Tetbury Advertiser March 2016

TETBURY ADVERTISER

March 2016

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Inside this issue: • Avening WI ...................Page 31

• Probus One ...................Page 10

• Sir William Romney’s School ...................Page 54

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Contents

2nd March St Michael’s Hall, Christine Russell:

Avening Primary School 8 Avening WI 31 Cheltenham Wine Festival 32 Chelworth Bookworms 12 Christian Aid 55 Civic Society 13 Computer Assistance 42 Cotswold Voluntary Wardens 40 Dolphins Dramatic Society 43 Eating Out 34 Girlguiding 7 History of Tetbury Society 33 Leighterton Primary School 39 Letters to the Editor 50 Lion’s Den 5 Lion’s Recipe Book 5 Malmesbury Bridge Club 56 Mark Townsend Charitable Trust 16 Mayor’s Report 6 Minchinhampton Pony Club 17 News from St Marys’ Church 19 News from St Michael’s Church 51 Patient’s Participation Group 37 Priory Inn Blog 23 Probus One 10 Probus Two 48 Puddle Ducks 49 Save ‘n’ Borrow 58 Save the Children 52 Sir William Romney’s School 54 St Mary’s Playgroup 14 Tetbury Area Churches Together 38 Tetbury Art Society 36 Tetbury Camera Club 11 Tetbury Community Choir 57 Tetbury Dial-A-Ride 58 Tetbury in Bloom 18 Tetbury Nursery Playgroup 20 Tetbury Police Museum 30 Tetbury Rail Lands Trust 22 Tetbury Theatre Group 44 Tetbury Town Council 26 Tetbury Town Football Club 27 Tetbury WI 45 The Feoffees and the Thirteen 28 Tourist Industry Welcome Weekend 24 Unsung Hero - March 23 Wacky Races 27 What’s On 3 Woolsack Day 46 Young by Name 4

Sill life in pastels Please see the Tetbury Art Society in this issue.

3rd March HOTS AGM at 7.30 in Christ Church 4th March Glos Police Male Voice Choir 7.30pm, Cirencester Parish Church Tickets £10/£8 from twoeuphs@aol.com 07776 172622 or Cirencester Tourist Information.

4th March Women’s Day of Prayer at St Michael’s 2.00pm Other special services throughout March; please see the article in this issue.

5th March Tea Dance, Dolphins Hall 2.00 – 4.00 pm £5 a head payable on the door.

6th of March Mothering Sunday service at St Marys’ Other special services throughout March; please see the article in this issue.

7th of March at the surgery, Everyday First Aid session 2 to 4pm. Further details via the PPG; please see the article in this issue.

9th March Film Night at The Dolphins Hall, 7.00 pm; “Mr Holmes” Tetbury Film Society, funds to The Friends of Tetbury Hospital. £10 per person. Tickets from Tetbury Hospital 01666 502336 or by calling 01666 504039.

10th March Malmesbury Bridge Club 7.00 pm, Athelstan House Malmesbury New member drive: jimedwards2011@hotmail.co.uk or 01453 860649 Carol Paton, MBC secretary.

14th March Dolphins Hall at 7.15 speaker Nell Gifford on “Giffords Circus” Please see Tetbury WI article in this issue.

18th March Village Quiz at Avening social club Please see the Avening WI article in this issue.

18th March St Michael’s Irish Night Please see the article in this issue.

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Useful Information POLICE STATION The Old Courthouse, Long Street Tel: Emergency - 999, Non-Emergency 101 (note new number).

Gloucestershire County Council, Shire Hall, Gloucester. Tel: 08000 514514. www. gloucestershire.gov.uk

DOCTORS Romney House Surgery, Long Street. Tel: 502303 The Tolsey Surgery, High Street, Sherston. Tel: 01666 840270.

CHURCHES Christ Church, The Chipping 01453 839250 Gospel Hall, Hampton St.Tel.503166 St. Marys’ - C of E- Church St. 500088 St. Michael’s - R.C. - The Green 502367 Tetbury Community Church, 25 The Ferns 07739 909047.

HOSPITAL Malmesbury Road. Tel: 502336.

PHYSIOTHERAPY Tel: 501766.

CHIROPODIST Tel: 504228.

OSTEOPATHS Tel: 503599 and 502214.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES Tetbury Town Council, Old Courthouse, Long Street. Tel: 504670 (Mon-Fri 9am - 3pm) Council Info. Services, in Council Office. Email: administrator@tetbury.gov.uk Cotswold District Council, Trinity Road, Cirencester. Tel: (01285) 623000

SCHOOLS - SWR Comprehensive, Lowfield Road. Tel: 01666 502378 St. Mary’s Primary, St. Mary’s Road.Tel: 01666 502275. Rodmarton Primary School, Tel: 01285 841284.

TOURIST INFORMATION 33 Church Street.

Tourism@tetbury.org Tel: 503552.

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RAILWAY STATION Kemble - 6 miles Enquiries Tel: 0845 748 4950 LIBRARY Close Gardens. Tel: 502258 (Mon 10.00-1.00, Tue 10.00-5.00, Wed 10.00-5.00, Fri 10.00-6.00, Sat 10.00-1.00) DOLPHINS HALL COMMUNITY CENTRE Bookings through 504670 or website www.dolphinshalltetbury.co.uk COTSWOLD VOLUNTEERS DIAL-A-RIDE @Tetbury, 3 New Church Street, Tetbury, GL8 8DS. Tel: 01666 502514 Monday-Friday 9am-1pm Voluntary Hospital Car Service Tel: 01285 659374 SWRS SPORT/LEISURE CENTRE Tel: 501086 TETBURY SHOPMOBILITY Tel: 01666 500166 Mon - Sat 10am-4pm. www.tetburyshopmobility.org.uk

Young by Name Painting the Town Yellow.

- The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, named after Lewis Buzbee’s delightful book, “The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop”, which weaves together a memoir of his life as a bookseller with the history of books and bookshops.

What’s the connection between Tetbury and Vincent van Gogh?

But what about Van Gogh? I hear you cry.

Bear with me, I’m getting to that...

No, it’s not the starry starry nights, the abundance of sunflowers (in the florists’ at least), the wonky-legged chairs in certain cafes, nor even the occasional pipesmoking man seen wandering through town in a straw hat. It’s one of the shops

Buzbee derived his book’s title from a quote from the great Dutch artist, who wrote that he longed to paint “a bookshop with the front yellow and pink in the evening”.

I’m assuming Van Gogh meant as an artist, rather than as a painter and decorator, although that tack would have earned him more in his lifetime than his canvasses ever did.

Whether he ever did it, I’ll never know.

But I am very glad his ambition inspired the book’s title, because it panders to my passion for what I call eponymous buying.

I’m not sure if that’s a recognised phrase, but it’s the one I use in my head to mean acquiring a product that shares the name of the place you buy it from.

It’s easy to do with food or drink: Sancerre (the wine) in Sancerre (the French town in which it’s made) or, less romantically, Eccles cakes in Eccles. It’s a shame I don’t like cheese - I’m missing so many easy ticks there - but the roll-call of wines I can handle.

The names of products and towns are more

frequently associated than the names of products and shops. You can’t buy boots in Boots, for example, and White Stuff seems to sell clothes in every colour but white.

Anyone trying to buy an apple at Apple would be disappointed. If I wasn’t such a purist about spelling, I might enjoy buying shoes in Schuh, or, at a push, macs in TK Maxx. I haven’t checked the quality of the drugs in Superdrug, but I’ll take their word for it that they’re super. However, for a lad to go into Ladbrokes and come out as a lad, broke, would be a Pyrrhic victory.

Arguably, some people do leave the fashion chain Fatface with a fat face, but only if they’ve gone in with one in the first place.

Whoever thought that was a good fashion chain name needs a firm talking to from Top Shop. And yes, you can buy tops there.

So I felt I had scored a rare victory when leaving The Yellow Lighted Bookshop recently with “The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop” under my arm, the name of the book exactly matching the name of the shop in which I’d bought it.

But I failed to find what I really needed to go with it: a good eponymous snack.

Anyone care to invent a Tetbury bun? I’m sure there’s a gap in the market.

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Dear Readers, “Happy Mother’s Day” seems a safe opening for my column this month, so there you are. There’s an advert or two on the subject inside this issue too, if you’re stuck for inspiration, and of course phoning the lady herself up on March the 6th could do no harm.

