The Bristol Six + Eight Magazine - December 2021

THE BRISTOL SIX + EIGHT MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2021 - ISSUE 82

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In this issue - Berwick Lodge prize wordsearch (p12), what is net zero? (p20), Yuup experiences prize wordsearch (p24), turkey leftovers (p30), quiz time (p34), the history of St Christopher’s (p36), Christmas recycling collection times (p63) plus all the regular bits and bobs

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THE EDITOR’S SMALL PIECE Hello there, and welcome to the last magazine of what has been another odd old year. With fingers crossed, we should at least be able to enjoy a more traditional Christmas holiday period than last year, with less restrictions on family groups, church services, parties and travel. Whatever you might have planned I hope you enjoy a well earned break.

As usual in the December issue I'd just like to say a short thank-you to the team of people who deliver the magazines out each month a squad approaching fifty now, plus a handful who have retired or moved on over the last 12 months. Getting the delivery of the magazines right is the most important, and sometimes the hardest part of the business, and so I am grateful for everybody's help.

Thanks are also due of course to the dozens of local traders, businesses and organisations who choose to advertise themselves, and without whose support the Bristol Six + Eight just wouldn't happen. And finally a thank you to all of you who take the time to pick up and read the magazine each month, I hope you find some pleasure / entertainment / use from doing so - in which case it has all been worthwhile!

I must admit it doesn't feel very festive at the moment, but then again it is still only midNovember as I type, it's 15 degrees and the chances of finding a wintry scene to adorn the front cover have been pretty much zero.

So instead I hope you like the late-autumn colours taken on Redland Green.

Enjoy the festive break when it arrives, and may I wish you all a very happy, healthy and sociable Christmas.

Cheers, Andy.

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USEFUL INFORMATION A revamped and updated set of contacts this month, including some new numbers, website details and what I believe are the latest number plate dates for accessing the Waste Recycling Centre at Avonmouth. If you think of any other useful contacts that should be listed here on a regular basis do please let me know - andy@bcmagazines.co.uk Helplines and Emergency Services National Emergency Number 999 or 112 Bristol Citizens Advice 03444 111 444 bristolcab.org.uk Gas Emergencies 0800 111 999 britishgas.co.uk Electricity Helpline 105 nationalgrideso.com / westernpower.co.uk Water Emergencies 0845 702 3797 bristolwater.co.uk / wessexwater.co.uk Avon & Somerset Police non emergencies 101 avonandsomerset.police.uk Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 crimestoppers-uk.org Southmead Hospital 0117 950 5050 nbt.nhs.uk BRI / Children’s Hospital 0117 923 0000 uhbristol.nhs.uk NHS non-emergency 111 111.nhs.uk Bristol Blood Donation 0300 123 23 23 blood.co.uk The Samaritans 116 123 samaritans.org Alcoholics Anonymous 0800 9177 650 alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk ChildLine 0800 11 11 childline.org.uk WE Care Home Improvements 0300 323 0700 wecr.org.uk National Rail Enquiries 03457 48 49 50 nationalrail.co.uk Traveline 0871 200 22 33 traveline.info First Bus 0345 646 0707 firstbus.co.uk/bristol-bath-and-west Postal Services

Please check times in advance if possible as opening hours may vary Cotham Pharmacy & Post Office - 9 - 6 Monday to Friday, 9 - 1 Saturday Whiteladies Rd Post Office - 9 - 5.30 Monday to Friday, 9 - 13.00 Saturday Gloucester Rd Post Office - 9 - 5.30 Monday to Saturday Late Post - there is a late post box at the main Post Office sorting depot on the A38 at Filton. Currently the late post is at 7pm.

Local Libraries Henleaze Library is currently open 11am to 4pm, Monday to Saturday for borrowing and returning books and pre-booked computer sessions. Clifton Library is open 10am - 2pm Monday & Friday, and 1pm - 5pm Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday for pre-booked “call and collect” of books. Redland Library is open 11am - 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday for the same “call and collect” service. Check www.bristol.gov.uk for full details. (continued overleaf) 8

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USEFUL INFORMATION Waste & Recycling If you are planning to visit the Recycling Centre at Avonmouth do check the Bristol Waste website bristolwastecompany.co.uk - first as they are currently running alternate access days depending on the last number of your car registration. Vehicles ending in an even number (0, 2, 4, 6 or 8) can visit on 28 and 30 November, and 2, 4 ,6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 22 December. Vehicles ending in an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7 or 9) can visit on 27 and 29 November and 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, and 23 December. You must take proof of your identity / address to use the site. The site has now switched to winter opening hours - 8am to 4.15pm 7 days a week. Check the website for Christmas opening hours.

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BERWICK LODGE PRIZE WORDSEARCH Sandyleaze. WoT, BS9 3PY). Have fun and good luck.

In the first of two prize wordsearches this month the theme is, quite logically, the traditional afternoon tea - given that the prize is exactly that, afternoon tea for two at the very lovely Berwick Lodge here in NW Bristol.

Owner Sarah and her team will look after the winner, and their lucky friend, treating them to an indulgent afternoon feast. A treat that I can vouch for the loveliness of!

Right, here's what you are searching for INDULGE CREAM TEA TREAT EARL GREY LOOSE LEAF SANDWICHES CHOCOLATE TIRAMISU MACARON CHAMPAGNE MINCE PIE TART AFTERNOON TEA TEAPOT CHRISTMAS CAKE JAM CLOTTED CREAM SCONES TEA BERWICK

Listed below are twenty things associated with an afternoon tea at Berwick Lodge. Nineteen of the items are hidden in the wordsearch grid, meaning that one item has been left off the menu. The words can be found running forward, backward, up, down or on a diagonal.

Simply eliminate the words to find the item that is not in the grid, and let me know what it is, no later than midnight on New Year's Eve. All correct entries will go into the hat and one lucky person will be picked at random to be the guest at Berwick Lodge. Entries please by email (andy@bcmagazines.co.uk), text (07845 986650), phone (0117 259 1964) or post (8

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Where Am I? Match the photos to the countries they were taken in. There are two extra countries listed, just to make it a little more difficult Egypt France Germany Thailand Australia China 16

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21st Century Mysteries 5 Big Questions On… Net Zero With Cop26 and its aftermath bringing the state of our climate into even sharper focus, we’re hearing more and more about “net zero” but what does it mean and why is it important?

and mass deforestation have dramatically increased greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. This increase means less heat can escape and we experience higher global temperatures and more extreme weather conditions as a result.

What Is Net Zero?

Why Is Net Zero Important?

Simply put, net zero is the point at which greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere are balanced by the removal of emissions out of the atmosphere.

Net zero is a vital part of the 2015 Paris Agreement’s goal of restricting global warming to less than 2° C above pre-industrial levels. It is thought that, by achieving net zero, we can halt global warming and thus prevent the extreme weather currently being experienced in many parts of the world from getting increasingly disastrous.

From the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released when gas and coal is burned to heat homes or by industry, or the methane that is produced through farming and landfill, human activity has dramatically increased the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Then there’s the other side of this double-edge sword; practices such as mass deforestation means that there are fewer trees and plants to naturally absorb CO2.

Even so, there are critics that argue that we should be actually be aiming for gross zero – the reduction of all emissions to zero, rather than the balancing act of net zero.

Can Net Zero Be Achieved?

This is one of the big questions of our time.

It will require steps such as improving energy efficiency by lessening demand on fossil fuels and switching to renewable forms such as solar, wind, geothermal... Just as important is the co-operation between developed and developing countries, with richer nations taking on the financial burden of the energy evolution.

Net zero can be achieved by reducing emissions as much as possible and increasing the removal of those that remain.

How does Net Zero Differ To Carbon Neutral?

