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Lost dog-Blonde in color Blue collar(No name and is male) Last seen on Longhill lane, Hankelow is part Pomeranian so his fur is fluffy and may be standing up Please contact 01270 812159 (landline)Or email Tim.baddeley@sky.com

Thanks to all those people who sent messages of help when moving a wardrobe.
Billy was a shining example of kindness.
Jennie.

Royal Mail must be the only business in the country that allows its staff to choose their own jobs regardless of knowledge or performance. In future training manuals on motivational leadership they will be the shining example of how NOT to motivate your employees. Despite our letters to Royal Mail , support from our MP and our local councillor and a petition of several hundred names, the customer is ignored yet again.
Ant and Sam, I'm not sure who is going to miss you most , the humans or the dogs in the village. Best wishes for the future and if you are ever in the village you are more than welcome to pop in for a cup of tea – I think you know where I live !😃

Hi Jennie. Did you get sorted to move your wardrobe? If not get intouch and we can probably help. Carolyn

Hi the towpath to Overwater is well maintained and made up of compressed gravel. No problems with buggies, just a bit nettlely in places at the moment. To get to the marina cross over bridge 80 and follow the track round. Great coffee and cake at the bridge 80 cafe @ the marina!

We're both sad to see you being moved on. You should be preserved (not in vinegar!) as a Village Treasure. I would love to know the reasoning behind their 'thinking' – it makes no sense from where I'm sitting.

Enjoy your holiday. Good luck in your new post (no pun, well, maybe a small one) and I hope they realise what an asset they are getting.

Our postie Ant has been delivering mail for the last 17 years , some times our road has been flooded and he still wades through the flood to deliver our mail. Always extremely friendly, polite and helpful. Ant we will miss you. Why the Post Office think its a good idea moving staff who are perfectly happy in there job and bringing a completely new person in is beyond me . Experience is accumulated knowledge which surely should be valued and retained because this is beneficial to all. The Post Office is extremely misguided in its approach to customer service.

I would like to wish Ant and the other two Posties who have also been transferred to new areas the very best for the future.

David KIng

I have 13 pieces of jade green curtain material, approx 50cm x120cm each, plus a load of curtain tie backs. Free to a good home if you think you can make use of them.
Josien
Josien@btinternet.com

Thank you for your lovely message Ant. You are the best postie that Audlem could have wished for. Always so friendly & helpful & happy to go beyond the call of duty. We will all be very sad to see you leave & will really miss you. With best wishes for the future & hoping that you enjoy your new position.

Hello to All in Audlem
Thank you all so much for our efforts to allow me to continue to deliver letters in the Village and surrounding area but unfortunately another postie has now picked my round.
I would like to Thank Everyone for being so Friendly, Kind and Generous for all the years I have had the pleasure and privilege to deliver your mail. I will miss all of you so much, the People, the Dogs and the Village.
I am here until 26 August 2021 when I go on holiday for two weeks and whilst I hope to be around for a little while after that, I can't be sure, so wanted to say Goodbye now.
Thank you all again, it has been more than just a job, its been a joy.
Ant

I have recently moved to the village with my family and wondered if anyone can tell me if the towpath from Audlem to Overwater Marina is suitable for a fairly sturdy pushchair? Many thanks

Keen to renovate my bathroom, it is too small to be fancy, but recommendations for any tradespeople are warmly welcomed, thank you.

Recently a gentleman from a canal boat asked my husband and I if we knew what was happening to the old school/nursing home. We have no idea. Does any one know? It is sad to see such a lovely old building and the small properties within the grounds being derelict when we have a housing shortage in this country.

Pete Bentley, Audlem Electricals, only on Windmill drive!

Hi lovely helpful Audlem people, thanks for your advice and offers. I have been lent a machine by a very kind lady and the first set of curtains are finished and up. Only 6 more to go.
Thank you
Josien

Looking for a reliable and local electrician to fit external/internal lights. Any recommendations?

I too encountered this dog yesterday morning on the bridle path before it went across the footpath in the field towards Monks Lane. It is off putting to come across a dog without an owner as at one point it stood and stared at me. The irresponsible side of this is also that the owners have no idea where this dog is doing its mess which also explains for some of those left on local footpaths. I have also seen this dog on the canal so it travels some distance. If you don't want your dog then please find it another home.

Hi Josien and welcome to Audlem.

If you are not able to source a sewing machine, I would recommend dropping them into our fabulous Audlem Dry Cleaners, run by Sevi and Michelle. Their turn-around for turn-ups is excellent.

Hi everyone, I am new to the area and currently living on a narrow boat. I need to take up some curtains to make them fit the boat windows. Sadly I am without my sewing machine (in storage as moving house)would there be anyone locally who would be able and willing to lend me theirs or allow me to come and use it. I have got access to transport.

I would be very grateful.
Please email if you can, help many thanks Josien
Josien@btinternet.com

Reddish labrador seen 7 am crossing Cheshire Street on the corner at Moss Hall entrance then running with purpose in the direction of the village. Does anyone recognise this dog as it is continuously loose and will cause an accident one day. Its coat is roughish.

Hello
Help needed to move a wardrobe, small and light and just a few roads distance.
Can anyone help with a van, truck, muscles?
Thanks
jennie.walker@hotmail.co.uk

Just to say I sustained a puncture on a country lane. My mobile was broken. The local farmer not only tried to fit the spare but unable to do so took me and the 3 dogs home. then took the tyre to Market Drayton to be sorted and finally arrived home in my car with his wife acting as escort and for their return journey. A wonderful couple to whom I shall always be grateful.
As an aside: so typical of so many Audlem residents when they see others with problems. Farmers have a busy life and to give up so much time to help is more than appreciated. I wanted to post this to counter some of the negativity and brighten a grey summers day
Chris

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply to my post which I appreciate.
From where we were it looked as though you were far off the path and it is unusual for us to see torches moving along at that time of night.
We have been burgled recently and now keep an eye out for any spineless people who may do this again.
AS for James's question regarding the community support officer; this I have found to be a total waste of time when we were broken into and would have not helped at all.
Nigel.

To the person who either (and I'm going to be polite here) wipes their bottoms/their dogs bottoms/their childs bottoms/ etc etc and, when they've done it, throws the tissue with the results on it, on or near my property; watch out! It's like Fort Knox here (without the Gold) so when I've checked my state of the art CCTV footage and find out who it is who's doing it.......need I say more.....

Hi Nigel,

I just wanted to comment on your post. As it was myself and family that was walking (not sneaking) along the public footpath last night.

Having come from friends on Longhill Lane, we used the public footpath to get home in the village. Apologies that we didn't take the fully correct path, but as that would have meant crossing through your actual garden we chose to stick to the field instead.

Contrary to what you state, we didn't scurry off when we saw you, but merely carried on with our journey home.

Why exactly it makes us spineless to be walking home bemused me, almost as much as your comment on us not having a dog with us, I'll be sure to bring our four legged friend with us next time.

Not so much a problem with your post, more your attitude to people using a perfectly legal (but admittedly late) public footpath to walk home along.