But already, I digress! For things Lion-ish this month, there are things to look back

on and also to look forward to. Since my last words with you we’ve made our Marie Curie collection, started our health incentive and also enjoyed a couple of social occasions, including going to the Greyhound Racing at Swindon, mobhanded. The staff were helpful, the meal perfectly acceptable and the dogs sprightly, so many thanks to Lion Paul for arranging the trip. The fact that I picked the winning dog in the first race at 6-to-1 on the nose helped - and although the rest

Lion’s Recipe Book Do you, your family or your friends have a favourite recipe you’d like to share? If so, then please join in with the Lions Tetbury Recipe Book! We’re launching it by asking local people to share their favourite recipes with us; they may have been in your family for generations, have been used to celebrate a special occasion, or just be delicious! Let us know the background and we’ll include that as well.

The recipe book will be launched in April and will be on sale at our stalls at Tetbury’s major events – Wacky Races, Woolsack Day and the Summer Show. We’re already attracting sponsorship and advertising from food and drink companies to tie in with the recipes, and the book will raise money for local charities.

Please send your recipes into Saxon Greenway saxon.greenway@gmail.com - of Willowbank, Chavenage Lane, Tetbury GL8 8BT, or to Barry Gibbs barrygibbs@rfx.org. uk - of 18 Chavenage Lane, Tetbury GL88JW. Many thanks!

Lions Den of the evening is a bit of a blur, I managed to lose steadily throughout and still enjoy myself. Great fun.

Lion VP Alan Cross and I have also been out and about in the last couple of weeks. We went to Newport to attend a Lions meeting about things at “Zone” level (where groups of clubs meet up) and we were very proud to be able to tell them about the generosity of people in the Tetbury area and the things we have in progress for the coming year, like collecting for “Bluebell”. It’s good to be reminded that the Lions is a truly national and international organisation from time to time, too – which we can sometimes forget when getting our heads down over local issues.

As it says on the left of this very page, we’ve turned Lions Barry and Saxon loose this month trying to pry from you your family recipes and accompanying stories of note, if you’ll share. The assembled material will be both saleable and interesting we hope – and it’s something new to us, so please contribute if you can. We have an honorary Lion amongst us, Lion Stephen Hirst, who is famous for his man-made cakes, so we’re hoping he will reveal some secrets about how he gets his Maltesers to stay on, at least. Let’s see.

Looking forward, it’s Wacky Races in only a couple of months’ time now and the preparations are well in hand. In terms of club commitment and arrangements it’s the biggest thing we do, so if you’re thinking about pitching in, please do! I’ll be dodging around on the start line as usual, getting in the way, and Indeed our whole club will be ranged around the course at some point or other. Let’s see if we can’t make it the biggest and best yet.

Lastly, many thanks to Advertisers and Contributors this month. Sometimes juggling all the elements of this marvellous magazine seem to prove particularly challenging – especially when Microsoft do their best to NOT help – so thanks for the patience evidenced. As usual, we have managed to stagger breathless over the finish line with another edition in hand.

Just. I sincerely hope you enjoy it.

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Mayor’s Piece Although I have written a piece for our Annual Meeting… …I also wanted to remind everyone that there will be speed watch cameras out and around Tetbury. Please be aware that where you are driving there are, at times people walking on the roads due to a lack of pavements, so please drive with extreme care around our lovely town. If the camera records that you are speeding the information will be sent on to the Police.

St. Saviours Church is a beautiful old church but very sadly under used. We at

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Tetbury Town Council would like to see better use of it. Tetbury Town Council is looking at what the church can be used for and one idea is a permanent museum.

As with everything nothing is easy and to do this we would need good heating in the building plus possibly toilets. However if we could link in with the Dolphins Hall this might prove to be a joint venture with the Dolphins Hall being open at the same time and providing toilets and possibly refreshments. Something to think about.

and look round. I am hoping this will enable a stronger link and ideas for linking our young people with the town.

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Thinking Day (the 22 of February) is the most important date in our Guiding calendar. nd

This is when we remember that we are part of a worldwide organisation, celebrate our friendships, and learn about the different places and cultures where Guiding exists.

The date was chosen as it was the joint birthdays of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell.

For the first time in many years the day fell on a school day this year and, with the permission of the headteachers, several girls proudly wore their guiding uniforms to school and took flyers to hand out to interested classmates. 1st Tetbury Guides made a short video to send to Guides in Cardiff (where my daughter is involved in Guiding) to wish them a happy Thinking

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Day and to be part of their celebrations.

I wonder if they used the ‘serious’ or the ‘alternative’ version?!

1st Tetbury Brownies recently held a “bringa-friend” pamper evening and before they had all gone to bed I had received enquiries from 2 more girls wishing to join! This is great news and will take our young members to over 100. To keep our units fully active, however, we do need more adult volunteers, so please consider coming along to help us. You are always welcome to visit a unit to find out more about what goes on – I can guarantee fun, friendship and so much more!

Chinese New Year has been celebrated in several units, 1st Brownies created good luck scrolls, learnt how to write their names in Chinese and had the inevitable evening tasting food! The Rainbows learnt how to say Happy New Year in Chinese, made

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2nd Tetbury Brownies have been working for the “There’s only one me” badge which encourages them to think about their positives and the quirks that make them individual. We hope that by encouraging this we will see them grow in self-esteem, selfconfidence and self-belief. A fun evening was had when they came dressed as their heroes, which included Zara Phillips, Mary Berry, Jana Kramer and Hermione Grainger.

1st Tetbury Guides and the Seniors had a visit from Chris Moody who helped us understand more about what it means to suffer from dementia, we are all now much more aware and hopefully more able to help if and when it is needed.

They celebrated Burns Night and had fun making furry haggis badges although the actual haggis wasn’t a hit with everyone!

We now have four girls helping with units who are working on their D of E awards – let’s hope Holly, Hannah, Ruby and Harriet wish to continue afterwards and become full leaders in four year’s time!

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Avening Primary School Springing forward!

The first half term has been a busy one, and couldn’t have come to a better end last month, when we had a very important visit from HMI on behalf of Ofsted. That gave us the opportunity to show everything that makes our school special.

Although we have to wait a few weeks for the details of the inspection, the initial response was extremely positive and one child summed up our School perfectly when she announced to the inspector that ‘Avening is a small school with a big welcome.’

The half term also ended with a fantastic presentation from the Kestrels class (Y1/2), who performed highlights from their class topic ‘I Like to Move it’. Parents gathered to watch a fabulous medley of dance, storytelling and music provided by the children on various instruments – and they left knowing a lot more about healthy living and science than they did when they arrived!

Our School Council decided that the last day of term should be a non-uniform day to raise money to pay for a mosaic, to hang outside the school. As a Council they decided to have a ‘pyjamas and bad hair’ theme, which would explain why there were lots of dishevelled-looking children walking into school that day! The teachers didn’t disappoint either, and joined in the fun with Ms McKenzie sporting a very fetching pink wig! We raised £75 on the day towards the mosaic which children are helping to design.

The ‘Friends of Avening School’ Parent’s Association, FOAS, have had their first meeting of the year and are looking forward to hosting their own Music Night in May, with a highly-anticipated performance by ‘The Grey Earls.’ They are also planning a village Bear Hunt in June. Watch this space for more details.

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Our sports stars have been busy making the school proud with fantastic performances in netball and tag rugby and Forest School lessons will commence after half term, with sessions during and after school for our green-fingered nature enthusiasts.

World Book Day plans are taking shape with children voting for their favourite author, who is to be announced at a special assembly after half term. There will also be ‘bedtime story’ time, library ‘share-and-learn’ sessions, a parent’s coffee morning, a book swap and many other ideas in the pipeline.

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Avening Parish Council is Looking for new Clerk Avening Parish Council is looking to recruit a Clerk/Responsible Financial Officer from 1 April 2016.

The role of the Clerk is to assist and advise the Council, attend monthly Parish Council meetings, produce Agendas and Minutes, carry out any actions following meetings and to act as Responsible Financial Officer (RFO).

Ideally, you will have some experience of local government but training is available. You will need to be able to work from home and have a computer, internet access and a telephone as well as your own transport. Hours currently average approx. 1 day per week and the salary will be based on national pay scales and dependent upon experience. Expenses are also paid.

This is a very interesting and challenging role for the right person who will be an organised administrator with good communication and IT skills together with an interest in local communities.

Closing date for applications is 14 March 2016.

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Probus One Heroism at Sea Crossing the cold and stormy North Atlantic can be daunting at any time. In times of war, with the possibility of enemy attack, it was even more hazardous. But this was essential during the Second World War to ensure Britain continued to receive essential supplies. Thirty-eight merchant ships, escorted by the armed merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay (a converted liner) sailed from Halifax for Liverpool late in October 1940.