Carbon neutral relates only to reducing carbon dioxide emissions and and balancing those remaining emissions through removals. Net zero goes one step further by focussing on not just carbon dioxide but other greenhouse gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and the group known as fluorinated gases.

New technology may also offer some hope.

Carbon capture and removal is one such idea and facilities that can extract significant amounts of CO2 from the air, which could then be stored underground, are already being built.

What Is The Greenhouse Effect?

The natural greenhouse effect is what keeps Earth at a liveable temperature. Solar radiation that would otherwise all be radiated back into space is absorbed/trapped by the layer of “greenhouse” gases in our atmosphere and redirected back to Earth.

To conclude, for net zero to be achieved, it has to be at the forefront of policy decisions, industry/ work practices and the way we all live at home.

However, human activities since the industrial revolution such as the burning of fossil fuels

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THE YUUP PRIZE WORDSEARCH Have fun and good luck.

The second of two prize wordsearches this month is all about the experience. Very kindly sponsored by the local experience organisers at Yuup, the winning entrant will have the chance to choose and go, with a plus-one, on an experience of their choice up to a value of £100 from the vast arrange of experiences in the latest Yuup online catalogue.

Right, here's what you are searching for GRAFFITI ART MAKING SUSHI MOSAICS AXE THROWING SAUSAGES HAUNTED WALK PIZZA WORKSHOP JEWELLERY PADDLEBOARDING FORAGING ARCHERY SCENT BLENDING SOURDOUGH RUM TASTING POTTERY ESCAPE ROOM WREATH MAKING COMEDY PAPER CUTTING QUILTING

Listed below are twenty experiences and activities typically available. Nineteen of the items are hidden in the wordsearch grid, meaning that one item has been left off the bucket list! The words can be found running forward, backward, up, down or on a diagonal.

Simply eliminate the experiences to find the one that is not in the grid, and let me know what it is, no later than midnight on New Year's Eve. All correct entries will go into the hat and one lucky person will be picked at random to be the guest of Yuup at their chosen experience.

Entries please by email (andy@bcmagazines. co.uk), text (07845 986650), phone (0117 259 1964) or post (8 Sandyleaze. WoT, BS9 3PY).

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NEW MUSIC - A REVIEW OF THE YEAR - DUNCAN HASKELL It’s been another great year for new music, here are just six of 2021’s finest albums that we didn’t have time to cover in this column:

in subtly gorgeous melodies from start to finish.

Key Song – Big Pop One Foot In Front Of The Other by Griff (Warner)

Cool Dry Place by Katy Kirby (Keeled Scales)

Though described as a mixtape rather than album and has the slight feel of a placeholder ahead of her official debut, this collection by the Brit Awards Rising Star winner deserves a mention as one of the year’s best. A modern pop artist who comfortable sits between the worlds of Lorde and Taylor Swift, songs such as Early Grey Tea, Shade of Yellow and the darkly powerful Black Hole prove that her ever-growing reputation is thoroughly deserved.

Key Song – Black Hole

Built on the foundations of solid song craft and astutely observational lyrics, it’s that bedrock which allows Nashville-based artist Katy Kirby to garnish her debut album with the occasional decorative flourish.

Whether the robotic auto-tuned vocals on Traffic, a rumination on privilege, or the striking and shimmering instrumentation on Secret Language, these occasional surprises elevate an already formidable collection of songs a few storeys higher.

Key Song – Traffic

Prioritise Pleasure by Self Esteem (Universal)

Hang Time by Cedric Noel (Joyful Noise Recordings) Now on his eighth studio album, Cedric Noel has been doing his thing for the last decade. Born in Niger, adopted by Canadian and Mozambican/Belgian parents, Noel is now based in Montreal and has come up with a record that will delight fans of Big Thief, Elbow and Bon Iver. With a voice that knows when to keep it strengths hidden and when to take flight, his guitar playing is similarly dextrous.

Key Song – Stilling

The second album from Self Esteem (Rebecca Lucy Taylor) is an alt-pop record that has it all. From bangers like Hobbies 2 and You Forever to more brooding numbers such as Still Reigning and John Elton, there’s serious breadth of sound across the 13 songs. Not afraid to tackle serious subjects, I’m Fine discusses how women aren’t safe in 2021, there’s also depth to match.

Key Song – I Do This All The Time From Dreams To Dust – Felice Brothers (Yep Roc Records) Returning with a new line-up that found Jesske Hume and Will Lawrence join siblings Ian and James Felice, the folk/ Americana group came up with one of the albums of the year. Recorded in an old church in upstate New York, each song captures the imagination like a collection of short movies.

The stream-of-consciousness vibe of the tracks is just as impactful when looking back (Land of Yesterdays) as when discussing the present day (Money Talks).

Key Song – Be At Rest

New Music And Big Pop by Another Michael (Run For Cover) This debut of gentle indie songs by the Philadelphia trio fronted by singer Michael Doherty lets the listener into personal moments in a way that doesn’t feel overly twee or forced. The conversational manner of Doherty’s falsetto only increases that mood. Whether songs about a shared musical discovery or asking more existential questions about life, a creative one at that, it’s a wonderful album to spend some time listening to – especially as it’s also drenched

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After last month's halloumi no-show I am back of safer ground this month, cooking with things I know and which do what they are told to do. Being December the recipe had to feature turkey really - and a lively way of using up some of the spare meat. If you are anything like me the remains of the turkey on Boxing Day will look like something a five year old will have fashioned in a "butchery for beginners" class - the elegant carved slices of Christmas Day giving way to a random assortment of offcuts, crumbly bits and mis-shapen lumps.

But that's fine for this recipe, because the meat will be hiding in a spicy sauce and then popped under a duvet of fluffy mash.

1 tsp Chinese five spice 1 tsp paprika 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 1/2 tsp fresh ground nutmeg 1/4 tsp cinnamon 1 tin chopped tomatoes I mug of frozen peas Chicken stock Creme fraiche (optional) Three / four large floury potatoes (err on the generous side, you don't want to skimp on the topping).

Turk 'n Jerk (serves four) The cooking for this is very straightforward don't be put off by the long list of ingredients, most of them are herbs and spices, and none are very unusual. As ever this is a bit made up - aren't all recipes? - so I can't claim it to be an authentic jerk seasoning. That would require, as a minimum, the addition of habanero or scotch bonnet chillis - neither of which I could cope with. As it is this is a feisty little dish - not overpoweringly so, to someone is comfortable with a mid-range Madras-like curry - but if you want to calm things down a bit then ease back on the quantity of cayenne and / or paprika you put in. And you can always serve the dish with a dollop, or indeed a complete pot, of creme fraiche and a glass of milk!

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Start off by heating your oil in (ideally) a large ovenproof pan. If you don't have one then a large frying pan or wok will do and you can just transfer to an ovenproof casserole at the assembly stage. When at a moderate heat throw in your chopped onion and fry this for 5-10 minutes until it is soft and translucent. Don't stress if it goes a little (or a lot) brown as this will just add to the robust flavour of the dish.

Now add in your chopped garlic, continue to fry for another 2 minutes, then add in the chopped peppers and fry for a further 2 minutes.

It's time for the seasoning. Add a drop more oil if you think it needs it (if in doubt, add an extra teaspoon), lower the heat a little and then pile into the pan the parsley, cayenne pepper, sugar, salt, thyme, five spice, paprika, black pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon. Stir this well into the onion / pepper / garlic mix until it is

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well coated. The mix will be quite dry at this point - there will have been plenty of seasoning to absorb - but no worries.

Add in the tin of tomatoes, and then use the empty tin to measure out half a tin of chicken stock. Add the chicken stock to the pan, stir well, bring to the boil but then immediately reduce to a gentle simmer for 15 minutes, uncovered - you want the sauce to reduce.

