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THE EDITOR’S SMALL PIECE

Peter Wyatt Painter & Decorator

Hello there and welcome to the new August magazine - usually a quiet month but reassuringly 40 years experience busy this time around. Mind you, nothing seems Domestic & Commercial very predictable at the moment does it? Earlier No job too large or too small this week we were meant to be celebrating Specialist wallpapering July 19th, the so-called “Freedom Day”. It was Free estimates & friendly advice also the day I got “pinged” into self-imposed Fully insured and reliable quarantine, so not much freedom there. These BS6 & BS8 references available notes are written the following day, my first full Tel. 07950 496039 or 01934 625782 day in captivity, on what I suggest will always be 10% Discount for NHS staff a much more memorable anniversary, that of the first moon landing back in 1969. So 52 years on from Messrs Collins, Aldrin and Armstrong experiencing release from the shackles of the Peter Wyatt 2020 rev 1.indd 1 18/05/2020 Earth’s gravitational pull, as Apollo 11 thundered into space, I am sat in a steaming office constrained by four walls and the moral decision (rightly or wrongly) to “obey the app”. Freedom?

Not quite yet.... but hey, it’s only for a few days so I’m fine with it.

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Readers who had / have any interest in the moon landings may be interested in an excellent 30 minute documentary for BBC Radio that Michael Portillo presented, looking at the importance not of Apollo 11 but it’s predecessor in 1968, the Apollo 8 mission - the first to send a manned rocket into orbit around the moon - without the success of which man might never have made “one giant leap”. It’s a fascinating look at events in the Space Race as shaped by Cold War politics.

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I hope you enjoy the magazine this month (with a bit more content as promised) whether you are reading in your own personal quarantine (hopefully not) or while enjoying whatever kind of summer break you have managed to engineer for yourself and your loved ones. And if you like a good storm then keep those fingers crossed that the forecasts are correct and that this period of splendid weather ends with a bang and not a whimper. Until September, keep well and enjoy the summer.

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CHERRY ORCHARDS AND WAR GRAVES - A QUIET WALK It’s very easy to lose sight of the things on your doorstep, and feel you have to travel to get to places of interest or beauty - yet we are lucky to have open and green space all around us, little places to escape to that we may overlook or take for granted. So here is a short walk taking in the peace and quiet of a little area of Westbury on Trym where you can get away from it all for an hour, and escape with your thoughts. The walk is on well trodden paths and fine for anyone with some energy (there is one very short uphill section) but not suitable for buggies or mobility scooters, and some of it is on very quiet shaded tracks so you might like to walk with a friend if you’d feel more comfortable. The walk starts by Westbury on Trym library.

across the fairway towards the wooded area opposite you, well marked by the presence of a statuesque dead tree, where you will find a clear, well walked path between the rough growth and dead tree on your left and more trees on your right. Follow this path for 30 yards at which point the path will open up to another fairway on your right, and a narrow band of woodland on your left. Continue straight ahead on the well trodden path, keeping close to the wooded side on your left, and being wary of golfers who might be playing the hole on your right (who will be walking in the same direction as you.) Again give way to the golfers, and it is polite to wait while anyone near you is playing a shot.

From the library enter Canford Park through the arched gateway, turn right and follow the path past the old Victorian water fountain (that used to adorn the centre of the village) then exit the park though the bottom gate next to the sunken ornamental gardens and ponds. Carefully cross the road in front of you, and then the narrow triangular green and then across Canford Lane as if you are heading towards Merlin Close and the prefab houses.

After about 100 yards your path will drop left and downhill, through the thicket of trees, to emerge alongside another fairway in front of you. Turn right at the edge of the fairway, this time keeping on the on the uphill side with the fairway downhill to your left. Do keep an eye out for golfers who will be playing towards you from the tee about 100 yards away. Continue to walk towards that tee, along the edge of the fairway, until you pass a tall carved tree stump. From here you will see a golf green on the opposite side of the fairway to your left, which is accessed by golfers via a footbridge across the Trym .

Between the prefabs and the last little row of houses on Canford Lane is a footpath into the woods - follow this, noting the River Trym here, as it heads left into the golf course - but your view of it will be on your right as it runs parallel to you for about 50 yards. The Trym then switches right, as does the right hand fork in the path, but you need to carry straight up ahead as the golf course opens up behind the fence on your left.

Follow the path gently uphill for about 100 yards until you see a wooden swing gate on your left that you need to go through.

Just beyond the carved tree stump is one final point where care is needed. The golfers aiming for the small green to your left are hitting their shots from high up on the hill to your right. You can’t see them and they can’t see you, so only cross the 20 yards of the downhill slope when you are sure it is safe (listen for conversations from up the hill), and cross quickly. Once you have crossed the downhill slope you will see, just ahead and to your left, the tee for the hole you have previously walked along. Walk past this tee as if you are heading into the woods and just beyond it you will find the path leads you to a pretty crumbly old wooden stile, which you need to climb over to exit the golf course.

At this point please be careful. You are entering Henbury Golf Course, which is private land but which has a number of public rights of way that cut across it - you are about to use one of them.

Be very careful to look specifically down to your left as you come out onto the course. At the bottom of the hill is the point from which golfers hit their tee shots up the hill and directly across in front of you. If there are golfers there, about to play their tee shots, you must give way to them as a matter of courtesy unless they specifically wave you across. Once it is clear and safe, walk directly

You are now in the area known as Cherry Orchards, in a pretty wild meadow with the Trym

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CHERRY ORCHARDS AND WAR GRAVES - A QUIET WALK running along the left hand side and with taller undergrowth, brambles and shrubbery up on your right.

the trees you will also come across, hidden, a fallen tree that was uprooted in a storm a couple of years ago, and which demonstrates the awesome size of the root system of a big tree.

Follow the drive around to the right until you come out onto the busy Canford Lane. Turn right, walk 50 yards then cross the road carefully (opposite the post box in the wall) and head down the rough lane between two houses. Continue along this lane, crossing Sandyleaze (home of the BS9 magazine) and onwards down the lane which takes you past allotments on either side, At the end by the allotment car park the lane turns into a narrow but well maintained fenced footpath, which takes you gently uphill, with Coombe Dingle sports grounds on your right and Canford Lane cemetery on your right. When you reach a crossroads of paths turn left, though the metal gate, into the cemetery. 10 yards in, by the wooden bench, turn left and follow any of the tracks through the old gravestones until you reach the small square stone funeral chapel. Here turn right and follow the main “cem and crem” road gently downhill, past the crematorium itself and garden of rest, contunuing for about 200 yards as if you were heading out of the site. Before the exit gates, and just before the stone offices, turn right into the lower part of the cemetary and immediately left behind the offices.

Walking through here this week I spotted rabbits, a young fox and a buzzard, all enjoying the peace and tranquility. The path ahead of you is clear to follow, and when you get to the far side of the field you will come across what looks like a cross between a footbridge and a cattle grid. This takes you over the Trym (it is sturdy, I promise) onto a quiet lane that you cross over and then follow the signpost that says “Public Footpath to Blaise Estate” onto the track beyond.

