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ALL CHANGE: Are you ready? Ripples May Egged on by family members and business associates, I News 4 have abandoned my five-year-old but reliable Acer PC in Fairford Festival 10 favour of a tiny, shiny Apple MacBook computer. Everyone said I’d be sure to like it. When it all works, it Home & Garden 16 runs like a gem. But since taking it out of the box six Councils 22 weeks ago, life has, at times, felt like ‘hell on earth’. In the middle of all this I went to the Lechlade Community Cinema for the Lechlade Music Festival 26 film ‘I, Daniel Blake’, Ken Loach’s take on Britain’s benefit system. It was the Creative Arts 28 technology thrown at the lead character by the social security system that made the biggest impression on me. I’ve been blessed with a technical Business 30 education and have used computers and gadgets a lot. If I was struggling Food & Drink 34 with the PC/Mac conversion, how on earth would a carpenter in his 60s, who’d never used a computer, be able to login, let alone fill in the complex Sport 36 online claim forms? Pets 39 So, what have I learned from this experience? This applies to any technology Wellbeing 40 really. Profile 42 It’s an inescapable fact that we find it harder to adapt to change as we get Events 44 older. Even ‘technical’ people find change difficult and frustrating. If you know a younger person willing to be your wingman, enlist them immediately. Transport 49 The bigger the change (and I’d include the PC/Mac here) the more you need Contacts 50 to allow for things to go wrong – and, believe me, they will. That means Churches 50 giving it plenty of time to install and overcome the seemingly endless glitches. Take stock of all the equipment you use and what you do with it. List it all and get advice about how it will all fit together. Your budget must allow for Cover Picture: replacements and upgrades. And you might need to allow for expert technical Members of Fairford Classic Car Club meeting at the assistance to get it all running. It’s surprising how the cost and time escalate Royal Agricultural University. while confidence drains away. Photo: Malcolm Cutler Perhaps the most important question is whether you are ready for the change. People who easily follow intuition will probably feel at home quickly with REMINDER: The deadline for our modern technologies. Whereas people like me (an irritating engineer who May edition is 12 noon, needs to know how something works) may well make a meal of it. Friday 12th May. Editor Ripples Community Magazine Published by Adrian Young and Graham Fry © Ripples Community Magazine, 2017. All rights reserved. Named contributors retain copyright on their work.

Ripples Magazine is published 10 months a our format or inconsistent with our editorial Email is preferred for contributions, year during the first week of the month; we policy. otherwise by post. take a break in January and August. Make sure you are writing for a general All news, events and announcements: The deadline for contributions and audience, not just your own organisation. [email protected] advertising is 12 noon on 2nd Friday of the Contributions up to 150 words are Paid advertising: month before publication. preferred. If it is too long, we may ask you [email protected] to cut it down. We may publish longer Opinions expressed in the magazine are not contributions, but get in touch first to avoidDistribution: necessarily those of the publishers. the annoyance of a rejection. [email protected] Contributions may be published in the Photographs and artwork should be clear Tel: 01793 764768 magazine or on the website. Make clear any with good contrast. JPEG electronic format limitations about what, how and when we Post: is preferred but we can scan from good may publish your contribution. 2A The Stables, Gilberts Lane, quality prints. Make sure any identifiable Highworth, Swindon SN6 7FB We reserve the right to edit contributions people in photos agree to the photo’s Please inform the editor if you spot a and to not publish any contribution or publication. Get parent’s consent in the mistake in Ripples so we can rectify it in a advertisement that is either unsuitable for case of minors. future issue.

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A tree for Bob Fairford Classic Car Club celebrates 30 years When the St. John’s Priory Park On Friday 9th April, 60 members of the Association was established Fairford Classic Car Club (FCCC) over 15 years ago, The Trout’s gathered for lunch at the Royal landlord Bob Warren offered Agricultural University, Cirencester to the Creel Bar as a free meeting celebrate the 30th anniversary of the place as there was nowhere club. The FCCC was formed in 1987 by available for group meetings on Fairford residents Malcolm Cutler and the Park. When the new Tony Scrivens, as a club for local classic development at the Park, car and motorcycle enthusiasts and their Lechlade Court, was built last families. year, Penny Warren offered them the same meeting place. Members come from all over Glos, Wilts, Oxon and as far away as Devon. Key to the All felt they wanted to show their club’s success has been the wide range of affection and gratitude to Bob activities which not only cater for motoring and Penny by presenting an enthusiasts but also for their wives, apple tree in Bob’s memory. The partners and families. These include regular tree is a Braeburn apple as Bob attendance at local village fairs and charity events, Nursing Home, where we were made very welcome loved fruit trees, especially apples, and it has been a regular supporter of the Fairford and many of the home’s residents enjoyed seeing the and had planted a small apple, Festival. cars, followed in glorious sunshine, by a run to the pear and plum orchard. He Royal Agricultural University for a very enjoyable The first meeting of the club on 12th April 1987 was always hankered anniversary lunch. More photographs and at the Hyperion House Hotel in Fairford. It was after a real cider information can be viewed on therefore fitting that our 30th anniversary started orchard. www.fairfordclassiccarclub.org.uk. with coffee at what is now the Hyperion House Steven Soltesz, Penny Warren receiving Bob’s apple tree Story and photos: Malcolm Cutler treasurer of the from Steven Soltesz St. John’s Priory and proud I am that the residents of both St Park Association, John’s Priory Park and Lechlade Court made the thought enough of Bob to present me with presentation. this apple tree in his memory and I would like Penny said: ‘I to thank everyone concerned.’ would like to say how pleased Story: Margaret Hing. Photos: Liz Roberts

Training for Community First Responders (CFR) CFRs are volunteers who support their local and enter job reference 202-009-17. Applications community by attending emergency calls ahead of close Wednesday 10th May. an Ambulance. No previous medical training is Information from Stephen Andrews: 07795 915902, needed to become a CFR. [email protected] or David Chapman For details of the next course, go to www.jobs.nhs.uk 01367 850454, [email protected].

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Circus coming Sarah answers the call of the wild to Lechlade They say that once you’ve the lions roaring very nearby. been to Africa, the sights, During her stay, Sarah befriended a lonely meerkat, who smells and sounds stay with The St Lawrence School had been bullied and beaten up by the other meerkats you forever and are always Summer Fete is an annual in his ‘mob’ and had been made an outcast. Another calling you back. That is event and the school’s animal friend was a wild cat that slept in her tent a few exactly what happened to biggest fundraiser. This year times, together with all its fleas and ticks! Not quite so Sarah Roberts from we are very excited to be lovable were the wild dogs that had been at the reserve Fairford. She went to South hosting the National Festival for quite some time – so long that there were concerns Africa for the first time in Circus! about their ability to fend for themselves once released 2008 to spend a month back into the wild. So Sarah and a few other volunteers working as a volunteer at The circus will perform in St built a mock beast out of bits of tree branches, twigs WANT TO ADVERTISE IN Sarah Roberts with her the Shamwari Game Lawrence School grounds on baboon friends and horse skin. When presented to the pack, they tore it BOTH EDITIONS OF Reserve. Friday 16th June: show times to pieces, so it showed the dogs were ready to be RIPPLES? 4pm and 5.30pm. Nine years later, Sarah made the decision to quit her released. ‘proper’ job in Swindon and travel to Namibia, South Call Debbie on 01285 653535 Come and enjoy a BBQ, drinks, Sarah has always had a great interest in working with Africa and Madagascar for six months, to work bouncy castle, face painting, animals and her Namibian experience will undoubtedly about our exciting offer to get alongside conservationists and veterinary professionals raffle and silent auction, or help her now that she has returned to England in order your advert in both editions of caring for sick, injured or orphaned animals and relax in the tea room while the to take up a new position as a trainee keeper in the endangered species. She flew out in February to her Ripples from just £40.50 Primates section at Cotswold Wildlife Park. She has also children play games. Tickets first placement at N/a’an ku sê (pronounced plus VAT per issue! resumed her volunteer role as a Trustee at the Oak & cost £7, on sale at the school gate, school office or from FOSLS. Nankoosay) in Namibia, and her first 24 hours there Furrows Wildlife Rescue Centre near Cricklade. ‘I do still included having to negotiate walking past five cheetahs All proceeds go to FOSLS (Friends of St Lawrence School). plan to go to South Africa and Madagascar,’ said Sarah to get to her tent, sharing her bed with an orphaned ‘but the offer of a job at Cotswold Wildlife Park was an baboon that needed 24 hour attention and listening to Ripples team’s word of the month: Ciao! opportunity not to be missed.’ When is it too late for the ‘works Christmas dinner’? Never, it seems, as Ripples production team members got together at Highworth’s Ciao Eatalia in March. Pictured (without seasonal party hats), are Ciao’s efficient waiters and talented chef (standing), behind Margaret Hing (reporter for Lechlade), Chris Roberts (reporter for Fairford), Debbie Hodgson (advertising), Simon French (designer and taster), Adrian Young (editor), Jan Furze (reporter for Cricklade), Teresa Coulson (distribution) and Graham Fry (production). Our newest team member Victoria Elliott (reporter for South Cerney) was unable to make it. Ripples thinks Ciao Eatalia is well worth a visit. Visit: www.ciaoeatalia-highworth.co.uk.

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Lightning repair to Eastleach church Classic car meeting ‘roars’ into life

The much-loved, redundant church at Coffee & Classics, a new Eastleach, St. Michael and St. Martins’ is monthly classic car event, finally under repair after the weather started in Bibury on Sunday vane and spire were struck by lightning 2nd April. on the day of the village fête last August. Motoring enthusiasts and families Resultant damage to the roof and alike met to view the exceptional dangerously dislodged tiles has meant the vehicles driven to The Classic church has been closed to both locals and Motor Hub centre for classic visitors for the past six months. This church motoring just north of Ablington. has, over the years, become an icon for the beauty of the Cotswolds and its These included cars more often architecture, and has featured in many seen behind ropes at Pebble magazines and on postcards advertising Beach than in the Gloucestershire our area. countryside. Pink Floyd drummer Story and photo: Sallie Seymour Nick Mason’s Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona was there, as was a 1923 World Land Speed Record Wrde-Up 2017 Festival Delage V-12, fresh from last month’s victory at Goodwood. Other automotive familiar faces attending over the next few months.’ Saturday 8th July from 2pm at the Recreation Ground, Highworth gems included a WW2 Jeep, Volkswagen campers Coffee & Classics is on 1st Sunday monthly at The and a fantastic Chevrolet Bel Air. Earlybird tickets are available until 31st May whilst U16’s go free, Classic Motor Hub, Bibury, Gloucestershire, GL7 5NX. making it an ideal event for all the family. Our headline act is The Los With smiles all round, it was clear everyone had a Visit The Classic Motor Hub on Facebook. Palmas 6 who are a 7-piece, incredibly authentic, Madness Tribute Band. great time. Martin Chisolm of Burford said: ‘There are Playing all the hits right up to today, including ‘Baggy Trousers, One John Mayhead going to be some very special cars and maybe a few Step Beyond, Nightboat to Cairo, Lovestruck and It Must Be Love’ etc. Also performing are Felix and the Funk, Bleep Machines, Boogie Me and Mixtape with more to be added. In addition to the music, Wrde Up has something for the whole family such as Danters Funfair and food from Andrews Meats BBQ, Highworth Pizzaria, cakes and soup from Outsauce and ice cream from Manic Munchies. Please go to www.wrdeup.org.ukfor more information on the event, where you can buy online. U3A in Fairford With excellent maps, diagrams and illustrations, Liz Payne gave an interesting talk in April about the birth and successes of the Cotswold Canal Trust in re-establishing the canals that at one time linked the River Severn and the Thames. A 1954 Act caused them to be finally abandoned and, in less than 20 years, decay and obstructions along the former waterways became extensive. Thanks particularly to Michael Aylward, the Trust was formed in 1972. Liz outlined the many phases of restoration that depended upon funding from Councils, other sympathetic bodies, individuals and companies, and have involved hundreds of volunteers. Together they have solved seemingly insurmountable problems. One, dubbed ‘the missing mile’, may be solved this year when a company called Ecotricity joins Stroud District Council to build a park, stadium and nature reserve. This process should overcome the obstacle of getting the route under the M5 cleared and enable water to flow through Westfield lock again. Visit www.cotswoldcanals.com. See EVENTS for our meetings on 1st Tuesdays. Sylvia Jones