While the spicy sauce is simmering it's mash time. Peel your potatoes, chop them into small pieces (to speed up the cooking time) and drop them into a large saucepan. Add a small pinch of salt, cover with boiling water, bring back to the boil and simmer for 10-15 minutes, until they feel a bit soft if stabbed with a knife. When they are done remove from the heat, drain and return to the pan. Now pop in whatever you like to add when mashing to get a creamy taste and consistency a dash of milk, a knob of butter, an egg (my favourite, the heat of the potato will cook the egg), or a big spoonful of creme fraiche or plain yoghurt. Whatever grabs you, whatever you have. Mash vigorously but don't go too mad, you want the mash to have some body and not be a puree.

You'll know when you get there.

Now return to the simmering sauce. It is time to stir in all the cooked turkey, the mug of peas, the lime zest and juice and a tablespoon of creme fraiche (or two if you've tasted the sauce and it's a little too lively). Stir the mixture until the turkey is well coated. Remove from the heat,

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leaving it in the oven proof dish or, if necessary, transfer it to a casserole dish.

Take your mashed potato and add it on top of the turkey mixture, a spoonful at a time - your aim is to spread the mash out until it completely covers the turkey (it'll look like a shepherds pie at this point). A spatula is best to smooth the spud out, gently so it stays on top of the filling and creates a complete snowy white covering.

Create a criss-cross pattern in the top of the mash with the tip of a knife - this will generate a bit of crispiness.

Place the dish into the middle of a preheated oven - 200 degrees / 180 fan, medium-to-hot gas should do you - and cook uncovered for 15-20 minutes or until the surface of the mash topping has browned up nicely.

Remove from the oven, place a sprig of parsley on the top for no apparent reason, enjoy the admiring comments from your family / guests, then serve with a cold beer, a glass of milk or (my choice) a nice cup of tea. I hope you enjoy your food.

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QUIZ TIME Nature

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Thornicroft's, Angolan and Reticulated are all types of which kind of animal?

What does a paleontologist typically study?

Which is England's largest National Park?

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Which horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup for three successive years in 1964, 1965 and 1966?

If all the worlds' mammals boarded the Ark in alphabetical order which one would be on first?

What is the propor name of the flower commeonly known as the Snapdragon?

If you are comfortable / competent carrying out tasks with either hand you are said to be what?

The karabakn horse is the national animal of which country?

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What type of clouds are typically associated with thunderstorms?

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Which former X Factor contestant now hosts a regular Radio 2 show?

Name Katie Price's first husband.

Who now hosts Love Island?

Name the two experts who judge on the Sewing Bee. What is the lowest score ever achieved on Strictly Come Dancing, and by which celebrity?

Name the capital cities of a) Namibia, b) Switzerland, and c) Bangladesh.

Which capital city lies on the banks of the Rio Manzanares?

Which is Europe's most populated city?

Name Europe's most southerly city, and Africa's most northerely city.

Convention, Danube and Tuileries are all underground stations in which city?

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Name England's second highest run scorer in Test Cricket.

Harry Kane has been Spurs highest Premier League goalscorer every season since 2014/15. Who held that honour for them the season before?

Where will the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics be held?

Frankie Dettori once famously won all seven races on the card - at which racecourse and in what year?

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QUIZ TIME - a) Eve Muirhead, b) Fran Halsall, c) Holly Bradshaw

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What size of bottle holds the equivalent of 16 standard bottles of wine?

In which town was cricket umpire Dickie Bird born?

Name the 1988 fantasy comedy film that propelled Tom Hanks to stardom.

Sacred to many Hindus, which river is the 15th longest in the world and flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh?

Richard III was the last English monarch to die in battle - at which Leicestershire location?

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In what year was the first Bristol Balloon Fiesta?

Name the two regular BBC Points West weathermen before Ian Ferguson.

Which of these cities is Bristol not twinned with - Porto, Tbilisi, Bogota or Guangzhou?

Which of these people was not born in Bristol - Jacob Rees-Mogg, Sir Bernard Lovell, James May or Russell Howard?

Which TV presenter was the face of Bristol Zoo in "Animal Magic"?

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Name the mountain range that crosses the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania and Serbia.

Name the USA's third smallest state, by area - also known as the "Nutmeg State".

Raw thinly slice beef served with lemon, olive oil and parmesan cheese or white truffle - name the delicacy.

Which "C" is a key character in Shakespeare's "The Tempest", a servant to Prospero?

Inverary Castle in Argyll is the current seat of the Chief of which well known Scottish Clan?

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How many English counties have a coastline?

What is the currency of Hungary?

How old is Justin Timberlake?

Who was UK Prime Minister when we joined the European Economic Community?

According to the British Ornithologists Union, to the nearest 50, how many species of bird have been recorded in the wild in the UK?

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The hidden history of St Christopher’s how a secret wildlife haven that hosted glorious garden parties could disappear forever

for seven grand houses to be built along the road fronting the Downs. This was the start of what are now called the Lodges.

by Jeff Bishop, Westbury Park Community Association Many readers will know of the St. Christopher’s School in the big houses - called Lodges - along Westbury Park facing The Downs. However, few of you may be aware of the land hidden behind the Lodges. Once the playground for Bristol’s rich and famous - it’s now threatened with development.

But before we find out what might be built there, let’s go back in time and discover who lived in the Lodges.

Looking Back Back to Tudor times, when this land was owned by the Dean and Chapter of Westbury College - a monastery. The College was dissolved in 1544 and - fancy that - passed to King Henry VIII. He sold this area of land to Sir Ralph Sadler who was secretary to Thomas Cromwell. Hunt through your Hilary Mantel books and you will find Sadler.

Wind forward to the early 19th century and Mary Bennett was the tenant farming the land, which now belonged to Philip Protheroe. In 1821 Protheroe sold two of the fields along the edge of the Downs to Mary Wait (remember that name). She had a very large house called Redland Lodge built on the southern field but she, her family and later occupants used the other field as gardens. A later occupant of Redland Lodge, in 1861, was James Cresswell Wall who eventually became General Manager of the Great Western Railway. His garden parties were considered ‘models of their kind’!

By 1865, Wall was possibly having money problems (too many glorious garden parties?) and he sold off a large parcel of land.

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Residents over the next few generations were a rather prestigious bunch including a lawyer, an engineer, a wool merchant and a corn merchant called William Killigrew Wait - that name again, and no coincidence!

One resident of Chescombe Lodge owned a foundry in the city which had a contract to supply corrugated iron to help ‘build’ Australia.

It looks as though Mr. Wall’s financial problems continued because, by the 1880s, he had also sold the land behind the Lodges, enabling some of the Lodge owners to expand their gardens. And expand they did - planting orchards of apple and pear trees and developing a wildlife haven that remained largely hidden - one that even today attracts wildlife in abundance, among them tawny owls and woodpeckers.

The secret gardens stayed that way for more

To the local amenity group – the Westbury Park Community Association – and many local people this all sounded really good; a positive use of the old St. Christopher’s land and buildings and a development of locally relevant social value rather than a standard housebuilder’s estate. Sadly, it took no time at all for the gloss to come off all the wonderfulsounding ambitions and promises!

than 80 years. During WW2, Redland Lodge was badly bombed, as was Carisbrooke Lodge (pictured), and the remnants demolished a few years later. That land is now used for homes for military personnel.

