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The Editor’s Small Piece November is a funny old month if you ask me, it’s all a bit something and nothing, can’t ever make its mind up whether it wants to be autumn or winter. Even its origins demonstrate confusion - the eleventh month of the year has at its root the word “novem”, the Latin for nine. Ok, we can all get a bit Gregorian and Julian and realise that the Roman calendar had just the ten months before Greg and Jules found a spare fifty nine days (or was it sixty?) and created a couple of new months. I just wish sometimes that things were a little simpler. Why didn’t the powers that be (i.e. Julius Caesar) rename November after the Roman name for eleven when the missing couple of months were discovered. Surely Undecimber makes more sense for the penultimate month of the year - doesn’t it?

Nope, November to my mind has personality issues, it is a complex character with many faces - sunny, cloudy, chilly, mild, frosty, drizzly, colourful, drab. Still, whatever it is, it is going to happen so I guess I’d better get on with it. October of course is longer than November, and just as well if you ask me. The November magazines seem to have taken a large chunk of October to produce, so having the full complement of thirty one days has been useful.

As well as the normal stuff we have a new feature this month - “Bristol’s Best Buildings”, a series that will look at some of my favourite pieces of local architecture and which starts with St George’s, the magnificent concert hall nestling next to Brandon Hill. If you’d like to nominate a favourite local building to be covered in a future issue please do get in touch, and if it is chosen and gets to print you will be rewarded with 4oz of midget gems and a bottle of Tizer.

Have a great month, and do please get in touch with any stories, enquiries, listings or requests for advertising always happy to help.

Andy 0117 259 1964 / 07845 986650 / 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY / @BS9Andy / andy@bcmagazines.co.uk / www.bcmagazines.co.uk

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History Notes ‐ no. 108 ‐ Julian Lea‐Jones Unearthing clues to your predecessors Living in the suburbs today it is difficult to visualise what came before the houses that now cover Bristol’s rolling hills, so this month I am considering some clues to our predecessors activities and lives. In my fifth article for this magazine, (in Nick Clark days), I mentioned about the building of the New Clifton Estate, and showed a picture of the Cran Brook, which as late as the 1920s still ran through open countryside with a small gypsy encampment on the stream bank between what is now Cranbrook Road and Claremont Avenue.

Although I expect the likelihood of unearthing any remnants or evidence of their stay is improbable, some readers may still have ‘Dolly pegs’ that were once sold door to door along with lucky heather, or ferns, in exchange for empty jam jars which were then sold to Robertson’s Jam Factory at Brislington.

Twenty years ago a friend living in the southern branch of Cairns Road showed me a collection of finds that he had unearthed in his garden.

Since then his neighbours gardens have also yielded many items ranging from bottles, inkwells, fragments of Bristol pottery, meat or fish paste jars, coins and other items too rusted to reveal their function. The coins have been mostly Victorian pennies, including a Georgian cartwheel penny (seen below). The bulk of these finds came from land on the lower slopes of the hillside in the area bounded by Coldharbour Rd, Cairns Rd, and Cranbrook Rd down as far as Clare Avenue and the allotments. A late friend, one of the original new settlers of the Cranbrook Road estate told me she remembered part of the land being used as a Corporation rubbish dump much to the annoyance of her family and other new residents. Although those

finds reveal what was once on the site, they don’t reveal anything specific about the site’s later occupants. For that we need to consider this other collection.

When gardening, we wouldn’t expect to turn up anything more interesting than fragments of the seemingly ubiquitous clay pipe stems, discarded long ago by field workers. BUT whenever you turn up one of these fragments of clay pipes and hold the tiny piece of clay in the palm of your hand it tells you that once, maybe not so long ago, where you are digging your herbaceous border was probably a farmer’s field and that he, or one of his labourers, was smoking as he dug in the very spot where you are now standing.

Because the pipe bowls were fragile they are hardly ever found intact whereas the stems being much stronger survive, (the Victorian equivalent of a non-biodegradable cigarette butt). Although it is unusual to find pipe bowls, it was only last month when digging in the garden of our new home in Henleaze Park Drive I spotted this tiny fragment of a clay pipe bowl. It even still had charred fragments of tobacco dottle in it, (perhaps spectrographic analysis could reveal the source of the tobacco), but more importantly the bowl spur even has the makers mark. The letter ‘c’ on the spur meant that it had been made in Bristol in in the 19th Century.

Digging up things in the garden and carrying out library or online research will only tell you part of the story of what went before at your home site or neighbourhood. Maps provide us with a valuable insight and help to put your own place in its wider context. Fortunately Jeff Bishop has done just that with his latest book ‘Bristol Through Maps’. For the curious, Jeff’s book is not just about our history, he has managed to include planners’ maps, artists’ maps and even a community map of Westbury Park. Taken together they will give a greater understanding of your place. If you would like to buy a copy email Jeff at bristolthroughmaps@gmail.com or phone on 0794 1063 138.

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Even discarded bricks in skips can tell a story.

I always have a look in roadside or house utility service trenches. For example when a house in Lawrence Grove had an extension being built, I noticed some of the discarded bricks in the skip were white glazed on one of the faces. This seemed unusual for someone’s living room, but after further investigation I learnt that the house was on the site of one of the local farms and the glazed bricks came from the dairy building.

and closer examination. Most of the fragments, other than the aforementioned pieces of clay pipes, are of domestic pottery and thus are likely to be from the house’s earlier occupants. In the collection shown here, the patterns and body of the fragments of cups, dishes, bowls and saucers reveal much more than those from the tip. The quality of the pieces, more china than earthenware, is indicative of the family’s possible income. One interesting piece, part of a cream coloured large dish or bowl looked like slipware.

When I am digging in the garden I put any It was made by trailing the darker lines across potsherds or other finds to one side for washing the cream body and using a comb or points to drag the lines down to give the distinctive pattern. This piece was probably much earlier than the 1920s houses in Henleaze Park Drive, so was this fragment once a family heirloom? If so it was a sad day when it was broken. I hope this article has shown how careful examination of seemingly inconsequential garden finds can contribute to the story of your house.

Julian Lea-Jones FRAeS © Julian Lea-Jones 2016

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Bruce Fellows’ Good Reads All those military cemeteries in Northern France! How did they come about? The facts can be researched but in his moving and beautiful novel, Field Service, Robert Edric offers the human side. Reid and Lucas, British officers damaged by the Great War, still soldier on in France to find, identify and bury their dead comrades.

British conscripts, on the verge of mutiny, still serve on, too, building those cemeteries, and there’s a lovingly drawn cast of native French, none untouched by the War. Among the senior officers though, ambition and vindictiveness are still rampant. Then two women arrive who must be looked after. A great read.

Not just for Bronte fans, The Bronte Cabinet is also about the lives of all Victorian women. By examining nine objects left by the sisters, Deborah Lutz lays bare how everyone lived.

Sewing! Repairs, hemming sheets, shirts for the men of the house, everyone was at it and they all needed a work box like Charlotte’s. No phones, everyone wrote letters, Ellen Nussey kept 500 of Charlotte’s. No buses, they walked, with a stick and a dog.

Emily once broke up a dog fight while a crowd of men watched in awe. Read this excellent book and learn more than just about those three wonderful girls.

about the crime, of course, was its OAP perpetrators, one of whom turned up at the scene on the bus.

You’ll learn their backgrounds, details of their fairly lengthy lives in crime, how they did it and what led to their downfall. Appallingly fascinating.

Waiting for Doggo by Mark B Mills is a romcom with a dog. When Clara walks out on her copywriter boyfriend, Dan, in order to find herself, she leaves behind Doggo, a canine of indeterminate pedigree. Dan picks himself up and finds a new job and Doggo, who is charm personified, or should that be dogiified? goes along too and soon becomes an office essential. What follows is a highly entertaining and extremely funny tale of love lost and found, with villains and heroes, skulduggery and sweetness.

This is a great read and very difficult to put down. And guess who ends up the star?

You may have seen the film version but Charles Williams’ recently republished 1963 classic thriller, Dead Calm, is even more gripping.

Becalmed in the Pacific, John Ingram spots another yacht clearly foundering.

Then Hughie Warriner comes alongside in a dinghy with a story of horrific events that have left him the sole survivor. Leaving his wife with Warriner, Ingram insists on boarding Was your imagination caught by the the other boat only to find that biggest crime in UK history, the Warriner’s story is a complete Hatton Garden robbery? The media fabrication. Despite a cat’s cradle of loved it. A break in with almost no plot twists, Williams manages to give clues left behind, very rich anonymous us the stories and motivations of all victims and no one hurt in the process. involved, while generating a chilling Now you can read all about it in atmosphere of dread – a terrific novel.

