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Northleach Court Care Home Because we care...

Family-run care home with family values. High-quality care with very competitive fees.

Northleach Court is a family-run care home that provides exceptional care with lovely ‘home from home’ accommodation and specialises in nursing, dementia, residential and couples care. We deliver high-quality care services, tailored to each specific resident with very competitive fees, offering complete peace of mind to those who may be concerned about a friend or family member transitioning into care.

Northleach Court remains free of Covid-19, and our professional infection control measures mean that our home is the safest and best option in these challenging times. Unlike so many homes we have been able to offer Covid-19 safe visits for months and we continue to do so. We also have free access to Wi-Fi and phones

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throughout the home, so relatives and residents can video/phone call each other 24/7.

The main ethos of our home is ensuring we have a team whose nature is caring and respectful. This ensures the focus is always the overall wellbeing of all our residents and making their time here special and fulfilling.

The home manager is dedicated to ensuring a person-centred approach by working with families, residents and health care professionals to guarantee the unique needs of all individuals are nurtured.

Northleach Court is a welcoming environment set in a stunning Grade II listed building. Our peaceful and tranquil surroundings make us a very popular choice of care homes in the Cotswolds. If you would like to find out more or to arrange a virtual visit, please: Call: 0 1451 798027 info@northleachcourtcarehome.com www.northleachcourtcarehome.com

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Charlbury Christmas Tree Festival 9th-27th December: St Mary’s Church including: 10th: Cafe in the church and Jazz and Trees concert 11th: Christmas Crackers concert 12th: The Countryside at Christmas- an evening of prose and singing.

Details: hilli.waller@gmail.com

Combe Mill Christmas Market: 11th December 2021 After a very difficult year Combe Mill will be holding their Annual Christmas Market on 11th December 2021 10.00am to 4.00pm. All funds raised will go to Combe Mill Society`s charitable aims of Community Education Don`t miss out, come along and bring the children to `Listen to a story with Santa` browse the variety of Market Stalls, enjoy a BBQ, Mulled Wine & Chestnuts, Tea Room Open, Raffle, Tombola and Gift Shop. Find an

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excellent selection of Christmas gifts available. Combemill`s blacksmiths will be in the Forge to make pokers, with VIEWING ONLY in the Mill, no machinery will be operating.

Blacksmiths items on sale, made by our very own blacksmiths, make a very popular gift for Christmas Free Entry & Car Parking.

Combe Mill, Blenheim Estate Sawmills , Long Hanborough , OX29 8ET

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Cotswold Sky Over the next 2 months towards sunset and early evening you will notice a very bright object as you look towards the South and South West. That object will be the planet Venus, and it is the brightest planet in the sky.

Facts about Venus Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system and is covered by thousands of volcanoes. Its atmosphere is toxic and prevents heat escaping into outer space. This is a classic example of a Greenhouse Effect.

• Diameter: 12,104 km (Earth: 12,742 km) • Average distance from the Sun:108 Million km (Earth:150 Million km) • Surface temperature: 462 C • Solar day length: 117 Earth days • Year length: 225 Earth days • Moons: None Physically there is little difference between the sizes of Earth and Venus. The extreme heat does not allow water on the planet, and it is believed that the surface comprises of a “terrestrial-like basalt” i.e., a fine volcanic rock. It is possible that Venus may have been more habitable in its earlier history. It may have been covered in water, but this would have been evaporated due to the close proximity of the Sun. For further information: https:// www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/planetvenus

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reaches its most southerly point on its journey. Slowly but surely the days will become longer.

Meteorite Showers: The Northern Taurids Peak 12/13th November - viewing conditions favourable. Look high towards the South East before midnight.

Leonids Reach their maximum on 17/18th November viewing not ideal due to a full Moon. Located high in the South East.

Geminids Reach peak activity on 13/14th December, located high in the South West.

Mercury Visible in the morning for the first 10 days of November. Look South East 06.00/06.30 hours. Appears again towards the end of December close to Venus in the South West at sunset but could be difficult to observe.

Venus Quite bright in the South West during dusk/early evening for the remainder of the year.

Wishing all our readers a Happy, Healthy Festive Season John Harris

CHRISTMAS FAMILY QUIZ

Relax and chill out. Get the family together and see if you can crack Cotswold Link’s Annual Family Christmas Quiz.

Wishing All Readers a Happy and Joyous Festive Season - John Harris 1. What is New Year’s Eve called in Scotland?

2. Who was Scrooge’s dead business partner in “A Christmas Carol”?

3. Whose coronation took place on Christmas Day? 4. Which record was a Christmas number 1 in 1975 and 1991?

5. Who walked from Gloucestershire to London?

6. From which country did the Christmas tree originate?

7. In which pantomime do Robin Hood and Maid Marian appear?

8. How many reindeer does Santa have?

9. How many ghosts visited Scrooge?

10. In Christmas Carol what is the name of Bob Cratchit’s son?

11. Which chess piece can only be moved diagonally?

DIARY

Winter Solstice Tuesday 21st December at 15.58 hours GMT. The day with the shortest daylight hours when the Sun

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12. The first country to win the World Cup at football?

13. The first football team to win both the FA Cup and the League in the same season?

14. The shortest serving monarch of Britain?

15. The third longest serving monarch of Britain 16. Where does the President of the United States Live?

17. Which King of England was killed by an arrow in the eye?

18. Which vowel is the only letter not on the top row of a Querty key board?

19. Who discovered Uranus?

20. What was signed by King John at Runnymede in 1214?

21. A film about a miner’s son who became a ballet dancer?

22. An academic who captained England at cricket and football in addition to becoming the world long jump record holder?

23. A Gloucestershire lad who played football and cricket for England?

24. Who was caught trying to blow up the Houses of Parliament?

25. From what tree do acorns grow?

26. Once known as Peking?

27. 40 – 40 in tennis?

