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Your community focused Website. Your views are at the heart of your Thornbury, so let us know and we will publish your stories and show the community what you have to say. Each month we will be focusing on new reader issues, issues that mean more than just words, and issues that need action. BS35 local is your chance to let the world know. You can find excerpts of our recent articles and stories below, and feel free to comment.
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A Bit of Local History…
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Catch & Glee: The Thornbury Society of Gleemen
A “gleeman” was originally a medieval itinerant singer or minstrel. A catch is a round for three or more voices, written only in a single voice part, so that each succeeding singer had to “catch” his part at the proper time. In the 18th century a glee came to mean an unaccompanied part song of massed harmony. The Catch Club, in which “noblemen and gentlemen” came together to sing, (more…)
Your Healing Space…
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This Healing Space is intended to share understanding about how you communicate within yourself through the interaction between your Mind, Body and Spirit and how this follows on through to how you interact with your outer world… this issue… (more…)
Slimming Treatments and Products
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I am sorry to say that treatments and products alone will not be a miracle quick fix when it comes to losing weight, however they can be very effective when combined with a healthy eating and exercise plan. There are many body treatments and products available, they can be costly and really are an investment so research well and think wisely about which you are going to invest in and what changes you are going to make in your own plan to ensure you get maximum results from your investment. (more…)
Putting Down Your Luggage
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We have all had times when we felt like we had the weight of the world on our shoulders, I know I have. Maybe you are feeling weighed down now. When it happens, we can feel tired, heavy, listless – the list goes on. (more…)
Your Fashion Fix – By Amber Taylor
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Christmas has come and gone, the January blues all passed so it’s about time we made our way out of these chunky knits and started dressing for our figures again. Christmas may have seen you piling on a few pounds but who cares! We’re seeing less and less of this ‘perfect’ size zero figure hallelujah, it’s time to embrace those curves and with style icons like Kim Kardashian and Beyonce Knowles we can’t go wrong. (more…)
The Trade Exchange
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All of us can do something, be it digging a hole or mowing a lawn. Wouldn’t it be great if such tasks could be traded in such a way that no money changed hands, both parties get something out of the deal, along with a great sense of achievement, you get that laborious task, that you’ve been putting off for weeks, completed.
To exchange a trade instead of money could mean freedom from the usual way of life, (more…)
Thank you for the music…
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The above are some of the lyrics from a 1983 Abba single and reflect the importance of music in popular culture. Whilst musical tastes have changed dramatically over the years the central feature of the content is and remains at the centre of the experience, but the way it is recorded, consumed and enjoyed has been repeatedly transformed. (more…)
Meet The Neighbours…
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This months ‘Meet the Neighbours’ is coming from a different angle; and a different place.
Why?
Because of the words that people in this town are using; boring, empty, unsatisfying, unenterprising, pressured, not creative enough, expensive, snobbish, too many charity shops, too many hairdressers, the only place to go at night is the pub. (more…)