This shaded and secluded mud path is far from flat or smooth, but perfectly walkable and straightforward. Keep on it for about 200 yards, with the Trym your constant companion down to your right, until you drop down to river level and come to a metal swing gate. Resist the temptation to head right - which would take you across the river to where the Trym and Hazel Brook meet and where the main path through Blaise woods runs - and instead turn left though the gate into another meadow, surrounded by trees. After just 30 yards look for a narrow (and easy to miss) mud track that heads up to your left, winding up between brambles, cow parsley and other undergrowth, until you reach a wooden kissing gate. Go through the gate and follow the slope steeply upwards where it will turn to stone steps (26 of them). At the top of the slope you emerge, puffing, between housing to your right and hoardings to your left, onto a quiet tarmac road. Turn left and follow this drive round, a line of hoardings on your left indicating where the Coombe care home used to be. On your right is a small wood containing some interesting trees including this majestically sad giant and a huge Liriodendron (“Tulip tree”). If you explore

Follow this path clockwise around the perimeter of this section of the cemetery until you reach the beautifully tended section of graves of soldiers lost in WW2, simply recorded on white stone headstones. Maybe take a moment to stop and reflect here, especially when you look at the ages of some of the servicemen lost......

The end of the walk is in sight. Continue straight up the path towards the crematorium and at the garden of rest take a left and then left again, doubling back onto the main path that leads down to the tennis courts in Canford Park. You shouldn’t get lost from here.......

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RIVER AVON TIDE TIMES Here are your high and low tide times for the River Avon this coming month. All times are listed in British Summer Time, and those highlighted boldly in red are all high tides above 12 metres - so worth a trip to Sea Mills, the Portway or the Cumberland Basin to have a look.

High tide at 21.03 on Monday 23rd August is the highest tide of the month at 13.6 metres.

High Tide

Low Tide

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Sunday 1st August

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Saturday 7th August

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Sunday 8th August

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Saturday 14th August

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Saturday 21st August

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Sunday 22nd August

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20.19

Saturday 28th August

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17.48

23.43

Sunday 29th August

11.56

18.12

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Low Tide

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Cohabitee claims Inheritance Act 1975

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Who is a cohabitee under the 1975 Act? A cohabitee is someone who during the whole period immediately before the date of death was living in the same household as the deceased in a relationship akin to being husband and wife.

The number of unmarried co-habiting couples in England and Wales has increased significantly over the past decade (the office for National Statistic figures show a 25.8% rise) and they are now believed to be the fastest growing family type. With this societal change there is an ever-increasing need for people to consider their financial situations and who they would like to inherit from their estate when they die.

What type of settlement could I receive as a cohabitee?

Under the terms of the act, cohabitees are entitled to receive such financial provision as would be reasonable in all the circumstances for their maintenance. The courts have a wide discretion to make a range of orders including awarding a capital sum to the applicant or creating a lifeinterest in the estate property in their favour. In the case of Lewis v Warner (2017) it was held that the term maintenance included keeping a roof over someone’s head. Mr Thomas Warner was aged 91 and financially very well-off but suffered from ill-health. He had lived with his partner, Miss Audrey Blackwell, for nearly 20 years in a property she solely owned. Miss Blackwell was younger than Mr Warner and so they both believed that she would outlive him and there was no provision for him in her Will. Instead, Miss Blackwell’s daughter was the sole residuary beneficiary of her estate and she tried to evict Mr Warner from the estate property as she wished to use it herself. The court held that Mr Warner was entitled to purchase the property from the estate because it was important for his maintenance to continue residing in his home where he felt happy despite the fact he did not have a financial need.

When someone dies without a Will, the rules of intestacy apply and only spouses, blood relatives (or in absence of both of these, the Crown) will inherit their estate. This means that in English Law unmarried partners do not automatically have the right to receive anything from an estate and in some circumstances, an unmarried partner could find themselves being asked to leave their home shortly after losing their loved one so that the property can be sold or transferred to the beneficiary/ies.

Life is far from predictable and so not everyone will have had the opportunity to create a Will before a death occurs, particularly when someone dies relatively young or unexpectedly. If you find yourself in a situation where someone you have been living with dies without a Will you may be able to receive some provision from their estate by negotiating a settlement with the estate beneficiaries. The first step is to consider whether, based on your circumstances, you are a potential claimant under the Inheritance Act 1975.

How long do I have to make an Inheritance Act claim?

An application to court must normally be made within six months of the Grant of Representation being issued. After that timescale the court’s leave is required to issue proceedings. Due to the short-time frame in which potential claimants can issue proceedings, if negotiations with the estate beneficiaries fail, we would strongly recommend that anyone affected by these issues seeks legal advice at the earliest opportunity.

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Monday 25 October at 2pm - Breakfast at Tiffany’s (PG) Starring Audrey Hepburn & George Peppard A New York socialite becomes interested in a new man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.

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THE STORY BEHIND LAND RUGS In the last couple of issues of the magazine a small advert has appeared for hand woven Nepalese rugs. Sensing that there might be an interesting story associated with the advert I had a chat with Mark Vaughan, the person behind Land Rugs.

crucible of British Modernism; at that time, the area was a magnet for the Bohemian life-style of artists, writers, actors and conscientious objectors, as well as anyone else seeking a ‘new world order’, whether this was in politics, farming, education or the creative arts.

The British painter Patrick Heron and Pip Benveniste were childhood acquaintances in Newlyn because their fathers Tom Heron and Alec Walker had established Crysede, a highly innovative and successful business producing wood block, hand-printed, beautiful silk garments and fabrics for sale in their 26 shops across England through the 1920s-30s. Tom Heron was the businessman and Alec brought his much lauded artistic skills to the project. The Bristol Crysede shop was at no. 6 Park Street for many years. Crysede garments and fabrics are now museum pieces, including the V & A in London and the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.

As a child Pip witnessed her father as Crysede’s sole designer in this flourishing, creative project, housed in converted herring smokehouses in Newlyn and later St Ives, and she knew that Raoul Dufy in Paris had strongly encouraged her father’s work.

“In Newlyn, my mother was intuitively laying down an unconscious matrix of deeply interconnecting themes of nature, the landscape, light and colour that would later return again and again to influence her eye as a fully-fledged artist.

She brought some of this ancestry to the six decades of painting and her many exhibitions, as well as to the abstract rug designs.”

“Rainbow Chain”from the Bright & Breezy Gallery It turns out that Land Rugs is a Bristol-based project that gets beautiful rug designs handwoven in Kathmandu, Nepal and flown back to the UK for sale. The designs are by the British Modernist artist, Pip Benveniste (1921-2010) who had a long, creative and prolific career spanning more than 60 years. “Pip was my mother” says Mark, who lives in Henleaze, “and it has been inspiring to rediscover this part of her legacy of work, her rug designs, and get them out in the public domain as a part of the Land Rugs project.”

The narrative surrounding Benveniste includes the different media she engaged with, such as oils, acrylic, watercolour, etching, 16mm art films (later shown at Tate Britain, on BBCTV and Channel 4), photography and finally rug designs.

“Waterfall” from the Blues Gallery

The Nepalese and Tibetan weavers in Kathmandu Valley were found by Mark Vaughan through GoodWeave, the global not-for-profit organisation that ensures no child labour is used in any rug making and that workers are treated fairly; this international body has established pioneering educational initiatives in Nepal for those young people now out of the factories and in school. Land Rugs has been so impressed with

Her father, was the Cornwall based artist Alec Walker, and the family home was Myrtle Cottage in Newlyn where both Benveniste and Mark were born. The house is a listed building and has to be painted pink by law! It’s in the centre of Newlyn and in the 1920s and 30s this small town was a

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THE STORY BEHIND LAND RUGS GoodWeave’s educational priorities in that it donates additional funds to help the work with Nepalese children.

