October 2013 by Sarah Gerken

May 2013

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Dear Neighbours, Welcome to the October edition of your Abbey-Link. With the new academic year now well under way, this is a time of the year that seems to mark the start of new beginnings within the family. Children of various ages are now settling into their new academic environments and in our household, like may others, we are currently looking around Senior Schools for next year, with our choices to be made by the end of the month….. We have a few activities within the directory that may mean the start of new beginnings for you or a member of your family….. For little ones how about Jolly Hockey Tots or Jo Jingles, both on page 26. Perhaps there is a member of your family looking to start driving lessons, Olympic Pete Hanlons Driving school on page 18 offer competitive rates and packages. Maybe you are looking to start that diet and fitness regime….well it is only 3 months until the festive period!!! Rosemary Conley are introducing a new dance fitness programme, designed by Strictly Come Dancing stars, called FitSteps, read more on page 25. Congratulation to Nathan Acero winner of last months Sudoku competition, tickets for Cineworld are on their way to you. Remember to feel free to email me your Sudoku entries if you so wish: sarah@thelinkdirectories.co.uk Finally it’s a Happy Birthday to the Abbey-Link which is 8 years old this month, so I would like to say a huge thankyou to everyone involved who has helped to keep this directory alive over the last 8 years, from the businesses that advertise with us, the distributors who do a great job delivering the directories to your doors and to you the readers who use the businesses….it is because of your continued support that we have be able to, and will continue to, produce Gloucesters leading local directories.

Have a great month and Happy Halloween Sarah The Link Directories (Gloucester) Ltd cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions or endorse companies, products or services that appear in this magazine. to adverts PrintedPlease by: Themention Color Company Tel: when 01242 responding 226332 www.thecolorco.co.uk

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ABBEYMEAD & ABBEYDALE ACCOUNTANCY AND TAXATION CENTRE

Accountants for the Abbeymead and Abbeydale 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 From 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 01452 863304 To advertise call 01452 890242

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LAWNMOWERS SERVICED – SHARPENED – REPAIRED ALSO: RIDE-ON MOWERS, CHAINSAWS, ROTAVATORS, STRIMMERS, HEDGETRIMMERS ETC.

FREE COLLECTION AND DELIVERY Tel : CHELTENHAM MOWERS LIMITED Tel: 01452 616169 Unit B3, Nexus, Hurricane Road, Gloucester Business Park, Glos. GL3 4AG Visit and Buy On-Line at www.mowers-online.co.uk

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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A.D.B ELECTRICAL SERVICES LTD QUALIFIED ELECTRICIAN DOMESTIC, COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL

FAULT FINDING RE-WIRING & UPGRADES INTERNAL & EXTERNAL LIGHTING & POWER POINTS ELECTRICITY TO SHEDS & OUTBUILDINGS ELECTRIC SHOWERS NIC PART P REGISTERED

ANDY BOUCHER TEL: 01452 371981 MOBILE: 07967 721966 25 Minster Gardens, Abbeymead No Job Too Small - Free Estimates. All work carried out to the highest standard Please mention

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FENCING & LANDSCAPING SPECIALISTS • • • • •

BLOCK PAVING FENCING PERGOLAS RERE-POINTING CONCRETING

PATIOS GATES GARDEN CLEARING SHED BASES

COMPETITIVE PRICES DISCOUNT F OR OAP’S OVER 25 YRS EXPREIENCE WE WILL BEAT ANY REASONABLE QUOTE

www.glosfencing.co.uk TEL: 01452 722548 MOBILE: 07841 753082 ALSO SUPPLIER OF SAND, GRAVEL & ORNAMENTAL GRAVEL

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GARDEN AND TREE MAINTENANCE All kinds of trees and hedges expertly felled, topped and pruned

FENCING BLOCK PAVING PATIOS ● TURFING DECKING HEDGE CUTTING

ASPECTSOF OFLANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING ALLALL ASPECTS

All Interior & Exterior Work Undertaken

Free Quotations & Fully Guaranteed

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GARDEN DESIGNED, MAKEOVERS AND RENOVATIONS JUNGLE CLEARANCE Friendly and reliable local company For more info visit www.lindentreegardens.co.uk