After the war, the remaining lodges were bought by philanthropist, Catherine Grace, for use as a school for children with severe learning difficulties. Now named St. Christopher's, the lodges were mainly residential accommodation until a new school building was added in the garden in 1966; a very unusual design using Rudolph Steiner principles with no right angles! It’s regarded as special enough to now be Listed Grade II. The ethos of the school was about enabling the children to enjoy nature and freedom - trees were planted to give children shade while they played outside. Now those very trees are threatened with being felled.

Local people were invited to look around the site to discuss the plans - for many it was the first time they’d ever been given access to the secret gardens. During walkabouts, neighbours and community leaders were promised an eco development of low rise buildings. But then the actual drawings were revealed, and a series of community engagement workshops followed which angered local residents when they realised the scale of what the developers were really planning.

Although a few new buildings have been added behind the lodges, the ‘rear land’ has remained open to nature - home to a variety of mature trees. Now investors want to fill that green space with up to seven multi-storey blocks of flats. Despite all the surrounding houses being only 2 and 3 storeys, the new buildings would be up to six storeys high taller and denser than the Wapping Wharf development in the Harbourside. The secret gardens that once hosted Bristols’ mid 19th century society may be concreted over forever.

Aerial photo showing the Lodges and the Granny Downs. (credit Oliver Bennett) Looking Ahead

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Fast forward to the present day and to the disappointment of many in the local area, St. Christopher’s School was forced to close in 2019. Aurora, a national provider of special needs schools, took over but they too could not make it work so they sold it again in 2020 to global investors FORE - who now plan to build an Extra Care retirement complex aimed at what they call the active elderly - who need some ‘extra care’ to keep living independently. The developers are a consortium of international investment and property firms: FORE, care providers Amicala and developers First Base.

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GARDENING TIPS FROM HILARY BARBER Happy December to everyone. Although, as I write these top tips, the weather is unseasonably warm, the birds are really enjoying sunflower seed heads and having a lovely bath in the bird bath!

1. Feed the birds! Make sure you consistently top up feeders through the winter, and use seeded fat balls and blocks and other suet based foods to give the birds a real boost in the early mornings. Other good energy rich foods which will help bring in a good range of birds include peanuts, niger seed, black sunflowers, and mealworms. I often hang Christmas presents for the birds from the trees, including popcorn and sultana ‘tinsel’, apple halves, pine cones stuffed with lard mixed with seed mix, and homemade bird cakes made of seed, sultanas and lard - they love it!

2. Don’t forget water in a bird bath or bowl.

Garden ponds can also be an important water source for wildlife, but not just for drinking. If we have a cold winter, it’s important to ensure that pond life is safe too, as the oxygen in a pond can be depleted if it is completely frozen over for long periods of time. To ensure that your pond is healthy and to stop it freezing over make sure that you have a ball floating on the surface.

3. Clean out nesting boxes. Don’t forget to remove old nesting materials from bird boxes to prevent the build up of parasites and diseases, replace the old with a little fresh material, and don’t take them down for long periods as come nightfall many of these boxes will still be in use as birds shelter from the harsh weather. Now is a great time to put up more boxes too, ready for the spring - you might even get some birds roosting in it over the winter. https://www.rspb.org. uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/how-you-canhelp-birds/nestboxes/ 4. Hedgehogs should be hibernating by now but if it’s still mild and you are lucky enough to see a hedgehog in your garden, provide a shallow bowl of fresh water and some cat or dog food. Please don’t give them milk as they are lactose intolerant. Do refer to https:// www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/found-ahedgehog for further information. If you are building a new fence please ensure to leave a little hedgehog ‘door’ at the bottom of one section so that hedgehogs can roam widely

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Don’t be too tidy! It’s tempting, when plants begin to die back and trees lose their leaves, to ‘have a tidy’ and cut back vegetation.

However, leaving seed heads on and not pruning berry laden shrubs will provide much needed natural food sources; and plant stems, and piles of leaves, rocks or logs make a great place for invertebrates such as ladybirds and lacewings, toads, slow worms and hedgehogs to hibernate. You can also make a bug hotel for the winter, using hollow stems, sticks, dead flower heads, leaves, pine cones etc. It’s great fun!

If you are planning for next year, start thinking about the kind of plants you might like to add to your garden. Plants and shrubs which bear fruit, nuts or berries are a great way to give something back to wildlife and they provide all year interest too!. Also, planting plants with hollow stems such as angelica, fennel and plume poppy, and leaving them to stand through the winter will provide a great home for wildlife to hibernate. They also provide a source of nectar for bees in the summer, along with other beautiful flowers and shrubs.

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Deathbed Gifts Without a Will - Are They Valid?

Leila Goodarzi

COVID-19 has brought into sharp focus for those who do not have their legal affairs in order, the risk of suddenly falling ill and tragically dying without their chosen beneficiaries inheriting, because they have not prepared a Will.

However, a recent case has cast light on a legal lifeline, known colloquially as ‘deathbed gifts’, legally-termed Donationes Mortis Causa (DMCs). These can enable a person to legally make gifts in contemplation of their death without a Will.

A Sad Story In Davey v Bailey, Alan and Margaret, a devoted married couple, died within months of each other. They had no children and left Wills which were simple, but not wellthought through. They both left everything to each other with no provisions on who was to inherit from the survivor. Margaret died first and Alan visited his solicitor to draw up a new Will. However, it was not completed before he died suddenly of a heart attack.

As Alan died last, his former Will leaving everything to Margaret failed and his estate fell to be divided under the rules of intestacy, benefitting only Alan’s side of the family.

Margaret’s Family’s Claims Margaret’s sister claimed Alan had gifted the marital home to her as a deathbed gift.

She and her brother also claimed that the

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couple had gifted them a significant share of their sizeable assets before they died in contemplation of their deaths.

The court reviewed the three conditions necessary to determine whether the DMCs were valid: The gifts must be made in contemplation of impending death (although this may not be imminent, in a prior case a period of four months up to death was considered valid).

The gifts must be contingent on the person actually dying. If the person makes an unexpected recovery, the gifts will be reversed.

The person must ‘deliver dominion’ over the subject matter of the gifts (an example would be handing over the keys of a car to be gifted to the recipient).

The judge found several problems with Margaret’s siblings’ claims, including that Alan’s heart attack could not have been contemplated at the time the gifts were said to have been made by the couple. Also some of the alleged gifts were non-specific in nature, excluding the house.

An Ineffective Will The judge did not allow the claims but noted the sadness of the case and expressed the view:

“…this is a classic example of how the principle (of DMCs) is not to be used as a device to validate an ineffective will.”

The ineffective Will was of course Alan’s former Will, which led to only Alan’s side of the family inheriting the couples’ joint assets as on the evidence presented, the couple had intended that both sides of their formerly-close families inherit equally from their estates.

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HISTORY NOTES NO. 165 - JULIAN LEA-JONES Something new from something old

failed to amaze. ‘Skip diving’, or fossicking to use the older term, could equally well be called ‘serendipity’. In 1754 Horace Walpole wrote a fairy tale called The Three Princes of Serendip in which they often made discoveries of things they were not specifically searching for. A late doctor friend of ours even kept a pole with a hook in his car in case he spied an interesting looking skip. I am not only referring to householders having a clear out, but builders carrying out home improvements, or loft extensions. For some reason, in recent years, the amount of perfectly good, sometimes unused, items often includes full boxes of fittings or even tools. For metal items and cable, you have to be quick to get there before roving scrappies. Nevertheless, if you are lucky, you may find the very tool you need to ‘upcycle’ yet another find.