And as a gesture towards meeting the carbon footprint of flying our rug orders to the UK from the other side of the world, at Land Rugs we regularly sponsor individual acres of rainforest in Peru and Ecuador through the environmental organisation, CoolEarth.org.”

“Land Rugs uses traditional weavers whose skills have been handed down for centuries; the weavers use environmentally friendly powder dye colours, rather than the more commercial acid-based, chemical versions. Their choice of wool is Tibetan yarn from sheep grazing high in the Himalayas to the north of Kathmandu Valley, giving a permanent lanolin in the wool to help its lasting and durable qualities.

Mark plus rugs at a French Christmas market Mark explains that his rugs are woven at 150 knots per sq in, which gives about a half a million knots in a 6’x4’ rug; if it is not in stock in Land Rugs Henleaze office, then a rug takes about 10-12 weeks to weave and be delivered. To have a look at the full range of rugs available, and discover more about the Land Rugs story, please visit Mark’s website www.landrugs.com.

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So, a “secure” password nowadays needs to be more characters (around 14 is reckoned to be the safe minimum currently according to most experts) and should not include real words or obvious strings of numbers.

Many of you will increasingly be noticing that when you use the web browser on your PC, Smartphone or Tablet, you get a notification that your password has been subject to a data breach.

Major providers like Google, Microsoft and Apple are providing increased monitoring services to check the passwords you input, to see if they appear on any lists of known data breaches (when hackers gain access to servers and steal/ sell user names/passwords). It doesn’t mean you’ve been hacked personally. But it does mean that somewhere where you’ve logged in using a particular password HAS suffered a data breach and your data may be among that stolen. And if you’re using the same password for different logins that can spell security trouble.

The problem of course is how to remember them!! Two sensible suggestions to reasonably improve security without going mad in the process; Use a password manager app where you can safely stored them, encrypted.

Use a “template” to create your passwords so you - and only you - can remember them / work them out. I use my old car registration plate as a starting point, with the first letter as a capital.

Then I add a single digit, then the first four letters of the account I’m logging into, followed by a special character e.g. an exclamation mark. So I can remember, without looking, that my Paypal log in is Rhc443y2Payp! Even that isn’t hyper secure, but it would survive most Brute Force Attacks, which is increasingly important.

So, more than ever, it’s really important to make sure you use a different password for every account log in, and make sure you use a more complex password that cant be easily guessed.

And by guessed, I don’t mean by a hacker sat trying to manually guess your password. Hackers use powerful, complex computer systems to guess passwords. These systems include Brute Force Attacks and Dictionary Attacks, where an algorythm will systematically use every word in the dictionary from A-Z, together with strings of numbers, maybe from 000 to 999 to guess your password. Billions of permutations - generated in seconds……

It’s an issue we are stuck with until biometrics like face and iris recognition become the norm, but it’s one we need to take a little more care over in these times of rampant cyber attacks.

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MUSIC - DUNCAN HASKELL Album of the Month

Next Step

Mercy by Natalie Bergman

Electro-Shock Blues by Eels

“We never made it on to the stage At the Radio City Music Hall We got the news on the telephone And I got down on my knees”

Over the years, the loss of a loved one has inspired some of the finest albums ever written. From Nick Cave & The Bad Seed’s Skeleton Tree, recorded after the death of Cave’s 15-year-old son, to Arcade Fire’s Funeral, influenced by four of the band losing family members, the best musicians find a way to channel their sadness, anger and confusion into visceral pieces of art.

So begins Last Farewell, the closing song on Natalie Bergman’s debut album Mercy. The tragic news in question is the death of her father and step-mother, killed in a collision with a drunk driver in October 2019.

The American musician had already lost her mother when she was just 16 and was again faced with many dark nights of the soul where she contemplated her own religion and the unjustness of it all.

Mark Oliver Everett/E, the man behind Eels, definitely has that knack and sadly has endured enough personal tragedy to fill many albums with his idiosyncratic lo-fi indie-rock. We could just as easily have recommended the double album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations but are instead opting for 1998’s Electro-Shock Blues, born out of his sister’s suicide and mother’s terminal lung cancer.

Some of her healing was done at a monastery in the Chama Valley, New Mexico. Isolated in a small room with only a desk and cot, she would go to the chapel seven times each day and spent the rest of her time reading the bible, searching for solace and answers. Out of that experience, the seeds that grew into this debut album were planted.

What makes this album such a remarkable feat is that E doesn’t let these horrible events drag him into the abyss, somehow balancing heart-break (Elizabeth On the Bathroom Floor) with moments of contemplation and humour (P.S. You Rock My World).

Of course, knowing the context behind Mercy, it’s hard to be sniffy about the strength of Bergman’s belief, nor the fact that she herself struggled with it in the aftermath of that tragic event. That struggle informs much of the album’s lyrical content, balancing the loss of her father, “I miss your blue eyes that you gave to me” (Your Love Is My Shelter), with her determination to find a way back to God; “Lord please be my shepherd/ I have gone astray” she asks on **Shine Your Light On Me

Podcast of the Month 60 Songs That Explain The 90s The work of Rob Harvilla, each episode of this series finds the music critic discussing a particularly song from the 90s, explaining what makes it so great while also looking at it from a historical perspective. Starting with Alanis Morissette’s You Oughta Know the artists as diverse as Guns N’ Roses, Missy Elliott and Wu-Tang Clan are featured along the way.

If that sounds heavy going, then fear not.

Bergman manages to balance the darkness and religious underpinning by flooding the album with light. In this way it’s very much a modern gospel album that lifts the listener up. Part of that glow comes from her own floaty vocals and it’s aided by swirls of instrumentation, **He Will Lift You Up Higher being a fine example.

A particularly nice treat is that each episode ends with the song in question in full, allowing you to appreciate a classic in a whole new light.

Whether you’re a devout worshipper of Bergman’s music or just passing through, it’s an album that can be enjoyed on many levels and a staggering tribute to lost family and (re)found faith.

Duncan Haskell, July 2021

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Making Trusts Simple When people talk about trusts, they can seem complex and expensive, perhaps potentially only for the super-rich. The reality is they don’t have to be. Put simply, a trust is a vehicle to protect your assets and to guarantee your loved ones financial stability in the future – something we all want to achieve after building a nest egg.

There are many reasons to consider placing assets in to a trust and the main concerns people come to us with where a trust could help include: • • •

A desire to avoid substantial inheritance tax.

Future-proofing to ensure wealth is passed to the right beneficiaries.

Seeking to reduce the amount of money lost to care fees.

A trust can be set up during your lifetime, where you can act as a trustee and control what happens to the assets you have gifted within the trust. This protects your assets from inheritance tax by progressively moving them out of your estate.

There is also the option to set up a trust in your Will which deals with the protection of assets after your death. These are

commonly used where you may be worried about the impact of care home fees, the divorce of a child or the protection of disabled or vulnerable members of your family.

Unlike a Will, you are able to be very specific about what happens to assets within the trust. An example of this would be stipulating that one beneficiary can live in a property but once it is sold, the money should go to a different beneficiary.