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Forging new friendships Local news on a CD Corinium Talking News is a free service, which registered as blind or visually impaired. On Good Friday, a coachload of 26 visitors from wine. The Fairford Mayor, Jo Wood, Chair of the allows partially-sighted or blind people to be able the Cirencester Twinning Association’s (CTA) twin Cirencester Twinning Association and two other Are you or do you know someone who would benefit to listen to local news each week via a CD. town of Itzehoe in Germany enjoyed an array of CTA members were then invited to cut the four from this service? If so, you can sign up for your Although based in Cirencester, the service also activities in incredible cakes weekly CD news or get more information from: covers Fairford, Cricklade, South Cerney, Cirencester. It made of 01285 898594, [email protected] Northleach, Tetbury, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton- included a Königsberg and, once you are signed up, you will continue to on-the-Water and Moreton-in-Marsh. guided walk marzipan receive your CD until you ask for the service to stop. around the depicting St The CD is produced weekly with 80 minutes of It is very simple and you don’t even have to return town and the John’s Church, content taken from the Wilts & Glos Standard the CD after use. opportunity to Cirencester and Community News pages, and also contains headline Chris Roberts add more St Laurentii news, feature stories, Lego bricks to Church, Itzehoe. letters, family the Abbey announcements, what’s Jo Wood, Chair 900’s replica on and sports reports. In of the of Cirencester addition, there are also Cirencester Abbey. more light-hearted Twinning articles, various Although the Association, interviews along with two towns said: ‘Each year, contributions from a have been the Itzehoe number of regular special twinned for 35 Cirencester Twinning Association and Itzehoe Partnerscafts-Verein town will invite guests. years, for many members of the of the German CTA to their Thanks to the Royal Mail visitors, it was Weinfest (wine ‘Articles for the Blind’ their first visit festival) at the service, the CDs are to the end of May and completely free of charge Cotswolds and, to the Christmas to anyone who is on Easter Markets. Sunday, they They are the were treated to most wonderful a trip around trips and are an U3A New the beautiful opportunity to Cotswold Members forge new villages of friendships, Bibury and Meeting learn another Filkins before language and There will be a new stopping in understand a members meeting in Fairford to visit Fairford Mayor, Jennie Sanford; Richard Gunner; Susannah Gilbert different the Farmor Room of St Mary’s and Jo Wood, Chair of CTA culture.’ Fairford Community Church and Centre on Monday June enjoy a traditional afternoon tea in Fairford To find out more about the Cirencester Twinning 5th from 1am to 1pm. Community Centre. Association, visit www.cirencestertwinningassociation.org.uk. Any members who have Fairford Mayor, Jennie Sanford, welcomed Renate recently joined or people Wilms-Marzisch, chair of the Itzehoe Partnerschafts- Story and photo: Chris Roberts considering joining are Verein, who presented her with a bottle of Itzehoe welcome to come and find out a little more about what we do and Selling and Letting in the Cotswolds for over 170 years enjoy a cup of tea or coffee with us. Just turn Ï>T>TóMĔõJ ĠĚĠĚSĝ Fì ãùHĝéêéêJêJSñ ĖĚG ÿěÿěĞ ZXX WJàéêéê^ê^ ĔíîíîWJēçĔòJòJ çY 2TĚWĝ &éêéêJêJS åàĜ up on the day. GJãìâ^â^ ÿFÿFĞ Yåã âĝXñ ĕTRíàę^ę^ ÷ĝ æF[ã áěòM JõãĞ IĝFéò \çñæÐ 2WðŅæJWàñěę Cirencester 01285 648 100 Any queries, contact the Lechlade 01367 252 541 Chairman, Jan Mills, on Tetbury 01454 238 600 01285 850384 or mooreallen.co.uk London 0203 368 8903 [email protected]

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Lechlade Memorial Hall update Lions’ barn sale boosts fundraising Donations and events hit £95,000! For 32 years, the We have had a really good month with a very generous response to Lechlade and District the appeal leaflet. Every household should have received this. If you Lions have been have missed out, let me know and I will pop a leaflet round to you. fortunate enough to use a barn at Waiten Hill Events have also been very successful with the Lions Auction raising Farm in Fairford, rent £3,000; the Bridge Drive organised by Mrs Brenda Miller and the Lechlade Bridge Club raising £1,300; the Children’s Quiz organised by free. This has enabled Simon and Marian Winckles raising £39 and the Six Nations Challenge them to collect and store organised by Steve Williams raising £142. The final total for the goods in readiness for Photography courses by Mike Read was over £700! the annual auctions. Grants reach £40,000! The barn belongs to the We have also had two new grants – £10,000 from the Police and Crime Ernest Cooke Trust that is Commissioner and £20,000 from the Garfield Weston Charitable Trust. now keen to develop the Together with the £10,000 already received from the Summerfield site. So the Lions had a Charitable Foundation that brings the current total to £40,000. massive sale to clear the Future events – More events are planned and as ever we will need your stock! support to make these a success: Using social media to RAFA Duck Race Bank Holiday Monday 1st May – Lechlade Riverside advertise, along with a few Park – 10% of the profits will come to the Memorial Hall Fund so buy strategically placed signs, Lions John Sheffield, Keith Musson, Peter Egerton, and Paul Saddington your ducks online the Lions manned the WANT TO ADVERTISE IN www.lechladeduckrace.comor on the day and come along and join in this family event. barn over the weekend. BOTH EDITIONS OF Maybe the glorious RIPPLES? #lovelechlade Extravaganza 19th-21st May sunshine also had a part In the Flint & Lambourne Marquee on the Recreation Ground GL7 3AY Call Debbie on 01285 653535 to play but they were about our exciting offer to get ● Call My Bluff style wine tasting - Friday 19th May delighted to have found homes for some of their your advert in both editions of ● Coffee morning and valuations by Moore Allen’s Auctioneer - Saturday 20th May treasure trove and Ripples from just £40.50 ● Afternoon Tea Dance - Saturday 20th May boosted their fundraising plus VAT per issue! by over £500. ● Yukey D’Ukes band - Saturday 20th May ● Tennis Tournament - Sunday 21st May During the same weekend the Lions made an official ● Hog Roast - Sunday 21st May presentation of a cheque ● Fête - Sunday 21st May for the £3,000 raised at ● Fun Dog Show - Sunday 21st May this year’s Charity Auction Free programmes and tickets for all events from the Post Office, to Simon Paul for the Lechlade. (See pull-out feature in the April Ripples for details). rebuilding of the Lechlade Music Festival 26th, 27th and 28th May – Family friendly Memorial Hall fund. music festival. For more information see www.lechladefestival.co.uk. Story and photos: We will have a stall selling raffle tickets and packets of biscuits/sweets at Lion David Benson, Simon Paul representing the Memorial Hall rebuilding fund the festival. Margaret Hing and Lion John Sheffield Lechlade Annual Vintage Rally & Country Show 3rd-4th June Roughgrounds Farm Lechlade. The organisers will be donating to the Memorial Hall fund and have helped us with equipment for many of our events. Garden Party Sunday 9th July at Rydon House. Proceeds to the Memorial Hall Restoration Fund. More details to follow. Help at events would be much appreciated – please contact Sue Coakley on 01367 253306 or email [email protected]. Also, some pitches are still available for stalls at the fête on 21st May – free if supporting the Hall Fund, £10 for charities, £25 for commercial.

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Hidden gems of Lechlade Come and visit eleven hidden gems of Lechlade as several of our gardens open to the public, some for the first time, on Saturday 3rd June, 2pm to 6pm. This is an opportunity to visit a number of gardens, some of which have been developed with much imagination in small spaces. Others range from Victorian landscaping to a William and Mary country house where tea will be served throughout the afternoon.

Roving Tickets £5 (children under 16 free) with map and list of gardens, some open until 6pm, available in advance from Lechlade Post Office from 1st May and the Market Place and Open Gardens on the day. Information and tickets available in advance from Helen Jones: 01367 252402, [email protected] and Phil Tubbs: 01367 253762, [email protected]. Proceeds from the sale of tickets, teas and cakes will be divided equally between St Lawrence Church, Restoration and Maintenance Appeal and British Heart Foundation. Helen FS Jones Honouring the WWI fallen We are publishing records of local servicemen who lost their lives in the First World War, 1914-1918, kindly supplied by Fairford History Society and Lechlade History Society. If you have photos or further information about any of these servicemen, please write to the editor (see details on page 3). Fairford 23318 Pte Charles Seacole, age 30, 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment. Died 18 May 1917 31393 Pte Edward George Giles, age 18, 3rd Reserve Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Died 20 May 1917

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Garden clippings with Tina Owen

Good Old Geraniums Geraniums are hardworking and hard to beat. They flower at a variety of heights often for long periods, are great at filling gaps and some even scramble through and up their neighbour; often producing delightful combinations.

A favourite of mine, G. albanum, is a pretty sprawler; at the end of February, in a mild year, a new mound of rounded, deeply-cut green leaves with pink stems emerges. During May, these leaves are topped with a foam of lavender-pink, veined flowers fading as they age giving a multi-coloured effect. Plant it next to a magenta G. sanguineum and Erysimum Bowles Mauve and it will take you through G. albanum and G. sanguineum

June beautifully. It will tolerate light shade but prefers a sunny and well-drained spot so mine grows in a raised bed, weaving up and tumbling over the wall. The taller G. phaeum can reach over 60cm in a shady spot, erect flower stems topping its mounds of dark foliage. It flowers in a range of colours, from white to deep purple, sometimes having pale centres. It often cross pollinates producing some lovely hues. Its silver- grey flowers look great with the drooping pink Dicentra Formosa and purple Aquilegias. The darkest G. pheaum can be brightened by the clear blue flowers of the equally robust Brunnera macrophylla with large, bright green leaves. Cut back to the ground as they begin to look tatty, water and feed them and they will soon produce a fresh mound of leaves, frequently followed by more blooms. A dark G. phaeum with brunnera Perfect!

