The Bristol Nine - April 2015 by Andy Fraser

April ‘15 Issue 108

A free community magazine for the residents and businesses of BS9. Delivered each month through 12,000 letterboxes across Stoke Bishop, Sea Mills, Coombe Dingle, Henleaze, Westbury on Trym and Sneyd Park.

The Editor’s Small Piece Hello there and welcome to your mahoosive (i.e. it is large ‐ sorry, teenager in the house) April issue of The Bristol Nine. April is always a busy month and this one is no exception, with no shortage of events, activities and articles. So as well as the monthly wordsearch, with 6 bottles of wine from Aimee’s Winehouse up for grabs (p14) and the no‐prize quiz (p64) we also have home improvements (p67), historical laundry (p24), swifts (p18), beetroot (p35), books (p38), Nordic walking (p44), Nordic ageing (p52), rhubarb (p48), school news (p59), procrastination (p83), herbs (p51), ilms (p78), cycling (p80), Easter services (p86) and that old favourite European legislation (p58). Such an eclectic mix you might easily think the magazine is just cobbled together ………. I hope you enjoy it, and that your Easter is relaxing and pleasurable (if that’s what you want). Do please get in touch on all things BS9. Tel 0117 968 7787 / 07845 986650, email andy@thebs9.co.uk, or write to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY. Oh, almost forgot the networking. If you are a business based in Westbury on Trym check out page 75 and your invite to the irst WoT Business Association Networking Event ‐ “Minute on the Mike”.

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Local Libraries

Henleaze ‐ tel. 903 8541 Mon 9.30 ‐ 7.00, Tues 9.30 ‐ 5.00 Wed 9.30 ‐ 5.00, Thur 9.30 ‐ 5.00 Fri 9.30 ‐ 7.00, Sat 9.30 ‐ 5.00 Westbury on Trym ‐ tel. 903 8552 Mon 9.30 ‐ 5.00, Tues 9.30 ‐ 5.00 Wed 9.30 ‐ 5.00, Thur ‐ closed Fri 9.30 ‐ 7.00, Sat 9.30 ‐ 5.00 Sea Mills ‐ tel. 903 8555 Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat 9.30 ‐ 1.00 , 2.00 ‐ 5.00

Visit the excellent Bristol City Council website www.travelbristolorg to plan out your routes in, around or out of the city ‐ whether you are planning to go by bus, train, ferry, air, bike, car or foot.

Local Churches

St Mary Magdalene, Stoke Bishop www.stmarysb.org.uk 0117 968 7449 Methodist Church, WoT www.westburyontrymmethodistchurch.org.uk 0117 962 2930 Baptist Church, Reedley Rd, WoT www.westburybaptist.org.uk 0117 962 9990 Holy Trinity Parish Church, WoT www.westbury‐parish‐church.org.uk 0117 950 8644 Sacred Heart Catholic Church, WoT www.sacredheartchurch.co.uk 0117 983 3926 St Peter’s Church, Henleaze www.stpetershenleaze.org 0117 962 4524 Trinity URC, Henleaze www.trinityhenleazeurc.org.uk 0117 962 9713 The Community Church, WoT www.the‐community‐church.net 0117 946 6807

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Prize Wordsearch ‐ sponsored by Aimee’s Winehouse A terri ic prize up for grabs with this months BS9/BS8/BS6 magazine prize wordsearch that is kindly sponsored by Aimee’s Winehouse in Stoke Bishop. Aimee has offered a mixed half case of 6 bottles of wine to the competition winner. Listed below are ten wine growing countries and ten wine varieties. Nine of the countries and nine of the wines are hidden in the wordsearch grid and can be found written forwards, backwards, up, down, or on a diagonal. All you need to do is determine which wine and which country are not hidden in the puzzle. Let me know the two answers by the closing date of 31 April 2015 and all the correct entries will go into a random draw to select the one winner.

Submit your entries by post (8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY), by email (andy@thebs9.co.uk), by phone (0117 9687787), by text (07845 986650) or by tweet (@BS9Andy). Here are the ten wines and ten countries you are looking for ‐ France Germany Spain Italy New Zealand Hungary Australia Chile Argentina United States Barolo Beaujolais Pinot Noir Chianti Semillon Chardonnay Chenin Blanc Reisling Gewurtztraminer Merlot In the meantime the draw has been made from the dozens of correct entries received for the February prize puzzle and where the correct answer to the missing Italian city was Trieste. First out of the hat was a text entry from Bronwen Grover who wins a £20 gift voucher to spend at the excellent Divino Deli on Worrall Road in Clifton. Congratulations to Bronwen and thanks as ever to everyone who took the trouble to enter.

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The unoaked Berri Estates chardonnay at £7.50 would compliment the delicate flavours of a roast chicken.

To suit a range of vegetarian meal options I would pick a good all rounder like the single www.aimeeswinehouseltd.co.uk To accompany this I would vineyard Snapper Rock New recommend one of my personal Zealand sauvignon blanc at favourites, the El Coto Crianza £9.99 - our best selling white at £10.99. Roast lamb always wine. Or currently on special needs a red as the acidity from offer the Misson sauvignon most whites will not go with this blanc which has a little more fatty meat. depth and roundness of fruit. With roast beef we recommend, from the Languedoc in France, the Rare Vineyards Malbec at £8.99 - a lovely full of flavour Malbec with subtle spice notes and soft tannins.

Let’s hope for a lovely warm and sunny Easter weekend filled with fantastic great tasting wine/s. Cheers, Aimee Aimee's WINE HOUSE Ltd, 65 Stoke Hill

Constituency Matters ‐ with Charlotte Leslie MP

which the interests of patients must be paramount. Bristol is very lucky to have such a committed public servant. Parliamentary candidate Charlotte Leslie Ms Leslie said: “I am humbled to have received has been given a vote of approval by an eminent group of NHS surgeons, professors this letter of support. As a campaigner, I have and whistleblowers. passionately tried to ensure Ms Leslie, they say, is a ‘determined upholder of that we make the right decisions which will preserve the NHS values of care free at the point of a safe and free NHS for delivery and need – not only for now, but for generations to come. Sadly, generations to come’. some opponents have decided The views are contained in a letter by the group, to use the NHS for short term some of whom who put their careers on the line political gain when what we need is a mature debate to explore how this to keep our NHS free and safe both now and in magni icent institution can lourish in the future. the future. They include Professor Steve Bolsin, the anaesthetist who brought the Bristol baby “At a time when I have been so misrepresented heart surgery death rates into the public arena, leading to vastly reduced mortality at the Bristol and attacked for trying to do the right thing for the NHS, it is heartening to hear that those at the Royal In irmary as well as the implementation sharp end in the health profession – some of of clinical governance reforms in the UK. whom have sacri iced their careers to preserve a In the letter, the group say that Ms Leslie has quality NHS – have come out as a strong voice to been a steadfast supporter of work done to say that our NHS is too important to become make sure NHS staff will never again have their careers put at risk because they highlighted poor party political football.” practices which undermined patient safety. The signatories to the letter are: • Sir Brian Jarman, Emeritus Professor Imperial The letter says: “We write as a group of NHS College Faculty of Medicine; campaigners for transparency, most of us whistleblowers, who have seen the worst of the • Professor Steve Bolsin Consultant Anaesthetist NHS. Whistleblowers have suffered for the sake and whistleblower; • Gary Walker Former NHS CEO and of protecting the interests of patients. Many of us have been through years of painful turmoil as whistleblower; • Professor Narinder Kapur Consultant a result of speaking up. In such a journey, there are often few dependable friends. One of the few Neuropsychologist and whistleblower; •Sharmila Chowdhury Former NHS Imaging exceptions to this has been Charlotte Leslie, a Services Manager and whistleblower; woman of great decency, capability and •Dr Kevin Beatt Former NHS Consultant refreshing honesty. NHS whistleblowers and campaigners are much indebted to her for all the Cardiologist and whistleblower; • Lady Maha Yassaie Former NHS Chief support and advocacy that she has provided Pharmacist for West Berkshire and over the years. Without such stalwart help, the whistleblower; plight of NHS whistleblowers would not be as • Dr David Drew Former NHS Consultant well known or understood.” Paediatrician and whistleblower; “Ms Leslie’s abundant common sense and sense • Fiona Bell NHS whistleblower & complainant; • Dr Minh Alexander Former NHS Consultant of fair play is very precious in public life, and shines through in her work on the Health Select Psychiatrist and whistleblower. Committee. Her support of the NHS is clear. Charlotte Leslie ‐ MP for Bristol North West “We know she is a determined upholder of the Oﬃce: 184 Henleaze Road, BS9 4NE NHS values of care free at the point of delivery 0117 962 9427 ‐ www.charlotteleslie.com and need – not only for now, but for generations E: charlotte.leslie.mp@parliament.uk to come – and that she works hard for an NHS in

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Recording Bristol’s Swifts My name is Mark Glanville and I am keen local naturalist and the Bristol & Avon contact for Swift Conservation. Little is known about the exact number of swift nests throughout Bristol, so establishing their location is key to protecting their future. My wife Jane and I have recently set up a website www.bristolswifts.co.uk to offer help and advice to Bristol residents and record known swift nest locations and numbers.

The Common Swift (apus apus) is the most aerial of all birds and spends most of its entire life on the wing, lying continuously day and night. In its lifetime a bird may ly a distance of some 4 million miles, which is equivalent to lying to the moon and back again eight times. A swift only lands after 3‐4 years when it has reached breeding maturity, where it returns to the general location of its birth to ind a mate and raise its own family. For many the sound of a “screaming party” of swifts is the quintessential sign that summer has inally arrived. They can be quite frenetic at times, like screaming little black demons, hence their old‐fashioned name “Devil Birds”. We might think of them as a British bird, but in fact they only spend about three months with us, arriving in late April or early May to raise their young and leaving by early August. The remaining nine months are spent in Central and Southern Africa. Swifts numbers are in decline and the British Trust for Ornithology estimates that since 1995 their numbers have fallen across the UK by 38% putting them on the Amber List for bird species causing concern.

Although swifts are long distance migrants wintering each year in Africa, one of the causes their numbers are falling lies much closer to home. Swifts prefer to nest together in old buildings. Many colonies have existed for tens and in some cases hundreds of years. Conservationists widely agree that large urban regeneration schemes, as well as individual household refurbishments over the last 20 years in cities like Bristol, has been the main reason why their numbers have declined so dramatically. The refurbishment of many old buildings during this period has inadvertently resulted in the loss of hundreds of traditional nesting sites. The simple fact is that new and modernised buildings offer little opportunity for swifts to nest.