There are many types of trust, each with slightly different features. The main thing to remember is that there is usually one suitable for everyone as part of a balanced financial plan.

I can talk through this with you (and your family if you wish) and how different trusts may be appropriate for different situations or scenarios you may be concerned about.

Please call 0117 363 6212 or email richard@ haroldstephens.co.uk or contact us through the website www.haroldstephens. co.uk to book your complimentary estate planning review.

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SUMMER HOLIDAY ACTIVITY IDEAS As the summer holiday season arrives, and we regain more of our freedoms, our thoughts turn to “where to go and what to do” - especially if we have youngsters to have fun with / entertain / control. As overseas holiday destinations change from red to orange to green and back again, faster than a malfunction at a temporary roadworks, it seems as if most people are staying within the boundaries of our green and pleasant land, and many of them aren’t venturing outside Avon (God rest its soul).

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So, how about a little inspiration on some things you might not have thought about but which might just save the day when the calls of “Mum, I’m bored” or “Dad, there’s nothing to do” are heard? Here is a completely random list of possibles, together with contact details / sources of further information.

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Have fun in the kitchen making biscuits, buns, pizzas or smoothies.

Draw the lower body and pass on once more. Now reveal the monster!

Learn the real phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie etc) and then make up your own ones using different themes (Ant, Badger, Chipmunk etc).

Memory game…put, say, 20 items on a tray, get people to try and memorise them and then remove one or more - see who can spot what is missing.

Play the ‘favourites’ game….what’s your favourite colour, pudding etc, or guess the next person’s favourite that they have to write down.

There are lots of great examples of simple “Pen and Paper” games online - www. todaysparent.com/family/activities/penciland-paper-games/#gallery/pencil-andpaper-games-for-kids/slide-1 is a great start, without too many adverts!

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Build a den with cushions, blankets and duvets, maybe under a table, and have a sleepover or an indoor picnic!

Learn a new board or card game, and join in. Pick-Up Sticks and Uno are great simple favourites with younger children, and Cluedo and “Where is Moldova?” are brilliant board games for teenagers.

Puzzles, maybe have one made using a favourite family photo, a photo of a pet or something of interest to the children.

Play the monster game ... draw a head on a piece of paper, fold the paper over and pass to the next person who draws the upper body, fold again and pass to the next person.

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Camp in the garden Make daisychains It’s not too late to sow some seeds and watch them grow! Buy some seeds from Henleaze Garden Centre maybe?

Make a mini bug house using old bamboo, bricks, sticks etc.

Count the number of bugs in your garden/local park - look online for bughunting advice, a great starting point is (continued overleaf)

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Take part in the Butterfly Conservation “Big Butterfly Count” - visit bigbutterflycount. butterfly-conservation.org (no www needed) - see page 24 49 for a checklist.

lit, and suspended from the crossing of the Cathedral. It’s awesome!

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Visit the the excellent www.visitbristol. co.uk website for up-to-date information on events and opening times.

Go on a Bristol transport trip - catch a train from Sea Mills (check they are running though esp. in the first half of August) to Temple Meads, going through the tunnel under the Downs! Then take a yellow Bristol Ferries trip to the Centre (www.bristolferry. com) and a bus back to Clifton Down shopping centre for the train back to Sea Mills.

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Try www.thisbristolbrood.com, blogger Angharad’s excellent site offering local advice under headings such as “Just off the motorway - family-friendly M5 stop-offs near Bristol”.

Beach trips…..try and visit a lifeguarded beach. Check out the RNLI website for details and lots of beach safety advice before you go, especially with the flag identification.

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PRIZE WORDSEARCH Sometimes there is logic behind the theme to the prize wordsearch, and sometimes there isn’t. This month there isn’t! For no reason at all it is all about sandwich fillings.

Listed below are twenty one (mostly) popular sandwich fillings. Twenty of them have also been hidden in the wordsearch grid, and can be found running forward, backwards, up, down or on a diagonal meaning that one filling has run out and is missing from the grid.

Just track down the missing sandwich filling, let me know what it is by 31st August, and if you are correct you are in with a chance of winning coffee and cake for four people at a local cafe or coffee shop of your choice.

Entries please as usual, stating your name and road name, to andy@bcmagazines. co.uk, 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY, 07845 ____________________________ 986650 or 0117 259 1964.

Best of luck - here are the sandwich fillings you are looking for:-

Brie and Grape Smoked Salmon Crab Paste Sandwich Spread Chip Butty Fish Finger Pulled Pork Hummus Salad Pastrami Peanut Butter Bacon Sausage Egg and Cress Coronation Chicken Jam Corned Beef Ham and Mustard Cucumber Cheese and Pickle Tuna Mayo Thanks to everyone who has entered the July “Berwick Lodge Cream Tea” competition - a record number with still a week to go. As we go to print before the deadline the result will have to wait until the September issue.

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VIEW FROM THE LORD MAYOR’S PARLOUR In the first of a regular series of articles and updates Steve Smith, local Councillor and the new Lord Mayor of Bristol, gives us an insight into the early days of his tenure

One focus in my early weeks has been the twinning arrangements that Bristol has with cities around the world. My very first duty on the morning after swearing in was to raise the Georgian flag to celebrate their independence day together with friends from the Bristol – Tblisi twinning association. I’m told that the ceremony made national TV news in Georgia that evening! I’ve also unveiled plaques in City Hall to rename rooms after our seven twin cities, and the Lady Mayoress Kath and I enjoyed a wonderful Zongzi banquet with the West of England China Bureau to celebrate our twinning with Guangzhou.

“I was sworn in as Lord Mayor of Bristol on the 25th May and as I write I’ve been in the role for around 6 weeks. Until May 2022 I will have the great privilege of being Lord Mayor alongside my role as a local Councillors.

In July Kath and I hosted our first “At Home with the Lord Mayor” event at the Mansion House, our official residence in Clifton. We don’t actually live there, and most of the time it is used for weddings and events but it was a real pleasure to invite people to come and join us there for a cup of tea and to explore the historic building. We’ll host similar events on the 1st October, 1st December and 11th March. If you’d like to join us please get in touch by emailing lordmayor@bristol.gov.uk.

I am the latest in a very long line. Bristol has had Mayors, and latterly Lord Mayors for over 800 years. The “Mayor making” usually takes place in the Council Chamber at City Hall amidst much pomp and ceremony. This year to be Covid-secure we had a reduced event in the larger conference room. That room has the names of every previous Mayor and Lord Mayor carved into its walls, which certainly focusses the mind on the footsteps that you are following in.

My theme for the year as Lord Mayor is to celebrate volunteers and volunteering. If you are part of a local voluntary group that I could visit during the year then please get in touch, I’d love to hear from you.

Being Lord Mayor introduces you to a huge range of new and interesting experiences, which have already ranged from attending drag performances and abseiling off towers to launching boats and raising flags. With the kind permission of the Editor I will try to use this space to share with you some of the highlights and fascinating people and groups that we meet through the year.

Abseiling off the top of Castlemead Tower, to raise money for St Peter’s Hospice. I wasn’t allowed to wear the official robes, alas.

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Getting it right with children’s shoes Children’s school shoes are worn Monday to Friday for around seven hours a day.

Tanya Marriott, owner of SoleLution family footwear shops in Clifton and Portishead, explains why it’s crucial to get it right.

An increase in the number of children experiencing foot health problems, many due to ill fitting footwear, is cause for concern.

