The Bristol Six - April 2015 by Andy Fraser

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The Editor’s Small Piece Hello there and welcome to your mahoosive (i.e. it is large ‐ sorry, teenager in the house) April issue of The Bristol Six. April is always a busy month and this one is no exception, with an excess of events, activities and articles. So as well as the monthly wordsearch, with 6 bottles of wine from Aimee’s Winehouse up for grabs (p35) and the no‐prize quiz (p6) we also have fashion (p15), historical laundry (p24), swifts (p28), pet technology (p26), books (p41), Nordic walking (p44), procrastination (p48), wheely bin stress (p51), ilms (p38), and more besides. Such an eclectic mix you might easily think the magazine is just cobbled together ………. We also have the thoughts of Brian Leith on a Whiteladies Road institution on p8. Brian’s walk went AWOL last month due to an editorial malfunction (I boobed) so apologies to Brian for missing him out and to everyone who enjoys his musings. Do please get in touch on all things BS6. Tel 0117 968 7787 / 07845 986650, email andy@thebs6.co.uk, or write to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY. Have a great month Ps ‐ deadline for inclusion in the May issue ‐ 17th April.

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The “No Prize” General Knowledge Quiz 1. 2. 3.

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Name the President of the Ukraine Which is the UK’s most common bird 11. of prey? In which counties would you ine these “landmarks”?

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In which sports did these famous Finnish sportsmen achieve world success? a) Paavo Nurmi b) Pentti Airikkala c) Sami Hyypia And in which sports did these famous English women achieve world success? a) Kathy Cook MBE b) Marion Mould c) Charlotte Edwards CBE Name the person who originally presented / presents the following television programmes ‐ a) Ask The Family b) Grand Designs c) Screen Test The Shetland and Orkney Islands are covered by which Shipping Forecast area? Solve the following anagrams to ind three English cakes / biscuit specialities ‐ a) I E L R B T A V H O (2 words) b) C E O L E K C Y H R A (2 words) c) B O E D K S O R T N (2 words) Which two cities are joined by the Grand Union Canal?

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From smallest to largest, rank the following countries in order of population ‐ England, Australia, North Korea, Vietnam In which town would you ind the headquarters of the Open University? The 1980’s advert for which product featured a man wishing to travel by train to Nottingham? Name the most senior acting ranks in the UK Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, and the Police Force (outside London). Name the debut albums by Robbie Williams, Led Zeppelin and Sir Cliff Richard. On orchestral terms what is the difference between timpani and percussion? Can you work out the connection between the following pop / rock music tracks ‐ a track on “London Calling” by The Clash, the only hit single for Mink Deville in 1977, a 1966 hit for Al Martino and a 1960 classic by Ben E. King. In which counties would you ind the following RSPB reserves? a) Minsmere (pictured below) b) Bempton Cliffs c) Carsington Water

Answers on page 68

Walking Whiteladies with Brian Leith

crossing the downs and walking along our high street between the university and halls of residence ‐ had somehow conspired to keep Harold Hockey open. Changing times at the top of I'll miss you Whiteladies Road... Harold Hockey... In my very irst article I wrote about ‘Wabi Sabi' ‐ the Japanese world view that change is Your wood panelling and inevitable ‐ a completely natural part of life ‐ that all living things are in a constant state of delightful old lux, and that we shouldn't regret the changes prints of Bristol, your that time brings with it. I blithely sang the old fashioned praises of this wise philosophy... sense of authority and permanence... Your caring staff and regular clientele. In recent But I have to be honest: it is with genuine sadness that I learn of the imminent demise of years I've dreaded the coming of this day – the advent of W.H. Smith as our ‘Standard a great Whiteladies Road institution: Harold Stationer’ ‐ with its reduced ranges and Hockey, the stationers. The other day I went cheaper (ie not as well‐made) goods. into the shop to buy some notebooks (as I have for over 30 years) and when I came to Meanwhile, just over the road, you may have pay I was given the (short term) good news noticed that the petrol station has just closed that my purchases came with a 50% saving... On asking ‘why?’ I was given the (longer term) down. On closer inspection it has notices bad news that this was a 'A inal 50% ‘closing outside informing us that ‘Asda’ is about to open up ‐ a shop as well as petrol station, I down’ reduction'. assume ‐ offering ‘refreshments’ between 23:00 and 24:00 (!). Boo Hoo! I've been dreading this news for years. Any observer of businesses along WLR I do hope the refreshments at that time of could see it coming. How long could a shop selling 50 varieties of pen ‐ and 100 different night don’t include alcoholic drinks, and I also hope the new shop/petrol station might think sizes of art paper – stay open into the 21st about selling paintbrushes – just to make up century? Harold Hockey is a stationery for the loss on the other side of the road! obsessive’s wet dream, stocking everything from ilofaxes to bulldog clips to week‐at‐view calendars. Yet I'd somehow blithely assumed Brian Leith that the sheer volume of ‘footfall’ – students

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Spokes will be spinning at this year’s May Fair on Bank Holiday Monday 4th May, 1‐5pm on Redland Green. The nominated charity is Life Cycle UK, a local cycling charity that helps people of all ages and abilities get cycling. Life Cycle UK will be running free cycling activities for young people all afternoon, as well as offering free tune‐ups and minor repairs to adult or children's bikes, expert advice on cycling in Bristol ‐ and will be collecting donations of old, unwanted adult bikes for their bicycle recycling project at Hor ield Prison. If you have an outgrown or damaged kids’ bike, look out for the APE Project’s Children’s Bike Exchange where you can swap it for free or at a very low cost (depending on condition) for a ixed up and safety checked unwanted kids’ bike ‐ they will also have kids’ bikes for sale if you don’t have one to exchange. The APE Project supplies free bikes to children in foster care, experiencing homelessness, recently bereaved or child

refugees and so any donations of children’s bikes would be warmly welcomed.

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Jacqui Ramsey’s Fashion Column Bring on the Blues Denim is never out of fashion but this

coming season it really is having a day in the sun. I’m so happy that I didn’t ditch my ‘outdated’ denim pieces last autumn when I was having a bit of a wardrobe cull. Truth to say, I wasn’t quite ready to say goodbye to some old faithfuls. As we know, denim fabric just gets better and better with age. Designers cottoned on to this decades ago and have been contriving the scuffed‐up look ever since. Well, there will still be plenty of frayed hems and holes, and that vintage hue for those who want to wear their new jeans worn out. But this season is not all about the jeans, or the jackets even. Every style that has ever been seems to be in evidence Think boiler suits, dungarees, skirts and dresses, both long and short, frayed and fringed, and of course the chambray (a close cousin of denim) shirts. Double denim is high on the celebrity style ile this season and spot on for the current 70s vibe, if you fancy. This anything goes ‘denim fest’ allows plenty of scope for you to play around with what you’ve already got. If it all goes horribly wrong then you won’t feel so bad if it was heading towards the charity shop anyway. Why not chop off the waistband and let your jeans or denim skirt hang from the hips? Or take the sleeves out of an old

jacket and add a print fabric sleeve using heavy‐ duty cotton. Another way to pep up a piece of denim is with a smattering of embellishment. Stitch on a loral fabric patch or add a lourish of embroidery (short on sewing skills? Join me at a sewing workshop; details below). Sophisticates will wow in clean, crisp tailored pieces which range from dark indigo to a powder blue wash and still look neat for the of ice. Today’s denim will appeal to every woman. Top to bottom ▪ SimplyBe denim jumpsuit ▪ Oliver Bonas contrast zip dress ▪ Miss Selfridge denim patchwork shorts ▪ East embroidered shirt ▪ Burton Menswear jeans & jacket LEARN TO SEW With a few basic sewing skills you can pick up on the latest trends in all sorts of ways, and make a simple garment from scratch. To ind out more about my sewing workshops contact me on 07971 757 898 or email jacqueline.ramsey@blueyonder.co.uk

203 Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 2XT “CJ Hole Clifton’s Top Five reasons to move to BS6 or stay here as we head into the busiest time of the year for the housing market. 1.

