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3 Please mention when responding to adverts A bit about Dear Neighbours, Welcome to the February edition of your Hucclecote Link. Belated Happy New Year to you all! How many of you are still sticking to your New Year resolutions, or have they gone by the wayside already?! This is usually a time of year when we start to think about getting more fit. We have a few great local fitness classes that can help you - from Fun Liners, a local Line Dance Class, to Zumba with Wanda - details of both classes can be found on page 12. Or you could join Spirit Health Club, the local gym at the Holiday Inn, who can be found on page 13. New Year, new home! Is 2024 the year in which you are thinking about moving? We have some fantastic local estate agents that advertise with us, most of them award winning. From Michael Tuck on our front cover, Ewe Move on our back cover and Naylor Powell who can be found on page 17. Or if your home needs a bit of TLC after all this bad weather we have been having recently, why not take advantage of Sky Line Softwash Winter Special on the opposite page, and give your house a full valet and driveway softwash ready for the spring months ahead. If you are a local business that is thinking about advertising in 2024 - take advantage of our February offer of 3 months for the price of 2, do get in touch for more details. We are currently looking for some distributors , if you are interested in finding out more, please do drop me an email. Wishing you all a great month ahead Sarah. The Link Directories (Gloucester) Ltd cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions or endorse companies, products or services that appear in this magazine. Printed by: The Color Company Tel: 01242 226332 www.thecolorco.co.uk
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10 To advertise call 07858 114061 Dave’s top tips Low level to close coupled cisterns How can I change my old low-level toilet to a new close-coupled toilet without having a gap behind the cistern? Well there are two possible answers. You either move all of the outgoing pipework in your bathroom wall or floor, or you make a simple box that goes on the wall behind the new close-coupled cistern. The new cistern is then fixed to this box, which can then be tiled or painted depending on what you like. Even if the bathroom walls are tiled already, using strong construction adhesive you can stick the required timbers on the wall and then tack some plasterboard to them when the adhesive is dry. Make sure that you insert a timber cross member at the height of the screw holes which secure the cistern to the wall. The reason a low level toilet does not often exchange easily for a close coupled unit is because 99% of the time a low level unit has a waste outlet which goes down into the floor. If the low level unit you have has a waste outlet which goes directly through the wall or turns at a right angle out of the back of the toilet to go right or left away from the toilet, then you should have no problem replacing it with a close coupled toilet. If your low level unit goes into the floor, the floor outlet is too far away from the wall to allow an easy exchange with a close-coupled unit. You can either dig up the floor and install another pipe, or continue with the box method described above. Regards Dave Stevens. If in doubt call me (see main advert for number) and I will do the investigating for you. Disclaimer. All advice above is given in goodwill with many years experience. We cannot guarantee however that your problems will be rectified so please, if in doubt call us before undertaking any works yourself.
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20 To advertise call 07858 114061 Hucclecote Garden Club .February is historically the month of the Snowdrop. Beautiful collections of snowdrops can be seen in many places in Gloucestershire, notably the Rococo Gardens in Painswick, and a little further afield Colesbourne Park near Cheltenham. The lovely Hellebore is in flower everywhere and certainly brightens our mood in gloomy February. Our next meeting on the 22nd February welcomes Duncan Coombs back to Hucclecote. Duncan will be speaking on The Herbaceous Border, the term meaning a border full of perennial plants. Duncan was previously a Lecturer in Decorative Horticultural at Pershore College and is a delight to hear. Do come along and give us a try, we meet at Hucclecote Community Centre on the fourth Thursday of the month, doors open at 7.00pm, meeting starts at 7.30pm. For further information please ring Joy on 553185 or Sue on 543573. HUCCLECOTE TOWNSWOMENS GUILD We ended 2023 on a high note in December with entertainment from Phil Collins and Michael Bottomley on the original meaning (!!) of the Advent Calendar. This was followed by our usual Christmas Supper. Some members of the Guild attended a Christmas flower workshop in December, taking home with them beautiful arrangements for Christmas. Our next event we are looking forward to is our annual New Years lunch at the end of January at Bowden Hall hotel. The talk for January “The Great Train Robbery” by Ian Boskett. DonÕt forget our offer of 2 visitors for the price of 1 at our February meeting, on the third Thursday of February at 7.30 pm at Hucclecote Community Centre . The meeting for February is entitled “Queen Mary Did Not Approve”. A music hall superstarÕs talk and sing along Hoping to see new members in 2024, we are a friendly group and will make you very welcome. For further information on the Guild, please ring Linda on 01452 617701. Larkhay WI How quickly Christmas came and went. Our Christmas party was enjoyed by all, There were lots of sparkly Christmas jumpers along with, lots of party food, soft drinks, a glass of wine or two and of course good company. Our first meeting of the New Year was a social evening. We started the meeting with our annual Resolutions vote. (Our resolution process means that every WI member has the chance to have her say on what the WI campaigns on each year, this is a countrywide event.) After this we had refreshments and a Beetle Drive, which was a fun and, for some, frustrating game. Each month we have a different format, whilst some are socials and involve food and games, other months we have guest speakers talking on a variety of different subjects. For our February meeting we are having a talk by Brian Rutter, a financial planner, entitled “Tax care and Toy Boys”. If the subject of tax care or toy boys appeals to you then please come along and join us. You are guaranteed a warm welcome and refreshment. If you are interested in joining a relaxed, friendly group then come along and join us on the second Thursday of the month at Hucclecote Community Centre starting at 7.30, doors open 7pm. For further information please contact Sarah, our President, on 01452 548101 or Bev, our secretary, on 01452 613208.
21 Please mention when responding to adverts Film Releases in February 2024 All film releases are subject to change and we advise customers to keep up to date with the Cineworld website and the Cineworld social media. 2nd February Argylle Reclusive author Elly Conway writes best-selling espionage novels about a secret agent named Argylle who's on a mission to unravel a global spy syndicate. However, when the plots of her books start to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization, the line between fiction and reality begin to blur. The Zone of Interest A Nazi commandant tries to build a dream life for his family near the Auschwitz concentration camp. 9th February The Iron Claw The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who make history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports. 16th February Madame Web Cassandra Webb is a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she must protect three young women from a mysterious adversary who wants them dead. Bob Marley: One Love Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world. 23rd February Wicked Little Letters A genteel coastal town of the 1920s is scandalised when residents are plagued with obscenity-filled letters in this UK comedy drama, in which crude language and sex references are accompanied by a theme of domestic abuse. Monty Python & the Holy Grail: 48th ½ Anniversary King Arthur (played by Graham Chapman) and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holly Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles along the way – from the Black Knight and the Knights of Say “Ni!” to French Taunters and a Killer Rabbit. Friday March 1st at 10am World Day of Prayer Service . United Reformed Church Moorfield Road Brockworth Everyone welcome - Refreshments to follow
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