The bones in our feet are delicate in childhood, continuing to grow and harden well into our t e e n a g e years.

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Who did Andy Murray beat in the final when winning his first Wimbledon men’s title?

England lost on penalties to which country in the 1996 European Championships?

Name the last three British Formula 1 champions before Lewis Hamilton.

Anthony Nash and Robin Dixon won gold for GB in which event at the 1964 Winter Olympics?

Which jockey won the British champion jump jockey title four years in a row following the retirement of AP McCoy in 2015?

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Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi?

In England roughly what percentage of total land area is developed (i.e. built on - roads, buildings, airports, quarries etc)?

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Which Royal park sits between Horse Guards Parade and Buckingham Palace?

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Holmfirth in Yorkshire was the setting for which classic sit-com?

What is the most common pub name in the UK? In what year did the first Commonwealth migrants from Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and other Caribbean islands arrive aboard the boat MV Empire Windrush?

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Where was the Peace Treaty signed in 1919 that formally ended the hostilities of World War 1?

Name the codenames for the four beaches used for the 1944 Normandy D-Day landings.

Who shot a) John Lennon, b) John F Kennedy, and c) JR Ewing?

Which is the most frequently used name of all the Kings of England & Great Britain?

When in UK politics was the “Winter of Discontent”?

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Name the capital cities of a) Venezuela, b) Belarus, and c) Malaysia.

If you were to drive in a straight line from London to Istanbul name the ten countries, as well as the UK, that you would visit.

Match these European countries to their population sizes - Portugal, Switzerland and the Netherlands, and 10.3 million, 17.2 million and 8.5 million.

Which river passes through Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda,

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What alternative careers were the following public figures qualified to pursue - a) Harrison Ford, b) Jo Brand, c) Matt Hancock?

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Nature

Which country is the world’s biggest producer of pomegranates?

If you were eating bara brith would you a) fry it, b) spread it with butter, or c) have it in a salad?

What is the origin of the word “barrista”?

Which is the world’s number one fast food business by number of outlets?

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**Spoiler Alert** In the classic war film The Great Escape which of the credited actors successfully bicycled to freedom? - clue, it wasn’t Steve McQueen

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Name the ill-fated game show hosted

by Robert Kilroy-Silk that was axed after only four episodes in 2001.

Which chef is the regular presenter of BBC’s Saturday Kitchen?

Name the two leads in the film “When Harry Met Sally”.

Who played Deadpool in the Marvel film of the same name?

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What does HSBC stand for?

Name Lord Alan Sugar’s original technology brand.

What are the currencies of a) Hungary, b) Estonia and c) Bulgaria?

Who is the current BBC Economics Editor?

Who was Chancellor of the Exchequer before Rishi Sunak?

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Are there more native UK moths or native UK birds?

What is a baby eel called?

Who were the three presenters of the first series of Springwatch?

What bird features on the RSPB logo?

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Estate Administration During the estate administration period, if a property or an asset is sold for more than the value at death, personal representatives may have a CGT liability.

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Beneficiaries who inherit assets from the estate will receive them at their probate value. it is important that beneficiaries are informed of the acquisition values of assets they inherit, as they may be liable to pay CGT personally if they decide to dispose of the assets at a later date.

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GARDENING TIPS FROM HILARY BARBER Hello gardeners! Here is your annual reminder about water saving and green gardening methods which are better for the environment and better for you. I’ve seen much more insect life and garden wildlife over the last year - let’s keep up the good work!

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Don’t forget to leave clean water in a shallow dish for bees and other insects, and don’t forget the the bird bath - clean water daily please!

Instead of pesticides, think about companion planting http://www.organicgarden.org.uk/ gardening/gardening/companion-planting/ or soapy water sprayed on the aphids. (Garlic solution is also brilliant as a slug deterrent https://homeguides.sfgate.com/garlicspray-slugs-80955.html. Do think also about good housekeeping i.e. letting air circulation around the plants and good mulching and watering.

Please don’t use herbicides which contain glyphosate - bad for the environment and bad for you. Perennial weeds can be dug out and you can use a hoe for annual weeds Plants prefer rainwater to tap water. Fit a water butt to a downpipe and collect rainwater for your garden.

Lawns may go brown in dry weather but quickly recover when it rains and don’t need to be watered in between. Leave some of your lawn uncut to develop it as a wildflower meadow or sow clover or other low growing plants such as camomile or self heal (prunella vulgarise) Apply a thick layer of mulch e.g. manure or mushroom compost ; rotted household compost or composted bark on your soil between plants to help keep the moisture in and suppress weeds. Do this in the autumn or spring and the mulch will also suppress weeds, keep the soil warm and provide nutrients and texture to the soil. Ground cover plants make the best mulches because they shade the ground and are cost effective.

Grey water - Cooled bath, shower or laundry water can be used on plants if it is not too greasy but avoid re-using water with strong detergents or household cleaning agents.

Only use the water on plant roots, and not leaves.

Use a water-retaining gel for pots and hanging baskets. Also put a saucer under all pots so that the water does not drain away from the bottom of the pot

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Water plants in the early morning or evening when it is cooler and less water is lost to evaporation. Give plants a good soaking once or twice a week in dry weather rather than light daily watering. Use a watering can and aim directly at the roots, rather than scattering water on leaves, which is a waste of water.

10. Use an upturned water bottle filled with water to drip feed directly to the roots of shrubs.

11. The plants that cope well in this dry weather are succulents, such as sedums and sempervivum; and Mediterranean plants such as lavender, rosemary, thyme and cistus. Do have a look at this list of RHS recommended drought loving plants which can often be grown in a gravel garden like the one at the Beth Chatto Garden which has never been watered! www.rhs.org.uk/ advice/profile?PID=397 12. And don’t forget about the other wildlife in the garden by creating wild areas and log piles in the back of borders. These will help slow worms, hedgehogs, frogs and toads and newts, plus the other good beasties of the garden!

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HISTORY NOTES - JULIAN LEA-JONES - GMT COMES TO BRISTOL For this month’s article (no. 161) we are talking clocks, with a selection of horological anecdotes recounted to me during research into Bristol’s clockmaking history. If you would like to know more a chapter in my book Bristol Curiosities, “The man who bought time” may answer your quest for things locally horological, and describes aspects of Bristol’s innovative approach to engineering that reached its apotheosis in the nineteenth century – the development of timekeeping systems.

Before the days of the fast mail coaches the routine of secular life in England was determined simply by whether it was day or night. In the Middle Ages most people’s first introduction to mechanical forms of timekeeping would have been hearing the toll of a bell in the tower of a local church or a monastic house. The bells were tolled to mark the canonical hours. The first signs of automation came in the thirteenth century when mechanical devices, such as those at The Palace of Westminster, Cothele House in Cornwall, and Salisbury Cathedral were used to strike a bell. These timekeeping mechanisms had no dial - their only function was to automatically sound a bell, whereas a timepiece has a dial and one or more hands.

Until the nineteenth century, time was determined by the position of the sun, and when it took Bristolians a day or more to reach London, the average traveller would not have noticed that the sun rose over London nearly eleven minutes before it summoned Bristolians to another day’s toil. There matters would have remained, but for the innovation of the rapid mail coaches that brought ‘London Time’ with them in the form of a Mail Coach Chronometer. However it was the opening of Brunel’s Great Western Railway, GWR, on the 30th January 1841 that sounded the death knell for the old ways of timekeeping - and especially so when on the 30th June that year God’s Wonderful Railway reached Bristol.