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Open for National Gardens Scheme Visit a garden and support these charities, via NGS: Macmillan, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, Carers Trust, The QNI, Perennial, Parkinson's UK, Horatio's Garden and MS Society. These gardens, within 15 miles of Down Ampney, support the National Gardens Scheme on specific days. More details at www.ngs.org.uk. Sunday 2 April (2-5.30pm) Sunday 11 June (2-5.30pm) Beverston Castle, Beverston, nr Tetbury, Gloucestershire GL8 8TU Monday 17 April (2-6pm) Kencot Gardens, Kencot, Lechlade, Oxfordshire GL7 3QT Tuesday 18 April (10am-4pm) Barnsley House, Barnsley, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 5EE Sunday 30 April (2-6pm) Monday 1 May (2-6pm) Eastcombe, Bussage & Brownshill Gardens, Eastcombe, Glos GL6 7DS Sunday 14 May (2-5pm) The Coach House Garden, Ampney Crucis, Cirencester, Glos GL7 5RY Sunday 14 May (2-5pm) Sunday 18 June (2-5pm) Stowell Park, Yanworth, Northleach, Cheltenham, Glos GL54 3LE Local clubs for gardeners 2nd Wednesdays: LECHLADE GARDENING CLUB: 7.30pm in the New Inn (Long Room). Contact: 01367 253121. www.lechladegardeningclub.org Wednesday 10th May: FINDING THE ANGLE AT CHELSEA with Mandy Bradshaw Friday 9th June: VISIT TO BISHOP’S PALACE GARDENS, Wells, Somerset. £18 per person to include coach fare, driver’s tip and entry to the Bishop’s Palace and Gardens plus entry to the English Country Garden Festival held in the grounds. Pick up 8.30am opposite New Memorial Hall car park. Everyone welcome. If interested call Audrey Barnes on 01367 252242. 2nd Thursdays: FAIRFORD GARDENERS CLUB: 7.30pm in the Farmors Room, Fairford Community Centre. Contact Marion Lloyd: 01285850280 or Chairman Geoff Denis: 01285712195 Thursday 11th May: ALL GARDENS GREAT AND SMALL with James Cooper Thursday 8th June: A POTTERY DEMONSTRATION by Neil Alcock 20 www.ripplesmag.co.uk www.ripplesmag.co.uk 21 Ripples MAY 2017 L&F_1 LINK – May 07 28/04/2017 12:21 Page 22

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Fairford Town Council News

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING – THURSDAY 25TH MAY: WEDNESDAY OUTDOOR MARKET: To increase the The Annual Town meeting will be held in the Farmor variety of stalls and thereby encourage visitors to the Room on Thursday 25th May commencing at 7pm. Town we would like to know if there are traders who This is an informal meeting where all the Community would consider taking a stall at the Wednesday outdoor are welcome to attend to hear what the Council has market. been doing in the last 12 months and will offer ADVANCE NOTE FOR YOUR DIARIES: The Town residents an opportunity to talk to Town, District and Council would like all clubs, groups, organisations in the County Councillors as well as representatives from other Town to get involved in the ‘Great Get Together’ event organisations in the Town. The Annual awards will also (in memory of MP Jo Cox) in the Walnut Tree Field on be presented. Refreshments will be available. Sunday 18th June. An opportunity to showcase your BANKING: Fairford will be sharing a Lloyds Bank mobile group; enjoy food, drink, good company and have unit with Highworth and availability of its facilities some fun. Lots of activities for all ages. More commenced on 5th April. The Unit can be found in the information to follow. Market Place on a Monday between 1pm and 2.15pm; COTSWOLD SPRING CLEAN (LITTER PICK): Our Wednesday between 9.30am and 11.00am and Friday thanks to those that took part in the Cotswold Spring between 9.30am and 11.15am. Clean (Litter Pick) on Saturday 8th April. A great deal WALNUT TREE FIELD: of rubbish was collected. We would remind people not Portaloo – The Town Council has installed a temporary to dump rubbish and bags of dog faeces in the ditches Portaloo with baby changing facilities in the Walnut Tree and hedgerows. If residents witness any fly tipping, Field. This will be in situ from April to October. This unit please report this to the Town Council with any details will be serviced every Friday. that might enable us to trace the culprits. Slide – We are pleased to report that the slide which THE NEXT MEETING OF THE TOWN COUNCIL IS: was previously situated on the mound in the Walnut Tuesday 9th May 2017 (Annual Meeting of the Town Tree Field has been refurbished and has been re- Council). installed.

Fairford Town Council Office, The Community Centre, High Street, Fairford GL7 4AF Tel: 01285 713326 / 712344 Email: [email protected] Website: www.fairfordtowncouncil.gov.uk Find us on Facebook. Search for Fairford Town Council. Opening times: 10am-1pm. Councillors’ contact details are available on website.

Forthcoming full council meeting: Tuesday 9th May at 7pm

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Lechlade Town Council News

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING: the Steering Group. We expect to negotiate a The Annual Town Meeting contract with the recommended contractor will be held on Monday 22nd subject to sufficient funding being in place. May at The Pavilion, Oak St, The Public Works Loan Application has been Lechlade at 7.30pm. You are made and subject to this approval we anticipate invited to join us for wine & that we can commence construction in May with light refreshments from completion in Spring 2018. 7.15pm onwards. TWO CO-OPTED COUNCILLOR VACANCIES: The Annual Town Meeting is not a council We welcome and encourage interest from any meeting. It is a meeting of the town electors, eligible elector who is considering becoming a chaired by the Mayor. The format of the meeting Town Councilor. For further information please provides the opportunity for partner contact the Council office on 01367 252338 or organisations and local groups who have email: [email protected]. benefitted from council grants to provide a report on their activities. All electors are entitled PAVILION AND MULTI USE GAMES AREA to attend and ask questions or raise issues in an (MUGA): The Pavilion is ideal for birthday open forum to discuss matters affecting the parties, social events, exercise classes and groups. town. The agenda is available 7 days before the The MUGA is also available to hire. Rates are very meeting. reasonable! If you are interested in booking the facilities, please contact Caroline by emailing MEMORIAL HALL REBUILD: Planning permission [email protected]. was granted on 27th March and tenders were submitted by 4 contractors on 31st March. These NEXT FULL COUNCIL MEETING: Monday 8th have now been analysed by the Project Manager May 2017 and Monday 12th June 2017, in The with a recommendation made on 19th April to Pavilion at 7.30pm.

Lechlade Town Council Office, New Memorial Hall, Oak Street, Lechlade, GL7 3AY. Tel: 01367 252338 Email: [email protected] Website: www.lechladeonthames.co.uk Councillors’ contact details are available on the website.

Forthcoming full council meetings: Monday 8th May & Monday 12th June at 7.30pm

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CREATIVE ARTS

Local drama is alive and well The concert is at St Mary’s Church Fairford on Recorders in concert for everyone including local up and coming bands, Saturday 13th May at 7.30pm, conducted by big names and a gospel and rock choir who have on Corinium Radio Marysia Gorska. formed especially to perform on the Sunday! Look out The Archers! Cirencester’s home-grown Please note new point for ticket sales: Fairford The team have been incredibly busy and with only a The Inn on the Green has blasted off on the Opticians, 11 High Street, Fairford Tel: 01285 713313 small handful of people, it has been quite a feat internet via Corinium Radio, Cirencester’s or at www.fairford.org/choralsociety. Adults £15; getting this far! The team would never shy away community station. under 18s £5. from additional offers of help! Tickets have been selling fast, but there are still some tickets available at Selwyn Morgan explained how this has come about. Art with heart www.minetyfestival.co.uk. ‘Somewhere Else Writers’ When Lori Rogers and Lavinia Bann decided to We wish the team the best of luck for what is going Group meet at the open an art studio/shop ‘Loriland’, they were not Somewhere Else Deli Bar to be a fun and exciting weekend for the entire 100% sure of what they wanted but they both Saturday 10th June, 7.30pm in St Lawrence in Cirencester every family. Please get in touch with Rich or Rachel firmly believe in the healing qualities of art Church, Lechlade. Wednesday afternoon. Swatton via the website if you would like to get therapy. This was the focus of the enterprise. There are 12 members of The highly regarded, prizewinning Phoenix Recorder involved and be part of this great new festival! the group and 4 associate So, six months on and they are still bubbling with Orchestra, conducted by Pam members. We support enthusiasm and are delighted with the impact they Smith, plays a wide repertoire each other in the work feel they have had on the community. The shop has on the full range of we produce, offering become a focal point for local artists and crafts recorders, from the tiny constructive criticism and people and has provided not only an outlet for art garklein to three sub-great bass encouragement to work but a form of support for many people. They recorders, which blend to give continue. Amongst us we found that often artists will not see the value of their a beautiful, rich sound. cover many types of work so they have been able to offer a much needed Tickets £10, to include a drink, writing: historical novels, boost to confidence and self-esteem. Others just pop on sale 1st May from Lechlade science fiction, poetry, in for a chat and a browse and always receive a warm Post Office or Jay Mathews short stories and now, welcome and most importantly, time. 01367 860869. E-tickets from: radio plays. We also organise seminars where we invite guest writers to The resulting shop is a unique blend of gifts jewellery [email protected]. come to speak to us of their experience of writing and and art work as well as a place for people to talk and In aid of the Church publishing. share ideas. They now have 16 artists/craftsmen who Restoration and Maintenance exhibit in the shop. As for the future, they hope the Appeal. ‘The most project will continue to thrive and expand. recent project, Jay Matthews our radio play, Story and photo: Margaret Hing The Inn on the Minety Music Festival: Green, is a Thursday 29th June – collaborative piece. We all Sunday 2nd July contribute to its Minety’s first music festival is writing and critiquing, and then we go on to play the getting a lot of attention on characters we have created, recording each episode at the Wiltshire music scene, the studios of Corinium Radio. All the while we make especially since the friends and increase our knowledge about the art of announcement of headline writing, and the skills necessary to get our work read bands Dr and the Medics, or listened to.’ Who’s Next? and Roving The Inn on the Green has been Crows. broadcast on Sundays. Episode 2 is on during May. Episode 3 will be first Minety is a community festival, broadcast on Sunday 28th May. so alongside a fantastic music line up, there is also a plethora Visit www.somewhereelse.co.ukand catch up online at of interactive activities for all www.coriniumradio.co.uk. the family, including Slacklineing, giant inflateables, ‘The Creation’ by Joseph Haydn workshops, games and stalls. Tickets for Fairford & District Choral Society’s May The chill out zone will offer a concert, featuring this popular work by Haydn, are chance to rest your dancing now on sale. feet, and the huge variety of Lavinia and Lori music means there's something 28 www.ripplesmag.co.uk www.ripplesmag.co.uk 29 Ripples MAY 2017 L&F_1 LINK – May 07 28/04/2017 12:21 Page 30

