The Bristol Six + Eight Magazine - March 2021

THE BRISTOL SIX + EIGHT MAGAZINE MARCH 2021 - ISSUE 73 DELIVERED FREE EACH MONTH ACROSS WESTBURY PARK, COTHAM, KINGSDOWN, NORTH CLIFTON AND REDLAND

In this issue - Kingsdown puzzle walk (p21), the bumper quiz (p41), a token history (p44), children’s puzzles (p12), welcome to our new chef (p14), prize wordsearch (p30), the new Business Boost (p63) plus all the regulars . . . . .

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THE EDITOR’S SMALL PIECE Hello there and welcome to your March magazine - in what is hopefully a happy and healthy return. I suspect you may have noticed that there was no magazine in February, a decision made back in early January when the second Covid wave looked to be at its peak and when hospitals were under the maximum postChristmas strain. We were all being told to “act as if you have the virus” and stay indoors - which to be honest made it easy to do what I hope was the right thing and not ask my delivery team to go out door-to-door delivering the magazine.

Without exception my advertisers agreed, as did all my deliverers and, where appropriate, their parents. As we have seen, all the way through this pandemic, there is a constant balancing act to be done, between commercial pressures and health issues, and fingers crossed I’ve got it right so far.

In producing this March issue I’ve taken a view on the state of the virus situation compared to last month, and sought out soundings from people whose opinion I value, as well as from the council who have not withdrawn the licences they’ve issued for young workers. All the delivery team (and their parents) have signed on to a covidcompliance risk assessment and delivery rules, and will be armed with hand sanitiser as usual, so I firmly believe we are OK to deliver this month.

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So now we are back let’s enjoy these early days of Spring (as seen in the front cover photo of Montague Hill in Kingsdown) - and I hope you find something of interest in these pages. Sadly what you won’t find are any more fab cake recipes from Charlotte, as she has moved to pastures new. It has been a treat receiving her written contributions - as well as her test cakes submitted for editorial approval!

Right, I’m running out of space so I’d better sign off. I hope this issue finds as many of you as possible happy, healthy - and vaccinated. Enjoy the magazine, as we see more and more positive green shoots - let’s hope they are irreversible Cheers, Andy

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Senior Snippets Making the most of Spring Welcome to the latest edition of Senior Snippets: the monthly advisory column with the older members of our community in mind, brought to you by John Moore, Director of Home Instead Senior Care in North Bristol.

As we see the evenings becoming longer and lighter, and the daffodils starting to bloom, we know that Spring is on the way. This gives us all a welcome boost and the opportunity to spend a little time outdoors and enjoy some fresh air and exericse.

Spending time in the garden tending plants and flowers, or growing vegetables can be relaxing and rewarding. Gardening comes with many therapeutic and health benefits for seniors, including helping to burn calories and strengthen muscles.

You don’t need a huge space, tubs and window boxes can bring just as much pleasure, as you watch the colourful blooms grow. Spending time with nature is wonderfully satisfying and helps to clear your mind of worries.

Gardening can also trigger the use of motor skills to boost endurance and strength, while also reducing stress levels by enhancing relaxation.

Encouraging birds and wildlife into your garden is also good for mental health and wellbeing. Watching the birds is great for brain health, as you learn to identify interesting birds, and also watch the behaviour of the birds we are more familiar with.

By placing a few bird feeders in the garden you will get to see regular visitors, and their young. If you don’t have access to outdoor space, there are bird feeders available that can be attached directly to a window.

This hobby slows the age-related cognitive decline and is great for mental health. It helps the elderly escape from life stresses to find solace in the beauty of wild birds.

If you would like to speak to someone at Home Instead, please do get in touch. Telephone 0117 989 8210 or email john.moore@homeinstead.co.uk

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CHILDREN’S PUZZLES - answers on page 54 Who Am I? Can you spot the famous people disguised below?

What or Who Am I? Pick the correct name to match the photo.

Tapir

Eugenie

Italy

Hobnob

Llama

Beatrice

France

Shortbread

Wallaby

Kate

Belgium

Garibaldi

Platypus

Zara

Spain

Bourbon

Where Am I? Match the country to the photo - careful, there is one country that doesn’t match a photo. Great Britain, the USA, Canada, Russia, Italy

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THE “HAVE A GO” CHEF •

Sadly, Charlotte, the person behind the delicious cakes that have featured in a number of recent issues, has chosen to move on to kitchens new.

Thanks Charlotte, and enjoy the new job in the big city.

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I thought about finding a replacement culinary author as I can’t make a Victoria sponge let alone a show stopper - but then decided that as I like to cook non-cake things I might have a go at sharing some of my favourite recipes. Now I’ll be honest up front - there are a couple of caveats with this plan - a) if it can’t be prepared in a wok or a big frying pan then I’m struggling, so we’ll certainly be starting with savoury dishes, and b) I tend to make things up as I go along so the “recipe” may be different each time. That said, the general consenus on what is served when I’m “cooking / experimenting” is that is usually pretty OK, and (touch wood) I’ve not killed anyone yet. With those as yardsticks of success let’s have a go, shall we, and see what happens? Joking aside I wouldn’t feature anything here that I’m not happy to eat myself, so there shouldn’t be any horror stories - and if there are there are always appbased home-delivery solutions.

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One of the problems with most recipe books is that the photography in them raises unrealistic expectations - not only do they not normally show you what things should be looking like at various stages of the cooking process, the final as-served dish often looks unachievably perfect.

So to make this more realsitic I’ll include a few snaps of what is going on and then one final one showing you the actual end result. And if yours doesn’t end up like mine, well, does that really matter as long as it’s tasty? To kick off here’s a regular family favourite.

Right, here we go.

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Citrussy Salmon Pasta - serves 2 Ingredients (in no particular order) • • • •

200ml creme fraiche (half fat is fine, and healthier - you won’t miss the other half fat, I promise) 300g salmon fillets (about three of the sort where you get two in a pack) Salt and pepper 1 tablespoon of sunflower / rapeseed / cooking oil.

A mug full of hot vegetable stock ( a Knorr cube is fine or bouillion)

200g (dry uncooked weight) of linguine (spaghetti is fine as well, if not so classy!)

4 shallots, finely chopped (a small white onion is OK if well softened) 1 lime - zest and juice (a lemon is a perfectly acceptable alternative if limes aren’t your thing) a big handful of chopped parsley (tarragon is a great alternative, as is dill)

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Get cracking on the salmon. Put a big frying pan (a wok will also do) on a medium heat, add in the oil and let it heat up. When it’s nice and hot (sizzling gently but not smoking) pop your salmon fillets in, skin side down, and leave to cook gently for about three minutes. You’ll tell when they are ready to turn when the bottom half of the fillet, nearest the pan heat, has gone a paler pink.

Using a spatula turn the fillets over and cook, crispy skin side up now, for another three minutes or until they look nicely cooked through. Take them off the heat, carefully remove the salmon and put on a plate, but keep the fishy cooking oil in the pan. Using fingers or a knife, peel off the crispy skin from the fish and discard. You may get some

THE “HAVE A GO” CHEF grey fish near the skin side - that’s all fine. Put the plate of skinned salmon fillets into the oven at a very low heat, just to keep warm.

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tip in all your salmon. Carefully fold the salmon into the sauce so that it is well mixed together.

Now get your linguine cooking - put it in a big saucepan of boiling water (with a teaspoon of salt and a drop of oil in to prevent sticking).

Leave to simmer gently until cooked probably 10 - 12 minutes - then remove from the heat and drain, making sure you tease out any clumpy lumps that might have stuck.

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While the pasta is cooking, return your frying pan, with all the fishy oil in, to a gentle heat, then add in the chopped shallots and fry gently for five minutes until they are soft (but not burnt/caramelised).

Then add in the lime juice and zest, the hot stock, a twist of salt and pepper, and the chopped parsley (or whatever you are using) and simmer gently for 3-4 minutes.

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Jump over to the oven and take out your salmon fillets. Now, using your weapon of choice, gently flake the salmon apart so that you end up with a plate of salmon bits. Don’t worry if it mushes rather than flakes, it’ll taste just the same.

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Returning to the frying pan, now add the creme fraiche and stir into the shallot / stock / lime mix, warm through for a couple of minutes until it is good and creamy, and then

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Now add the cooked linguine into the pan with the salmon, and again gently stir together until the pasta is well covered and the salmon sauce well distributed. You’re done.

