May 2013
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Welcome to the June edition of your Hucclecote Link. Fingers crossed this month we will start to see the beginning of Summer, it’s feeling quite chilly as I write this! The days will hopefully become warmer and we will start to spend more time outdoors. As always we have many great local companies on board who can help get your home ready for the Summer. From landscape gardeners, to window and gutter cleaners and general property maintenance companies, you can find them all on our index on page 34. If you are looking for outdoor events, the NSPCC hold a great outdoor picnic concert at Highnam Court, it’s a very traditions English evening, full of music, fun and fireworks and all for a great cause..see more on page 30. Remember June is also Fathers Day...why not treat him to his very own pamper package at Hucclecotes Body Flair to help him feel destressed, further details on the front cover. June is also half way through the year (I’m sure it gets quicker each year!) and so from a business point of view, time to review your goals with only 6 months left to meet your 2015 targets...so here at the Link we would like to help you get more customers and so we are offering businesses a 25% discount for 6 month colour packages taken out during June..just drop me a line for more details. The winner of this months Sudoku competition is Steph Gill, Cineworld tickets will be on their way to you. To be in with a chance to win Cineworld Tickets, see page 29. Please feel free to email me your Sudoku entries if you so wish: sarah@thelinkdirectories.co.uk Have a great month Sarah.
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J.WILLIAMS - Unit 17, Innsworth Technology Park, Glos Office Tel No: (01242) 528878 or (01242) 210953 Mobile 07787 394452 Find us in Yellow Pages
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ACCOUNTANCY AND TAXATION CENTRE
Accountants for the Hucclecote and District Area SMALL PRACTISE FOR SMALL CLIENTS = SMALL FEES CHARGED BY US SELF ASSESSMENT TAX RETURNS IMMEDIATE SERVICE AVAILABLE * Fixed priced Accountancy/Taxation services. Accounts. Self Assessment. Tax Returns. PAYE. VAT. Bookkeeping etc. Annual Sales £ Annual Fee Less Than 15,000 50—100 * Limited Company Accounts 15,000 100 * Limited Company Formation 30,000 150 * Partnership Accounts 40,000 180 * Self Employed Accounts 60,000 210 * Management Accounts 75,000 230 * Business Start Ups 90,000 240 Over 100,000 By Negotiation Self Assessment tax returns completion from £50 *Self Assessment tax returns, Accounts problems *Free accountancy/Taxation Surgery. *Home visits to suit you Ring Mike Jefferies MAAT ICPA FCPA
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D2B designs Design and prepare architectural drawings for extensions, conversions, alterations and improvements to your home We also carry out custom designs for new homes with your needs in mind. All plans are prepared and submitted on your behalf for Local Authority Building Control and Planning Approvals. For a prompt, private and professional service call:
01452 723439 or 07973 621078 and speak to Graham or Angela for a free quote and friendly, helpful advice.
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- FULL HEATING SYSTEMS - BOILER REPLACEMENTS - POWER FLUSHING - COOKERS AND FIRES INSTALLED - ANNUAL SERVICING - LANDLORDS SAFETY CHECKS - BATHROOMS & EN SUITES - GENERAL PLUMBING ALL WORK GUARANTEED FREE QUOTATIONS CALL ADAM ON: 07890 390220 OR VISIT www.a-m-nelmesheating.co.uk
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Dave’s top tips The formula for calculating areas, volume and perimeters Here are a few simple guides to aid in calculating common building requirements. To calculate the areas, use the following formula: Width x length = Area (For example, a floor 2 meters by 3 meters the area will be 2 x 3 = 6 m2) To calculate the volume, use this formula: Width x length x depth (or height) = Volume (For example, for top soil required on a garden 2 meters by 3 meters and laid to a depth of 30 cm has the volume 2 x 3 x 0.3 = 1.8 m3) To calculate the perimeter, simply add up the sides of the area that you are working with. For example, the fence length (and perimeter) around a garden which is 2 meters by 3 meters will be 2 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 10m Regards Dave Stevens. If in doubt call me (see main advert for number) and I will do the investigating for you. Disclaimer. All advice above is given in goodwill with many years experience. We cannot guarantee however that your problems will be rectified so please, if in doubt call us before undertaking any works yourself.