Wensley Clarkson’s Sexy Beasts, and a Bruce Fellows - November 2016 gripping read it is. The best thing

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Music with Duncan Haskell Album of the Month Ruminations by Conor Oberst (Nonesuch) Last winter, having left New York and returned to his hometown of Omaha, Conor Oberst wrote the songs that form his latest album. The period leading up to it had been an extremely difficult one for him, including being falsely accused of rape and hospitalised from exhaustion. Alone with guitar, piano and harmonica, Oberst has created ten musical sketches of this period. Stripped of any elaborate production they present a naked and sometimes uncomfortable portrait.

Though his poetic tendencies can still be heard, there’s a direct and confessional nature to Ruminations. The weight of the last few years looms heavy, yet there are the occasional droplets of hope that fall upon the album. Sometimes it’s through the music itself, such as the lively piano track accompanying opener Tachycardia. Elsewhere it arrives in the form of a well-observed line. “Be careful with your headphones on when you cross the FDR / Don't want to be a casualty before you make it to the bar,” he sings on Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out, a cautionary message for the modern world.

Next Step Last of the Country Gentleman by Josh T Pearson (Mute) If you find catharsis in the uncomfortable then the debut solo album by Lift to Experience frontman Josh T. Pearson should be an ideal next step for you.

Released in 2011, the stark and confessional nature of the album made it one of the best releases of that year.

Unflinching in the face of the truth, it tackled Pearson’s troubles with love and excess.

Those who were able to overcome the meandering nature of the tracks, and their gut-wrenching honesty, soon discovered the intricate beauty. Sweetheart I Ain’t Your Christ found him trying to reconcile his faith with his own perceived sins. The title of Honeymoon’s Great! Wish You Were Her hints at the heartbreak within, nowhere more so than with the lyric “I’m in love with an amazing woman, she just is not my wife / What will I tell my pastor, friends, my family or said blushing bride?”

Accompanied by his guitar and despair, Pearson’s songs on Last of the Country Gentleman were like epic tragedies. Prolonged through their protracted structures, his suffering was palpable and impossible to turn away from.

Really though, what makes this album such a vital Gig of the month accomplishment is how much of Oberst’s own pain is Okkervil River @ revealed. The list of medical treatments mentioned in Thekla (Friday 11th Counting Sheep suggests that his recent ailments have November) taken their toll. You All Loved Him Once warns of the shallow nature of fandom, and how quick people As the chief songwriter are to desert you when times are tough. The simple and permanent fixture of backing of harmonica and gentle guitar means that his Okkervil River, Will words are impossible to ignore, and hit much harder Sheff has led his band in as a result. many different directions and with the release of their new album Away he has written his most confessional As a listener you’re left hoping that Oberst has found work to date. His current bandmates were picked due some comfort through this musical and emotional to their technical excellence which means that this exorcism. upcoming performance should be an intriguing combination of the intricate and proficient. With a Ruminations might be difficult to hear in places, but superb back catalogue stretching back over a decade, that’s all the more reason to do so. it’s sure to be a memorable evening.

Duncan Haskell

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Prize Wordsearch ‐ sponsored by Leese & Nagle Wordsearch grid below so you just need to work out which one is missing. Send your entries in to me, in line with the dates mentioned earlier, to be in with a chance of winning. The words can be hidden running forwards, backwards, up, down or on a diagonal. Best of luck - and here are the words you are looking for -

This moth we look to the skies with a prize wordsearch kindly sponsored by local estate agent Leese & Nagle. There are four prizes this month, given the timing of the delivery of the magazine. On Saturday 5th November the now traditional Family Firework Display will be held in Canford Park. Leese & Nagle have donated 2 family tickets (i.e. for 4 people) and one pair of tickets (i.e. for 2 people) to give to the first three correct entries drawn out of the hat at midnight Friday 4th going into Saturday 5th November. If however you don’t receive your magazine in time fear not, all correct entries received between Bonfire Night and the 30th November will go into a separate draw to win a £20 book token or £20 gardening voucher.

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Please send your entries in to me at 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY, ring 0117 259 1964, text 07845 986650. email andy@bcmagazines.co.uk or tweet @BS9Andy

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The winner of the September competition, spotting that Estonia was the missing country, was an unnamed text entry.

Congratulations whoever you are, I’ll be in touch and get your Stanfords gift voucher across to you as soon as I’ve discovered where you are!

Thanks as ever to everybody who entered.

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Coaching with Anne Miller Busy, busy!

being successful: they must be doing something right to have so much business and that means When did it become fashionable to be busy? It’s they’re making lots of money! Of course this is now such a way of life that an alternative is hard not necessarily the case. Maybe they are to imagine. How often we find ourselves spending hours on emails and social media or answering the question “how are you?” with an chasing debts! Somehow it seems less impressive exclamation ‘busy!’? Sometimes it’s a positive to say “I’ve got time on my hands”! How exclamation, sometimes less so. But always it brilliant would that be: happily running a delivers a message that comes as no surprise. It’s successful business and having time on your not only socially acceptable to be busy, it’s hands?! expected!

So what happens when we’re always busy?

When we claim to be busy, what does it say Maybe you can relate to this: we notice we are about us? That we’re working hard? That we’re making mistakes and bad decisions and missing successful? That we’re popular? Or is it that appointments; we find ourselves short tempered we’re working inefficiently or wasting time on with our families and work connections; our unnecessary activities? When do we stop to creative thinking is diminished; we feel tired, think about how we could work more effectively stressed and our confidence suffers. When we or what we could usefully say ‘no’ to? If the are always stretched, add one unexpected event accepted culture is to be busy, we have to be and we snap! aware and motivated to buck the trend.

Busyness is a state of mind and it can be addictive. Weaning ourselves off takes a conscious decision to reconsider our choices and reactions. We may be reluctant to acknowledge that we are too busy and yet we know it. Only when we are honest with ourselves can we start to take steps towards a sustainable alternative which fits with the way we want to be living.

If we pride ourselves on our ability to multi-task we are deluding ourselves: Multi-tasking is a fallacy. When we think we’re working on a number of things at the same time we’re actually going from one to another, just very quickly.

Giving quality attention to everything in this way is not possible and the time to complete tasks increases significantly. We are far more effective when we allocate time for one task and finish it before moving onto another.

At business networking events, if someone says they’re busy, this is likely to be interpreted as

Visit www.annemillercoaching.co.uk for more information and to book a free coaching consultation Tel: 07722110228

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Talking Pets with the Animal Health Centre Grieving for Pets It is generally accepted that when a member of the family or a friend passes away, that people will often grieve for a long time for that person, but how about our pets? Many people see their pets as members of the family and losing them can feel just as awful as losing any other family member.

that your grief hits you in waves, one moment you think you are fine and then something triggers a memory and the sadness returns. You may also find that grieving for your pet brings back other memories of loss of friends or relatives or other sad or traumatic memories.

Keeping busy is often a way people try to avoid feeling their grief, this may not help in the long run, allow yourself to feel the loss and to come to terms with it in your own time.

It can really help to talk to others, other pet owners will understand your loss, here at the vets we also understand how big a part of our lives pets become and there are always bereavement counselling services available if you contact your doctor’s surgery. Help is out there so do not feel alone in your loss.

If you have recently lost a pet then do not feel guilty or embarrassed about grieving for him. It is fairly common at vet practices for people to apologise when they become upset at the loss of their pet. Your pet may have only been with you for a few months, several years or even a couple of decades, either way he has become an important part of your life and it is okay to grieve for that loss.

You may find that you grieve in stages, some people talk about the five stages of grieving or

For more information on the Blue Cross Bereavement Support Service, visit their website at bluecross.org.uk or call them on 0800 096 6606 for free and confidential support and advice.

Sophie McGill Veterinary Surgeon Animal Health Centre

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The Downs Recorder ‐ Richard Bland The History of the Downs in ten objects.

Number 7 - The Coronation Oak. 1903 At the top of Bridge Valley Road there stands an Oak with a plaque noting that it was put up to commemorate the coronation in 1903 of King Edward VII. It is a fine specimen, and its girth at 280cm is a nice demonstration of the fact that native trees grow in girth at an average rate of two point five centimetres a year. When it was planted the only other trees around were the avenue of trees coming down the Promenade. These are now Beech trees, and look magnificent in autumn but they were all replacements for a previous avenue probably planted about 1815. A drawing by Samuel Grimm of the turnpike gate in 1788 makes it clear that there were no trees then but young trees are shown in the panoramic view of Clifton drawn in c 1830 by Robotham, using the camera obscura created by Williams West in the Observatory. In fact, when the Oak (in the centre of the picture) was planted, it was still possible to see a small section of the River Avon at the bottom of the slope, as there was only low scrub on the side of the Gorge, and the whole of the magnificent course of Bridge Valley Road, built by J L Macadam in 1822, could easily be observed.

part of the Turnpike system established in 1727, and along the old turnpike road which ran through Clifton, down the Promenade to the turnpike gate, up Fountains Hill, which lies in a cutting, and straight across to the Old Halt at the top of Stoke Hill, where it joined the toll road from Blackboy Hill. These avenues were probably originally planted to ensure that travellers did not get lost, as the Downs was a very large area of open and unenclosed common land without walls or hedges and roads were more like farm tracks, with little to distinguish them from the rest of the Downs surface. All three of these avenues have continued to be maintained by successive generations, even though the Clifton to Old Halt road was abandoned after 1750, when Ladies Mile was built.