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BS6 is popular with families because of its choice of good schools. From primary to secondary and state to private, this is the postcode in demand.

BS6 is filled with beautiful Victorian and Georgian villas. Property is in high demand and a good investment.

This postcode is home to Redland Green Park and Cotham Park and sits on the edge of the Downs (400 acres of green space). It’s running, walking, buggy pushing heaven.

There’s something special about the academic, media world, family, artistic and medical mix in BS6. It’s residents are clever, colourful and creative.

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understand is that unless we take other steps, those digital versions may not be any better, and may even be worse than, the artefacts that we digitised.” Photographs and the best way to “We stand to lose a lot of our history. If you save them. think about the quantity of documentation from our daily lives which is captured in digital Last month, I returned to my hometown and form, like our interactions by email, people's met up with some old friends. One of them tweets, all of the world wide web, then if you brought along some old photos of times we had spent together 20 years ago. We had such wanted to see what was on the web in 1994 fun reminiscing and catching up on news. One you'd have trouble doing that. A lot of the stuff photo in particular was particularly poignant. disappears. It was a family snap, with my friend and my “We don't want our digital lives to fade away. If family all together. I hadn’t seen it before. I we want to preserve them the same way we have now borrowed it, and taken a copy. My preserve books and so on we need to make sure scanner was broken, so I went to Clifton that the digital objects we create will be Colour in Clifton Down Shopping Centre, and rendered far into the future.” they did it for me on the spot. When I went to pay, there was a photocopy on Mr Cerf said there was a huge problem with the ability to preserve and run software over long the desk, printed out from The Daily periods of time. He said he felt a ‘great burden’ Telegraph. to ind a way to create digital formats which can still be accessed in thousands of years. Google’s vice president has warned internet users to print out treasured He is recommending the creation of a system, photographs or risk losing them. which will not only store a digital format but preserve details of the software and operating “Vint Cerf, the internet pioneer, said it was time system needed to access it, so it can be to start preserving the vast quantities of digital recreated in the future. data which are produced before they are lost forever. In the meantime, he recommended printing out important documents such as treasured Warning that the 21st century could become a family pictures to avoid losing them second "Dark Ages" because so much data is through outdated operating systems. now kept in digital format, he said that future generations would struggle to understand our “We have various formats for digital society because technology is advancing so quickly that old iles will be inaccessible. Speaking at a conference in San Jose, California, Mr Cerf likened the problem to the Dark Ages, the period in Britain between the 5th and 8th centuries where little is known, following the collapse of the Roman Empire. “If we don’t ind a solution our 21st Century will be an information black hole. Future generations will wonder about us but they will have very great dif iculty knowing about us. We think about digitising things because we think (Con nued on page 21) we will preserve them, but what we don't

21 sharing with you. Do make sure that your most precious photos are printed or at least saved. Don’t just leave them on your camera photographs and movies and those formats need software to correctly render those objects. or phone, transfer the photos onto your computer and then back them up elsewhere Sometimes the standards we use to produce too. So many photos are taken on phones It is those objects fade away and are replaced by likely that many will remain in digital format other alternatives and then software that is and often be lost with the phone if that goes supposed to render images can't render older astray. formats, so the images are no longer visible.” Treasure your digital memories, and I thought that the article was worthy of take care of them (Con nued from page 20)

DIY Las ng Powers of A orney fall at the first hurdle

Last August the government shelved plans to create a fully online process for crea ng Las ng Powers of A orneys (LPAs). On the one hand there are clear advantages to making the process more accessible to people and the a rac on of 'doing it online yourself' appears to mean saving costs. On the other hand, the fact remains that in many cases, the cost of pu ng ma ers right ends up being more in the long‐run, than if the LPA had simply been prepared correctly in the first place. This is best illustrated by a recent case involving a mother and daughter. The LPA was drawn up by the 77 year old mother's daughter online and the mother appointed her daughter as her sole a orney. Although her daughter claimed to have fully explained the document to her before she signed it, the mother, who suﬀered from Alzheimer's disease, did not receive any independent advice about the crea on of the LPA. Nobody independent was involved in the prepara on or registra on process and a friend of the family witnessed the mother's signature.

Six months a er the LPA was registered, the Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) began to have a number of concerns. They no ced a number of excessive and uncharacteris c withdrawals from the mother's bank account, so much so that its value had halved in just six months. The OPG applied to the Court of Protec on and a judge reviewed the case. The judge found that the mother was living in squalor; her home urgently needed deep cleaning, disinfec ng and furnishing with white goods. The daughter claimed that she gave her mother £600 a month spending money, but admi ed that she had not properly read various pieces of important informa on when the LPA was prepared online. When ques oned about the withdrawals from her mother's account, the daughter's shocking response was "there is no point in her being the wealthiest woman in the graveyard". Unfortunately, the judge found that the mother had by now lost the necessary mental capacity to revoke (cancel) the LPA and it fell to the local County Council to apply to be the mother's Deputy. This meant that the County Council effec vely took over the management of the mother's property and financial affairs.

This was an unsa sfactory and costly result for the mother, not just in the loss to her bank account but also in legal fees to her Estate. All too o en, we see the eﬀects of this kind of costly 'quick‐fix' approach being taken in the prepara on of vital and important legal documents and the results can be devasta ng both financially and emo onally. The prepara on of an LPA requires specialist advice to ensure that it is both appropriate and eﬀec ve and that the poten al for abuse by unscrupulous rela ves, friends or other hangers‐on is detected at an early stage.

you have concerns about your If financial or personal aﬀairs, or if you would simply like some general advice about how to prepare an LPA, please contact Michelle Rose on 0117 314 5246 or at mrose@vwv.co.uk