If you know you have swifts nesting at your property your support is essential in protecting these birds. Firstly, if you can defer any outside maintenance work during the summer nesting. Secondly, try and leave a few nooks and crannies open, this really makes a huge difference. If the above is not an option, swifts will take quite readily to nest boxes. Perhaps you could install a few boxes as an alternative, this is a great help especially when traditional nest sites are scarce. Another very good indication that a nest site is nearby is witnessing a screaming party of swifts lying around a building. This usually occurs on ine summer days throughout May, June or July. If you know of any swift nest sites or have (ConƟnued on page 19)

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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL BOTANIC GARDEN ART & SCULPTURE FESTIVAL Easter bank holiday; Friday 3 to Monday 6 April 2015, 10:00 until 17:00 Celtic giants, Flanders poppies, Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’, bronzed Greek heroes, exotic tropical flowers and an original metal sculptural plant form being created over the weekend are just a few of the delights to be enjoyed at the Botanic Garden this Easter. The popular sculpture exhibition will once again be combined with the botanical art exhibition and sale over the 2015 Easter weekend. During the event visitors can view and buy botanical art or sculpture, enjoy demonstrations and take a tour of the Garden which will be displaying the signs of spring. Refreshments will be available. University of Bristol Botanic Garden, The Holmes, Stoke Park Road, Bristol BS9 1JG T.0117 331 4906

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How Whiteleaze got its name ‐ Julian Lea‐Jones Nowadays when automatic washing machines handle everything from a single silk scarf to muddy football kit, ‘washday’ often doesn’t exist. But how did this come about, and why did people launder once a week? In our Grandparents’ time washday was laborious and occupied most of Mondays. Electric washing machines were not readily available in the UK until the mid‐1950s, and then only as a heated wash‐tub with attached mangle. This developed into a machine with a second tub containing a spin dryer ‐ the eponymous ‘Twin Tub’. As late as the mid 1960’s even basic machines were expensive and I remember living in a village where an entrepreneur purchased a twin tub machine and took it around on a trolley behind his bicycle. The housewife rented it for an agreed time, after which he would collect it and tow it to the next customer! These and washing powders ‘with blue whiteners built‐in’ were the labour saving technologies of the day. Remember, DAZ, OMO, Tide, Persil, Fairy, Acdo, and Rinso? – Just a few from the range of many products advertised on television promising to “ease washday labour”. One TV campaign, featured the ‘White Tide man’ who seemed to visit every street in Britain that had ‘white’ in its name. White Leaze off Southmead Road was one such, with a group of happy smiling housewives displaying their whiter‐ than‐white sheets, all thanks of course to the aforementioned soap powder.

How many viewed wash day with the unbridled joy exhibited by those White Leaze housewives? Our Grandparents’ ‘washing machine’ was a tub of water, ‘the copper’, heated by a gas ire, a ribbed washboard, and a lot of ‘Elbow Grease’. Water and dirty clothes were boiled from cold then lathered and rubbed on a washboard in the scullery sink using a bar of hard soap, such as Monkey Brand or Sunlight. The latter came in long bars, which the grocer cut for the housewife using a cheese wire. The other essential was the Reckitts ‘Blue Bag’, a small cube looking like a billiard chalk, tied up in cotton and dunked in the last rinse water until the required amount of ‘blueness’ was achieved.

But why blue? Daylight Ultra‐violet causes the chemical to luoresce bluey‐white enhancing the clothes’ whiteness. Nowadays detergents contain whiteners explaining why white clothes glow in Nightclub or Disco lights. The Blue bag also provided traditional relief for Wasp Stings. Nowadays laundries rely on commercial customers for most of their business but in the nineteenth century those without their own laundress ‘sent out’ the weekly wash usually to someone in poor overcrowded housing who ‘took in washing’ to make ends meet. At a time when cholera, typhoid and diphtheria and consumption, (tuberculosis) were the main killers, laundering in damp ill‐ventilated tenements just spread diseases. The health issue of infected laundry became (ConƟnued on page 25)

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so serious that well ventilated laundries were established on the outskirts of the city where washing could be dried outdoors. Wright’s 1913 Directory listed 67 including ones in, Redland, Golden Hill and Henleaze. Seven were along Southmead Road to Filton; ‘The Bristol Sanitary Laundry’, ‘Fosters’, ‘The Clifton steam Laundry’, ‘The Royal Southmead Laundry’, ‘The Laundry’ ‘The Excelsior’,

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Happy New Tax Year! Now, Have You Used Your New ISA Allowance? New Tax Year’s Day (April 6th) has hit us ‐ I didn’t hear any ireworks or drunken revellers in my street although I recognise that the words ‘New ISA Allowance’ do not tend to be enough to get people partying until dawn with unbridled joy and revelry. However, for virtually everyone here in BS9, it is certainly worth being mindful of the coming of the new ISA. Simply put, the quicker you invest in an ISA, the less tax you will pay. If you do not do an ISA at all you lose the tax free allowance completely. There is also the question of “to cash ISA or not to cash ISA?” Millions of us seem to plump for the cash option at highly unattractive interest rates despite there being far more growth potential in other asset classes. In fact, as the latest issue of the Barclays Capital Equity Gilt study con irms, UK shares have historically outperformed cash deposits over ALL time periods. For example real returns (taking into account in lation) over the last 10 years show a return of 4.1% per year in UK shares compared to a negative return of minus 0.7% for those sitting on the sidelines in cash deposits. Makes you think about your long‐term inancial plans. Other asset classes available for ISA investment are our recommended property and ixed interest funds with current yields of 4.70% and 4.50% respectively. Another interesting idea for your ISA is our recommended Inheritance Tax ISA service – an ISA that is inheritance tax free after 2 years yet you still have complete control over the assets. For those of you in BS9 with families facing large inheritance tax bills when you die – this could create a signi icant tax free legacy whilst retaining inancial control for the here and the now. If you would like to take advantage of your new ISA allowance then get in touch for a relaxed discussion of some of the options available to you. Email richard.higgs@wealthwest.co.uk or telephone 0117 966 5699.

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The Veg Grower’s Diary ‐ Reg Patch De Niort. Where would a Ploughman’s lunch April has arrived with Spring well and truly under way. Daffodils glow with their warm sunny smiles on even the coldest of Spring days, and the vibrant colours of Tulips are bursting forth, adding zing to the ever emerging garden. The early morning dawn chorus is almost deafening , and trying to identify each bird song is a challenge I do so enjoy. Bring Spring indoors by loating cut Hellebore lower heads in a shallow dish of water, and appreciate a view of them usually seen from a kneeling position. Spring is my most favourite time of year, for it represents new life, new beginnings and another chance of growing the best veg yet! Your vegetable plot in April will welcome all the attention you can give it, and months of Winter plans can now be executed with gusto. Now is the time to plant onions, with onion sets being fully available in shops. Sets are immature bulbs that have been specially grown for planting, and are easier to grow than seed for the new gardener. They mature quicker, grow better in colder conditions, and are not attacked by onion ly and mildew. Whilst sets are more expensive than seeds, yield is often more reliable. Good varieties of onion are Stuttgarter Giant, Sturon, and Ailsa Craig is an old favourite of mine. All onions require good, free draining soil in a sunny site. Plant sets 4 inches apart, leaving the top of the onion set exposed, and check frequently as birds like nothing more than pulling your sets out the ground, the cheeky devils! Similar to onions, shallots can be planted in April, however space them 6 inches apart. The shallots you buy are already full grown and quickly multiply in summer into clusters of 8 to 12 bulbs. They are milder than onions and are good for cooking, in salads and pickled. Trusted varieties are Dutch Yellow and Hative

be without a chunk of bread and cheese, a good pint of ale and pickled onions or shallots? Keep a close eye on the weather as we could still have some sharp frosts or even snow, and cover young seedlings with horticultural leece to reduce damage on cold days. The protection offered by cloches will see your crop advance signi icantly. However, do remember to remove it on warm sunny days, so that seedlings are able to grow sturdy and strong. Book of the Month ‘The New Vegetable & Herb Expert’ by Dr.D.G.Hessayon at £9.99. In 1958 Dr Hessayon formulated a major innovation in ‘Be Your Expert Gardening Books’ In 2008 Expert Guides celebrated their 50 millionth copy in print. Today they enjoy continued success as the best ever gardening books in history! Updated in Spring 2015 ‘The New Vegetable & Herb Expert’ is the worlds best selling book on this subject ... and literally covers everything you need to know with colourful illustrations, tips & facts. This is a MUST read for the vegetable grower, regardless of experience and plot size. If possible, you should not grow the same vegetable in the same spot year after year, as this encourages pests, and diseases to thrive and multiply. Also, soil nutrients would become depleted, resulting in poor growth and reduced yield. Instead, a simple crop rotation would work well, across three areas. For instance, roots in one area replaced with shoots the following year. Roots such as; beetroot, carrot, chicory, parsnip and potatoes followed the next year with brassicas such as; broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, (ConƟnued on page 36)

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cauli lower and kale would grow well. In bed three; beans, marrow, onions, peas, sweet corn and outdoor tomatoes could be grown. If space allows an area for growing permanent crops such as asparagus and rhubarb would be champion! Plant of the Month This month we are celebrating beetroot, a vegetable that can be enjoyed all year round. Seed sown under cloches in March can be pulled in early June, with further sowings in April, May, June & July giving continual pickings. Beetroot stores well and should be lifted before frosts and put in a box with layers of moist peat or sand and stored in a shed. They can be cooked and enjoyed throughout the Winter months. Pull beetroot before they become too hard and woody and twist off the tops to avoid them ‘bleeding’ when cooked. Try them sliced warm, roasted in the oven and of course pickled in sweet vinegar. Reliable varieties are Boltardy, Detroit (pictured), Burpees Golden & Avonearly. Interestingly beetroot ‘seed’ are really a fruit, each corky cluster containing several true seeds. There are three golden rules when sowing seed; sow not too early, not too deep, and not too thickly. Whilst books and seed packet instructions can give dates on when best to sow, it all depends on the soil and weather conditions appropriate to your plot, so keeping a close eye on the weather is a must. Seeds will only germinate when the soil is warmed and not too wet, which also happens to be ideal conditions to garden in. So, to the new gardener, ask yourself : ‘would I be happy sat out in the garden with weather conditions

as they are?’. If the answer is yes, then so will your seeds and young plants, so go for it! Newly emerging seeds need space to grow, and a process called ‘thinning out’ is required so that seedlings are spaced as per packet instructions. This allows them to grow to their full potential and reduces chances of disease. Thinnings of beetroot are great eaten as ‘micro leaves’ in salads, and are tender and sweet so don’t let them go to waste. Posh eateries charge bucket loads for them! So, as April rolls into May and so on, continue to make sowings of the crops that interest you in eager anticipation of harvesting them later on this year. Top Tip of the Month There’s an old saying ‘Hoe when you can’t see a weed and you’ll never see a weed’ which is so, so true at this time of year when the soil warms up and the weed seeds think come on chaps... lets grow. A sharp hoe is a best friend to the gardener, sliding it back and forth across the soil will stop weeds taking over your plot. Hoeing also aerates the soil breaking it up, and thus allowing rain to soak down to where its most needed at the roots!