The Seven Sisters are a group of Black Pines originally planted in about 1880 at the edge of a quarry that had just been filled in. They are supposed to have been planted by a doctor who had seven daughters. There are now only three left. A replacement group has been planted a few yards away. Six Whitebeams, including a Bristol Whitebeam, were planted in 1973 near the Circular Road to commemorate the six hundredth anniversary of King Edward III’s charter that, uniquely, gave Bristol the status of a city and county, separate from the jurisdiction of Somerset and Gloucestershire. More recently trees have been planted to commemorate Downs Rangers, the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation and last winter some 70 trees were planted, all of them sponsored by individuals or organisations, as replacements for avenue trees that have recently been lost.

Unlike the other objects in this series, the Coronation Oak is not man-made, but it is a symbol of our desire to remember the past, our wish to manipulate and improve the environment, and of the value that we The planting of Memorial trees and of avenues on the place on trees.

Downs has a long history. In 1766 the first The Downs are for people, and the management Conservator of the Downs, Sir William Draper, of a vast number of competing interests is planted an avenue from the Observatory to his own sophisticated and subtle. If you enjoy the Downs, front door at Manilla Hall. Avenues were also planted or use if for your sport, why not become a Friend? along the Westbury and Stoke roads, which were both Membership is just £10. Contact Robin Haward at robinhaward@blueyonder.co.uk 0117 974 3385

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A different way of looking at coughs and colds this winter…

Looking at the body holis cally, helps you to remember that we’re much more than just a physical machine. If you’ve been struggling with recurrent cold or flu type symptoms, then maybe it’s me to take a different view. Here’s a short list of the metaphorical meanings behind some winter ailments. Maybe feel into how these might resonate with friends, family or work situa ons, and if you want to know more then check out Louise Hay’s work or Inna Segal ‐ The Secret Language of Your Body.

‐ Colds… about not 'ge ng stuff off your chest'

‐ Coughs… about you 'not being heard'

‐ Immune system… represents your inner strength

‐ Aches… what are you ‘aching for’ in your life

‐ Sore throats… not ‘expressing yourself comfortably’

‐ Sinus infec ons… things that really 'get up your nose and irritate you'

Once you recognize what it is that’s not been dealt with, there are lots of simple ways to release these blocked emo ons. For instance, mind‐mapping, wri ng an un‐sent le er and so on. And it’s amazing how quickly the body can heal itself once the issue has been heard.

Something new and exci ng is happening soon at The Chiron Centre for Natural Health… to find out what it is, Like us on Facebook

Crystals ‐ we now have a wide range for sale at The Chiron Centre.

Crystals are well known for their healing proper es, and are very easy to use. We stock a range of small and large rose quartz and amethyst crystals, selenite lamps and agate bookends which make ideal gi s for loved ones or yourself.

Like to know more about what we do, the latest info on complementary therapy and self‐help ps?

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Healing One Step At A Time “…Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – your own is a break.

I took the road less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.”

It’s a refreshing new experience when you don’t have ~Robert Frost little ones in tow, constantly putting things back, or hearing yourself repeat (far more than you would After a good, long walk in the woods on a sunny, yet absolutely have to) ‘stop dangling off the trolley’. So refreshing, autumnal day, it’s hard not to be left yes when that opportunity comes up I jump at it so I feeling full of vitality and appreciation, with flushed can actually browse the shelves without having to cheeks and a warm glow. The leaves are just changing expedite with military precision, my shopping so I can colours; many have already fallen on the ground get out as soon as humanly possible. making a distinctive crunch and crackle as you walk over them. The late afternoon sunshine glitters Filling the car up with petrol? I’ll do it just for the through the branches dazzling your eyes as long freedom of not hoisting small people in and out of car shadows are cast on the softened earth. seats. Having the comforting, yet constant, chattering and questions in the background is wonderful but it is For me these long Sunday walks are a necessity, a a joy to have just 5 minutes to myself so I can hear a break from the norm and an opportunity. Being in song on the radio that I like all the way through nature soothes the soul, and nurtures you from without a single interruption. within. It amplifies your senses and sets your happy trigger off so that you gently hum even from the sofa It’s HARD being a mum and sometimes it’s with the cup of tea in your hand well after you’ve important to admit that. returned home and your legs sore and strained from the exertion.

The break for a walk is a welcome one because It’s a necessity for 2 reasons. honestly if, as mum, you’re empty on fuel, energy, love and sleep, then what do you have left in the tank to give? It just doesn’t work. You get stressed, the mood levels plummet dramatically and it ends up in a horrid mess that could’ve been avoided.

As mothers what kind of messaging are we receiving to believe that it’s not okay to put the oxygen mask on you before others?

Who tells us we are selfish if we are not with our children every hour of everyday?

Time out.

Training and fitness I’m a mum of two young and gorgeous girls. Like other mums, you are always on call, day, night, naptime, bath time, mealtime, always available, always there.

What is it inside that determines that we have to have it all running smoothly and make it look okay when in fact it’s a horrible mess, you barely brushed your teeth that day let alone got a shower?

Why is there this completely unnecessary need to be seen to be okay?

Why of all things do we say we are okay when in fact inside we are a mess, a horrible, dribbling wreck of a We all need time out to rejuvenate, refresh and mess being held together by the threads of a wellrecharge. And yet for some reason we don’t. We don’t worn t-shirt? take the time to recharge because if we do it seems we are somehow being selfish. We are selfish for wanting Why is it not okay to say you’re feeling crap? to be on our own. But as any mum would know and understand, it’s full time, all the time so when you get It’s actually okay not to be okay! the opportunity, even a trip to the supermarket on

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Sometimes it can’t be shouted out loudly enough. It’s not okay to drive yourself into a deep cavern of shame and guilt when actually 1 in 5 women feel EXACTLY the same as you. Yet so few of us admit that we’re struggling and this makes matter worse.

so loud and so busy that it’s drowned out. Fortunately that quiet voice, the truth within, is patient. It will wait until you are ready to listen. Once you hear it, it becomes hard to ignore.

My paths diverged and I chose the one less travelled because it would mean all my family could heal and be happier. I couldn’t ignore the deeper truth inside any longer. It’s taken courage, determination and continues to stretch us, but I wouldn’t change a thing.

That’s because we are creating the life we want to lead. The kind of life that you can look back on and My family and I suffered. I went through post-natal smile when you realise you put the accumulation of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder before I happiness at the centre of your family. regained some balance in my life. Regaining this balance came slowly and yet surely (and it does, I can If you or anybody you know is suffering or you think assure you, it will happen). However I could only do is suffering from post-natal depression then please it by taking a really good look at what was currently contact: happening and knowing that it wasn’t serving anyone, so something had to change.

Mothers for mothers: 0117 975 6006 Bluebell Care: 0773 8628 842 My walks are all part of that change and that process Pandas Foundation: 0843 28 98 401 of looking after myself, which brings me to another reason as to ‘why’ I walk.

Get you boots on and go walking with the Bristol Ramblers: www.bristolramblers.org.uk/ I’m actually in training because I am about to embark on one of my greatest challenges and undoubtedly a Postscript: life changing experience. I am climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for charity in January 2017 and I need all Antonia is a mother of two young girls, new to the walking training and fitness I can get right now!

Bristol, and had been living in Northern NSW, It’s a swan song if you like, my final farewell to the Australia up until September last year. She and her depression and the stories that I’ve kept a close hold family made their decision to return to Europe to be of, the stories that quickly became my identity. closer to family and support to aide the wellness through the depression. She knows the darkness and loneliness that postnatal depression can bring. She’s passionate to help other mums and spread the word that it is okay to not be okay.

I know one thing’s for sure now, despite taking over four years to learn it, I need refuelling as much as I need air to breathe. I’ve lived overseas for many years and when the girls were really little I didn’t have family around to call on in times of need.

Want learn more about Antonia’s journey, fundraising and trek Mount Kilimanjaro for Rafiki Mwema? Go to www.gofundme.com/2s9tcrmk Date for your diaries: A Festive Fundraising Pampering Day on 10th December, 11.30am – 4pm It’s time to let them all go and make space for something new and real, something that I can do to positively impact others, to help others. Something that is the real me, the true me, something that aligns with my values.