History Notes from BS6 No. 91 How many viewed wash day with the Healthier Washing ‐ Julian Lea‐Jones unbridled joy exhibited by those White Leaze Nowadays when automatic washing machines handle everything from a single silk scarf to muddy football kit, ‘washday’ often doesn’t exist. But how did this come about, and why did people launder once a week? In our Grandparents’ time washday was laborious and occupied most of Mondays. Electric washing machines were not readily available in the UK until the mid‐1950s, and then only as a heated wash‐tub with attached mangle. This developed into a machine with a second tub containing a spin dryer ‐ the eponymous ‘Twin Tub’. As late as the mid 1960’s even basic machines were expensive and I remember living in a village where an entrepreneur purchased a twin tub machine and took it around on a trolley behind his bicycle. The housewife rented it for an agreed time, after which he would collect it and tow it to the next customer! These and washing powders ‘with blue whiteners built‐in’ were the labour saving technologies of the day. Remember, DAZ, OMO, Tide, Persil, Fairy, Acdo, and Rinso? – Just a few from the range of many products advertised on television promising to “ease washday labour”. One TV campaign, featured the ‘White Tide man’ who seemed to visit every street in Britain that had ‘white’ in its name. White Leaze off Southmead Road was one such, with a group of happy smiling housewives displaying their whiter‐ than‐white sheets, all thanks of course to the aforementioned soap powder.

housewives? Our Grandparents’ ‘washing machine’ was a tub of water, ‘the copper’, heated by a gas ire, a ribbed washboard, and a lot of ‘Elbow Grease’. Water and dirty clothes were boiled from cold then lathered and rubbed on a washboard in the scullery sink using a bar of hard soap, such as Monkey Brand or Sunlight. The latter came in long bars, which the grocer cut for the housewife using a cheese wire. The other essential was the Reckitts ‘Blue Bag’, a small cube looking like a billiard chalk, tied up in cotton and dunked in the last rinse water until the required amount of ‘blueness’ was achieved.

But why blue? Daylight Ultra‐violet causes the chemical to luoresce bluey‐white enhancing the clothes’ whiteness. Nowadays detergents contain whiteners explaining why white clothes glow in Nightclub or Disco lights. The Blue bag also provided traditional relief for Wasp Stings. Nowadays laundries rely on commercial customers for most of their business but in the nineteenth century those without their own laundress ‘sent out’ the weekly wash usually to someone in poor overcrowded housing who ‘took in washing’ to make ends meet. At a time when cholera, typhoid and diphtheria and consumption, (tuberculosis) were the main killers, laundering in damp ill‐ventilated tenements just spread diseases. The health issue of infected laundry became (Con nued on page 25)

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so serious that well ventilated laundries were established on the outskirts of the city where washing could be dried outdoors. Wright’s 1913 Directory listed 67 including ones in, Redland, Golden Hill and Henleaze. Seven were along Southmead Road to Filton; ‘The Bristol Sanitary Laundry’, ‘Fosters’, ‘The Clifton steam Laundry’, ‘The Royal Southmead Laundry’, ‘The Laundry’ ‘The Excelsior’,

Samuel Shields Laundry. On earlier maps White Leaze and Kelston Road are marked as Laundry Lane, perhaps this explained the later name ‘White Leaze’, ‐ a serendipitous choice for the ‘White Tide’ ad men! © Julian Lea‐Jones FRAeS (do visit Julian’s website ‐ www.history4u.info ‐ which is a mine of useful and interesting information on a breadth of local historical topics).

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Pet Page with the Animal Health Centre Techno pets Technology is moving faster than ever and we are all now quite used to the world of the smart phone and sat nav and wondering how we managed without them. But did you know that the world of ‘must have’ pet accessories is fast catching up? Recently a paper has been published by researchers at Edinburgh University Vet School where they used GPS trackers to measure improvement in exercise levels in dogs with arthritis after giving them a course of anti‐in lammatory pain killers. It was concluded that GPS trackers provided an accurate means of measuring physical performance in dogs. But these are no longer for the domain of the research scientist only, a quick Google and you will ind a host of GPS trackers for your dog or cat easily available and affordable. They can have many roles from answering the question of where exactly does your cat go all day, to how far does your dog walk off the lead compared to how far you go, or you could surreptitiously check up on your dog walker to see that your dog is getting the exercise that you are paying for. Many types can be used to track your pet, invaluable if your dog runs off or your cat strays too far. The “Go‐Pro” Dog They can be

linked to your mobile phone or laptop, you never need worry again! The Go‐Pro camera is now common place among devotees of extreme sports but have you considered putting one on your pet to get a dog or cat’s eye view of the world. Harnesses are now available for dogs and cats to it cameras and can even be used in water. Would‐be ilm directors take note, hours of fun here. More extreme innovations include the remote control collar that receives smart phone messages from the owner, or a collar for dogs that detects his mood and can send a text to the owner if he is feeling out of sorts, there is even a dog operated ‘sel ie’ machine. How about the ‘Dream Doghouse’ with ‘push to woof’ owner summoning buttons, automatic food dispensers and a The “Dream Doghouse” hydrotherapy pool, whatever next? Even the humble microchip that we are familiar with, has moved on in its use. We now have available not only the microchip operated cat and dog laps but also a microchip operated feed bowl that allows different pets within the same household to be fed separately. A great advance if you have a pet on a prescription diet or a weightwatcher in your home. I am sure that this market will grow and grow and only be limited by our imagination so watch this space, this is the fastest growing area of the dog products industry.

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A quarter of all dogs now have their own social media pro iles! Animal Health Centre is stocking GPS trackers for cats as well as chip operated laps and can order chip operated feed bowls. Please ask us for more details.

And if this new trend means that our dogs get more exciting walks that are recorded for posterity, that’s a win‐ win situation for both dog and owner so I am all for the techno pet! Nicky Bromhall BVSc, MRCVS Principal Veterinary

Recording Bristol’s Swifts My name is Mark Glanville and I am keen local naturalist and the Bristol & Avon contact for Swift Conservation. Little is known about the exact number of swift nests throughout Bristol, so establishing their location is key to protecting their future. My wife Jane and I have recently set up a website www.bristolswifts.co.uk to offer help and advice to Bristol residents and record known swift nest locations and numbers.

The Common Swift (apus apus) is the most aerial of all birds and spends most of its entire life on the wing, lying continuously day and night. In its lifetime a bird may ly a distance of some 4 million miles, which is equivalent to lying to the moon and back again eight times. A swift only lands after 3‐4 years when it has reached breeding maturity, where it returns to the general location of its birth to ind a mate and raise its own family. For many the sound of a “screaming party” of swifts is the quintessential sign that summer has inally arrived. They can be quite frenetic at times, like screaming little black demons, hence their old‐fashioned name “Devil Birds”. We might think of them as a British bird, but in fact they only spend about three months with us, arriving in late April or early May to raise their young and leaving by early August. The remaining nine months are spent in Central and Southern Africa. Swifts numbers are in decline and the British Trust for Ornithology estimates that since 1995 their numbers have fallen across the UK by 38% putting them on the Amber List for bird species causing concern.

Although swifts are long distance migrants wintering each year in Africa, one of the causes their numbers are falling lies much closer to home. Swifts prefer to nest together in old buildings. Many colonies have existed for tens and in some cases hundreds of years. Conservationists widely agree that large urban regeneration schemes, as well as individual household refurbishments over the last 20 years in cities like Bristol, has been the main reason why their numbers have declined so dramatically. The refurbishment of many old buildings during this period has inadvertently resulted in the loss of hundreds of traditional nesting sites. The simple fact is that new and modernised buildings offer little opportunity for swifts to nest.