Bob Burnett told us on the 7th of January how this convoy (HX84) was attacked on the 5th of November by a German heavy cruiser, the Admiral Scheer. He described the heroic attempts made by first the Jervis Bay and then the merchant ship SS Beaverford (armed with only two guns) to fend it off, allowing the convoy time to begin to scatter, but neither ship was a match for the cruiser.

Both were sunk, with major crew losses. Six ships were sunk in this courageous fourhour battle, clearly illustrated by Bob. The Admiral Scheer was sunk subsequently by the RAF at Keil in 1945.

One tanker, the San Demetrio, was set on fire. It was abandoned by its crew then subsequently reboarded and managed to reach the Clyde, forming the basis of the eponymous film.

Denis Cartwright described how at Christmas 1940 he accompanied his father who drove from Leicester to Liverpool to deliver some building components. They brought back cattle-feed which could well have been imported by a convoy such as that described.

Denis told us an interesting tale of times when life was in many ways simpler and more straightforward, without all the safety

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Our first meeting in the New Year was a dinner at the Priory Inn Hotel for many members and their guests.

This was organized by Margot Page and constituted a very successful evening. The subsequent meeting partly consisted of a showing and a discussion of the Club member images selected as the Club entries for the forthcoming battles with Cirencester and Stroud. The remainder of the evening was a presentation by Vince Pycroft, the Club President.

Tetbury Camera Club

The following meeting was the projection of digital versions of prints selected by ‘The London Salon’ for their annual exhibition of 2015. The London Salon (originally ‘The Linked Ring’) was formed in 1893, as a breakaway from the pictorial style of photography then prevalent. Its objective was to encourage the artistic approach to photography. It lives up to this objective and the images selected annually are generally of the more ‘avant garde’ style, although this year the consensus was many of the images were rather more conventional.

our laptop operator for the evening, Pete McCloskey gave his commentary on the entries and selected the winners.

The meeting at the start of February was an internal affair, with Club member Sandie Cox showing images of Nepal. Sandie showed a very wide variety of images, ranging from travelogue to wildlife, accompanied by an interesting and informative commentary.

The most recent event was the return of Matt Revell, who now came as a speaker.

Before the meeting, Matt had been sent some basic images by Club members and, for the first part of the evening, showed how he would have dealt with them.

He demonstrated the steps by means of screen shots from Lightroom and, to a lesser extent, Photoshop.Perhaps with the exception of a shot of some flowers on a plain background, these were not manipulations of the images in any extreme fashion but fairly subtle enhancements of local exposure, tones, contrast and saturation. The end products were quite impressive. For the second part, Matt showed some of his own images from start to finish, and showed how attention to detail (and expertise) may convert an apparently uninteresting image into one with impact.

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The necessity of ensuring good and safe cycling links across the town and into the countryside are an important concern for the Civic Society. We can now report that a new cycling link has been established from west to east at the north end of the town, where all the new development is underway. The route will be from the Highfield Farm development to London Road through Quercus Road and via the Bovis Development to Cirencester Road.

From thence, with the permission of the landowner’s, cyclist could continue across Cirencester Road to the existing right-ofway leading to the old railway line pathway.

Heritage Exhibition Centre The Heritage Exhibition Centre in St. Mary`s Church has been a valuable asset to residents and tourists for many years.

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St Mary’s Playgroup The Dinosaur Invasion!

As always we have been continuing to follow the children’s interests, which has meant more exploration of Dinosaurs, seeing us excavate them out of ‘ice eggs’, make and dig up bones in the garden, exploring them in ‘mud’ (chocolate gloop!), as well as rescuing them when they escaped playgroup! They have had so much fun using their senses to explore the world around them - as well as having an opportunity to look at and talk about growth over time.

This week has seen us celebrate Chinese New Year and talk about different people’s special events – we have had Chinese food for snack, ‘cooked’ rice and noodles in our Chinese restaurant, enjoyed ‘dragon dancing’ and lots more! Our pancakes which we designed, made and ‘tested’(!) also went down a storm as we talked about Pancake Day on Shrove Tuesday – we have eaten well this week!

We are pleased to say we raised £108 with ‘bag2school’ this month so a big thank you to all our families and friends for donating their clothes. And a HUGE thank you to the lovely people from Tetbury Flower Show (as well as our very kind nominee!) for the

generous donation of £200. We have plans to develop our immediate outside area with new flooring which we can now go ahead with – thank you! By the time this goes out we will also have had our Family Valentines Disco which we hope will be a filled with fun and lots of love. More details next time!

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St Mary’s Playgroup is now part of the Tetbury Toddler Alliance along with other local groups, so will be ensuring the joint ethos (including providing a ‘mobile phone free zone’) is maintained. Our ‘Seedlings’ baby and toddler group will continue every Monday morning from 9.39-11.30 and is run by our lovely mum Jackie Hunt. Jackie is also one of our playgroup assistants and her familiar face for the children who come up to us from the toddler sessions help them settle quickly.

We always have a planned activity during the session that varies based on season and children attending (we focus more on sensory play when we have younger babies), along with plenty of toys and games for all ages and abilities. Everyone is welcome, from babies to pre-schoolers, so drop in and join the fun.

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Gardening in the Shadow of Saint Marys’ Church.

After more than a decade writing these articles, I thought I would ask others in the team to share their favourite Tetbury in Bloom stories. When I first asked Ange Morrissey, I was surprised to learn that her favourite initiative was the memorial flower bed and fernery at the western end of Saint Marys’ Church, underneath the magnificent East window. Why is this?

The answer was because not only does it look good all year round, but because of the challenges to overcome in gardening in the shade; reduced light levels, temperature levels that are not as extreme as in the sunshine and the damp conditions caused by moisture being slow to evaporate. Ferns are ideally suited to this moist, shady spot, protected from wind and hot sun by the walls of the church and the canopy of the existing trees.

The bold forms of ferns, their fine foliage and the different, subtle, shades of green

Details can be found in our advertisement below or on our web site www. tetburyinbloom.org.uk All profits raised help go towards In Bloom projects. If you purchased our hanging baskets last summer and still have the empty containers, we’d really appreciate their return so we can re-use them for this year.

To arrange collection, please ring Sue Hirst on 504213.

Liz Farnham, Tetbury in Bloom are a marked contrast to the typical colourful Tetbury in Bloom flowerbeds take a look for yourself.

A neighbour recently told me how the beautiful daffodils, in bloom in January on the bank of the West Street car park (another Tetbury in Bloom initiative), remind her of her childhood in York and the flowers alongside the city walls.

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Are you ready for Mothering Sunday?

It’s a wonderful opportunity to say thank you, to our mothers and to everyone who has helped “mother” us over the years.

Speaking personally, I have a wonderful mum who has been a great role model and given me oodles of unconditional love.

She’s always believed in me too - although perhaps not quite as much as Picasso’s mum! He once wrote: “My mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a 100208 KP Gardens 22/2/08 21:50 general. If you are a monk, you will become

the Pope’. Instead I was a painter, and became Picasso.”

We’ll have our special Mothering Sunday service on Sunday the 6th of March, 9.30am at St Marys’, so do come and join us.

News from St Marys’ Church Thursday 24th March is Maundy Thursday, when we remember the Last Supper at a special service at 7pm at St Marys’ Tetbury.

Then on Good Friday, we follow Jesus’ journey to his death and burial. We join the Churches in the Tetbury Area for the Procession of Witness at 11am, starting at the Gospel Hall in Hampton Street, followed by our Good Friday service in St Marys’ at 2pm. Finally, at St John the Baptist in Shipton Moyne that evening (7pm), we share in a service specially written for our Benefice by The Right Revd Michael Perham, former Bishop of Gloucester, to mark the burial of Jesus.

And then we move into Holy Week at the end of the month. Beginning on Palm Sunday (the 20th of March), we have our procession when we remember Jesus entering Jerusalem, with that wonderful hymn: “Ride On, Ride On in Majesty”.

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Tetbury Nursery Playgroup At playgroup this term the children have been very busy celebrating the Chinese New year, Pancake Day and Valentine’s Day. These events have offered a range of activities and opportunities to develop new skills including craft, cutting, cooking, markmaking and stories.

At pre-school the children have been introduced to ‘Fluffy’ the take-home bear.