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Book your tickets for a lovely day with lunch, drinks and nibbles included. Tickets £25 per person.

For more information and ticket bookings please call And we can all unearth this truth that is inside or email Antonia at RafikiFundraising@gmail.com or because it’s there, aching to be heard. Yet most of the 07427 381751. Bookings essential as numbers are time, with the daily humdrum of life, we are just being strictly limited.

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Films with Chris Worthington Hell or High Water Directed by David Mackenzie Hell or High Water is a contemporary western set in West Texas starring Best Foster and Chris Pine as Tanner and Toby Howard, two brothers who set about robbing provincial banks to pay off a mortgage and save the family ranch from foreclosure by the Texas Midlands Bank. The film might be taken as an homage to Bonnie and Clyde brought up to the present day in the wake of the 2007 financial crisis. There are also echoes of the Josh Brolin character from No Country For Old Man in the taciturn but determined character of Toby.

from Toby’s good looks and a wad of bank notes left as a tip.

Things take a turn for worse following the last bank robbery. They are pursued by an armed posse of irate bank customers and by this time the rangers and local law enforcement have also caught up with them. The brothers decide to split and Toby heads off to cash in the money at a casino while Tanner holds off the posse and the law with the aid of an automatic rifle.

The minor characters in the film help to portray life in modern Texas. The bank manager doing his level best to foreclose on the ranch, high class whores and pit bosses in the casino, gun toting good old boys, ranchers herding their cattle away from a brush fire and Elsie, Toby’s put upon wife who doesn’t trust the brothers one inch. And with good cause. Tanner has been toughened up by years in jail and Toby makes short and brutal work of two young men in a fit of road rage at a wayside gas station.

On their trail are two Texas Rangers, Marcus played by Jeff Bridges and Alberto played by Hil Birmingham. Marcus is near retirement and this will be his last case introducing an elegiac quality into the film. The soundtrack is by Nick Cave.

The Tanner brothers duly arrive in a succession of no hope semi - derelict towns with sketchy A great cast are helped by the wonderful scenery plans to rob branches of the Texas Midland although the film was actually shot in various Bank, the bank that is foreclosing on their ranch. parts of New Mexico. That is long way from home for director David Mackenzie. He is At the first robbery they are shot at by one of Scottish and co-founder of the Glasgow based the customers who just happens to be carrying a production company Sigma Films. His last film, gun. Not really a surprise in West Texas but they Starred Up, was a Scottish prison and crime make the mistake of not disarming him before drama. heading for the getaway car. As more robberies follow Marcus is working out the route they are Chris Worthington taking and their modus operandi with the aid of chrisworthington32@yahoo.com some reluctant eye witnesses including a waitress in a diner whose saw nothing apart

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Bristol’s Best Buildings ‐ St George’s Bristol OK, the title is a bit subjective but I quite like the alliteration so I’m sticking with it. This month we launch a regular article in which I’ll be taking a look at a number of my favourite local buildings. Some will be obvious, some less so - but the idea is just to shed a little more light on some of the fabulous piles of brick, stone and ironwork that help make Bristol the great city that it is. I have a number of buildings in mind, but in the spirit of press democracy if you have an architectural, historical or cultural favourite you’d like featured (or you’d even like to write about for the magazine) do please let me know.

the distinctive cupola, and a grand façade with sweeping steps and Doric columns. Interestingly the main façade was not the front of the church - Dr Luke Hislop, the vicar, would have welcomed his congregation at the other end of the church, through the Charlotte Street entrance.

However I get first dibs as the feature is making its debut, and I am starting off with… St George’s Bristol

Noting the necessary economy of the building programme, Smirke’s design for St George’s was replicated (for half his fee) in east London where St The Past James’ Church in Hackney was practically a twin.

Perched on Great George Street, the upslope between Sadly the Hackney church was bombed in the Blitz, a fate that St George’s survived, just - an incendiary Park Street and Brandon Hill, St George’s was built device came through the roof and landed on the altar between 1821 and 1823 to a design submitted by but failed to ignite. St George’s did play a more active architect Robert Smirke. Smirke had some previous, having been involved in the design of the Royal Mint, role in the war than its cockney counterpart - the crypt was used as an air raid shelter. Readers familiar Covent Garden Theatre and the British Museum in with the church can dwell on this today as they have London. He was the chosen architect of the Church Building Commission, a body set up shortly after the their interval drinks in the crypt. The wrought iron railings were, as was common, removed as a part of Battle of Waterloo in 1815 to oversee and grant the war effort in 1940 - to be restored some 64 years funding to a new wave of Anglican churches later. commissioned under the Church Building Act of 1818. The Commission granted a little over £9,000 Post war though, congregations dwindled and by the (approximately £600k in modern money) for the mid 1970s the future for St George’s looked bleak - at construction of what was to be Bristol’s only least as a place of worship. It was time to diversify ‘Waterloo Church’. and as is often the case it was a band of enthusiastic volunteers who came to the rescue of what is, after all, a Grade II* Listed Building. St George’s Music Trust took over the building and its environs and started the process of turning the rectangular box into a world class music and spoken word venue.

The Present Through dint of hard work, the fundraising efforts of its Patrons, Friends and benefactors, and construction / development grants from the Arts Council, National Lottery and English Heritage, St George’s has been transformed into one of the country’s leading concert halls - and my favourite in Bristol.

Built in a Greek revivalist style, Smirke designed St George’s to a brief laid down by the Commission - it had to be economical and functional but clearly recognisable as a Church of England building, with a tower or spire and “a great show at the west end”.

The result - what is essentially a rectangular box with

It hosts a full and diverse programme of events each year - some 250 this year covering classical, jazz and blues, folk and roots, world music, Americana, rock and pop, talks and family concerts. St George’s joins forces with Colston Hall and Bristol Music Trust, as well as the University of Bristol and Watershed, for festivals such as Bristol New Music, Filmic and Bristol

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Bristol’s Best Buildings ‐ St George’s Bristol Americana Weekend. The venue also hosts Slapstick Festival and the Festival of Ideas. St George’s Bristol has an active education and outreach programme, which includes Cosmos Children’s Community Choir, awards and bursaries, Music Mentors and Young Composers Academy. The team also runs family events MiniBeats and Wild Words.

sales, donations, the generosity of Friends, corporate sponsors and volunteers, and non-musical income from venue hire, weddings, receptions and the like.

However rather than just standing still the trustees of St Georges are looking to the future and their ambitious project ‘Building a Sound Future’ will “secure St George’s future as a world class performance venue, preserving, extending and enhancing our central Bristol home and transforming the visitor experience.” A key feature of the development is a bold new extension built within the surrounding garden of the main building. Preliminary archaeological and construction works are well underway and in about a years time there will be new entrances, full and unhindered access to the hall for the first time, a new garden-facing café/bar, lettable And all of this takes place in an old redundant church, performance space, a gallery for permanent and visiting exhibitions and restoration of the 19th century a rectangular box with a slightly bowed ceiling and gardens. The artist’s impressions are striking original 19th century church pews up in the gallery (there is however very comfortable modern seating in nineteenth century grandeur alongside clean and classy twenty-first century design. A fitting updated home the auditorium and the pews have been restored and well cushioned!). So why is it so special? Well to me it for (in my opinion at least) Bristol’s finest music venue. is that somewhere so simple in design and décor can generate such intimacy and sound quality. People as diverse as Sir Simon Rattle, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic - “the best acoustic for chamber music in Europe”, Elvis Costello “one of the finest concert halls to perform in”, and Michael Morpurgo “the most wonderful place to perform, the acoustics unrivalled, … the architecture exquisite” have extolled the joy of performing in the hall and who am I to disagree? Last year I saw the Boyan Ensemble, a Ukrainian male voice choir, perform at St George’s and the sound they generated was truly spine-tingling.

If you wish to find out more about St George’s, its The concert hall seats just over 500 people, so even if comprehensive and wide-ranging programme of you are at the back of the main auditorium or on a top events, or discover the opportunities for volunteering corner pew you’re still very close to the stage, giving a do visit their website www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk. proximity to the performers that almost feels personal.

A couple of years back I went to see Suggs from In the meantime thanks to Dagmar Smeed from St Madness recounting, with musical interludes, his life George’s for allowing me to look round and for being story in and out of music - a true raconteur who, it such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide. felt, was talking directly to me such was the closeness of stage to audience.

The Future Walking around St George’s you get a feel for the enormity of the task it must be to keep the place going and putting on such a full performance schedule. At the end of the day it is an old church, built in times of austerity, and a listed building, so keeping it up together must be costly and difficult.

The annual running costs are somewhere in the region of £1m a year, and with very limited public funding, Next month - the Council House (hopefully!)