Nevertheless the introduction of a standard time to Bristol was not without incident. What excitement the new railway brought, and what upset. Some of the local dignitaries had undoubtedly set their watches by the Exchange clock in Corn Street, and set off in plenty

of time to reach Brunel’s spanking new railway station at Temple Meads - only to discover, much to their embarrassment, that the first through train from London had arrived nearly eleven minutes beforehand! This embarrassing situation would never have arisen if it had not been for a boardroom wrangle two years before. In 1839 Wheatstone and Cooke’s new system, for transmitting messages and time signals by electrical telegraphy, had already been installed alongside Brunel’s Great Western Railway track between London and Slough, and Brunel planned to extend the system to Bristol.

However, a ‘visionary and farsighted’ Director of the company voted against the extended use of the telegraphic system saying that it was a “short lived fad that would serve no practical purpose!”

Ironically it was Brunel’s ship, the Great Eastern, which laid the first telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. Nevertheless because of the GWR’s Director’s myopic decision Bristol had to wait another thirteen years to get the benefits of ‘instant messaging’.

The Railways formally adopted Greenwich Mean Time, GMT, (or as they called it, ‘Railway Time’) on 22nd September 1847. But the time discrepancies between London and Bristol weren’t really highlighted until the Great Exhibition of 1851, the event that brought people flooding into London by rail from all corners of the country. Bradshaws, the railway travellers’ bible, contained the laconic note, “East –West travel was quicker than West – East travel.

Here the time discrepancy was resolved by a bizarre but logical solution. Bristolians saved themselves further embarrassment in the intervening thirteen years by a splendid example of eccentricity and compromise! It was mainly

Plaque marking the distance of Bristol from the prime meridian, below Langford’s Electric Clock on College Green

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HISTORY NOTES - JULIAN LEA-JONES the business community who needed to be commercially aware of London or Greenwich Mean Time, even though they were working and living in local time that was ten minutes and twenty-three seconds behind. The answer was obvious – fit the Exchange clock with two seperate minute hands, one for Local time and one for London time!

pray the best man didn’t drop the ring!], Faced with this dilemma the Vicar also asked, “Would the Corporation would cover any legal costs incurred in defending my actions?” Probably the most vituperative and picturesque comment was from the correspondent who wrote, “Modern legislation will sneer at the sun itself.”

In February 1852, the GWR Directors realised that perhaps electrical telegraphy was not a passing fad, and agreed lines to be extend to Bristol. By September Bristol City Corporation, under pressure from the business community, agreed to formally change to GMT even though it still hadn’t been ratified by an Act of Parliament.

Although this harmonisation of time pleased most of Bristol’s businesspeople, the dichotomy between recognition of GMT and official time raised more issues. During the debates on whether Bristol should continue to anticipate Parliamentary decree many strong words were spoken and some of the arguments against were, yet again, based upon conservatism (with a small c) rather than rationale. One of the dissenters, a scion of the business community, stood legs astride in the Commercial Rooms main hall, pulled out of his pocket his Grandfather’s watch and roared out, “One hand had been good enough for his grandfather and it was certainly good enough for him”. Do you remember Hilda Baker the 1950s comedienne? Her watch only had a minute hand, and her catch phrase which always got a laugh, was “It’s half past…I really must get the other hand!”

In order to forestall any queries as to why the Exchange clock still has two minute hands, a word of explanation. In 1880 GMT was adopted nationally by an Act of Parliament, placing all of Britain within a single time zone, at which point the second minute hand on our Exchange clock was no longer needed and was removed. But in the early 1990’s the clock was about to be restored, and Bristol’s authorities thought that reinstating this novel feature would be a nice tourist attraction. The Temple Local History Group, who had earlier carried out a survey of the City’s public clocks on behalf of the Civic Society, were asked to help with the restoration. They were able to provide horologist Andy Nichols, with a drawing showing the angle at which the new hand should be re-fixed. The great day arrived, and the restored Exchange clock was unveiled complete with its additional minute hand all nicely painted in gleaming red. But both hands were painted red and the cry went up, “Which hand points to the right time?” A case of déjà vu to the 30th of June 1841, the day dignitaries missed the train. To resolve the problem, at the official opening a few days later the Lady Lord Mayor, Kathleen Mountstevens, armed with a can of paint and a brush, was invited to ascend in a ‘cherry picker’ (hydraulic lift) to repaint one of the minute hands a different colour. An explanatory signboard was then erected outside the Exchange to explain to mystified passers-by the reason for this horological conundrum - possibly making it the only clock in the country where, in order to determine the time, you have to read the explanatory notes beforehand,

During this time, correspondence columns of the newspapers became full of complaints some serious, some petulant - raised by those experiencing problems caused by the legislative discrepancies between local Byelaws and Parliament. One correspondent was worried about disenfranchisement: “If there is an election and I arrive at the polling station five minutes after it has closed, in accordance with Bristol’s adoption of GMT I am disenfranchised, whereas according to the Law of the Land, the polling station should not shut for another five minutes and twentythree seconds”. Similarly a vicar wrote: “Because of Bristol’s adoption of GMT a couple who present themselves to me five minutes after the locally allowable time for a wedding cannot be married.

However, according to Parliament I should allow the wedding”. [Although with only five minutes and twenty-three second remaining, they would have had to gabble their wedding vows, and

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HISTORY NOTES - JULIAN LEA-JONES the Time Service were maintained to a higher standard, and one of the tasks when the service closed was the surveying of these high quality lines for possible reallocation. The route of one of these lines went astray, and two Post Office engineers were despatched to the West Country to find out what had gone wrong.

When they arrived at this North Somerset port they found the following state of affairs. The time telegraphic signal to the port was used to trigger the dropping of a large time ball down a mast at a set time each day. This provided an accurate visual time check for ships, to set their navigation instruments. The engineers reached the coastguard post and were surprised to see that the time ball was dropped on time although the telegraphic signal was absent. When asked how they managed it they were told by the coastguard that at the appropriate time he stood on steps so that he could see the large public clock over a shop in the main street. He then used a stick to make the ball drop. Thanking him they visited the shop and asked the proprietor how he maintained the time. “Oh, Sirs, it is easy I just watch for the Time ball to drop.”

A novel design for the automatic illumination of the St Nicholas Church clock dial by Bristol Bridge was achieved by having the spaces between the numerals of the iron dial filled with coloured glass.

Gas lamps behind the dial were automatically ignited by a mechanism that derived its timing from the main clock. Bristol’s brilliant new clock, praised in the Bristol Gazette for 19th March 1829, was easily visible to travellers approaching the city across Bristol Bridge from the South, and everyone found it very useful. However there turned out to be a fly in the ointment. A dispute over the cost arose between the gas company and the church vestry, who balked at the bill, with the result that the gas supply was cut off. A satirical account in verse of the dispute appeared in a local newspaper, the last lines suggesting that, “If the Vestry wouldn’t pay then the Devil would”. Stung by this public rebuke, the vestry agreed to pay the gas bill and dial was restored to its multicoloured splendour.