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38 recounts the duvet story and many others in The Great Indoors, his enthralling history of the British home in the twentieth century. Learn, or remember, how we threw off the In 1996 Joanna Rakoff found a job in a New York literary agency and was immediately told dead hand of Victoria and embraced Utility, what to do if Jerry rang but not who Jerry was. Barry Bucknall, G‐Plan, Habitat and IKEA. In fact Jerry was JD Salinger, the no longer Freight dog Bob Winrush, publishing author of The Catcher in the Rye. otherwise known as a My Salinger Year is her riveting and novel‐ mercenary pilot, is the like account of the time she spent dealing with hero of Flight, Adam Jerry, answering his fan mail and learning to Thorpe’s gripping new jet be an agent. With a boyfriend in tow, as well ‐plane of a novel. Son of a as an ex‐boyfriend, her boss’s strange glamorous Spit ire ace, behaviour to deal with and the drama when Bob now trundles around Jerry decides to publish something, her tale the world in clapped out becomes so gripping that you wish she’d Boeings, alternating stayed for a second year. cargoes of disaster zone supplies with much No top light English dodgier freight – AK47s, football club in the landmines, soldiers. In a sauna in Dubai, the modern era had past catches up with him. When his former remained unbeaten crew begins to disappear and the journalist through a season until investigating them all is run down, it’s off to a the Arsenal team of remote and wind‐swept Scottish island for 2003‐2004 won 26, drew 12 and lost none to Bob, pursued by armed assassins. become champions. Football correspondent Amy Lawrence Danny Wallace’s new interviewed everyone novel Who Is Tom involved at Arsenal, and in Invincible, tells us Ditto? is a hilarious the inspiring story of that team and how they romp around modern did it. Most important, it seems, is to have a London. When his bunch of wonderful players (Henry, girlfriend Hayley Bergkamp, Viera ) who like each other, want disappears (but claims to pass to each other and are happy for others she hasn’t left him) Tom, to score. A highly intelligent and a news reader at a radio knowledgeable manager is crucial too – station is left in limbo. Is Arsene Wenger can advise on anything she ill? Has she gone for apparently including tog values for duvets. good? Why do other This is a fascinating book. people know about her plans but not him? He can only try his own Talking of duvets, ifty amateur detective work via texts, phone years ago you wouldn’t messages and post its. When the ‘jam Nazi have been, you’d still have rant’ goes viral, Tom’s world is turned upside been smothered in down though he does begin to make progress blankets in a bedroom in his search. But who is Hayley really? And where the window was who is Tom ditto? And what’s Binky the open all night long for marmoset up to? You’ll have great fun inding health reasons – ice on the out. windows was good for you. Ben Highmore

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The Downs Recorder ‐ Richard Bland Views from the Downs The Downs are the highest point in Bristol, and there are very extensive views from various different points on the Downs. In some ways the most dramatic and important are the views of the Avon Gorge, especially those that feature the Suspension Bridge. These are the views that were widely painted before the camera, though many that were available in the past have been lost to us because of the growth of trees and scrub on this side of the Gorge. The most dramatic are the views from the Observatory looking down on the Suspension Bridge and across South Bristol beyond it to the Dundry Ridge topped by Dundry church tower six kilometres away. On a good day the great whale back shape of Black Down on Mendip with Crook Peak at its end, which reaches a thousand feet, can be seen above thirty miles away. Further round above the houses of Sion Hill are the hills above Bath, leading round to the clump on top of Kelston Round Hill ten miles off to the north east. From the same sight you look north west along the Avon to the high ridge of Penpole Point, and the Kings Weston telephone mast. Today the tips of the new Avonmouth wind turbines can be seen glinting in the sun above that ridge, and, a dark line in the distance, you can see the Welsh Hills. Looking east in the summer, you can see nothing but the trees around the camp. Bristol has been spirited away. And looking west you stare at the great gash that is Nightingale Valley, and above it Leigh Camp guarding the ancient route down it. It is very possible that the magni icent long distance views to the north east that would

exists were the trees not there, stretching right up to up to the Cotswolds scarp, were one of the reasons that the pre‐roman Clifton Camp was built. Walking north along the edge of the Gorge, it was once possible to glimpse the River Avon from the top of Bridge Valley Road, but that view has been lost. The Suspension Bridge can still be seen from the path close to the Peregrine Watch point, which has the inest views of the whole of Leigh Woods, and looking north west the new Avon Wildlife Trust Reserve stands out alongside the Portway, below the woods of Penpole Point with the Avonmouth turbine blades just visible beyond it. Look north from here, and there are no buildings visible at all‐ even the water tower has vanished, there is nothing but trees. Trees on the edge of the Gorge then limit the views all the way until you reach Sea Walls. From there the Suspension Bridge dominates the view to the south and the Dundry radio mast can be seen above it and Christ Church spire peeps above the trees to the left. Looking north the great red cranes of Royal Portbury Dock hang above the M5 bridge, and beyond East Wood in Portishead lies the estuary and the long line of the great Newport steel work, with the Welsh hills rising behind it thirty miles away. This site was used for one of the Jubilee Beacons two years ago.

There are also dramatic views across the city near the top of Blackboy Hill. Looking down High street you look straight across the top of the university’s Royal Fort House, with radio aerials on top to the hills around Bath. Looking straight down Sunderland Crescent Wills Tower is in your sights and beyond are (ConƟnued on page 43)

43 gap to the east of the Welsh hills, and just above the lashing blades of the wind turbines. This is the Sugarloaf Mountain north east of the hills around Compton Dando. Abergavenny, 486 metres high, and thirty miles away. There is one very dramatic view that can occasionally be seen on cold clear days in winter, when the Welsh hills have the snow on If you enjoy the Downs, or use if for your sport, why not become a Friend? Membership them, and the wind is in the north west. Looking north from both Clifton Camp and the is just £10. Contact Robin Haward at robinhaward@blueyonder.co.uk 0117 974 Peregrine watch point it is possible just occasionally to see a conical white cone in a 3385 (ConƟnued from page 42)

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beginning of the year, I have been helping my own and Grosvenor Consultancy clients complete their obligations. There is much to learn! (ConƟnued on page 47)

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This pension is different because of the ‘mandatory nature’ imposed on employers. You have to offer a scheme, you have to pay into it and employees have to be enrolled (they can opt out if they wish, but to date more than 90% have not). Encouraging an employee to opt out will result in ines and the employee has to sign to say they fully appreciate they are effectively taking a pay cut, by opting out. I’m inding some employers falling into the trap of thinking, how different can this be? They are assuming existing company systems such as payroll, HR records, salary structures, pay frequencies and timing will all cope with the new rules and arrangements with the minimum of modi ication.

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48 PDO status, which was awarded in February 2010. Almond & polenta cake with Yorkshire Its uses are multi‐faceted: it’s great as a sweet yet tangy dollop when stewed with a little rhubarb sugar, in your morning porridge, makes a perfect foil for an oily mackerel illet (think Yorkshire rhubarb with its iridescent stems of gooseberries and mackerel) and is the pink with luorescent green leaves at their tip ultimate accompaniment to a wobbly, creamy are to be readily found in your local vanilla pannacotta. greengrocer in the springtime, the season varies every year. This time, I’m using it in a cake. I’m pretty Exclusively sure when it comes to recipes, that there’s produced in the nothing that hasn’t been done before and I Rhubarb triangle credit The River Café in London where I was which is found in lucky to do a week’s stint at about this time of Yorkshire year about 8 years ago, for this recipe. Their between Leeds, almond, lemon & polenta cake has been Bradford and practically ubiquitous on the Bristol café Wake ield and scene over the last decade and, being gluten spans 9 square miles, it’s grown in completely free, must be ever more popular these days. dark, heated forcing sheds and harvested by I’ve substituted lemon peel for orange which candlelight to keep its vibrant colours. It’s a is also the perfect opportunity to make use of national culinary treasure, geographically and (ConƟnued on page 49) culturally unique and it even has European

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Cook the rhubarb by roasting it in the oven. Cut it up into chunks and put in a roasting tray. Sprinkle with sugar and add the zest and juice of a large orange; if you can ind a blood orange, so much the better as it adds to the colour. Cover with foil and bake in the oven at 180oC for about 15‐20 minutes. Turn the oven down to 160OC. To make the cake, beat the butter and sugar together until pale. Stir in the ground almonds and vanilla essence. Beat in the eggs, one by one. Fold in the orange zest and juice, polenta, baking powder and salt. Pour the mixture into a greased and lined tin and dot the rhubarb mix evenly throughout. Bake at 160OC for 40 – 45 minutes until set. Delicious with a dollop of plain yoghurt or crè me fraı̂che. Thinking of planning a party for your child? Let Magic Wand Catering ease the pressure by organising and preparing the party food for you.

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medicinal and decorative plants into nurseries more extensive than any then existing in the Old World.

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Herbs don’t just taste good, they look and smell good too, making them valuable additions to our gardens. Colourful purple sage (below) and dainty thyme are lovely at the front of a sunny bed, while tall, statuesque bronze fennel adds texture and drama to grasses and perennials. Even the ruf led leaves of curled parsley makes it a pretty edging plant. Shrubby evergreen herbs such as bay and myrtle create focal points while rosemary and lavender can be used as hedging. Herbs are de ined as plants with leaves, seeds or lowers used for lavouring food, or for medicine or perfume. Their bene its have long been recognized, indeed evidence of cultivation goes right back to Prehistoric times. Ancient Egyptians grew medicinal plants in walled gardens, and 7th Century Arabic gardens contained aromatic herbs such as thyme, lavender, violets and mint. In the Middle Ages churches throughout Europe had physic gardens where medicinal herbs such roses, lilies, sage and rosemary were grown. India and China have always had strong traditions of using herbs for health and wellbeing, Rosemary has dainty while the Incas and violet lowers through Aztecs collected much of the year

For gardeners, perhaps the greatest reward of herbs is their scent. Many have wonderfully aromatic leaves and can be combined with lowers to make a sweetly scented border. Victorian plants‐woman Gertrude Jekyll suggested arranging a scented garden as a double border with a path leading to a honeysuckle and jasmine‐covered arbour. “The path could be of wild thyme and fescue grasses. Next to the grass might be plants that will release their scent if brushed – bush thyme, sage, lavender cotton, catmint. The main planting would be of roses, lilies, peonies, lupins, tulips, rockets and daffodils, also heliotrope, sweet geraniums, and sweet annuals such as sweet peas, stocks, wall lowers, night‐scented stock, nicotiana, lavender and rosemary and Daphne pontica for its early sweet scent.” Sounds heavenly! The University of Bristol Botanic Garden (seen right) have a wide range of interesting herbs in their Western and Chinese herb gardens www.bristol.ac.uk/ botanic‐garden

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Talking Pets with Viking Vets ‐ but not this month Half way to a hundred If you are looking for an interesting pet related topic, I would advise you to stop reading now. I have decided to be self indulgent and give you some personal re lection on the topic of becoming 50 years old ( I have a few months until the main event but have started to think about it). First of all I ind it nearly incomprehensible to have arrived at this age so very quickly. It seems only ive minutes ago since I left Bristol University qualifying as a vet, and that is now over 20 years ago. Equally the fact that I have been married for over 25 years (to the same man), is even more of a mystery. What stares back at me from the mirror clearly tells me that the years have marched on, no matter what the creams claim to do in the wrinkle department. With all this said, I am actually very happy to be here. Looking at the different decades, I would say

that teenage years were the worst. Full of insecurities and uncertainty. The twenties was studying and partying, but also marriage and start of a new home. At thirty the hormonal insanity of needing to have a baby or two, starting a business with a 3 month old and a 20 month old, madness. Forties have been a rollercoaster of itting everything in. We have so many roles in our life; mother, wife, vet, employer, daughter, sister, friend etc. What will the next decade bring? Hopefully a little bit less frantic, the boys may start to drive us home from a night out…. one can only hope! I know a lot of people make themselves a bucket list of things they want to do, I have made myself a list of what makes me happy at 50. The list consist of things like, to love and be loved, hear a cat purring, dance, smell of spring, working with a great team of people, having a purpose, saving a life, having a real conversation. What has struck me about the list is how little relate to material things. I thing the further into a life we get, we start to realise that the important things in life is not necessarily the big events or shiny new items.

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as well, but I dread to think what they may come up with!