St George’s is reliant on income derived from ticket

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Andrew Jack of AMD Solicitors considers the dangers of homemade wills

2. Changes in circumstance

If you decide to get married and already have an existing Will, that Will will automatically be revoked on your marriage, unless it was drafted in expectation of the marriage. A professional would advise you of this but a lay person might not be aware of the effect of marriage if they are making a Making a Will is the only way of ensuring that homemade Will. Equally, divorce effects inheritance under a Will. your estate and assets are distributed according to your wishes. If you die without a Will, your estate will pass in accordance with 3. Dates the rules of intestacy. This could mean that Another situation we have come across is an your estate will pass to someone who you undated Will. Although a date is not required may not want to benefit. for a Will to be valid, it is your last Will that must be proved on your death. If the Will Reasons clients have mentioned for not does not have a date then it is difficult to making a Will include not having enough time, not wanting to talk about death and the prove that it is the last Will and often sworn cost involved. Concerns over fees may lead statements are required from witnesses to provide evidence as to when they were someone to prepare a home made Will. signed.

Although a Will does not need to be 4. Inappropriate Clauses prepared by a Solicitor, there are inherent dangers in preparing one yourself.

If you try and take clauses from a previous will or use clauses from someone else’s Will 1. Invalidity without fully understanding what those A recent example of this involves a husband clauses mean and what their effect will be, you can end up with a Will that does not and wife who had each prepared identical achieve what you wanted, with the result that homemade Wills. As far as they were some or all of your estate may go to concerned, from the time they had signed someone you had not intended to benefit. their Wills to the date they instructed us to make new ones, they had valid Wills. It was For advice on wills, inheritance tax, lasting quickly spotted, however, that the Wills had powers of attorney administration of estates only been witnessed by one person at the and all other private client issues please time of signing. It is a requirement that for a contact Andrew Jack or another member of Will to be valid it must be signed by the our team on 0117 962 1205, email testator in the presence of two independent witnesses who must also sign the Will at the probate@amdsolicitors.com or call into one of our four Bristol offices. same time.

Due to this small but vital mistake, these Wills were invalid from the day they were signed.

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This Cotham Life ‐ Duncan Haskell The lead up to Halloween felt like an appropriate time to indulge in some eerie activity and so I signed myself up for a ghost hunt in Redcliffe Caves - previously home to miners, hermits, prisoners of war and various other nefarious characters who enjoyed the pleasures afforded to them by subterranean living.

The evening started with a guided walk by Alan Gray, a local expert with over 600 tours of the caves already under his belt. As well as acclimatising us to our murky surroundings it was also a chance to learn a little bit of history and see some centuries-old graffiti and rock formations. The small detail of a pending visit from Poldark seemed of particular interest to some of the ladies in attendance.

themselves known.

Having no reference point, apart from the apparitions of Hollywood movies, it was slightly disappointing that our spirts were of the shy variety. Rather than sliming us, they preferred to announce their arrival through the occasional flickering light on one of our battery powered detection devices, or through a faint noise in the distance. Their other method of communication was of the tactile kind and strangely enough, the longer we stood in our circle the number our collective legs grew.

After the tour, it was time to get down to business and equip ourselves with all we could possibly need for tracking down those awaiting spirits. From archaic devices such as Ouija boards, dowsing rods and crystals, to the latest equipment in ghost-busting technology, it would be hard to find a better armed group.

The next stage was to break into smaller groups, on the hunt for those wallflower ghosts who Re-entering the caves, without Alan’s expertise don’t like a crowd. An enthralling conversation to guide us, they suddenly felt labyrinthine and could be overheard in a neighbouring chamber at least a couple of shades of black darker. Our between some hunters and Elizabeth, a first attempt at contacting the dead was through prostitute from the 18th Century. I preferred to a group séance. Holding hands in a circle, in try and find my way out of the cave, with no order to generate energy and be sure that any idea of the direction in which to head. If you strange sensations were the result of contact don’t hear from me next month, please send out with the Other Side rather than amorousness, a search party. we encouraged any lurking ghosts to make Duncan Haskell

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Senior Snippets - from Home Instead Senior Care

can either seal these gaps with self-adhesive draught strips, or get one of those funny draught excluders shaped like a snake or a dog.

Keep your pipes warm: Burst pipes are common during winter due to rapid freezing and thawing, potentially causing massive damage. The best way Welcome to the latest edition of Senior Snippets: to stop this from happening is to keep your pipes the monthly advisory column with the older warm with their own foam cardigan (called lagging), members of our community in mind, brought to you by John Moore of Home Instead Senior Care in which will reduce the heat lost and insulate the pipes to stop them from freezing.

Bristol North.

In this instalment, I will be sharing some tips that Sweep your chimneys: If your chimneys are in will keep you warm and protect your home from the inevitable cold days of winter. Now the days are use, make sure that they get swept every year. This will remove the build-up of dirt and grime from getting shorter and colder and it’s time to start your chimney walls. thinking about ways to winter proof your home.

Preparing your Home for Winter

Get your boilers looked at: A poorly maintained boiler wastes energy and creates added costs. It also runs the risk of leaking carbon monoxide. So, it’s a good idea to service your boiler every year. As everyone starts to switch on their central heating, the surge in gas consumption can lead to a big increase in boiler breakdowns.

Bleed the radiators: A great way to warm up your home is to bleed your radiators.

This releases any trapped air, allowing hot water to fill every part of your radiator and warm your home more efficiently.

Guttering: As leaves start falling, gutters and drainpipes will start to get filled with loose foliage.

Once the blockage becomes too much, water will start to back up in the guttering and leak into the roof and down the walls of the house. Make sure your gutters are completely free from grime and dirt to minimise water blockage.

No entry for draughts: Those chilly winter will try everything they can to slip through the nooks and crannies of your home.

Check the edges of your doors and windows for draughts, and you

Replace those old kettles, toasters, irons and heaters : Old equipment is often much less efficient than newer items, and so are more costly to run. Additionally, old items can present more of a fire risk. Christmas is coming, so if others are asking you want you need for Christmas, tell them a new ............. !

Bonus tip: Stock up on hot chocolate and other warm drinks. It doesn’t matter if it’s pouring down with freezing cold rain, in the middle of a blizzard or gale force winds, sitting down on the sofa with a mug of hot chocolate in winter is one of the best feelings ever.

We know it can be tough to keep everything in your home running smoothly during the colder months, but hopefully some of these tips will help and it is always best to start preparing your home for the winter months early.

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No‐Prize General Knowledge Quiz 1.

Name these airline logos - past and present (clockwise from top left)

daytime morning current affairs programme, and the General Secretary of CND from 1980 to 1985?

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By what names are these people better known - a) Michael Lee Aday, b) Jorge Mario Bergoglio, and c) Krishna Bhanji?

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What gauge is the UK railway network i.e. the distance between the rails?

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What TV adverts do you associate with the following people - a) Mo Farrah, b) Leonard Rossiter, c) Ted Moult, d) Victor Kiam, and e) Snoop Dogg?

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Name these Oscar winning actresses -

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How many common names appear in the standard NATO phonetic alphabet?

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What products or services might you traditionally associate with the following towns and cities - a) Sheffield, b) St Austell, c) Slough, and d) Whitby?

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What would you typically do with a spurtle?

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Wolstenhulme in Coronation Street, the actress who played Fleur Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga, the singer and actor who voiced the part of the Artilleryman in Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, the female BBC presenter who currently fronts a

Put these Bristolian landmarks in height order (building height) from highest to lowest - Cabot Tower, Wills Memorial Building, St Mary Redcliffe, and the Purdown (Lockleaze) BT tower.

What literary classics do these opening lines come from - a) “Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene”, b) “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there”, and c) "The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon."

Which actors and actresses play Ross and Demelza in the current series of Poldark and also the original 1970’s dramatization?

Answers on page 51

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Gardening Tips from Hilary Barber 1.

November is the month for planting tulip and hyacinth bulbs although if you haven’t got around to planting any bulbs, 9. you can plant them well into December and they will still provide a beautiful spring display.

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by putting a grease band around the trunks..

Net ponds to stop leaves falling into them, and cut back pond plants.

In your borders, cut down herbaceous stems , but do leave cover of the perennials that fade relatively elegantly (sedums, astilbes and grasses for example). They will provide winter interest as well as some much needed wildlife shelter - ladybirds especially appreciate winter quarters and will repay your hospitality by disposing of aphids in industrial quantities next year.

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Rake up leaves and put in your leaf mould bin, hessian sacks or black plastic bags. Make sure that if you use plastic bags that the leaf mould is damp and you puncture holes in the bags. Put them in a corner of the garden and in 2 years you will have wonderful leaf mould for mulching beds.

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Cut the lawn for the last time this year mulch new beds to at least 10cm thick, and clean and store the lawnmower leaving the mulch on the surface for the (and/or get it serviced for next year) worms to take down.

Happy gardening!