All the children are keen for their turn, we always have some lovely stories to share with the group on his return. The letter basket has been introduced, where each week the children bring in an item which begins with a different letter of the alphabet. They have had a visit from Mrs Bell and have had the opportunity to have taster of St Mary’s school forest resource. This was extremely popular and all the children listened well to the safety rules with regard to the fire. The morning was finished with hot chocolate, which was gratefully received on the cold frosty morning.

The weather has also been a great source In the crèche the younger children have of learning opportunities, the frost and ice been helping to make a wintry scene ready being a particular favourite as we were able for the snow! They have been gluing and to put out different shape pots of water the sticking and painting to create the scene. night before for the children to explore the As the crèche only has small numbers changes the next day. They were also able there has been lots of opportunity for to track natural places where the rain water staff to develop their personal, social and emotional and communication skills. This had frozen. They were then able to explore really helps when they make the transition the shapes, textures and the changes of 1130509 Springfields1:Layout 1 20/2/10 10:54 Page 1 to playgroup. state throughout the day.

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Therefore, we would like to hear from anyone who has photos or memories of the playgroup building either when it was used as a playgroup or when it was used for other purposes. We would like to get enough photos and memories so that we can hold an open morning for the people of Tetbury to see how the building has changed over the years.

The toddler group is continuing to have a break, but as soon as we have a date for reopening we will let everyone know.

Whist we have been on this break we have formed a Tetbury Toddler Group Alliance with the other playgroups in the Tetbury area, and have agreed some common golden rules to help parents and children have an enjoyable experience at the local toddler’s groups.

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We have been getting advice from specialists who work in the field of the performing arts and were advised that if we wanted to attract interest from professional dance, musical and theatre companies we would need to rethink the rather amateur “school play” small stage and instead exploit the more versatile and intimate amphitheatre-like set-up that the staged seating would provide.

Our helpful architect Ian Maslin is redrawing the final plans ready to put them out to tender with these upgrades noted.

Meanwhile we met Lawrence from the Barnwood Trust and with him we explored ways to make The Goods Shed a ground breaking exemplar in the opportunities it offers to those with physical and mental

disabilities. We are making sure the building and its environs are adapted to attract, warmly embrace and fully integrate everyone, offering equal opportunities and inspiration and community spirit to all to avoid the current isolation of vulnerable groups. Please join us if you have relevant experience in this field as we would value your input and help.

The platform is coming on well and we are now ready to replace the steel railings. These are relatively expensive so I was thrilled when yesterday I quite unexpectedly received a miraculous donation of £300 from ex-Tetburians Sheila and David Todd, now living in America but following our every move, so this will help to get us going.

We have saved thousands of pounds by doing the work ourselves and the cattle loading bay is unrecognisable from its former dilapidated state. We plan to book brass bands on Sundays, and use it this summer for performances of every kind.

Our pianist and composer Jan Vriend is busy rehearsing for his Highgrove concert next month and we hope to have a joint fundraising summer bike ride with the Dolphins Hall group. The Boot Sales are carrying on until work starts as they bring in useful steady funds so if you see posters and banners around the town you can assume you will find us there as usual.

TV celebrity David Baddiel has promised to

put on a show for us when we are up and running, and wanted to know all about the Goods Shed and its seating capacity, so we will remind him of his promise when that time comes. It is a good time to join our group as you can help us plan next year’s programme.

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Christina Rossetti For the many farmers, growers and artisans in our “30 Mile Food Zone” who depend on seasonal conditions for their produce, there have naturally been implications of the unseasonably warm and wet Winter.

The lack of an early ground frost impacted the quality and volume of root vegetables and the ongoing saturated harvest continues to be difficult. Many crops such as purple sprouting broccoli went to seed bolted - many weeks ahead of their normal schedule.

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The word Wagyu refers to all Japanese beef cattle. ‘Wa’ means Japanese and ‘gyu’ means cattle and can be referred to as the ‘caviar of beef’. It is renowned by chefs all over the world for its highly prized marbling which is a ribbon-like pattern of healthy fat running through the meat.

It is graded according to the pedigree of the beasts and the meat’s propensity for top grade marbling patterns. The high level of intramuscular fats is the main reason for the meat’s buttery texture and exceptionally tender and juicy flavour.

Enjoy a juicy Newnton Wagyu burger with us – or buy a Wagyu beef box direct from the farm to sample at home. www.wagyugb.com Live music continues through March to a chilled Sunday night atmosphere: On the 6th, Blind River Scare plays original Americana, folk and country tinged songs.

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Unsung Hero Dear Editor, Having recently been on a Theatre Group outing, I would like to nominate their Treasurer Lin Tanswell as your “Unsung Hero” for March.

Apparently, Lin has been with the group since its inception 22 years ago. She went onto the committee very early, and for most of the time since has been the Treasurer. As many people know, the Theatre Group is a wonderful amenity, especially for those people who no longer like driving in the dark. The hassle is taken out of booking seats and one always has friends to go with.

I am sure that Lin and the committee know how obliged we are to them, but it does no harm to say thank you to Lin for organising the ongoing programme and for making sure everyone enjoys themselves when she takes the coach to the various venues. Long may it continue.

Ed: I’m very happy to accept this nomination for the selfless Lin and if she’s kind enough to contact me in the near future I shall ensure she receives her voucher for a meal for two, generously provided by the Priory Inn. If there’s someone you know who repeatedly contributes selflessly to the community, then please do let me know; my details are on page three of the magazine.

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Many visitors from home and abroad visit the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire to enjoy a wide variety of wonderful attractions, all set against the outstanding natural beauty of our distinctive rural landscape. As Spring approaches the local tourism sector is gearing up for the 2016 season and looking forward to welcoming all visitors.

The tourism industry recognises the contribution of many friendly and hospitable local residents to the continuing growth in visitor numbers, and is keen to give something back to the community as a gesture of thanks. As a result, tourism providers are lining up to be part of an exciting Welcome Open Weekend (WOW) from Friday 15 April to Sunday 17 April 2016, which will offer special ‘two for one’ vouchers for a wide range of attractions. This event has already proved to be very popular in West Oxfordshire, and it promises to be even better this year having been extended to residents in the Cotswold District.

Councillor Chris Hancock, Cabinet member for Enterprise and Partnership at Cotswold

District Council, looks forward to a very successful event: “WOW is all about helping local residents to appreciate the wonderful area we live in by exploring and rediscovering the attractions on offer at discounted rates of 2-for-1.

This is a great opportunity for attractions in the district - especially smaller establishments and activity businesses – to reward residents for helping them

attract and retain so many visitors. Tourism providers will be working with the local tourism team to allow local people to access a fantastic range of things to see and do right here on their door step for only 50% of the usual cost. WOW also gives the local tourism sector an early opportunity to promote their latest attractions via a bespoke website and social media.”

Some twenty local attractions have already signed up for WOW, including: Chipping Campden’s Court Barn Museum, Bibury Trout Farm, Rousham House and garden near Upper Heyford and Fairytale Farm near Chipping Norton. The local tourism team expects that more businesses will join the scheme over the next few weeks.

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For more details about WOW, including a full list of the offers, where to collect vouchers from and the dates when they are available, see the Councils’ websites: www.cotswold. gov.uk/wow and www.westoxon.gov.uk/ wow . The voucher sheets will be available from Friday the 1st of April onwards, or call 01285 623000 or 01993 861080.

We are currently recruiting a temporary full time groundsman to assist the existing ground-staff during the summer months. You will need a clean driving licence and some bank holiday work will be required to support local events in the town. The starting date would be April 2016 – October 2016 inclusive 30-37 hours per week.

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Spring has sprung as they say, it’s time to riz! Get out and about with us on the Dial-a-Ride. It’s sociable and practical with shopping and appointments sorted there’s always a chance to meet others for a chat.

We are indebted to the Tetbury Town Council for letting Save ‘n’ Borrow use the Council Offices and to Tetbury Lions for their generous grant of £500 to get the project off the ground.

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Appointments (doctors, dentist, hospital etc.) THURSDAY MORNINGS: (9am, pick-up Avening) 9.30am. Tetbury, town and Tesco (including appointments) THURSDAY AFTERNOONS: 2pm. Tesco. FRIDAYS:

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Please ring or call in to talk to us about volunteering, trips and membership, We look forward to meeting you.

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If you or your child is in this position and is looking for an Educational or Training Grant, please contact us. Grants can be awarded for Tetbury residents and can be for books or equipment required to further studies and training. Please write to me at Cricketers Rest, 14 Northfield Road, Tetbury.