Nowadays the news media, whether radio, TV, print or digital, quite rightly extol the virtues of not wasting materials and to mend, reuse or (the awful phrase) ‘upcycle’ items you already have. Unfortunately, reuse or upcycling has, for some, just become a fashionable trendy term to drop into the conversation at dinner parties to try to demonstrate one’s green credentials and how very eco-friendly one is. Having got that polemic out of the way, I was heartened by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s announcement at the recent Earth Shot prize-giving event. Hopefully they have set an example for "luvvies" that it is now socially acceptable to wear items that have been worn before. There you are Santa Claus, Royal approval at last, your thousand-yearold outfit is now OK! Not all of the ways in which things can be put to a new and totally different use are obvious, some are completely counterintuitive. For example, the Canadian who used his oak tree to heat his swimming pool, and no, he didn’t burn the tree! I will explain later in this article how this worked.

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As a teenager in the late 1950s, the most common example of re-use must have been the item most often found in student’s digs. The Chianti bottle, which came in its own raffia basket was then the acme of cool; empty ones became candle holders. Mateus Rose bottles performed the samefunction in the 70's.

Growing your own? Protect those precious seedlings • To keep cutworms at bay, use tin cans with top and bottoms cut out, pressed down into the soil. This works easiest with cans that still have top and bottom rims.

• Translucent plastic tapered soup pots - you need two. Remove the labels, and cut a large identical rectangle, (portrait orientation), (continued overleaf) (continued overleaf)

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Place one over the other. Vary or close the ventilation by simply rotating the upper pot.

• Transparent coffee / smoothie cup covers with a central hole make mini green houses.

Clips to keep a cover from blowing off the garden table, or as cable ties for strimmer, hedge trimmer etc, rescue short lengths of white plumbing pipes from skips, the 40mm or 70mm diameter, cut into about 30mm lengths then cut each longitudinally. Due to the manufacturing process the cut will close up, giving you a free ‘C’ clip.

Post war – unpicking old sweaters for the wool, make the colours into separate skeins, hand wash, then wind around a chairback to dry and get the crinkles out. My wife Diane remembers helping her mum do this.

Water storage for the garden. Not so often found these days, but with the trend in loft extensions builders skips may still sometimes house a redundant header tank, more often than not black plastic (avoid the grey ones, they are probably made of asbestos/cement).

Tanks linked together with old red and blue washing machine hoses can be less obtrusive than water butts, and if fed from the garage roof are a receptacle for rain water.

There are, apparently, many new uses for an old Mackintosh coat! This tip, found in a 1950s newspaper, certainly demonstrated the lengths people would go to, in order to overcome shortages. It read as follows: • “Never throw away and old rubber mackintosh, for parts of it can be 70 44

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put to good use. If the hood is cut off it will make a useful toilet bag.

Pockets cut off and used as bags.

Cut-out sleeves can be made into a serviceable shopping bag for wet days.

An apron or tray cloth can likewise be contrived from the back.

Any other sizeable pieces still left over will make excellent bookmarks.”

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Whilst on the subject of bookmarks I also make bookmarks which I leave in books, especially books going to charity shops. With any letter envelopes I receive from abroad, I cut across the top of the envelope to give a 25-30mm strip which includes the foreign stamp and postmark. A dab of glue inside keeps the front and back of the envelope together and stiffens it slightly. Voila, a bookmark with interest for the next reader. (Reminds me of the day Tommy Cooper went into a library, asked the librarian if he could borrow a pair scissors. He then cut off the bottom two inches of his trouser leg, handed it over, saying, “This is a turn up for the books.” Very silly but funny).

Here are some uses for short lengths of defunct garden hose, or bicycle inner tubes.

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to its post. Pass around the plant, cross over and then around the post forming a figure of eight, nail or tie the open ends to the post.

The crossover cushions the plant from chafing on the post. Old pairs of nylon tights work as well.

• A four-inch (100mm) piece of hose, slit along its length, makes a comfort handle for a heavy carrier bag of shopping.

• Similarly, a cut length will provide a safety cover for saw blades, If the saw is in a tool bag it also protects the teeth from damage by other tools.

Aluminium household steps, if you also use them outside to avoid muddy floors, save four of the purple plastic detergent measuring caps that come with the large sized Persil® bottles. The caps are a snug fit over the steps feet, it works very well, just remember to remove them when back in the house.

The Canadian’s tree powered pool heater was a gadget that relied on the principle of an absorption dynamometer, converting torque and friction to heat. He tied hefty ropes to the top of his large oak tree, the ropes were then wrapped around and fixed to a large roller submerged in the pool, such that when the wind shook the tree the roller was rotated first one way then the other. The roller possibly had truck brakes fixed, and the resultant friction heated the water.

One of the most bizarre examples of reuse I've encountered was where I needed to resolve the problem of picking pears from our tree that were beyond safe ladder reach. I found an old pair of coal tongs of the style where pulling on the handle closed the curved jaws around the lump of coal. These were then fastened to a long pole, with a cable leading to a pull handle at the bottom end. The problem was that it

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I mentioned this to a friend, who said he knew how to resolve my problem. He was a dentist.

We then fastened a set of old dentures to the modified coal tongs – problem resolved, only to be replaced by another. It left teeth marks in the pears! A side-story to this invention, a neighbour saw me picking pears and asked to borrow the picker device, but when I passed it to her she started screaming; but she always was a bit excitable.

Lastly a bit of whimsey. It seem a shame to trash the nice little wooden trays, possibly of poplar wood, which package the Charlie Bigham ready meals. Having soaked the trays in hot water and flattened them I used sharp scissors and wood glue to make this nice little functioning sailing boat, Oh yes, plus a chopstick for the mast. I sent a photo to CB who praised the ingenuity.

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IT ISSUES - RUSSELL ISAAC Cloud Storage – easier than ever - Most people are, by now, familiar with the term “cloud storage” and its basic concept of allowing you to save data securely online so it can be easily shared and accessed anytime from any location.

place is to look at the option supplied by your device brand. If you have a Microsoft Windows PC, that’s ONEDRIVE, if you have Apple devices it’s iCLOUD, and if you have Google/Android devices it’s GOOGLEDRIVE. There is a well-known independent alternative – DROPBOX – but that’s quite expensive these days.

Pretty well all devices now use it to some extent - for instance your smartphone and tablet will, by default, back up their contents on a regular basis to the cloud, and your email is effectively stored in the cloud. There are some very powerful benefits in configuring your device(s) to automatically store to the cloud; 1.

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They all work essentially the same way. They’ll give you about 5gb storage for free, then you pay monthly (typically between 79p and £1.99 per month, for up to 100gb storage (enough for most everyday users’ storage demands). You can cancel at any point. I think it’s a mall price to pay for data safety and accessibility.

You never need to think about manually backing up data to an external device.

Your documents/photos/data will never be lost – take a photo and it automatically stores to the cloud as well as on your device.

When you get a new smartphone/tablet, you can simply “download” the brain from your old device and be completely back to normal in no time at all.

You can share photos and documents with people with absolute ease.

There’s good news for people (like me!) who run Microsoft, Apple and Google devices. The three main players have now all developed apps for each others’ platforms so, for instance, you can download the iCloud app to your Windows PC and see your iPhone photos on your PC – and vice versa. It’s never been easier to use cloud storage and is something I highly recommend people take a look at for the four key reasons above!

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BRUCE FELLOWS’ BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS In her excellent novel, The Narrow Land, Christine Dwyer Hickey extemporises on the lives of iconic American artist Edward Hopper and his wife, Jo. Spending the summer at Cape Cod in 1950, they come into contact with ten-year-old Michael, a troubled boy staying with Richie and his family.

Richie’s Aunt Katherine makes a deep impression on Michael and also on Hopper, causing Jo to become deeply jealous. There are haunting memories, incapacitating depression, false accusations, and resentment felt by Jo that her own art is scorned by all and sundry. Despite these harrowing troubles, the novel remains from start to finish entirely gripping and uplifting.

