COTSWOLD TIMES COTSWOLD TIMES CHIPPING NORTON TIMES DECEMBER 2014 ISSUE 49 MUSIC MAN – Tim Porter Mr Pickles and the Bull in a China Shop A Class Act in Reading PAGES 10 & 11 PAGES 23 & 24 PAGES 53 WHAT’S ON – Christmas Fairs & ‘911’ – historic, purposeful, low, red, Festivals, Christmas Markets, with a tail Concerts & Carols Plus your local sports reports, PAGES 13 PAGES 33‑41 schools and community news Christmas at Batsford – magical! Christmas is a magical time of year – at Batsford, too! Get away from the stresses of Christmas and enjoy a whole host of festive weekends at Batsford. Christmas Shopping Weekend - December 6th & 7th Hamptonsfinefoods Unusual gifts for the whole family with 10% discount on all Christmas decorations over fine food from The Cotswolds this weekend. PLUS have first pick of our new stock of Christmas Trees and hand- made Christmas wreaths. Christmas Tree Bonanza Weekend - December 13th & 14th The extra special festive gift for corporate, Choose your Christmas Tree from over 1,000 premium grade trees; with mistletoe, family and friends exclusively from holly, hand-made Christmas wreaths – and unusual gifts. Santa at Batsford Weekend - December 20th & 21st Hamptons Fine Foods of Stow-on-the-Wold Christmas cheer at Batsford. Bring the family – see Santa in his magical grotto (Sat 2–6 pm, Sun 2–5 pm), find last minute gifts, and unwind with a walk around the We have a fantastic range of gourmet hampers, Arboretum. packed in our stylish wicker baskets (open or lidded), Boxing Day - December 26th or in one of our beautiful gift boxes. Enjoy a free mulled wine* and lose those Christmas cobwebs with a walk around the Arboretum (open 10 am–3 pm) *while stocks last Batsford Arboretum and Garden Centre We are open every day except Christmas Day. 9 am–5 pm daily; 10 am–5 pm Sundays Batsford, Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire GL56 9AB. The ideal gift for hard working staff or valued customers Tel 01386 701441. Email [email protected] Courier & local delivery service available Visit our shop in Digbeth Street, Stow on the Wold and make up your own hamper with as little or as much as you like - tailored to suit your budget & made up while you wait. Visit www.hamptons-hampers.co.uk Be spoilt for choice with our extensive range of mail order hampers or create you own online. For further details please call in for one of our hamper brochures - you wont be disappointed! Shop Opening hours: Monday - Saturday 9am - 5pm, Sunday - 11am - 4pm NB: Come in with this advert & receive the presentation wrapping free of charge 1 Digbeth Street, Stow-on- the-Wold, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL54 1BN Email: [email protected] Tel: 01451 831733 Fax: 01451 831975 CND Shellac, acrylics, spray tan, collagen, sunbed, eyelashes, brow bar, waxing, teeth whitening, hair extensions, gift vouchers, manicures and pedicures Package A – tan and lashes £60 (normally £82) Package B – CND shellac,Xmas nail art,spray tan and lashes £50 (normally £76) Package C – Acrylics,spray tan,lashes and brows £70 ( normally £92) Package D – Shellac,spray tan,lashes and brows £65 (normally £86) Package E – Gel extensions,lashes,brows and leg wax £80 (normally £90) Package F – Shellac,spray tan,lashes,brows,leg wax £85 ( normally £85) Package G – Collagen Sunbed 60 minutes £40 (normally £60) Packages available NOW until 31st January Victoria Street Bourton on the Water GL54 2BX Monday - Friday 9.30 - 8.00pm Saturday 9.30 - 6.00pm 01451 798008 Facebook – Luxe tan and nails www.luxetanandnails.com [email protected] 2 3 ! Special Christmas Exhibition ! From 14 December in the run up to Christmas! the gallery will be displaying fresh work from many gallery favourites and most original pieces of artwork at £1000! or under. 27 High Street www.albiongallery.co.uk Chipping Norton OX7 5AD @albiongallery Patricia Cook Catering for every occasion 01451 830450 [email protected] VAST CHOICE OF BEAUTIFUL JEWELLERY SHAWLS UNUSUAL GIFTS TOGETHER WITH TIBETAN RUGS PRODUCED BY TALENTED CRAFTSMEN IN NEPAL ALAIN ROUVEURE GALLERIES TODENHAM, NEAR MORETON - IN - MARSH . TELEPHONE 01608 650 418 VISIT US FROM 10AM TO 5PM WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE www.AlainRouveure.com Active member of RUGMARK against Child Labour Winners of The 2000 WORLDAWARE Award for Fair Trade (Patron HM The Queen) 4 COTSWOLD TIMES CHIPPING NORTON TIMES FROM THE EDITOR INSIDE OUR DECEMBER EDITION . It has been a really busy year and I thank everyone who has been in contact FEATURES with the magazines. We hope that you have enjoyed reading them as much as we have enjoyed putting them together. 