As Spring arrives I hope that the wet and windy weather of the beginning of 2016 has now gone,

Dates for your Diary: • The Thirteen Summer Community BBQ at the Millennium Green – date to be confirmed.

and we are all able to get busy with our homes and gardens. This is the traditional time to Spring clean and plant our vegetables and flowers ahead of the summer and The Feoffee’s and Thirteen will be doing the same with our Open Spaces and The Market Hall.

Jobs will include the pruning of the trees in the Community Orchard at Herd Lane, and the repair of the automatic closure catch on the five bar gate on the Railway Line. Could I ask you all to please ensure that this gate is ALWAYS closed? Whilst there are no cattle in Preston Park this is not such a problem, however, once they return this is our safety gate to stop any cattle getting to the Long Stay Car Park and into Tetbury!

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May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Easter? Here’s hoping for some dry and sunny weather.

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He beloved the plate was his property, but would not swear positively. Joseph Tompkins, footman to Lord Carbery, but formerly in the service of Mr Bill, believed the plate produced was Mr Bill’s property, but there was great difficulty in identifying the articles produced.

Spring is upon us and were seeing visitor numbers begin to increase; they tend to be visitors to the town rather than residents, though, so if you haven’t been to the museum why not come along and find out more about the social history of the town?

Our Cold Cases are proving very popular and we are always looking out for more interesting historic cases, so if you like researching such things then do let us know and we will point you in several directions where such material is available.

Now for some more of our Cold Cases:

Bloody Tetbury Shoemakers, 1838 Two travelling shoemakers, named Lemon, father and son, from Tetbury, who have for the last five months been residing in the Stapleton-road, have been apprehended on a charge of stabbing the policeman at the Redcliffe-house, Bristol, as mentioned in our last. Upon searching their lodgings, the identical shirt worn upon that occasion was found. It was stained by blood.

15th of July, from information he received, he went to Gilbert Street, and watched outside the shop of Mr Dobree, pawnbroker.

He saw the prisoner looking round the corner of the street, but on catching sight of him he ran away. He followed and overtook the prisoner, and told him he had offered some plate for sale, would he say where he got it from? The prisoner said the plate had been in his possession for a long time; it was his property, having been given him by his father. The pawnbroker, believing that the prisoner had not come honestly by the plate, gave him into custody.

Mr Bill, of Tetbury, Gloucestershire attended last week, and stated that the prisoner had been in his service and left in June last.

The proof that the prisoner had stolen the plate being defective, Mr Raven said the charge now resolved itself into one of unlawful possession only. He was unable to give any proof of the way the plate came into the prisoner’s possession, but he might say the prisoner had hitherto borne a very good character. The prisoner would plead guilty to the unlawful possession.

Mr Flowers said, if Mr Bill did not feel sufficiently interested to attend, he should take the case as one of unlawful possession, and commit the prisoner for two months, with hard labour.

Source: Tetbury Police Museum & Courtroom Archives; original: The Times 5 August 1871 John Silvester, Hon Curator Tetbury Police Museum curator@tetbury.gov.uk

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The wounded man, when before the magistrates, immediately identified the prisoners, and the needful depositions were made, to serve as evidence in the event of the stabs proving mortal. The villains appeared to be in the greatest state of agitation, the younger especially, who is only 16, and who attributes the horrible attempt at assassination entirely to the father. It now appears that it was a shoemaker’s knife which inflicted the terrible stabs.

Source: Tetbury Police Museum & Courtroom Archives; original: The Times 30 May 1838.

Stolen Silver Teapot, 1871 At Marlborough Street, Thomas Denley, footman out of a situation, was charged with having in his possession a silver teapot, cream jug and other articles of plate, without being able to give a satisfactory account of the same.

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A party of our members recently enjoyed lunch at the Highfield Garden Centre…

Di Wall, one of our members, gave an interesting talk at our January meeting about Victorian childhood. It was good to hear about local history and we saw some fascinating photos of Minchinhampton in the past. This month we have a talk on “Shelter Boxes”. This was our chosen charity for our autumn quiz, so we shall be passing on our donation at the meeting.

…and were glad to have reserved a table, as it is a very popular place. Some indulged in pudding, but the portions were so generous it seems they all ended up with a doggy bag! Afterwards there was time to look around all the shops before meeting up to come home.

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On March 18th we are holding our village quiz at the Avening social club. As usual the cost will include a ploughman’s supper.

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A new wine festival in Cheltenham… …is set to provide an unmissable fine wine experience for wine lovers. A Charity Grand Tasting will take place on Saturday 14th of May at the Cheltenham Town Football Club, between 12 noon and 5 pm. Twenty top independent wine merchants are exhibiting, including Tetbury’s own Vinotopia and Thomas Panton, showcasing wines from some of the world’s best wine regions.

Those attending will be able to explore over 250 special wines from France, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, Argentina, the USA and many more.

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The speaker at the HOTS meeting on 4th February was Ian Mackintosh…

today, there once were 4 mills within a ½ mile stretch along the Frome, all using the same flow of water for their power. They were all ‘Fulling Mills’. There is a record of Wallbridge Mill in 1470 and Kings Mill 1460.

…and his subject was ‘400 years of Stroud Water Textiles’. Ian is the authority on the history of Stroud and acknowledged as a very good speaker so it is not surprising that 70 members came to hear him speak.

In those very early days the work of preparing the wool (carding and spinning)

History of Tetbury Society and even the weaving was a cottage industry. Lengths of rough cloth 10ft wide x 20yards length were brought from the weaver’s homes to the mills where they were ‘fulled’. This was a process of beating the cloth repeatedly with water powered very heavy mallets known as ‘stocks’.

This reduced the width of the cloth to about 6ft wide. The surface of this thickened material then had to be smoothed first be raising loose fibres (the nap) with teasels and then shearing off those fibres. The lengths of cloth were hung up to dry in the open air on ‘tenter’ racks which had tenterhooks along the top. He showed paintings of the scene with three colours of ‘West of England Broad-cloth’ – the famous ‘Stroudwater Scarlet’, undyed white and ‘Berkeley Yellow’ – hanging from the tenterhooks.

Ian illustrated his talk with slides and he indicates the detail to which he is referring by pointing with a ‘foil’ sword. As many as 170 to 200 possible mill sites have been identified in the five valleys of the Stroud area but, given the time available, he concentrated his talk on the Frome Valley close to the town. Though little remains

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fish-finger sandwich, hoping for homemade ‘goujons’. But no. That said, the mountainous slices of cake are delicious.

Today I’m on the horns of a dilemma.

It’s probably a ‘great find’ if you’re passing through, but as a lunch choice..? Afternoon tea and cake is the best bet, in my opinion.

I’m not by nature derogatory (though Flossy argues otherwise), so I’m not keen to write negatively about any of our establishments.

However, if this column is actually going to serve any purpose, I feel I need to be honest, to ‘speak as I find’, as a Yorkshireman might say (which Flossy reckons is just a way of introducing the fact that you’re about to be rude). So, with that in mind….

Instead, I went for the standard café fare at Lyndseys – the antithesis of The Blue Zucchini: plain, living-room style décor, no music and the gentle thrumming of hushed conversations.

The Blue Zucchini, a perfect example of style over substance, with its nailed-up vinyl albums and loud-ish music, was one lunch possibility. But I’ve been twice recently and it was difficult to say anything much beyond ‘lacklustre’. The first time, ‘hot dog in brioche style bun, chips, sweetcorn relish and coleslaw’, sounded interesting. But it wasn’t. The hot dog and relish seemed to have come from a jar, the bun was a bog-standard finger roll and the chips were… well, just chips. It could all have come straight from a supermarket shelf, frankly.

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As it was about one o’clock, they were so busy that when a couple sat down a few minutes after me, the waitress said she was too busy to serve them just yet.

Consequently, as she rushed off, they got up and left! I don’t know about you, but surely the time to shine is when you’re busy – that’s the real test of quality control, in both food and service. But maybe that’s just me…

My chicken and bacon salad was much more bacon than chicken - to borrow that old joke: ‘How did you find the chicken?’

‘Easy. I moved a piece of cucumber, and there it was!’ Harsh, perhaps, but true, since there was barely more than one mini fillet’s worth, and what was there would’ve benefitted from some ‘rehydration’, let’s say. The salad was basic – cherry tomatoes, cucumber and iceberg lettuce (really?), with slices of fruit, and garnished with dried – yes, dried - herbs. The dressing was nice, even if it didn’t arrive until I’d half-finished. On the plus side, the lemon

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Probably another one best left for tea and cake, then.

