Kingsway Villagers

If you’d like to help to promote this site, there are several ways in which you can.

Facebook

2 of our regular members have created Facebook groups:

Kingsway Residents Association

This is a private group created by baz_k (Barry Kirby). It’s open to residents of Kingsway and the surrounding area (Quedgeley, Hardwicke, Copeland Park etc). Just search out the group on Facebook and apply/request to join

Kingsway Village

A public group created by Angelina (my partner). You can join this group automatically (and you can also ask your Facebook contacts to join, no matter where they live)!

Both of these groups link to this site, so more members = more publicity for the site

Linking to Kingsway Villagers

If you have a website (or you have any influence over a website run by your company/organisation etc) you can add a link to this site (http://www.kingsway-villagers.co.uk or http://www.kingswayvillagers.co.uk). Suggested link titles: Kingsway Village, Kingsway Villagers, Kingsway Blog, Kingsway Community Blog, etc (or you can choose anything you’d like)!

You can also / alternatively link to any url within the site (particularly useful if - for instance - you run a local business site and wish to link to our Local Business section).

Social Bookmarks and “My Favourites”

Take a look at the “Share/Save” button under each post; you can add posts to many bookmark services, add a post to your favourites and even share via email. Here’s a list of the default bookmarks and services available: Delicious Digg Mixx Facebook Mister-Wong Twitter Pownce Technorati Favorites Furl Shoutwire CiteULike Jumptags Hemidemi FunP PhoneFavs Xerpi Netvouz Wink Ma.gnolia Diigo BibSonomy Taggly BlogMarks Tailrank Khabbr Yahoo My Web Bookmarks.fr Add to Favorites Windows Live Favorites StumbleUpon MySpace Reddit NewsVine Multiply Squidoo FriendFeed Protopage Bookmarks Blinklist Faves AIM YiGG Segnalo YouMob Slashdot Fark Twiddla LinkaGoGo MindBodyGreen Jookster Feedmarker Bookmarks unalog Diglog Technotizie Hugg Google Bookmarks Yahoo Bookmarks NowPublic Propeller Thoof Tumblr LiveJournal Current Spurl Yample Oneview Linkatopia Simpy Yahoo Messenger Global Grind BuddyMarks Ask.com MyStuff Maple Wists Gravee Connotea Backflip MyLinkVault SiteJot Care2 News dzone Design Float

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The more publicity we get, the more visibility we will gain throughout Kingsway Village and the surrounding areas (Quedgeley, Hardwicke, Copeland Park, Haresfield, Tuffley, Podsmead, Gloucester, South Gloucester and Gloucestershire).

Adverse weather conditions in Alabama - coupled with a string of unfortunate incidents for our hosting company - combined to cause some problems with my web server, from late January through most of February.

To make matters worse Wordpress have updated their software twice this year, the second time I was unable to process the upgrade due to the server issues!

Hence the lack of recent posts and updates from me, I’ve been completely snowed under!

Thankfully I have now managed to fix the upgrade issues and the server is back up; sadly it’s very slow right now but hopefully it will soon be back to full-speed.

My apologies to users who have been adversely affected by these issues and my thanks to Julian Powell and Cllr Bryan Claridge for contributing in my absence

With 5 children, we need a large car to get around. Sadly large vehicles are a little expensive (to buy and to run), so our Toyota people carrier was a little ”long in the tooth”!

Last year we had some serious problems with it, so we booked it into Autovalue 2000, who checked it out and said that they suspected a cracked cylinder head

They removed the head and sent it away to a third party company for pressure testing, pointing out what they thought looked like the suspected crack.

It took a while for the company to return the head but they said that it tested OK. So it was refitted (with a new gasket) and the car was returned to us. The total cost was just under £700.

A week later we took the children to Devon on holiday; on the way home we had some trouble but managed to “limp back” to Gloucester with smoke pouring from the car.

We returned the car to Autovalue 2000 and were given a free courtesy car whilst the problems were investigated. The test company took a long time to look at it and - eventually - came back to us with the sad news that the head was cracked after all.

In my experience the garage would normally insist that - since the prior tests had been fine - this must have happened whilst we were away (and in fact that was exactly the response from the pressure-testing company, who refused to refund the cost of the initial test), but Dave from Autovalue said that he wasn’t happy about it and added that - because he had suspected a cracked head originally - he thought the initial test results were wrong, so he would refund the entire £700 to us even though he would not get his costs refunded!

Not only did he keep his word but he allowed us continued (free) use of the courtesy car whilst we searched for a new one, and he paid us in cash so that we could get it quickly and easily without waiting for cheque clearance.

We are now the proud owners of a (fairly old - lol) Ford Galaxy which (so far) has been a joy to drive, and is very popular with the kids.

I was so shocked and impressed by the kindness and honesty demonstrated by Dave and Autovalue 2000 that I’ve added a page to the site to advertise his services… here

Thanks Dave

2008 will most likely be the first full year as Kingsway Residents for many of you…

I hope it’s as pleasant for you as 2007 was for us…

Happy new year all

It’s nice to see so many Kingsway houses sporting Christmas lights and decorations, the Village looks very festive.

I was planning to get out and take some pictures, but I’ve been terribly busy and getting ready for Christmas with 5 children is never easy… no matter how far ahead we plan we always struggle to get everything done in time

I’ve just completed another tour of Gloucestershire for the annual family “pressy drop-off”. As usual nobody was home first time around, the roads are full of impatient nutters and I came close to running out of petrol because I left all my money and credit cards at home

Oh well… at least I remembered the pressies

MERRY CHRISTMAS KINGSWAY VILLAGERS…

from Angelina, Clive and all the family at…
35, Thatcham Avenue, Kingsway.