Prune all dead, diseased and damaged

wood (ddd) on trees and shrubs before the winter winds.

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November is the start of the busy time for bareroot/rootball planting, including native hedging, trees, and barefoot roses.

Native hedging is wonderful for wildlife with a mixture of flowers, nuts and berries and nesting habitats.

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Plant colourful winter pots, to include cyclamen, winter flowering pansies, Tete a Tete daffodils and small evergreen shrubs.

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If you haven’t done so already, prune shrub roses by a third to prevent wind rock.

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If you have something of this nature that you would like listed please get in touch by calling 0117 259 1964 or 07845 986650, email andy@bcmagazines.co.uk, or post details in to 8 Sandyleaze, WoT, BS9 3PY. Details shown are accurate to the best of my knowledge, but dates, times & locations may change without notification. So if you are unsure, and to avoid disappointment, please contact the organiser listed to double check.

Theatre, Concerts and Music Clifton Amateur Dramatic Society presents “Audacity” by Simon Mawdsley from 16th –19th November 2016 at the Alma Tavern and Theatre, BS8 2HY. “Philip is going through a messy divorce. To make himself some money and give his life a boost of adrenalin, he devises a cunning scheme to rob the London department store Jarvis and Klein of its daily takings. He needs help, however, so he enlists John, an ex-stationery salesman sacked for fiddling his expenses, and Dave, another salesman with a hugely expensive lifestyle, as his partners in crime. The plot seems to be going well - until John and Dave's wives join forces to investigate their husbands' odd behaviour.” Tickets £10.

To book: www.almatavernandtheatre.co.uk

ecstatic 'Her sacred spirit soars’. The choral elements of this programme will be beautifully balanced by performances of Bach's ever popular unaccompanied cello works. Saturday November 19th 2016, 8pm at St James’ Priory, BS1 3NZ. Tickets: £18; students and under 18s, £5. Online: bristolbach.org.uk/tickets.

Phone: 0117 214 0721. Email: tickets@bristolbach.org.uk Fairies and Sprites - of all ages. Some good, Some bad.

A Princess, naturally, a Royal Family with a hungry mouse, and cats! Love, Laughter & Songs - The St Alban’s Players present Sleeping Beauty, a Family Show for your enjoyment, Thursday 24th - Saturday 26th November, 7:30pm, Sat Matinee 3:30pm at St. Alban's Church Hall, Bayswater Avenue, BS6 7NU. Ticket Prices: £9 Adults, £6 Friends of St. Alban's/ Students/Under 16s. Box Office StAlbansPlayers@gmail.com, www.stalbansplayers.co.uk or phone: 07425 198859

Master and Apprentice at St Alban’s Church in Westbury Park on Saturday 5th November at 7.30pm.

The Palestrina Singers (Cardiff) with Benjamin Teague (Organ) present an evening of choral music by Palestrina, Victoria, Howells and Britten including Palestrina’s Stabat Mater, Howells’ Take Him Earth for Cherishing and Britten’s Five Flower Songs. £10 (£6) interval drinks will be served. To reserve tickets in advance please contact Abigail Shepherd the Church in Westbury Park office on 0117 9731562 or email office@westburyparkchurch.org. Tickets available on Redland Parish Church. As part of the Celebrations for the door. the opening of the new Church Hall, The Voller Quartet will perform works by Schubert, Haydn, and On Saturday 12th November at 7.30 in St Mary Barber (Adagio) on Friday 4th November at 7.30 pm.

Redcliffe Church Bristol Phoenix Choir present a For more details please email 13hartington@gmail.com programme of Music from East and West, by composers from France, England, Austria, Estonia and Bristol Music Club St Pauls Road Clifton. Piano recital Russia. It includes Schubert’s tuneful Mass in G, the to be given by Valentina Seferinova, performing works meditative “Beatitudes” by Arvo Pärt and the

by Debussy, Sate, and others. Tuesday 8th November at showstopping Polovtsian Dances by Borodin. Tickets 7.30 pm. Details from peterscott@freeola.net cost £12.50 and are available from tickets@bristolphoenixchoir.org.uk, by calling Bristol Concert Orchestra's concert at St George's 07931812625, from Opus 13, St Michael’s Hill 0117 Bristol on Saturday 3rd December at 7.30pm features 9230164 or from choir members.

Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, Bruch's Concerto for Clarinet & Viola (with soloists Nicholas Shipman and The Ship & Castle Theatre Company present “Six” Asher Zaccardelli) and the gorgeous Romeo & Juliet a new play conceived by them 7th – 11th November at fantasy overture by Tchaikovsky. There will be a retiring 7:30pm at the Newman Hall, Grange Court collection for SWAN UK. Tickets priced £8-£15 Rd, Westbury on Trym, BS9 4DR starting at 7:30pm. (concessions £2 discount), children £1 [+fee] are All seats unreserved. The play revolves around the last available from www.bristolconcertorchestra.org.uk or 12 years of Henry VIII's life. In that time Henry was from St George's Bristol in person or by phone: 0845 40 desperate for sons to continue his legacy. We are all 24 001. aware of the school rhyme "Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived" and this play tells the six Bristol Bach Choir present a true celebration of stories. Tickets £10. Box Office: 07745 208639 or music in honour of the great muse and patron saint of shipandcastletickets@yahoo.co.uk. music, St. Cecilia. An uplifting candlelit recital of simply sensational choral favourites, including Tallis’s Bristol Cabot Choir Christmas Concert – Noel! incomparable 40-part motet ‘Spem in Alium’ alongside Noel! - Monday, 12 December at 7.30 pm at Bristol Britten’s evocative 'Hymn to St Cecilia’ and Whitacre’s Cathedral, College Green, BS1 5TJ. With the Bristol

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Everyone is welcome to find out what is happening in our neighbourhood, to meet local Councillors, and to raise any local issues. We will particularly welcome Kingsdown residents who, since the ward boundary changes in May, now live within Cotham ward. Topics to be discussed include recent changes to local bus The Elgar Society is dedicated to promoting the works routes, and the reviews of the Cotham and Kingsdown Resident Parking Schemes. of Sir Edward Elgar, our greatest English composer.

Our next meeting is on Saturday 26 November at 2.15 at Small business owners - mastermind group meeting the Bristol Music Club, 76 St Paul’s Road, BS8 1LP. Monday Nov 14th @The Square Clifton. For info Limited free parking is available at 1 Pembroke Road. contact Anne Miller on 07722 110228 or email Admission for visitors costs £3.00 including enquiries@annemillercoaching.co.uk refreshments. Our speaker will be Bristol-born music academic, Martin Firth, who takes as his theme “How Very English!” – an examination of how the oratorio as Saturday November 19th. Christmas Fair at The a music form became a peculiar English institution, and Church in Westbury Park - @ Westbury Park Methodist Church 4 North View. 2.30pm - 4.30pm. how this tradition impacted on Elgar’s examples.

Illustrating his talk with copious examples, Martin Firth Gifts, cakes, teas, local artists' stalls, children's activities, describes how a very Italian art-form was hi-jacked by a Father Christmas. All proceeds to charity.

German composer living in England (Handel), and Free child-friendly family Christmas science lecture subsequently by other Austro-German composers (Haydn and Mendelssohn) and how the now established at the University of Bristol (School of Chemistry, ‘English’ form of the oratorio was used by Elgar in ‘The Cantock's Close, BS8 1TS) on Friday 16 December 2016, 6pm start with refreshments from 5:30. "A Room Dream of Gerontius’ and ‘The Kingdom’. with a Boom" will take you from hair gel to a hydrogen explosion in sixty minutes via more than a dozen On Saturday 3rd December 3.30pm – 4.30 pm at St chemistry demonstrations. Explore the importance, Alban’s Church in Westbury Park there will be a Tea fascination, beauty and fun of science. Arranged jointly Time Recital featuring Amy Finch (Violin) & by the IET, IMechE, RSC and NI. Please reserve a seat Edward Davies (Piano). £5 (£3) includes afternoon (and a mince pie) at http://tinyurl.com/ tea and cake. To reserve tickets in advance please Xmas16Lecture. contact the office on 0117 9731562 or email office@westburyparkchurch.org. Tickets also available The annual Cards for Good Causes pop-up shop in on the door.

Tyndale Baptist Church on Whiteladies Road runs until 14 December. The shops will be selling a huge selection Charade Drama presents "Trouble in Pantoland" of charity Christmas cards, including cards from local

by Sharon Hulm. Something’s amiss with the Wicked Bristol charities BRACE and Great Western Air Queen’s Magic Mirror, Cinderella has been jilted at the Ambulance, some of which feature Bristol winter scenes, altar by Prince Charming, all the Heroes have as well as a lovely range of Christmas goods including disappeared. Who can save Pantoland from the Evil wrapping, stocking fillers and small gifts. Cards for Wizard ‘He Whose Name Nobody Can Remember’?