I’m conscious of seeming mean, airing dissatisfactions in public, so to speak - so, apologies. But the bottom line is, if you’re lunching out, there are better places to spend your hard-earned cash. Perhaps I should be a more confident complainer – and ‘speak as I find’ when I’m there…

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Our AGM was held on Wednesday 3rd February and, as usual, business was completed in about 35 minutes. Then our Treasurer, Hazel Cudmore, and our new Membership Secretary, Sue Russell, started the process of collecting subscriptions and handing out Membership Cards for the year.

Gill Ashley had tickets for the Roy Baker Memorial Lecture available for purchase and this was followed by refreshments and entertainment laid on by our Social Secretary, Margaret Morgan. The entertainment was several rounds of ‘Mr and Mrs,’ where several couples were individually asked questions about the other and their answers checked. For example, do they agree about what time of the day the lady feels at her best? As far as I know there have been no marriage breakups as a result!

On Wednesday 2nd March we have two events. In the afternoon there will be the 2016 Roy Baker Memorial Lecture held in the Orchard Room at Highgrove, for which tickets have already been sold. This year’s speaker will be Daphne Todd OBE, portrait painter and first female President of the Society of Portrait Painters 1994-

2000. The subject is ‘The Individual as Artist and Sitter’. In the evening there will be a demonstration at St Michael’s Hall by Christine Russell of still life in pastels.

Information on the Society’s activities can be found on our website www. tetburyartsociety.org.uk or phone me on 01666-502909 or Barry Barnes on 01666503926.

The meeting on 6th April will feature We meet on the evening of the first ‘Mood and Atmosphere’, a demonstration Wednesday of most months in St Michael’s

by Val Riddler using mixed media. I hope Hall, Silver Street, Tetbury at 7:30 pm and that members are busy painting because, you will find that we are a friendly group at the end of April, we set up our Spring welcoming those interested in art whatever Exhibition in the Market Hall ready for the level they have reached.

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Sadly, the Practice is saying good bye to Dr Chris Woods, who is retiring at the very end of March.

special affinity. On behalf of the patients, the PPG would like to wish him a long and happy retirement.

After 14 years dedicated service to the practice and of course his patients will be very sad to see him go, especially his elderly patients with whom he had a 720208 Nailsworth Dom Applian

In the knowledge that Dr Woods departure would leave a gap which would not be easy to fill given the present national difficulty in recruiting GPs, Dr Willis has returned to the practice part time and further cover will be given by locums including Drs Shaikh and Cardew.

nurse Practitioner and a health care assistant are in the process of being appointed which will take a lot of pressure off the doctors.

Hopefully a name will be forthcoming in time for next month’s Advertiser. Also a completely new appointment has been made for a ‘Social Prescriber’.

Doctors may be difficult to recruit but there has been more success in other areas. A

This may be a new term for many readers but it relates to those patients who have needs that are not all medical. The surgery has joined forces with others to share a social prescriber. Lisa Hepworth has been appointed and she will be at Romney House Surgery every Thursday. If it thought that Lisa can help in any way either a GP or a nurse will refer patients to her. She will also be able to call on the Tetbury Welfare Charities if she thinks that they could help out financially with transport etc.

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The long awaited new Media Screen will be installed on Thursday 10th of March. This will serve as a patient call system replacing the old Jayex board, as well as a medium for communicating key messages from the practice, the PPG and health promotion videos from NHS Choices.

At its committee meeting on the 28th of January the PPG spent a long time trying to experience through patients’ eyes their difficulties when accessing the surgery, the doctors, and waiting in the waiting room.

It gave us much food for thought and we were able to make a lot of suggestions, which we hope will be taken on board in the months to come.

The Red Cross has offered a chance for carers, those they care for and anyone with a long-term condition, to come along to an Every-Day First Aid session. It will be simple and basic with an emphasis on being fun and interactive, as well as building up people’s confidence and willingness to get involved in a first aid emergency. The session will be held on Monday the 7th of March from 2 to 4pm at the surgery.

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Tetbury Area Churches Together TACT, as we are known, have developed a Welcome Pack for newcomers and tourists. This pack includes details of each church’s services and regular activities, plus a list of useful contacts.

Copies of this pack have been delivered to the Tourist Office, Doctors, Estate Agents and local Hotels.

Lent is a busy time for churches. There are Study Groups, Soup Lunches, Preparations for Easter as well as the usual meetings, activities and services. With Easter being very early this year, no sooner had we finished Christmas than we were organising Lent. Traditionally Lent was a time when people gave something up for the period

such as chocolate. Nowadays people are looking to do something more positive.

One way is ‘40 Acts’, a scheme where you do one act of kindness each day.

All the churches in Tetbury are very keen to find links with the local community most of them provide volunteers to the Save and Borrow Credit Union scheme and another avenue is Foodbank, which I have mentioned in a previous edition. After Easter there will be a Distribution Centre at St Mary’s Centre on a Tuesday morning.

In August we will be having the Annual

‘Holiday at Home’. In addition, the team are organising a Spring Tea, which will be held on the Queen’s 90th birthday, April the 21st at The Mayfield Hotel in Crudwell. The churches have also been developing links with Residential Homes in the area.

The sad closure of The Priory at the end of March has had quite an impact on local congregations. Please spare a thought or prayer for the residents who have moved and the staff who have had to face a lesscertain future.

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February has been a very busy month here at Leighterton Primary School!

We are very lucky to have a specialist sports teacher and a specialist gymnastics coach on our teaching team to work with our children each week and we have been taking part in many sporting activities both in school and out.

The focus for our games lessons in PE this term has been developing ball skills for our younger children and on hockey for all of our children from year one onwards. Our children enjoy taking part in an after school hockey club too. Gymnastics is taught throughout school during the course of the year and this term our key stage one children have an after school gymnastics club.

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The children at Leighterton have many cross country fixtures planned and train as a team every Friday straight after school, with some of our dedicated parents, whatever the weather. They have already taken part in a friendly running competition where they supported each other well and are just about to begin taking part in the league.

We are also very proud of our netball team who train weekly too. They recently took part in a Hi 5 netball festival where they supported each other well and came third overall.

On Shrove Tuesday our PTFA opened a ‘Pop Up Pancake Café’ which was extremely popular.

There were many yummy toppings to choose from and we all had a lot of fun eating them and socialising. They also raised a lot of money to spend on the children at school Safer Internet day has run all over the UK during February and at Leighterton Primary School, we have been reminding ourselves about the ‘dos and don’ts’ of using the internet safely. We worked together during whole school assembly to discuss what we should do if we are worried about something we see on the internet and which trusted adults we could tell our worries to. We have all contributed to a display in our school hall about how to ‘Stay Safe Online,’ and back in our classrooms, we have been following this up by watching film clips about internet safety and discussing them in groups.

As part of their topic about ‘Earth and

Leighterton Primary School Beyond,’ our oldest children have been following the work of Tim Peake, in the International Space Station, and they have visited @Bristol to take a trip to the stars in a planetarium show.

They all enjoyed the stunning vistas of the night sky, and found out how to spot seasonal constellations, as well as discovering the awe-inspiring science behind the stars.

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Cotswold Voluntary Wardens Hedge Laying My favourite job with the Wardens is hedge laying in the traditional style.

Having finished the hedge by the footpath in King’s Stanley, we have started another hedge at Luckington.

But it can be very wet work this winter.

Having cut sufficiently through each upright so that it is ready to come down under its own weight, you pull it down from vertical to near-horizontal, in the process depositing masses of water upon your head and shoulders.

Then you have lost your overhanging shelter and the rain falls freely on you. Time to stop for tea! But the finished job of a nice thick stock-proof hedge is very satisfying.

Tresham and Newark Park We have worked at both these locations in early February. On the footpaths by Tresham Farm, we repaired two stiles and erected two signposts to clearly mark the correct route avoiding the farmyard.

At Newark Park, for the National Trust, we have erected waymark posts and two very large and heavy notice boards to detail permissive paths around the estate.

We have also cleared overhanging trees bearing against a field boundary fence.

We were fortunate to be there during the Snowdrop season.

At this time of the year, with no leaves on the trees, we could clearly see Tresham (a very small village on the escarpment but with its own little church), from Newark Park – and indeed Newark Park from Tresham.

They are only a mile apart across the valley (Ozleworth Bottom) with a footpath linking them. By road it is 8 miles around the head of the valley via Kingscote.