If you know you have swifts nesting at your property your support is essential in protecting these birds. Firstly, if you can defer any outside maintenance work during the summer nesting. Secondly, try and leave a few nooks and crannies open, this really makes a huge difference. If the above is not an option, swifts will take quite readily to nest boxes. Perhaps you could install a few boxes as an alternative, this is a great help especially when traditional nest sites are scarce. Another very good indication that a nest site is nearby is witnessing a screaming party of swifts lying around a building. This usually occurs on ine summer days throughout May, June or July. If you know of any swift nest sites or have (Con nued on page 29)

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We need your help in protecting our Bristol swifts for the future. Mark Glanville

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32 7. Sow under cover summer veg such as French and runner beans, sweetcorn, courgettes and squashes, and plant out after they’ve germinated. For minimum effort, buy young plants of As I write these tomatoes, aubergines, chillies and peppers for gardening tips, my the greenhouse. You can also plant out gardening clothes vary your chatted potatoes now. from thermals and waterproofs to long sleeved T shirt ‐ It’s great 8. Prune hydrangeas ‐ do not remove stems with a bud at the top, but snip off old stems bearing growing weather! deadheads to just above one of the topmost healthy buds and remove weak shoots and dead 1. Plant and sow now to wood altogether from the base enjoy this month’s optimum growing 9. Towards the end of the month you can start conditions. Remember planting up your pots with summer lowering though that it can be a dry, cold month, so be ready to water new additions and protect tender annuals such as geraniums, verbena and lobelia ‐ Watch out for late frosts though! plants with leece. 10. Finally, don't forget that slugs and snails will 2. Replace winter losses of plants from warmer be making an unwelcome reappearance in the climates. Lavender, cistus, shrubby salvias and warmer conditions… If you have to use slug ceanothus all appreciate a whole summer to pellets, use ferrous oxide or ferrous sulphate establish. based pellets and not metaldehyde which is extremely toxic for birds and garden wildlife. 3. Deadhead daffodils and narcissi, give them a liquid feed or sprinkling of bonemeal and then let * PS You can also buy lawn top dressing at any them die down. Don’t cut off the leaves as they are necessary to replenish the bulb for next year. DIY or garden centre Keep deadheading spring bedding to keep it looking neat and encourage new lowers. 4. Aim to control weeds early in the season to prevent them from taking hold. On a dry, sunny day hoe annual weeds before they seed (especially those ephemeral weeds such as hairy bittercress which can produce 600 seeds per plant per year!) 5. Rake out any moss or thatch on your lawns and spike if drainage is poor. You can top dress your lawn and also re‐seed bare patches this month too (The top dressing mix * is three parts sandy loam, six parts sharp sand and one part compost or leafmould (by volume. Use about 2 ‐ 3 kg per sq m and work it gently into the lawn with the back of a rake or a brush) 6. Feed woody plants with general purpose fertiliser ‐ this applies to roses, trees, climber, hedges and shrubs. You can use general purpose fertiliser through out the garden, but if you have mulched well, then you won’t need so much (I prefer to use an organic fertiliser such as blood ish and bone or chicken pellets)

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Prize Wordsearch ‐ sponsored by Aimee’s Winehouse A terri ic prize up for grabs with this months BS9/BS8/BS6 magazine prize wordsearch that is kindly sponsored by Aimee’s Winehouse in Stoke Bishop. Aimee has offered a mixed half case of 6 bottles of wine to the competition winner. Listed below are ten wine growing countries and ten wine varieties. Nine of the countries and nine of the wines are hidden in the wordsearch grid and can be found written forwards, backwards, up, down, or on a diagonal. All you need to do is determine which wine and which country are not hidden in the puzzle. Let me know the two answers by the closing date of 31 April 2015 and all the correct entries will go into a random draw to select the one winner.

Submit your entries by post (8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY), by email (andy@thebs8.co.uk), by phone (0117 9687787), by text (07845 986650) or by tweet (@BS9Andy). Here are the ten wines and ten countries you are looking for ‐ France Germany Spain Italy New Zealand Hungary Australia Chile Argentina United States Barolo Beaujolais Pinot Noir Chianti Semillon Chardonnay Chenin Blanc Reisling Gewurtztraminer Merlot In the meantime the draw has been made from the dozens of correct entries received for the February prize puzzle and where the correct answer to the missing Italian city was Trieste. First out of the hat was a text entry from Bronwen Grover who wins a £20 gift voucher to spend at the excellent Divino Deli on Worrall Road in Clifton. Congratulations to Bronwen and thanks as ever to everyone who took the trouble to enter.

At the Movies ‐ Chris Worthington The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Directed by John Madden Fans of the irst Exotic Marigold Hotel ilm may be surprised to ind out that it came out in 2011, how time goes by! The sequel inevitably covers some of the same territory but with varying degrees of success.

The ilm is mostly set in Jaipur with short excursion to Mumbai where Evelyn (Judi Dench) has got herself a job as a textile buyer. While it may be unfair to say that India is the real star of the ilm it is not far from the truth and some of the best humour in the ilm comes from the sub titles when the Indian characters are trading insults. The sets are excellent and the Indian actors have a dynamism and delivery that surpasses the veteran Brits. Dev Patel as Sonny Kapoor is outstanding as are Tina Desai as his iancé Sinaima and Shazaad Latif as Kushal, his devious rival in business and romance. Their rivalry comes to a climax in an exhilarating

Slumdog Millionaire style wedding dance. The ilm switches between the changes of fortune of the resident Brits and Sonny’s plans to marry and buy another hotel. Muriel (Maggie Smith) is again cast as Sonny’s mentor while Madge (Celia Imrie) and Norman (Ronald Pickup) are dealing with some fairly predictable dif iculties in their relationships. Norman also has to contend with believing that while drunk he has paid a one eyed tic tac driver to murder his wife. Meanwhile Douglas (Bill Nighy) is having a senior moment attempting to memorise a speech for the wedding. His solution is to have the speech relayed to him through an ear piece a by a young Indian friend armed with a lap top and wi i. Otherwise things are going along rather too well for the Brits and this does not make for great comedy drama. Richard Gere makes a surprise appearance as Guy Chambers, a hotel inspector working for the bank that Sonny has lined up to inance the new hotel. He arrives with false credentials as a writer and instantly falls in love with Sonny’s mother, a sharp tongued matriarch. This is most unlikely romance and the script of their dinner date does not even seem to convince the actors let alone the audience.

As in the irst Exotic Marigold ilm the Brits are coming out with jokes about the trials of old age and the short time that they have left to live. For the most part the wry humour in this does not pay off and it may been better if one of the Brits had actually died in the ilm. But it’s probably not a good idea to kill off national treasures.