If you love football, or just like a really good read, you’ll enjoy Klopp: My Liverpool Romance by Anthony Quinn, who was born and bred in Liverpool.

It’s not a biography, though you’ll learn a lot about Jurgen Klopp. He played for Mainz in the German second division for eleven years, we’d call him a journeyman footballer though one who did a degree in sports science. His thesis was on – walking! Quinn tells us a lot about Liverpool, too, the club and the city. An amusing book, this is a celebration of a club, a city and the man who’s brought success back with style.

In Nicola Williams’ terrific novel, Without Prejudice, barrister Lee Mitchell has developed a reputation for winning cases for legal aid clients, so it’s a surprise when Clive, a millionaire playboy, insists on hiring her for a large fee to defend him on a fraud charge. What’s behind Clive’s decision? How does Lee’s background, she is the daughter of working-class Caribbean immigrants to Britain, begin to loom large in the story? Why is her boyfriend’s music tour in America being extended? Can she rely on her solicitor friend, Brendan, to help her? Will she win her case? A terrific read with many surprises on the way.

Three Hours is an absorbing and disturbing thriller by Rosamund Lupton.

Gunmen prowl around a school. In Somerset! The headmaster is wounded.

Emergency procedures go into operation. Who is it outside with the guns? Terrorists? Ex-pupils with a grudge? Dismissed teachers? Lupton takes us through everyone’s thoughts: children, trapped in their rooms; teachers, still caring for their classes; police anxious to resolve the situation without loss of life; parents, gathered together in an agony of fear. Even the gunmen themselves! It’s very close to home and in Lupton’s telling very easy to imagine yourself in this appalling situation. It’s a great if sometimes uncomfortable read.

The sister without a role, our princess before Diana: Margaret or Ma’am Darling as some friends called her and the title of `’s amusing, shocking, entertaining and original account of her life subtitled, ’99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret’. Thwarted in love (remember Peter Townsend? Of course not, most people are far too young) she married a photographer and lived happily ever after (well, again, of course not). You’ll learn all about that and most other aspects of her life; her love of showbiz, her habitual lateness, her appalling rudeness but also her total loyalty to her sister. Unputdownable and frequently laugh out loud funny.

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The gift of giving at Christmas Like many people, I much prefer to give than to receive. It really warms the heart to see someone you care about beam with happiness at a well thought out gift! Better still if the gifts you give can also help your family in the long run by factoring in to your inheritance tax (IHT) planning.

keep records to show which gifts are coming from your income.

5. If you have one, you can give your spouse or civil partner gifts of any amount which are IHT free.

6. Giving away some of your assets may come under Potentially Exempt Transfers if it doesn’t fall under any of the other categories. This is where provided you live for at least 7 years after giving the gift (of any amount), it should remain IHT free. Taper relief applies if you survive less than 7 years so these gifts may not be subject to the full 40% tax.

There are a number of exemptions for lifetime gifts and the following gifts can be made in cash or other assets and are free of IHT: 1. Donations to charities are generally IHT free as long as the organisation is registered in the UK. 2. You can give gifts of up to £250 to anyone you like each tax year.

3. There is an annual gift allowance of £3,000. If you haven’t used the full £3,000 allowance from the previous tax year, you can carry it forward to the next year meaning the maximum you can gift is £6,000 in a two year period IHT free.

4. You can give gifts out of your income (not from capital) which may be exempt from IHT. This must not negatively impact your normal living standards and you should

Hopefully there are some ideas above for anyone wanting to reduce IHT liability whilst making someone’s day this Christmas!

To discuss how we can help you protect your assets, book your complimentary financial planning review with Chartered independent financial adviser Richard Higgs, by calling 0117 3636 212 or emailing office@haroldstephens.co.uk.

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QUIZ ANSWERS Quiz Time - from page 34 Nature 1. giraffes; 2) fossils; 3. the Lake District National Park; 4. (clockwise from top left) chamois, okapi, capercaillie, pangolin; 5. cumulonimbus.

Cities 1a) Windhoek, b) Bern, c) Dhaka / Dacca; 2. Madrid; 3. Istanbul; 4. Valetta (Malta) and Tunis (Tunisia); 5. Paris.

The letter "A" 1. Arkle; 2. the aardvark; 3. antirrhinum; 4. ambidextrous; 5. Azerbaijan.

Celebrities 1. Rylan Clark-Neal; 2. Peter Andre (she didn't marry Dwight Yorke); 3. Laura Whitmore; 4. Esme Young and Patrick Grant; 5. 8 out of 40, scored by Quentin Wilson.

Sport 1. Joe Root; 2. Emmanuel Adebayor; 3. Paris; 4. Ascot, 1996; 5a) curling, b) swimming, c) pole vault.

The letter "B" 1. a Balthazar; 2. Barnsley; 3. "Big"; 4. Brahmaputra; 5. Bosworth Field.

Bristol 1. 1979; 2. Richard Angwin and Tony Targett; 3. Bogota; 4. Jacob Rees-Mogg; 5. Johnny Morris.

The letter "C" 1. the Carpathians; 2. Connecticut; 3. carpaccio; 4. Caliban; 5. the Campbells.

Pot Luck 1. sixteen; 2. the Forint; 3. 40; Sir Edward Heath; 5. 627.

Who Am I? Dawn French and Rishi Sunak.

Children's Puzzles - from page 16 Who Am I? The Duchess of Cambridge, Rhys Stephenson, Ryan Reynolds, Holly Willoughby.

Which Am I? President Putin, Great Tit, Spain, Mount Fuji.

Where Am I (clockwise from top left) Thailand, Australia, Egypt, France.

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TIDE TIMES Here are your high and low tide times for the River Avon locally this coming month. All times are listed in GMT. Tides in red are above 12m. The tides mid-morning on Christmas Day and Boxing Day aren't huge but would make a nice backdrop to a pre-coffee walk!

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS Thank you to everyone who has taken the trouble to get in contact to let me know of things going on. If you are involved in any local groups, not-for profit organisations, charity events or social activities and would like some free publicity do please get in touch. It will be great to get the listings here back to their prepandemic numbers. And if you are the contact included in any of the existing listings and would like to update your information and / or contact details then please do get in touch.

Email andy@bcmagazines.co.uk or write to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY, and I will be more than happy to include them.

• The Arts Society Bristol Would you like to join us for lectures on a wide range of arts related subjects, given by specialists in their own field? The lecture on 14 December is on Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and on 11 January is on understanding the Sahara. Lectures are expected to be held at 8pm at Redmaids’ High School, Westbury-on-Trym, BS9 3AW and delivered by internet. For more information and updates visit our website www.theartssociety-bristol.org.uk • BCCS (Bristol Cathedral Choir School) Choral Society is now meeting at the Henleaze Bowling Club in Grange Court Road, on Wednesdays from 7.30 to 9pm.

We are a small, friendly, unauditioned choir singing varied music, from choral works to more modern pieces and we would welcome new members of all standards. Please do come and give us a try. For more information, please contact Kathy telephone 0117 9493628 or email www.bccschoralsociety.org.uk • Biodanza Bristol Weekly Group runs every Tuesday 7-9pm at All Saints Church, Randall Room, Alma Vale Road, Clifton, BS8 3ED (entrance upstairs). Cost: £10, 5 week card £40, 10 week card £70. Contact antoinette@biodanza4all.com for more details.

• Bristol All Voices Allowed Choir is a community choir started in 2020 by former members of the Bristol Hippodrome Choir and All Together Now Bristol Choir We are looking for new singers, men and women, beginners and more experienced singers, to join us.

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Bristol Bridge Club is running beginners lessons on Tuesday mornings and Wednesday evenings. Please contact teaching@bristolbridgeclub.co.uk for further details.