Newark Park is open to the public to visit the house, a former hunting lodge, and to walk on the grounds and the hillside, with fine views using the circular walks.

There are three other large estates in the valley which are private, namely Ozleworth Park, Lasborough Park and Boxwell Court. Footpaths pass close by all three.

Lasborough and Boxwell also have tiny churches still in use, whereas Ozleworth church is redundant, but can be visited.

Tuesday the 15th of March at 10.00 am for coffee at the Royal Oak, Leighterton, departing at 10.30 am for 5.5 miles to Tresham and Boxwell.

Sunday the 20th of March at 2.00 pm from the parking area on Rodborough Common (grid reference 850235) near the Bear, for 2.5 miles around the common.

Tuesday the 22nd of March at 10.00 am from the parking area on Selsley Common (grid reference 828026) for 6 miles to Penn Woods and Coaley Peak.

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You will be pleased to know that Amelia Frederico is back with The Dolphins again.

Can you believe it? Amelia started with the Society when she was 11 she is now 21 and has come back to us after finishing a three-year University degree last summer.

Lucky for us - Amelia has got her first job in Cirencester so it means we can hang on to her for the time being! Amelia has always been a joy to work with, good fun and not only learns her lines but everyone else’s too. Great to have you back with us Amelia.

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American version of Gaslight and our lovely Phillip – they both look so sinister but we know for a fact they’re nothing of the sort!

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The American version of the play was called Angel Street and premiered on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre on 5 December 1941 it transferred to the Bijou Theatre on 2 October 1944, and closed on 30 December 1944 after 1295 performances. The reason it was called Angel Street is because the action of the play takes place in London in a house on Angel Street. Vincent Price played Jack Manningham on Broadway in 1942.

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SPECIFIC you in the music right place and have the rightandThis that combined and excellent entertaining will keep show. your body and brain A goal must be show individual to you, aiming at non-stop the objective …in the Dolphins Hall and it was pleasing dance and totheaccess stars for appearing in you have set? guessing, and help lead you to your 2015 whatroutines you want Setting smaller ones can help Returning you develop home after show fitness goal – youthe can do it! it was to see more members attending than in accomplish.

General every scene demonstrating their skillaand and work towards bigger end goal. interesting to see how many of our targets lead backed to the previous year. The Chairman, Helen talent, superbly up by a team of group were practicing leg fl ips and other REALISTIC reduced focus and too Price, gave a résumé of the last year, four couples and two singers.

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MEASURABLE yourself and successful one. a story to link the various goalscenes and you together may struggle to see the end, A goal must be too low and you will find yourself less Ray Sheppard, - and centred mature gent browsing able on to a be The Treasurer, Lin Tanswell, explained that motivated.

Tetbury Theatre Group through memorabilia in his attic which set measured – there had been some losses and although TIMED For any information on membership please whether on the background to the various routines. there are funds to cover this at the moment, is important, scales or on a Having a time frame for a goalcontact Lin Tanswell on 01666 505129 or she doesn’t want them to run them down. this is whatand you must This on 07561 284607. stopwatch, havingwas a asuplifting The whole show fastwork towards.

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For any team interested in competing, teams must consist of four people and we have races for men, women and mixed teams (two men and two women.) Entry for teams costs £20, for individuals £10 and for youth teams between 14 -17 years, £15. We advise that anyone considering competing walk the course before the event and we would like to stress that entrants run at their own risk.

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All proceeds from the day will go to three very worthwhile local charities; this year’s beneficiaries are Hope For Tomorrow, Tetbury Gymnastics Club and The Tetbury Goods Shed Project.

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As Speaker’s Secretary I had just the afternoon and evening, so I researched my own career and gave the presentation the following morning….

I had always wanted to be a buyer of art goods but ended up as a trainee Ceramic Artist for the then-famous porcelain manufacturer, Royal Worcester Porcelain Co. Ltd. It was quite an experience, and I found fellow artists not only high-level but also

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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, Tetbury Toddler Group Alliance is made up of Tetbury Children’s Centre, Puddles Ducks Nursery, Tetbury Nursery Playgroup, St Mary’s playgroup toddler group. Chipping Chicks, Oasis Café @ Christ Church and St Mary’s school sapling group. The aim of the alliance is to ensure that each toddler group has the same golden rules/ standards, whilst still offering a varied range of groups.

The alliance officially starts on the 1st April 2016 and the leaders of each group will be meeting up on a regular basiis to keep up to date on best practice etc. The golden rules, and an explanation of how they benefit the children and carers who attend the groups will be on display in each group. If you want to know about any of the groups, you can contact the Children’s Centre who have an information list.

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They say that time flies by as one gets older; I cannot believe that we are well into February already and Lent has begun, marking the forty days and nights that Jesus was in the desert.

Traditionally one should give something up for Lent, but I think that doing something extra to help someone or to do something spiritually is a mark of our own renewal.

Many years ago whilst living in Bath, my local Parish Priest celebrated Mass at 7.00

am for those who wished to attend before going on to work during Lent. I used to make the effort to attend, even though I lived a 30minute walk away. It set me up for the day, to start the day quietly and reflecting.

Springtime is not only about our own renewal but for growth too; it is a time when we clear the garden ready for new growth in the summer. Easter is early this year, so everything is earlier; we would like to wish all Mothers a Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday 6th March. My own Mother passed away five years ago, and I miss her

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We are at present coming up with ideas for fundraising for the Parish and our first social of the year will be an Irish Night which will be on Friday 18th March. Tickets are available from the Parish Office which includes a Guinness Stew and great music.

Women’s Day of Prayer is being held here at St Michael’s on Friday 4th March, at 2.00pm. This year’s service has been prepared by Christian women of Cuba.

All are welcomed to attend and we look forward to welcoming you.

I would like to finish by saying please take care in the storms and flooding that we are experiencing at present and from what has been predicted, the bad weather is likely to last a while.

As I write this we are confirming the times of our Easter Services; if you would like to attend any of our Easter Services, please check our website www.stmichaeltetbury. org.uk or telephone the Parish Office on 01666 502367.

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Save the Children Save the Children works in 120 countries throughout the World, including the United Kingdom.

Saving children’s lives is at the heart of what it does and it is the reason it exists. In times of crisis and disasters the Emergency Fund enables Save the Children to act quickly and reach children before it is too late. The teams do whatever it takes to reach children in desperate need, delivering life-saving food, water, healthcare, protection and education.

In 2014 the health and nutrition programmes reached 9.6 million people and yet nearly 6 million children still die each year, many from causes that could be prevented.

The ‘No Child Born to Die’ campaign helped to secure a U.K. government pledge of £1 billion towards immunisation in poorer countries. It also helps identify vulnerable children who are at risk of abuse, exploitation and neglect on the streets, refugee camps or in institutions.

It works in the poorest parts of the world to help families in greatest need, and it is committed to ending child deaths from hunger. It also helps the millions of children worldwide who are missing out on education and ‘Born to Read’ helpers are supporting 23,000 pupils across the U.K. with reading and writing.

All these facts and many more can found on the Save the Children Website and it is hardly surprising that with help from loyal supporters the Tetbury Branch of Save the Children has successfully fundraised for over 30 years. Help is now needed if the good work is to continue! The committee would be delighted to welcome

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Sir William Romney’s School SWRS is top performer in school league tables.

Students at Tetbury’s Sir William Romney’s School make the most progress compared to other comprehensive schools in the area, according to the Department of Education’s 2015 and 2014 School Performance Tables.

Headteacher Steven Mackay was delighted with the results: “The value-added scores of 1019.6 in 2015 and 1018.9 in 2014 are an outstanding achievement for the school.

These confirm our position as among the best performing comprehensives in Gloucestershire in the last two years and this is higher than those of two of the selective schools in the county,” he commented.

The school’s value-added score for 2014 and 2015, which reflects the progress made by students from Key Stage 2 to GCSE, shows that students at SWR have made the most progress compared to the other comprehensive schools in the local area.

Until now the School Performance Tables have used an attainment measure as the

headline figure (5+ A*-C with English and Maths), but from 2016, progress scores will be the headline figure used for the performance tables.

This change in measurement allows an accurate and reliable comparison for the first time and allows parents to compare progress between schools in different contexts.

SWR takes the lead in Sport Relief publicity.

SWR has been chosen as the ‘face’ of this year’s Sport Relief publicity campaign aimed at schools across the Western region. In recent years the school has built an enviable reputation in raising funds for various charities, particularly Comic Relief, and this effort was rewarded when Cardiff-based Cowshed Communications approached SWR to take a leading role in the 2016 Sport Relief campaign.