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5th June SPY A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer, and prevent diabolical global disaster. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne and Jude Law. INSIDIOUS CHAPTER 3 A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity. SURVIVOR A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit. Starring Emma Thompson, Milla Jovovich and Pierce Brosnan 12th June JURASSIC WORLD Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park (1993), Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. After 10 years of operation and visitor rates declining, in order to fulfil a corporate mandate, a new attraction is created to re-spark visitor's interest, which backfires horribly. Featuring Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt LONDON ROAD London Road documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy. Starring Tom Hardy. 19th June ENTOURAGE Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys Eric, Turtle, and Johnny are back and back in business with super-agent turned-studio head Ari Gold. Starring Adrian Grenier, Jeremy Piven and Kevin Connolly. THE LONGEST RIDE Adapted from the Nicholas Sparks’ novel. After an automobile crash, the lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man, as he reflects back on a past love. Starring Scott Eastwood, Britt Robertson and Alan Alda. MR HOLMES An aged, retired Sherlock Holmes (Sir Ian Mckellen) looks back on his life, and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. 26th June MINIONS Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), a supervillain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world. Also featuring the voice talents of Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton and Steve Coogan. SHE’S FUNNY THAT WAY A married Broadway director falls for a prostitute-turned-actress and works to help her advance her career. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Esposito and Imogen Poots. To advertise call 01452 890242
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Sudoku Complete the puzzle by 15th June 2015 and return, with your name and address, to The Hucclecote-Link, 30 Dancers Hill, Abbeymead, Gloucester, GL4 5TY or email sarah@thelinkdirectories.co.uk
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‘It's a Gift We all like receiving gifts and presents, whether for a birthday, Christmas, anniversary or those surprise occasions you just don't expect. Invariably it doesn't matter what the gift is or how much it cost as the well-known saying is so true, "it's the thought that counts". Another saying we often use is "it's better to give than receive." I was amazed recently when I found out that a young person I know decided that they didn't want presents for their birthday but money instead. Now there is nothing unusual there, as who wouldn't turn down a crisp £10 note instead of a pair of socks, but the next part of the story is a little different. This collection of money was not to be used to buy a new computer game or mobile phone but was given away to support a child in another part of the world for whom each new day is both a gift and a struggle to find the essentials just to survive. Giving is definitely a key characteristic of being human, a pre-programmed disposition towards generosity. If you don't believe me just reflect on the £32 million raised by Children in need last year or the £1 billion mark reached by Comic relief this year. Now we all may know one or two people who are not so generous but I think to be truly human, to live as we were meant to be, were are designed to be generous. The Bible says that God loves a cheerful giver, so may we look for an opportunity or find the time to give something to someone who has real needs; it could be a big appeal event, an extra couple of food items for the local food bank or just some loose change in a charity envelope that drops through the letterbox.
Steve Godsell, St Philip & St James Church, Hucclecote’
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Hearts and Hurricanes WI We are a young, informal and friendly WI group who meet on the second Wednesday of every month at 7.30pm in the Community Room at Coopers Edge School. We're currently increasing our membership, so it's a great time to come along and try a meeting. For our May meeting we had a demonstration of pole dancing, and the braver ones among us had a go (it's much harder than it looks!!) For our June meeting (Weds 10) we're being somewhat more sedate and holding a vintage tea party to celebrate 100 years of the WI. We try to arrange interesting and varied speakers for our meetings - we've got chocolate tasting and car maintenance lined up in the next few months. In between the monthly meetings we also hold other clubs for WI members: book club, craft club, a dining club, as well as regular social events such as cinema and theatre trips. We always include time during our meetings for tea (or wine!) and cake and a chance to chat with other members. For more information, please see www.heartsandhurricaneswi.weebly.com. You can also contact us on 07934 170304 or heartsandhurricaneswi@hotmail.co.uk. Why not give it a go - you know you want to!