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Serve the salmon linguine into hot pasta bowls, then garnish with an obligatory, but largely superfluous, sprig of parsley. Eat and enjoy.

IT ISSUES - RUSSELL ISAAC Online banking, also known as internet banking, has become increasingly popular over the past decade. More than half of us now avoid queuing up in bank branches (a pastime made hugely more painful by Covid-19 restrictions!), by accessing our accounts directly from our computers, tablets or smart phones. But how does it work and is it safe?

quick lesson to get you started.

Most banks let you use your online account to:

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Is it safe?

It is inherently extremely secure and safe - your connection is completely encrypted, and the banking apps are very simple to use. But, like anything in life, you should always observe some sensible safety rules.

Check your bank balance Pay your bills and transfer money to other accounts Check any linked mortgages, loans, savings accounts or ISAs Check your bank statements Set up or cancel direct debits and standing orders

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Getting Started Registering for online banking is pretty straightforward. For security reasons, the registration process often involves a few steps.

These typically include visiting your local bank branch, having a password posted to you, or being sent a small security device you’ll need to log on with.Once you are set up, it’s really very simple to use. Many banks will even give you a

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Check your statement frequently and report any strange activity to your bank.

Don’t reply to emails/calls claiming to be from your bank that ask for personal details or passwords.

Always remember to log out of your online banking session.

Public Wi-Fi connections are often not secure, so don’t use them for banking or to make purchases. If you’re out and about with a mobile or tablet, it’s safer to use your 3G or 4G connection.

Keep your anti-virus software up to date Choose your passwords carefully – i.e. create it by combining three random words and don’t re-use the same one for different accounts

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Your 7 day Countdown To A Fun Easter # 4 Get shopping. Prepare that list and pop down the supermarket or even easier shop online and get it all delivered.

#7 Tidy up! Before you do anything else, you need a tidy home and clean kitchen. Put things away, recycle old newspapers and plump the cushions. To ensure a wonderful result with your cooking, your kitchen and its appliances need to be spotless. The last thing you want is your wonderful Easter Roast to taste of the last few weeks dinners. Get that cooker clean : either do it yourself or call OvenGleamers, a professional oven cleaning service to gleam it for you.

# 3 Plan the weekend’s activities. Set up an Easter Egg hunt in the house or the garden.

Children love finding eggs anywhere! #2 Get the cooking prepared. Now you’ve a lovely clean kitchen, get baking. Have you got some oven liners to help you? Great for lining roasting tins, baking biscuits on or to catch drips. OvenGleamers can supply these too.

#6 Choose the menu. Will you have fish, lamb or a nut roast? Fish is traditionally eaten on Good Friday. Early Christians said that the day of Jesus’ crucifixion should be one of abstaining from meat, so they had fish instead.

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But if all else fails – try the National Trust for Easter Trails, buy the ready prepared dishes from your favourite supermarket and watch ‘Easter Parade’ on the TV to put you in the mood. Happy Easter.

#5 Invite your family and friends to join in. Easter is a great time for families and friends so plan something fun. Did you know where we got the Easter Bunny from? Experts say the 18th century when some Germans settled in America. They called him Osterhase because he lay brightly coloured eggs in nests in the bonnets of children.

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KINGSDOWN PUZZLE WALK - answers on page 54 Q2 - How many animals can you see on the front of The Cow Byre (not the Hare on the Hill pub next door)?

This month your puzzle walk takes in the very lovely Conservation Area of Kingsdown and the nearby Royal Fort. Like Cliftonwood, to me Kingsdown is often overlooked and undiscovered as it is sort of “on the way to nowhere”. However it has a real charm, lovely architecture, great views of the city to the south and east, and is a super city centre area to explore on a nice day. It is, after all, just behind the BRI.

Now turn right and walk along Dove Street, with panoramic views of the city to your left. Walk past the Hillgrove Porter Stores on your right, and the little triangular garden on your left by Fremantle House.

The walk, while predictably not flat, isn’t too strenuous either, and what steps there are aren’t too steep. So while not great for a mobility scooter I suspect you can do most of this route on one (especially if you know the area). Most of the roads and paths are comparatively quiet, and the whole walk will take you no more than an hour at a reasonable pace. If you want to make more of an outing of it then the gardens at Royal Fort are lovely for a picnic, and there is free table tennis half way round (take your own bats and balls).

Q3 - how many black cats can you see in the garden?

Of course this walk must, at the time of writing (Feb 2021), be undertaken in accordance with the current government Covid compliance rules on social distancing

Continue along Dove Street, past the stepped Spring Hill on your right, and keep on the right hand pavement as it rises slightly above the road (separated by green railings) with a terrace of houses on your right. At the end of the terrace are a few steps leading up to the houses.

You walk starts by the phone box in Fremantle Square, at the end of Kingsdown Parade (for sat-navs BS6 5TN, for What3Words it’s fats.trap. next).

Q4 - at these steps which three safari animals can you see?

Continue along the raised pavement with the picturesque Montague Hill on your right. Soon Dover Street will bend away to the left, but carry straight along the pavement, which will flick left and right and lead you into quaint and quiet Marlborough Hill Place.

Q5 - what is hanging from the first black lamppost in Marlborough Hill Place? (I hope it is still there!).

You will soon reach a quiet crossroads, with the various Bristol hospital complexes down to your left and ahead of you. Turn right, up what is Marlborough Hill, and keep to the left hand pavement. A third of the way up the hill, by the UBHT/NHS car park ....

Q1 - name the Colonel who stormed Prior’s Hill Fort.

Look for Thomas Street North, a little road that drops away southwards from the Square. Follow this road to the bottom till you reach the building on your right covered in a cheery murial.

Q6 - who has provided the little community

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KINGSDOWN PUZZLE WALK - answers on page 54 allotment?

Continue up Marlborough Hill until near the top ...

Q7 - who is watching you from upstairs at number 17?

At the top of Marlborough Hill, with the little park opposite you, turn left into Kingsdown Parade, walk to the end of the road and then carefully cross diagonally over to Southwell Street.

Proceed along Southwell Street for 50 yards. and down the shallow steps (with a planted living wall on your left) until you come back to St Michael’s Hill. Turn left (uphill) and continue along the pavement for a hundred yards until you reach Myrtle Road opposite you. Cross here carefully and walk down Myrtle Road, with the big hospital chimney on your right. Just past Little Paul Street on your left the road becomes Walker Street. (All the area on your left is High Kingsdown, an area of 1970’s low-rise social housing that revitalised an area badly bombed during WW2. It is now a Conservation Area). Just before the end of Walker Street you pass a long red brick building on your right.

Q8 - through the brick arch in the high stone wall what animal sculpture can you see?

Walk to the very end of Southwell Street, past St Michael’s Maternity Hospital, until you reach the junction with St Michael’s Hill. Turn left (downhill!) and cross carefully over to the far side, before then turning right into Royal Fort Road.

Q9 - from the inscription above the door, what is the ornate building on your right as you head up Royal Fort Road?.

Continue on through the arch, Prince Rupert’s Gate.

Q13 - who used to be allowed through the bricked up doorway into this building?

Q10 - how many years ago did Prince Rupert surrender the city of Bristol to Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell?

Turn right into Alfred Place and then when you return to the main road (with Bookbinder House opposite you) cross straight over back into Kingsdown Parade, with the little public garden now on your left. Continue 100 yards along the Parade then turn right, down the narrow Montague Hill, and left into cobbled Somerset Street. Enjoy the impressive buildings along the length of the street, and the attractive gardens on your left.

(If you want to enjoy the lovely grounds of the Royal Fort gardens then carry straight on here then retrace your steps back to towards Prince Rupert’s Gate to rejoin the walk). Run up the short flight of steps on your right (left if you’ve been to the gardens), with the imposing Wills Memorial look-alike pretty much in front of you.

Q11 - which of the sciences is taught in this building?

Q14 - what is special about no. 29?

As you approach the end of Somerset Street, and return to your starting point on Fremantle Square, one final question for you.

At the top of the steps double back to your right, with the open terrace and preserved wall arch ahead of you.

Q15 - what building can you see on the hillside in the distance straight ahead of you?

Q12 - how may swivel chairs are there on the terrace to your immediate right?

