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When I'm working from home I sometimes play the game of how long can I last before I put the heating on. Not sure if anyone else plays this or it's just me. Fortunately it's not been too cold yet, just wet, very wet! However, I managed to dodge the rain whilst out delivering, but it was a messy affair this time with all the puddles and mud, so the walking boots and the waterproofs were out in force. Mind you the weather didn't stop the builders working on the Worthenbury arms, and finally something seems to be happening there. I' ve asked around and word on the street is that it is being converted to residential property of some description. I'm not sure how the locals feel about that, but I have to say the property being left to rack and ruin over too many years is an eye sore Another saga over, well nearly I just need to in the meantime, so I hope this is a preferred catch the wild beast now and see if the cat alternative. protection can help find him a new home! The My lovely (not sure the vets will agree with this joys of the country! Anyway a chinese cooking description) ginger tom cat is being bullied by class for me tomorrow, which I'm looking a local wild beast, although I think the correct forward but other than that a quiet month term is feral cat. So far he's been in the vets to dodging the rain. have a huge bite on the rear of his leg stitched I hope you enjoy this month's magazine and I'll up, which is no mean feat in itself as my own see you all next month. cat is hugely timid and difficult to handle, and has to be knocked out to get near him. After All the best, Jill that I trapped Mr White the wild beast and had him neutered hoping that would calm him down. I think he avoided the house for a while for fear of another visit to the vets and not so much fear of my cat, Parker. However, he was
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CAR DESIGNERS WORKING AT FULL STRETCH Do you remember the Fiat 500 of Now I see the latest version is the stretched 500L compact M.P.W (Multi Purpose 1936? They called it ‘Topolino’ Wagon) -with seven seats, no less! (Mickey Mouse) because it was the world’s smallest mass produced car, and each model was test driven on the roof top track at the massive Turin factory before going on sale--- and I always thought it was a cat that was on a hot tin roof, not Mickey Mouse! Small as the Topolino was, it wasn’t as small as the 1957 Fiat 500, a diminutive two-seater with a 479 c.c. air-cooled, twin-cylinder rear engine which developed just 13 b.h.p., had a top speed of 53 m.p.h. and could return 50 m.p.g. The Fiat 600 was a larger four seat model, but then they stretched it even more to produce the Fiat Multipla, with a four cylinder 767c.c. rear engine. A friend of mine owned such a car for years, which could reach 68 m.p.h. and return 48 m.p.g., but not with his wife, three children, the dog and the luggage aboard, with only 29 b.h.p. at their disposal! Then came the stylish new Fiat 500 of today, probably the best small car the company have ever made, with its high build quality and charm. 8
However, in the U.K., the Mini has followed the stretching trend since Alec Issigonis introduced his ingenious small passenger car in 1959. Its transverse front engine with the gearbox underneath in the ‘sump’ so to speak, allowed an amazing amount of passenger room, a layout which set the trend for car production to this day. Tiny wheels and Alex Moulton’s brilliantly simple independent rubber suspension completed the package, but if you look at the size of that original Mini compared with the B.M.W. Mini of today, you will realise how small it really was! Then the ‘stretchers’ took over, and if you look at the bulk of the four wheel drive Mini Countryman of today- you will see what I mean! So, the designers will continue to produce these cuddly and economical little charmersbut, just like children, they soon grow up! TERRY DAVIES.
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One of our fundraisers was a Christmas raffle, which was part of a festive evening, during which the Brownies performed a Nativity play. We raised a total of £700, which would not have been possible without the support of the following businesses, which provided prizes and/or sold raffle tickets for us. The Buck Hotel Bangor-on-Dee Post office Woodlands Ice Cream Bronze Barn Gallery Acre House Equestrian Phil Rees Photography Stables Coffee shop Plassey Beauty Lewis’s Farm Shop Hair Studio Egocentric Corner Shop Plassey Bar & restaurant Mark Leather Physiotherapy J. Johnson & Son
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TUESDAY 25TH FEB 2014
Stiwt Family Festival
We are so excited to be throwing the very first Stiwt Theatre Family Festival in February Half Term. The festival will be jam packed with a variety of events and shows that cater to everyone in your family. We will also be running different workshops during the week, including a theatre technical workshop, perfect if your little ones are eager to learn all that goes on back stage and behind the scenes of a theatre production show. The festival guarantees family fun for everyone.