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understand is that unless we take other steps, those digital versions may not be any better, and may even be worse than, the artefacts that we digitised.” Photographs and the best way to “We stand to lose a lot of our history. If you save them. think about the quantity of documentation from our daily lives which is captured in digital Last month, I returned to my hometown and form, like our interactions by email, people's met up with some old friends. One of them tweets, all of the world wide web, then if you brought along some old photos of times we had spent together 20 years ago. We had such wanted to see what was on the web in 1994 fun reminiscing and catching up on news. One you'd have trouble doing that. A lot of the stuff photo in particular was particularly poignant. disappears. It was a family snap, with my friend and my “We don't want our digital lives to fade away. If family all together. I hadn’t seen it before. I we want to preserve them the same way we have now borrowed it, and taken a copy. My preserve books and so on we need to make sure scanner was broken, so I went to Clifton that the digital objects we create will be Colour in Clifton Down Shopping Centre, and rendered far into the future.” they did it for me on the spot. When I went to pay, there was a photocopy on Mr Cerf said there was a huge problem with the ability to preserve and run software over long the desk, printed out from The Daily periods of time. He said he felt a ‘great burden’ Telegraph. to ind a way to create digital formats which can still be accessed in thousands of years. Google’s vice president has warned internet users to print out treasured He is recommending the creation of a system, photographs or risk losing them. which will not only store a digital format but preserve details of the software and operating “Vint Cerf, the internet pioneer, said it was time system needed to access it, so it can be to start preserving the vast quantities of digital recreated in the future. data which are produced before they are lost forever. In the meantime, he recommended printing out important documents such as treasured Warning that the 21st century could become a family pictures to avoid losing them second "Dark Ages" because so much data is through outdated operating systems. now kept in digital format, he said that future generations would struggle to understand our “We have various formats for digital society because technology is advancing so quickly that old iles will be inaccessible. Speaking at a conference in San Jose, California, Mr Cerf likened the problem to the Dark Ages, the period in Britain between the 5th and 8th centuries where little is known, following the collapse of the Roman Empire. “If we don’t ind a solution our 21st Century will be an information black hole. Future generations will wonder about us but they will have very great dif iculty knowing about us. We think about digitising things because we think (ConƟnued on page 58) we will preserve them, but what we don't

58 sharing with you. Do make sure that your most precious photos are printed or at least saved. Don’t just leave them on your camera photographs and movies and those formats need software to correctly render those objects. or phone, transfer the photos onto your computer and then back them up elsewhere Sometimes the standards we use to produce too. So many photos are taken on phones It is those objects fade away and are replaced by likely that many will remain in digital format other alternatives and then software that is and often be lost with the phone if that goes supposed to render images can't render older astray. formats, so the images are no longer visible.” Treasure your digital memories, and I thought that the article was worthy of take care of them (ConƟnued from page 55)

publish the printed supplement that is a requirement for magazine publishers that do not have a web presence. I suppose I should be thankful for small mercies… The Bristol Nine tries to remain neutral and non‐confrontational but every now and The European ruling is covered in the irst then….. Accessible Publications Regulations (FAPR or 1stAPR for short) and applies to all published So this month I ind myself having to write materials and community literature of 32 about something that is enough to make any self respecting publisher think carefully about pages and above. Friends of mine who publish magazines similar to The Bristol Nine an anti European vote. This announcement should I suspect be published prominently in elsewhere in the UK are resorting to reducing their published font sizes by 2/3, or the magazine but frankly I decided to tuck it away on page 58 in an attempt to treat it with publishing each monthly issue in 3 volumes, to bring their magazines under the 32 page the contempt it probably deserves. threshold. In the spirit of openness and equal access to I however have decided to do the honourable information across Europe the European courts in Madrid have brought new legislation thing and include a summary of all the articles into force from the start of April to ensure that in 14 languages on the BS9 website. You can check this out on www.bcmagazines.co.uk and European citizens can access all publicly hit the “European Translations” button. Thank available goodness for Google Translate. publications in their own In the meantime I’d like to welcome readers in language, a few languages:‐ regardless of where they are in the European “Luda travnja” to our Croatian readers “Aprilgrap” to our Dutch readers Union. “Poisson d’avril” to our French friends «Πρωταπριλια» to our chums in Greece Under the irst tranche of rules community “aprilis bolondja” to readers from Hungary publishers must make the key parts of their “Pirmasis balandis” to friends from Lithuania newspapers, magazines and periodicals available in all the of icial languages of the EU. and “Glupiec kwietnia” to our Polish followers. The legislation applies to non‐commercial content only, so thankfully I don’t have to The EU ‐ full of bureaucrats and fools.. translate the adverts. And because the BS9 is available online it is not necessary for me to

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59 also awarded them many commendations and merits for their outstanding creative writing. Jo Carrington, Head of English at St Katherine’s said “I am so proud of the A round up of some of the great stories achievements of these students – they are coming out of our local schools ‐ shining examples of our school community. St Katherine’s has given these children the Bristol student Juliette Remillat‐Scarpa, age encouragement, space and time they needed 12, has been selected to represent the UK in to achieve their full potential” the Holland Cup, an international taekwondo event taking place in The Netherlands in April. This selection comes after a series of high Students from Henbury School have been pro ile wins for raising awareness of mental health issues Juliette. In September 2014 affecting young people. Members of the school's Draco House held a charity week and she won a gold medal in pattern raised £161.86 for the Mental Health Foundation. The main event was a cake sale, at the national organised by Year 9 charity champions Martha PUMA Kids Isaac, Leona Payne, Isobel Bromley‐Hollyoake Championships and Jessica Snape. They said: “The Mental and in May she Health Foundation charity works to help won a gold medal in sparring and bronze people in need of someone, to overcome medal in pattern at the PUMA English challenging times. It bene its many people, Championships. Speaking of these achievements, Miss Maggs, Director of Sport at helping them to regain con idence and good health. It builds awareness, while giving The Red Maids’ School said, “Juliette has shown great commitment and discipline to her advice to those who need it.” Year 11 students Rachel Isaac and Abbie chosen sport. To represent your country at Douglas and Year 7 students Hannah such a young age is a signi icant achievement McCarthy and Holly Christie were also and we wish Juliette the very best of luck.” involved, and charity leader Robynn Wiszniewksa from Year 11 managed the 'name a giraffe' competition. Teacher Christabel Brightley said: “This was such a St. Katherine’s students raised the bar at the success we hope to repeat it every month to Bath Festival on Saturday scoring an encourage openness and support for each unprecedented ‘hat trick’ for a state funded other.” school in the ‘Creative Writing Short Story’ section. Ayan Bulaleh won irst, Jacob Marks second and Kirsty Dyer 3rd place, Elliot A team of pupils from Redland High School Furness also won third place in the under 15 have won the UK National Future Problem category for his short story. St Katherine’s Solving competition and will now represent students were celebrated by the judges who the United Kingdom at the International Final, held in the USA this summer. The Future Problem Solving programme, developed in 1973, aims to engage students in creative problem solving. It is a scenario‐based competition which develops critical and creative thinking skills through learning an approach to research and critical analysis that is employed by governments and companies

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around the world. The scenario given to the competing teams was based on Arti icial Intelligence and the problems that this could create. Teams then had to identify one problem they believed to be the most important and decide how to solve it in the form of an action plan, presented in a 3 minute performance at the end of the day, which was then assessed by the team of UK judges and also judged by the American organisers. The team from Redland High was delighted to discover a few days later that they had won First Prize and will now be taking part in the International Conference, held at the University of Iowa in June. Mrs Caroline Bateson, Headmistress at Redland High, said, “Future Problem Solving is a great competition to be part of as it gives students the chance to be both creative and analytical while assessing real‐world science, technology, and social trends for the future.”

St Katherine’s student, Samantha Rides, has won the Rotary Young Chef of the Year Regional Final. Paul Mingo‐West, Chef Manager and Lead Practitioner at St Katherine’s said “It was an emotional experience, Sam delivered stunning dishes and worked with her trademark professionalism. It was close, but we knew the standard would be high all round.” Sam will now compete in the National Final in April in Wrexham and will be one of the last eight, battling for this coveted award. The competition is open to entrants from all over the UK and Ireland.

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and in time become an ideal home for song birds amongst other wild life. The root structure to this old hedge line is vital for preventing subsidence to the road side. Retaining the hedge will prevent the need for a retaining wall in place of the trees saving resources and the purse strings. My client also needed a fence to keep the grand children safe from falling down the bank through the old hedge. So as we felled the trees the timber was processed into lengths and we created the fence from the elm. The end goal will arrive when the hedgerow is full with new shoots and the sound of bird song. If you have any questions, need advice or would like a free estimate please call me, Sam Muscat, at Crest Tree Services Ltd 07968 354 747 or email me at cresttree@gmail.com

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Rosie Greenwood talks Bathrooms Small, but Perfectly Formed: Planning the Smallest Room (Part 1 of 2) I’ve recently been looking through the gorgeous pictures on the interiors website www.Houzz.com looking for bathroom inspiration. Whilst the pictures have given me lots of ideas, I couldn’t help noticing that many of the featured bathrooms are about the size of most people’s sitting rooms. Most of us in Bristol, and particularly those in period homes that did not originally have bathrooms when built, are dealing with a much more compact spaces. Those bathrooms have to it in a lot of functions, and diverse needs of different family members. You might like a luxurious candlelit soak, but children need a more waterproofed, fun environment, and maybe an elderly relative that has mobility issues uses the space too.

700mm in front of a WC or basin, and about 1,000mm in front of a bath, so you can move around, and get in and out easily. The circulation space is critical in a bathroom. In a smaller room, consider positioning a WC under sloping eaves – you don’t need full head height at the back of the WC, only at the front (gents!). Choose a shower‐bath if space does not allow for a separate shower, but if you are doing that, get a sturdy bath (ideally steel – acrylic baths can creak alarmingly and are inherently more lexible) and when the bath/ tile edge is sealed with silicone, make sure it is full of water so the seal ‘sets’ with the bath loaded with water. It’s good advice for bathrooms with suspended timber loors to ‘double up’ the timber joists under the bath. A bath full of 80 ‐ 100 litres of water, plus a bather(s) is heavy, and you can see why the loor may need reinforcing, particularly if you are positioning a bath in the centre of the room.

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So, how to make the most of the space available? A good way to start is to draw a plan of your bathroom using the internal dimensions, and mark on windows and doors, plus any sloping ceilings. If you can draw to scale it helps tremendously. You can then cut out shapes approximately the size and shape of the bath, shower, WC, towel rail, and washbasin (dimensions are easily available online or in catalogues) and move them in the space in different con igurations until you ind a solution that works. Check the practicality of it with a bathroom itter or designer. Some of the local bathroom ittings suppliers offer a free design service, and they will have ideas and suggestions to offer that may solve what seem to be insurmountable dif iculties – take advice, because you probably only plan a bathroom every few years, and they may plan one every few days. When planning the space, allow at least

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Wet rooms, where the waterproofed loor acts as a shower tray, can offer a solution for particularly small bathrooms. Getting the loor gradient correct so water drains away is critical, and under loor heating and extraction will help to dry the room after showering. It’s hard, in a small room, to get away without some kind of shower screen, or you may suffer from soggy toilet paper and towels. Also, it’s best to fully tile wet rooms, which adds to the cost. If you are putting in a shower room a long way from the soil stack, it may be dif icult to get the large‐gauge soil pipe through the house to the stack. Soil pipes are too large to go through joists without damaging their structural integrity. You can have a WC virtually anywhere if you are prepared to have a macerating toilet (e.g. ‘Sani lo’) which has smaller bore pipes because it shreds the waste and pumps it out. Depending on the model, the pipes can run 3‐4m vertically and up to

100m horizontally, including through joists, as the waste pipe is around 32mm in diameter. However, the macerators certainly aren’t very good looking, and do cause some additional noise as they work. The idea of taking the machine apart if it goes wrong may not appeal, either! With a small space to work with, storage in bathrooms is often hard to squeeze in. There is a lot of stuff needed in bathrooms: towels, toiletries etc., and you need somewhere to tuck it away when not in use. Also, don’t underestimate the amount of drying space you need for wet towels – you will need a heated towel rail capable of accommodating the number of towels used daily in your home. Next time – choosing lights and showers that won’t give you a shock in the smallest room. For advice when planning a new bathroom, an extension, or inding a good itter, call Rosie on 07710 703396.

