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This is a quick and easily prepared meal for 2 cooked in less than an hour. For 4 double everything but only use an extra 250ml of liquid. Ingredients 1 tsp oil ½ red onion chopped ½ inch ginger chopped ½ to ¾ tsp cumin seeds 3 cloves of garlic chopped 1 tsp coriander powder ½ tsp garam masala or use curry powder or …
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As April is my birthday month, I am being self-indulgent and writing about two of my favourite subjects – the artist Claude Monet and waterlilies. Monet was born in Paris in 1840, but his famous work was achieved in Giverny. This is where the River Seine meets the River Epte, and is just 75 kilometres north of …
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In this new exhibition we examine the role of women in the workplace, how class distinctions defined the opportunities that were available to them and how social change and key moments in history blurred these lines. These themes will be explored through the lives of women who lived in Frenchay in the 19th and 20th …
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My daughter was around 3-4 years old when she showed an interest in tennis, so off I went on a little internet search to try to find local tennis sessions for her. I came across Downend and Frenchay Tennis Club who arranged for her to have a trial. The rest, as they say, is history, She is now 10 years old, completely …
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Ruth Davidge, Choir Director at Frenchay Parish Church tells the story of a favourite and inspiring musical work. If you had been living in Vienna in the summer of 1783 you may have spotted a young well dressed couple boarding a coach for the week-long journey to Salzburg. They were going to visit his family whom his …
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Never heard of him? Then read on… with this article from Frenchay Village Museum April 1st marks the 150th anniversary of the death of Frederick Denison Maurice, Frenchay’s most influential resident. He was born in 1805 in Lowestoft, then in 1813 his father (a Unitarian minister) was appointed minister of …
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This recipe serves 8 but the types and volume of fruit and can be to altered to ones taste. Healthy but warming on a cold day. Ingredients 1 orange – rind thinly pared in one long spiral if possible ¼ litre of fresh orange juice (I juice fresh oranges for this) ½ tsp ground ginger 8 cardamom pods, crushed 5cm …
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Visitors since 2001, Frenchay CE Primary School’s current Year 6 pupils are the latest children to have visited Lifeskills, the local safety charity. Lifeskills teaches children how to keep themselves safe in a 90 minute guided tour of various realistically themed ‘film set’ scenarios. It’s a unique and interactive …
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The residual clinical facility on the former Frenchay Hospital site is the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, known as ‘the BIRU’. It is a specialist neurological rehabilitation centre which opened on its current site in Frenchay in 2001, and in 2016 a new building was added, creating a total of 52 inpatient beds with …
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Tony Monks is a serial whistle-blower… If someone is not keeping to the laws, don’t expect him to look away: he will be on to it, and wanting to bring it to everyone’s attention. And even if he is just on the sidelines, if someone steps out of line, he will be the one to flag it up for all to see, even if it is …
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