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Found in the woods yesterday, one smart watch. Please contact Nikki Hand with a description if you believe it’s yours.

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A friend has 5 baby chicks, currently being incubated, which will be ready in 5 days’ time. If you’re interested, please text Libs on 07778 776931.

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Kingscote’s mobile post office has returned and will offer postal services from Kingscote Village Hall car park on Thursdays from 9am-10am.

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During the Coronavirus epidemic, this news sheet replaces the Forerunner magazine and recognises the reduced community activity and information need. Further changes are of course likely.

See the June News Sheet here.

For your information, this morning eggs and money in an honesty box were stolen from Tipputs. The eggs were retrieved but the money already in the box was taken.

The theft involved a middle aged man in a silver Mercedes, registration KV55 AWM.

If you are using an honesty box, please be aware and clear your box regularly.

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A collection of experiences of Kingscote and Bagpath inhabitants during the COVID outbreak – book material needed PLEASE READ ON…

These times have had a profound impact on all of our lives, yet being the small yet diverse community that we are, each of us will have had a very different experience. 

This is where the idea came regarding putting together a collection of stories/pictures/accounts of residents wishing to share their thoughts, journeys and experiences. Apart from something that we can keep and look back on, it would give us something to share collectively as a community and perhaps to create a better understanding of each other’s situations. 
It could be material of any format/length/style. Ideas might include personal accounts, thoughts and opinions, quotes, diary entries, anecdotes, poems, children’s pictures and thank you messages to frontline workers, VE day celebrations, photos of any of the above or just appreciating the beauty of the surroundings whilst we are forced to slow down.  It could include experiences at work, at home or experiences of your wider family and friends here in the UK or abroad and how you have kept in touch with them over the duration. Really anything goes to give a real sense of the current climate. 

Drafted is an image of what the front cover might look like. Any comments/suggestions would be wonderful. Please do send material/suggestions (along with your name, age, occupation and contact details or, if you prefer, this can be left anonymous) to seema.bowers@yahoo.co.uk. If you do send images/photos please send by email preferably in JPEG format. 

We hope you agree that this is an opportunity to produce something unique and beneficial in these uncertain times and would be grateful if you could send your book material by mid August, if possible, in order that it can be collated. 

We look forward to hearing from you in due course, should this be of interest to you or any of your family members. 

Take care and stay well, with all best wishes,
Seema

Pyke Quarry household recycling centre at Horsley will open from Tuesday 26th May.

Household recycling centres at Hempsted in Gloucester, Wingmoor Farm at Stoke Orchard and Fosse Cross at Cirencester are now open. 

All centres are open for essential visits only. All trips will need to be booked in advance. 

Further information from www.gloucestershirerecycles.com

Due to the Covid 19 pandemic the village hall is closed until further notice, in accordance with the government’s guidelines.

The AGM which was due to be held this month has been postponed. A new date will be set when it is safe to do so.

The chairman’s report and the financial report for last year will be will be published on the website shortly.

Brian McTear
Chairman
Kingscote Village Hall Committee

Does anyone have an annex or nearby self-contained accommodation where a villager could self-isolate? Sharon needs to be able to care for her parents post surgery but needs to be able to self isolate for 14 days before she can do so. Accommodation would be needed in about 1-2 weeks’ time.

If you can help, please contact Sharon Hodgkins urgently.

Garden waste collections will restart on 13 May. 

The service is available to all customers who hold a 2019 to 2020 garden waste licence. Existing licences have been extended and we will start the renewals process in June.

We will not:

• be able to collect side waste
• collect overloaded bins

Please do not attempt to take any garden waste to any of the County Council’s Household Recycling Centres, as these are currently closed. 

Full details of all waste collections can be found here.