I do hope you’ve enjoyed the walk.

Walk on, past the free-to-use table tennis tables,

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Christ Church renewal

It is true that for many people church-going is an anachronism and the church maybe just a place to visit at Christmas and Easter. But Jonny Hendry, who is part of the RENEW team, believes the refurbishment will make the church more relevant, “We want to create a space that everyone can feel comfortable in. We think the plans will do that. A building for for the community as much as it is for our members.

We have already raised £1.3 million towards the development costs with only £250,000 still needed to meet the project needs.”

It can’t have e s c a p e d a n y o n e passing Christ Church Clifton recently that major building works are underway.

It may surprise you however that it has nothing to do with the proverbial church spire. Instead, you need to don a hard hat and descend into the crypt to discover the transformation that will bring this 180 year old building fully into the 21st century.

In December the church worked with local surgeries hosting the seasonal flu jab, it has an AED facility and will be offering first aid and cardio respiratory training in the future.

Unfortunately last year the annual Christmas market was cancelled. Ordinarily this event supports around 30 local small businesses and charities with visitor numbers over 1600 in one day.

Gone are the multi-levelled dark corridors and function rooms and instead builders are creating a modern, practical environment for the whole village to enjoy. With a lift for those with limited mobility and a better use of space - the excitement surrounding this project is tangible. Vicar, Paul Langham says: “The crypt went through an initial transformation back in the 70s and 80s and this allowed us to support the community practically. Among other things, we now had space for older members of the village to meet once a week, socialise and have lunch together. More recently, the crypt has been home to the pre-school, parenting & toddlers groups, newborn health clinics, breakfast & lunch runs for the homeless, free english lessons for international students, bereavement support and support for asylum seekers. We now look to the future and new ways to use the building to love and serve Clifton.”

There are many other stories of the church’s community spirit over the years. Many will recall its transformation into a magical wintery scene complete with wardrobe, fur coats and Christmas trees to coincide with the release of the Narnia film back in 2005. Former curate Luke Walton also remembers the free cream teas served on the green and the younger members of the church paying the toll for people crossing the bridge. “We would set up opposite the church and offer scones and a cuppa to whoever was passing. The Bristol bus tour would often drop off its passengers for some sight-seeing refreshments. It was all great fun. At Christmas, when our teenagers paid the 20p fee for drivers as a festive gift their exploits made it on to the local radio with one woman saying it made her feel more positive about life!”

Christ Church is one of the architectural landmarks of the parish, preceding Brunel’s more iconic suspension bridge by 23 years.

There is a story that when the spire was built a workman celebrated the fixing of the capstone to its spire by doing a headstand on it, 212 feet above ground.

Something I doubt Health and Safety would allow today!

Indeed, such is its impact, the church also inspired developers in China to build this replica in an English-style suburb of Shanghai.

Collections for the Foodbank have continued during lockdown, donations are always welcome, and older members of the community, isolated because of current restrictions, are receiving regular calls from younger members of the congregation. While these activities carry on, others have had to go on-line. When life does fully open up again the church on the green will emerge, renewed, and with a huge welcome back to the Clifton community.

If you would like to find out more please visit renewchristchurch.org or www.give.net/renewproject

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Retiring during a pandemic It has been almost a year since the UK went into its first Covid-19 lockdown and the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics suggest thousands of people aged 55 and over have been leaving the full-time workforce since the crisis began.

heavily in 2021. What will that mean for your pension and retirement plans?

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It may be a lack of work satisfaction or pressures arising from the pandemic that have lured you into thinking early retirement is a sound decision? But how much will you need to ensure you really do have enough to live on? It is a daunting decision especially when deciding how best to take an income from a pension pot: should you opt for an annuity or go into drawdown?

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We will review your overall financial and life situation and will aim to give you peace of mind so that you can enjoy the retirement lifestyle you want – perhaps even earlier than you anticipated!

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How Could an Increase in Capital Gains Tax Affect You? Leila Goodarzi

A report by the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS), commissioned by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak, has proposed bringing the rate at which Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is paid into line with income tax and scrapping the uplift on death to help plug the gap in the public finances left by the pandemic.

The amount of tax raised through CGT in the 2018/19 tax year was £9.5 billon.

The tax was paid by 276,000 people. This is dwarfed by the amount raised through income tax, which was £191 billion in 2018/19, from 32 million people.

What Is Capital Gains Tax?

Proposals include:

CGT is broadly a tax on the gain realised on the difference between the purchase price of an asset and its value on sale, or its value when given away. It was introduced by Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1965, at a rate of 30% to stop people avoiding income tax by changing income into capital.

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What Is the Current Position?

At the moment, CGT is charged at four rates. The rate is 10% for basic rate taxpayers, except for gains on the sale of residential property where the rate is 18%.

The rates for higher rate taxpayers are 20% and 28% respectively. Individuals have a personal allowance of £12,300 a year, meaning that no CGT is payable on gains of less than this amount. Trustees have half the personal allowance, currently £6,150. In addition to allowances, the main exemption is the Principal Private Residence relief on the sale of your main home.

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What Would Be the Effect of These Proposals?

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The OTS estimates that reducing the personal allowance to £5,000 would mean that twice as many people would pay CGT. This assumes no change in behaviour, which is unlikely, as many individuals arrange their affairs so as to realise gains of just under the personal allowance each year.

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Aligning the rates with income tax would be a way of dis-incentivising individuals and business owners from arranging their affairs, so that income is effectively re-characterised as capital gains - eg by holding cash

within a business, rather than paying it out. It would also mean that offering share-based remuneration would become less attractive.

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At present, when someone dies there is a rebasing of the value of their assets so that no CGT is payable on death. The OTS recommends a ‘no gain no loss’ approach where the recipient is treated as acquiring the assets at the historic base cost of the person who has died. It also recommends an extension of the

availability of holdover relief so that CGT is only paid when an asset is sold, and not when it is gifted.

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GOOD READS - BRUCE FELLOWS’ BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS Louis Theroux; we’ve all seen him; awkward, amusing, engaging, clever, just like his TV programmes and now too, just like his memoir/autobiography Gotta Get Theroux This, which takes us from childhood till now in his usual honest, self-deprecating and highly entertaining manner. Son of best-selling author Paul Theroux, he got a first in History at Oxford and then worked on a paper in San Jose, California, which led to TV with Michael Moore. He takes us through the making of many of his documentaries including Savile and Scientology and is very candid about the pressures of work on his personal life. Not to be missed.

Robert Kee was once a big name in television but before that he was a prisoner of war and in 1947 first published A Crowd is not Company, the magnificent memoir of his time behind the wire. Shot down over Holland, he was captured and taken to a camp in Poland where the chief pastime for many officers was tunnelling and concert rehearsals to cover the resultant disturbance. Hunger was constant, food parcels a lifeline. Kee’s descriptions of the banal and humdrum nature of camp life, as well as its strange comfort, are riveting and his escape attempt and interrogation prior to recapture nail biting.

Cho Nam-Joo’s brilliant and highly disturbing novel, Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 tells the story of a young South Korean woman from her birth onwards.

Through her story we learn about the lives of all South Korean women because every woman she knows or comes across has a similar history to hers; a history of systematic male oppression and abuse of all kinds, sometimes unthinking but often deliberate, that make any kind of equal life for a woman impossible.

Appalling vignettes plucked from home life, school, college and work lay her experience bare. It’s almost sociological in tone but remains always gripping, revealing and shocking.

A gory murder; a woman, Virginia, found nearby staggering drunkenly through the snow, covered in blood. An open and shut case. But then Meecham arrives, a local lawyer hired by Virginia’s husband, and Margaret Millar’s excellent novel Vanish in an Instant is up and running - not so much a whodunnit, though it is that, as an original fully-fledged psychological study of human life and how badly people often deal with its vicissitudes and each other. Recently re-published after nearly seventy years, it still grips as it must have back then. There are fascinating and very real characters and a surprise ending. What could be better?

In Nikesh Shukla’s terrific Bristol-based thriller for Young Adults, The Boxer, the book starts with the bell for round one and the contest continues right the way through as we learn how Sunny got into the ring to fight Keir. Sunny is seventeen, of South Asian descent and doing A levels at college until a racist assault turns his life upside down and he ends up in a boxing gym. But what propels him there and who shows him the ropes? And what’s with him and his dad? And his white pal, what’s his problem? Compelling, thought-provoking and exciting, it’s not just for young adults.