28. When do Christmas Day and New Year’s Day fall in the same year?

29. Capital of Australia?

30. Who painted the Mona Lisa?

31. From which town did Joseph and Mary come before arriving in Bethleham?

32. Who discovered Christmas Island?

33. In which Judean city did the three wise men first visit in their search for Baby Jesus?

34. In which year of the 1960’s did the Post Office introduce Christmas postage stamps?

35. What is Father Christmas known as in France?

36. Which socialist state officially ceased to exist on 25th December 1991?

37. Name the angel that brought the news that Jesus was to be born to Mary?

38. Which country donates a Christmas tree to London each year?

39. Where does the Queen traditionally spend Christmas?

40. Who composed “Auld Lang Syne”?

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Index Art SOTA Gallery: p7 Bathrooms Country Bathrooms: p16 MPN Plumbing: p16 Builders & Contractors Calarel Developments: p5 Country Roofing & Building: p15 Garolla Garage Doors: p2 Hooper Joinery: p14 Mitre Oak Buildings: p16 North Cotswold Builder: p14 Rooflight Company: p3 Phil Dadge: p4 Thomas Contracting: p12 WB Home & Garden Maintenance: p13 Children’s Services Cotswold Tutor: p11 Education Burford School: p1 Elderly Services Edwardstow Court: p8

Hearing & Mobility Store: p11 Northleach Court Care Home: p2 Windrush Care: p6 Electrical Services Aerial Solutions: p8 Cox Electrical Services: p4 P Wheeler Electrical: p14 Furniture Amanda Hanley By Design: p1 Graham Lane Furniture: p4 Hilltop Joinery: p4 Hooper Joinery: p14 Phil Dadge: p4 Roundabout: p10 Flooring RS Flooring: p4 Framing Witney Framing: p7 Fuel Cotswold Petroleum: p2 Garage Doors Garolla Garage Doors: p2 Gardening & Outdoors

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CN Landscapes: p13 Coln Clearances: p12 Cotswold Garden Designs: p12 Luke Dadge: p12 Stockwell Davies Tree Contractors: p12 Thomas Contracting: p12 Tom Negus Tree Care: p12 Waterside Landscaping: p13 WB Home & Garden Maintenance: p13 Healthcare & Wellbeing Bourton Podiatry Clinic: p1 & p3 Cherwell Hospital: p9 Fit Active Personal Training: p9 Laura Dee Counselling: p10 Paul Brookes Foot Health: p10 Runnerbean: p11 Hearing Aids Hearing & Mobility Store: p11 Home & Interiors Amanda Hanley By Design: p1 Country Bathrooms: p16 Country House Curtains: p5

Friday 19th November 2021 @ 2.30pm “Einstein and the Refugee Scholars in Oxford” a talk by Victoria Bentata - Oxford Guide - on Einstein and his contemporaries in the 1930’s - their lives, contributions and legacies.

Venue: Upper Rissington Village Hall GL54 2QW Visitors welcome £3.50. Enquiries 01451 820233 / information.RLHS@gmail.com

Hillarys Blinds: p6 Hilltop Joinery: p4 Paul Dadge: p3 Rooflight Company: p3 RS Flooring: p4 Locksmiths Just Carpentry & Locks: p4 Motoring Cotswold Garage: p15 Music Lessons Amanda David Classical Guitar Tuition: p9 Painters & Decorators Phil Dadge: p4 WB Home & Garden Maintenance: p13 Pets & Animals Wash Wiggle & Wag Dog Grooming: p8 Plumbing MPN Plumbing: p16 Property Maintenance Coln Clearances: p12 Country Roofing & Building: p15

Garolla Garage Doors: p2 Hilltop Joinery: p4 Hooper Joinery: p14 Just Carpentry & Locks: p4 MJ Harris Domestic Repairs: p15 Phil Dadge: p4 WB Home & Garden Maintenance: p13 Removals Coln Clearances: p12 Sports & Leisure Fit Active Personal Training: p9 Runnerbean: p11 Tree Surgery Stockwell Davies Tree Contractors: p12 Tom Negus Tree Care: p12 Tuition Amanda David Classical Guitar Tuition: p9 Cotswold Tutor: p11 Windows RJB Window Restoration: p15 Rooflight Company: p3

Bourton and District u3a

Bourton and District u3a will be holding monthly meetings at the British Legion Hall in Bourton on 24th November and 15th December from 10am, when there will be a talk by Tom Constant on “Stepping Stone to Fame” (Nov.) and we will be “Remembering the Swinging Sixties” with Ray Sturdy in December. Members and prospective members all welcome.

Answers to the Family Christmas Quiz 1. Hogmanay 2. Jacob Marley 3. William 1st 4. Bohemian Rhapsody 5. Dick Whittington 6. Germany 7. Babes in the Wood 8.

Nine 9. Four 10. Tiny Tim 11. Bishop 12.

Uruguay 13. Preston North End (1888/89) 14. Lady Jane Grey (9 days) 15. George 111 (1761 – 1820) 16. White House 17. Harold

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18. Letter A 19. William Herschel 20. Magna Carta 21 Billy Elliott 22. C.B. Fry 23. Arthur Milton 24. Guy Fawkes 25. Oak tree 26 Beijing 27. Deuce 28. Every Year 29. Canberra 30. Leonardo da Vinci. 31. Nazareth 32.

Captain Cook 33. Jerusalem 34. 1966 35.

Pere Noel 36. USSR 37. Gabriel 38. Norway 39. Sandringham 40. Robbie Burns

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