Call Bob on 01452 535696 (24 hour answering service)

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MARK DUNKLEY HANDYMAN GARDEN SERVICES PATIOS LAID FENCES ERECTED DECORATING NO JOB TOO BIG OR SMALL ALL WORK CONSIDERED ALL RUBBISH REMOVED FREE ESTIMATES GIVEN (WITH NO OBLIGATION) O.A.P RATES AVAILABLE FULL C.R.B CHECK OBTAINED (AVAILABLE ON REQUEST)

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Master Sheds Unit D, Sudmeadow Road Hempsted, Gloucester, GL2 5HG Tel: 01452 314011 www.mastersheds.co.uk Please mention

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Manufacturers & Installers of all Types of the Finest Quality of Windows, Doors & Conservatories 41 Kingsmead Abbeymead Gloucester GL4 5DY Telephone: 01452 618530 07961 199942

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Call: James: 07830 646544 Daryl: 07760 336467

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Gardening Tips for October from Garden Delight..

Flowers, Tubs and Borders •

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Now is the time to plant out spring flowering bedding like Wallflowers, Stocks, forget-me - nots and pansies, try under planting them with winter and spring flowering bulbs to give extra colour. October is a great month for planting out new trees and shrubs, the ground is warm from the summer and the autumn rain will enable the plants to establish quickly. Is also a good month for moving any deciduous shrubs taking a good root ball replant firmly incorporating some good compost in the soil. Once the frost has blackened the leaves of Dahlias cut down the stems to about 6’’ and then lift and store in a frost free place ready for next year. Dusting the tubers with sulphur powder will help prevent rotting. Lift and divide large clumps of early flowering perennials/herbaceous plants, late flowering varieties are best left to the early spring. Replanting the divided clumps will give you new plants and increase the vigour of the older plants. Tall deciduous shrubs such as Rose, Buddleia and Lavetera should be cut back by a third this stops them rocking in the ground during the winter winds. If they do this a gap appears where the stem enters the soil, this gap can fill with water, freeze and then damage or even kill the plant.

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Reduce the frequency of mowing raising the blades high, by the end of the month it will be time to stop mowing all together and put the mower in for service ready for next year. If you haven’t already done so apply a good autumn lawn food which will help control moss and toughen the lawn up for the winter.

Fruit and Vegetables • • • •

Prune back Blackcurrants, Blackberries, Loganberries and Tayberrys train in the new canes to fruit next season Harvest and store pumpkins and marrows before the first frosts, sow cauliflower, peas and winter lettuce under cloches. Spray peach and nectarine trees with Dithane 945 to help prevent peach leaf curl. Dig over veg plots to allow the air and water to penetrate incorporating in any garden compost and manure this will work in over the winter as the frosts break down the soil.

Greenhouse • • •

Move inside any tender plants to over winter, ensure you watch out for the colder nights when you may need extra heat or need to apply fleece to give full protection. Water only when required and then in the morning only so that foliage does not remain wet over night. Ensure there is good ventilation to keep up air movement and prevent dampness, take down any shading and make sure the glass is nice and clean to take full advantage of the winter sun.

Check out our web site www.gardendelight.co.uk Disclaimer – these tips are the result of many years experience in gardening however no guarantees can be given. Remember there are principles to successful gardening but no formulas.

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R. H. NELMES PLUMBING AND HEATING Gas Safe Registered

POWER FLUSH HEATING SYSTEM LOCAL ABBEYDALE RESIDENT

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DARREN MANN BUILDING CONTRACTOR Specialising in home extensions

Also Mini Digger with Driver for Hire 111 The Wheatridge East Abbeydale, Gloucester GL4 5DW

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October 2013 Releaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Friday 4th October SUNSHINE ON LEITH Peter Mullan and Jane Horrocks star in a feelgood musical woven from the Proclaimers' uplifting hits. Ally (Kevin Guthrie) and Davy (George MacKay) are two young soldiers who return home to Leith after serving in Afghanistan. Ally goes out with Davy's sister, Liz (Freya Mavor), who introduces her brother to Yvonne (Antonia Thomas). Meanwhile, Liz and Davy's parents, Jean (Jane Horrocks) and Rab (Peter Mullan), are celebrating their 30th wedding anniversary. Stephen Greenhorn's acclaimed jukebox stage musical took its title from the second album by Scottish musical heroes The Proclaimers. Their hits drive this moving story about the difficulties of adapting to Civvy Street. Actor-turned-director Dexter Fletcher's big-screen adaptation was shot on location in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Among its stunning set-piece numbers is huge performance of 'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' featuring 500 dancers outside the National Gallery of Scotland! This is also producer Andrew Macdonald's first film in Scotland since the legendary 'Trainspotting'.