This last anecdote relates to an incident that happened somewhere on the North Somerset coast and refers to the closing down of the time service in 1927. The telegraph lines allocated to

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GOOD READS - BRUCE FELLOWS’ BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Sandy Stern is at it again one final time in Scott Turow’s brilliant courtroom thriller The Last Trial. This time he’s defending old friend Kiril Pafko, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine and the brains behind a miracle cancer drug that seems to have cured Sandy himself. Kiril is charged with fraud, insider trading, tampering with test study results and murder. It’s a tale of families, lovers, friends and legal minutiae in which Turow makes cross-examination and legal conferences seem like riveting fun. There are betrayed wives, palatial residences, a rejected son, a punk granddaughter and was that a murder attempt on Sandy, too? It’s great.

Harry Ree parachuted into France in 1943 to help organise the Resistance. A Schoolmaster’s War, edited by his son, Jonathan Ree, tells Harry’s story in his own words. Once a conscientious objector, Harry changed his mind at the start of the War but wanted to be responsible for his own actions, so he volunteered for SOE. Harry arranged several sabotage operations and survived betrayal and five bullets, but in this book reflects most upon the courage of the ordinary French people who supported and assisted him, risking their lives and those of their families in the process. This is a thoroughly gripping and uplifting read.

In Actress, Anne Enright’s enthralling novel, her daughter Norah does her best to answer the question ‘What was she like, Katherine O’Dell, the Irish stage legend?’ In the telling, Norah makes discoveries that flesh out her mother’s legend-like stories. Born to touring actors in Ireland, Katherine is a natural and shoots to success. Her marriage is a sham but then Norah is born, though her constant question is, ‘Who is my father?’ Norah’s own story interweaves, too, and since Katherine’s whole existence is a performance, there’s drama aplenty in life as well as onstage in this splendid tale of mothers, daughters, love and bad men.

Winona, a teenage Lakota Sioux and survivor of a massacre, now adopted by ex-Union soldiers John Cole and Thomas McNulty, tells her story in Sebastian Barry’s wonderful novel, A Thousand Moons, a sequel to Barry’s splendid ‘Days Without End’. Good with figures, she works for the lawyer Briscoe in Paris, the Tennessee town close by the farm she lives on. Her life has been one of violence, given as well as received and the violence isn’t over yet as they all battle the local vigilante militia and Winona faces new personal trauma. Vivid and lyrical, the novel is as totally captivating as Winona herself is.

Montalbano’s back, as entertaining and mysterious as ever. The Cook of the Halcyon by Andrea Camilleri finds Salvo pondering the purpose of the yacht Halcyon’s mysterious regular visits to Vigata harbour. There’s also the suicide of a laid off worker and the threat to the worker’s boss to worry about. Then during a trip to Genoa to see girlfriend Livia, chaos breaks out at the police department in Vigata and his job’s in danger! What on earth is going on?

Solving the mystery involves the FBI, quick thinking, a sea voyage and fine cooking. But who is the cook? Another terrific read from the master.

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PUZZLE ANSWERS Quiz Time from page 37 Sport 1. Novak Djokovic; 2. Germany; 3. Jenson Button, Damon Hill, Nigel Mansell; 4. bobsleigh; 5. Richard Johnson.

History 1. Versailles; 2. Juno, Gold, Omaha, Sword; 3.a) Mark Chapman, b) Lee Harvey Oswald, c) Kristin Shepard, his sister-in-law; 4. Henry (eight) 5.winter of 1978-1979.

Geography 1.a) Caracas, b) Minsk, c) Kuala Lumpur; 2. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia & Herzogovina, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey; 3. Portugal (10.3m), Switzerland (8.5m), Netherlands (17.2m); 4. River Nile; 5. just under 9%.

Pot Luck 1. St. James’s Park; 2. Last of the Summer Wine; 3. The Red Lion; 4. 1948; 5.a) carpenter, b) psychiatric nurse, c) jockey.

Food & Drink 1. Dorset; 2. India; 3. b) spread it with butter, it is a fruit tea bread; 4. it is the Italian word for a male or female bartender; 5. Subway, which has 43,000 outlets.

Film & Television 1. James Coburn; 2. Shafted ; 3. Matt Tebbutt; 4. Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal; 5. Ryan Reynolds.

Business 1. Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation; 2. Amstrad (Alan Martin Sugar Trading); 3.a) the Forint, b) the Euro, c) the Lev; 4. Faisal Islam; 5. Sajid Javid.

Nature 1. There are more native UK moths (approx 2,500) than native UK birds (574); 2. elvers; 3. Bill Oddie, Kate Humble and Simon King; 4. the avocet; 5. stoat, water vole, dormouse Who Am I Dame Helen Mirren and Kim Jong-un Children’s Puzzles from page 24 What Am I? Strawberry trifle, Lion, Premier League football, toaster.

Which Am I? Cornflower, No Entry, Snow Leopard, Stilton.

Where Am I? (clockwise from top left) USA (New York), Tanzania (Mount Kilamanjaro), United Kingdom (Durdle Door), Vietnam (Ha Long Bay).

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Bristol Alexander School www.bristolalexanderschool.co.uk Caroline at cchalk19@gmail.com 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. Rehearsals on Tuesdays, 6.30 – 8.00pm at Holy Trinity Church, Hotwells.

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All Together Now Bristol Choir www.alltogethernowchoir.com Alpine Garden Society 0117 967 3160.

Bristol Astronomical Society www.bristolastrosoc.org.uk

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? We will restart lectures in September after the summer break. For more information visit our website www. theartssociety-bristol.org.uk

Bristol Bridge Club. New to bridge or want to improve? Join an online course. For further details, please contact teaching@ bristolbridgeclub.co.uk Bristol Brunel Lions Club Bill O’Neill at lion.bill@virginmedia.com

Babbers Radio Show info@ujimaradio.com.

Bristol Cabot Choir admin@bristolcabotchoir.org www.bristolcabotchoir.org

Beaufort Junior Badminton Club Penny at pennyshears@googlemail.com 07941 013 514

Bristol Chamber Choir www.bristolchamberchoir.org.uk Rae Ford on 0117 939 1685 rodcoomber@aol.co.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 Community Gamelan keithripley27@gmail.com phone 9444241 Bristol Film and Video Society (Amateur film makers). We were formed in 1934.

We continue to make prize winning films, and currently meet via Zoom on the first and third Tuesday of every month. All are welcome. For more details please visit

Bridge Tuition 07837300073 tc.stygall@gmail.com

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS Civil Service Retirement Fellowship Tony McKenna on 0117 950 2059

www.bristolvideo.org.uk Bristol Grandparents Support Group 07773 258 270 / www.bgsg.co.uk

Clifton Rotary Club www.cliftonrotary.org secretary@cliftonrotary.org

Bristol Indoor Bowls Club Email: info@bristolindoorbowls.org.uk Tel: 0117 963 3460 www.bristolindoorbowls.org.uk.

The Clifton Singers contact@cliftonsingers.co.uk www.cliftonsingers.co.uk

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

Fielder Club gloriasimmonds@hotmail.co.uk

If you love singing we would love to hear from you! Bristol Phoenix Choir would like some new singers to join us when we start our new season in September. We are a friendly choir and we enjoy rehearsing and performing great choral works as well as shorter more intimate pieces, for our Bristol audiences to appreciate. If you would like to sing with us, please contact Jackie our membership secretary jackie. blackwell410@gmail.com

Filtones Choir www.thefiltones.weebly.com

Bristol Shambhala Meditation Group bristol.shambhala.info

Friends of Old Sneed Park Nature Reserve For more details please visit www. oldsneedparknaturereserve.org.