Good Causes is the UK’s largest charity Christmas card Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or maybe a Frog?! Westbury Methodist Church Hall, Thursday 24th organisation, selling cards on behalf of over 250 charities across the UK. to Saturday 26th November 7:30pm, Saturday Matinee 2:30pm. Tickets on door or Box Office 0117 9508488, £7/£6/£5 Adult/Concession/Child.

Fitness, Health and Wellbeing Brass Consort and Andrew Kirk on organ, we will be presenting a programme of beautiful sacred Christmas music and carols from across the ages for choir, brass and audience. Tickets: Reserved £15 - Unreserved £10/£5 (under 18s) From Opus 13, 14 St. Michael’s Hill, Bristol BS2 8DT Ticket Line 0117 923 0164/ or via 0117 9626521. www.bristolcabotchoir.org. Retiring collection for The Bridge Charity.

‘Babbers’ Radio Show every Monday from midday to 2pm on Ujima Radio - 98FM. The show is organised and presented by older people for older people with the aim of helping to reduce loneliness and social isolation, however the topics we cover are interesting and relevant to all. Tune in, let us know what you think info@ujimaradio.com

Exhibitions, Markets and Meetings The next Neighbourhood Partnership public forum will again welcome people from all three of the

Bristol Shambhala Meditation Group offers free meditation instruction from a qualified instructor at the Open House evening each Wednesday from 7.30 - 9.30 pm at 17 Lower Redland Road, Redland, BS6 6TB and the opportunity for a longer period of practice on the second Sunday of each month. We will be offering the first of five Shambhala Training programmes on the weekend of 26 & 27 November. This is suitable for those with some or no experience and introduces the practice and view of this tradition. For further information please see our website: www.bristol.shambhala.info

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What’s On & Community News Free Flu Jabs for carers! If you are the main carer of an elderly or disabled person whose welfare may be at risk if you fall ill, you qualify for a free flu jab. This service is open to all unpaid carers including those who receive carers allowance. Flu jabs are now available at many community pharmacies as well as through your doctor’s surgery. For information about other support services for carers contact Carers Support Centre. Carers Line: 0117 965 2299 or visit www.carerssupportcentre.org.uk.

Morris Dancing - Bristol Morris Men welcome anyone who wants to try morris dancing. We practise on Thursday evenings in the Sports Hall at (QEH) Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital (School) at Berkeley Place, Clifton from 20:00 to 22:00 (ish). For more information please visit www.bristolmorrismen.co.uk or call Grant on (0117) 9442165 .

Hydrotherapy Exercise Sessions - group exercise in lovely warm water at Southmead Hospital's purpose built pool. Benefits include relaxation, relief of pain & swelling, improved movement, balance & fitness. All ages & abilities welcome. We are a friendly local team of Chartered Physiotherapists with expertise in a variety of disabilities & medical conditions. We have a regular group of local members but new people are always welcome. For more details please contact Chris & Ali Cowley on 07971 086 628, email healthyhydrotherapy@gmail.com or visit www.healthyhydrotherapy.co.uk.

Zumba Gold Class @ Horfield Parish Church Hall every Weds 2pm-2.45pm (£4.00 per class) for the mature movers aimed at age 55+ (All other ages including Beginners) Zumba Class @ Orchard School every Thurs 7pm-8pm Contact Georgina for further details on www.bristolzumba.com or tel: 07545 625 089.

membership card. Visitors will be asked for a donation (suggested £5) Attendees can use any University car park; the nearest are in University Walk and The Hawthorns.

The Clifton Garden Society invite you to come and join is as a new member. Monthly coach visits are arranged to great houses and gardens. There is a quarterly newsletter, an annual holiday and a Christmas party. If you would like to join this friendly group please contact 0117 973 7296 for further details .

The Alpine Garden Society meet on the 3rd Friday of the month at Westbury Methodist Church, Westbury Hill, at 7.30pm. We have speakers on various topics, plant sales and social events. Visitors are very welcome at £2 a visit. On 18th November Alan Clarke will be talking to us about the Scillies.

Volunteering and Charities Home Care in Bristol – Lay Assessors needed to become involved in the RSVP Retired and Senior Volunteer Programme. Lay assessors are part of a team visiting people in their homes across the city that have home care services, to talk to them and find out if the quality of the service is satisfactory. The Lay Assessor scheme works in partnership with the council and forms part of their monitoring process. This voluntary role is interesting, rewarding and flexible. Full training is provided along with regular opportunities to meet and share experience with other lay assessors. If you are interested please email homecare@rsvp-west.org.uk or telephone 0117 922 4392 and leave your contact details and either Paula or Ken will call you back.

REMAP is a registered charity that designs and makes custom aids which enable a disabled person to enjoy a better quality of life. We design, make or modify equipment to suit their specific needs. No charge is made for our services. Please contact us if we can help Tai Chi Classes for beginners - Get fit the Chinese visit www.remapbristol.org.uk, contact Colin 01275 way. For centuries the Chinese have practised Tai Chi as 460288 colin305@gmail.com or contact Ray 0117 simple but powerful form of exercise for strength, 9628729 rwestcott@blueyonder.co.uk balance and mindfulness. The Bristol School of Tai Chi has lots of daytime and evening classes in Henleaze and RSVP (Retired & Senior Volunteer Programme). Do Bishopston .For more details contact Ben Milton you like reading? Do you like helping children? If yes to telephone 0117 9493955, or visit www.bristoltaichi.com both, you are just the sort of person we are looking for!

If you can spare a minimum of an hour a week to hear children read in a local school you could make a huge Gardening and Horticulture difference. Volunteers do not teach children to read, but spend time on an individual basis with them, hearing University of Bristol Botanic Gardens Friends them read and talking to them about the stories in their Lecture. Thursday 17th November at 7.30pm when reading books. We want children to enjoy books and Lionel Smith, lecturer in horticulture at Myerscough reading, and individual attention is always a great way to College in Preston, will be talking about Grass Free Lawns. By excluding grasses, other suitable plant species do it. Volunteering is a great way to stay active and to feel useful, so if you are interested in joining us please can be used in a way that is similar but refreshingly get in touch. Contact Mina on 07860 669953, or explore different from conventional turf lawns. For more info the website RSVP-west.org.uk visit www.grassfreelawns.co.uk. Venue: Frank Theatre Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL. Lectures are free to Friends on production of their Volunteers needed to support carers. Could you

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What’s On & Community News please help us develop and increase our support to carers, people looking after an unwell, disabled or elderly family member or friend in Bristol and South Glos?

Could you help us develop the support that carers can access through their G.P. surgery and other sources? If you are outgoing and could offer two mornings a month to meet, greet and give information to carers when they visit their GP surgery, I would very glad to hear from you. Full training and support for this role is provided.

Please contact me, Mike Hatch, GP Carer Link Volunteer on 07503 577830: or email your name and phone number to mikeh@carerssupportcentre.org.uk If you look after someone who couldn’t manage without you, and would like some information about our services for carers or would just like someone to talk to about caring for the person you look after, please telephone our Carersline on 0117 965 2200 or visit www.carerssupportcentre.org.uk .

Friendship, Social and Support The Discussion Group. Do you want something enjoyable to do on Monday mornings? If so why not join us. We are a small, mixed, convivial group who meet locally to discuss wide-ranging topics of mutual interest. We are currently looking for new members. If you are interested please call Bob Broomfield on 0117 9621061 or Alan Routledge on 0117 9682246 for further information.

Senior Film Club - St Peter's Hall, The Drive, Henleaze. Home Instead Bring Joy Foundation is pleased to support the Henleaze Senior Film Club and bring you the following fun Monday afternoons, each starting at 2pm. November 21st "Top Hat" - 1935 musical comedy starring Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers bring your dancing shoes! December 12th “It’s a Wonderful Life” - 1946 Christmas drama starring James Stewart - a fun way to get into the swing of Christmas.

January 16th - "Iron Lady" - 2011 Film starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher. Refreshments (Tea & Cake) £3. Transport offered by Dial-A-Ride, Tel 0845 139 875. For further details, please ring 0117 989 8210 Westbury Park WI has changed its meeting day to the first Wednesday in the month. Guests are welcome, it costs £4 per session and it is possible to be a guest 3 times in a year without having to become a member. We meet at Westmoreland Hall, Westmoreland Road, Redland from 7.30pm.

The Bristol and District branch of Parkinson's UK meet every first Saturday of the month at St Monica Trust, Cote Lane, BS9 3UN from 10am -12 noon.

Carers, relatives, spouses and people with Parkinson's all are welcome for a social and informative get-together, with speakers from a variety of backgrounds with many diverse interests. Please join us. We also meet at The Eastfield Inn, Henleaze, BS9 4NQ every second Friday in the month for an informal coffee morning from 11am. We are a friendly and supportive bunch, exchanging tactics, information and social banter!