Do you enjoy playing board games, scrabble, cards, dominoes, draughts Would you like a chat and an afternoon cup of tea and cake? Then
Tuesday @ Two In the Church Centre behind the Church of St Philip & St James Larkhay Road, Hucclecote is the place for you! We meet fortnightly on a Tuesday at 2pm ‘till 4pm
9th & 23rd June If you don’t want to play games, just come for a chat, bring your friends. The charge is £1 towards refreshments. We look forward to seeing you More information from
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Try Bowls at the Pineholt Bowls Club Open evening on Friday June 5th 6.30pm onwards. Just turn up with some flat shoes and we will supply the rest! We have special rates for first time bowlers.
Come and see our lovely Clubhouse and green. The address is: Bird Rd, Hucclecote. Have a look at us on our website www.pineholtbowlsclub.btck.co.uk
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HUCCLECOTE TOWNSWOMEN GUILD
The Guild meets at the Hucclecote Community Centre on the third Thursday each month, at 7.30pm. At every meeting there is a speaker, tea & coffee, and a chance to chat and socialise. The speaker at the most recent meeting was Tony Caldwell, on Wainwright's Coast-to -Coast Walk; the 190 mile walk from Robin Hood's Bay on the east coast, to St Bee's Head on the west coast. The walk covers some of the most stunning areas for walkers to discover - the Yorkshire Moors, Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District, and the photographs taken along the two-week walk certainly showed this. The Guild has a Ramblers' Group which meets regularly, but for slightly less demanding and more local walks! Events planned for 2015 include theatre trips to the Everyman Theatre and the St John's Players, the annual inter-Guild Quiz and Skittles evenings, and the Fashion Show in August. Speakers at the forthcoming meetings will be the Ifakara Bakery Project, and Celia's Pantry Preserves. Visitors and new members are always welcome to join us. Phone Linda on 617701 for more information, or just come along!
Hucclecote Horticultural Society By now you should have all your seedlings – flowers and vegetables well established, if not already out in the garden. I hope that you are having more luck than me with some of them – once again I seem to be having trouble getting any parsnip seeds to germinate. Don’t forget to feed your plants once they are up and running – a good tomato feed will help many plants other than tomatoes along. And if you are worried about blight, while you can’t put many potatoes in the greenhouse, you can keep the tomatoes in there in good sized pots. Our next meeting is on 25th June, when our own member Jan Broadway will be talking to us about the history of Kew Gardens. If you have been to Kew you will know what a fabulous place it is to visit – the glasshouses and water lilies in particular I think are spectacular. If you haven’t been there, why not come along and get a flavour of what you could get to see. Then on July 23rd we are going to hear a lot more about allotment gardening. Dave Cropp will be entertaining us as he talks about ‘his allotted time’ – the time he spends down at the allotment. Growing vegetables and flowers as well as nattering and drinking tea I hope. Why not join us one evening, and find out more about us, as well as enjoying an evening’s entertainment. All meetings are at the Hucclecote Community Centre, on the 4th Thursday of the month, with refreshments from 7.15 pm for a 7.30 pm start. All are welcome, there’s no need to be from Hucclecote, or to be an expert gardener – I’m definitely not! More information from Chris on 610694. To advertise call 01452 890242
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The main event being the May Day Camp at Rudford, the weather rather cold with some rain but we still managed to do a full weekend of activities. With 24 Scouts in four patrols all cooking on open fires, job getting them going Sunday morning after the rain particularly those who had not put thin kindling wood in their shelters. Other activities included an incident trail with various challenges incidents on the way round. A compass treasure hunt, camp fire sing song lead by the Patrol Leaders, rounders and football. The new Scouts made apple pie cooked in camp ovens and Jam Roly Poly. We are now all looking forward to the weeks summer camp on the Gower Coast. A session of Go Karting and Lazer Tag is booked and is always very popular. With the lighter evenings we are outside doing activities with fires and pioneer poles plus more active games than we do inside the H.Q. The Pioneer Bridge at the Brownie and Guide event at Dinglewell School went well with the rain clearing just in time for many children from 4 upwards having a go crossing the bridge (some with a little help). Although Cubs are fairly full five will be coming up into Scouts in September (when we hold the annual Father/Mothers camp at Cranham) so they will have spaces as do the Beavers who meet on Mondays and Thursdays. Scouts are sending eight into the Explorer unit so also have spaces, please contact Terry on 521664 if you have boys or girls from 6 to 14 who may be interested in coming along to see what Scouting is like. If you are interested in helping out at any unit please contact me. You will not be left running a unit but a few more hands are always welcome, you will not be expected to stay with the Group as long as me. There is no retirement age in Scouting as at work which I have now reached both and still fairly active I am pleased to say.