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41 recounts the duvet story and many others in The Great Indoors, his enthralling history of the British home in the twentieth century. Learn, or remember, how we threw off the In 1996 Joanna Rakoff found a job in a New York literary agency and was immediately told dead hand of Victoria and embraced Utility, what to do if Jerry rang but not who Jerry was. Barry Bucknall, G‐Plan, Habitat and IKEA. In fact Jerry was JD Salinger, the no longer Freight dog Bob Winrush, publishing author of The Catcher in the Rye. otherwise known as a My Salinger Year is her riveting and novel‐ mercenary pilot, is the like account of the time she spent dealing with hero of Flight, Adam Jerry, answering his fan mail and learning to Thorpe’s gripping new jet be an agent. With a boyfriend in tow, as well ‐plane of a novel. Son of a as an ex‐boyfriend, her boss’s strange glamorous Spit ire ace, behaviour to deal with and the drama when Bob now trundles around Jerry decides to publish something, her tale the world in clapped out becomes so gripping that you wish she’d Boeings, alternating stayed for a second year. cargoes of disaster zone supplies with much No top light English dodgier freight – AK47s, football club in the landmines, soldiers. In a sauna in Dubai, the modern era had past catches up with him. When his former remained unbeaten crew begins to disappear and the journalist through a season until investigating them all is run down, it’s off to a the Arsenal team of remote and wind‐swept Scottish island for 2003‐2004 won 26, drew 12 and lost none to Bob, pursued by armed assassins. become champions. Football correspondent Amy Lawrence Danny Wallace’s new interviewed everyone novel Who Is Tom involved at Arsenal, and in Invincible, tells us Ditto? is a hilarious the inspiring story of that team and how they romp around modern did it. Most important, it seems, is to have a London. When his bunch of wonderful players (Henry, girlfriend Hayley Bergkamp, Viera ) who like each other, want disappears (but claims to pass to each other and are happy for others she hasn’t left him) Tom, to score. A highly intelligent and a news reader at a radio knowledgeable manager is crucial too – station is left in limbo. Is Arsene Wenger can advise on anything she ill? Has she gone for apparently including tog values for duvets. good? Why do other This is a fascinating book. people know about her plans but not him? He can only try his own Talking of duvets, ifty amateur detective work via texts, phone years ago you wouldn’t messages and post its. When the ‘jam Nazi have been, you’d still have rant’ goes viral, Tom’s world is turned upside been smothered in down though he does begin to make progress blankets in a bedroom in his search. But who is Hayley really? And where the window was who is Tom ditto? And what’s Binky the open all night long for marmoset up to? You’ll have great fun inding health reasons – ice on the out. windows was good for you. Ben Highmore

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44 even bring my dog (great use of time). It is a terri ic work out with great results. I can chat and walk (the company is always good) or I can do a higher intensity walk for a harder workout. My itness has increased, the Nordic Walking technique has had a real positive affect on my core and because of that my old back injury is far less problematic. I am more toned, happier as my exercise is now outdoors, not indoors, and I really do love walking in the rain. To top it all, I have a clearer mind, my mood is much more upbeat and I love my new relationship with nature. And then there are my friends who giggled to begin with but now have seen the difference it has made. I have my own poles now, I love my poles! There is a new phrase in the house ‐ "Mum's going Nordic”. I love that!"

"A friend had recommended Nordic Walking to me two years ago but I wasn’t sure it was for me” says local mum Pippa Morton. “Two years on, I had grown tired of my gym classes and needed something to give me back my ‘schwing'. I also wanted to be more of an outdoor girl so I could really enjoy the seasons. Then I met Ros trading her Nordic Walking wares. I took a lea let, headed home and signed up for a beginners' class. My friends Pippa Morton going Nordic! thought it was worth a giggle or two but I like to do things that aren't the norm ‐ that was all part of the appeal. I discovered all my worries To ind out more about were ill‐founded. Nordic Walking here in Bristol give Ros Ingleby I loved it from the moment I started. The a call at beginner group was great fun, very laid back and upbeat, I knew it was for me. I signed up Bristol Nordic Walking to become a member and now hate it if I have on 07886 885213 to miss a session. The coaches are great, you or visit can tell they love what they do, with tips every www.bristolnordicwalking.co.uk week so you can always improve your technique and stamina. For some walks I can

The Downs Recorder ‐ Richard Bland Views from the Downs The Downs are the highest point in Bristol, and there are very extensive views from various different points on the Downs. In some ways the most dramatic and important are the views of the Avon Gorge, especially those that feature the Suspension Bridge. These are the views that were widely painted before the camera, though many that were available in the past have been lost to us because of the growth of trees and scrub on this side of the Gorge. The most dramatic are the views from the Observatory looking down on the Suspension Bridge and across South Bristol beyond it to the Dundry Ridge topped by Dundry church tower six kilometres away. On a good day the great whale back shape of Black Down on Mendip with Crook Peak at its end, which reaches a thousand feet, can be seen above thirty miles away. Further round above the houses of Sion Hill are the hills above Bath, leading round to the clump on top of Kelston Round Hill ten miles off to the north east. From the same sight you look north west along the Avon to the high ridge of Penpole Point, and the Kings Weston telephone mast. Today the tips of the new Avonmouth wind turbines can be seen glinting in the sun above that ridge, and, a dark line in the distance, you can see the Welsh Hills. Looking east in the summer, you can see nothing but the trees around the camp. Bristol has been spirited away. And looking west you stare at the great gash that is Nightingale Valley, and above it Leigh Camp guarding the ancient route down it. It is very possible that the magni icent long distance views to the north east that would

exists were the trees not there, stretching right up to up to the Cotswolds scarp, were one of the reasons that the pre‐roman Clifton Camp was built. Walking north along the edge of the Gorge, it was once possible to glimpse the River Avon from the top of Bridge Valley Road, but that view has been lost. The Suspension Bridge can still be seen from the path close to the Peregrine Watch point, which has the inest views of the whole of Leigh Woods, and looking north west the new Avon Wildlife Trust Reserve stands out alongside the Portway, below the woods of Penpole Point with the Avonmouth turbine blades just visible beyond it. Look north from here, and there are no buildings visible at all‐ even the water tower has vanished, there is nothing but trees. Trees on the edge of the Gorge then limit the views all the way until you reach Sea Walls. From there the Suspension Bridge dominates the view to the south and the Dundry radio mast can be seen above it and Christ Church spire peeps above the trees to the left. Looking north the great red cranes of Royal Portbury Dock hang above the M5 bridge, and beyond East Wood in Portishead lies the estuary and the long line of the great Newport steel work, with the Welsh hills rising behind it thirty miles away. This site was used for one of the Jubilee Beacons two years ago.