The All Star Welsh Wrestling Live: We are kicking things off, quite literally too, with the Welsh All Star Wrestling. Featuring International Superstar Wrestlers, confirmed stars include Kade Callous, Iestyn Rees, former WWE Superstar and 2013 Welsh Heavyweight Champion Stevie Star and the Mexican masked sensation Magico, who will all be battling it out in a night filled with mayhem and madness. Event Information: TICKETS: £10 Adults (£8 Concession) or £30 Family (2 Adults, 2 Children)
WEDNESDAY 26TH FEB 2014
Tudur Owen alongside Cwmni Rhos Uffen: We are proud to present a night with Comedian and S4c talk show host TUDUR OWEN. Come and join Tudur as he performs brand new unseen comedy material live. Event Information TICKETS: £12 Adults (£10 Concession)
SATURDAY 1ST MAR 2014
Rhos Male Voice Choir: Celebrate St David’s Day with the all-male voice choir as they perform a collection of choral classics at their annual St David’s Day Concert. Event Information: TICKETS: £10 Adults (£8 Concession)
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The D Day Darlings: We are proud to welcomethe D Day Darlings in the closing act of the Family Festival. Come be a part of this vibrant wartime inspired concert. Join the D Day Darlings as they perform a number of wartime hits including ‘We’ll Meet Again’, ‘Run Rabbit Run’ and ‘I’ll Be Seeing You A Lot’ and many more other classic songs. Event Information: TICKETS: £5 (Free bus transport)
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Bonjour! Escape to the Country, A Place in the Sun, how so many of us are drawn to daytime TV escapism! So much so that in 2002 I, like so many others, ventured across La Manche (The English Channel) to live the French dream. Recently however I am spending more time in North Wales for business reasons and several local areas including Overton-on-Dee, remind me of ‘home’. Driving around the beautiful countryside with farms along the way I see many comparisons, I then learn of many villages being twinned with French hamlets and towns.
largest country in Western Europe and I was therefore presented a very large map! If I were to escape, where might I head for?
Alors! I shall begin with how it all started…. An avid fan of A Place in the Sun, good ole’ Amanda Lamb tempted and teased daily with snippets of the French countryside, opening up regions less known to holiday makers from the UK. France bordered by both the Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines is the
close to the UK. I wanted real France. Mr Hampshire had spoken highly of Limoges, renowned for its fine porcelain and there is an airport! Immediately I booked a flight, never could I have imagined the adventures ahead... until next time! Including La Murette and playing the locals at Petange!
During those well loved by children yet dreaded 8 weeks summer holidays for parents, we would hook up the family caravan and off we would go driving through France toward our destination in northern Spain. I fondly recall my Father packing hisFrench language tapes from Linguaphone. “Écouter et repeater”, my sister and I would laugh at him repeating allowed how to book a double room with shower. These travels did offer a head start as I grew familiar with This prompts ‘Bienvenuea chezmoi’ which I pockets of certain regions. am delighted to bring to you through your Did I want a city pied de terre, coastal local magazine. Over the past eleven years I cottage or remote dwelling set in roaming have witnessed the funniest and most bizarre countryside? David Hampshire writes many happenings of real French country living, a good read on living and working in France from French peasant neighbours’ antics and it was a perfect recommendation. which will make you blush, to typical British Accompanied by suitable aired Burgundy families arriving with their worldly goods I indulged. To be frank it was a process of clueless on how they will survive living in elimination. The likes of the delightful Paris, a country where they don’t even speak the Provence in the south and skiers haven in language! All will be revealed over the up the mountains all far too expensive, and and coming months here in Essentiallyours. for me the northern regions were just too
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essentialreminder Mothering Sunday is the fourth Sunday of Lent.Although it’s often called “Mother’s Day” it has no connection with the American festival of that name. Traditionally, it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family. Today it is a day when children give presents, flowers, and cards to their mothers. A BIT OF HISTORY Most Sundays in the year churchgoers in England worship at their nearest parish or “daughter church”. Centuries ago it was considered important for people to return to their home or “mother” church once a year. So each year in the middle of Lent, everyone would visit their “mother” church, or the main church or Cathedral of the area. Inevitably the return to the “mother” church became an occasion for family reunions when children who were working away returned home. And most historians think that it was the return to the “Mother” church which led to the tradition of children, particularly those working as domestic servants, or as apprentices, being given the day off to visit their mother and family. As they walked along the country lanes, children would pick wild flowers or violets to take to church or give to their mother as a small gift. Now you have no excuse, you know the history so pick up the phone, order something nice and enjoy the day. Mother’s Day 30th March 2014
