering

REMAP is a registered charity that designs and makes custom aids which enable a disabled person to enjoy a better quality of life. We design, make or modify equipment to suit their speci ic needs. No charge is made for our services. Please contact us if we can help ‐ Colin 01275 460288 colin305@gmail.com or Ray 0117 9628729 rwestcott@blueyonder.co.uk Web site www.remapbristol.org.uk

More Reading Buddies Wanted! Would you enjoy offering reading and language support to children for whom English is a second language? Can you help them improve their reading ability, bene iting both them as individuals & the wider class. Can you commit to giving one hour of reading time a week in term‐time? We are working with 11 schools in the Southmead, Brentry and Hor ield areas. Training is offered, and your enhanced DBS check is paid for by Bristol City Council. You would read with the same children each week. For more information

please contact Paul Harrod, at paul.harrod@gmail.com.

Health & Wellbeing

LinkAge Contemporary Dance (55+). Do you ever get the feeling you just want to dance but don’t get the opportunity? Feel energised in a new way and ignite your creative ideas.

Open to all abilities. Every Monday 10am‐ 11am, Bradbury Hall THURC. £4. Contact LinkAge on 0117 3533042 for more information.

Get Involved in Netball. The Avon Netball League is well established in Bristol and welcomes all types of players – whether new to netball, taking it up after a few years absence and all the way up to premier division teams that cater for high level players. Independents Netball Club is a friendly team looking to recruit new members, with training on Monday evenings at Red Maids School, Westbury‐on‐Trym.

Please email bristolnetball@hotmail.co.uk for more information.

Lip‐reading class. An evening lip‐reading class to help you cope with your hearing loss runs in Clifton from 6.15pm to 7.45pm every Monday at Redland Park United Reformed Church, Whiteladies Road. Fee is £5 per session. For more details email the tutor, Mary Hall at lipreadingmary@yahoo.com or telephone 07790 283 939.

NEW DIMENSIONS meets every month and we have talks on a wide range of esoteric subjects. The meetings are held at the Friends’ Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road, Redland, Bristol BS6 6JE. Admission: £5 (including tea/coffee/biscuits). The next meeting will be held on Sunday 22 February 2015 at 3pm. The speaker will be Hazel Newton and the title of her talk is “Healing through Holistic Hypnosis.! Come and meet new like‐minded friends. For further information, please telephone 01749 678 834 or write to: leasurs@tiscali.co.uk (ConƟnued on page 44)

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22 yards, 1m 4 furlongs and 10 yards, and 45 minutes; 9. 1850’s (1851); 10. the bottom of a bag; 11. Calcutta, Bombay and Madras; 12.

Subscriber Identity Module; 13. 1820’s, 1990’s and 1880’s; 14. largest land‐locked countries; 15. Acker Bilk; 16. Van McCoy & the Soul City Symphony; 17. the Thames Estuary, the South Atlantic and the Sea of Japan; 18. France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg; 19. England ODI cricket, Burnley Football Club and Scotland rugby, 20.

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