There are also dramatic views across the city near the top of Blackboy Hill. Looking down High street you look straight across the top of the university’s Royal Fort House, with radio aerials on top to the hills around Bath. Looking straight down Sunderland Crescent Wills Tower is in your sights and beyond are (Con nued on page 46)

46 gap to the east of the Welsh hills, and just above the lashing blades of the wind turbines. This is the Sugarloaf Mountain north east of the hills around Compton Dando. Abergavenny, 486 metres high, and thirty miles away. There is one very dramatic view that can occasionally be seen on cold clear days in winter, when the Welsh hills have the snow on If you enjoy the Downs, or use if for your sport, why not become a Friend? Membership them, and the wind is in the north west. Looking north from both Clifton Camp and the is just £10. Contact Robin Haward at robinhaward@blueyonder.co.uk 0117 974 Peregrine watch point it is possible just occasionally to see a conical white cone in a 3385 (Con nued from page 45)

Westbury Park Festival and Art Trail

A full programme of festival events follows over the next fortnight. New this year we will Westbury Park Festival 2015 starts on June have a poetry café, 19th with probably the most walkable Art and a literary event Trail in Bristol. There's no need for a car, as yet to be revealed. And Westbury Park is such a compact area, and a for the irst time, beautiful trail guide will show you the shortest Westbury Park's own way round our artists' homes and exhibition musicians will hold venues. their Out There concert in Festival “Gull” by time (Saturday 27th). David Northcott But we are not abandoning old favourites: the irst week will include our Quiz Night on Friday 26th and Open Gardens on Sunday 28th . Jeff Bishop's architectural trail will take us into new terrain on Saturday 27th. Gordon Young's ilm night, new last year, was a great success and will be repeated on Wednesday 24th: this year's show will include a ilm on the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The Festival “Looking North” by Mary Corum will close on Saturday, 4th July with a family An evening preview on Friday is followed by a barbecue at the Cambridge Arms. So please full day on Saturday 20th June. Whether you get out your love to see paintings, textile hangings, prints diaries and or ceramics, we can promise that the trail will jot down the be full of lovely works of art and craft, and that dates for our local artists will be delighted to talk about your their work. At Heart Space you can also ind a favourite family craft workshop on Saturday morning. events! Find out more at www.westburyparkarttrail2015.weebly.com

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Louise’s Tips for an Easier Life 10 Top Tips to beat Procrastination This month I’d like to share some expert’s advice to help you to dither no more. I recently read an article by Nilufer Atik which said people who continually put things off are unhappier, as well as being less healthy and wealthy compared with those who get things done promptly. Studies have also shown that procrastinators are more likely to make mistakes. However, experts insist that procrastinators can change their behaviour: it takes a lot of self‐work but in the end it’s worth the effort – and start today, not tomorrow! 1. Next time you procrastinate ask ‘What make me decide to do this in the irst place?’. If you don’t know the answer – don’t do it! 2. For each task, ask yourself – should I do this, delegate it or dump it – and act. 3. Take small steps – break down tasks to make them manageable. 4. Get help – if you’re overwhelmed, ask an expert in.

5. Drop perfectionism – an imperfect step taken today is better than a perfect step never taken. 6. Remove distractions – turn off the TV, switch phone to silent and truly focus. 7. Recognise when you’re about to procrastinate and acknowledge it. 8. Learn from the past – remind yourself of the frustration of not getting things done and the satisfaction when something is achieved. 9. Be nice to yourself ‐ don’t beat yourself up and forgive yourself if you do procrastinate. 10. Visualise your ideal future – what one step could you take right now to move you towards it? Then Just. Do. It. Good luck! Louise England is a Lifestyle and Home Assistant and her service aims to free‐up your free time. Her passion is to make a positive difference to people’s lives by helping them sort things out and complete jobs in their homes quickly and ef iciently. Website: www.louiseengland.co.uk Mobile: 07780 474256 Email: louise@louiseengland.co.uk Twitter: @L_England

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Businesses and Powers of Attorney - Keep it running smoothly by Andrew Jack, Wills and Probate Solicitor with AMD Solicitors Although it is important for everyone to consider who can handle their affairs in the event of unexpected incapacity, it is particularly vital if you are the owner of a small business. The prudent owner will have made a will and have given careful consideration to the arrangements that need to be specifically in place to enable the smooth running of the business during the administration period. However, often busy owners neglect to consider that similar attention needs to be given to the lifetime situation as for the family of a business owner and for their employees not to have done so can be disastrous.

Aside from being able to act under a power of Attorney the only other way of acquiring legal authority to act on the business ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behalf is a cumbersome and time consuming application to the Court of Protection to be appointed Deputy. In the intervening period your business may be

effectively in limbo for months meaning amongst other things, staff will not be paid and neither will suppliers. Orders can not be fulfilled and even mundane things such as insurance cannot be arranged . In the worst case scenario business bank accounts may not be capable of being operated unless mandates have already been granted. Your business may effectively have ground to a halt. A lasting power of attorney can cover all your financial affairs or you can if you wish consider having one power drawn up for your personal financial affairs and another for your business. You could then for example have family members to deal with your personal finances and then appoint experts to deal with the running the business to ensure that the expertise is there and that the business runs smoothly.

No matter whether the lasting power of attorney is for your own finances or your business it is vital to remember that selection of your attorneys is key. Once appointed there is very little oversight and you will want to appoint attorneys that you trust absolutely and who have the necessary experience and expertise in finances.

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This Cotham Life ‐ Duncan Haskell Every Thursday evening at roughly 19:30 I start twitching the curtains while thinking to myself will this be the week when a miracle occurs? Then, every Thursday evening at roughly 20:00 I gather up the rubbish and, with a heavy heart, resign myself to yet again taking out all the bins for our block of lats. As I distribute the various recycling into their colour‐coded containers I clatter as much as possible, dropping an empty and booming 4 litre milk bottle in the hope that my struggles will be heard by one of the other property owners who might then assist me in my weekly chore. They never hear, they never come.

The truth of the matter is that I’d probably be just as affronted if anyone else from the building actually did ever help. I’m not sure I could stand their lax attitude to waste separation or the casual manner in which they’d mismanage the brown sludge bucket, starting a new one before the previous was full to the very brim with garbage water and

mouldy broccoli stems. Woe betide anyone who doesn’t return each wheelie bin to its precise location the next morning, parallel to the wall and in descending lat order. Like guards on watch, uniformed and standing to attention. As our lat sits on a major drunken thoroughfare our bin area often collects mysterious donations in the night, including the occasional disconcerting puddle in its darkest corner. The worst thing about this is that these nightly benefactors have clearly forgotten what goes where, surely everyone knows by now that cans of Stella Artois don’t count as garden waste. Sadly, we once had someone leave us a dead fox, and even I struggled to know which bin was the correct one for cadavers. I am not alone in this burden, every week the chosen ones from the street’s other buildings gather outside. We need not speak to one another, a barely noticeable nod of the head is all there is, a faint reminder of the camaraderie between us. Up and down the road the familiar sound of trundling wheels ills the dusky night, occasionally punctuated with the heart in mouth clang of bouncing glass, followed by relief that another brother in arms hasn’t failed his post. I then head back inside, relieved for another week as my thoughts turn to the future, will this be the week when a miracle occurs? Duncan Haskell

