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New activities for youngsters
ALL MAKES Busy Fingers Kids Club for 4 to 10 year olds launched in January.
It offers crafts and group inter-action, and definitely no TV or console
games. The Kids Club meets at the Haydon Centre on Thursdays
FIXED PRICE SERVICING 5.30pm to 7pm and Fridays 6pm to 7.30pm.
To book a place call Debbie Musa-Eiggie on 496900.
Busy Fingers also has a number of pre-school groups for parents with
FROM £99 babies and toddlers up to five year olds. Call Debbie for times.

Come down and drum at Toothill Community Centre
Sundays 2.30pm to 4.30pm
West African Djembe drum workshop open to all. Cost £12
on the door (£6 seniors & children). £55 for 6 sessions
Call Graeme Goodwin on 07828 788552
■ MOT TESTING
Library set to show off
AND REPAIRS World Book Day takes place on Thursday 1 March and Swindon

Library Service is planning a grand day out at West Swindon Library
■ EXHAUST TYRES from 3pm to 7pm.
There will be displays and information for all interests and ages:
• plot the progress of the new Central Library project;
AND • discover how the library can help you delve into family history;
• find out how to boost your child’s reading skills;
BATTERIES • learn how to use a computer and surf the net. There are regular free
courses for beginners.
By the way, libraries are still about books. There are lots, and also
■ VALET reader groups to help you enjoy books even more.

SERVICE Meeting to manage project for children
The Lower Shaw Farm Children’s Project hold its Annual General
Meeting on Thursday 8 February at 8pm, at the farm in Old Shaw Lane.
After the meeting, there will be a chance to chat over wine and cheese.
■ CAR HIRE Call 771080 for details.
Half term at the farm: 21 and 22 February
Free collection BOOK A WINTER CHECK Arts and crafts using recy-
& delivery NOW FOR ONLY £9.99 cled materials, pancake
making in the farmhouse
kitchen, nature treks and
Free loan story walks around the farm,
swinging on the big barn
cars (subject
rope and a chance to learn
MEAD WAY
to availability)
circus skills.
FISH Places are £15 per day.
Lift to and BROS To book, call 771080.
from work ASHWORTH ROAD PADDINGTON DRIVE DRIVE
WEST Weaving words at Lower Shaw Farm
Sainsburys
SWINDON PENZANCE
Wash and GREAT WESTERN WAY It’s as simple as this... we had a need, which produced an idea,
which led to a solution, which was - let’s start a Writers’ Café, writes
vac with all Hilda Sheehan.
TEWKESBURY WAY
servicing WOOTTON BASSETT ROAD We are a small group of people Braving the rain, wind, and pud-
who like playing with words, dles, and abandoning another
working with words, and making night of Strictly Come Prancing,
FISH BROTHERS things happen with words. In other one by one, the writers came:
words, we like writing. Wendy, Tony, Russell, a taxi driver
TO BOOK OR FIND OUT MORE PLEASE It can be a solitary business, but with armfuls of poems, ...and a
CONTACT RONI, CHRISTINE OR ANDY ON meeting together can provide sol- night of strictly come writing, talk-
01793 645510 ace. After looking at a number of ing, thinking, and drinking was
venues, we lumped for Lower
underway.
Shaw Farm as the place that ticked In December, we did it again. It
the most boxes. It seemed to say worked and we’re now meeting
FISH BROTHERS ‘come sit by the woodstove, write monthly for the foreseable future.
NISSAN and read with me, walk by the The Writers’ Cafe will usually
poultry pen and pen poetry, come take place on the last Thursday of
ALL MAKES drink and think and get it write, the month, 6pm - 10pm at Lower
10%
tonight.’ Shaw Farm, Old Shaw Lane in West
SERVICING OFFER So we did, one windswept night Swindon.
OFF
in late November when a big pink Everyone with an interest in writ-
■ NAME ____________________________ bag of books and magazines ing is welcome. If you want to enjoy
spilled out onto the cowshed ta- an evening of open and honest ex-
WITH THIS VOUCHER
■ REG NO __________________________ ble. Host, Matt Holland, put an- change of ideas and thoughts about
other log on the fire and wrote in writing, and life, please join us.
Valid until 31 March 2007 white chalk on a black board ‘Wel- For details, call me on 887014 or
come to the Writers’ Cafe’. e-mail: [email protected]

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