Kingsway Villagers

I’m looking for a reliable, trustworthy 16+ year old with a good sense of humour who has had experience of caring for young children.

You’ll be looking after my 11 mth old for approx half an hour 3-4 evenings during the week, beginning mid-Dec onwards.

• Pay to be agreed.
• Ideally would suit Year 11/Sixth Form/Glos College student living in Kingsway.
• May also lead to occasional babysitting.
• References required and checks will be made.

If you’re genuinely interested, please email me at (Removed By Editor – See comments… Position now filled) telling me a bit about yourself and your experience and I’ll be in touch.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone in Kingsway who joined in with Halloween this year.

My two girls had a fantastic time with so many people opening their doors and joining in the fun.

We felt very safe walking round our village last night, with lots of other families doing the same thing.

We also found it helpful that some people put up the “sorry no trick or treat” signs as it meant we didn’t stand waiting at doors that nobody answered and hopefully the people inside remained undisturbed.

First of all Jo, my apologies for delaying this post.

For the last 2 years I have added a Halloween post and I usually try to add a bunch of pictures of the local kids in their halloween costumes.
This year – due to illness (myself and Angelina) I wasn’t able to get out for the evening but I did try to get photographs of some of the trick-or-treaters who turned up at our door. Sadly it seems my camera was cursed, because none of the pictures were saved correctly (most likely I messed up… I’m definitely not “on form” at the moment)! So – to all those who agreed to have their pic’s taken and displayed – please accept my apologies.

Luckily Phoenix was able to get out and scrounge her (traditional) bucket of sweets and I did manage to (successfully) snap some pictures of her (and the cat) before she left:

Once again it was great to see so many children enjoying the atmosphere and the event and our sincere thanks go to all Kingsway Residents for being so kind to them

Waterwells Synthetic Pitch – Official Opening Saturday 21 November at 10:30

Please come to the official opening of the Synthetic all weather pitch at Waterwells Sports Centre on Saturday 21st November 2009 at 10:30 am.

The entry is off the link road between Naas Lane and Waterwells Drive.
There will be youth team football matches / demonstrations taking place.

The synthetic pitch is an artificial grass surface with full flood lighting and is available for local groups to hire at discounted rates. For details contact Quedgeley Parish Council on 721552.

Funding for the synthetic pitch was provided by Quedgeley Urban Village Ltd, the Kingsway developers, and the project has been completed by Quedgeley Parish Council, on time and within the £230,000 budget.

The land for the Waterwells Sports Centre was donated by Crest Nicholson, from the Waterwells Business Park, along with the funds to provide a high quality grass playing surface. The changing rooms at Waterwells were provided by the City Council, Parish Council and Quedgeley Wanderers Football Club with a substantial grant from the Football Foundation.

For the future, all we will need is an indoor or undercover training facility, and an outdoor hard-court informal sports facility and we will take Waterwells from a Sports Centre to be proud of, to just about the best Sports Centre in the area.

The A38 had both carriageways completely closed today, from the main junction at Bristol Road down to Waterwells, due to an accident.

I don’t know how long it was closed for but effectively the estate was cut off; no-one could leave or enter! Consider people with appointments. What would have happened if it ocurred when people are leaving for or returning from work or the school run.

Surely there needs to be a secondary driveable way off and onto the estate for 900 occupied houses, probably 2000 persons and 1600 cars.

We come back again to the Naas lane link. Can’t the Police, Fire Brigade or Council have some authority over this for safety reasons?

Regards
Sandra