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Places
Tall ships ahoy!
The majestic craft will once more be making their way along the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal this month for the 2013 Tall Ships Festival
Go Wild in the Cotswolds!
A fantastic day out for all the family including your dog! Stroll around the Park and enjoy uninterrupted views of the animals, so it feels as though you are in a wild setting. There are animals galore that you can get up close to. Watch Rhinos and Zebras graze on the lawns in front of the Gothic Manor House. Walk up the Giraffe walkway and get eye-to-eye with these amazing creatures or explore the Walled Garden’s Tropical House with free roaming sloth, birds and bats. Watch the Penguin’s being fed and then get up close with the Lemurs in their free-roaming Madagascar Exhibit. Or why not take a ride on the Bella the Train around the Park and explore the adventure playground. The Park is pushchair and wheelchair friendly open daily from 10am.
Who’s watching your business? Find out at the Cheltenham Cyber Security Conference 7th June
Who’s watching your business? Find out at the Cheltenham Cyber Security Conference 7th June
Walks
New series of Cotswold walking routes
A brand new series of circular walking route guides has been launched for the Diamond Jubilee to help more people enjoy and explore the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Restaurant Reviews
THE FEATHERS HOTEL
The Feathers Hotel, a member of Pride of Britain Hotels, is an inviting country retreat that combines historic charm with a fun personality. Located in the historic market town of Woodstock, which was the birth place of Winston Churchill, the hotel is surrounded by cultural attractions. Just a two minute stroll through the beautiful village shops and guests will arrive at the magnificent Blenheim Palace.
Luxury hotel brings in Michelin-starred consultant
Dormy House Hotel has secured a culinary ‘dream partnership’ by teaming up with an internationally renowned Michelin-starred chef to help develop its new menu.
The Fleece, Cirencester
A traditional coaching inn right in the heart of Cirencester, with a history that goes way back to 1651 when King Charles II hid from Cromwell’s troops in the building, The Fleece is a great base to explore the Cotswolds.
Purslane Restaurant, Cheltenham
Purslane restaurant opened in July 2012 and combines the freshest, sustainably-caught seafood from British waters with the best local produce the Cotswolds has to offer. Chef, Gareth Fulford uses modern techniques such as sous vide cooking to bring out the purest flavours while delivering simple, modern British dishes to a high standard. 50% of our menu is seafood, using fish sourced from small, inshore day-boat fishermen who use hand lines and nets off the coast of Cornwall. They don’t damage the seabed by trawling and they land their fish on the same day it’s caught, so it can be fresh on your plate the very next day.
Gardens
Growing success for Peter Dowle and his team
Chelsea Flower Show veterans Howle Hill Nursery are looking forward to a busy month ahead, undertaking show gardens at both the SW1 garden Mecca at the end of the month and The Malvern Spring Show (May 9-12).
Batsford Arboretum
It's blossom time in the Arboretum when you'll find clouds of pink in every shade possible
A S Gordon Ltd
A S Gordon Ltd is a family run business now going into the 2nd generation. We began our early years maintaining the grounds at RAF sites throughout the South West.
Snowdrops do what they do best at Painswick
The weather has thrown everything at us in 2013 – snow, gales, floods, sun, fog but it seems that snowdrops remain unfazed by it all
Events
Tall ships ahoy!
The majestic craft will once more be making their way along the Gloucester-Sharpness Canal this month for the 2013 Tall Ships Festival
New pop-up shop and gallery in Gloucester Docks
Hat’s House & Home offers re-imagined, restored, repainted and totally unique furniture, art and other fabulous stuff.
City stores in walk-off
Teams from Gloucester’s stores are gearing up for the Pied Piper Walkathon taking place on Sunday, May 26. Teams from Debenhams, Kingswalk Shopping Centre and Sainsburys Northgate Street have already taken up the challenge to walk the 25-mile route.
Who’s watching your business? Find out at the Cheltenham Cyber Security Conference 7th June
Who’s watching your business? Find out at the Cheltenham Cyber Security Conference 7th June
The Searchers: Sunday, May 26, 2013 at Tewkesbury Roses Theatre
It’s the 50th Anniversary of The Searchers first no 1 single ‘Sweets for my Sweet’
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Interiors
New pop-up shop and gallery in Gloucester Docks
Hat’s House & Home offers re-imagined, restored, repainted and totally unique furniture, art and other fabulous stuff.
The Oxford Pantry brings home a top award
The 2013 Housewares Conference & Innovation Awards took place on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at Heythrop Park
Lattice Period Windows
During December "Lattice Period Windows" had their Christmas Party at Wyck Hill House Hotel. This was a very special party as it was also a fond farewell to Valerie Emms.
Recipes
Colour in the Cotswolds
Inspired by all the fruit and vegetables on her allotment just yards from her back door, Tessa Webb of Siddington near Cirencester has published a cook book. For the last 15 years, she has been growing and cooking her own produce for all the artists who come on her art courses at Colour in the Cotswolds. Growing, tasting, trying varieties, discovering new recipes and then sharing them with others has become a way of life. Over the years, many of her visitors have asked for recipes, so she has collected together a few of her favourite dishes.
The virtues of venison
Nick Stephens extols the taste and health benefits of venison – and suggests the perfect wine to pair it with
A trio of Bumbleberry desserts
Chef Paul Merrett from The Victoria in Sheen has created three simple but delicious desserts, each featuring Frobishers Bumbleberry Juice as a main ingredient. They can be served individually or as an assiette-style dessert plate.
Ruth Clemens' Spiced Apple Chutney Recipe
The perfect winter recipe which you can enjoy yourself or can be given as a great homemade gift...
Celebrity Interviews
The music man
White wheels, red car roofs and blue discarded bonnets – a whole auto-jumble of spare parts – fill a corner of the sitting room in Mike d’Abo’s (otherwise beautifully neat) King’s Stanley home.
TONIGHT! Germaine Greer – ‘The Disappearing Woman’
Forty years ago it seemed that women were about to take their rightful place in the world, in parliament, in the church, in the judiciary, in the workplace but when you open my newspaper you find that news is still made by men in suits.
The Dawkins doctrine
‘I lay out the evidence and people are free to ignore it or be fascinated by it,’ the world’s most famous aetheist tells a star-struck Katie Jarvis ahead of his appearance at the Chipping Norton Literature Festival
Parsons knows
Cultural icon Nicholas Parsons will be speaking about his life and work at a special Lords of the Manor dinner in Upper Slaughter this month. Katie Jarvis caught up with him for just a minute
The unlikely pilgrimage of Rachel Joyce
'I don't tend to write about the shiny people. I like writing about people with spots and big ears', the author tells Katie Jarvis
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