69 So how do we, in the group, break down these problems and get to the nub of the issue? We give each other space to talk, we ask The devil is in the detail questions to create clarity and we feedback, share experiences and offer suggestions Working with my small business owners when asked. We also hold each other group recently a really useful piece of learning accountable so that the actions we decide came out of drilling down on an issue. It was have a very high chance of actually happening, this: the problem is not always what you think sometimes in excess! it is. Re lecting on this, the expression ‘the devil is in the detail’ came to my mind: it is Raising an issue and being able to talk about it only when you start talking and enquiring into in con idence and with peers who empathise the detail can you understand what the allows us the opportunity to consider the speci ic issue is. And it is only when you know detail more speci ically. Separating out these what the speci ic issue is that you can address details and enquiring a little deeper we can it effectively. identify the little devil that has been holding us back and incredibly shining a light on it We carry around with us many ‘problems’ sometimes obliterates it in an instant. If not, which are shot through with limiting beliefs, we are at least in a position to shoot at a assumptions and generalisations. Some of target, rather than aiming randomly and these we don’t attempt to solve or even have having the arrows rain down on us!! an expectation of there being a solution. We accept it as we see it: ‘I’m an expert Investing a small amount of time and money procrastinator’; ‘I ind delegating dif icult’; I into your own and business development ind it hard to ask for what I want’, are just a will be more that aptly rewarded. All the few examples from members over the years. members of my mastermind groups are people irst and business owners second. We We acknowledge and accept our perceived all have issues which we initially might feel shortcomings and dif iculties as something to uncomfortable admitting but it doesn’t take be tolerated and worked around. It may not long to realise we have an amazing amount in occur to us to challenge them because we common. don’t know where to start or don’t believe we can change such established problems. Visit www.annemillercoaching.co.uk for more information and to book a free It doesn’t have to be like this; it doesn’t have consultation Tel: 07722 110228 to be painful and it doesn’t have to be expensive! Working with a coach you will gain new perspectives empowering you to make better choices and achieve positive change. Anne offers life and business coaching and runs Inspired Solutions Mastermind Groups for small business owners.

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Friends of Blaise ‐ Patrick Clarke Last month I talked about the Landscape Architect, Humphry Repton and his in luence on the landscape of the Blaise Estate as we see it today. He was born in Bury St. Edmunds in 1752 and after several failed attempts to establish a career, in 1788, aged 36 and with no secure income, hit on the idea of combining his sketching skills with his limited experience of laying out the grounds on his very modest home, to become a landscape gardener. Since the death of Capability Brown in 1783 no one igure dominated English garden design. Repton was ambitious to ill this gap and sent brochures to contacts in the upper classes advertising his services. To help clients visualise his proposals, rather than drawing detailed plans as Capability Brown had done, he produced his Red Books. The name originated from the Red Leather Covers which he always used. These contained explanatory texts and water colour scenes. The scenes recorded the original views, with an overlay showing how this would look after his planned landscape proposals had been implemented.

mentioned above and the prose re lects writing of the period.

He is keen to make the Castle the central piece of his landscape plans. The wording may seem fanciful in this day and age, but it may be of interest to readers of these Blaise articles. “The situation of the Castle from whence this place takes its’ name, is of a kind I have described and however sublime in itself as an occasional spot to be visited, must be wholly inapplicable for a family residence: it was therefore with much pleasure that I found the comfort of the house (at this time situated where the Dairy Garden now is) was not to be sacri iced to the extensive prospect from the Castle, but that several spots had been judiciously proposed, each partaking of the quiet and sequestered scenery in which this place so remarkably abounds. It is a most singular circumstance that within in a short distance of the largest City in England except His work can still be seen throughout England London, and even in the neighbourhood of the where he was involved in the design of over most frequented watering place in the Kingdom 60 Estates and Gardens. Locally he was (Bath) the woods and lawns and deep romantic involved with Ashton Court, Corsham Court, glens belonging to Blaise are perfectly secluded Dyrham Park, Longleat and the Royal Fort in from the busy hum of man”. Bristol. Much of the latter is now built over and only a small part of the original remains. With the exception of the Lily Pond and Tarn Lake, both built alongside the main drive from Now, back to Blaise. The Red Book, and can be Coombe Dingle between 1840 and 1881, the seen in the Blaise House Museum. It is dated majority of Repton’s landscape remains 1796 and uses the overlay principle unchanged today.

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At the Movies ‐ Chris Worthington The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Directed by John Madden Fans of the irst Exotic Marigold Hotel ilm may be surprised to ind out that it came out in 2011, how time goes by! The sequel inevitably covers some of the same territory but with varying degrees of success.

The ilm is mostly set in Jaipur with short excursion to Mumbai where Evelyn (Judi Dench) has got herself a job as a textile buyer. While it may be unfair to say that India is the real star of the ilm it is not far from the truth and some of the best humour in the ilm comes from the sub titles when the Indian characters are trading insults. The sets are excellent and the Indian actors have a dynamism and delivery that surpasses the veteran Brits. Dev Patel as Sonny Kapoor is outstanding as are Tina Desai as his iancé Sinaima and Shazaad Latif as Kushal, his devious rival in business and romance. Their rivalry comes to a climax in an exhilarating

Slumdog Millionaire style wedding dance. The ilm switches between the changes of fortune of the resident Brits and Sonny’s plans to marry and buy another hotel. Muriel (Maggie Smith) is again cast as Sonny’s mentor while Madge (Celia Imrie) and Norman (Ronald Pickup) are dealing with some fairly predictable dif iculties in their relationships. Norman also has to contend with believing that while drunk he has paid a one eyed tic tac driver to murder his wife. Meanwhile Douglas (Bill Nighy) is having a senior moment attempting to memorise a speech for the wedding. His solution is to have the speech relayed to him through an ear piece a by a young Indian friend armed with a lap top and wi i. Otherwise things are going along rather too well for the Brits and this does not make for great comedy drama. Richard Gere makes a surprise appearance as Guy Chambers, a hotel inspector working for the bank that Sonny has lined up to inance the new hotel. He arrives with false credentials as a writer and instantly falls in love with Sonny’s mother, a sharp tongued matriarch. This is most unlikely romance and the script of their dinner date does not even seem to convince the actors let alone the audience.

As in the irst Exotic Marigold ilm the Brits are coming out with jokes about the trials of old age and the short time that they have left to live. For the most part the wry humour in this does not pay off and it may been better if one of the Brits had actually died in the ilm. But it’s probably not a good idea to kill off national treasures.

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80 All of this will enable children and their families to gain con idence in a safe, traf ic‐ free environment. Permission has been received from the Downs Committee to hold a pilot Cycle Sunday event However, this is not just about perfecting the basic skills of riding bicycles. It is also to give on 19th April 2015. Circular Road will be children the free‐wheeling sense of fun that closed from Ivywell Road to Ladies Mile comes from a meandering ride through the between the hours of 7am‐11am. This will provide a lat, open loop of 3km that children Downs’ tranquil parkland, and to encourage them to become the responsible, cycling of all ages and abilities can enjoy. It will also open up the Downs to people with disabilities citizens of the future. who are anxious about sharing the road with The organisers of the event are a proactive cars, and any other adults who would like to bunch of families in North Bristol who want build their con idence on a bike. all children to grow up it and healthy. “We want them to con idently use a sustainable form of transport and to learn how to ride bicycles on the road in a way that is safe for them and everyone else. “ Dr Sohail Bhatti, the Interim Director of Public Health, offered the organisers this comment: “One of the key challenges for public health is low physical activity levels in children and adults, as well as increasing obesity levels. In 2009/10 the estimated cost of treating diseases linked to physical inactivity in Bristol was £7.5 million. During this event, there will be a focus on safety. It will emphasise getting bicycles road‐ Enabling children to cycle is one of the key worthy after the winter and learning new behaviours which can help increase physical cycling skills. Activities booked include: activity to levels needed for health. Parents and carers tell us that they want their child to • Dr Bike will be on hand to check over be able to learn to ride a bike in a safe vehicle‐ bikes and make simple repairs or free environment. Therefore, the Cycle Sunday adjustments; proposal appears to address these needs and • Bristol Cycle Development Squad will support public health aims.” do skills sessions for young cyclists; • Volunteers will help children do ABC (Air, Brakes, Chain) bike checks; • The Police will offer bike marking and advice on securing bikes; • Lifecycle will offer tandem taster sessions, designed for visually impaired riders, as well as family cycling advice and equipment try‐outs (bike trailers and tag‐alongs); • CTC and the Wheels for All Partnership will offer people of all abilities the chance to ride specially adapted bikes .

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Louise’s Tips for an Easier Life 10 Top Tips to beat Procrastination This month I’d like to share some expert’s advice to help you to dither no more. I recently read an article by Nilufer Atik which said people who continually put things off are unhappier, as well as being less healthy and wealthy compared with those who get things done promptly. Studies have also shown that procrastinators are more likely to make mistakes. However, experts insist that procrastinators can change their behaviour: it takes a lot of self‐work but in the end it’s worth the effort – and start today, not tomorrow! 1. Next time you procrastinate ask ‘What make me decide to do this in the irst place?’. If you don’t know the answer – don’t do it! 2. For each task, ask yourself – should I do this, delegate it or dump it – and act. 3. Take small steps – break down tasks to make them manageable. 4. Get help – if you’re overwhelmed, ask an expert in.

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Art at The Beehive Local Bristol Artist Nigel Elven who has recently returned from a life adventure in Asia, is now showing his art in the lounge of the excellent Beehive Pub / Diner on Wellington Hill West in Henleaze.

For this reason his preference is to display his work large ‐ to ill a wall at home, of ice or other corporate venues. They can also be easily scaled down and hung in smaller spaces. All are limited editions and can be purchased from the artist directly. Concepts and Images can be created on commission and as Nigel lives just one minute from the Beehive Pub if you’d like to meet him ‐ just ring his mobile phone 07860 839982 Visit his website to view the entire collection.

www.anenglishmanatlarge.com

With over 35 years experience in advertising and ilm, Nigel’s career includes working for some of the world’s leading advertising agencies as well as producing and directing marketing ilms and documentaries. His work in these ields has been internationally recognised and Nigel is now a member of the Royal West of England Academy. He has lived and worked throughout the Asia Paci ic Region and has photographed extensively during his travels. His art is best described as digitally enhanced photographs that are manipulated through various software programs into an ‘abstract’ that can be enlarged to any size and not lose detail.

