Kingsway Villagers

The Kingsway Cycling Club met for the first time on Sunday 8th June and had a great turn out (not to mention some outstanding sunshine) for their inaugural ride.

The club will meet for a road ride at 9am every Sunday, at the Kingsway local centre in Thatcham Ave’.

Beginners and experienced riders welcome, no one will be left behind! So come and have fun, get some exercise, and meet fellow cyclists!

You’ll find more information (and contact details) on their Facebook Page.

Just to inform everyone that the final surfacing of Brize Avenue and Goose Bay Drive, from Thatcham Avenue to Buckenham Walk, will be carried out next week. Access may be restricted or diverted during the day, with diversions through Linton Avenue being implemented to ensure that all properties can be accessed.

Thank you for all your patience with these works, by the end of next week - 13 June, the surfacing should be complete with no more raised ironworks in these roads.

If you have any concerns during the works, please contact the QUVL Kingsway (number noted on home page).

Regards,

Andy Smith

Hi,

Can anybody living in Marham Drive recommend either BT or Sky for fibre broadband please? I am looking for an unlimited fast connection that will be good enough for on line Xbox gaming (plus my kids using YouTube)!

BT can provide unlimited Infinity 2 at 76mbps, whereas SKY has fibre unlimited at either 38mb or 76mb.

I have my concerns about BT as they are reported to throttle speeds even though they say they don’t? But the router provided is supposed to be good.

As for Sky, the router is supposed to be rubbish with WIFI strengths (which is where most of my internet connection is through). But I have heard they are better than BT for broadband?

I have also heard that in both cases, particularly with Sky you can only use their routers to access the internet. There are some reports of people using their own hardware, but apparently it’s an effort to get the settings off the providers kit to input in your own hardware?

Also how much hardware do they actually provide you with? Is SKY just the combined router/hub? But does BT have a router and the hub separately?

I was just trying to get a idea of what people might be using in Marham Drive (or even Kingsway) so that I can make my mind up, thank you.

I am currently using Virgin ADSL to access the internet with a BT phone line rental. But lately the connection has got so bad that I can barely get on line especially in the evening. After ringing them, there is nothing they can do to make it better as they are not providing fibre in Kingsway any time soon. This is the best package they can offer, so my only option is to find another provider.

Cheers!

There have been a few comments on here and elsewhere, regarding the loss of the community garden.

I have also become involved in the Kingsway Community Builder scheme (more on that later)…

One of the things we noticed quite early on is how many Kingsway Residents list gardening as one of their favourite hobbies, with several people saying that they’d like to get involved with a community garden project.

So we are planning to start something in TWO areas:

1. The (huge piece of) land at Valley Gardens diagonally opposite to Tesco Express.

2. The Kingsway Roundabout (at the entrance from the A38… the one that used to look like this website’s banner)!

If anyone is interested in getting involved, please comment here, or contact John Gow (Community Builder) or me via Facebook.

This is an extract of the second email I’ve sent to QUVL:

Turn left off Thatcham Avenue into Brize Avenue. New trenches have now appeared from the Barrett development across the road from this junction and on around the right bend.
The infill from these trenches is rapidly departing as is the infill around the raised manholes.
I don’t drive a 4×4, so perhaps for the benefit of us ordinary car drivers you could ask the appropriate contractor to do a better job backfilling these trenches?

If anyone else is getting fed up driving over these perhaps we could start some sort of petition to get them to do a better job!

I am arranging an auction in the Quedgeley Community Centre on Saturday 1st November 2014 which will be in aid of my charity Bulldog Rescue.

I would love to see you and as many others as you can get together at the sale and if possible let me have an item as a donation from you to be auctioned, I will need to know about that well beforehand so as to produce a sale schedule.

We are hopeful that we have the services of Mr.Michael Pratt as our Auctioneer.

A bar will be available with pre sale viewing.

Sandra Smith
01452 725343

Posted on Sandra’s behalf: Clive