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A Close call? Many readers will be sharing in the excitement of the approaching Cheltenham Gold Cup meeting, which is one of the highlights of the year, attracting thousands of racegoers to boost the town’s economy and bringing a buzz to its streets. If one man had had his way nearly two hundred years ago, the history of Cheltenham races might have been very different. That man was the Reverend Francis Close, ‘the Pope of Cheltenham’ in the words of the famous poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. During Close’s time in Cheltenham (182456) Cheltenham races were not held in Prestbury Park but on a figure-of-eight flat course on Cleeve Common near where the pylons now stand. They had started there in 1819 and had become an important feature of the spa’s summer season when Close arrived. As today, the racegoers enlivened the town and for three days each June its centre was a scene of hustle and bustle as the carriages of the rich assembled outside The Plough Hotel (on the site of Regent

Arcade) before tackling the steep climb up Cleeve Hill. The poor folk, of course, had to walk. They especially were the focus of Francis Close’s concerns. He was driven by a heartfelt desire to improve the lives of the town’s lower orders, albeit from the safe distance of a fashionable villa in Lansdown complete with servants. His preaching regularly drew congregations of two thousand to St Mary’s parish church in the town centre. Concerns for the poor dominated his work and sermons, not only to improve their lives in this world but also to ensure their everlasting happiness in the next. So he worked tirelessly for more churches and more schools for the working classes in the expanding town. However he also campaigned against the pleasures which bought them some happiness: ‘the Demon drink’, tobacco smoking, Sunday trains and theatregoing. Being conservative in outlook, he also campaigned against parliamentary reform to give the vote to working men, but he reserved some of his strongest criticism for the Cheltenham races. A

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sermon on Sunday morning 17 June 1827 marked the highpoint of this campaign. The sermon was immediately printed and 3500 copies were sold within a fortnight. We can still read how the races were accused of attracting ‘the least desirable visitors and put off others more numerous, more respectable who would raise the character of the place’. ‘Prostitution, licentiousness, drunkenness and strife’ could all be seen openly on the streets. Petty crime was rife and pickpockets were everywhere, but the root of all the evils was gambling. Francis Close wasn’t making all this up, however. In 1825 it was said that two hundred pickpockets were active on the course in the absence of effective policing and one local observer described gambling as ‘a thousand idle schemes to drain, the hard earned savings of each rustic swain’. Not unexpectedly his attack provoked a backlash. The Cheltenham Journal stressed how the innocent pleasures of balls, the theatre and evening promenades enlivened the town. Critics accused the churchman of being a hypocrite, a schism maker within the church and even a Parliamentary Reformer! In the end it was not the Rev Francis Close who brought an end to the races on Cleeve Hill in the early 1840s, but the general decline of Cheltenham as a frivolous spa town. Nevertheless the connection with the common has never been

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Life Begins When did you last do something impulsive still working with Cirque du Soleil as a performer at their Florida base. The link between these two individuals is their willingness to follow an impulse, taking up new activities that – given their backgrounds and relative inexperience in their chosen fields - were far from guaranteed to result in success.

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primitive, emotional part of our brain makes rapid-fire decisions about things we like, dislike, hate, love, fear or want, the intellectual and more logical mind is geared to making deliberate and rational conclusions at a slightly slower pace. Therefore when you allow your emotional brain - known as the amygdala - to guide your actions, you’re likely to end up doing something that your rational self would prefer to avoid.

