Cotswold Chatterblog

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 »

Steve Edwards was due to run in the Luton Marathon last Sunday 7th December 2008 and that was to have been Marathon Number 461. However the race was cancelled because a car had crashed in the icy road conditions, blocking the course. However these Marathons come thick and fast and this Sunday coming Steve will be running at Hastings. Read the rest of this entry »

Housing advice service HomeView is moving to Cotswold District Council’s Cirencester offices from 5th January 2009.

The HomeView service is currently provided on the Council’s behalf by Fosseway Living from its site on the Tetbury Road.

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Only 40 more marathons to go in steve’s world record attempt to run 500 marathons by 2012, all in an average time of less than 3 hours 20 minutes. Marathon 460 was the first of three marathons in 15 days for Steve. He will have certainly earned his Christmas festivities ! Read the rest of this entry »

The upland parish of Cutsdean, source of the River Windrush, has retained an air of seclusion as undisturbed as anywhere in the Cotswolds. A peculiar feature of Cutsdean is its Dewponds and Tures designed to solve the most intractable problem of the Cotswold uplands – lack of drinking water for the flocks of sheep. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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 »

See sewing at its most creative at the Corinium Museum next month with the launch of the ‘Stitchery’ exhibition.
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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 »

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 »