BUSINESS

To attend the #GBS17, you will need to register: event. You will then be given your entry badge and Fairford & Lechlade Business Club News https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/delegate-registration- lanyard, which will allow you entry and re-entry at gbs17-tickets-27127781926. It is free, but you will any time over the two days. by Chris Roberts 01285 712150 or email [email protected] need to present your registration confirmation at the Story and photos: Chris Roberts

Facebook and Twitter Every cloud… Like us on Facebook –www.facebook.com/FLBClub Lloyds Bank closed the only bank in the town in November and then, at the beginning of January, Follow us on Twitter –@FLBClub there was more misery when thieves used a JCB to Visit us at www.flbc.org.uk. ram-raid and steal the only 24/7 cash machine available to Fairford. Welcome to our new members But just three days after the ram-raid, there was news Revitalise With Lucy, Lechlade that Lloyds Bank had plans to provide a mobile Contact: Lucy Brooks banking service for Fairford for three part-days per week on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday from the T: 07793 766794 beginning of April. Whilst there is no ATM planned for the mobile service, the manager of Londis in E: [email protected] Fairford has already applied for planning permission The new mobile bank service in Fairford Market Place W: www.revitalisewithlucy.co.uk to have an exterior 24/7 cash machine outside the Londis shop in London Road, Fairford. Office in Fairford can do most banking transactions Next FLBClub meeting for both personal and business customers. So please Culinary director Josh Oram, owner Rob Broadbent, Harriet Although things won’t be the same for Fairford as support the Post Office by continuing to use their The next FLBClub meeting is an evening meeting on Briggs and manager Calum Thompson they were before the bank closure, some normality services. Wednesday (not the usual Thursday) 24th May at will be resumed. Please also remember that the Post The long awaited conversion of the old Charity Shop Story and photo: Chris Roberts 7.30pm in the dining room of The Old Swan Inn, at the top of the High Street is now Lynwood & Co’s Lechlade GL7 3AP. Gail Gibson, winner of the Most new coffee shop, complimenting the already popular Innovative Business of the Year 2017, will be talking venue of the same name in Lechlade. A selection of about “Who holds you accountable?”. In her cakes, pastries, sandwiches, salads and smoothies are presentation, Gail will share why she is a keen available as well as their award-winning formula of advocate of accountability buddies and how this great coffee and sourdough bread. relationship can be your secret weapon for quick growth! The meeting is free to attend and visitors are Opening hours are 8am-4.30pm Monday to Saturday welcome. Please register online at: and 8am-2pm on Sundays. However, hours may www.flbc.org.uk/Events. change depending on demand, but the new Lynwood & Co will definitely be open both days of New businesses open in Fairford the weekend. The extensive Why you should go to the refurbishment of The Bull Hotel in Gloucestershire Business Show Fairford’s Market The Gloucestershire Business Show will be taking Place is now virtually place from 9.30am ’till 4pm on Wednesday 17th complete. On May and Thursday 18th May at Cheltenham Monday 27th March, Racecourse, The Centaur, Cheltenham GL50 4SH. the bar opened for drinks and then the The #GBS17 celebrates, discusses and showcases restaurants opened business in Gloucestershire of all size and industry. It for food in mid-April. provides a platform through which businesses can gain information, meet other businesses and speak to Overall, the professional advisors. refurbishment is exactly what was Highlights at the #GBS17 are: Seminar and workshop needed striking a programmes, 140 exhibitors, Science & Technology stunning Zone, Innovation Theatre, The Creative Studio, Food compromise between & Farming Zone, Digital Security Zone, Skills chic, traditional, cosy, Development Hub, Business Advice Centre and The elegant, sophisticated and homely. Business Kitchen.

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BUSINESS

The small shops revolution Quenington Society Talk, Monday 22nd May

It’s about local food networks and the small shops Council for the Protection of Rural England and which underpin them. Why they are important subsequently repeated nationwide in 19 towns and and what is threatening their survival. cities. Come and join the discussion with two stars of the Rebecca Wilson and her husband farm in Westonbirt movement – Caroline Cranbrook OBE and Rebecca and have set up an innovative farm shop and Wilson. Both are farmers. takeaway café, Jolly Nice, selling a wide range of specially sourced products, near Stroud. Lady Cranbrook is a keen gardener, specializing in heritage vegetables. Since the 1990s she has Doors open 6pm and the discussion starts at campaigned for the local food economy, small shops 6.30pm. Refreshments available. and food producers – and against large superstores Tickets £3. Quenington Village Hall, GL7 5BS. in market towns. Her research was published by the

ADVERTISING FEATURE Highworth Emporium: A Greats Gift Retailer Finalist It’s official! Highworth Emporium located at 46 High Street in Highworth has been selected as a finalist in The Greats Gift Retailer Awards 2017.

The Greats Awards, now in their 15th year, were launched by Progressive Gifts & Home magazine to recognise and reward the UK’s very best gift retailers across the retail spectrum. The Awards recognise and celebrate not only the top independent and multiple gift retailers regionally and nationally, but also outstanding retail employees. Further details can be found at www.thegreatsawards.co.uk. The winners will be revealed at an Awards lunch at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London, on Thursday 4th May. For more information contact Aga Gabrysiak, Highworth Emporium, 46 High Street, Highworth, SN6 7AQ Tel. 01793 763675 or 07508 147682. Email: [email protected]

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FOOD & DRINK

A taste of things to come A new cookbook extolling From local Bibury fish to the virtues of Cotswold countryside Cotswolds game; Gloucestershire Old cuisine is Spot pork; organic fruit the latest and vegetables; literature to Winstone’s home-made whet your ice cream and local appetite in cheeses, this new cook the kitchen. book really does bring home the bacon. Packed tighter than sardines Nick Waloff from in a tin, The Lechlade and long- Cotswolds Cook standing member of Book has over the Fairford & 40 recipes, Lechlade Business stories and Club is also the anecdotes from executive chair of eateries, farm Cotswold Taste, a shops, breweries new quality and gastro pubs marque for food from around the and drink foodie fanatic produced in the Cotswolds. Cotswolds to high standards. The recipes are really easy to follow by all Nick said: home cooks, so ‘Local and planning for a posh quality are the dinner party or family two defining feast is a piece of cake features in with an extensive The selection of cocktails, Cotswolds appetizers, starters, Cook Book and that is mains, desserts and why Cotswold Taste has worked closely cheeses. with Meze Publishing to create this wonderful book that will appeal to consumers, retailers and producers If you love cheese, then alike.’ you’ll love these words of wisdom from Woefuldane Organic Dairy on how to put together the perfect Find out more from: www.mezepublishing.co.uk. cheeseboard. Chris Roberts

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SPORT

Rugby star returns to re-open the Lechlade Pavilion Still in one piece

Those with John Watson, who is a fitness motorbike when he was limited interest specialist with Academic involved in a collision with a in rugby might Strength & Conditioning in drunk driver and suffered be forgiven for Fairford, recently ran a horrific injuries including a not knowing competition to offer one broken neck, several other who Jonathan deserving person a complete fractures, nerve damage and Webb is. But body transformation. He internal bleeding. for those who wanted to offer a free four- After undergoing a 12-hour follow the week training package to operation and three months in game, Saturday someone in the Fairford area hospital, he is amazingly still in 8th April was who had suffered through ill one piece and now runs two an important health or emotional problems half-marathons a year for date as this or someone on low income Wiltshire Air Ambulance and has rugby star had who needed cheering up. raised around £80,000. John agreed to John received a lot of incredible said: ‘Dylan has an incredible officially open nominations with some very attitude to life and we feel that the Lechlade inspirational stories, but decided he was the most deserving pavilion for the the outstanding winner was person of this prize that is worth second time! Dylan Jones, who was around £250.’ Jonathan Webb played for the England national team He admits he worked hard too, and always gave his nominated by his girlfriend, To find out more, from 1987 to 1993, reaching the 1991 World Cup best, but he took advantage of opportunities as they Charlotte Bennett. email John on Final and winning two Five Nations grand slam titles. arose. One example was when he was a reserve at On 6th August 2012, Dylan Dylan Jones and John Watson. [email protected]. Simon Paul, chair of Lechlade Memorial Hall & Bristol, two players refused to play a particularly was riding home on his Photo: Giuseppe Vitale. Recreation Ground Charity, contacted him to ask if difficult opposing team. Jonathan stepped in and did he would make a return visit and reopen the well. The other two players were not exactly dropped refurbished building and, despite a very full diary, he from the team but did not get to play again thus agreed. earning him a permanent position in the team! He gave an inspirational and light-hearted speech After pronouncing the pavilion open, he answered about his sporting career, aiming his words especially questions and signed shirts for some of his fans. to the youngsters. He explained that he believes it was partly down to circumstance that he enjoyed Story and photos: Margaret Hing success in sport.

Why not learn archery? Buscot Park Archers are running a six-session There is also a course over three Saturdays beginners course on Mondays and Thursdays commencing Saturday 13th May. For details visit commencing Monday 8th May. www.buscotparkarchers.org.uk.

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SPORT PETS

Fairford Town promoted to A dog’s life with Hellenic Premier Division Mollie Collie

It’s been one of the most successful seasons in living memory GOT A PET STORY? for Fairford Town Football Club – and there’s still room for Get in touch with Mollie Collie more! at [email protected] The recent 5-0 home win over Milton United secured the Division One West title with promotion secured back to the Uhlsport Hellenic Premier Division after a five-year absence. The club is looking forward to a return to a higher standard of football, with Why does he do that? preparations well underway on and off the field. Look out for news When talking to other dog owners it is clear that a lot of time is soon of further ways in which you can play your part such as spent trying to explain bizarre behaviour. Season Tickets, sponsorship opportunities and more. One dog will spend a few minutes ‘killing’ a biscuit, tossing it into A high-profile sporting dinner will take place at Cinder Lane on the air, chasing it around and barking at it before settling down to Friday 23rd June with World Cup rugby referee Nigel Owens – one actually eat it. Imagine its owners’ concern when the friendly of the biggest names in the game – heading to GL7. landlord of the pub comes over and smiles, ‘Would your dog like a Keep an eye on Twitter @FairfordTownFC for the latest news or visit biscuit?’ whilst actually offering it! Fortunately, the ritual has not yet their website: www.pitchero.com/clubs/fairfordtown. been attempted away from home so pubs have escaped this entertainment! New boats for Bowmoor juniors