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Here are the writers you’re looking for Iris Murdoch Graham Greene JK Rowling Colin Dexter H G Wells Hilary Mantel Ian Rankin Agatha Christie William Shakespeare Charlotte Bronte

Listed below are twenty famous authors through the ages. Nineteen of their names have also been hidden in the wordsearch grid - running forwards, backwards, up, down or on a diagonal. If you can spot the missing author then let me know who it is, and if yours is the first correct entry out of the hat after the closing date of 31st March you will win yourself a £30 voucher to spend in a local independent shop of your choise. Entries please to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY, andy@

Zadie Smith Mary Shelley Rudyard Kipling A A Milne Michael Morpurgo William Golding Malorie Blackman George Orwell Jane Austin Charles Dickens

Thanks to everybody who entered the wordsearch in both the December and January issues - and in particular thank you to all the kind messages of Christmas goodwill, best wishes for the new year and also for saying how much you enjoy the competition. Your feedback is always appreciated. The January competition in particular has had significanly more entries than usual - maybe as a result of you having more spare time on your hands during the latest lockdown, but also possibly as the prize was a voucher that could only be spent in a local independent business.

A number of entrants mentioned that they liked the local nature of the prize, so as a little gesture of support to at least one other north Bristol business I’ll repeat the prize again this month.

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RIVER AVON TIDE TIMES Here are your tide times for the coming month - with some nice high morning ones as spring approaches. Anything over 13m is worth getting out of bed early for in my book.

High Tide

Low Tide

High Tide

Sat 27th February

0717 (13.1m)

1412

1944 (13.1m)

Sun 28th February

0800 (13.5m)

1459

2026 (13.5m)

Sat 6th March

1205 (11.1m)

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Sun 7th March

1313 (10.1m)

1914

Sat 13th March

0722 (13.2m)

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1943 (13.1m)

Sun 14th March

0800 (13.4m)

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2020 (13.2m)

Sat 20th March

1047 (11.0m)

1708

2300 (10.8m)

Sun 21st March

1125 (10.2m)

1745

2346 (10.0m)

Sat 27th March

0608 (12.5m)

1258

1836 (12.9m)

Sun 28th March

0654 (13.3m)

1350

1920 (13.5m)

Low Tide

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GARDENING TIPS FROM HILARY BARBER Dear fellow gardeners. I’m writing these whilst we are still in lockdown, but garden centres and nurseries are open. This is the month when the garden begins to stir itself, so if you haven’t braved the wet or the cold over the last couple of months, it’s time to get out there in the sunshine!

Take care and keep safe and well.

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This prevents disease and promotes good flowering. Give your roses a good feed after pruning (this applies to all shrubs after pruning). My preferred feed is organic seaweed fertiliser or chicken pellets.

Hard-prune summer-flowering shrubs such as buddleia, caryopteris, hardy fuchsia, lavatera, leycesteria and perovskia. You can also prune rosemary and lavender but just lightly as it will not re-grow from the old wood.

Coppicing (hard pruning to the ground) willow and dogwood (cornus spp.) will produce new colourful stems for next winter.

Coppice or pollard eucalyptus, catalpa and paulownia to keep them a manageable size and provide attractive foliage.

Renovate overgrown honeysuckle or jasmine and prune summer-flowering clematis to shoots about 1ft from the ground, even if new fat buds are sprouting on old stems.

Lawns will need some attention because of all the wet weather. Scarify with a spring tine rake to remove moss and thatch, spike with a fork (to improve drainage) and top dress with 3 parts sand mixed with 4 parts loam .

Brush the top dressing in with a soft brush, and if re-seeding is necessary then either mix the seed with the top dressing or sow afterwards.

Remove one or two inches of compost from containers with permanent planting and top- dress with fresh compost, and feed with Growmore or Vitax. I use organic fertilisers in the garden because they promote the development of mycorrhizal fungi, but it is OK to use inorganic fertilisers in pots.

Summer-flowering herbaceous perennials can be divided to maintain healthy, vigorous

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plants, but be sure they do not dry out when re-establishing.

Deadhead daffodils as they fade, but allow the foliage to die down naturally, allowing the nutrients to be drawn back down into the bulb Split and divide congested clumps of snowdrops to spread around the garden and to encourage better flowering. You can also buy bulbs ‘in the green’ such as snowdrops and winter aconites which establish more quickly.

Herbaceous perennials are starting to emerge, so protect new growth from slugs and snails. Please don’t use metaldehyde based slug pellets because these are disastrous for the birds, hedgehogs and other wildlife Plant asparagus crowns, Jerusalem artichokes, garlic, onion sets, shallots and strawberry plants.

If you haven’t cut back your ornamental grasses, leaving the seed heads for the birds, do so this month, to allow for fresh new growth

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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ - answers on page 54 Television 1.

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In which company, and in which town, was The Office based?

“Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...” were not visible in which classic TV comedy?

Name all the people who have regularly presented Blankety Blank; and Name all the people who have regularly presented Countdown.

Who played the lead roles of Ross and Demelza in the original 1970’s series of Poldark?

With which chemical element was Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko poisoned in London in 2006?

Birds Name the resident or visiting birds shown below Savoury Snacks 1.

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Which is the UK’s biggest selling flavour of crisps?

In a bag of Smiths “Salt ‘n Shake crisps” what colour is the little bag of salt?

What is the main ingredient of “Gentlemen’s Relish”?

Invented in France in 1929, now manufactured in Liverpool, wheat based with a yeasty flavouring, the favourite of Nigella Lawson and David Cameron - name this knobbly snack.

What nationality are Pot Noodles?

France Chemical Elements

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Which element has the shortest name in the periodic table, and Which element has the longest name in the periodic table?

Which elements are represented by the following symbols - a) Cs, b) V, and c) Pb? Hydrogen is the first element in the periodic table, which is the second?

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In which year did the French Revolution start?

Name France’s third biggest city, by population size.

Name the longest river running solely through France.

Name all eight countries that share a border with France.

Which of these cheeses isn’t French - Roquefort, Emmental, Livarot, or Reblochon?

Jobs What did these trades traditionally do 1.

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a fletcher, a farrier, a pinsetter, a fuller a knockerupper? (continued overleaf)

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According to the bible story, how many brothers did Joseph have?

62 West Wallaby Street, Wigan is the home of which two Bristolians?

How many different post-WW2 Prime Ministers has the UK had?

How many team members on the following sports - a) speedway, b) baseball, and c) polo?

Which of these is not a prime number 421, 319 or 409?

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economies.

In geographic terms what is a Munro?

Heading clockwise, which are the missing Shipping Forecast areas Dover, Wight, --------, -------, Biscay?

Name the capital cities of a) Malta, b) Zimbabwe, and c) Mongolia?

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Which English footballer was the first to command a £1 million transfer fee, between which two clubs and in which year?

Name the UK & Europe Ryder Cup captain for 2021.

What sports do these English women (l to r) take part in - a) Maddie Hinch, b) Harriet Dart, and c) Hollie Doyle?

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At which Olympic Games did Mary Peters win the womens pentathlon gold medal?

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Hugh Jackman played the role of Jean Viljean in which historical musical film?

Whose breakthrough West End theatrical roles, in the 1980’s, were the male leads in Barnum and Phantom of the Opera?

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HISTORY NOTES - JULIAN LEA-JONES Number 156 - another token effort

giving rise to the expression, “a copper bottomed investment”. The invidious practice of paying wages in tokens only redeemable in the company store that often sold overpriced items or foodstuffs to a captive market, was immortalised in Johnny Cash’s song “‘Sixteen Tons” about the Company Store: “I owe my soul to the company store”. In England, this practice was abolished by the 19th century Parliamentary Truck Acts, which forced the employer to pay the full amount of wages in cash. These were the last of many attempts to abolish the practice since 1465. Ironically, these Acts had to be modified in 1960 by the Payment of Wages Act which allowed employers to pay wages by cheque or by bank transfer directly into employees’ bank accounts.

I have previously written about tokens that had a commemorative or financial value, such as when there was a severe sterling shortage and the government gave tacit approval for tradesmen to issue their own small denomination coins. Locally produced tokens were exchanged for goods or services in the same way as normal coins. Traders took advantage of the relaxed regulations to manufacture tokens to advertise and promote their businesses. What prompted this follow-on article was a tragic discovery that arose during a visit to Chepstow. The discovery made me decide to readdress and widen the scope of my earlier piece to include other token-like items, sometimes of a commemorative nature.