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55 So how do we, in the group, break down these problems and get to the nub of the issue? We give each other space to talk, we ask The devil is in the detail questions to create clarity and we feedback, share experiences and offer suggestions Working with my small business owners when asked. We also hold each other group recently a really useful piece of learning accountable so that the actions we decide came out of drilling down on an issue. It was have a very high chance of actually happening, this: the problem is not always what you think sometimes in excess! it is. Re lecting on this, the expression ‘the devil is in the detail’ came to my mind: it is Raising an issue and being able to talk about it only when you start talking and enquiring into in con idence and with peers who empathise the detail can you understand what the allows us the opportunity to consider the speci ic issue is. And it is only when you know detail more speci ically. Separating out these what the speci ic issue is that you can address details and enquiring a little deeper we can it effectively. identify the little devil that has been holding us back and incredibly shining a light on it We carry around with us many ‘problems’ sometimes obliterates it in an instant. If not, which are shot through with limiting beliefs, we are at least in a position to shoot at a assumptions and generalisations. Some of target, rather than aiming randomly and these we don’t attempt to solve or even have having the arrows rain down on us!! an expectation of there being a solution. We accept it as we see it: ‘I’m an expert Investing a small amount of time and money procrastinator’; ‘I ind delegating dif icult’; I into your own and business development ind it hard to ask for what I want’, are just a will be more that aptly rewarded. All the few examples from members over the years. members of my mastermind groups are people irst and business owners second. We We acknowledge and accept our perceived all have issues which we initially might feel shortcomings and dif iculties as something to uncomfortable admitting but it doesn’t take be tolerated and worked around. It may not long to realise we have an amazing amount in occur to us to challenge them because we common. don’t know where to start or don’t believe we can change such established problems. Visit www.annemillercoaching.co.uk for more information and to book a free It doesn’t have to be like this; it doesn’t have consultation Tel: 07722 110228 to be painful and it doesn’t have to be expensive! Working with a coach you will gain new perspectives empowering you to make better choices and achieve positive change. Anne offers life and business coaching and runs Inspired Solutions Mastermind Groups for small business owners.

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What’s On & Community News Listings for community events, not‐for‐ pro it clubs and charitable activities are free of charge. If you have something of this nature that you would like listed please get in touch with Andy Fraser by telephoning 0117 968 7787 or 07845 986650, post details to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY or email andy@thebs6.co.uk. All notices must be received by the 12th of the preceding month to guarantee consideration for inclusion. We currently have space for some new members in the Westbury Park WI. Membership costs £36 per year and includes 10 free copies of the excellent WI Magazine and free entry to our meetings. Meetings are open to guests at a cost of £3 if you prefer to try a couple of meetings out irst. We meet at Westmoreland Hall, Westmoreland Road on the Fourth Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm. Our next meeting is on Wednesday 22nd April. Burlesque – Mala Brinsden will be talking and demonstrating Burlesque which is for all women regardless of age, shape or size and is a powerful tool in promoting wellbeing, thus raising levels of self‐con idence. Props will be provided, or you can bring your own.

performed by St Alban's Players at 7.30pm on 30th April, 1st & 2nd May 2015. St Alban's Church Hall, Bayswater Avenue, Westbury Park, BS6 7NU. Tickets Adults £8, Patrons £6, Students & under 16s £5. Telephone 0117 924 7266. www.stalbansplayers.org.uk Failand Drama Circle are well into rehearsals for their next production, "Black Adder Through the Ages". This will take place from 22nd ‐ 25th April at 7.30 in Failand Village Hall, BS8 3UL. BBC Scripts from this highly popular series have been made available for amateur group to perform with the permission of the writers, Ben Elton and Richard Curtis. The episodes we have chosen are "Bells" (Bob!), "Sense and Senility" and "Goodbyee". Tickets, priced £8.50 for the Wednesday and Thursday and £9.50 for Friday and Saturday, including a free programme, are available from the Box Of ice 01275 393302.

Bristol Cabot Choir will be performing Puccini’s Messa di Gloria and Vivaldi’s Gloria and other wonderful Italian pieces at Clifton Cathedral on 25 April 2015 at 7.30pm. Conducted by Rebecca Holdeman and accompanied by orchestra, superb up and coming young soloists, and the talented Joachim Schwander on continuo organ, Tickets: £15 and £10 (under 18s) from Opus 13, 14 St Michael’s Hill, Bristol BS2 8DT – on May Fair Volunteers. The Redland May Fair 0117 9230154; or on line at takes place on Bank Holiday Monday 4 May www.bristolcabotchoir.org (+10% Booking 2015, 1‐5pm on Redland Green. If you can volunteer for an hour or two on the day please Fee). Retiring collection for the Julian Trust email RedlandMayFairVolunteers@gmail.com Night Shelter. and be part of the May Fair magic! Drop In Healing Sessions held at The Friends www.rcas.org.uk/redland‐fair Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road, Redland BS6 6JE on Thursdays from 5.00 pm to 6.30 Out There Music Bristol ‐ Orchestra Concert. pm. Run by NFSH The Healing Trust trained Saturday 9th May, 7pm at Trinity Henleaze volunteers on a donation basis. Healing can URC Church, Waterford Road, BS9 4BT. help whether you're feeling stressed or in Tickets £8 (£5 under 18’s) available from need of support or just want time for yourself. admin@outtheremusicbristol.co.uk / 07866 587424. An uplifting, musical event for all the Everyone welcome, no need to book. For more information phone 07748 358206. community. Come and hear OTMB Orchestra play a broad range of music including Pomp We are the Bristol U3A – an organisation of and Circumstance , Symphonie Fantastique lively and interesting people who offer all and The Marriage of Figaro Overture. In aid of sorts of groups for enjoyment, friendship and Music Space www.outtheremusicbristol.co.uk Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn will be

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learning. If you are no longer in full‐time work, we have a wide range of over 100 different activities, including art, computing, languages, music, walking, and science. Please visit one of our social groups, either at the East ield Inn, Henleaze, on the irst Monday every month at 10.30am ‐ phone Barbara 0117 9629331. Or come to Browns Restaurant by the Museum on the third Wednesday or the fourth Thursday every month at 10.15am ‐ phone Jenny 0117 9043697. Details: www.bristolu3a.org.uk. Don’t stay at home, come and join the Bristol U3A!

Tickets £8: fromredlandwindband@gmail.com or on the door. 14 and under free. An exciting and varied evening of wind band music will include pieces from the stage, screen and the classical repertoire. FFI visit www.redlandwindband.co.uk The Over 40’s Club is a non‐pro it making social club. New members always welcome. Our weekly club nights start at 8.30pm every Thursday. We have a varied programme of events ranging from meals out and walks to gliding and badminton. For further info please contact our New Members Secretary Lynn on 07757780201 or visit our website www.bbivc.org.uk

The Probus Club of Bristol for semi or retired Professional Business men, meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month at BAWA Southmead Road. At these meetings we have a three The Elgar Society is dedicated to promoting course lunch with a speaker. In addition there the works of Sir Edward Elgar, our greatest is a substantial programme of social events to English composer. The Society has regional which our Ladies are invited to participate. If branches, and the South‐western Branch is you are interested in joining our club, please based in Bristol. We have meetings monthly contact our Membership Secretary Martin throughout the year, and also excursions to Harker on 01275 857324, email places of Elgarian interest. More information is probusbristol@hotmail.co.uk or visit available on the Elgar Society website www.bristolprobus.org.uk www.elgar.org.uk Rotary Club of Bristol – we meet at the Bristol Team members needed. At Bristol Child Hotel, Prince Street, Bristol BS1 4QF at 7.00pm Contact Centre in Henleaze children of all ages for 7.30 pm on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Mondays spend time with the parent they no longer live and at 12.30pm for 1.00 pm on the 2nd and with, in a session supported by our volunteers. 4th Mondays. Meetings start with a meal and Most of the ‘contact parents’ are fathers, so we are followed by a speaker. New members are would especially welcome more men to join very welcome – see www.bristolrotary.org or us. The volunteer team prepares the hall and contact our Club Secretary Martina Peattie at toys, serves refreshments, welcomes parents mpeattie@btopenworld.com for more details. and children, listens non‐judgmentally when needed, and keeps everyone safe and happy. If Clifton Rotary Club welcomes new members. this appeals to you, and you’d be free to join All we ask is that people give their time, are our Saturday volunteer rota every 4‐6 weeks, interested in making new friends, building do get in touch for further details. You will get business contacts and using their skills to help an enhanced DBS check, training and support, others. We meet Wednesday lunchtimes at plus the satisfaction of maintaining a much‐ Redland Lawn Tennis and Squash Club. Please valued service which helps families stay in ind out more about us by visiting touch after separation. See our website at www.cliftonrotary.org or emailing www.bristolchildcontactcentre.org.uk. and/or secretary@cliftonrotary.org ring Helen or Anna on 07511 290505. The Bristol Branch of the English Speaking Redland Wind Band Spring Concert 2015, Union welcomes guests to their meetings Saturday 18 April 7.30pm at Westbury‐on‐ (Con nued on page 66) Trym Baptist Church, Reedley Road, BS9 3TD.