Bowmoor Sailing Club has just purchased three RS Terra WANT TO ADVERTISE IN dinghies with the help of the Eric Twiname Trust to give our Some things are easily explained. Who wouldn’t prefer to stay on BOTH EDITIONS OF junior sailors an alternative choice of boat. the sofa all night rather than be shut in the kitchen in a dog bed on the floor? We do attribute human behaviour and reasoning to dogs These boats will be made available to our junior members for RIPPLES? and on reflection it is probably better to just accept them for what training and racing. The attached photo was taken at one of our they are, which might be a good maxim for humans too? Call Debbie on 01285 653535 junior/youth training courses which are held on a regular basis to about our exciting offer to get improve their sailing skills and to provide lots of Fun. They then Cats are probably easier to understand! your advert in both editions of went on to see how well the RS Terras sailed and were very pleased Ripples from just £40.50 with them. (Editor: In my experience, there is nothing easy to understand about Story: Doug Roberts. Photo: Karen Cooke cats, a trait shared with West Highland Terriers) plus VAT per issue! 38 www.ripplesmag.co.uk www.ripplesmag.co.uk 39 Ripples MAY 2017 L&F_1 LINK – May 07 28/04/2017 12:21 Page 40

WELLBEING

ADVERTISING FEATURE Dementia Awareness & Support Event Raising money through golf on 29th June 2017 Organised by Hilary Cottage Surgery competitions at Wrag Barn Patient Participation Group Golf Club Would you recognise the signs? Would you know where to find support? It may be my imagination, but the request for money to support charitable causes increases every year. Websites such as Just Speakers: Giving make it very easy for money to be donated, but the pot Hilda Hayo, CEO and Chief Admiral Nurse, Dementia UK is finite. Dr Anthea Holland, Founder of Mindsong We get three or four requests a week for a 4-ball voucher that can be included in a raffle and we have reached a stage where we can’t Hear about some of the national and local support that is available. help everybody. The value of a 4-ball voucher during the week is Time: 2pm £120 and I don’t think everybody realises that when they ask for a 4-ball – with a cup of tea thrown in as an afterthought. Place: Fairford Community Centre Another way to raise money for charity is through playing golf with FREE entry. Let us know you want to reserve a place a group of friends, work colleagues or clients and making a small by emailing: [email protected] charge for the entry. In March at Wrag Barn, we had the annual British Heart Foundation Mixed Greensomes Cup. Fifty-two people entered the competition, there was a raffle and we sold some BHF branded goods. The total money raised was £350 and everybody Debt counselling centre celebrates had a bit of exercise, some good food and company. three years

We can vary these days with chipping competitions, beat the pro, a A church-based charity is coaching session and an array of formats. celebrating three years of For further information please call Karen on 01793 861327 rescuing local people from or email [email protected]. personal debt – a free service literally saving lives. In May 2014, members of Highworth Churches Together Let’s Talk... decided they wanted to do Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide and is more to help the local becoming more common. Depression, anxiety and stress are community and partnered with also the leading cause of sickness absence in the UK, with 70 UK debt counselling charity million working days lost each year. Christians Against Poverty (CAP) to open a local branch. The World Health Organisation chose depression as the topic for World Health Day on 7th April, in recognition of the growing Now the team have helped 60 situation, the need to speak more openly and as a way of despairing local families and highlighting the support available. individuals by offering a free, face-to-face and caring service, In Gloucestershire, Let’s Talk is a free NHS service for anyone aged which gives both hope and a 18 and above to seek support and advice. solution. Evidence shows that if you seek support early, you can recover more Common reasons for debt include low income, relationship effectively and more quickly, and avoid further problems breakdown, joblessness, problems with benefits, illness or developing. bereavement. Let’s Talk provides a range of options, from advice over the CAP’s service is available to everyone regardless of age, gender, telephone and educational courses to self-help guides and face-to- faith or background. face Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. To find out more, visit www.capuk.org or call 0800 328 0006. You can find out more by visiting www.talk2gether.nhs.uk or ringing Get in touch directly with Centre Manager Kathryn 0800 073 2200. (Mondays to Thursdays) on 07885 579876.

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PROFILE

Meet Max Abbott, bread maker

Max Abbott is full of twinkly eyed energy and After the café was up and running Max decided to enthusiasm. He talked of his life in Cornwall and develop his bakery business. Bread making is a how he embraced opportunities there, enjoying famously long process unless tackled on an industrial outdoor pursuits such as surfing and all outdoor level and then the resulting bread is not quite so adventure. He has a degree in appetising. Max makes sourdough sports Science and has worked as bread, free of commercial yeast, a qualified outdoor instructor as which takes 48 hours from start to well as being a chef. finish. He makes it clear that cancelling an order has to be done Work is seasonal in the West well in advance, as the process Country tourist industry, so he cannot be stopped midway! decided he ought to find regular employment. He became a sports When asked if he has to get up tutor in a further education college early in the morning, he said: ‘Oh but was soon disillusioned and no; somewhere between 5 and 6 frustrated by the expectations of the o’clock. I make it clear that nobody education system. The youngsters can have fresh bread before 8 had signed on for what looked like a o’clock in the morning. Ideally my practical and exciting course but, he fresh bread is going to restaurants says instead of doing sport and in the afternoon, perfect for learning by doing, they were not evening service.’ allowed out of the classroom and Max has now installed a bigger were bogged down in theory. bread oven and is refurbishing his Neither students nor teacher were Max Abbott – making lots of dough bakery to enable him to make enjoying the course. Max could see almost half as much bread again that he could not do anything to each day. This is obviously a very personal ‘hands-on’ change the system so decided to look for work job and although Max employs one person, he does elsewhere. not take holidays. Max is clearly an advocate of this He sent his impressive CV to Thyme at Southrop and type of bread which has recently gained popularity. It was immediately taken on. He started by doing all is reported to be a healthy option compared to the manner of odd jobs in and around the grounds yeast recipe bread, as the flour has undergone a long whilst also helping in the cookery school. He then fermentation, making it easier to digest. started cooking in the Swan at Southrop and learned Sourdough bread looks as though it will be on the how to make sourdough, working alongside chef, menu in Lechlade for a while yet as Max seems quite Rob Broadbent of Lynwood & Co. Rob left the Swan content to continue make bread and live here with and went to Australia but the two were good friends his wife and daughter and with another baby due in and kept in touch. A couple of years ago they agreed the summer. to open Lynwoods in the Market Place and Max ran Story and photo: Margaret Hing the kitchen.

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EVENTS

EVENTS notices are intended for local, not-for-profit, community organisations. A notice is typically Everyone welcome 20-30 words. We accept events up to 15th day of the next month. So, for example, notices in June PIXIE CANINE TRAINING CLUB: Saturdays, 10-11am in the edition extend to 15th July. Car Park at the top of Fairford High Street. Dogs and owners of all ages can have fun and earn their Bronze, Silver and Gold Email notices to [email protected] or write to Ripples (see page 3). Kennel Club Awards. Contact Eileen Ferguson: 01285 711729