Hucclecote Larkhay WI Our speakers in April were Sue and Aileen from the Cobalt centre in Cheltenham who spoke to us about Ovarian Cancer. They were extremely knowledgeable about the disease and advised us how to spot the signs, what to look for, and what to do. Although a very serious topic they were very upbeat and the evening was very enjoyable and extremely informative. We have lots of things happening throughout the year, speakers and outings so why not come and see for yourselves, there is definitely something for everyone, and you would be made very welcome. The Larkhay WI meets at the Hucclecote Community Centre on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 7.30pm (except for August). Phone Jan on 01452 698299 / or Ellen on 01452 611976 for more information or just come along, we look forward to seeing you. Please mention
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Your quick guide to everyone and everything in your Directory… ACCOUNTANT
CONSERVATORIES
Accountancy & Taxation Centre 5 Add This Limited 12
Thomas Tonks
AIR CONDITIONING
ELECTRICIAN
Charmont D2B Design Paul Karlsson
Safeway Tarmac DMXpressions J B Electrical
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FITNESS
BATHROOM FITTING TBS Bathrooms
DRIVEWAYS
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ARCHITECT
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BEAUTY THERAPY
Spirit Health Club
BEDROOM FITTING
CARPENTRY
Al’s Gutter Cleaning 5
CARPETS 9
CHIROPRACTOR Chiropractic Wellness Centre 24
COMPUTER MAINTENANCE Cotswold Computer Medic 7 Hop 2 It 9 Jemtek Solutions 29
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REMOVALS Swift Removals
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SWIMMING LESSONS Puddle Ducks
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LANDSCAPING Abbeydale Landscapes
Dave Stevens 10 Elite Property Maintenance 11
Dee and Griffin Tayntons
KITCHEN & BATHROOMS Beaven Installations PJB Carpentry TBS Kitchens
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PROPERTY MAINTENANCE
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HOTELS Holiday Inn
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SOLICITORS
HOME DÉCOR Interior Needs
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CHIMNEY SERVICES Clean Sweep
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GARDENING
GUTTERING
Sapphire Carpets
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Adam Nelmes Charmont Glevum Heating Green Flame Glos City Council
GL Caravan Care PJB Carpentry
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PROPERTY
PJB Carpentry
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PLUMBING & HEATING
Space Master
CARAVAN SERVICING 9
Oven Busters
FITTED WARDROBES
Garden Delight Lawn Man LMS
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Remedial Sports Therapy 24
OVEN CLEANERS 4
FLOORING
Bodyflair 1 Therapy by Sam Baggott 24 PJB Carpentry
MASSAGE THERAPIST 19
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WINDOW CLEANING Al’s Window Cleaning
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WINDOW REPAIRS BMR Windows 22 Cloudy 2 Clear 13 Longlevens Window Repair 8 Not Just Glazing 13
MARKETING Dynamic Sales Solutions 36 Gerken Creative 2
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