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Evesham, Worcestershire FOR YOU AND 60,000 READERS ACROSS THE COTSWOLDS & VALE FREE Cotswold & & INDEPENDENT valeAUGUST 2020 Issue No. 242 magazine NO LOOKING BACK Nostalgia rules Oh no it doesn't, says our Rob Future proof Keeping our fruit heritage alive Looking ahead Students share their hopes for the future Thanks for those doorstep claps Paramedic Joann explains why they were so very important LOCAL WALKS • EATING OUT • MOTORING • PROPERTY • GARDENING • LEISURETIME • HEALTH & BEAUTY • BUSINESS and more! www.tomcookcarpets.co.uk TOM COOK OPENING HOURS Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm Saturday 9am - 2pm CARPETS t: 01386 833766 WE’RE Re-fresh Your Home with BACK fabulous NEW Flooring OPEN! - DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL - Exciting NEW We’re proud to have Ranges NOW IN been awarded High Level of Customer Satisfaction CARPETS • VINYLS • LAMINATES A great range of flooring for your home or office... to suit all budgets! CALL IN AT OUR BLACKMINSTER SHOWROOM BLACKMINSTER BUSINESS PARK, BLACKMINSTER, EVESHAM, WORCESTERSHIRE. WR11 7RE Vale Magazine 2 THE INDEPENDENT THE BATHROOM BATHROOM STUDIO EVESHAM LTD SPECIALIST design installation supply only retail supply only trade contract specialist VISIT THE SHOWROOM - OPEN Mon to Fri 8am-5pm. Sat 9am-5pm Unit 2, Evesham Trade Centre, St Richards Road, Evesham. WR11 1XG Tel: 01386 47234 www.the-bathroomstudio.co.uk OPEN: Monday to Friday 8.30am-5pm. Saturday 9am-5pm www.the-flooringstudio.co.uk Vale Magazine 3 THANKS a million for all of your kind messages DOMESTIC & COMMERCIAL welcoming our first post lockdown magazine back into your homes and businesses. It’s great to be with you again. TARMAC It’s also wonderful to see so many of the area’s businesses up and running again. Together we are & stone driveways LYNNE driving carefully towards a brave new world and POWELL that heavy lockdown feels like a lifetime ago (for Editor most of us, and touch wood). Staying on home turf for so long did have its bright spots, including more time to spend with in-house loved ones and to do those things we are usually too busy for. It was also a nice boon for wildlife, as Harry Green MBE notes in his feature. In fact, says Rob Hemming in his article, at times it felt like we’d !# !# "" # wound back to the 1960s, but we really don’t #" # "!"! want to go back there, sayeth Rob. #!" I have been having great fun helping to judge " #"#"#! # #! ! another Evesham Festival of Words lockdown !"#"!#! ! "# challenge, which relaunched our 2016 Plant a !"! ""#!"!#"#! New Word competition as Create a Word. The winner was Keren Dibbens-Wyatt, from Call us today to arrange a FREE no-obligation Tunbridge Wells, who could use his word to measure and quote - 01386 422411 describe how he felt: Bepuddled - rendered liquid inside by strong emotions. Glumster - the bringer of bad news - got second place and Chair Sue Ablett had even more glad tidings to bring to Mickleton’s Elizabeth Jennings. Husband Doug came fifth and equal eighth. Congratulations, too, to Sedgeberrow’s Sue Morris, in third place with Blendsday - when each Do you live near day is hard to distinguish from another. You can see all of the top ten on www.eveshamfestivalofwords.org. a noisy road welcome OR FIND YOUR WINDOWS DRAFTY? LYNNE POWELL It’s time to consider the benefits of Secondary Glazing... REDUCE COLIN COOKE NOISE BY UP TO 80% Est 1967 Carpets cut heating bills and increase security with & SON secondary glazing! SUPPLIERS & FITTERS OF QUALITY CARPETS AND VINYLS Suitable for most property types and window styles including bespoke windows and listed buildings. Contact us today for a FREE QUOTATION The Shop that comes to You! 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COVER IMAGE 10 THE GOOD OLD DAZE: It felt like we were whizzed back in time when the lockdown kept us on No looking home turf, says Rob Hemming, who urges us to ditch back, says our those rose-tinted glasses. 1950s vintage car cover, but NATURE WINDS UP THE VOLUME: The hiatus in we’ve got a 14 good dose of air and road traffic was heaven for wildlife and for nostalgia too once we had time to stand, stare, listen and enjoy. this month. Harry Green MBE reports. 20 20 A CLAP ON THE BACK: We put one of our REGULARS frontline NHS heroes On the Spot. Paramedic Joann 14 Haskins explains why she loves her job and why your Vale Weather .......................... 9 weekly doorstep applause meant such a lot. Hemming’s Way...................... 10 Bird of Month.......................... 14 28 GIVE US A QUICHE LORRAINE: Alan Coxon Vale Magazine Quiz ................ 17 celebrates the super flan that enchanted a Duke and Soccermouth .......................... 18 Sudoku.................................... 20 helps readers hit the spot too. Runic Ron................................ 27 Food & Eating Out .................. 27 32 SUMMER SAUNTER: Join us on a lovely stroll from Win a Meal for Two ................ 29 the pretty village of Ilmington. Camera/smartphone recommended. Jobs ........................................ 30 Vale Walk ................................ 32 PLUM LINES: We dive into the world of fruit, and the rich wildlife it feeds, Vale Leisuretime ...................... 34 40 Win a Music Voucher .............. 37 after a juicy prompt from readers. Thinkers’ Corner .................... 38 Vale Vox Pop .......................... 45 45 COVID-19 & GENERATION 20: Students tell James Noble how the Business & Professional ............ 48 pandemic shaping their plans and their future. Pershore Notebook ................ 50 Vale Gardening ........................ 52 HOE’S THAT: A reader’s mega hollyhock and Andy gets to grip with climate Vale Motoring.......................... 57 53 Directory ................................ 60 change in the garden. CONTRIBUTORS HOW TO CONTACT US Cotswold & Vale Magazine, Enterprise Centre, Lynne Powell (Editor) Juliette Kemp Vale Business Park, Evesham, Worcs. WR11 1GS Maureen Butler Tony Lane Tel: 01386 41144 email: [email protected] Barrie Baldelli James Noble www.valemagazine.org Alan Coxon Andy Pedrick Published by Perfect Image UK Ltd. 57 Alice Gillman Ian Pickering Harry Green MBE Zoe Print HOW TO SUBSCRIBE To advertise in our Gary Hale Ian Tustin Please send a cheque/P.O. for £25 to the above address (rate includes postage, UK mainland only, packing and next issue please tel. Mark Hamblin Val Wood administration and is for one year - 11 issues). Please make 01386 41144 Rob Hemming cheques/P.O. payable to: Cotswold & Vale Magazine. Please note that all words, photographs and designs contained in this publication are the copyright of Perfect Image Cotswold & UK Ltd. and Cotswold & Vale Magazine. No part of the Magazine may be reproduced without prior consent of the publisher. We make every effort to ensure that the contents of this Magazine are accurate at the time of going to press. 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