Friends of Welsh National Opera look forward to welcoming you soon. Look out for further news here or contact Melanie David at melaniejdavid@btinternet.com or on 01934 842014 for more information.

Friends of the Downs & Avon Gorge www.friendsofthedowns.org

Bristol Shiplovers Society www.bristolshiplovers.co.uk

Frisbee Club North Bristol Ultimate on Facebook jake.f.waller@gmail.com.

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.

Happy Days Memory Café Tony on 0117 968 1002 Henleaze Garden Club Brian Dury 0117 9621227 www.henleazegardenclub.com Henleaze Flower Club. We are delighted to be re-starting our flower arranging club.

There will be 2 flower demonstrations on 12/08 and 09/08 @ 2pm, Bradbury Hall, Waterford Road. We hope to continue our usual alternate Thursdays in September.

Must be covid protected and masks will be

Carers Support Centre 0117 965 2200 www.carerssupportcentre.org.uk City Voices Bristol www.cityvoicesbristol.org

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS small friendly band playing on Monday afternoons? (Or would you like to join a new band playing on a Wednesday evening, starting in September?) Both bands are in Redland. We just play for fun, no sight reading, no concerts. We play a mixture of pop and swing. This band would suit someone who used to play an instrument and has taken it up again recently, or has been playing for a couple of years or more. (It is not for complete beginners.)

For more information; venue, dates, times and for links to the music we play, please contact: mondayafternoonband@gmail. com

necessary. For more information call Kath01454 412 087 and Marg- 01179 075 724.

Henleaze Senior Film Club Monday 23 August 2pm. “Goodnight Mr Tom” (PG) starring John Thaw. St Peter’s Church Hall, The Drive, Henleaze BS9 4LD. Refreshments £4 Easy access, all welcome!

Henleaze Singing for the Brain Sophia Simlat on 0117 961 0693 bristol@alzheimers.org.uk 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 520456

Mosaic Singers David Vicary on 0797 346 0994.

The National Trust Bristol Centre Janet Stanton on 0117 456 3497 www.ntbristolcentre.btck.co.uk

Instep Club for Widows and Widowers Donna on 01275 832 676 Wilma on 0117 962 8895

North West Bristol Camera Club Neville at nevwgoodman@mac.com

Keep Fit Classes at St Peter’s Church Filton and Horfield Baptist Church. For further information, contact, Eileen Scott on 07969929733

NotaBene Vocal Ensemble Lisa Smith on 07966 459872 notabenebristol@yahoo.com Oasis Bridge - online ‘lockdown’ topic based bridge Seminars for beginners and improvers. www.bridgewebs.com/oasis.

Tel: Maggie on 0117 3296482 for more details.

Karate Classes Trevor on 07921 917 758 Keep Fit for Living Gill Porter on 01275 877 131.

Parkinson’s UK www.parkinsonsbristol.com

Knit & Crochet Café 07561 523 919 brisknitcro@gmail.com

Pat-a-Cake Toddlers Group Alison on 0117 962 9715

Menopause Matters Tricia Worthington on 07962 892 060 tricia_worthington@msn.com

People of Note Community Choir www.peopleofnote.co.uk peopleofnote@btinternet.com

Monday afternoon band and Wednesday evening band. Do you play the saxophone, clarinet, trombone, bass guitar or keyboard? Would you like to join a

Pilates classes Leanne on 07817 189 474 58

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The website is updated whenever a walk is offered, and each one will have a different start point and a maximum number of participants, so you MUST book in advance. Phone the Club Secretary on 0117 950 0934 or email lornarenshaw@ yahoo.co.uk for more details.

Redland Green Bowls Club redlandgreenbowls.webs.com REMAP custom aids for the disabled 0117 329 5183 www.bristol.remap.org.uk.

Tai Chi for over 55’s Selina on 0117 946 6434

Retired & Senior Volunteer Programme Mina on 07860 669 953 www.RSVP-west.org.uk.

University of the Third Age scrabble group 0117 924 1318 nigel.d.sara@btinternet.com

Rotary Club of Bristol www.bristolrotary.org Martina at mpeattie@btopenworld.com

Westbury Aikido Club www.westburyaikidoclub reenee@westburyaikido.club

Scottish Country Dancing Alison on 0117 968 4036 Caroline on 0117 924 9226 www.rscdsbristol.info

Westbury Folk / Country Dancing Christine on 0117 962 2223 Westbury Harriers Running Club www.westburyharriers.co.uk

Shared Reading Christine Betts 07967 332 821 Shouri Shotoryu Karate Club Shouri Shotoryu karate on Facebook 0117 969 5697

Westbury Park Women’s Institute westburyparkwi@gmail.com westburyparkwi.org.uk Lorna 0770 245 3827

Soroptimist International Bristol sibristol@hotmail.co.uk www.sigbi.org/Bristol

Westbury Scottish Country Dance Club Cheryl on 0117 401 2416 www.westburyscottish.org.uk

Stoke Bishop Local History Group talks will be on Zoom until we can return to the Village Hall. All talks are on Friday evenings at 7:30. Please email sblocalhistory@ gmail.com, Tel 077804 38303 for latest news and joining details.

Yoga classes daytime and evening yoga classes in Stoke Bishop with Gary OsbornClarke. For more details please visit www.yogabristol.co.uk or email gary@ yogabristol.co.uk, or call 07899 034 645.

Zumba Classes jooljdh@gmail.com - julie737.zumba.com Jools on 07780 385 830.

Stoke Lodge Ramblers If you’ve let your fitness slip during lockdown or you are looking for opportunities to walk in the company of other local people, please check our website for dates when walks are offered - stokelodgeramblers. wordpress.com/home/walks-programme.

Zumba Classes Marie on 0117 963 4104 bristoldancezumba@gmail.com

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Clifton Arts

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AASP Domestics

Arts & Crafts

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Auctions & Sales

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Up & Over Doors

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Paul Whittaker Bathrooms & Wetrooms

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Blinds & Shutters

Just Shutters

Building Services

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Carpets & Floorings

Garage Doors

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Garden Design Garden Maintenance Heating & Gas

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Home Care Services

51

42 34 34

Home Instead

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Premier Homecare

32

St Monica Trust

19

Jewellery & Gifts

63

39

Kemps Jewellers

Office Accommodation

43

Bristol Carpet & Flooring Group

29

Landrugs

18

Elworthy

Home Gleamers

55

Peter Wyatt

Oven Gleam

44

Precision Decorators

14

Sarah's Decorating Services

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Cleaning Services

Collectors

Matt Stevens

Computer Services

16

IT HomeHelp

20

Boing Bicycles

Electrical Services

Lek‐Trix

Estate & Letting Agents

Howard Estate Agents

Estate Agents

Maggs & Allen

Financial Advice

Harold Stephens

Footcare

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Footwear

SoleLution Limited

Funeral Services

Brunel Funeral Directors

Furniture

Sofa Magic

Plastering

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FAB ‐ IT Rescue

Cycle Services

Painting & Decorating

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McCall Plastering

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Retirement Accommodation Schools

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City of Bristol College

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AMD Solicitors

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Wildwood Tree Care

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The Mindful Repairer

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