On the first Tuesday of the month the North Bristol Alzheimer Café opens at St Monica Trust, Oatley House Atrium restaurant, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS9 3TN from 3.30pm – 5.30pm. We provide a relaxed, informal and safe space in which issues surrounding dementia can be aired. Our café is staffed by trained, caring and experienced volunteers. Every week refreshments are served and most weeks live music is played. There is no charge to attend, free on-site parking is usually available and the number 1 bus stops right outside. FFI or to register your attendance contact Jacqui Ramus (Dementia Lead for St Monica Trust) on 07854 185093 - jacqui.ramus@stmonicatrust.org.uk Clifton Rotary Club welcomes new members willing to give their time, are interested in making new friends, building business contacts and using their skills to help others. We meet Wednesday lunchtimes at The Redland Green Club (Redland Lawn Tennis and Squash Club).

For more details please visit www.cliftonrotary.org or email secretary@cliftonrotary.org Bristol Grandparents Support Group gives support to grandparents who are estranged from their grandchildren due to family breakdown. Family breakdown can be as a result of separation/divorce, alcohol/drug dependency, domestic violence within the home, bereavement or family feud. We give support over the phone, via email, Skype and at our regular meetings held at 9, Park Grove, Bristol. BS6 7XB. Tel 07773 258270 more information or visit www.bgsg.co.uk.

Laugh, Live and Learn with Bristol U3A. If you have retired from full-time work, and want to take part in enjoyable learning with friendship and fun, we have a wide range of groups with over 100 different activities, including art, computing, languages, music, walking, and science. Come to one of our social groups - either at the Soroptomists International Bristol are part of a global Eastfield Inn, Henleaze, 10.30am on the second organisation founded in Bristol for women from a wide Thursday and third Monday in every month, phone Barbara 0117 9629331. Or at Browns Restaurant, by the range of professional and business backgrounds who Museum, at 10.15am on the third Wednesday and fourth have joined together to give Service, Friendship and have Fun. We meet on the second and fourth Mondays Thursday in every month, phone Jenny 0117 9043697.

Please visit www.bristolu3a.org.uk. of the month at Long Ashton Golf Club where we enjoy a two course meal with a speaker. For more details please contact our membership officer on 0117 9739894 Rotary Club of Bristol meet at the Bristol Hotel, Prince Street, Bristol BS1 4QF at 7.00pm for 7.30 pm on the or email gillbea@aol.com for more details.

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What’s On & Community News on the 2nd and 4th Mondays. Meetings start with a meal and are followed by a speaker. New members are very Bristol Decorative Fine Art Society (BDFAS) is welcome – for more details see www.bristolrotary.org or Bristol’s own society for those who are passionate about contact Martina Peattie at mpeattie@btopenworld.com the arts. History of Art related events are organised including monthly lectures and study days led by Do you, or does someone you know, need support specialists in their field and cover a wide range of topics. following a relationship breakdown? Over the past We organise stimulating visits and day trips home and 20 years Aquila has helped many people learn to cope abroad, often with special, exclusive visits to places of and rebuild their lives following separation or divorce. interest. Lectures are held in the “The Lecture Theatre”, Our next 8-week self-help course starts on Monday 26th The School of Chemistry Cantocks Close, BS8 1TS. For September in Cotham, Bristol. The course is facilitated more information visit our website by a group of trained men and women who have all www.bristoldfas.co.uk. experienced broken relationships or divorce. If you would like to know more call Gill on 07807 058479, The Bristol Humanists is a local group for those who email bristol@hope-after-heartbreak.co.uk or visit make sense of the world using reason & shared human www.hope-after-heartbreak.co.uk. values, who seek to live ethical lives on the basis of reason, humanity and respect for others, and who find meaning, beauty, and joy in the one life we have, General Interests without the need for an afterlife. We meet every month on the first Monday at 7.30pm in Kingsdown. Contact The Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society's next lecture is on Monday 28th November at Margaret Dearnaley on 07986 555817 (evenings and weekends only) or email bristolhumanists@gmail.com 7.45 pm in the Apostle Room of Clifton Cathedral in for more information.

Pembroke Road, when Dr. Rose Wallis, lecturer in British Social History, will give a talk - 'Crime in South The National Trust Bristol Centre Talks Gloucestershire in the Long 18th Century. Combining Programme 2016-2017 continues on Saturday 19th independent research, and work conducted for the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, Rose’s talk November with “Caring for the Coast” presented by Tony Flux. In May 1965 the National Trust launched its will consider crime and its treatment in South Neptune Coastline Campaign to protect special areas of Gloucestershire, a region home to some notoriously coastline under the threat of development. Thanks to disorderly inhabitants. The study of crime and the the support of hundreds of thousands of people, the criminal courts has provided historians with an Trust has been able to protect 775 miles of coastline invaluable insight into the lives of ordinary men and across England, Wales and Northern Ireland for people women. Focusing on this region in particular allows relationships to be discerned between the landscape, its to enjoy and for nature to thrive history, and the criminal activities and life experiences of in. Tony Flux is the National Trust's Coastal Advisor (South West) and will talk about the challenges and its residents opportunities of this vital and ongoing campaign. The talk will take place at 2.15 in the Hall at St Monica Trust, Stoke Bishop & Sneyd Park Local History Group Cote Lane, WoT. A charge of £3 is made to both welcomes all to a series of talks at the Stoke Bishop members and visitors to help cover the costs associated Village Hall, 42 Stoke Hill, BS9 1EX. Talks start at with the talks programme. This charge includes the 7.30pm and anyone interested in local history is provision of tea and biscuits at the end of each talk welcome. Membership is just £6 p/a and visitors pay just £2 a meeting. For more details please visit www.stokebishop.org.uk/local_history_group, call 0117 The Bristol Branch of the English Speaking Union 9686010 or email sblocalhistory@gmail.com. Please do meets in the Apostle Room of Clifton Cathedral at 7.15 for a 7.45 talk which ends by 9 pm. Entrance is £5. The also contact us if you are clearing out documents and aim of the ESU is to encourage friendship and global pictures of Stoke Bishop! understanding through English. On Tuesday 8th November we ask “Shakespeare- alive and well ?”. His Have lessons and play Bridge at Bristol Bridge Club.

400th anniversary will be discussed by Andrew Hilton, Would you like to learn to play bridge? We offer a full Director of Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory with a programme of lessons for all levels. If you can already couple of fellow actors. It is another interesting play try a free taster session at one of our 7 weekly sessions. Less experienced players - Mondays at 7.15pm anniversary and will be a fascinating experience for all those who love Shakespeare. and Fridays at 10.00am and 7.15pm, More experienced players Mondays and Wednesdays at 1.15pm and The Bristol Philatelic Society meets on the 2nd and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7.15pm. No partner? No 4th Thursdays of each month in the meeting room of problem! On Mondays just turn up and Terry, the the United Reform Church at the bottom of Blackboy Director, will find you one. He also gives advice on Hill (Whiteladies Road) starting at 7.30 p.m. Contact bidding! For more details phone Stephen, the Club 0117 956 7853.

Manager, on 0117 9291846. 99 Oldfield Rd, Hotwells, BS8 4QQ. www.bristolbridgeclub.co.uk

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What’s On & Community News North West Bristol Camera Club, are an enthusiastic group of amateur photographers who meet each Wednesday at 7:45pm at Westbury Fields. New members of any level of ability are most welcome. For details contact Pete on 07870 589555.

Got a speech to make? Bristol Speakers offers a relaxed environment to practise your public speaking.

Learn how to construct and present a speech, gain knowledge from experienced speakers, conquer your public speaking anxiety. Most of all, practise in a stressfree environment where members give helpful feedback.

It’s a well structured evening, fun and relaxed with a nice mix of people. Meeting 7.30pm alternate Mondays @ BAWA Southmead Rd. Contact Ben@Bristolspeakers.co.uk The Bristol Astronomical Society host a series of talks each week and we regularly get experts to talk about historical and topical aspects of astronomy, as well running hands-on demonstrations, activities, free Saturday observing sessions at our Observatory in Failand (weather permitting), and often stage "Star Parties" around Bristol and at Tyntesfield. All details are on our website www.bristolastrosoc.org.uk. All welcome, held at Bristol Photographic Society, Montpelier, BS6 5EE. Philosophy Discussion Group. We are a friendly and welcoming group who enjoy taking a turn to bring topic to share. We meet at 7 – 9pm every fourth Thursday evening of the month at Eastfield Inn, Henleaze, Bristol BS9 4NQ, and 10 - 12 noon every second Friday morning of the month, also at Eastfield Inn, Henleaze.

If you would like to be involved please contact Lorna Tarr on 0770 245 3827.

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