The visit in 1878 to the Bristol Agricultural Show (held on the Downs, near the present Water Tower), of HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, was commemorated by a medallion in the shape of an eight-pointed star, formed by two overlapping squares. Although you may not come across one of these oddly shaped mementos of the occasion, another reminder of the event is still there for all to see. This huge Bath & West of England 1874 Memorial Fountain, with a surrounding frieze of farm stock, is from the agricultural show four years earlier.

The earliest of these must be the silver ticket, issued in 1766, to the first fifty founding supporters of the Theatre Royal here in King Street. In exchange for their donation of £50 the benefactor was presented with an engraved and numbered silver token, entitling them to “the sight of every performance to be exhibited in this house” - a promise honoured to this day.

Sometimes shop tokens were stamped “for necessary change”, and others were issued by companies as wages - but only for use in the company’s own “truck” store. One example was the half penny token issued by the “Bristol Patent Sheathing Nail Manufactory, Payable at Bristol & London”.

A more unusual commemorative lead medallion was the one struck in 1897 to mark the 60th Diamond Jubilee of the reign of Queen Victoria, and celebrate her visit to Bristol to open the former Wayneflete School, which had been given to the city by E.P Wills for use as a convalescent home for Bristol’s hospitals. Opened with much fanfare (literally) by Queen Victoria the opening bell push featured, appropriately, a diamond button. The obverse face featured the Queen’s head and the reverse face had the following text surrounding the Royal Coat of Arms: “In commemoration of sixty years of reign of Victoria, Queen of Britain and Empress of India, 1837 – 1897”.

This token is also a graphic reminder of Bristol’s shipbuilding history. Copper sheathing of the ships’ hulls reduced the growth of weeds and barnacles. This enabled the ships to sail quicker, with less stops for careening (weed removal), and be more likely to return home safely. This in turn offered less risk to investing merchants,

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HISTORY NOTES - JULIAN LEA-JONES Do you remember the fascinating Saturday Market which, before site redevelopment, used to be held just off Walcot Street in Bath? The stalls were a magnet for the collector of the strange and bizarre. I picked up an old coin in a junk box on a stall there which was so worn that the stallholder thought it was an old penny and charged me 50p - “cos it’s an antique, guv!”. However, the faint image of a stagecoach rather than Britannia made me think it could be something much more interesting. (Explanation, for eight years I was commissioned to write monthly articles for an international Family History magazine on items of forgotten or overtaken social history, for which I had a purchasing budget). Once home with my find, and a bit of soap and water later, my suspicions were gratifyingly c o n f i r m e d .

Washing revealed the words, “MAIL COACH HALFPENNY - PAYABLE IN LONDON” and, enigmatically, “To trade expedition & to property protection’. The reverse stated “‘to J. Palmer Esq inscribed as a token of gratitude for benefits reced from the establishment of mail coaches” over the initials ‘“JF”. JF were likely to be the initials of the engraver James Fittler, who had also engraved Palmer’s portrait. The tokens were distributed by coaching innkeepers, presumably grateful for the extra business. John Palmer from Bath, supported by William Pitt, instigated a system of cross-country fast Post Chaises. The first one, in 1784, set off from John Week’s Bush Tavern, in Corn Street, opposite the Exchange - a modern plaque on the street wall of Lloyds Bank marks the site of the tavern. The mail coach, run entirely at John Palmer’s expense, reached London in the record-breaking time of 13 hours, compared to the 36 hours it usually took. It was John Palmer’s successful entrepreneurship which paved the way for a series of fast and reliable cross country mail services. My lucky find, together with the help of Jean Farrugia at the London Post Office archives, thus enabled me to piece together another aspect of Bristol’s entrepreneurial history. This image of one of the 1797 tokens is not my worn one but that held in the PO Archives - my cleaning wasn’t that good!).

Here we see a gilded medal, with hole for a ribbon, that marked another Royal visit, that of King George the Fifth and Queen Mary to Bristol in 1912 to formally open the ‘King Edward the Seventh Memorial Infirmary’.

The obverse contains an image of the monarchs’ heads with their titles Georgius V Rex, et Maria Reg (ina). (this was a gift to my wife Diane from her grandparents, who possibly watched the opening ceremony).

This next find, which raised more questions than it answered, arose from a visit to Dawn’s Collectibles in Chepstow. Amongst the vast array of unusual objects on display was a collection of mining memorabilia which included some small square metal plates (about 3cm - 11/4in), holed and with a colliery name and a roughly stamped number. Upon my asking what they were, Dawn explained that they were miners’ pit checks, or tokens, and were one of the most commonly encountered forms of mining memorabilia Most had hand stamped identification numbers in the centre of the check between the Colliery and pit name. Their function was twofold. When the miner collected his lamp at the start of the shift he replaced it with his personally numbered check. This then showed how many miners were underground at any time and were effectively an early form of time sheet. Also, in the case of pit accident or explosion, it was immediately known who were underground. Thanking Dawn, my next question was whilst the smaller rectangular one for the CELYNEN NORTH COLLIERY was stamped for miner number 230, why was the larger square one for BLAENGWRACH NEW MINE. SOUTH WESTERN DIVISION AREA 4 stamped with two sets of numbers - 292 heavily over stamped with 636?

When I was told the tragic reason, I wish I hadn’t asked. Apparently miner 292 had probably died, quite likely a pit accident, and rather than waste

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HISTORY NOTES - JULIAN LEA-JONES money on a new check the old one was just over stamped with the new miner’s number 636 and reissued. Given the vast profits the Colliery owners made, to save the cost of a 4oz piece of brass in this way, if true, was obscene.

Considering the number of miners killed, to be given what amounted to ‘dead men’s shoes’ must have been a daily reminder to the piptmen of the fragility of their existence. If someone can give an alternative explanation for the seemingly heartless behaviour, I will be pleased to ask Andy to include it in a future article.

The Clifton Rocks Railway was opened on the 11th March 1893, when over six thousand people made the return journey - no doubt much to the relief of George Newnes and his backers.

Passengers on the opening day received their ticket in the form of a gilded metal medallion in the shape of this Maltese cross having, on one side, images of one of the cars in the tunnel together with the initials of the promoter, engineer, and architect, and on the reverse a commemorative inscription marking the momentous occasion.

To end on a more cheerful note, on the 26th of September 1890 Mr George Newnes MP placed before the Society of Merchant Venturers a proposal for an inclined lift in a tunnel from Hotwells Road to the garden of number 14 Princes Buildings, (the row of houses which became part of the Avon Gorge Hotel). Because the promoter, the founder of the Newnes Publishing Company, had his country residence in Lynton, Devon, he realised that the engineering principles used on the Lynton/Lynmouth Cliff Railway, could provide an answer to Clifton’s problem of how to get visitors up the 276 ft (about 85 metres), hill.

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Theatre Royal, founding subscribers silver tickets, latest discovery reported in: BEPP 30th November 2011.

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The Clifton Rocks Railway www. cliftonrocksrailway.org.uk/history 3.

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Information about the use of pit checks required from Ex-British Miners.

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It’s 30 years since Pahar Trust Nepal (PTN) funded and built its first school. To celebrate,

to control the spread of the virus and, although schools have begun to re-open in recent months many students have missed out on valuable education.”

the charity is marking the occasion with a yearlong campaign – ’30 For 30’ – that will help 30 schools improve their teaching provision for pre-primary school children aged one to five years old. Some of the schools it is supporting will require a complete refurbishment of the classroom, whilst others have the basics but are lacking in critical resources such as stationery and educational toys and books. The fundraising target is £50,000, which would make significant improvements in all 30 schools - and it has already raised almost a third of that total.

The ’30 For 30’ campaign has attracted a number of high profile ambassadors, including Bristol-born anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts who is now Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Birmingham, and the best-selling author, photographer and producer Levison Wood, who has worked and travelled in over 100 countries, including Nepal.

Activities have been taking place around the world – from one supporter who is running 30 half marathons in 30 weeks in Berlin, to another in Cyprus who is painting and selling pebbles, to closer to home where Galleries shopping centre manager David Wait has pledged to walk 30k a week throughout February and the parent of one of the pupils from Westbury-on-Trym Primary who has visited the twinned school in Nepal who is crocheting 30 squares to complete a blanket which one lucky sponsor will win.

