Dec 23
Friday January 16th 2009. Edward Sheldon Ltd, 6 New Street, Shipston-on-Stour.
Edward Sheldon are very excited to have Nicholas Buck visiting them from the great Te Mata Estate in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. Nicholas will be there for one evening only, to share some of the history of what can only be described as one of the iconic wineries of the new world.
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Tags: drink | shipston on stour | wine | warwickshire
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Dec 12
Saturday 17th January 2009 20.00 The Fleece Inn, Bretforton, Worcestershire WR11 7JE
To bless the antique trees in our orchard for fertility and growth for the coming year’s crop. Singing, Drinking and Blackjack Morris Dancing. Mulled Wine and Mulled Prior’s Tipple Cider plus a supper of warming winter stew with crusty bread. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bretforton | christmas | countryside | drink | festivals | evesham | food | morris dancing | worcestershire | cotswolds
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Dec 11
Saturday 13th December 2008 – Sunday 15th February 2009 Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum. Twenty artists from the Gloucestershire Printmaking Co-operative present a range of new and innovative work in this exciting group show. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: art | cotswolds | exhibition | gallery | gloucestershire | museum | cheltenham
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Nov 27
Shoppers are being given free use of all Cotswold District Council-owned car parks on every Saturday in December in a festive gesture aimed at boosting the local economy. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: stow | cirencester | bourton | moreton | christmas
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Nov 24
A series of free food safety ‘drop in’ days for businesses is being served up by Cotswold District Council. The authority organised the sessions after discovering through its routine inspections that not all premises are keeping a properly documented food safety management system. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: food | safety | health
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Nov 22
See sewing at its most creative at the Corinium Museum next month with the launch of the ‘Stitchery’ exhibition.
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Tags: crafts | museum | cirencester
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Nov 22
A charity treadmill trek to boost the funds of Cancer Research UK will be held at Cotswold Leisure Cirencester later this month.
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Tags: charity | cirencester | health
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Nov 19
Thursday 11th December 2008 10.30 am – Simon Chorley Art and Antiques, Prinknash Abbey Park, Gloucestershire GL4 8EX. The eagerly anticipated sale of the collection of the late John Vosper, one of the greatest characters of Gloucestershire’s antiques world, will contain antiques, collectables and curios to appeal to every taste. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: art | auction | antiques | gloucester | gloucestershire | places
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Nov 11
Representatives of a group of over 340 volunteers who look after the Cotswolds will unveil a topograph on Painswick Beacon this week that has been created to commemorate their 40th Anniversary. The Cotswold Voluntary Wardens were founded in 1968 and are the voluntary arm of the, Cotswolds Conservation Board, the organisation that exists to conserve and enhance the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cotswolds | volunteering
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Nov 10
Saturday 6th December – Wednesday 24th December 2008 at Toddington Railway Station.
Santa paid an unexpected visit to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway this week to check on bookings for his “Santa Specials 2008” trains starting on Saturday 6th December. To his delight he found that some trains are already sold out and bookings are well up on previous years. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: christmas | gloucestershire | railways | toddington | winchcombe | warwickshire
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