Cuckoo Hill Homes

FAMILIES living in the Packsaddle area of Frome are mounting a campaign to stop 107 homes being built on a field near their homes.

Pictures of Shame

Frome’s speed cameras will be switched back on

How can we stop the camera catching us?  Scroll down to the bottom. 

FIXED safety cameras will soon be switched back on in Somerset after Somerset County Council agreed to sell the cameras to Avon & Somerset Constabulary for £1 each.

Humble Beginings

Tree Damaged 5 Cars

Although Center Parcs are actually closer to Warminster in Wiltshire, many of those working at the centre also come from Frome in Somerset. Plus many who pop in for a few days break also live locally in both counties.

Here is an account about some Fromies taking a break in Center Parcs (Longleat) and who parked their car in the grounds official car-park of Center Parcs. A tree fell on their car.

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As presented on the blog about Westbury and Wiltshire. 

   I can find nothing about this in any of the local rags and the reason I know about it is that a friend had his white Skoda parked there last weekend and a tree fell on top of it...... There were 5 cars damaged. But it is strange that nothing has leaked into the local press isn't it?

What is worse for those with the damaged vehicles is that Center parcs are not willing to pay out. Parking at own risk. But without a vehicle you could never get to Center Parcs near Longleat. (Center of picture)

Longleat culls six lions

I could not believe this when I first heard about it. I thought it was a false story spread about to put people off visiting Longleat. But alas, sadly it is true. This was in the Guardian.

One of Britain's most popular safari parks has come under criticism after it emerged that it had destroyed six of its lions because of a large increase in pregnancies. (TheGardaian)

Grow Your Own Food?

How composting helps your garden grow.

Almost a third of the waste from households around Frome could be home composted, making good use of some foods – fruit and vegetable peelings, egg shells, tea bags and coffee grounds – and a little shredded card or paper as well as all those prunings, cuttings, clippings and more.

Where has all the food gone?

There was a protest song from the '60 ~ "Where have all the flowers gone?".

But that had to do with war. We can echo those words again. This time to do with rain. Have you really considered it? If they cant plant, how long will food stocks last until we have no more food to share? Don't worry about sending food parcels elsewhere. We will have to share within our community.

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Now is the time for us to search out an answer. To find out when there will be better times. Where can we start for that? We have to start somewhere. But where? Here is a helpful suggestion.

Crazy new Craze

The sobering reality of online drinking games.

"Neck-or-nominate" takes the form of a dare, in which the participant quickly downs a large quantity of alcohol or spirit and then nominates someone else to do the same. If that person is unable to post a video of themselves "necking" a similar quantity of booze they must consider themselves "shamed".

Like most crazes, this drink challenge game is most popular among younger people, vast numbers of whom are reported to be "necking and nominating" all over the world. That's because it all takes place online, guaranteeing huge audiences and, for the victor, much glory. For the so-called vanquished, one assumes shame and humiliation follows.

Go Wild in Frome

Go wild in new countryside project

By Somerset Standard  |  Posted: February 09, 2014

A NEW project has been launched designed to help people enjoy and understand more about wildlife close to where they live.

Wild in Frome has been launched by Simon Carpenter, who described himself as an enthusiastic amateur field naturalist and has been interested in wildlife all his life.

Council Office Close

County Council offices in Frome to close in February

Flooding History