Bristol Bridge Club (BBC) has been running free online supervised sessions with some teaching all through the pandemic on Zoom, and will continue to do so every Saturday morning from 10am to 12 noon. To take part, go to the bridge club website www.bristolbridgeclub.co.uk and follow the link “Learn and Play”.

Bristol Chamber Choir present Music for Advent and Christmas from the Tudor Age to the Present Day, at The Lord Mayor’s Chapel, College Green, BS1 5TB on Saturday 11th December at 2.15pm.

Tickets are £10.00 (children and students free) available on-line from Eventbrite or at the door or from Opus 13, 14 St Michael’s Hill. For further information go to www.bristolchamberchoir.org.uk or ring 07342 954249 Bristol Choral Society present Handel’s Messiah on Saturday December 11th 2021, at 17.30 and 20.00, in Bristol Cathedral, College Green. These are two shorter-than-usual performances, of Part One only, in order to ensure that we create a safe environment for singers and audience. Conducted by Hilary Campbell the Society will be joined by the Bristol Ensemble. Tickets now available at: www. bristolbeacon.org/whats-on/bristolchoral-society-messiah/ - ticket prices: £5.00 (under 25’s) - £28.00.

Bristol Grandparents Support Group 07773 258 270, www.bgsg.co.uk Bristol Harmony West Gallery Choir & Band are looking for new members (SATB) as well as string, reed and wind instrumentalists. We sing and play lively church and village music from the 18th century. We meet at St Edyth’s Church Hall in Sea Mills on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month. No auditions but ability to read music is helpful. Ring Fritjof on 0117 924 3440 for more information, or see www.bristolharmony.wordpress.com.

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BRISTOL ENSEMBLE Saturday 18 and Monday 20 December at 7.30pm Christmas Spectaculars at St George’s Bristol Two glorious evenings of festive and joyful choral and orchestral music conducted by David Ogden Sunday 19 December, 2pm and 4pm, St George’s Bristol Children’s Christmas Carnivals Entertaining family-friendly concerts including music from The Snowman and plenty of audience participation!

Sunday 19 December, 8pm, St George’s Bristol A Baroque Christmas by Candlelight The soprano Philippa Hyde joins the orchestra to perform exquisite Christmas music incuding arias from Handel’s Messiah Tuesday 21 December, 7.30pm, St George’s Bristol Festive Fiesta Come and sing your festive favourites at this feel-good family festive evening of carols and Christmas music led in entertaining style by David Ogden Wednesday 22 December at 7pm, St George’s Bristol Handel’s Messiah Semi-staged performance of Handel’s masterpiece with The Choir of Royal Holloway

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Lessons at home or online. Children, students, adults. Complete beginners, after-school clubs, conversation practice and exam preparation (GCSE, A Level, Common Entrance etc.). Email: BristolLanguagesTutor@gmail.com or Tel. 07825 600 402.

Bristol Morris Men www. bristolmorrismen.co.uk, Grant on 0117 944 2165.

Bristol Scrabble Club meets every Wednesday at 7.15pm at Upper Horfield Community Trust (next to Eden Grove Church). New members welcome - first visit free so come and give it a try. For further information contact Sheila on 0117 957 0792, 07435 316 458 or shinett@ blueyonder.co.uk Bristol Shambhala Meditation Group offers meditation on Thursday evenings at the Friends’ Meeting House in Hampton Road from 7.15 until 8.45 pm and a qualified Meditation Instructor is available to talk you through the practice if this is required. In addition to meditation practice there is usually a reading, a discussion and a mindfulness of body exercise. Further information at bristol.shambhala.info Bristol U3A: Have you reached a point in your life where you have fewer responsibilities and more time for yourself? Would you like to take part in activities where you can share skills, abilities or hobbies whilst having fun and making new friends? Go to www. bristolu3a.org.uk for details.

City Voices Bristol are delighted to be singing again. Our rehearsals have resumed on Monday nights at Red Maids High School, from 7.30-9pm. We are keen to welcome new members who would like to join a friendly and sociable group of people who love to sing! Our repertoire extends from rock and pop to choral and musicals and we hope to perform early in 2022. If you would like more information, look at our website www.cityvoicesbristol. org or pop along on a Monday night to the Performing Arts Centre at Redmaids.

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cliftonsingers.co.uk, or visit www. cliftonsingers.co.uk Frisbee Club - North Bristol Ultimate on Facebook, jake.f.waller@gmail.com The Henleaze Concert Society ‘Chamber Quintet’ concert is on January 22nd at 7:30 at the Trinity-Henleaze Unified Reformed Church, Waterford Road, Henleaze, BS9 4BT. This lovely concert includes Dvořák’s iridescent Piano Quintet and Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Quintet. Tickets at the door or see henleazeconcertsociety.org. uk (annual Membership £12; member’s ticket £13.50; non-member £16.50; under 25’s £5).

Henleaze Lawn Tennis Club is a friendly and welcoming club for all ages and standards.

We offer social and competitive play and a comprehensive coaching programme for all ages and levels. To find out more visit our website: www.henleazeltc.com or call Heather on 07891 520 456.

Henleaze Singing for the Brain - Sophia Simlat on 0117 961 0693, bristol@ alzheimers.org.uk Henleaze Senior Film Club - Monday 20th December at 2pm. “Meet Me in St Louis” starring Judy Garland. The 1944 American musical featuring the wellloved songs, The Trolley Song, The Boy Next Door and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. Tickets: £4.00 including tea & cake. Carers welcome, easy access.

For more information and to book, please call 0117 435 0063. St. Peter’s Hall, The Drive, Henleaze BS9 4LD. Keynsham Brass Band present a Christmas concert at Trinity-Henleaze United Reformed Church, Waterford Road, Henleaze, BS9 4BT Saturday 11 December 2021 at 7:30pm. Doors open 7:00pm – free entry, Refreshments and raffle available. We will be having a retiring collection for Henleaze Singing for the Brain (a singing group which supports people with Dementia and their families). For further information contact Keith Brierley 07848 916411 or email keithbrierley.kb@gmail.com Menopause Matters - Tricia Worthington, 07962 892 060, tricia_worthington@ msn.com New Bristol Sinfonia is one of Bristol’s

DEFIBRILLATOR LOCATIONS There are an increasing number of Automated External Defibrillators, or AED’s, in prominent, accessible 24/7 locations in our area. Detailed below are the updated locations of the defibrillators accessible 24/7 that I am aware of in this area, together with the “what3words” locations for them (Please, if you can, take a photo of this page on your phone and save it for emergency use, or cut the page out and keep it for reference.