Fri 18th October TURBO (3D) From the makers of MADAGASCAR and KUNG FU PANDA, TURBO is a high-velocity 3D comedy about a snail who dares to dream big - and fast. After a freak accident infuses him with the power of superspeed, Turbo kicks into overdrive and embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the seemingly impossible: competing in the world's fastest race, the Indianapolis 500. With the help of his tricked-out streetwise snail crew, this ultimate underdog puts his heart and shell on the line to prove that no dream is too big, and no dreamer too small

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS The true story of Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the USflagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Friday 25th October CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS: REVENGE OF THE LEFTOVERS (3D) After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.

JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA Eighty-six-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his eight-year-old grandson Billy, in "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa". This October, the signature Jackass characters Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) and Billy (Jackson Nicoll) will take movie audiences along for the most insane hidden camera road trip ever captured on camera. Along the way Irving will introduce the young and impressionable Billy to people, places, and situations that give new meaning to the term "childrearing". The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants (and their equally disgruntled mothers), funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons, and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one really messed up comedy.

Wednesday 30th October THOR: THE DARK WORLD (3D) Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.To advertise call 01452 890242

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Rob Walters For all your ceiling requirements:-

Plasterboarding Coving Skimming Texturing Also Painting & Decorating Service We now offer to skim textured ceilings to a flat finish or alternatively we provide a full range of high quality textured patterns Water damaged ceilings & Insurance work welcome

Domestic & Commercial enquiries welcome HOME: 01452 521878 MOBILE: 07850 968348 To advertise call 01452 890242

C.D.L CHRIS LEE PLASTERING CONTRACTOR For all your plastering needs big or small For smoothing over artex, ceilings or walls, To garage conversions Just give me a call 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE INTERNAL & EXTERNAL DOMESTIC / COMMERCIAL

- FULL HEATING SYSTEMS - BOILER REPLACEMENTS - POWER FLUSHING - COOKERS AND FIRES INSTALLED - ANNUAL SERVICING - LANDLORDS SAFETY CHECKS - BATHROOMS & EN SUITES - GENERAL PLUMBING

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*************************************** Coming soon to Maisemore Village Hall Theatre! FLINT STREET NATIVITY A comedy for grown-ups written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls) performed by MADS on November 21st 22nd 23rd 2013 Book before end October and choose your seat. For your priority booking form, email your name and tel no to: chrisjones@projectoffice.fsnet.co.uk ********************************************* St Lawrence's Church Barnwood invites you to an evening with Adrian Plass, internationally-renowned author and speaker Saturday 19 October 2012 7.30 p.m. at Barnwood Park Arts College, St Lawrence's Road, Barnwood. Tickets ÂŁ10 to include wine/soft drinks, available from St Lawrence's Church Centre (01542 372731)

Scottish Dancing at Kingsholm School, Gloucester. Tuesdays - termtime only. 7.30pm - 10.00pm. Beginners welcome. Cost ÂŁ2 but first night FREE. Contact 01452 306857 or see website www.gloucesterscd.btck.co.uk

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Annual Autumn Fayre St Lawrence Church Barnwood Saturday 2nd November 10.30am - 2.30pm

Variety of stalls, cakes, face painting, many childrens activities & refreshments Please come along and support this fund raising event for the church it was a great success last year and we are sure it will be bigger and better this year A chance to start your Christmas shopping with fun and games for the children

