Bridge the Gap
Talking Point – December 2024
HAPPY CHRISTMAS! The greeting most of us will hear and say numerous times this month, and mostly we will mean it and mostly we will want to hear it! We all want and hope for […]
Articles by Philip Chatfield
Around Caversham
Christmas 2024 – Christmas Concert Listings
Christmas music – a round-up of seasonal events Wednesday 4 December – Christmas Celebration with entertainment from local choir Rivarate – 20:00 at Caversham Heights Methodist Church Hall, Highmoor Road. The Caversham Heights Society. To learn […]
Talking Point
Talking Point – November 2024
IT IS ONE YEAR (7 October 2023) since the horrendous attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens close to the border between Israel and Gaza, which reaped a harvest of indiscriminate killing and hostage-taking. The audacity, […]
Around Caversham
November 2024 – What’s On
If you have an event planned, please send details to whatson@cavershambridge.org We need to receive these no later than the 10th of the month before the event for inclusion in the printed paper. Later submissions […]
Around Caversham
December 2024 – What’s On
If you have an event planned, please send details to whatson@cavershambridge.org We need to receive these no later than the 10th of the month before the event for inclusion in the printed paper. Later submissions […]
Environment
Ecotip – The 60 degree reminder
WHATEVER ENERGY-SAVING tips the government may put out this winter, here is an explanation of last winter’s message to ‘turn your gas boiler settings down to 60 degrees to save energy and £££’. Most gas […]
Environment
Ecotip – Time for an Electric Vehicle?
GIVEN THE new government will restore the 2030 deadline for the end of sales of new petrol and diesel cars, and has retained targets for the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) which encourage manufacturers to […]
Environment
Ecotip – Repair or recycle your bike
THIS YEAR IS the tenth anniversary of Reading’s Bicycle (or Bike) Kitchen, where volunteers assist you to maintain and repair your cycle. They run maintenance courses and accept donations of bicycles to be reconditioned and […]
Environment
Ecotip – Browsing is worse than flying?
If it was a country, the internet would be the fourth biggest greenhouse gas emitter on the planet, and a major consumer of water for cooling. In 2018, Google used 15 billion tonnes of drinking […]
Environment
Long or Short: a mini-meadow is great for biodiversity
WE’VE ALL HAD the annual requests from Plantlife for ‘No-Mow May’ and ‘Let it Bloom June’, but you can increase biodiversity in your garden and provide food for pollinators without long, flowering grasses and tall […]