The latest news as it happens from Stroud, Stonehouse, Nailsworth and across the Five Valleys

Stroud Valleys Cycling Club (CTC)

12:10pm Saturday 13th March 2010

APART from a couple of rides which had to be cancelled during the snowy period members of Stroud Valleys Cycling Club have managed to keep the wheels turning. December saw a flurry of activity with the organisation of the annual carol service at Cam which was attended by approx 80 riders from around the district.

Gardening, with Stephen Harley-Sloman

4:00pm Friday 12th March 2010

I AM BLOWING on my hands as I sit here in my study but I shall be outside later once it has warmed up a little. There has been some beautiful weather over the last few days with crisp blue skies and even crisper frosty nights.

ALICE IN WONDERLAND (PG) - Review by Clare Shepherd

12:03pm Friday 12th March 2010

TIM Burton is nothing if not loyal: he has collaborated with composer Danny Elfman since Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), and actor Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands (1990).

Probus

1:00pm Tuesday 23rd February 2010

BILL Mortimore, a member, was the speaker at the latest Probus meeting, and his humorous talk was like an episode out of the old television programme, All Creatures Great and Small. Having just retired and considering what to do next, his wife persuaded him to accept a kid which had been born to a friend's goat. He agreed, but in no time at all the kid became fully grown, and was now too big for the garden.

Rodborough Tabernacle United Reformed Church: Burns Night quiz

10:00am Tuesday 23rd February 2010

ON FRIDAY, January 22, 2010 in the Lower School Room at Rodborough Tabernacle United Reformed Church a Burns Night quiz took place. The fundraising committee had been very busy and Brian and Carole Oosthuysen had set the questions with rounds of General Knowledge, Popular Entertainment, History of the 20th Century, Sports and Pastimes and Science and Nature with two table quizzes to set everyone thinking.

Rodborough Friendly Circle

9:00am Tuesday 23rd February 2010

AFTER our Christmas break and the snowy weather, we had nearly a full complement of members for our February meeting.

Randwick WI

4:00pm Monday 22nd February 2010

THE speaker for the evening was David Lemon with his subject Never Too Old for Adventures. On the back of the three books he has written, David described himself as an Author, Journalist, Public speaker and Adventurer and the first part of his talk was taken up with exploring the definition of the words adventures and adventurers. A dictionary definition of adventure is an occasion ‘unusual and exciting’, or ‘a risky undertaking’.

Nailsworth Flower Club

1:00pm Monday 22nd February 2010

THE chairman welcomed members and visitors to the first meeting of 2010. Unfortunately national demonstrator Patricia Dibden was unable to be with us and was replaced by NAFAS national speaker Charmaine GraceWoodham, from Oxfordshire.

Leonard Stanley WI

12:50pm Monday 22nd February 2010

THE programme promised a talk entitled My Life Inside, and members might have been pardoned for expecting a tattooed old lag to reminisce about his life of crime. Not a bit of it – instead Helen told us about her work as a volunteer tutor in Bristol prison.

Stroud Rambling Club

3:10pm Sunday 21st February 2010

ON SUNDAY, January 31 Penny Fernando led a group of 17 walkers for a 4 mile walk around Randwick and Whiteshill – not a difficult walk, but one with excellent views of Stroud and the Five Valleys.

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