Hearts & Hurricanes WI The WI is as busy as ever, welcoming more new members and visitors at each meeting. August’s meeting was open to families, we baked gingerbread and made cake pops, it turned out to be fairly messy but fun! We were visited in September by Sarah Churchill of the Artisan Kitchen, a really interesting speaker who started a business from her own home in Gloucester making award winning jams and preserves http://www.theartisankitchen.co.uk/ We’re really looking forward to October’s meeting which is wine tasting. There’ll be 6 to 8 different wines on offer from around the world. Guess which continent the wine is from in a blind tasting and you could win a prize. There will also be nibbles on offer. This meeting is open to members, visitors and their partners. Tasting nights are always very popular and are just £3.00 per visitor. Come along and meet your neighbours. In November local ceramic artist Tara Davidson will be showing us how to make ceramic jewellery. Check out her website http://www.tarajaneceramics.com/ for more information on Tara and the lovely items she creates. New members are more than welcome at the WI. Join in October and get 3 months free. We meet on the second Wednesday of every month at Coopers Edge School at 7:30pm. Entry is free for members and £3 for non-members. Please join our Facebook page or visit our website for regular news www.heartsandhurricaneswi.weebly.com. Please mention

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Index of advertisers

Your quick guide to everyone and everything in your Directory... ACCOUNTANTS Abbeymead Accountancy and Taxation Centre Add this Limited Charterwoods

COMPLIMENTARY THERAPY

KITCHEN & BATHROOM FITTING

6 12 4

Chiropractic Wellness Centre 24 Remedial Sports 24

Masterpiece Interiors M C Kitchen & Bathrooms PJB Carpentry TBS Kitchens

40 9

Cotswold Computer Medic Gamlin Software Hop-2-it Jemtek

8 7

CONSERVATORIES

LAWNMOWERS

Gloucester Conservatory & Window Warehouse 11

Cheltenham Mowers

COVING SPECIALIST

Oven Busters

ADVERTISING The Best of Gloucester

AIRCONDITIONING Charmont

ARCHITECT D2B Designs Paul Karlsson

BATHROOM INSTALLATION Severn Vale Bathrooms TBS Bathrooms

14 16

BEAUTICIANS Beauty by Emma Jane Therapy by Sam Baggott Total Rejuvenation

21 11

BLINDS Lindas Blinds

BRASS BAND Local Brass Band 26 BUILDING CONTRACTORS Darren Mann 13

CARPENTRY P J B Carpentry Richleigh Carpentry

11 5

CARPETS Sapphire Carpets

CARPET CLEANING Kingfisher Cleaning

CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES Jo Jingles Jolly Hockey Tots

Rob Walters

7 18 12 33

26 26

Rosemary Conley

Nails and Tails PetPrinces UK Chris Lee

1 15 15 11 16

A M Nelmes Beaven Installations Charmont Glevum Heating Ignition N Boothroyd R H Nelmes The Gasman

35 4 9 39 17 13 30 16

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Help @ Home

ROOFING INSTALLATION

Garden Delight Just a Mow Lawn Man Linden Tree Mark Dunkley

SHEDS

28,29 23 28 10 12

HAIRDRESSERS Level One

HOTELS

Jackson Cleaning

Hatton Court Hotel

19 2

COMMUNITY CENTRE Abbeydale Sports & Community Centre

34 34

GARDEN MAINTENANCE

CLEANING SERVICES 12

9 22

FLOORING Kingfisher Flooring PJB Carpentry Tom Walsh Flooring

PLUMBING & HEATING

FITTED WARDROBES Space Master

PLASTERER 18

ESTATE AGENTS Michael Tuck

10 10 31

OVEN CLEANERS

ELECTRICIAN A D B Electrical Services Hammond Electrics

Abbeydale Landscapes Grants Landscaping LMS

PET CARE

DRIVING LESSONS Olympic Pete Hanlon

LANDSCAPING

DIET & FITNESS 24 24 18

BEDROOMS Masterpiece Interiors PJB Carpentry

COMPUTER MAINTENANCE

21 35 11 22

AJ Howell C & G Cladding Master Sheds

30 31 13

SOLICITORS Dee & Griffin Treasures

14 6

WINDOW INSTALLATION A & A Double Glazing C & G Cladding Glass Fix Glazing

22 31 13

WINDOW REPAIR

Cloudy 2 Clear 13 Longlevens Window Repairs 31

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