Since it was founded, PTN has delivered 248 projects, building and renovating 159 schools, 51 libraries and 38 other essential facilities such as health centres and toilets. Over 40,000 students have benefited from its work. Bristol schools who are twinned with projects in Nepal include Westbury-on-Trym Primary School and Bristol Free School.

Alan added: “We are blown away by the support so far – but there’s still a long way to go to hit that target so we are encouraging anyone who wants to get involved to either come up with an idea around ‘30 For 30’ or think about joining in with our next big fundraiser ‘Nepali Night In’ which will take place in May – more details will be on our website soon.”

Executive Director Alan Sweetman said: “Supporting education at this early stage in a child’s life is critical. Brain development in early years is rapid and quality pre-primary education has wide reaching positive impacts on children’s attainment and development. Children who attend pre-primary education are more likely to stay in school and achieve minimum reading and mathematics competencies. It also supports community development and economic growth as it enables mothers and other caregivers the opportunity to work and increase earnings while the children are in school. Nepal, like the rest of the world, has been hit hard by the pandemic. Thankfully, we have been able to keep most of our projects on track due to the hard work of our in-country team. As with the rest of the world, Nepal has required lockdowns

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In the present pandemic the pursuits of walking and cycling in the countryside have become increasingly popular activities but some may be uncertain about whether they can use a particular pathway. Here are some examples of where you can go.

to travel on foot and to travel on horseback or leading a horse, with or without a right to drive animals of any description along the way.

Although Section 30 of the Countryside Act 1968 permits the riding of bicycles on public bridleways, the Act says that it “shall not create any obligation to facilitate the use of the bridleway by cyclists”. Thus, the right to cycle exists even though it may be difficult to exercise on occasions.

Cyclists using a bridleway are obliged to give way to other users on foot or horseback.

A public footpath is a path on which the public have a legally protected right to travel on foot. The majority of footpaths are shown on Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 and 1:50,000 maps. The right of access on a public footpath normally only extends to walking (there may be other unrecorded rights as well), so there is usually no right to cycle or ride a horse on a public footpath. However, it is not a criminal offence to do so unless there is a traffic order or bylaw in place specifically: it is a civil wrong to ride a bicycle or a horse on a public footpath, and action could be taken by the landowner for trespass or nuisance by the user.

A byway open to all traffic (or BOAT) is a highway over which the general public have a right to travel for vehicular and all other kinds of traffic, but which is used by the public mainly as footpaths and bridleways are used.

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MORE GOOD READS - BRUCE’S RECOMMENDATIONS PART 2 Written in 1982, when left-winger Tony Benn threatened to become Labour leader, and republished in 2017 when Jeremy Corbyn had achieved that feat, Chris Mullins’ enthralling and entirely plausible what-if political thriller, A Very British Coup, starts with the election of the radical leader Harry Perkins. He plans to do away with the nuclear deterrent, break up media monopolies and bring public control to the City of London. All this goes down like a lead balloon with the Establishment, which starts a dirty war against him. Can Harry outwit them? Will Britain become a socialist paradise? Read this clever, tense, gripping fantasy and find out.

Before Netflix, The Queen’s Gambit was a novel by Walter Tevis, author of ‘The Hustler’. Beth, an eight-year-old orphan, discovers the orphanage’s janitor playing chess. He teaches her to play and she can soon trounce him. Difficulty after difficulty crops up. How will she overcome them? It’s not just chess she’s addicted to. She enters tournaments and her obvious talent makes people help her. Will she reach her goal? Tevis’s triumph as we join Beth on her journey is to communicate her compulsion to play; and to make chess leap from the page this is a truly exciting novel, intense, moving, and constantly entertaining.

Aided by her son Malcolm, New York socialite Frances Price spends money like there’s no tomorrow. Rude and self-centred, they’re the protagonists of Patrick Dewitt’s very funny screwball comic novel, French Exit. Frances ignores advice to live more frugally and when her money has vanished, they just sail away. Susan, who inexplicably loves Malcolm, is cast aside but not Small Frank, the not to be monkeyed-with moggy who shares the pair’s life. In Paris they attract a further clutch of original characters and their irresponsible lives stagger on. Can they avoid ruin? Will Susan hook Malcolm? Why are they like this? Read and find out.

Need a laugh? Think about cleaning your teeth, checking the time, getting dressed. Not terribly amusing subjects? Think again and read Greg Jenner’s witty and highly informative A Million Years in a Day, which takes us through the histories of most of those ordinary things we take for granted today. How many generations did it take to domesticate the wolf into the pooch we know and love today? Which murder demonstrated the value of the telegraph? Can Iran really be the home of beer? All these and many more in this marvellous expose of the everyday as Jenner takes us on a rampage through history.

1809. A postilion delivers the unconscious John Lacroix to his Somerset front door. His housekeeper nurses him back to life and the story of Andrew Miller’s wonderful novel Now We Shall Be Entirely Free can really begin. To escape his military past, Lacroix leaves for the Scottish Isles but oh, what fate has in store on his travels! Something’s happening in Spain, too, and who are Calley and Medina and why are they in pursuit? He falls in with hospitable islanders as well as a bunch of freethinkers and the weather and the sea are almost characters too in this brilliant, absorbing and atmospheric novel

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MUSIC - DUNCAN HASKELL Album of the Month Collapsed In Sunbeams by Arlo Parks

Collapsed In Sunbeams made us immediately think of Pattie Smith’s classic album from 1975.

Stylistically worlds away, Parks may cross a few genres but proto-punk rock definitely isn’t one of them, there’s a similar weight to the lyrics to both records; weight so heavy that it’s impossible to ignore either record.

It’s not too often that January brings with it an album that is certain to top many best-of lists come the end of the year, but you can be confident that Too Good will buck that trend.

Horses was an album which demanded attention, from the stark cover image to the collection of songs found within. Perhaps most striking of all was the sprawling Birdland, with its spoken word sections. Colourfully populated with character studies and clever wordplay it’s saga more than vignette, telling the tale of a New England farm boy who imagines his father being beamed up by UFOs after his death. Land was similarly epic, full of passion and anger.

Arlo Parks has taken fragments from diaries and notebooks and masterfully brought them together to tell a tale of adolescent relationships.

As with the best songwriting, by revealing the specifics and personal, her music takes on a universal feel – these are vignettes of life which everyone will find comfort and familiarity in.

Fittingly for an album with lyrics so firmly front and centre, it kicks off with a musicless spokenword poem. “The turquoise in my ring matches the deep blue cramp of everything,” is an early example of the elegiac shadow Parks is able to cast over the everyday. That ability abounds throughout the album.

Smith didn’t forget the need for good tunes either, Gloria In Excelsis Deo (with a section directly lifted from Van Morrison’s band Them), Redondo Beach and Break It Up conformed to slightly more conventional structures without losing any of the appeal. Closing track Elegie was another piece of poetry set to music, lyric writing as an art form in and of itself.

Her words pack such a punch that they convey multiple emotions in just a few lines. Take “Remember when they caught us makin’ out after school / Your dad said he’d felt like he lost you,” from Green Eyes or “It’s not easy when you call me in the dead of the night / When I say I need some space I shouldn’t have to ask you twice,” from Eugene… each could be the makings of their own play.

Podcast of the month The 5th From the makers of the excellent Switched On Pop podcast comes a miniseries explaining Beethoven’s iconic 5th Symphony.

Over the course of four episodes the team look at the historical context of the symphony and break down its musical components, including the iconic “dun-dundun-duuuun” (which, they argue, is one of the most memorable hooks of all time). Packed with hidden histories and musical epiphanies, it’s a compelling listen which leaves you feeling significantly brainier.

The laid-back musical feel, a couple of notches up on the production scale from Parks’ earliest work, is the perfect bed for her to tell these tales.

Soulful with a jazzy feel, subtle mood changes ebb and flow throughout, most pronounced on the edgier trip hop feel that introduces For Violet. It’s all there to serve the uncompromising words and Parks’ blissful voice, a combination which makes Too Good such a devastatingly affecting creation.

