About thinklocal

This author has not yet filled in any details.
So far thinklocal has created 197 blog entries.

May 2022 Article 4

TOP TIPS FOR MAKING A LOAF OF BREAD OOver the years, I’ve tried lots of different ways to make bread, some successful & some less so! Here are a few of my top tips for how to make a perfect loaf:

May 2022 Article 3

TIME TO TRY SMALLER AND GREENER From now on, we will have to get used to being told that our restaurant or takeaway meals have a calorie number attached. A burger with cheese, bacon and fries may well be over 1000 calories. Sunday roast with trimmings could exceed 1500. Those

May 2022 Article 2

PLATINUM JUBILEE, PICNIC IN THE PARK Local residents of St Neots are being invited to enjoy an afternoon of music, food & celebration in honour of Her Majesty The Queen’s 70 Years of service to the United Kingdom & Commonwealth. Street Food; Pizza, fish & chips, cream teas, burgers

May 2022 Article 1

ST NEOTS FOODBANK St Neots Foodbank is part of the Trussell Trust, providing emergency food for local people in crisis and is run entirely by volunteers. In addition to a longlife box of food people who use the foodbank are given a box of fruit, vegetables and eggs, giving them

April 2022 Article 3

THE JOHN BUNYAN COMMUNITY BOAT The Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust is a charity established in 1995 to promote a new 16-mile Waterway Park, incorporating a new navigable waterway connecting the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes to the River Great Ouse near Bedford. By car from St Neots

April 2022 Article 2

HOPE BECAME THE ENEMY Igrew up in a very small village in Essex where the most exciting thing that happened was the fortnightly visit from the library van. As I delved into those exciting adventures, I dreamt of being one of the heroines inside those books. Once I left school,

April 2022 Article 1

LEMONADE FOR UKRAINE Brody; An amazing little boy raising money for Ukrainian refugees. Brody is a 4-year-old lad from St Neots who started up his lemonade stand after watching the news with myself (mum) and seeing a little girl crying saying she doesn’t want to die as they hid in

April 2022 Realfit

CENTRE GUIDE Some Bonus spring content from our friends at Realfit Centre, click below to download their guide to learn about all the Realfit community and their ethos to Health, Wellbeing and Fitness. Centre Guide Download Keep an eye out on their social media for some great new

April 2022 Magazine

ISSUE 97 - APRIL 2022 Spring has finally arrived now with the clocks having sprung forward on 27th March, it’s wonderful to have the lighter evenings. I’ve been making the most of them and getting out for a walk along our beautiful river. St Neots has been seeing some exciting

March 2022 Article 4

MAY DAY IN EATON SOCON IS BACK! May Day has been a special day in Eaton Socon, certainly since before living memory. The entire village green would be given over to traditional dancing and other festivities, and the whole community would turn out to watch. ESCA has now been organising

Go to Top