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IT’S BEEN great to see our visitor numbers picking up over the last few weeks.
We’re especially pleased that the café is proving so popular, no doubt due to the delicious cakes, brownies and my favourite the rocky road supplied by our very own Lisa Clarke. For a trial period leading up to Christmas we will be opening the café on Saturday afternoons as well as the mornings. So from 10am until 4pm on 13th , 20th , 27th November and 4th, 11th and 18th December. The library will close at 1pm and will not be open on News from Groby Community Library these afternoons. We’re still looking for volunteers to help out in the café so pop in for an application form or email volunteers@grobylibrary.co.uk if We are delighted that the ‘Time Out’ café is OPEN again. The café is you’re interested. If you’ve yet to try one of the cakes why not buy some to 9th August the library and café will be open 6 days a week. Hourstake home. We can wrap them for taking away. Christmas Trail Thurs 10-12 Fri 2-4 and Sat 10-12. WE’RE WORKING with Bradgate Rotary on the 12 days of Can you spare a couple of hours a week? We’re looking for volunteers to help run the café Christmas trail around Groby. or perhaps you’d like to be a trustee? If you’re interested email
This will be on 11th Dec 10am-1pm. Pick up your map from the library, application form in the library.find the letters on the 12 days of Christmas posters around the village and We are asking work out the Christmas word answer. Return to the library with your answer sheet to be entered in to a prize draw. We’re hoping that Santa and his all our volunteers to continue to wear face coverings and would encourage sleigh will be there too! so too to keep everyone safe and the Covid rates down. We continue to offer hand sanitiser and you can Local author Anita Sivakumaran still register with the Covid QR code. ON 27TH NOVEMBER we’re delighted to welcome local author Anita Sivakumaran who’ll be at the library 2.303.30pm reading extracts from her books. We were sorry to say goodbye to Janet Harrison, one of our trustees the ‘Time Out’ café off the ground. We wish her well in her future endeavours. Thanks Janet! Have you seen our new picnic tables? These have been purchased with the help of a graShe’ll have some available to buy too. So if you’re interested in crime novels for adults pop in to see her. The Times describes her as “An exciting new name in crime fiction” The café will be open so grab a drink and cake and Bosworth Borough Council. We’re hoping that, while the weather is good and find out more about her books. coffee and cake outside. We hope to use them for activities and events in the future too. Digital services disappointed, however, to find that within days of being installed they had been damaged by names being DID YOU know as a library member you have access to scratched on to them. We do have CCTV covering the patio so we can see you! hundreds of digital resources for adults and children? the tables but please treat them with respect. We’d also appreciate anyone using the tables to use the litter You can use Borrow box for eBooks & eAudiobooks, Press Reader for eNewspapers & eMagazines and Libby for eMagazines & eAudiobooks. bins for their rubbish. Over the last few weeks we have received a stock Check out the digital services section of our website www.grobylibrary.co.uk for more details of how to access the services. of great new books for both adults and children Raising money for Groby Community Library them are on the best seller lists. Groby Library Charts! Books from the Sunday Times Bestsellers, in stock at Groby Community Library: Bill Clinton and James Patterson The President's Daughter Matt Haig The Midnight Library Peter James I Follow You Maggie O'Farrell Hamnet Philippa Gregory Dark Tides Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Stephen King If It Bleeds Ian Rankin A Song for the Dark Times Lee Child and Andrew Child Sentinel.
Heating, lighting, insurance, alarms, amongst other things, are on-going expenses that we have to pay. We also want to develop what we offer at the library for people in the village. We are always looking for sources of income and we regularly apply for grants. We are delighted that we have once again been chosen to receive funds via the Co-op Community fund. If you’re already a Co-op member and shop at the Laundon Way Co-op please choose us as your cause to support, it costs you nothing and you benefit too. If not already a member why not join? Other ways to support us, at no cost to you, are through Give as You Live www.giveasyoulive.com and Amazon Smile www.smile.amazon.co.uk
1. Kathy Reichs: The Bone Code 2. Santa Montefiore: Flappy Entertains 3. Matt Haig: The Midnight Library 4. Taylor Jenkins: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 5. Victoria Hislop: One August Night 6. Stuart MacBride: The Coffinmaker’s Garden 7. Ken Follett: The Evening and the Morning 8. Harlen Coben: Win 9. John Grisham: A Time for Mercy 10. Linda LaPlante: Judas Horse ROZ SMITH, TRUSTEE
SINCE TAKING over the library from the County Council a few years ago the trustees knew that the library had to be self-financing when all grants from the Council ended.
We are so pleased that we are once again offering children aged 4 This year it’s the ‘Wild World Heroes’. Help the heroes to save the environment! Register at the library to receive your folder, stickers and gifts. You need to visit the library twice and re need to hurry as it finishes on 5th September. While you’re there you can try out our new bean bags.
Zinc benefits: taking tablets could ‘cut how long respiratory infections last’ and ease symptoms
A ZINC supplement may reduce the length of respiratory tract infections (RTI) while also easing symptoms, a new study suggests.
The study found taking zinc orally or through a nasal spray may ward off infection and could make people feel better more quickly.
RTI’s can affect sinuses, the throat, airway or lungs, but most infections get better without treatment.
Symptoms of an RTI include coughing, sneezing, stuffy or running nose, sore throat, headaches and a high temperature.
What did the data say?
The new research, from the journal BMJ Open and experts including those from Western Sydney University, did not include data specifically related to Covid-19 cases.
Researchers found that taking zinc may prevent five RTIs in 100 people per month, and on average, symptoms resolved two days earlier if zinc was taken through an under-the-tongue method or as a spray.
In the group that did not take zinc, it was found that 19 more adults per 100 were still likely to have RTI symptoms seven days into their illness.
There were “clinically significant” reductions in how people graded their symptoms three days into their illness.
The authors concluded: “In adult populations unlikely to be zinc deficient, there was some evidence suggesting zinc might prevent RTIs symptoms and shorten duration.
Where can zinc be found?
Zinc, found in foods like meat, mushrooms, chickpeas, spinach, broccoli, kale, oysters and crab, is important for wound healing as it helps the immune system to function properly.
In the study, the most common zinc formulas were lozenges, followed by nasal sprays and gels containing either zinc acetate or gluconate salts.
The researchers said zinc is “a viable ‘natural’ alternative” to manage RTI symptoms at home, although an ideal dose was not mentioned.
Beware junk food driving
IF YOU are out on the roads this month, beware: drivers who eat fast food may increase their risk of crashing cars.
That is the finding of a recent study into the effects of what happens to drivers when they eat snacks high in sugar and fats. Such foods were found to cause drivers to drive at higher speeds, and to also reduce their concentration at the wheel.
The recent research at Tartu University in Estonia found that people with poorer diets have higher accident and driving convictions. Yet an estimated £1.25 billion is spent on food at service stations each year, with sweets the most popular choice for hungry, tired motorists.
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