SATURDAY CLUB: 11.30am-12noon in Fairford Library. Come gazebos and chairs. Details from Fairford Town Council: VARIOUS DAYS along and listen to stories followed by an activity. For ages 4- 01285 712344 11 years www.faringdonfolly.org.uk 1st to 13th May: SWINDON’S 24th FESTIVAL OF 1st Sundays: JESUS AND ME CLUB: At 10am in St Mary’s KELMSCOTT MANOR: (April to October) visit the house and2nd Sundays (except January): MESSY CHURCH: 4-6pm in St LITERATURE: Visitwww.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk Church, Fairford. Stories, craft and fun www.fairford.org/choralsociety gardens 11am to 5pm. Last admission 4.30pm. Tel: 01367 Mary’s Church Fairford. Crafts, games, celebration and a 1st and 3rd Sundays: FARINGDON FOLLY: 11am-5pm Climb Monday 15th to Wednesday 17th May (10am-4pm): 252486, cooked meal for families. Please let us know of any dietary SaturdayChurch, 20th May:Fairford. BARNSLEY Marysia VILLAGEGorska is GARDENconducting FESTIVAL: Fairford & the 100ft Tower and spend time finding the sculptures in the LECHLADE BAPTIST CHURCH BICENTENARY EXHIBITION: www.kelmscottmanor.org.uk requirements for the meal, otherwise just turn up on the day. From 10.30am.District Choral Open Society gardens, performing music, Morris this populardancing, work bbq, by Joseph woodland. Info at Artefacts relating to the Church’s history − including the For further details, Sarah: 01285 712074 or craft stallsHaydn. and TicketsVillage AdultsHall teas. £15; Details: under 18s £5, from Blenheim BINGO CLUB: 7pm at St Birinus Court, Gassons Road, original Church Records Book (1821-1996) − will be on display Antiques or via [email protected] in the Church. The ladies of the Church have also created a www.barnsleyvillage.co.uk. Lechlade. Tel: 01367 253462 3rd Sunday: LECHLADE COMMUNITY CINEMA: 7.30pm banner which depicts aspects of the Church history, togetherSaturday 20th May: CASTLE EATON VILLAGE FETE: 1pm in 1st Saturdays: BOOKS, BICKIES & BEVERAGES: 10am-12noon in Lechlade Pavilion (adjacent to the site of the Memorial with Christian symbols and scenes from the Bible. Info: 01235The Red Lion garden. Cakes and teas, garden plants, raffle, the in Poulton Village Hall. Come along for a chat over a coffee Hall). Enjoy the film, on the big 3m wide screen. Doors open 711551 duck race, Highworth Silver Band and homemade biscuit and buy a second-hand book at 7pm for refreshments. Tickets cost £3. All proceeds will be Friday 19th May – Sunday 21st May: #LOVELECHLADE Saturday 20th May: FLOWER ARRANGING 2nd Saturdays: PALMER HALL DANCE CLUB FOR MODERNused to support the project to rebuild the Memorial WEEKEND: A huge assortment of family/community events DEMONSTRATION AND CREAM TEA: 2.30pm at Southrop SEQUENCE DANCING: 7.30-11pm in the Palmer Hall, Fairford.Hall. Reserve a seat: 01367 253633 over the whole weekend in the Recreation Ground, Lechlade. Village Hall. Demonstrations by David Martin, a qualified Also Thursdays, 8-10pm (except for the Thursday before theSunday 2st May: The Light between Oceans (Cert 12A) For all the details: florist, National Demonstrator for NAFAS and a tutor at the 2nd Saturday of the month). Contact: starring Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender and Rachel Weisz www.facebook.com/LoveLechladeor contact Women’s Institute Denman College [email protected] Sunday 18th June: Lion (Cert PG) starring Nicole Kidman and Sue Coakley: 01367 253306, [email protected] or visitwww.fairfordsequence.org.uk Saturday 20th May: CHARITY TEA DANCE: 2-4.30pm at The Dev Patel Friday 26th to Sunday 30th May: LECHLADE MUSIC FESTIVALMarquee, The Recreation Ground, (site of the Memorial Hall) SUNDAYS Lechlade GL7 3AY. Supporting Memorial Hall rebuilding fund 2017: The award-winning, family-friendly music festival with MONDAYS 80+ bands over 3 nights on 3 stages. Tickets: with refreshments provided by the local WI. £10. Info Simon Sunday 7th May: FREE OPEN DAY: to ‘have a go’ with a Paul: 01367 253633, traditional English Longbow. Roves Farm, Sevenhampton www.lechladefestival.co.uk Monday 22nd May: THE LEAGUE OF FRIENDS OF FAIRFORD (follow signs for Roves Farm then Black Cat Archery) www.thamesschoolofdancing.co.uk HOSPITAL: AGM 7pm at Fairford Hospital. Speaker Dr Andy Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th June: JUNE EXHIBITION: in Sunday 7th May, 4th June: QUENINGTON CAR BOOT SALE:Beale, Consultant Radiologist, Great Western Hospital Fairford Community Centre. Fairford Art Society Saturday 3rd June: FAIRFORD FESTIVAL OF FICTION: 11am on the village green. Supporting local charities. EnquiriesMonday 22nd May: CIRENCESTER CIVIC SOCIETY: ‘New 10am- 8.30pm in the marquee at Fairford Cricket Club. An Wednesday 28th June to Sunday 2nd July: ASHTON KEYNES to Don: 01285 750304 Brewery Arts’ an illustrated talk by Beth Alden at 7.30pm at all-day ticket costs £6 with children under 12 free. To book, MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL: See what’s on at Sunday 7th May: BLUEBELL WALK: 9am-12noon start and The Salvation Army Hall, Thomas Street Cirencester, GL7 2AX. search for ‘Fairford’ atwww.wventbrite.com finish at Charlbury Station, via Wychwood Forest and Cornbury£3. Info at www.ashtonkeynesfestival.net www.ccsoc.org.uk Saturday 3rd June: HIDDEN GEMS OF LECHLADE: 2-6pm Park. 8 mile or 3 mile routes. Supporting Burford & Kingham Friday 30th June to Sunday 2nd July: MINETY MUSIC open gardens supporting St Lawrence Church, Restoration and Rotary Club. Info: Monday 5th June: NEW MEMBERS U3A: 11am-1pm at the FESTIVAL: Tickets atwww.minetyfestival.co.uk Maintenance Appeal and British Heart Foundation. Roving [email protected] Farmor Room, Fairford Community Centre. New members or Friday 28th to Sunday 30th July: SOUNDS OF THE Tickets £5 (children under 16 free) from Lechlade Post Office those considering joining can find out more about U3A. and the Market Place and Open Gardens on the day Sunday 7th May: OPEN GARDEN: 2-5pm at Quenington Contact Chairman Jan Mills: 01285 850384, COTSWOLDS 2: at Cirencester Park, Cirencester, GL7 1XB. In Rectory. £4 adults. Supporting Red Cross. Homemade teas and aid of Homes for Veterans. Tickets £36 by PayPal to Saturday 10th June: SOUTHROP VILLAGE FETE: At Southrop plants available [email protected]. Just turn up on the day [email protected], 07808 030220. Camping available Manor. Info at www.southrop.org.uk/12/VH-Programme-of- Sunday 21st May: HAPPY’S CIRCUS: Gates open at 1pm.Monday 19th June: ITALIAN NIGHT: at Colosseo Restaurant, CORINIUM MUSEUM, CIRENCESTER: Until 28th May: Events.html Show starts at 2pm at Fairford Primary School. Tickets £10Fairford. Supporting The League of Friends of Fairford Hospital ‘ECLECTIC’ Exhibition by Clifford Richards. He created a each with under 3s free. Available from Fairford Primary JOB CLUB: every week from 10am-12noon in Lechlade Library. microcosm of the 1960s – pop-ups, ‘slotties’ dolls houses, Saturday 10th June: PHOENIX RECORDER ORCHESTRA School, Fairford Community Centre or 7a Coffee Shop. Details:Support for those seeking employment including job search, packaging and prints. This exhibition will predominantly CONCERT: 7.30pm in St Lawrence Church, Lechlade. Tickets CV writing and interview skills comprise of bold new work that tackles the ironies of modern £10 from Lechlade Post Office or Jay Mathews 01367 860869, www.happyscircus.co.uk TODDLER TIME: in term time 10.30-11am in Fairford Library. weaponry and pays homage to creative heroes [email protected]. Supporting the Church Restoration Sunday 4th June: FAIRFORD 3K FUN RUN AND 10K ROADToo old for Baby Bounce and Rhyme time? Have fun with and Maintenance Appeal RACE: The 3k Fun Run starts at 10am and the 10k Road Racesongs, rhymes and stories. For pre-school children aged SATURDAYS Saturday 17th June: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM: starts at 10.30am both in Park Street. Register at approximately 2 years – school age and their grown ups 6.30pm at The Paddock, Filkins (or Village Hall if wet). £5 www.runningsomewhereelse.com/fairford10k. No registration QUENINGTON BABY AND TODDLER GROUP: 10-11.30am in Saturday 13th May: POULTON SCHOOL REUNION: 2-5pmtickets at from Filkins Shop, Post Office and Cotswold Woollen on the day Quenington Village Hall (Term-time only). Meet other local Poulton Village Hall. £5 booking via Rosemary Houston: 01793Weavers 751566 Sunday 11th June: OPEN DAY: 2-6pm at Fairford Bowling parents/carers and toddlers and have some fun at the same STORIES ON DEMAND: every week in Lechlade Library, from Club. Come and try your hand at bowls. Free tuition. Info: time! £1.50 per family includes drink and snack for children, Saturday 13th May: QUENINGTON FETE: 2-5pm at the Old 10am-1pm volunteers will read stories to children of all ages – tea or coffee and biscuits for adults Rectory, opposite the church, Adults £1 under 16s free. just drop in with your children and stay as long as you like www.fairfordbowlingclub.co.uk Refreshments, Dog show (so bring your dog), Games, Duck FAIRFORD MONDAY WALKING GROUP: Mondays except race and much more! BEANS COFFEE SHOP: Saturdays, 10am-12noon at Lechlade Sunday 18th June: THE GREAT GET TOGETHER: In memoryBank of Holidays, 10.30am, outside the Community Centre. We Baptist Church. Chat, make friends and eat great cake! MP Jo Cox. All community groups are invited to enjoy food, Saturday 13th May: ‘THE CREATION’: 7.30pm in St Mary’s drink, activities in the Walnut Tree Field. Bring your own picnic,