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Living and working in BS9 for 10 years and now contactable on 01454 617 392

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. Out There Music Bristol ‐ Orchestra Concert. Saturday 9th May, 7pm at Trinity Henleaze URC Church, Waterford Road, BS9 4BT. Tickets £8 (£5 under 18’s) available from admin@outtheremusicbristol.co.uk / 07866 587424. An uplifting, musical event for all the community. Come and hear OTMB Orchestra play a broad range of music including Pomp and Circumstance , Symphonie Fantastique and The Marriage of Figaro Overture. In aid of Music Space www.outtheremusicbristol.co.uk

are "Bells" (Bob!), "Sense and Senility" and "Goodbyee". Tickets, priced £8.50 for the Wednesday and Thursday and £9.50 for Friday and Saturday, including a free programme, are available from the Box Of ice 01275 393302. Bristol Cabot Choir will be performing Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Vivaldi’s Gloria and other wonderful Italian pieces at Clifton Cathedral on 25 April 2015 at 7.30pm. Conducted by Rebecca Holdeman and accompanied by orchestra, superb up and coming young soloists, and the talented Joachim Schwander on continuo organ, Tickets: £15 and £10 (under 18s) from Opus 13, 14 St Michael’s Hill, Bristol BS2 8DT – on 0117 9230154; or on line at www.bristolcabotchoir.org (+10% Booking Fee). Retiring collection for the Julian Trust Night Shelter.

Drop In Healing Sessions held at The Friends Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road, Redland BS6 6JE on Thursdays from 5.00 pm to 6.30 pm. Run by NFSH The Healing Trust trained volunteers on a donation basis. Healing can help whether you're feeling stressed or in need of support or just want time for yourself. Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn will be Everyone welcome, no need to book. For more performed by St Alban's Players at 7.30pm on information phone 07748 358206. 30th April, 1st & 2nd May 2015. St Alban's We are the Bristol U3A – an organisation of Church Hall, Bayswater Avenue, Westbury lively and interesting people who offer all Park, BS6 7NU. Tickets Adults £8, Patrons £6, sorts of groups for enjoyment, friendship and Students & under 16s £5. Telephone 0117 924 learning. If you are no longer in full‐time 7266. www.stalbansplayers.org.uk work, we have a wide range of over 100 Barn Dance and Hog Roast in aid of Children's different activities, including art, computing, Hospice South West to be held in St Mary's languages, music, walking, and science. Please Church, Stoke Bishop on Saturday 16 May 7 ‐ visit one of our social groups, either at the 10.30pm. Tickets ,£15.00, available from Just‐ East ield Inn, Henleaze, on the irst Monday so‐Balloons, 158 Henleaze Road or from every month at 10.30am ‐ phone Barbara Alison on 0117 9629715. Licensed bar. 0117 9629331. Or come to Browns Restaurant by the Museum on the third Failand Drama Circle are well into rehearsals Wednesday or the fourth Thursday every for their next production, "Black Adder month at 10.15am ‐ phone Jenny 0117 Through the Ages". This will take place from 9043697. Details: www.bristolu3a.org.uk. 22nd ‐ 25th April at 7.30 in Failand Village Don’t stay at home, come and join the Bristol Hall, BS8 3UL. BBC Scripts from this highly U3A! popular series have been made available for amateur group to perform with the The Elgar Society is dedicated to promoting permission of the writers, Ben Elton and (ConƟnued on page 90) Richard Curtis. The episodes we have chosen

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retired folk guaranteed! Call Pam Henderson : 9624329. Redland Wind Band Spring Concert 2015, Saturday 18 April 7.30pm at Westbury‐on‐ Trym Baptist Church, Reedley Road, BS9 3TD. Tickets £8: fromredlandwindband@gmail.com or on the door. 14 and under free. An exciting and varied evening of wind band music will include pieces from the stage, screen and the classical repertoire. FFI visit www.redlandwindband.co.uk

the works of Sir Edward Elgar, our greatest English composer. The Society has regional branches, and the South‐western Branch is based in Bristol. We have meetings monthly throughout the year, and also excursions to places of Elgarian interest. More information is available on the Elgar Society website Bristol Cathedral Choir School Choral Society www.elgar.org.uk is always looking for new singers to join our choir! We are an enthusiastic amateur choir The East ield Market, East ield Inn, Henleaze specialising mainly in classical works (ancient Road. Sat 11th April – 9.00‐1.00pm (and every to modern). We are loosely associated with the 2nd Sat of the month thereafter). A variety of Choir School, joining in with some of their quality stalls selling local produce, meat, veg, concerts and using the school (on College bread, cheese, homemade cakes, pies, Green) for practice on Wednesday evenings. preserves and artisan crafts. Pub serving We put on 2 or 3 concerts a year, including a beverages and food. For more details contact: main concert with orchestra and ‘pudding’ anniehawksley@blueyonder.co.uk concert in the summer (the choir provides music and dessert!). There is no audition and Team members needed. At Bristol Child Contact Centre in Henleaze children of all ages no requirement for musical expertise, just an spend time with the parent they no longer live urge to sing! Contact Matthew Smith with, in a session supported by our volunteers. mattmsmith@virginmedia.com if you are Most of the ‘contact parents’ are fathers, so we interested. would especially welcome more men to join Wanted ‐ Volunteer Drivers for transport, once us. The volunteer team prepares the hall and or twice a week, of local elderly patients to the toys, serves refreshments, welcomes parents Westbury doctors’ surgery or to a hospital. We and children, listens non‐judgmentally when have a small group of volunteer drivers, all needed, and keeps everyone safe and happy. If over 50, who enjoy being active in the this appeals to you, and you’d be free to join Westbury community. Please come and join us our Saturday volunteer rota every 4‐6 weeks, and experience the grati ication from helping do get in touch for further details. You will get others in your own neighbourhood. Your help an enhanced DBS check, training and support, and patience will be enormously appreciated. plus the satisfaction of maintaining a much‐ We operate within the Charity RSVP‐West, valued service which helps families stay in who provide us with liability insurance for touch after separation. See our website at these drives and with practical help and www.bristolchildcontactcentre.org.uk. and/or advice. And of course we work closely with the ring Helen or Anna on 07511 290505. Staff of the Westbury‐on‐Trym practice. For information please contact Zina Wilson on Henbury Singers welcome new members. tel.nr 9078744 or by e‐mail on Contact Maggie Cavanna 0117 973 4794 or Bernzina@blueyonder.co.uk , or ask the secretary@henburysingers.org or visit our Westbury Practice Reception or your local GP website at www.henburysingers.org on tel. 9623406. Senior Circle ‐ meets at Westbury Baptist The Friendly Club meets every Thursday from Church, Reedley Rd. every Thursday 2‐4pm during term time. Friendly chat, scrabble, (ConƟnued on page 92) dominos, tea & cake... a warm welcome for all

Yard Sale in BS9 Date: Sat 18 April Time: 2 ‐ 5pm Address: 35 Priory Court Road

For sale: futon & frame, bunk beds, computer hutch/desk, greenhouse, wardrobe (buyer to disassemble), area rugs, wooden screens, papasan chair, craft supplies (tie‐dye, glass paint, etc), essential oils, bedding, kitchenware, magazine holders, tables, lawn furniture, portable massage couch with cover, and much more! Cash and carry, please!

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Entrance will be by cket which will cost £5 a head to include a fish and chip supper at the midpoint of the quiz. Teams can have up to six members, a prize will also be awarded for the most innova ve/cringe worthy team name. The venue will be the Church Tyndale Hall on Friday 24th April at 1930hrs. Tickets are available between 0915 and 1230 from the church oﬃce at rear of church, Monday to Friday,

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2 to 4pm ( except August and Christmas ) in the Methodist Church Hall, Westbury on Trym. We are a lively group of Senior Citizens who meet to chat , play Scrabble and card games. Regular trips out and entertainments are arranged plus we have delicious tea and biscuits for only £1 ! Do come and make some new friends. Transport can be arranged if needed. Contact Carita de Lancey 0117 9629409. The Over 40’s Club is a non‐pro it making social club. New members always welcome. Our weekly club nights start at 8.30pm every Thursday. We have a varied programme of events ranging from meals out and walks to gliding and badminton. For further info please contact our New Members Secretary Lynn on 07757780201 or visit our website www.bbivc.org.uk Knit and Natter. We invite you to "knit and natter" every Thursday between 10am and 12 at the Methodist Church in Westbury on Trym. It is a sociable and informal time when you can chat while pursuing your choice of crafts. If you prefer we can provide patterns for knitting for charity. Tea and coffee will be available.

followed by a speaker on a wide range of interesting subjects. Extensive programme of social events including holidays, day trips, Sunday lunches and skittles to which ladies and friends are welcomed. Contact John Howard‐Cairns on 968 3134 for more details. Westbury on Trym Women’s Institute meets on the 3rd Monday of the month in the Methodist Church Hall, WOT (next to the car park) at 2.00pm. We have a programme of varied speakers, outings, discussions etc. New members and visitors always welcome. For more information please contact: Sue Murphy – Tel: 950 2826. Do join us for Parish lunch at St Mary’s Church Stoke Bishop, every Thursday from 12.15. 3 course buffet lunch Civil Service Retirement Fellowship. The Westbury‐on‐Trym group welcomes all retired Civil Servants and their spouses to their meetings held on the irst Thursday of the month at Studland Court, Henleaze Road at 2.00pm, Those people without a civil service background are welcome to join our group as Friends of the Fellowship. For more info phone Beryl Webb on 01454 614 451.

Instep Club for Widows and Widowers meet weekly on Wednesday evenings 8.00 ‐ 10.30 at Stoke Bishop Village Hall, Stoke Hill. New members welcome. Ballroom and Sequence dancing (If you haven’t danced for a long time don’t worry, we will help you). Refreshments, social activities. Please telephone Mary on Men at St. Peters (MASP) is a bi‐monthly group 968 3170 or Wilma on 962 8895 for further which meets Saturday mornings at St Peter’s information. Hall, Henleaze. The meetings start at 8.30am with a full English breakfast. This is then Stoke Bishop Townswomen's Guild are now followed by entertaining and interesting talks meeting in the Hulbert Room, St Mary's by a guest speaker. New members are always Church, Mariner's Drive, Stoke Bishop. The welcome. In conjunction we also provide well Hulbert Room is reached via a path to the left directed “Keep Fit” sessions for men every of the steps just past the church; our meeting Tuesday morning. Further information may are on the 1st Thursday of the month at be obtained from Chris McCarthy tel 962 2.00pm. Further details from Maureen at 3545. 9685638 or Sheila at 9147159. Bristol Cabot Probus Club is for retired and Westbury‐on‐Trym Probus Club provide a semi‐retired professional and business men to meeting point for retired and semi‐retired maintain contact and fellowship with people of professional and business men, to promote similar interests. Meets third Wednesday each (ConƟnued on page 94) month in BAWA Club Southmead Rd, for lunch

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social well being through friendship, companionship & discussion. The club meets on the third Thursday of every month at BAWA, Southmead Road, from 12 midday. If you are interested in joining contact the secretary on 968 4270 or email graham.horne5@btinternet.com. The Probus Club of Bristol for semi or retired Professional Business men, meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month at BAWA Southmead Road. At these meetings we have a three course lunch with a speaker. In addition there is a substantial programme of social events to which our Ladies are invited to participate. If you are interested in joining our club, please contact our Membership Secretary Martin Harker on 01275 857324, email probusbristol@hotmail.co.uk or visit www.bristolprobus.org.uk

Badminton, Book Group, Bridge, Discussion Group, Scrabble, Skittles and Whist plus coffee Thursday mornings at Cafe Mundo and twice‐ monthly pub lunches. Come along and meet new friends! Details from Gloria on 0117 239 3376 or Anne on 0117 907 7425. Henleaze Townswomen's Guild meet on the irst Wednesday of the month (except Aug) at St Peter's Church Hall, The Drive, Henleaze. Lady visitors are always most welcome to attend. Further details can be obtained by ringing Shirley Phillips on 0117 962 2243. Westbury on Trym Townswomen's Guild has moved. We still meet on the second Monday of each month as usual, but our venue is the WoT Methodist church in the Portland Lounge and starting time is 2.00pm. We have speakers, whist, coffee mornings and social events. New members and visitors always welcome. If interested please contact Angela Morris, Chairman, on 968 6473 or Margaret Smith, Secretary, 924 1728.

