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Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The brilliant new documentary about privacy by David Bond, Erasing David, has a telling scene in Chipping Campden School, Gloucestershire, where the headteacher shows off a new fingerprinting system that allows pupils to register and take their meals by pressing a pad. The headteacher, Annette France, demonstrates the £25,000 system in front of a classroom of kids, most of whom look pretty underwhelmed....
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Jack Paws and all things dog... (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
A REWARD has been posted for a missing pug at Chipping Campden. Popular pedigree puppy Saffron went missing at 12.15pm on Wednesday from her home at Calf Lane. Frantic owner Jane Glennie believes her beloved pet could have been stolen. She has put up posters and offered a reward for the 13-month dog's safe return. She said: "Everyone in Campden knows her and adores her. "They're all out...
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UKWinesOnline (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
[ October 30, 2009; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. October 31, 2009; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Paul Brajkovich from Kumeu River vineyard near Auckland on New Zealand's North Island will be hosting a dinner at Cotswold House Hotel in Chipping Campden (Gloucestershire) on Friday October 30th (almost sold out) and will also be presenting a tasting of the 2007’s in Bennets Wimer Merchant's shop also in Chipping...
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SEMPOI SAJER (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
A welcome note from the mayor ... ;-) Haaaa.... enough with the shopping story. Too much of sterling spend this month. Need to save some for autumn sale....wakakakakaka..... Ok ok... back to the topic and leave the "sale" story behind... ;-) Up north, about an hour and a half drove early in the morning, bring me and my family to a beautiful district called COTSWOLDS. The Cotswolds is basically...
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Curly's Capers (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
As one can see from the above picture (3 ) The Cotswold Way became an official National Trail ( one of fifteen ) in 2007. It therefore , in my humble opinion (IMHO in textspeke !) should carry a measure of prominence and in particular carry a measure of quality waymarking . This has , in my experience of the walk so far ( Chipping Campden to Cleeve Hill + North Nibley to Wotton Under Edge , and finally...
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Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
[ October 4, 2008 to October 11, 2008. ] Saturday 4th October - Saturday 11th October 2008 - The Town Hall, Market Square, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire GL55 6AN A significant exhibition of fine silver, covering a century of Guild of Handicraft work by the Hart dynasty, a guild of silversmiths working in the North Cotswolds in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. On view will be an unique selection...
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Blogging the Renaissance (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
2008, Beijing. 1606, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. Robert Dover's Cotswold Games, featuring, if the 1636 title-page of Annalia Dubrensia (1636) is anything to go by, the lost sport of erecting castles on little plinthes. The Michael Phelps of 1606 Gloucestershire is bottom left, expertly picking up his long stick. But what's the odd pattern centre right?
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Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
[ July 19, 2008 10:30 am to September 21, 2008 5:30 pm. ] Saturday 19th July to Sunday 21st September 2008 - Exhibition "At the Sign of the Rainbow: the work of Margaret Calkin James" at Court Barn Museum,Church Street, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. Margaret Calkin James was a talented designer and painter who lived and worked in Chipping Campden during the Second World War. She was...
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Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 04/05/2008
[ May 18, 2008; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Sunday 18th May - 14.00 to 17.00 Ebrington Village Hall, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire The Club will have its own stall plus a number of Club Members will be selling their own plants. Come and buy from a wide range of interesting and unusual plants and have a Cream Tea at the same time. This is a very [...]
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Layman's London (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Perhaps the most handsome and atmospheric of the Cotswold's towns, Chipping Campden's lengthy high-street has an extraordinary array of beautiful and well-preserved medieval houses built with the proceeds of the lucrative wool trade. Nearly every house is made out of the Cotswold's distinctive honey-coloured stone enabling buildings spanning several hundred years and many architectural styles to blend...
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Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 25/04/2008
[ May 10, 2008; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Saturday 10th May 19.00 for 19.30 Ebrington Village Hall, Ebrington, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire. Ebrington is again holding it's annual Home Made Wine Festival and everyone is welcome to come and taste the proceeds. There are many thousands of enthusiasts making wines, many of which are comparable, or even better than, commercial products. Standards are...
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Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008
The Telegraph Property has published a list of Britain's 50 richest towns and Gloucestershire has four towns on the list - Chipping Campden at No. 18, Stow-on-the-Wold at no. 33, Moreton-in-Marsh at No. 42 and Winchcombe at No. 48. “City dwellers in search of a happier way of life have boosted property values in towns across the [...]
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Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
[ April 20, 2008; 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Sunday 20th April 12.30 for 13.00 Ebrington Village Hall,Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire St. George is the patron saint of England and St. Georges Day is April 23rd but Ebrington are celebrating the Day on the nearest Sunday with a traditional Sunday Family Lunch. Dress is an optional English Theme but it is certainly the day for having a red [...]
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Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 23/03/2008
[ March 15, 2008 11:00 am to April 19, 2008 5:00 pm. ] Saturday March 15th to Saturday April 19th - 6HQ Photographic Gallery, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire - a new Exhibition - Black and White - featuring photography by Chris Poole and ceramics by Janet Stahelin Edmondson. Chris Poole MBE LRPS is a photographer who has lived abroad for many years but has now settled in Herefordshire. This exhibition...
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Cotswold Chatterblog (Free subscription) | 17/03/2008
[ November 30, 1999; 12:00 am; March 24, 2008; 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Monday 24th March - First Race 1.00 pm - Paxford, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire GL55 6XS This Annual Event is held on the Bank Farm,Paxford Course, which opened in 1997, and features permanent buildings with changing rooms for jockeys and a weighing room. Car Parking is plentiful and the viewing is excellent. It is a very good...
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