Blaise Inn, 260 Henbury Road, Henbury BS10 7QR, on the side of the Inn. Salvatore’s Barbers 19A Druid Hill, Stoke Bishop, BS9 1EW (in the dip near Stoke Bishop Fish Bar). what3words location - hulk.courier.bells The White Lion Passage Road, Westbury on Trym, BS9 3HN (in the pub car park). what3words location - scale.miles.petty Methodist Church Hall, Westbury Hill, Westbury on Trym, BS9 3AA (next to main GP’s car park). what3words location - olive.belly.score Trinity United Reform Church, Waterford Road, Henleaze, BS9 4BT (opp. Tesco garage). what3words location - belts.edges.bucks Bristol Chiropractic, 2 Kellaway Avenue, Redland, BS6 7XR (in the main rank of shops). what3words location - swept.salsa.reap The RAFA Club, 38 Eastfield, Westbury on Trym, BS9 4BE (near the Eastfield Road junction). what3words location - allow.quench.doll St Monica Court, Cote Lane, WoT, BS9 3TL (part of the St Monica complex). what3words location - taking.clubs.tiger The Beehive Pub, Wellington Hill West, Henleaze, BS9 QY. what3words location - cans.type.loving Avon Fire & Rescue (Southmead Fire Station), Southmead Road, BS10 5DR. what3words location - held.demand.deep Bristol Property Centre, 14 Chandos Road, Redland, BS6 6PE. what3words location - wacky.relay.closes Max Minervas Bookshop, North View, Westbury Park, BS6 7PY. what3words location - edgy.slap.invite Bristol Prison Site, 248 Gloucester Road, Horfield, BS7 8NZ( between Cambridge Rd and Longmead Ave). what3words location - moving.spoon.folds Westbury Park Primary School, Bayswater Avenue, BS6 7NU (Coldharbour Road end). what3words location - bubble.trunk.waters Cafe on the Square, 136 Shirehampton Rd, Sea Mills, BS9 2DY. what3words location - shaky.trail.motel Boyce’s Avenue, Clifton, BS8 4AA - on the wall of East Village cafe, near The Albion. what3words location - goad.chef.recall Redland Park United Reformed Church, Whiteladies Road, Redland, BS6 6SA - junction with Redland Park. what3words location - stole.rust.prime Westbury Baptist Church Hall, Reedley Road, Westbury on Trym, BS9 3TE. what3words location - demand.dose.aspect The George Inn, 4-6 High Street, Shirehampton, BS11 0DE. what3words location - park. leaves.cotton Future Leap, 1-3 Gloucester Road (at the Zetland Road junction), BS7 8AA. what3words location - book.zebra.boat what3words addresses are easy to say and share, are as accurate as GPS coordinates, and are now being used by most UK emergency services as a location tool. Get the app!

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Nordic4 - technique based Nordic walking teaching and fitness to individual needs. Beginner Tasters, Beginner Courses, small weekly Walking Fitness Groups differentiated for pace and terrain. Specialist sessions: Nordic4 Joints, Seasonal walks and 1:1 Support To Sport. www.nordic4.com. Booking online or by phone. Call Katie on 07970741320 or email katie.atkins@nordic4.com to find out more.

North West Bristol Camera Club - Neville at nevwgoodman@mac.com Oasis Bridge Tuition Improvers: monthly online seminars - various topics/dates www.bridgewebs.com/oasis. Tel Maggie on 0117 329 6482 for more details.

People of Note Community Choir, the famous 20 year old Bristol community choir, is holding a series of day workshops and evening singing sessions, just for the fun and joy of singing together! From now until Christmas and beyond. Come and join us in Southville or Clifton! Go to www.peopleofnote.org.uk/events/ for information of events, and book your place.

Redland Green Bowls Club redlandgreenbowls.webs.com Royal Air Forces Association Veterans lunch is held at the RAFA Club, 38 Eastfield, Westbury On Trym, BS9 4BE on the 2nd Wednesday of every month, from 12 noon for 1pm till 3pm.Two course meal for just £6. Please contact 0117 947 0775 and leave a message let us know who wishes to attend. This lunch is for all service veterans, their wives, widows or dependants, not just ex-RAF. Rotary Club of Bristol meets Mondays 7.00 for 7.30 pm alternately at Bristol Hotel, Prince Street BS1 4QF and on Zoom. Further details: www.rotarybristol. org and / or contact Martina at mpeattie@ btopenworld.com Stoke Lodge Ramblers - please check our website for dates when walks are offered stokelodgeramblers.wordpress.com/

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Tai Chi – Boosts immunity, improves movement, increases vitality.

Covid cautious classes starting in autumn.

Interested? Contact Karen 0117 942 4167 or see www.taichiworksbristol.co.uk Tai Chi for over 55’s Shibashi form, a slow and easy sequence of flowing movements that can be done standing or sitting.

Relaxing and meditative. Helps improve leg strength, flexibility and balance.

Classes at The Redland Club, Burlington Road, BS6 6TN on Wednesdays 11.00 11.40 am starting in October. Cost £3.

Covid safety precautions will be followed.

Numbers limited so please phone or email to book your place. Selina Newton 0117 946 6434 or selinanewton@yahoo.co.uk.

Westbury Park Women’s Institute - email us - westburyparkwi@gmail.com, visit westburyparkwi.org.uk, or call Lorna on 0770 245 3827.

Westbury Scottish Country Dance Club - Cheryl on 0117 401 2416, www. westburyscottish.org.uk West of England Bridge Club has restarted real, face-to-face bridge at its new home in the RAFA Club, 38 Eastfield, Henleaze.

Thursday afternoon is for Improvers, where experienced Club members help players with bidding and card play. A brief lesson is often included. Monday afternoon is for more capable players; relaxed but competitive, this is an EBUrecognised session. You may come alone to any afternoon session; a partner will be found. The three evening sessions are on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and are open to pairs. For more information, go to our website at www.woebridgeclub. co.uk or contact our Secretary, Chris Frew, on 0117 962 5281.

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Karrot

Carpets & Floorings

Jewellery & Gifts

61

Kemps Jewellers

Opticians

47

Lynne Fernandes Optometrists

Painting & Decorating

9

14 7

G R Knott

22

Peter Wyatt

55

Precision Decorators

49

57

Sarah's Decorating Services

29

Home Gleamers

49

John Hoggett

53

Oven Gleam

10

McCall Plastering

11

55

Tony Taps

Conran Carpets Ltd

Choirs

Bristol Ensemble

Cleaning Services

Collectors

Matt Stevens

Computer Services

6

FAB ‐ IT Rescue

18

IT HomeHelp

48

Cycle Services

Boing Bicycles

Electrical Services

Lek‐Trix

Estate & Letting Agents

Howard Estate Agents

Estate Agents

Maggs & Allen

Financial Advice

Harold Stephens

Furniture

Sofa Magic

Garage Doors

Up & Over Doors

Plastering

Plumbing Pubs & Restaurants

Berwick Lodge

Schools

53

17

Bristol Steiner School

29

AMD Solicitors Corfield Solicitors Veale Wasbrough Vizards

27

TV Aerials

64

H and P Aerials

51

Nordic4

Walking Groups Waste & Rubbish

Bristol Waste Company

5, 61

Windows & Doors

Crystal Clear

43

62

13

Badminton School

Solicitors

11

4

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FESTIVE WASTE COLLECTIONS Over the festive season your waste collection dates change slightly. Check when we’ll be coming below.

Why not keep this advert as a handy reminder Your usual collection day Mon 27 Dec Tue 28 Dec Wed 29 Dec Thur 30 Dec Fri 31 Dec Mon 3 Jan Tue 4 Jan Wed 5 Jan Thur 6 Jan Fri 7 Jan Mon 10 Jan Tue 11 Jan Wed 12 Jan Thur 13 Jan Fri 14 Jan Mon 17 Jan Tue 18 Jan Wed 19 Jan Thur 20 Jan Fri 21 Jan

Put yo u with th r TREE out e first wheel bin co ie l l e c t ion from W ed 12 Jan

Revised collection day Wed 29 Dec Thur 30 Dec Fri 31 Dec Tues 4 Jan Wed 5 Jan Thur 6 Jan Fri 7 Jan Sat 8 Jan Mon 10 Jan Tues 11 Jan Wed 12 Jan Thur 13 Jan Fri 14 Jan Sat 15 Jan Mon 17 Jan Tues 18 Jan Wed 19 Jan Thur 20 Jan Fri 21 Jan Sat 22 Jan

DOWNLOAD Never miss a collection – download your 2021/22 collection calendar from: bristolwastecompany.co.uk/festive

DON’T FORGET You can take trees to your nearest Recycling Centre.

Garden and bulky waste services pause over the Christmas period.

Normal collections from Mon 24 Jan 63

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