Tag: Bristol
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Mayfest, May 16 to 26
Here’s one of my favourite things to do with Mayfest shows: pretend that they apply to people from various parts of Bristol. For example, while walking down East Street the other week I wondered how the people walking through there would react to Hook, Skip, Repeat: being invited to use brightly coloured rope and a […]
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The Ethicurean cookbook
Cookbooks are the one print media that I can’t imagine disappearing into a collection of electronic means. One look and touch of the Ethicurean cookbook reaffirms my belief that you need solid pictures, bigger than the screen of your phone or e-reader, to see beautiful creations come alive just ingredients away. You also need the […]
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Cider Spectacular at the Southbank Arts Cafe
The Cider Shop hosted a cider festival at the Southbank Arts Cafe over the weekend and if I’d known how good it would be I would have posted about it beforehand. I started to write while at the festival and then M fell asleep in my arms and I was busy eating a hot dog […]
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Dates for Harbourside police beat surgeries
A Police beat surgery is held in Bristol central library twice a month. The police urge anyone with any queries or questions for them to go along. They will also provide crime reduction advice. The dates and times of upcoming surgeries are as follows; Monday 13th May 2013 – 10:00am-11:00am Thursday 30th May 2013 – […]
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Full Court Press, Bristol
New cafe Full Court Press has opened on Broad Street in Bristol and it adds itself to the list of good quality coffee connoisseurs. I enjoyed a well-made soy latte made with BonSoy milk and Mugomera coffee by Roundhill from Burundi. ‘How do you drink your coffee?’ determines what you end up drinking and mine […]
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Local elections in Bristol 2013
Local elections in Bristol 2013: just the facts. Here is a list of Bristol wards and the candidates (and their address so you can ponder why the Green Cabot councillor is living in Southville and the Lib Dem for Clifton lives in Henleaze) : You can also examine your candidates’ views about issues at TheyWorkForYou.com. […]
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Grillstock, Bristol: May 11-12, 2013
Grillstock is back and it has food, tasting competitions and Dr BBQ again. I’ve written about it and attended for the last two years and it only gets better. Last year the headline act that finished off the weekend was Alabama 3. The children’s tent had a Ping Pong table in front of it where […]
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An allotment in front of St Mary Redcliffe, Ovagrown
There’s a woollen man sitting on top of a door of a house where poet Thomas Chatterton was born in 1752. The man is just sitting there. The house is opposite St Mary Redcliffe and just next to Portwall Lane very close to Bristol Temple Meads train station. Cars pass constantly. In front of the […]
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Step up to the plate! A Bristol cookbook with a difference
Step Up To The Plate! is a cookbook with a difference: it is written by people with learning disabilities. The Park Cafe in Kingswood is a project run by Brandon Trust in Bristol where trainees prepare for employment, learning valuable transferable work skills while also gaining catering and retail skills. The Park Cafe trainees have […]
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Pieminister shop gets a whole new look
The Pieminister shop on Stokes Croft has had a refurbishment and is now looking more like a bar and acting like one too. It is open until 11pm and serves a good selection of beers and drinks. They even have the sparkling Wild Beer Co and 6 o’clock gin and tonic. There are still plenty […]
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