Henleaze (Morning) Townswomen's Guild. This is a recently formed Guild and we meet from 10.00am – 12.00 noon on the third Rotary Club of Bristol – we meet at the Bristol Thursday of every month at The East ield Inn, Hotel, Prince Street, Bristol BS1 4QF at 7.00pm Henleaze Road. New members and visitors for 7.30 pm on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Mondays are most welcome. Further information can be and at 12.30pm for 1.00 pm on the 2nd and obtained by ringing Elaine Anderson on 907 4th Mondays. Meetings start with a meal and 5279. are followed by a speaker. New members are very welcome – see www.bristolrotary.org or Clifton Rotary Club welcomes new members. contact our Club Secretary Martina Peattie at All we ask is that people give their time, are mpeattie@btopenworld.com for more details. interested in making new friends, building business contacts and using their skills to help Calling all Carers. Would you like the others. We meet Wednesday lunchtimes at opportunity to share your experiences, relax Redland Lawn Tennis and Squash Club. Please and make new friends? Then come and join ind out more about us by visiting the Henleaze Carers’ Group. We meet on the www.cliftonrotary.org or emailing second and fourth Thursday morning of each secretary@cliftonrotary.org month, 10am to 12, in Bradbury Hall, Waterford Road, Henleaze. For more Sea Mills Garden Club have regular monthly information please call Mrs M Rudston 942 meetings, every 3rd Wednesday, held at Sea 6095. Mills Methodist Rooms, Sea Mills Square at 7.30 pm. Our forthcoming programme of talks The Fielder Club is an association for local is :‐ 15 April, Julie Doherty ‐ Bennett's Patch & women ‐ though friends and family are White's Paddock (better known as the old welcome at all events. Membership is £5 p.a. Bristol & West Sports Ground); 20 May, A to cover delivery of quarterly programmes of Different Kind of Hanging Basket ‐ events such as lunches, theatre, visits, talks (ConƟnued on page 96) and walks. Weekly/monthly sub‐clubs of

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demonstration (followed by the Annual Bring & Buy Plant Sale); 17 Jun, evening outing ‐ details to follow. Visitors always welcome at £2 per meeting. Hope to see you there. FFI contact Gail Mitchell 0117 9685350 or Esme James 0117 9682571.

Southmead on a Monday night from 7.00pm until 8.30pm. Our players are of a good standard, both male and female, and we are a very friendly club. We would welcome new players – please contact Marilyn on 0117 239 1005 for more details.

The Bristol Branch of the English Speaking Union welcomes guests to their meetings which are held in the Apostle Room of Clifton Cathedral at 7.15 p.m. for 7.45 p.m. There is ample parking and entrance is £5. The aim of the English Speaking Union is to encourage friendship and global understanding through Bristol Brunel Probus Club for retired English. Our forthcoming meetings include professional and businessmen meet at BAWA April 27th "Behind the Scenes at Downton Southmead Rd, once a month to enjoy lunch Abbey Lady Carnarvon of Highclere Castle‐ a and a mix of social events, regular speakers, visits and outings, to which wives and friends special event please contact are warmly welcomed. For more details please tantwilliams61@gmail.com if interested –and May 21st "What we should really be teaching ring Fred Martin on 968 3875. our children" Dr Bob Acheson, former Stoke Lodge History and Archaeology Group ‐ Headmaster of Clifton College Preparatory from 2015 we meet on the second Thursday of School Do come along to any of our meetings, every month (instead of the irst Thursday) at preferably by telephoning the Chairman, Tony the Friends Meeting House in Hampton Road, Williams on 2393187 or the Secretary, Jenny Redland, BS6 6JE at 7.30. We host a rich Haines, on 9628075. diversity of lectures. New members are always made very welcome. For further details please The Bristol Philatelic Society meets on the 2nd contact Annette Martin on 0117 979 3209 and 4th Thursdays of each month in the Twytford Art Club. We are a small group of meeting room of the United Reform Church at artists of mixed ability, we meet at the Public the bottom of Blackboy Hill (Whiteladies hall, Station Rd., Shirehampton, 10am to Road) starting at 7.30 p.m. Contact 0117 956 12am Mondays and Wednesdays, chose your 7853. day or days. New members are warmly Social Bridge for Improvers Stoke Bishop welcome, help and advice given. For more Village Hall Thursday afternoon 2 ‐ 4 p.m. information visit www.shirepubhall.org.uk Further details about Robert can be found at then click hall users, contact John Case: Tel: 01179507916, email jcase@blueyonder.co.uk BridgeTuition.co.uk. FFI stokebishophallbookings@yahoo.co.uk Local winemaking and social club are looking Do you like reading? Our Book Group meets on for new members to join us. Meeting the the last Thursday of the month at Westbury second Wednesday of every month at the Library, from 2.30pm til 4pm. We would love Common Room, Studland Court elderly you to come and join our lively group. For peoples residence on Henleaze Road, from 8pm to 10pm. Small friendly group now in our more information call Sue on 959 4365. 37th year, with a varied programme of wine North West Bristol Camera Club are an making, tastings and social events. For further enthusiastic group of amateur photographers information please contact the club secretary who meet each Wednesday at 7:45pm at Liz Johnson on 0117 950 8370. Westbury Fields. New members of any level of The Lawrence Weston Badminton Club play at ability are most welcome. For details contact the Greenaway Centre Greystoke Ave in (ConƟnued on page 98)

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Come and see my original mosaics at the BS9 Arts Trail on May 8th-9th in St. Monicaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Cote Lane. I create vibrant mosaics unlike any others to enhance your space, inside and out - orders and commissions welcome. It would be lovely to see you!

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Pete on 07870 589555. Westbury Scottish Club country dancing classes for beginners at Leonard Hall, Trinity‐ Henleaze URC, Waterford Road, Henleaze. Tel. Maggie on 01934 838175. Classes for more advanced dancers at St Peter’s Church Hall, Henleaze. Tel. Cheryl on 0117 9590970. Every Tues 7.30 ‐ 9.30pm. See www.wscbristol.com for details. Bristol Shambhala Meditation Group offers free meditation instruction at the Open House evening each Wednesday from 7.30 ‐ 9.30 pm at 17 Lower Redland Road, BS6 6TB. There will also be a weekend programme, Social Transformation and Self Awareness from 8 pm on Friday 17 April until 4 pm on Sunday 19 April which will include talks, meditation practice and discussions. The cost of this programme is £110 including a light lunch on Saturday and Sunday or £90 if you register and pay by 10 April. For further information please see our website: www.bristol.shambhala.info Registered Charity Number 1132160

7.15pm. There is a very cheerful & relaxed atmosphere and as we just play 24 boards we are always inished by 10.15pm. For more info (GWAAC4) ring Ralph Smith on 01275 840006. Stoke Bishop & Sneyd Park Local History Group New members and visitors (£2 charge) always welcome. Please ring Jenny Weeks for more information ‐ 0117 968 6010. Like making Air ix models? Avon Branch of the International Plastic Modellers Society meets on the third Wednesday of every month at the BAWA on Southmead Road at 8.00pm. New members are very welcome. For more information contact Andy White on 0117 3732798 or visit www.ipmsavon.org.uk Scottish Country Dancing for beginners and experienced dancers at St Monica’s Trust Hall on Thursdays, 7.30 pm. New dancers welcome; come on your own or with friends. Contact Margaret, 01275 794638 or Graham 01275 854782, or visit www.rscdsbristolinfo.co.uk Ray Bridge Club meet every Tuesday 6.30pm to 9pm at the Sea Mills Methodist Church, Shirehampton Road (new venue) for social rubber bridge. New members welcome. Please ring 942 7760 or 968 2652 for further details.

West of England Bridge Club meets for duplicate bridge on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Golden Hill Sports Club, Wimbledon Road, Henleaze from 7.30pm ‐ 10.30pm. New Volunteers needed to support carers. Could you please help us to develop and increase our members and visitors welcome. £4 per evening for members, £5 for non‐members, support to carers, people who are looking special rates for juniors/unemployed. after an unwell, disabled or elderly family Licensed bar. For further details please contact member or friend? If you are outgoing and could offer two mornings a month to greet and Alan Williams on 07538 509670 or visit www.woebc.co.uk. give information to carers when they visit their GP Practice or you could offer two to Social Bridge, every Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. at three hours a week to sit with an older or Stoke Bishop Village Hall. New members disabled person so that their carer can have welcome. Tel Chris on 968 5640. some time off, we’d love to hear from you. Full training and support provided. Please contact Westbury Art Club meet every Thursday evening from 7pm to 9pm at The Greenway Mike Hatch, Carers Support Centre volunteer Centre, Doncaster Rd, Southmead. We are a on 07503 577830 or e‐mail mixed ability group of artists For more details gp_volunteers@outlook.com visit www.westburyartclub.org.uk, e‐mail us at Excel Bridge Club has been based right in the westburyart@blueyonder.co.uk or phone our centre of “Bristol Nine” for over 20 years. It club secretary on Bristol 962 9799. meets in Stoke Bishop Village Hall on Stoke (ConƟnued on page 100) Hill every Monday, beginning promptly at

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Wednesday 15th April, WNO Friends, Bristol and West of England ‐Pelleas et Melisande. The mysterious young woman Melisande is married to one man – and loves his half brother. David Speller will present the story of this opera and introduce us to some of Debussy’s music, before our anticipated visit to Cardiff to see the WNO’s production in June. 7.15 pm: All are welcome at The Performing Arts Centre, Red Maids’ School, Westbury Road BS9 3AW . Pay at the door, Friends £5.00, Visitors £7.00, Students £1.00 Westbury Walkers is a group of walkers who assemble at Lloyds Chemist Canford Lane Westbury on Trym. We meet usually at 9.30am on a Tuesday morning. New walkers always welcome. If you would like details of any of our forthcoming walks, which include a Festival Way walk, Chipping Sodbury and a day trip to Axbridge & Cheddar, please contact Jean Maish 0117 3301194 / 07789 741892, email jmaish@blueyonder.co.uk, or Pam Henderson 0117 9624329 / 07837 857033. Instep Club for Widows and Widowers. Wednesday evenings 8.00 pm‐10.00 pm at Stoke Bishop Village Hall, Stoke Hill, Bristol BS9. Dancing ‐ Ballroom and Sequence (If you haven’t danced for a long time, don’t worry, we will help you learn). Social activities Annual membership £8. Members: £2 per session Visitors welcome: £3 per session. Come in to see us or telephone Donna on 01275 832676 or Wilma on 9628895 for further information. Stoke Lodge Ramblers provide a varied range of walks that will suit all levels of walking ability. Walks are scheduled for the irst and third Thursdays & Sundays of every month. A number of social events are also held. www.stokelodgeramblers.wordpress.com or ring our Secretary on 968 4140 for more information. Saturday May 16th 10am to 4pm in Old Sneed

