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Bourton to host Flood Fair on May 16th

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It may seem that summer has come to the Cotswolds early, but people in Gloucestershire should still be prepared for the threat of flooding in the future.

And Cotswold District Council has teamed up with the Environment Agency and the National Flood Fair to offer residents the chance to get prepared, as it holds a second Flood Protection Products Fair on May 16th in Bourton-on-the-Water.  Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: bourton | fair | floods

Textile artists come to Corinium Museum for two months

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Colourful and varied textiles through time will be the subject of an exhibition that is coming to the Corinium Museum in Cirencester next month.
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Tags: cirencester | crafts | museum

Take time out to enjoy traditional events in the Cotswolds AONB

Places, Events by Adam No Comments »

The summer is the best time of year to enjoy the age old traditions of the Cotswolds and so the Cotswolds Conservation Board, the organisation that exists to conserve and enhance the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), has created a traditional events calendar for 2008-9 that shows you where and when you can enjoy events that are closely linked to the area’s rich heritage. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: bourton | stow | games | festivals | fair | cotswolds

Ebrington and District Gardening Club - Annual Plant Sale

Places, Events by Tony No Comments »

Sunday 18th May - 14.00 to 17.00 Ebrington Village Hall, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
The Club will have its own stall plus a number of Club Members will be selling their own plants.
Come and buy from a wide range of interesting and unusual plants and have a Cream Tea at the same time. This is a very good afternoon out in a lovely village in the Cotswolds, the countryside and the gardens are looking lovely at this time of year, and you will remember your visit to Ebrington when those plants are blooming in your own garden.

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Tags: chipping campden | cotswolds | countryside | gardens | gloucestershire | ebrington | banbury | sale | shipston on stour | stow

Ebrington Home Made Wine Festival 2008

Places, Features, Events by Tony 2 Comments »

Saturday 10th May 19.00 for 19.30 Ebrington Village Hall, Ebrington, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire.
Ebrington is again holding it’s annual Home Made Wine Festival and everyone is welcome to come and taste the proceeds.

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Tags: ebrington | chipping campden | drink | festivals | gloucestershire | wine | cotswolds

Moreton to host energy advice session in May

Places, Events by Adam No Comments »

Advice on energy saving during the spring and summer months – as well as a free energy-saving light bulb – will be the subject of a session at the Moreton Area Centre next month.

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Tags: moreton | climate | education | gloucestershire

Fosse Gallery presents Family Matter - Paintings by Mick Rooney, RA

Places, Features, Events by Tony No Comments »

Tuesday 29th April - Saturday 17th May 2008 Fosse Gallery Fine Art, Stow-on-the-Wold
A new Exhibition - Family Matter - Paintings by Mick Rooney, RA. Mick is not a typically English painter. Although his artistic antecedents embrace the narrative, not to say literary traditions of our national art, they also look to the broader horizons. He is an eclectic whose subject is the human condition:to this endlessly renewing disaster area he brings a sharp eye and a pawky humour.

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Tags: art | exhibition | gallery | stow

A Place in my Country - In Search of a Rural Dream - by Ian Walthew

Features, Events by Tony No Comments »

Thursday 1st May 2008 Cotswold Author Ian Walthew’s highly acclaimed first book is being re-issued in paperback.
A Place in My Country is part memoir, dealing with issues of personal identity, sense of place, loss and memory, but equally it is about a small Cotswold village in the early 21st Century.

“Funny, touching and ultimately very moving..a beautiful, unsentimental account of a personal loss that is reflected in the rapidly changing texture of life in rural England” Sunday Telegraph

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Tags: book | author | cotswolds | countryside | farming

Paddington Bear comes to Toddington on the GWR

Places, Features, Events by Tony No Comments »

Saturday 19th April and Sunday 20th April at Toddington Station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Paddington Bear* visits the Gloucester Warwickshire Railway for the first time this coming weekend. Amazingly, this little bear has been enchanting youngsters for half a century and he’s coming to Toddington to celebrate his 50th birthday.

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Tags: animals | author | cheltenham | gloucestershire | railways | toddington | warwickshire

Whichford Pottery holds a major selling exhibition of Salt & Soda Pottery

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Saturday 12th April to Sunday 11th May in the Octagon Gallery at Whichford Pottery
A rare opportunity to enjoy the work of fourteen of Britain’s leading Salt and Soda Potters.

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Tags: ceramics | exhibition | warwickshire | pottery

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