10 - 11 Tim Porter – Music Man – Caroline Fisher The magazine reflects just a slice of activity – a slice of life in our corner of 13 911 – purposeful, low, red with a tail the Cotswolds, in fact. From music festivals to traffic plans and parking; from Ben Eddolls, our Motoring Correspondent the thrill of a red sports car to free car parking (in some areas, on some days in some months!). Christmas fairs and fayres, artesan markets and local 18,19 Moving around the N.Cotswolds – Co. Cllr Nigel Moor food producers – our Cotswolds is full of good ideas and places to go to enjoy them. As locals we know them well –and we aren’t averse to finding 23, 24 Mr Pickles & The Bull in a China shop new ones either! Simon Jenkins, retired chair of the National Trust As our magazine deliverers come round to letterboxes across the area, 41, 42 Chipping Norton Remembered – Steve Kingsbury including the team here in the office by the way, please remember that they/ we are all volunteers - and their help with the magazines is invaluable! In 53 A Class Act in Reading – Richard Kemp fact, without their help we would have a serious problem distributing all the information that comes in every month. So, I wonder… could you let REGULARS them know if you could help them out from time to time? To cover for them, perhaps when they are on holiday, or have flu’. It would make a huge 14, 17, 19, 44, 52, 54 Community pages – green inspiration, poetry, Job vacancies, difference. Just a thought! Drivers needed, Volunteers, fund-raisers, a loyalty card Around the same time that the magazines are being delivered, Christmas lights will be switched on and Christmas trees will be sparkling on our village 20 Walks with the Cotswold Wardens greens and on our High Streets, as they have done for generations. Our local 21 Book Reviews from Borzoi Books school children will be singing carols watched by proud parents, and our shops will be bustling with Christmas shoppers. 25 Dates for Local Authority meetings, Blood Donor sessions We hope that your Christmas will be all the things you would like it to be – 26 CPRE – A Waste of Space sparkling, warm and full of good memories. We aren’t around again until the end of January 2015, so I will take this opportunity to wish you a great start 27 Planning news; Broadband in West Oxfordshire to the New Year. 28 Church Services Merry Christmas, Best wishes, 33 – 41 LOCAL EVENTS & EVENTS DIARY Jenni Turner Editor 40 Cinemas & Regular Events PS. If you are out and about the lanes on foot, on a bike or on a horse, please wear HighVis clothing – be seen! 41 Club Notices 42 Clubs, Societies, Associations & Charities listing (always a Work In Progress!) With over 40,000 readers across the North Cotswolds, we are delivering the four community magazines to letterboxes in Stow on the Wold, Moreton in 43 Reports from K & W Rotary & Chippy Lions Marsh, Bourton on the Water & Chipping Norton and the villages that use 47-51 News from some of our Local Schools them as centres - Broadwell, Adlestrop, Oddington, Bledington, Icomb, Church Westcote, Nether Westcote, Wyck Rissington, Lower & Little Rissington, Great 59 Robb Eden on Tax Rissington (part),Maugersbury, Nether Swell, Lower Swell & Upper Swell, Lower 62, 63 News from local Sports Clubs Slaughter, Naunton, Notgrove, Sherborne (part), Clapton on the Hill, Donnington, Condicote, Longborough, Bourton on the Hill, Temple Guiting, Guiting Power, 63, 64 Local Clubs, Societies & Associations Batsford (part), Blockley, Todenham, Aston Magna, Draycott (part) and Over Norton in Bourton on the Water, Chipping Norton, Moreton in Marsh, Stow on the Wold, 66, 67 Local Business Directory Chipping Campden, Paxford, Shipston on Stour, Great Wolford & Little Wolford, Little & Long Compton, Whichford, Heythrop, Chadlington, the Wychwoods, With many thanks to all our many contributors this month, Northleach, Burford, Kingham, Churchill and Salford. including: Tom Arkell, Ben Eddols, Caroline Fisher, Christabel Hardacre And Our Next edition is for Jan/February 2015 Jan Marley. And to all our wonderful deliverers – THANK YOU for your help during the The copydate is 15th January, 2015 year, it is really appreciated. This magazine wouldn’t work without you. Jenni Cover photograph: Bluetit eating an apple © Mike Boyes. Look online at Mike’s stunning Contact Chipping Norton portfolio of photographs – Mike Boyes Nature Photography Photo on p33 for What’s On – Bourton:River with ducks ©Carl Morgan, Times on: Bourton on the Water 07789 175 002 Extra copies of Chipping Norton Times are generally available West Oxfordshire Information Point, The Leisure Centre and at the Surgery. [email protected] Also at the Old Mill Café www.chippingnortontimes.co.uk Material published in this magazine is copyright; the Editor may give permission for copy to be reproduced for some purposes. The opinions expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the Editor or any P O Box 6, Sheep Street member of the team.