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are a small friendly group that never walks more than two miles Contact Dorothy: 01367 252362 and Twitter@LechladeWI and has tea or coffee and a chat afterwards, cost 50p. Contact Tuesday 7th June: Clear Vision Library with Alex Britton David Lawrence: 01285 711702 2nd Tuesdays: POULTON WI: 7.30pm at Poulton Village Hall. BINGO CLUB: 2pm at St Birinus Court, Gassons Road, Visitors welcome. Information from Elinor Davies: 01285 Lechlade. Tel: 01367 253462 851218 [email protected] TODDLE ART: Wednesdays 10-10.45am in Poulton Village Hall. FAIRFORD BRIDGE CLUB: Class for improvers, 2-4pm in 01367 850385 2nd Tuesdays: TATT (Tunes at the Trout): 8pm in the CreelSTORYBring yourTIME: Toddlerevery weekalong at and 11am have in fun Lechlade with paints, Library. playdough, Songs, Fairford Community Centre. Contact Margaret Bishop: 01285 Bar, Trout Inn, Lechlade. Join us for good fun and relaxing folkrhymes and stories for children of all ages and their grown ups Tuesday 16th May: LECHLADE ART SOCIETY: 2-4pm in The colouring, printing, cutting and sticking. For more information 238834 music sessions. You need to play an instrument and read a bit Pavilion. Alexandra Woods will be painting Farm Animals. KELMSCOTTor to book a MANOR:FREE TRIAL (April SESSION to October) phone visitRachel the 01285 house 850304and of music. Or come and just listen! Free admission. Contact Ian 1st FAIRFORD CUBS: 6.30-8pm at the Fairford Scout Hut, Visitors welcome gardensor email 11am-5pm. Last admission 4.30pm. Tel: 01367 Andrews: Horcott Road (term time). For boys and girls aged 8-10½, all 252486, welcome. Angie Wright: 01285 851685 [email protected] LAMBS BABY &. HavingTODDLER a party? GROUP: Children’s10-11.30am (term- [email protected] www.kelmscottmanor.org.uk tables andtime) chairs at available Fairford forCommunity hire for £10, Centre. all proceeds Friendly togroup Little – all 3rd Tuesdays: ROYAL BRITISH LEGION FAIRFORD BRANCH:ATTACHMENT PARENTING SUPPORT GROUP: New for SWINDON MALE VOICE CHOIR: rehearsals 7.30pm at NewLambs. Contactwelcome. as above Arts & crafts, singing, stories & baby corner. First visit 7.30pm at The Bull Hotel. New and old members will be madeFairford and Lechlade. Weekly meetings held every Wednesday Century Club, Gorse Hill, Swindon SN2 8BU. Information at is free, £1.50 per family each visit after, with refreshments for YOGA FOR ALL: 10-11.30am in the Fairford Community most welcome. Contact Evelyn Webb- from 12 noon-2pm at 18 Prince Charles adults and children included. Contact Julie: 07710 604143 or Centre. Contact Becky Barry: 07816 289034, Carter: 01285 713315, Road, Fairford, GL7 4JY. Details: www.swindonmalevoicechoir.co.uk [email protected] [email protected] www.facebook.com/lechladefairfordAP, 1st Mondays: LECHLADE BAPTIST CHURCH HOBBIES AND 07903 578211 HANDICRAFTS: 2-4pm in the church. There is no charge LECHLADE TUESDAY CLUB: (in term time) 10.30am-3pm. For WEDNESDAYS more details please contact Sylvia Dennish: 01367 252477 KELMSCOTT CRAFT FAIRS AND 1st Mondays: LECHLADE PHOTOGRAPHERS: 7.30pm at Wednesday 10th May: HIKE FOR MORRIS MEMORIAL HALL EXHIBITION: Riverside Pub. Visit Facebook ‘Lechlade photographers’. ContactBROWNIES: 6-7.30pm (term time) in Kempsford Village Hall. HOME-START COTSWOLDS: 9.30am 12noon to 5pm at Morris Memorial Hall, Mike Read: Mike Read: 01367 252023 Lots of fun activities & crafts for girls aged 7-10. Contact: 10km charity walk in Stowell Park by Kelmscott, GL7 3HG. Original, hand 01285 810730 kind permission of Lord & Lady 2nd Mondays: LECHLADE BAPTIST CHURCH FILM CLUB: 2pm crafted goods for sale together with an Vestey. £15 walk & refreshments or in the Church. Enjoy a film that reflects a Christian ethos in ADVENTURE PLUS ADVENTURE CLUB (for ages 8 and over): exhibition depicting the history of the £25 for walk & lunch provided by comfortable surroundings. There is no charge. For further 6-7.30pm, term time only, at Windmill Farm, Clanfield, OX18 Arts & Crafts, Grade II Listed Hall. Free Wiggly Worm charity. Free parking, information, please don’t hesitate to drop in at Beans coffee2SN. Archery, climbing, fencing, circus skills and more. First entry. Both events support the hall, a dogs on leads welcome. Tickets/info: shop on a Saturday, or email us on session free, then £5. Email: registered charity. Please visit [email protected], 01285 885391 or visit www.adventureplus.org.uk/adventureclub [email protected] www.morrismemorialhall.org.ukor www.home-start-cotswolds.org.uk telephone 01367 253103 Monday 8th May: ‘The Inn of the Sixth Happiness’ (Approved),TS RALEIGH: 7-9pm at Fairford Fire Station. For girls and boys starring Ingrid Bergman, Robert Donat, and Curd Jürgens aged 8-18 years. Contact Jaime Hughes: 07780 827987, Wednesday 24th May: CORINIUM CRAFT CLUB: 2pm at St Birinus Court, Monday 12th June: ‘Fireproof’ (PG) starring Kirk Cameron, [email protected] DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS Gassons Road, Lechlade. Tel: 01367 Bethea, and Ken Bevel SOCIETY: ‘Romancing the rails-British 253462 FAIRFORD BRIDGE CLUB: 7.15 for 7.30pm in Fairford Rail art on track with the best’, an 3rd Mondays: LECHLADE HISTORY SOCIETY: 7.15 for 7.30pm FAIRFORD RAINBOWS: Wednesdays (in Community Centre. Bridge players required, newcomers and illustrated talk by Charles Harris at in the Pavilion. Guests welcome £4. Contact Marian Winckles: term time) 4.15-5.15pm in the Farmor visitors welcome. Contact Phil Hardy: 01285 850563 7.30pm at Deer Park School, Stroud 01367 252851 or visit Room of Fairford Community Centre. Contact Louise Vass: Road, Cirencester, GL7 1XB. £5. Info at www.lechladehistory.co.uk CORINIUM BADMINTON CLUB: 8-10pm at Cotswold Leisure, 01285 711626 Monday 15th May: Alan Pilbeam returns to LHS to tell us aboutCirencester. Need Men and Ladies for Swindon Division 2 & 3, www.coriniumdfas.org.uk FAIRFORD BROWNIES: Wednesdays (in term time), 5-6.30pm ‘Atkyns’ Gloucestershire – The County’s Landscape 300 YearsMen’s & Mixed teams. Contact Trevor Dukes: 01285 659785 at Farmor’s School, Fairford. Contact Annette Stannard: Ago’. Sir Robert Atkyns (1647–1711) was an antiquary, FAIRFORD OUTDOOR MARKET: 8am-4pm. A wide variety of ROYAL ANTEDILUVIAN ORDER OF BUFFALOES – Grand 01285 712529 topographer and MP products for sale. For stall rental, contact Andrew: 07977 Lodge of England: Tuesdays – VWH Pelican Lodge No 8849 457724, BALLROOM AND LATIN AMERICAN DANCING: Learn to Alternate Mondays: HA’PENNY BRIDGE SINGERS: We are ameets at Welford Club; Members past, present and future [email protected] dance with friendly, experienced teachers whose aim is to small group of female close harmony singers with a repertoirewelcome. Contact Andrew Bartlett: 01285 750746 FAIRFORD COUNTRY MARKET: 8.30-11.30am in Fairfordmake dancing fun. Classes in Burford (Warwick Hall) on of unique arrangements of twentieth century classics. We meet 1st Tuesdays: FAIRFORD AND DISTRICT UNIVERSITY OF THE Community Centre. Home-baked goods, preserves andTuesday evenings, Filkins village hall on Wednesday evenings, alternate Monday evenings in the Lechlade area and are THIRD AGE (U3A): 2.30pm in the Palmer Hall. Membership chutneys, vegetables, plants and craft items on sale. Wanborough on Thursday evenings and Cricklade on Sunday currently looking for new members. We have great fun and secretary, Sue Jonson: 01285 713756, Refreshments available. Contact 01285 810168 afternoons. Private lessons also available. Contact Simon Paul really enjoy our music so if you’d like to learn more, please get for more details. 01367 253633 or go to in touch with Peter: 01367 253200 THE FITNESS LEAGUE: in St Michael’s Church Hall, Lechlade [email protected] Road, Highworth, every Wednesday morning at 9.30am. Just 4th Mondays: HIGHWORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 7.30pm at visit or contact 01993 882350, United Reformed Church, High Street, Highworth Tuesday 2nd May: Dr Gillian White speaking on ‘The Queenes [email protected] more picktures’: Portraits of Elizabeth I www.thamesschoolofdancing.co.uk Monday 22nd May: ‘The Frome Hoard’ by David Crisp. information Tuesday 6th June: Shaun McCormack speaking on The Queen’s ROYAL ANTEDILUVIAN ORDER OF BUFFALOES – Grand Discovered in 2010 by the speaker, a metal detectorist, this was SOUTHROP COMMUNITY SHOP AND POST OFFICE: Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard Lodge of England: Wednesdays – Thames Lodge No 9233 and the largest hoard of Roman coins ever found in Britain 8.30-11.30am at Southrop Village Hall. Groceries and local St Aldwyn Lodge No 6723 meet at Southrop Village Hall. 1st Tuesdays: KNIT AND NATTER GROUP: a free group for produce people of all ages and all abilities, who want to do some Members past, present and future welcome. Contact Andrew knitting or crocheting and have a chat with old and new BABY BOUNCE AND RHYME TIME: 10.30-11am in Fairford Bartlett: 01285 750746 Library. Sing along, wiggle and jiggle, for babies up to 2 years TUESDAYS friends. From 2.30-4.30pm in Fairford Library. Tea and coffee. FAIRFORD & DISTRICT CHORAL SOCIETY: weekly rehearsals Children welcome. Just turn up or phone Ann: 01285 712560 and their grown ups Tuesday 9th May: FAIRFORD ART SOCIETY: at 1.30pm in on Wednesdays, 7.30-9.30pm in Fairford United Church. Fairford Community Centre. A Get-Together ‘Working in inks1st Tuesdays: LECHLADE WI: 7pm in the Baptist Chapel. COFFEE MORNING: 10.30am at St Birinus Court, Gassons Contact Jane Read: 01285 713681 and/or charcoals’. £3.50 per session. Contact Sallie Seymour: Road, Lechlade. Tel: 01367 253462