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Wales is unique in the British Isles in so far as she has a patron saint who was born, died, and lived most of his life in Wales. Historians argue over the dates of St. David’s life: few, if any, records survived the Viking raids on South West Wales in the 9th and 10th centuries. But, most will date his birth at around A.D. 500, and his death at A.D. 589. David, known among Welshmen as Dewi, was contemporary to Deiniol, Dyfrig, Teilo, and other Welsh saints, who built Christianity in Wales and helped to provide a much-needed common Welsh identity to resist the westward march of Saxon invaders. Indeed, the Welsh tradition of wearing leeks is said to stem from St. David advising Welsh soldiers to wear them in order to distinguish themselves from the Saxons during battle. The adoption of Dewi as Patron Saint has much to do with a widelyheld determination to uphold the independence of Welsh Christianity from that which came to Anglo-Saxon England under St. Augustine of Canterbury. Lives written about the Welsh saints speak of Dewi being given his archepiscopal staff by Patriarch John III of Jerusalem when he went there on pilgrimage. Many commentators have seen this as a recognition of a distinct Welsh church and nation within the British Isles. Dewi is thought to have been born in Cardiganshire, the son of a tribal chief, and educated under St. Illtud at Llanylltud Fawr. He established 12 monasteries in South Wales and South-West England, all 36
adopting a strict rule of vegetarianism, and drinking only water. He was an engaging preacher whose ministry took him to Brittany, Cornwall, and Devon, as well as over much of Wales. He founded fifty churches, most of them in South-West Wales, the best-known being the Abbey Cathedral Church in the city that bears his name. Though a national figure and nationbuilder, St. David has always been regarded with a certain homeliness, as expressed by the poet, Gwenallt:“….He brought the Church into our homes, Put the holy vessels on the kitchen table With bread from the pantry and wine from the cellar, And he stood behind the table like a tramp So as not to hide us from the wonder of the sacrifice.” from Gwenallt “Eples” (Gomer Press 1951)
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Dear Sir, I’m member of the Society of Automotive Historians and since several years, I looking for any information on Hispano-Suiza cars being also member of the HispanoSuiza Society for which I write articles in our club publication. In Essentiallyours from July 2011 for Bangor on Dee and Cross Lanes area, Mr Terry Davies wrote a very interesting article, “The flying stork of Gerwyn”, about Mr Jimmie McAlpine’s Hispano Suiza. This article seems to be based on an interview of Mr David Lloyd, McAlpine’s chauffeur. I would like to get in touch with Mr Lloyd to ask him questions about this extraordinary automobile. By the way, this car, originally built for Mr Anthony de Rothschild, is today in a collection in the US. Could you please send the details of Mr Lloyd: address and or phone number? Thanks for your support. Best regards, Laurent Friry 88, rue d’Estienne d’Orves 91370 Verrieres le Buisson France
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Mr. Jimmie McAlpine, Chairma n of the Sir Alfred especiall y the French Spad scouts McAlpine Construction Group, (fighters). who lived at French ace Georges Guynemer flew Gerwyn Hall, Cross Lanes, loved his cars. His ample famous Spad ‘Vieux Charles’ in the crack garage was filled with such exotic Alsace makes as Rolls- squadron, which had a Flying Stork emblem Royces, Bentleys, Bristols, Lagonda on s, Jaguars,Alvis, their fuselages . Aston-Martin, Jensen and Bugatti. Realising the advertising potentia The most flamboyant of l of this emblem, them was surely Birkigt used the Flying Stork mascot the magnificent 1934 V-12 on his cars Hispano- Suiza, its from then on. Mr Jimmie’s Hispano sleek body by Fernandez and weighed Darrin of Paris over two tons, but chauffeur David told resplendent in two-tone blue me that and ivory, with although it only had a three speed gearbox petal-shaped rear side window , the s. engine was so flexible that he could start off Mr. Jimmie had won this car in a card game in in top gear quite easily, and it could exceed 90 1952, and owned it for nearly 30 years. It was m.p.h. in second! a familiar sight in the area, driven by chauffeur He also told me that it had a fuel consump David Lloyd, particularly so tion at Wrexham Golf of around 4 m.p.g. when driven hard! David Club where Mr. Jimmie was Presiden said “ t. When it was sold in in 1981, it was like losing an It attracted many admiring glances from the old friend”, as he had driven Mr. Jimmie around members as it stood in the car park, but David in it so often and for so long, but now the Flying told me that it had also attracted several wayward Stork of Gerwyn had gone, never to return - and golf balls as well over the years, thankfully without it was sorely missed! damage! The Hispano- Suiza (designed by Marc Birkigt of Switzerland) was one of the world’s great cars in the 1930s, and, costing £2,750 for the chassis alone in 1932, it was obviousl y aimed at the privileged few.
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