Park Nature Reserve. “Celebrating the Honey Bee” with local apiarist Heather. Everyone is welcome at any time during this event to learn about and celebrate bees and their importance for us all. There will “crafts, cakes and lots of information” and items of interest for all ages. The entry to the reserve is in Glenavon Park. There will be no charge. For more information consult the website www.spnaturereserve.com. Tuesday 2nd June at 10.30 am. A guided walk round Old Sneed Park Nature Reserve to look at the lowers on the reserve, led by expert botanist Tony Smith. Everyone is welcome and there will be no charge. If it is raining the walk will take place the following week the 9th, and if there is doubt about the weather please phone 9686799 for more information. Meet at the Glenavon Park entrance to the reserve just before 10.30. Sat. April 18th at the Parish Church. Organ Elevenses with John Davenport. After 36 years running music departments in schools including Clifton College and Bolton School, he retired and now acts as examiner for the ABRSM. He is currently Director of Music at All Saints Clifton. Come and enjoy not only listening to, but also seeing his recital on the big screen at 11am, but don't forget lovely coffee and cake is served from 10‐30. Minimum suggested donation £5 towards the Music Fund. All welcome. ‘Learning Through Fun’ ‐ Westbury Baptist Pre ‐school provides a safe, caring and cheerful environment in which children can learn and develop through play. We welcome children who are 3 or will be turning 3 during the term they wish to start up to the age of 5. We are open ive mornings a week during term time from 9.00am – 1.00pm. We will also be offering extended hours on a Monday and Thursday from 9.00am – 3.00pm starting in April 2015. We take the free funding entitlement for 3‐4 year olds. If you are looking for a Pre‐School place for your child, please contact Claire on 0117 9622338. For more information please visit our website at (ConƟnued on page 102)

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www.westburybaptistpreschool.org.uk Henbury Singers welcome new members. We are a mixed choir and we meet at Stoke Bishop Primary School in Cedar Park on Thursday evenings ‐ 7:45 to 9:15 pm. Fees 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 22nd April, Bristol Society for the Arts of Asia lecture “Latest Researches on the Schiller Brothers, Foremost Benefactors of the Bristol City Art Gallery”, Simon Baker, independent scholar; 6.30 to 8 p.m. at 3/5, Woodland Road (Entry 1), Clifton, Bristol, non‐members welcome but donation of at least £7 required; University students welcome free of charge on sight of their student I.D. card.

Lawn Tennis Club! Easter Holidays; Weds 1 April 2‐4pm, Weds 8 April 2‐4pm and also Sat 25 April 11:30‐1pm. Book at www.kingstennis.co.uk or visit our website, Facebook page or contact Elly for further details ellytennis.kings@hotmail.com. Henleaze Garden Club is a thriving club for anyone interested in anything to do with gardening! With a healthy membership of 200 we meet the irst Wednesday of each month in the main hall at St Monica's, Cote Lane, with a summer break when the club arranges coach trips. Expert speakers, a quarterly newsletter, and great Christmas event. Annual individual membership is £20 plus a £1 per visit, visitors are most welcome at £5 per visit, both to include refreshments and raf le. www.henleazegardenclub.co.uk or contact Brian Dury 9621227 for more info.

Redland Green School Car Boot Sales: Clear out your clutter and come and ind some treasure at our irst of this season's car boot sales. Saturday 18th April, Redland Court Road, BS6 7EH. Sellers £8 per pitch, from 12 noon, book via forgscarbootsale@hotmail.com or 07968 493013. Buyers 1pm‐4pm 50p admission, kids go free. Further sales on 16th Westbury on Trym Methodist Church Orchestra are a group of instrumentalists of all May, 20th June and 18th July. ages who play for morning worship once a Country Market. Every Friday morning from month. Our rehearsal time is before the 10.30 to 11.30 in Westbury on Trym service from 10am. If you play any orchestral Methodist Church Hall. Homemade cakes, arts, instrument, but particularly violin, you would crafts, plants, vegetables, jams and chutneys. be very welcome to join us. Experience of Refreshments are also available in a relaxed orchestral playing is not essential, but you will and friendly environment. For more details need to be able to read music. We are a contact Sue Sills on 962 8306. friendly and helpful group, who enjoy playing together. Parts are always provided for Henleaze & District Flower Club meets on the personal practice. To ind out more, telephone second and fourth Thursdays of the month at 9686589. Bradbury Hall, Waterford Road in Henleaze. Flower demonstrations are held on the second West Bristol Orchestra. A Chamber Orchestra, Thursday and practice classes on the fourth playing a wide range of Classical Music Thursday. New members always welcome. arranged for the smaller orchestra, meets at the United Reformed Church, Muller Road on REMAP is a registered charity that designs and Thursdays 7.15pm.to 9.15pm. Additional makes custom aids which enable a disabled String players of Grade5+ standard person to enjoy a better quality of life. We welcomed. Experience of orchestral playing design, make or modify equipment to suit their not essential. For more info please contact the speci ic needs. No charge is made for our Secretary on 968 3998. services. Please contact us if we can help ‐ Free Mini tennis for kids and parents at Kings

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something for all tastes. Entry costs £6 for adults (under16s free) and this includes all activities in the Demo Theatre, ‘Make and Take Theatre’, and ‘Makers in Residence’. The Crafty Kids sessions are aimed at under7s and cost £1‐£2 per child and the Taster Workshops cost from £10 ‐ £18. The latter can be booked in advance and information will be posted on http://outlawevents.co.uk when the workshops are inalised.

Ready for Spring? Tai Chi’s gentle movements warm the muscles, open the joints and increase energy – the perfect antidote to gardening strain! Friendly classes with an experienced teacher. Tuesday 11‐12 am, Wednesday 2‐3pm, Friday 11‐12 am. All at the Greenway Centre. F i: Karen 0117 9424167 or www.taijiworks.co.uk

Do you love weddings? Westbury on Trym Village Hall is a very popular wedding venue and has another busy wedding schedule set for 2015. Would you like to put your skills into action? If so, why not become a wedding volunteer and help organise these happy events. If you are interested, please contact Alison on 0117 9493766.

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 19 April at 3pm. The speaker will be Clare Russell and the title of her talk is “Developing your Intuition.” Your intuition is an incredible guide which we can easily train ourselves to hear and trust. Clare will share with us two key challenges that will enable you to access your inner wisdom. She will also help us to open up our intuitive senses through exercises that may encourage your spiritual growth. For further information, please telephone 01749 678 834 or write to: leasurs@tiscali.co.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.

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Outlaw Artisan Craft Show will be taking over the Passenger Shed at Bristol Temple Meads on the 2‐3 May with its unique concept that takes the traditional craft show to another level – with crafts to buy, demo stage, have‐a‐ go workshops, ‘makers in residence’, pop‐up café , kids area and much more. At the heart of the event are the 80 hand‐picked exhibitors from across the UK who will be showing and selling their artisan wares at the show – from screen printed fabric and cushions, to hand illustrated bone china, and fabulous fabric lampshades, to beautiful bespoke jewellery or quirky up‐cycled lighting, there will be

Zumba Gold / Light 5.30pm/ Zumba Fitness 6.35pm. Westbury ‐on‐Trym Village Hall. Weds. £5 on door. Just drop in with water and a sense of humour! Phone Marie on 963 4104 or visit www.bristoldancezumba.co.uk for more info. Ladies Badminton. A friendly group that meets on Tuesday mornings is looking for some more players. Westbury Village Hall, East ield Road, 9.45 am to 12 noon. Please contact Anne on 909 1714 for more details. 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 (ConƟnued on page 106)

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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. LinkAge Tai Chi (55+). Are you looking for gentle active activity to keep your body and mind active? This is the class for you. Frank leads this relaxing and healthy session in a fun environment. Beginners welcome. Every Tuesday 10am‐11am. Studland Court, Henleaze. £3.50. Contact LinkAge on 0117 3533042 for more information. LinkAge Zumba Gold (55+). Come along to a fun and friendly dance and exercise class inspired y music from around the world. No experience necessary so come and join Cressida for an hour of dance. Every Tuesday 1 ‐2pm. St Peters Church, Henleaze. £3.50. 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. Moves Fitness ‐ exercise to music for all ages and itness levels at St Peter’s Church Hall, Henleaze from 10am to 11am every Wednesday morning. The session consists of structured routines which are highly enjoyable and designed to promote overall itness and mobility. You put as much energy into it as you feel like on the day, and you should leave feeling great. This is a friendly welcoming class ‐ come and give it a try. £5 per session. Phone Jane on 9681042 , visit

www.moves itness.com or just turn up. Pilates Classes at Henleaze URC, Monday 9.30‐ 10.30 & 10.30‐11.30 (mixed ability), 11:30‐ 12:30 (Postnatal),18:30‐19:30 (beginner), Tuesday 9:30‐10:30 (improver), 10:30‐11:30 (beginner), Wednesday 18:15‐19:15 (intermediate); Southmead Community Centre 12:10‐12:50 (mixed ability). For bookings please call Leanne on 07817189474 or visit www.pilatesdowntime.co.uk Why not try Tai Chi? This Chinese exercise system can improve health, vitality and well‐ being. Friendly local classes with an experienced teacher at The Greenway, Doncaster Rd, BS105PY. 11‐12 Tuesday or Friday. New beginners class 2‐3 Wednesday. Contact Karen: 0117 9424167 Kyoto Shotokan Karate Club trains at Avonmouth Rugby Club on Thursday evenings. Contact Steve or Tyra on 0117 9688424 for more details or visit the clubs website www.kyoto‐skc.co.uk or www.facebook.com/ KyotoShotokanKarateClub Pilates classes and well being therapies in Henleaze. Lovely airy studio offering all levels of Pilates, adult ballet fusion and salsa classes. Also we have a fully equipped beauty room to pamper you after your workout. For more info www.mindbodystudio.co.uk or call Efuah 07881825142. Henleaze Tennis Club has vacancies for players of all standards and ages. Whether you are an established player looking for a club, someone who is rusty or a student come along and try us out. For further information take a look at www.henleazeltc.com or contact the secretary Philip Price Tel: 07787 566246 E ‐mail: philpriceqs@gmail.com 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. (ConƟnued on page 108)

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7.00 pm on Thursday, 16th April 2015 at Greenway Centre, 119 Doncaster Road, Southmead, Bristol BS10 5PH Who will you vote for on Polling Day, Thursday 7th May 2015, to save the NHS? Join us to ind out where candidates stand on the future of the NHS.

Your chance to meet and debate the future of the NHS with your Parliamentary candidates before the General Election by attending

Top pianist brings classical and jazz music to Westbury‐on‐Trym babies and children!

with outstanding musicians. As well as piano, children will hear cello, saxophone, jazz lute and tenor horn amongst others, get to meet the musicians, look at their instruments and join them in a singalong, without parents International concert worrying about noise levels! pianist Helen Reid, named as a ‘rising star’ The concerts began in in The Independent and Bristol in December 2014, known locally already and the irst three through appearances at concerts at Redcliffe St Georges and Community Hall all sold masterclasses at Bristol out in advance. Now University, has set up a Blackbird Early Years series of classical and Music Family Concerts jazz music concerts, are coming to Westbury‐ especially designed for on‐Trym, with the launch small children concert at Westbury College on 9th April at 11am, featuring Saxophone and piano. Helen, who has two children aged 2 and 4, was frustrated not to be able to take them along to To contact Helen and for more her performances, in case they disturbed information or images, call 07931 other concertgoers. So, she has tackled the 931603, or email issue head on, planning a series of fun and helenreidpiano@yahoo.co.uk. engaging concerts for babies and children,

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Exercise to music every Tuesday, 2pm ‐ 3pm, at Filton Folk Centre, Elm Park, BS34 7PS. Come along, have some fun whilst getting it. All abilities welcome. For further information contact Eileen Scott 07969929733 / (email scottyartois@hotmail.com). Also visit www.emdp.org .

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