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MORE TO ADMINISTERING AN ESTATE THAN OBTAINING THE GRANT OF PROBATE Brenda Smyth of AMD Solicitors considers the tax implications when dealing with the administration of an estate.

When applying for a Grant of Probate, the Personal Representatives of an estate must complete and submit an Inheritance Tax form giving details of all assets and liabilities of an estate. This may need to include details of lifetime gifts made by the deceased or any interests in trusts which the deceased may have had. Personal Representatives have a duty to make full enquiries to obtain the necessary information to complete the form correctly and failure to do so may result in interest having to be paid on tax paid late or even in tax penalties.

Due to current circumstances and long delays with both HMRC and the Probate Registry it is even more important to get things right the first time to avoid unnecessary interest or penalties relating to lack of disclosure.

Even when the Personal Representatives correctly ascertain and disclose assets and liabilities in the estate, mistakes can still be made, such as not claiming all allowances

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Inheritance Tax is not the only tax to consider when administering an estate. If an asset is sold during the course of the administration of an estate, there may be a Capital Gains Tax liability on the Personal Representatives. It may be that, with careful planning and depending on the circumstances, it is possible to mitigate or even eliminate this liability.

Any income received by the Personal Representatives in the course of the administration is subject to Income Tax and must be disclosed to HM Revenue and Customs by the Personal Representatives.

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QUIZ ANSWERS General Knowledge from page 41 Television 1. Wernham Hogg in Slough; 2. Fawlty Towers; 3. Terry Wogan, Les Dawson and Paul O’Grady (as Lilly Savage); 4. Richard Whitely, Des Lynam, Des O’Connor, Jeff Stelling, Nick Hewer and Colin Murray; 5.

Robin Ellis and Angharad Rees.

Chemical Elements 1. Tin; 2. Rutherfordium; 3. Caesium, Vanadium and Lead; 4. Helium; 5. Polonium.

Birds Clockwise from top left - tawny owl, nuthatch, coal tit, fieldfare.

Savoury Snacks 1. ready salted; 2. blue; 3. anchovy; 4. Twiglets; 5. They come from Wales.

France 1. 1789; 2. Lyon (472,000); 3. the Loire; 4. Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy,Monaco, Spain, Andorra; 5. Emmental is Swiss.

Jobs 1. Made arrows; 2. Made horseshoes and shoed horses; 3. Reset the pins on a bowling alley between throws (like a sticker-upper in skittles); 4. Scouring and cleaning woollen cloth; 5. Went door to door knocking on them to ensure people were awake and ready for work (before the days of deliable alarm clocks).

Numbers 1. eleven; 2. Wallace and Gromit; 3. fifteen; 4.a) 7, b) 9, c) 4; 5. 319 (29 x 11) Sport 1. Trevor Francis, Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest in 1979; 2. Padraig Harrington; 3.a) hockey, b) tennis, c) horse racing; 4. Munich in 1972; 5. ski ands snowboard half-pipe Geography 1. Devon and Cornwall; 2. Italy, Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Inited Kingdom, USA; 3. A Scottish mountain over 3,000 feet high; 4. Portland, Plymouth; 5.a) Valetta, b) Harare, c) Ulaanbaatar.

Who Am I? Graham Norton, Kamala Harris, Professor Chris Whitty.

Film & Theatre 1. Les Miserables; 2. Michael Crawford; 3. All were directed by Steven Spielberg; 4. the Odeon, Leicester Square; 5. Cameron Diaz.

Children’s Puzzles from page 12 Who Am I? (from left to right) - Dani Harmer (Tracey Beaker), Mat Lucas (Bake Off), Olly Murs (The Voice), Karim Zeroual (CBBC) What / Who Am I? - Wallaby, Zara (Tindall), Italy, Garibaldi Where Am I? left - Canada (Moraine Lake), right - Italy (Pisa), top - Great Britain (London), bottom USA (San Francisco).

Puzzle Walk from page 21 1. Colonel Rainsborough; 2. twenty eight; 3. three; 4. lion, elephant, giraffe; 5. a birdfeeder; 6. Incredible Edible Bristol; 7. a “topless lady”; 8. a sandstone cat; 9. the Hospital for Sick Children; 10. 375 years (as of March 2021); 11. physics; 12. sixteen chairs; 13. boys - it was the “Boys Entrance” possibly to a school; 14. it is an English Listed Building; 15. Purdown telecomms tower.

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CREATIVITY CONTINUES THROUGH COVID!

“The online drama classes with their uplifting activities made a positive change to the daily routine. That has proved to be very important for their mental well-being as well.

Helen O’Grady Drama Academy gives the children a positive attitude towards life and its possibilities”

A local drama teacher has continued to keep children and adults engaged throughout each lockdown by providing online drama classes. Alison Mazanec, Principal of Helen O’Grady Drama Academy in Bristol has successfully continued to inspire her students throughout the duration of this pandemic, adapting to online delivery to ensure her students still had access to social interaction, positivity and continuity at a time when we are limited in the activities we can access.

“Each week the laughter, enjoyment and element of normality to the weekly schedule allows everyone to keep smiling” “I would like to say how much I look forward to our online drama classes each week. Especially during these times of lock down. They have given me a sense of purpose and normality also something to focus on” Alison loves being able to connect with the students each week, hearing their laughter and enjoyment and seeing their beaming smiles!

We might not be able to gather in venue at the moment but we CAN still offer a weekly dose of imagination, socialization, interaction and FUN!

Alison moved her classes for both children and adults, online almost immediately, allowing her students to interact and socialize at a time when families were safe at home and schools closed. This was gratefully received by parents and students alike:

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS Given the current restrictions on gatherings, and the continuing requirement for social distancing, the ongoing operation of many of the clubs, societies, choirs, social groups, fitness sessions and companionship groups remains difficult. If the organisers of any group that wants a fuller updated listing, detailing how they are running things in a coronavirus-compliant manner, wishes to get in touch then I will be more than happy to include them. So, here are the regularly listed clubs and groups together with ther latest contact details I have. If these are incorrect please accept my apologies, and do please update me by emailing andy@bcmagazines.co.uk.

Bristol Bridge Club. New bridge lessons starting in the New Year. 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 Bristol Cabot Choir admin@bristolcabotchoir.org www.bristolcabotchoir.org Bristol Chamber Choir www.bristolchamberchoir.org.uk Rae Ford on 0117 939 1685 rodcoomber@aol.co.uk

All Together Now Bristol Choir www.alltogethernowchoir.com

Bristol Community Gamelan keithripley27@gmail.com phone 9444241

Alpine Garden Society 0117 967 3160.

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?

These are currently being delivered online and we would welcome new members. The lecture on 9 March is on Frank Brangwyn and on 13 April is on “The Paradise Garden in medieval manuscripts”.

For more information visit our website www. theartssociety-bristol.org.uk

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

Babbers Radio Show info@ujimaradio.com.

Bristol Shambhala Meditation Group bristol.shambhala.info

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

Bristol Shiplovers Society www.bristolshiplovers.co.uk

Bristol Morris Men www.bristolmorrismen.co.uk Grant on 0117 944 2165 Bristol Philatelic Society 0117 956 7853

Bristol U3A www.bristolu3a.org.uk for details. We are still very active and ‘meeting’ despite the lockdown.

Bridge Tuition 07837300073 tc.stygall@gmail.com

Carers Support Centre 0117 965 2200 www.carerssupportcentre.org.uk

Bristol & Clifton Dickens Society 0117 927 9875 www.dickens-society.org.uk

Cercle français de Bristol / Bristol French Circle We continue to meet on Zoom and are looking forward to our March events: on 11th March we will be discussing the short novel La liste de mes envies by Grégoire Delacourt and on 25th March Annie Kean will be talking about Catherine II and Voltaire. Charlotte will be offering a petit cours on 4th and 18th March – these are free and open

Bristol Alexander School www.bristolalexanderschool.co.uk Caroline at cchalk19@gmail.com Bristol Astronomical Society www.bristolastrosoc.org.uk

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BCU’s new digital platform makes it easier for members to open accounts, get loans and manage savings online. Offering fair finance anyplace, anytime, these services can help to improve people’s financial resilience, whilst providing economic growth for the UK economy.

With the first national lockdown announced a year ago this month, households believe it will take three years for their finances to recover from the devastating economic impact of Covid-19, according to a survey by Compare the Market. Bristol Credit Union (BCU) provides members access to fair and ethical low-cost loans and savings, improving the financial stability of thousands of people across the South West of England. Currently, BCU has 16,000 members and £7 million in deposits and they aim to triple their membership in the next five years.