We tend to associate impulsivity with youth and it’s true that young people are probably more likely to Author JK Rowling reportedly follow their impulses when decided to write the first making key decisions. In Harry Potter novel after an time, however, most people It takes a certain kind of idea for the story occurred discover how to regulate courage to risk everything to her when she was these urges in order to in order to follow a dream, travelling on a train from function as an adult. Mature when we know Manchester to you London. people tendMcLelland to suppress When did last do especially something impulsive by Kate it might fail. Most of us, at Following a painful divorce, their emotional responses, some stage in lives, haveprimitive, she completed the book as part ofthey stillour working using emotional the knowledge done things with that we have a struggling single mum on our brain rapid-fire Cirque have makes acquired, backed up regretted at a date state benefits, becoming about wewhen dulater Soleil as -aa decisions by logic andthings reason, new hairstyleperformer or a tattoo, a multi-millionaire within a like,considering dislike, hate,alove, at set offear options. a weird auction that staggering five years. or want, the intellectual theirlotFlorida no-onemind would seemed too base. good to ignore…and While more logical is doubt Yusuke Funaki had a the to benefits knowledge sometimes our spur-of-the- geared makingthat deliberate good job as an engineer in The link experience can bring, moment choices seem so and and rational conclusions Tokyo. By chance he saw a between is perhaps out of character it’s almost at a something slightly slower pace. lost performance by the worldthese two in this when process. as though someone else hasTherefore youImpulse allow and famous circus company individuals closely linked taken over our minds. “Did I yourrisk-taking emotional are brain - known Cirque du Soleil and was so is their with creativity, and there’s a really do that?” you ask. as the amygdala - to guide inspired by the performers willingness we may yourdanger actions,that you’re likelyignore A study of the that he decided to learn the to brain followshows an theup creative impulses that to end doing something why we feel impulse, this way. The gymnastic rope-skipping Rowling Yusuke that (as yourJ.K. rational self and would emotional mind, based techniques he had seen in taking up Funaki discovered) have the prefer to avoid. in the limbic new system, is the show. After a few years activities power to change the course separate from the of practice he abandoned We tend associate that – intellectual given of ourtolives. which is found andpays literally backgrounds and in the impulsivity with youth and It engineering sometimes toran theirmind, By middle-age, many of us prefrontal cortex. While away to join the circus. He is relative that young people inexperience in theirthe it’s true follow your instincts. are probably more likely to chosen fields - were far Author their impulses when from guaranteed Page JK 30 Rowling reportedly To advertise call 07939 802 384 to or result 01242 in 500 028follow or visit www.glosdirectories.co.uk decided to write the first

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have ceased to follow our instincts, relying almost exclusively on the tried and trusted methods that we learned in our formative years. In order to stay safe and minimise risk we base our actions – including where we go, who we see, what we eat – on things that feel safe and familiar, but does sticking with what we know actually inhibit brain development? The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives (www.dana. org) is a non-profitmaking organisation of more than 300 leading neuroscientists in America, committed to making the public aware of the progress and benefits of brain research. According to the Trust: “The brain wants to learn.

It wants to be engaged as a learning machine. That means stepping out of the same old routines and trying something new and different.” When individuals settle into routines that are repeated automatically from day to day, the brain activity required for those activities decreases. That means that we tend to carry out familiar actions on autopilot and consequently our minds receive very little stimulation. When the brain encounters something unfamiliar, it creates new neural pathways that help it to understand and master that

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Garden of Delights How tech can take the grunt out of gardening

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Lawns aren’t the only places where technology can make life easier. Battery power has reached the point where it’s good enough for seriously demanding garden tasks. Black & Decker will happily sell you battery-powered chainsaws, pruning saws and loppers. The batteries deliver plenty of oomph - the chainsaw will power through up to 150 3.5cm branches before it runs out of puff - but boffins have yet to invent a device that ensures we remember to charge the power tools before we actually need them. More modest gardening can benefit from gadgetry too. Hozelock’s auto-watering system sticks a timer onto your tap, turning it on and off at the times you program, and options range from a simple sprinkler to an entire micro-irrigation system. Some timers even have rain sensors that mean they won’t turn on the tap if the weather forecast turned out to be overly optimistic. Not all gardening gadgets need electricity to function. The iconic Leatherman multi-tool isn’t exactly cheap, but its products - and their many imitators - offer a huge range of tools in one handy gadget. For example the Leatherman Charge AL includes two kinds of pliers,

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