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FAIRFORD U3A SCOTTISH REELS: various Wednesdays during 3rd Thursday, eight meeting a year: FAIRFORD HISTORY ARMCHAIR AEROBICS & QUIZ: 2pm at St Birinus Court, the winter from 8-10pm at Poulton Village Hall. We are a SOCIETY: 7.30pm in the Farmor Room at Fairford CommunityGassons Road, Lechlade. Tel: 01367 253462 friendly informal group who dance to enjoy ourselves. We Centre. New members and visitors (£3) welcome. Contact CIRENCESTER (Brass) BAND: The Band Room, Bingham welcome all standards including beginners. For details please Alison Hobson: 01285 711768, or Geoff Hawkes: 01285 House, Dyer Street, Cirencester. 7pm Training Band for contact Richard or Carol Thompson: 01285 712123, 712053, [email protected]. beginners and 8pm for Main Band. Free loan of instruments [email protected] Contact John Elsey: 01367 252983 Thursday 18thj May: ‘Siege of Cirencester 1643’ by John and tuition. Ian Hartnell: 01285 656662 Paddock CIRENCESTER SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE CLUB: 8pm at CIRENCESTER COMMUNITY CHOIR: (term time) 7.30-9.30pm 1st LECHLADE SCOUTS: 7-9pm every Friday at Lechlade the Bingham Hall, King Street, Cirencester. Contact Maurice:www.ciren.singtastic.co.ukat Ashcroft Centre, Ashcroft Road, Cirencester GL7 1RA. A 3rd Thursdays: MEYSEY HAMPTON WOMEN’S INSTITUTE: Pavilion. For boys and girls aged 10-14 years. Call Simon Black friendly, relaxed group focussed on singing for health, 7.30pm in the New Memorial Hall. New members welcome. 01367 252876 01666 860481,[email protected] LECHLADEwellbeing SCOTTISH & fun! COUNTRY No experience DANCING: neededin & the no Southropmusic Contact Marion 01285 850280 1st FAIRFORD SCOUTS: Fridays 7.30-9.30pm at the Scout Hut Village readingHall from skills 7.30-9.30pm. required. Pop, New folk, members gospel welcome.& world songs all Wednesdays (fortnightly): LECHLADE AND DISTRICT PROBUS 3rd Thursdays: THE COTSWOLD OIL ENGINE AND in Fairford. Boys and girls 10-14 welcome. Call Geoff McKay: Septembertaught to bythe ear. end Vicky of May Sweeney: every year. 07593 Details 833943, from Shirley CLUB: 10.30am at the New Inn, Lechlade. Probus welcomes PRESERVATION SOCIETY: 7.45 for 8pm (except June-August 01285 713981 Jenkins: 01367 252623 retired or semi-retired men for chat and then a talk. Info from when we attend events where we show our restored 1st Fridays: FAIRFORD YOUNG AT HEART MEMORY CLUB: Glyn Worthington: 01285 713301 LIDDINGTON SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCING GROUP: machinery) at Quenington Village Hall. GL7 5BS. Contact Doug 10.30am-2.30pm in the community lounge at Beaumoor 7.45-10pm at Liddington Village Hall, Church Rd, Liddington. Newton: 01285 713688 and visit 1st & 3rd Wednesdays during term: LITTLE LIGHTS PRAM Place, East End, Fairford GL7 4BH. This is a free friendly club for Contact Lynda: 01793 790821 or SERVICE AND TODDLER PLAY: 1.45pm in St Lawrence Church anyone with memory difficulties and their friends, families and Lechlade. For pre-school children and their parents or carers. [email protected] online.co.uk www.cotswoldoilengine.co.uk carers. Lunch £3.50 booked in advance and carer respite New babies very welcome. No charge ... just turn up! Enquiries service available. Details from Kelly: 07707 787580 or email: to Kathy Newton: 01367 252543 PALMER HALL DANCE CLUB FOR MODERN SEQUENCE FRIDAYS 1st Wednesdays: FAIRFORD WI: 7.30pm in the Palmer Hall. DANCING: Thursdays, 8-10.30pm in the Palmer Hall, Fairford Friday 16th June: CIRCUS IN LECHLADE: 4pm and 5.30pm at Visitors (male or female) welcome. Contact Jean Moulden: except for the Thursday before the 2nd Saturday. On the 2nd St Lawrence School. Tickets £7 at the school gate, school [email protected] 01285 713308 Saturday of each month, meetings are 7.30-11pm. Contact: or from FOSLS. All proceeds go to FOSLS (Friends of St 1st Fridays: THE CONTACT GROUP: 12.30-2.30pm at the Wednesday 3rd May: Maureen Bolam talking about Graphology01285 712232 or 01285 657917 or visit Lawrence School) Wednesday 7th June: Andrena Miles demonstrates emergency United Church, Milton Street, Fairford. Meet friends old and www.fairfordsequence.org.uk first aid including defibrillator LECHLADE JOLLYTOTS: 10-11.30 in the Pavilion. Mums, Dads,new over tea/coffee and light refreshments ZEN MEDITIATION (Wild Goose Zen Sangha): 8-10pm on Grandparents and carers come along to our fun and informal 2nd Wednesdays: MOTHERS’ UNION... ‘Christian Concern for 2nd Fridays: BREWERY BLUES: in the Cirencester Rugby Club, Thursdays in St Lawrence Church Centre, Chesterton, sessions. From bumps to pre-school, £1 per family the (first Families Worldwide’. Lechlade with Fairford branch: 2pm in The Whiteway, Cirencester GL7 2ER. See Facebook/Brewery Cirencester GL7 1UD. Zen meditation, taught by an authorised session is free), tea/coffee for the adults Juice for the children. the Lechlade Baptist Church with speakers or discussions Blues for details. Contact John Drummond: 07710 503575 Zen teacher, is an opportunity to open to life itself, to Contact Steph Williams: 07500 908 245 2nd & last Fridays (be careful of months with 5 Fridays!): 2nd Wednesdays: LECHLADE GARDENING CLUB: See ‘Localappreciate your life in silence and stillness, and this enables you FAIRFORD TINY TOTS BABY AND TODDLER GROUP meets RIVERFOLK ACOUSTIC: 8pm in the Creel bar at the Trout Inn, clubs for gardeners’ in ‘Home and Garden’ to live it to the full. Visit during term time at the United Church Hall, Milton Street, www.wildgoosesangha.org.ukand call Lechlade. All players and listeners welcome. £2. Contact 2nd & 4th Wednesdays: COMMUNITY VOICES (no Fairford. 10-11.30am. Baby and toddler activities, toys, crafts, Jeremy: 07777 680845, [email protected] painting, playdough, singing. Refreshments. Come and chat experience necessary): 7-8pm in Lechlade Baptist Church. [email protected] Come and join us. It’s good fun. £2. Contact 1st Thursdays: MINI PRAISE: 1.45pm at St Mary’s Church, and make new friends. £1 per family, first visit free! Contact Fairford for pre-schoolers and their carers. A lovely free session Victoria Campbell: 07796 303089, 4th Fridays: LECHLADE YOUNG AT HEART MEMORY CLUB: with stories, songs, crafts and snacks 10am-2pm at St Birinus Court, Lechlade GL7 3BU. Lunch & Carer Respite available – please call for details. Call Kelly: 2nd Thursdays: KEMPSFORD VILLAGE HALL MONTHLY CAFÉ: [email protected] [email protected] 07707 787580 or email: 12noon-2pm. Homemade Soup & Rolls, Speciality Teas & [email protected] 3rd Wednesday: U3A FIVE RHYTHMS DANCE: 10am in PalmerHomemade Cakes. Enjoy a break in a relaxed environment. All Hall, Fairford welcome THURSDAYS 2nd Thursdays: MINI FIXERS CLUB: 7.30pm at The Trout Inn, Community Connexions Transport Lechlade. Restoration, Preservation and Maintenance (RPM) of Thursday 18th May and 25th May: FAIRFORD ART SOCIETY: this much loved, iconic motor car. Contact Rob: 07973 578884 We provide pre-bookable transport solutions for Cheltenham – 1st Wednesday £13.50 A Get-Together ‘Working in inks and/or charcoals’ at 1.30pmor in Fairford Community Centre. £3.50 per session. Contact Sallie groups and individuals to all destinations. Gloucester – 2nd Wednesday £17.50 www.minifixers.co.uk Seymour: 01367 850385 There is a regular, pre-bookable bus service 72F – The Fairford Market – 3rd Wednesday £6.25 2nd Thursdays: FAIRFORD GARDENERS CLUB: See ‘Local clubs Fairford Shopper into Cirencester every Thursday from Thursday 29th June: DEMENTIA AWARENESS & SUPPORT Dobbies Cirencester – 4th Wednesday £9.25 EVENT: 2pm at Fairford Community Centre. Email Hilary for gardeners’ in ‘Home and Garden’ Fairford and Gloucestershire villages including; Ampney Cottage Surgery to reserve a place: 3rd Thursdays: LIBRARY CLUB: 11am-12noon in Fairford Crucis, Ampney St Mary, Ampney St Peter, Poulton, Carterton – 2nd Friday £12.50 Library. Are you unable to get to the library, but would like to Meysey Hampton, Quenington, Fairford, Coln St Central Swindon – 4th Friday £12.50 [email protected] come to borrow books and have a cuppa and a chat at the Aldwyns, Hatherop, Sunhill, Whelford, Kempsford and LECHLADE COUNTRY MARKET: Thursdays, 8.30-11.30am insame time? Or do you know of someone who is unable to get Lechlade. Concessionary bus passes are accepted on For groups or individuals wishing to travel further afield the Church Cottage. Everything homemade. Contact Alex out and about and would like this service? Transport with this service. we are able to provide quotes upon request. Wylie: 01793 740620 disabled facilities is provided. If so, please contact us on 01285 712599 For monthly excursions within Gloucestershire see below For more information visit our website AFTERNOON TEA: 2pm at St Birinus Court, Gassons Road, – a minimum number of eight passengers is required for www.communityconnexions.org.uk Lechlade. Tel: 01367 253462 3rd Thursdays (except September): LECHLADE LADIES GROUP: 2.30pm at Baptist Church, Sherborne Street, Lechlade. these excursions to go ahead. Seats are allocated on a 1st LECHLADE CUBS: 5.30-7pm at Lechlade Pavilion. For boysContact Val Huxley: 01367 252018. New members always first come first served basis. and girls aged 8-10½. Call Ginette James: 01367 253841 welcome LECHLADE BRIDGE CLUB: 7.30pm in The Pavilion, Lechlade. To book a trip call 0345 680 5029 or email [email protected]

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LAW AND ORDER ABANDONED VEHICLES 0800 180 4140 CRIMESTOPPERS 0800 555111 DOCTORS HILLARY COTTAGE SURGERY 01285 712377 LIBRARIES LECHLADE MEDICAL CENTRE 01367 252264PRIMARY SCHOOLSFILKINS NURSERY FAIRFORD 01285 LIBRARY860594GLOUCESTERSHIRE CC 01285 712599 01452 425000 FLYING START NURSERY SCHOOL 01285 711711 HOSPITALS DOWN AMPNEY PRIMARY 01793 750294HIGHWORTHLECHLADE LIBRARY TOWN COUNCIL 01793 463500 01367 252338 KEMPSFORD PRE-SCHOOL 01285 811000 FAIRFORD PRIMARY 01285 712543LECHLADE LIBRARYHIGHWAYS,& STREET LIGHTING 01367 252631 08000 514514 CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL 03004 222 222 LECHLADE LITTLE LEARNERS 01367 250278 HATHEROP CASTLE (PRIVATE) 01285 750206 PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY 01452 425577 CIRENCESTER HOSPITAL 0300 421 6200 MANOR FARM NURSERY PUBLIC 07760 TRANSPORT 788081 FAIRFORD HOSPITAL 0300 421HATHEROP 6470 PRIMARY 01285 750318 COMMUNITY BUS 01285 713852 GLOUCESTER ROYAL HOSPITAL 0300 422KEMPSFORD 2222 PRIMARY 01285 810367 FIRST GREAT WESTERN 0845 748 4950 GREAT WESTERN HOSPITAL 01793 604020SOUTHROP PRIMARY 01367 850246 ST CHRISTOPHER’S, LANGFORD 01367 860318MEGA BUS 0900 160 0900 ST LAWRENCE, LECHLADE 01367 252356NATIONAL RAIL ENQUIRIES 0845 748 4950 JOHN RADCLIFFE OXFORD HOSPITAL 0300 304 7777 STAGECOACH NATIONAL TRAVELINE 0871 200 2233 SOCIAL SERVICES CITIZENS ADVICE (COTSWOLDS) 0808 800SECONDARY 0511 SCHOOLS VILLAGE HALLS CITIZENS ADVICE (SWINDON) 0844 488BURFORD 4114 SCHOOL 01993 823303DOWN AMPNEY 01793 751429 TRADING STANDARDS COLN HOUSE SCHOOL 01285 712308FAIRFORD COMMUNITY CENTRE 01285 711571 FARMOR’S SCHOOL 01285 712302KELMSCOTT VILLAGE HALL 01367 252403 GLOUCESTERSHIRE TRADING KEMPSFORD VILLAGE HALL 01285 810478 STANDARDS 01452 426201 RECREATION KENCOTT VILLAGE HALL 01367 860516 COLLEGES COTSWOLD LEISURE CENTRE, LANGFORD VILLAGE HALL 01367 860509 CIRENCESTER COLLEGE 01285 640994CIRENCESTER 01285 654057LECHLADE MEMORIAL HALL 01367 253325 HARTPURY COLLEGE 01452 702132FAIRFORD SPORTS CENTRE 01285 713786MARSTON MEYSEY 01285 810615 ROYAL AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 01285 652531FARINGDON LEISURE CENTRE 01367 241755MEYSEY HAMPTON 01285 851084 HIGHWORTH REC 01793 762602PALMER HALL, FAIRFORD 01285 712189 PRE-SCHOOLS POULTON VILLAGE HALL 01285 850217 BROADSHIRES PRE-SCHOOL 01367 860729COUNCILS QUENINGTON VILLAGE HALL 07531 879094 DOWN AMPNEY PRE-SCHOOL 07706 726865COTSWOLD DISTRICT COUNCIL 01285 623000 FAIRFORD PRE-SCHOOL 01285 713176FAIRFORD TOWN COUNCIL 01285 712344 The Churches welcome you ANGLICAN CATHOLIC ST MARY THE VIRGINHigh Street, Fairford ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURYHorcott, Fairford www.stmaryschurchfairford.org.uk www.stthomasparish.plus.com Parish Office: open weekdays 10am-12noon in the Fairford Priest: Fr Michael Robertson Tel: 01285 712586 Community Centre, Tel: 01285 712611 [email protected] Email: [email protected] For service times, see church notice board, visit the website For service times, see church notice board, visit the website oror phone the Priest. phone the Parish Office. For enquiries about baptisms and weddings, please contact the parish office, marking it FAO COMMUNITY Vicar. Study and prayer group details on request. FAIRFORD COMMUNITY CHURCH Contact: Paul and Carrie Boden Tel: 01285 712043 ST LAWRENCEMarket Place, Lechlade email: [email protected] www.stlawrencelechlade.org.uk We invite everyone who may be interested in an informal Team Vicar: Rev Andrew Cinnamond, Church gathering to get in touch. Tel: 01367 253651 What do you think about Church? Why not give it a try? For service times, see notice board, visit website or phone. We think you might enjoy it.

BAPTIST UNITED LECHLADE BAPTISTSherborne Street, Lechlade GL7 3AH FAIRFORD UNITEDMilton Street, Fairford Church Secretary: Mr David Hopkins, Tel: 01285 711551 (Congregational/Methodist) Email: [email protected] Minister: Rev James Taylor Church Secretary: Mrs Rosemary Emmerson, Tel: 01452 844656 For service times, please contact us by email or phone, or drop For service times, see church notice board or phone Secretary. in at our Beans Coffee Shop on a Saturday morning. 50 www.ripplesmag.co.uk Ripples MAY 2017 L&F_1 LINK – May 07 28/04/2017 12:21 Page 52