If you would like to find out more about Bristol Credit Union, email info@ bristolcreditunion.org.uk or call 0117 924 7309.

About Bristol Credit Union Bristol Credit Union (or BCU) is here to help local people make the most of their money, by giving them access to affordable loans and competitive savings accounts. When people put their savings with us, we’re able to help other local people with loans. And because we’re here to support your community, all the money stays in the local economy.

The Credit Union helps members to develop good saving habits, allowing them to achieve short term life goals or boost their financial wellbeing. BCU offers an affordable alternative to high-interest lenders on the high street with personalised loans to suit any budget. This includes the award-winning Family Finance Plan, where members can access funds as and when they need it to spread the cost of expenses and it has helped over 800 families since its launch in 2019.

We lend out money at fair and affordable rates of interest, saving our members from having to turn to doorstep or payday lenders. But that’s not all we do. We also offer savers a decent return on their savings, plus the knowledge they’re investing in the local area.

As BCU is membership-based rather than having shareholders, money is recirculated back into the regional economy, helping businesses and communities to flourish. Rachael, who has been saving with Bristol Credit Union for over 10 years, said: “It helps me budget and plan ahead for things like birthdays, Christmas and holidays.

I like knowing my money is being well looked after, and staying local!”

We’re owned by our members, that’s everyone who saves, borrows or banks with us. We don’t have shareholders who take the profits, therefore any profit we make gets recycled back into the Credit Union, allowing us to help more local people. So the more people who become members, the more people we can help out.

James Berry, CEO of Bristol Credit Union, commented: “In these testing times, it’s more important than ever for us to reach those who may be financially struggling. Last year, our firstever Social Impact report detailed how we issued interest-free loans to 277 people who were at risk of homelessness. We’re calling upon people and businesses from across the Bristol area to join us in the fight against unfair banking, helping our communities to thrive in the face of adversity.”

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS to everyone. Do get in touch if you would like more details or to find out how to join the Circle or attend as a visitor. Bienvenue chez nous! charlottejanetaylor10@gmail.com 07976 922636 / cfbristol.org.uk

Wilma on 0117 962 8895 Karate Classes Trevor on 07921 917 758

City Voices Bristol www.cityvoicesbristol.org

Keep Fit classes Eileen Scott on 07969 929 733 www.keepfit.org.uk

Civil Service Retirement Fellowship Tony McKenna on 0117 950 2059

Keep Fit for Living Gill Porter on 01275 877 131.

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

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

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

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

Filtones Choir www.thefiltones.weebly.com

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

Friends of Welsh National Opera We 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.

The New Room - the oldest Methodist building in the world, situated in the heart of Bristol regularly hosts events and talks. Our next Wes Talk is “Hannah More: Moral Reformer or Political Manipulator?” - an online event on Monday 15th March 7.30-8.30pm. £5 - booking required: http://bit.ly/39ZTOU8. A conversation exploring the public voice of one Bristolian woman in the 18th century, a social influencer of her time who spoke up for what she believed in. Join Historian Dr Jo Edwards (Trustee of the Hannah More Trust) as she explores More’s life in conversation with Jane Duffus, Author of The Women Who Built Bristol, and Wendy Allen, Development Officer for The Methodist Church. www.newroombristol.org.uk

Friends of the Downs & Avon Gorge www.friendsofthedowns.org Friends of Old Sneed Park Nature Reserve For more details please visit www. oldsneedparknaturereserve.org.

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

Happy Days Memory Café Tony on 0117 968 1002

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

Henleaze Bowling Club Tom Logan on 0117 962 1669 hbcsec@henleazebowlingclub.org.uk

NotaBene Vocal Ensemble Lisa Smith on 07966 459872 notabenebristol@yahoo.com

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

Parkinson’s UK www.parkinsonsbristol.com

Instep Club for Widows and Widowers Donna on 01275 832 676

Redland Green Bowls Club redlandgreenbowls.webs.com

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The census is here Sunday 21 March

By taking part, you will help inform decisions about the things that matter to you and your community.

If you need help to fill in your census form, we’ve got it covered.

Visit www.census.gov.uk to find out more.

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WHAT’S ON & COMMUNITY NEWS Retired & Senior Volunteer Programme Mina on 07860 669 953 www.RSVP-west.org.uk.

Tai Chi www.taichiworksbristol.co.uk 0117 9424167

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

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

Shared Reading Christine Betts 07967 332 821

12 Communities, 1 Bristol is a local oral history podcast by Marcus Smith with BCfm, Bristol’s 1st Community Radio Station. Each of the episodes focuses on areas which are often overlooked or stigmatised, and includes fascinating reminiscences from residents and workers from Avonmouth, Southmead, Lawrence Weston and more. Available through www.bcfmradio.com and your usual podcast providers.

Shouri Shotoryu Karate Club Shouri Shotoryu karate on Facebook 0117 969 5697

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

Simply Social Activity and Social Club www.simplysocial.org.uk 07971 427 766

Walking Touch Rugby Male and Female over 50s Walking Touch Rugby.

Contact mikeandjane@hotmail.com for further details

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

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

Westbury Aikido Club www.westburyaikidoclub

Stoke Bishop Local History Group Talks are 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. Our next talk is on 12th March and is entitled “Life Below Stairs from medieval times” with guest speaker Patrick Hoyte.

Westbury Folk / Country Dancing Christine on 0117 962 2223 Westbury Harriers Running Club www.westburyharriers.co.uk Westbury Park Orchestra www.westburyparkorchestra.com contact@westburyparkorchestra.com

Stoke Lodge Ramblers will resume walking in small groups as soon as the situation allows.

If you’ve let your fitness slip during lockdown or you are looking for opportunities to walk in the company of other local people (once that is possible again), please check our website to see what we are doing: https://stokelodgeramblers. wordpress.com/home/walks-programme/ Walks vary between 3 and 10 miles and are led by club members. 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 details.

Westbury Park Women’s Institute westburyparkwi@gmail.com www.westburyparkwi.org.uk Facebook – Westbury Park WI.

Please Get In Touch andy@bcmagazines.co.uk www.bcmagazines.co.uk 0117 259 1964 / 07845 986650 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY. April magazine deadline - 15th March 2021

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Bristol North West Climate Action Group Update The biggest ever opinion poll on climate change has found two-thirds of people questioned think it is a “global emergency”.

The survey shows people across the world support climate action and gives politicians a clear mandate to take the major action needed, according to the UN organisation that carried out the poll. The UN Development Programme questioned 1.2 million people in 50 countries. While younger people showed the greatest concern, with 69% of those aged 14-18 saying there is a climate emergency, 58% of those over 60 agreed, suggesting perhaps there is not a huge generational divide.

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The most popular actions to tackle the climate crisis were: • Protecting and restoring forests • Renewable energy • Climate-friendly farming.

Bristol’s First Tiny Forest More than 1,200 trees are being planted in an area of Southmead as part of a joint project to boost their presence in urban areas. Tiny Forests are densely packed native forests built into urban spaces which fit into the size of a tennis court.

OVO Foundation, Earthwatch Europe and Bristol City Council are planting Bristol’s first Tiny Forest at Trym Valley Open Space in Southmead. Caroline Silke, Head of OVO Foundation, said: “We’re passionate about educating the younger generation on how to reduce their carbon footprint, protect the physical environment, and limit their impact on the planet.” Visit news.bristol.gov.uk/ news/bristols-first-tiny-forest-is-planted for more details

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Garage Doors Up & Over Doors Garden Design Hilary Barber Garden Maintenance Katherine Vincent Heating & Gas John Presland Home Care Services Home Instead Premier Homecare St Monica Trust Painting & Decorating Paint + Restore Services Peter Wyatt Sarah's Decorating Services Stephen Carter Plastering JSH Plastering McCall Plastering Relaxation Bristol Breathwork Residential Care Bristol Care Homes Katherine House Schools Bristol Steiner School St Bonaventure's Solicitors AMD Solicitors Corfield Solicitors Devereux & Co Lyons Solicitors Veale Wasbrough Vizards Tree Services Wildwood Tree Care TV Aerials H and P Aerials Windows & Doors Crystal Clear

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