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  • Happy New Year from Downend Library

    calendar Dec 29, 2022 · 2 min read · Libraries Children & Young People Pre-school Gardening Environment  ·
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    Happy New Year from Downend Library

    It’s the perfect weather for snuggling up with a book and the Gadgeteers are back for the Winter Mini Challenge! The Winter Mini Challenge is an online challenge for primary school children beginning on 1st December and finishing on 20th February 2023. To take part in the Winter Mini Challenge, children join online at …


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  • Esmé’s Article: ‘Names’

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 2 min read  ·
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    Esmé’s Article: ‘Names’

    Do you like your first name? I really hope so! It is the thing that I am most grateful to my parents for. I wish I had asked my father in which book he had discovered it. When I started at the Red Maids’ School, there was only one other Esmé, and she was in my form. She was a boarder, and I was a day-girl I am grateful …


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  • January Recipe: Granny’s Ginger Nuts

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 2 min read · Food  ·
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    January Recipe: Granny’s Ginger Nuts

    A recipe from guest contributor and Great British Bake Off competitor Will Hawkins (See this month’s feature item – Great British Bake Off: The Frenchay Connection) One of the things I’ve learnt being on the Great British Bake Off is to write and develop recipes. I like creating new treats but also updating …


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  • Downend & Frenchay Tennis Club News

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 3 min read · Sport & Fitness Tennis  ·
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    Downend & Frenchay Tennis Club News

    I first started playing tennis at around age 11 at Knowle Tennis Club conveniently located next to the cricket ground where a lot of young lads just happened to be learning to play cricket! Little did I know that nearly 50 years on I would be playing again within a stones throw of a cricket club, this time Frenchay. I …


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  • Just Run News – What would you run for?

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 2 min read · Sport & Fitness Running Women  ·
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    Just Run News -- What would you run for?

    If you are looking for a new physical challenge and think you might like to give running a go Just Run’s next Couch to 5km and 5-10km courses will start on Monday 9th January at 7pm at the Dings Rugby Club. Frenchay Park Road, BS16 1LG. If you have some running experience then our 2-, 3-, 4-, or 6-mile groups may …


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  • Cricket Club News

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 2 min read · Sport & Fitness Cricket Women Children & Young People Disability  ·
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    Cricket Club News

    A very happy New Year to all Readers from the Cricket Club. I still cannot believe where 2022 went!! The New Year brings lots of (indoor) cricket activities across every part of the Club. At Youth level, each age group starts ‘Pre-Season Practice Nets’ towards the end of this month, working through on a weekly basis …


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  • News from The Dings

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 1 min read · Sport & Fitness Rugby  ·
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    News from The Dings

    We are past half way in the league programme, although we have one game to rearrange. We were due to play away at Newport (Salop) in December, but due to a frozen pitch the game was called off on the Saturday morning with players and supporters enjoying a pre trip breakfast we received a call to say the game was off. …


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  • Great British Bake Off: The Frenchay Connection

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 4 min read · Food  ·
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    Great British Bake Off: The Frenchay Connection

    The recent TV series of Great British Bake Off featured, as one of its twelve contestants, Will Hawkins, who grew up in Frenchay, and whose parents still live in the village. Here he gives a short account of the experience: Until that day in November 2021, I had only ever entered one baking competition before and that …


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  • Book Exchange News – 2022 Report

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 1 min read · Charity Children & Young People Books & Publications Community Parish Council  ·
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    Book Exchange News -- 2022 Report

    Have you used the book exchange housed in the telephone box at the top of Frenchay Hill? It was a lifeline during Lockdown when the libraries were closed. It is open to all and you do not have to donate books to take the book/s of your choice. As we get a surplus of books some are donated to charity. In 2022 £391 was …


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  • Frenchay and Hambrook Horticultural Society News

    calendar Dec 27, 2022 · 1 min read · Gardening Food  ·
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    Frenchay and Hambrook Horticultural Society News

    Our next meeting will take place at the Friends Meeting House at 7.30pm on Wednesday 4th January, when we are looking forward to hearing a talk by Dave Usher, head gardener at Hestercombe Gardens near Taunton between 1986 and 2004. The gardens have been under restoration in various stages over the past 50 years and …


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