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UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL BOTANIC GARDEN ART & SCULPTURE FESTIVAL Easter bank holiday; Friday 3 to Monday 6 April 2015, 10:00 until 17:00 Celtic giants, Flanders poppies, Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’, bronzed Greek heroes, exotic tropical flowers and an original metal sculptural plant form being created over the weekend are just a few of the delights to be enjoyed at the Botanic Garden this Easter. The popular sculpture exhibition will once again be combined with the botanical art exhibition and sale over the 2015 Easter weekend. During the event visitors can view and buy botanical art or sculpture, enjoy demonstrations and take a tour of the Garden which will be displaying the signs of spring. Refreshments will be available. University of Bristol Botanic Garden, The Holmes, Stoke Park Road, Bristol BS9 1JG T.0117 331 4906

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which are held in the Apostle Room of Clifton Cathedral at 7.15 p.m. for 7.45 p.m. There is ample parking and entrance is £5. The aim of the English Speaking Union is to encourage friendship and global understanding through English. Our forthcoming meetings include April 27th "Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey Lady Carnarvon of Highclere Castle‐ a special event please contact tantwilliams61@gmail.com if interested –and May 21st "What we should really be teaching our children" Dr Bob Acheson, former Headmaster of Clifton College Preparatory School Do come along to any of our meetings, preferably by telephoning the Chairman, Tony Williams on 2393187 or the Secretary, Jenny Haines, on 9628075. The Bristol Philatelic Society meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month in the meeting room of the United Reform Church at the bottom of Blackboy Hill (Whiteladies Road) starting at 7.30 p.m. Contact 0117 956 7853.

give information to carers when they visit their GP Practice or you could offer two to three hours a week to sit with an older or disabled person so that their carer can have some time off, we’d love to hear from you. Full training and support provided. Please contact Mike Hatch, Carers Support Centre volunteer on 07503 577830 or e‐mail gp_volunteers@outlook.com 22nd April, Bristol Society for the Arts of Asia lecture “Latest Researches on the Schiller Brothers, Foremost Benefactors of the Bristol City Art Gallery”, Simon Baker, independent scholar; 6.30 to 8 p.m. at 3/5, Woodland Road (Entry 1), Clifton, Bristol, non‐members welcome but donation of at least £7 required; University students welcome free of charge on sight of their student I.D. card. West Bristol Orchestra. A Chamber Orchestra, playing a wide range of Classical Music arranged for the smaller orchestra, meets at the United Reformed Church, Muller Road on Thursdays 7.15pm.to 9.15pm. Additional String players of Grade5+ standard welcomed. Experience of orchestral playing not essential. For more info please contact the Secretary on 968 3998.

Redland Green School Car Boot Sales: Clear out your clutter and come and ind some Bristol Shambhala Meditation Group offers treasure at our irst of this season's car boot free meditation instruction at the Open House sales. Saturday 18th April, Redland Court evening each Wednesday from 7.30 ‐ 9.30 pm Road, BS6 7EH. Sellers £8 per pitch, from 12 at 17 Lower Redland Road, BS6 6TB. There noon, book via forgscarbootsale@hotmail.com will also be a weekend programme, Social or 07968 493013. Buyers 1pm‐4pm 50p Transformation and Self Awareness from 8 pm admission, kids go free. Further sales on 16th on Friday 17 April until 4 pm on Sunday 19 May, 20th June and 18th July. April which will include talks, meditation practice and discussions. The cost of this REMAP is a registered charity that designs and programme is £110 including a light lunch on makes custom aids which enable a disabled Saturday and Sunday or £90 if you register person to enjoy a better quality of life. We and pay by 10 April. For further information design, make or modify equipment to suit their please see our website: speci ic needs. No charge is made for our www.bristol.shambhala.info Registered services. Please contact us if we can help ‐ Charity Number 1132160 Colin 01275 460288 colin305@gmail.com or Ray 0117 9628729 Volunteers needed to support carers. Could rwestcott@blueyonder.co.uk Web site you please help us to develop and increase our www.remapbristol.org.uk support to carers, people who are looking after an unwell, disabled or elderly family member or friend? If you are outgoing and (Con nued on page 68) could offer two mornings a month to greet and

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Whiteladies Road. Fee is £5 per session. For more details email the tutor, Mary Hall at lipreadingmary@yahoo.com or telephone 07790 283 939. Get In Touch ‐ it couldn’t be easier:‐

New Dimensions meets every month and we have talks on a wide range of esoteric subjects. The meetings are held at the Friends’ Meeting House, 126 Hampton Road, Redland, Bristol BS6 6JE. Admission: £5 (including tea/coffee/ biscuits). The next meeting will be held on Sunday 19 April at 3pm. The speaker will be Clare Russell and the title of her talk is “Developing your Intuition.” Your intuition is an incredible guide which we can easily train ourselves to hear and trust. Clare will share with us two key challenges that will enable you to access your inner wisdom. She will also help us to open up our intuitive senses through exercises that may encourage your spiritual growth. For further information, please telephone 01749 678 834 or write to: leasurs@tiscali.co.uk Outlaw Artisan Craft Show will be taking over the Passenger Shed at Bristol Temple Meads on the 2‐3 May with its unique concept that takes the traditional craft show to another level – with crafts to buy, demo stage, have‐a‐ go workshops, ‘makers in residence’, pop‐up café , kids area and much more. At the heart of the event are the 80 hand‐picked exhibitors from across the UK who will be showing and selling their artisan wares at the show – from screen printed fabric and cushions, to hand illustrated bone china, and fabulous fabric lampshades, to beautiful bespoke jewellery or quirky up‐cycled lighting. Entry costs £6 for adults (under16s free) and this includes all activities in the Demo Theatre, ‘Make and Take Theatre’, and ‘Makers in Residence’. The Crafty Kids sessions are aimed at under7s and cost £1‐£2 per child and the Taster Workshops cost from £10 ‐ £18. The latter can be booked in advance and information will be posted on www.outlawevents.co.uk.

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