The Kirby Muxloe village website

Are you waiting on getting your waste to be taken? I can appreciate that the weather is hindering the collections given the conditions of the roads, but come on council a little more organisation would not go amiss.
I contacted the council twice today, the first this morning simply to enquire if the collections would go [...]

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Do you get to see much wildlife near you? We seem to have Bill Oddies back garden, 3 foxes, 5 squirrels, a pheasant, (which we worry for near Christmas), numerous birds…….Pigeons of varying shapes, sizes and colours, a Blackbird, a Robin, a Great Spotted Woodpecker, Blue, Grey and Long Tailed tits,  the obvious Starlings and [...]

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I don’t know whether it’s just me but i do not feel hristmasy! Am i just becoming an old srooge!
It seems to me that each year Christmas begins earlier and earlier, i spotted my first sight of trimmings and carols in the shops in August. August to me is still children off school and summer [...]

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In the July edition of the magazine there were two reports from primary school children that to me appeared very parent or teacher guided.
Reporting on the village and its amenities they both unconsciously emitted, this is a quiet rural village and we want to keep it this way, more of an adult view than that [...]

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Sorry for the lack of posts but you’ve guessed it i’ve been away.
Having pets i prefer to have someone house/pet sit when i go away, my choice of sitter was not so good this year and i was not happy on return. Instructions were left but not adhered to and to cut a long story [...]

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