Headteacher Steven Mackay said: “I’m delighted that our school’s excellent charity fund-raising efforts have been recognised and that we have been singled out in the region to raise awareness of this worthy cause.”

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Head boy Ben Theaker said: “It has been fun dressing up and seeing everyone’s best costumes. We might all look a bit silly, but we are doing it for a great cause.”

John Farr, PE curriculum coordinator, commented: “Every year we look to find ways of making our mile a bit different. The effort everyone has put in is tremendous and there have been lots of laughs. I’m sure we’ll see a few outfits making another star appearance when we do our Mile in March.”

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Come on Eileen!

Eileen Hodgson is running in the London Marathon on Sunday 24 April to raise money for, and awareness of, the work that Christian Aid does around the world helping the poor out of poverty. Please sponsor her if you can. Eileen, a local mother of three teenage plus children, ran in the 5K run around Woodchester Park for Christian Aid and clocked in as the fastest woman runner beating all others even though many were far younger than her! A stipulation to gain a charity runners place in the London Marathon is an undertaking

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The easiest way to make a donation is to go onto the internet by typing in www. virginmoneygiving.com then following the directions ‘make a donation’, ‘sponsor a friend, ‘enter friend’s name’ – Eileen Hodgson, ‘donate now’, ‘amount’ and then put in your bank details as requested. This is a very safe, tried and trusted way to sponsor anyone. If you are unable to use the internet in this way or do not wish to, then Eileen does have paper forms and can be contacted on 07729025086. All donations go to Christian Aid and please gift aid your donation if you can as this will also help to prevent Eileen having to make up any shortfall from her own pocket!

21 May when the Rev. Stuart Radford, the outgoing minister at Christchurch in Tetbury, together with Rev. Noel Sharp, the incoming minister, will be undertaking a sponsored walk from Christchurch in Nailsworth to Christchurch in Tetbury. A coffee morning at Nailsworth will send them on their way and they will be received in Christchurch, Tetbury with afternoon tea between 3 and 5 pm. If you would like to walk with them they would be delighted, or, you could sponsor them they would be equally delighted, or, you could just turn up and buy a cup of tea or coffee and a slice of homemade cake to show your support.

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Malmesbury Bridge Club is looking for new members, so if you play Rubber Bridge socially and would like to try to play Duplicate but feel that joining a bridge club is a bit daunting, then this may be the answer! The Club is planning to run assisted play evenings on the second and third Thursdays of each month.

These sessions would run at the same time as the normal club evenings and would use basic ACOL, but would be at a less pressured pace.

There would be one or two club members there to explain how duplicate works and to give advice, if wanted, on play, scoring and tactics. The hope would be that once people had tried it a few times they would move on to play in the main club sessions, although there would be no pressure to do that.

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We have started our new season in our new venue, with the AGM. We thanked the Committee for all their hard work, and they were all re-elected to continue until next year. We reviewed what has been

an action-packed year, with the four-day German choir exchange visit and concert, Holiday at Home, two fund raisers at Tesco, the Christmas lights switch-on, and singing for the residents at Kingsley house. We welcomed our new Musical Director Richard George, and we are now busy planning what we will be working on in 2016!

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Tetbury Community Choir Our repertoire is a very eclectic mix, with pop, rock, songs from musicals, classical and jazz among our vocal genres. Why not come along and give it a go? The emphasis is always on fun and the pleasure of creating good music together. New members are always welcome, as are all age groups - young singers as well as the young at heart. Get in touch or turn up to a rehearsal – the first session is free. We meet at 7 pm on Mondays, in the Coach House function room of the Ormond in Tetbury.

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BREAKING NEWS FROM TETBURY TOWN COUNCIL Tetbury Town Council has recently been awarded Local Council Award Scheme ‘quality’ status. We are the first council from the Cotswold District to achieve this award. This is a huge achievement, as it recognises that Tetbury Town Council is delivering a national professional standard to the local community and both demonstrates our achievements and a commitment to improvement.

Tetbury Town Council is holding a public meeting on: Thursday 17th March 2016, 7pm at the Dolphins Hall.

Items up for discussion so far are:

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If you are unable to attend but would like to put a question to the Town Council, Gloucestershire County Council, Cotswold District Council, please forward to clerk@tetbury.gov.uk.

Come along and have your say; this is your town, so make your voice heard.

Have you ever thought about being a Councillor?

Tetbury Town Council currently has a vacancy.

Any person willing to fill this vacancy should apply to the Town Clerk in writing on or before Monday 14th March 2016. The applicants must either: • • •

Be registered as a local government elector Have during the whole of the last 12 months resided in the Town or within 4.8km of it Have worked in Tetbury (principle or only place of work) for the past 12 months

In addition, the applicant must not be debarred from standing as a Councillor.

PUBLIC elections will not be held until the year 2019. However, for the interim period, election to the Town Council will be voted by the present Councillors of Tetbury Town Council. Applicants will be voted on at the 21st March 2016 Full Council Meeting and applicants wishing to be considered MUST attend this meeting.

Natalie Haines, Clerk to the Council The Old Courthouse, 63 Long Street, Tetbury, Glos GL8 8AA Clerk@tetbury.gov.uk Tel: 01666 504670 Office Hours 9.00am to 3.00pm Monday to Friday Website: Tetbury.gov.uk

We are in the process of providing an information booklet to new residents of Tetbury, if you would like your organisation/club listed please contact administrator@tetbury.gov.uk or 01666 504670 with all contact details.

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Judging by the very encouraging level of support from our very first update… …of the 2016 event in last month’s Advertiser, we are sure to have a great family day of entertainment, not to mantion thrills and spills. One entry has already been received and we know that several of last year’s fabulous array of vehicles are being stripped down and adapted for this year.

As this event is a major fundraising event for Tetbury Lions, it is particularly gratyfing that several traders in the town have come forward to sponsor the event by either paying to sponsor their banner on the finish straight or to have a page in the full colour programme. Such has been the level of interest, we already know that income from both will be up on the previous year.

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Tetbury Town Youth FC has a bright future thanks to the dedication and enthusiasm of our Committee, Coaches and Managers; as well as the fantastic support we receive from our players’ parents.

With our focus on having a team in every age group from Under 7’s to Under 16’s, the Club is on the road to a truly bright and exciting future providing opportunities for everyone to play the national game, whatever their age, gender, ability, race, culture or background.

Remember that this is a family Club and active participation by parents and supporters is as important as the efforts of players and committee members; ensure you play your part in the future success of the Club both on and off the field. If you have what it takes to coach, manage, referee, fundraise or just have a child that loves football then why not join us – all are welcome!

We are looking for our next generation of referees and lines people. If you are 14 years and over and would like to run the line or referee some matches then please do get in touch. More and more people of all ages are getting into refereeing and Tetbury Town FC can help support this.

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As you will have read in the Tetbury Advertiser, Tetbury Lions have tasked themselves with raising in excess of £12,000 to replace the wheelchair accessible vehicle that is available to all residents over the age of 21 who hold a valid car license.

The current vehicle, considered a valuable resource for the town, is at least 12 years old and is fast approaching the end of its reliable days. It has been decided that this project will be the main beneficiary of the net surplus from the 2016 Wacky Races soapbox derby taking place on Bank Holiday Monday 2nd May. We continue to look at improvements in the smooth running of this event and this year there will be additional two-way radios to improve communication. In addition, several individuals with key positions – Race Director, Starter, Timekeeper – will be wearing high visibility waistcoats with their positions clearly stated. Also clearly identified will be the four first aiders, two at each end of the course and the two health and safety officers.

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Tetbury Town Football Club kids, a brilliant social activity and teaches so many skills they will use later on in life (not just on the pitch). I would like to reiterate the importance of the Club and really call on the community to come together for our children’s future and their children after them. We want to make this a place we can be proud of and where the children and their parents can come along, play or watch football, get fit and just have fun.

Last month we reported the planned work on our facilities at the recreation ground and we are actively fund-raising to support this.

To help fulfil our dreams we are currently looking for voluntary contributions so we can continue to improve the ground and facilities such as: new toilets, showers, internal and external doors. We are also in need of security lights and upgrading our floodlights for our training grounds. I would like to encourage local businesses and tradespeople to get involved and do what you can to support our teams; it is a wonderful advert for the town. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you can help this project in anyway.

If you are interested in becoming involved with our enthusiastic youth set up or would like to offer help in whatever capacity, please feel free to contact Richard Norris on 07879 441938.

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