TeSt onesfield Slate Issue No 498 December 2019 / January 2020

Dates for your diary – December For this issue Dates2, 9, 16for Monday your Coffeediary – October St James’ Centre 8.45-11.30am PublishersPublishers Simon & Jenny Haviland 1 Sew and Chat Group St James’ Centre 10am–12noonSimon & Jenny Haviland 2 Santa’s Sleigh visits Stonesfield from 6.30pm Richard MorrisPeakes House, Peaks Lane, 2, 4,9, 11,16, 18 23, Country 30 CountryDancing Dancing Village VillageHall Hall 8-10pm 8–10pm Stonesfield, Witney, Editor Oxon OX29 8PY 2, 5,9, 12 16, Book 23, Break 30 Book Break StonesfieldStonesfield Library Library 12.30-2pm 12.30–2pm Dale Morris(tel 891614, email 5 Christmas Bingo SSSC eyes down 7.30pm For [email protected]) issue 3 Bingo SSSC Eyes down 7pm for 7.30pm Publishers 6 Scouts Christmas Bingo Village Hall eyes down 7pm Editor for this month 5 Harvest Celebrations St James’ Centre 3.30–5pmDiane & PaulLynda Bates, Parkinson 7 Christmas coffee morning St James’ Centre 10-11.30am Waterloo Barn, Laughton Hill, Editor for November Lynda 6 Harvest Festival Service St James’s Church 11amStonesfield, OX29 8DY 7, 8 Artists Christmas Show Grey Cat Studio 11am-5pm Parkinson (898418) (898841) 7, 714, 21 Band MondayNight Them Coffee Combe Boys St James’ at SSSC Centre 8.45–11.30am9pm slate-pub@stonesfield.onlinePrinter Windrush Press, Witney 9 9 Parish Gardening Council Club Meeting Social Village St James’ Hall Centre 7.30pm7.30pm Editor 12 General Election voting Village Hall 6.30am-10pm Dale MorrisThe (898210) deadline for copy and 12 Christmas Shoeboxes St James’ Centre 2–4pmslate@stonesfield.onlineadvertisements for the 12 Over 60s Christmas Party Village Hall 12.30 for 1pm next issue is 15 October 14 Gardening Club St James’ Centre 7.30pmPrinter 18 Oxford Utd v Man City on Sky at SSSC 7.30pm Windrush Press,Please Witney email copy to 1920 Ladies Christmas Breakfast Quiz, Meat Draw St & James’ Xmas Draw Centre at SSSC 8.45 8pm for 9am slate@stonesfield.com Note changesor hand to it in at the village 20 Wood Crafts Combe Mill 10am–5pm 21 Christmas Jumper Party SSSC 8pm deadlinesshop & emails (Suriya Express). Advertisements to 2222 flu Carol Clinic Service in Stonesfield VillageSt James’s Hall Church 6pm2–2.30pm Copy: [email protected] 24 Christmas Eve, SSSC open noon-midnight Deadline for next 23 Village Hall Committee Meeting, Clubroom 7.30pmissue 15 January 25 Christmas Day, SSSC open 11am-2pm 25 Pop-up Café SSSC 9.30am–12noonPlease email copy to 26 Boxing Day, SSSC open noon-11pm slate@stonesfield.online or hand it in at the village shop 2531 Halloween New Years DiscoEve Disco FOSS (Venue SSSC and time to be 8pm-1amconfirmed) (Suriya Express). 26Dates Halloween for your Fancy diary Dress — January Band Night SSSC 9pm Contents

1 New Years Day, SSSC open noon-11pm Notices & thanks 2 26 Men’s Breakfast Cock Inn, Combe 8.15 for 8.30amAdvertising: 6, 13, 20, 27 Monday Coffee St James’ Centre 8.45-11.30am DeadlinePolitics for next & local affairs 6 28 Monday Coffee St James’ Centre 10–11.30amissue 10 JanuaryEducation. & culture 9 9, 16, 23, 30 Book Break Stonesfield Library 12.30-2pm 29 Treasure Box St James’ Centre 10.30am–12noonAdvertisementsClubs to & societies 12 9 Over 60s New Year meeting Village Hall 2pm slate-ads@stonesfield.onlineSport 14 3119 Children’s Quiz Night Halloween PartySSSC SSSC 8pm5–7pm Church news 16

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 1 Dates for your diary – November 2 Quiz Night Fundraiser SSSC 8pm 14 Bingo SSSC Eyes down 7pm for 7.30pm

1 Notices

Christmas things Christmas Coffee Morning – Saturday 7 December Seasons Greetings from the Everyone is very warmly invited to come editors, publishers and along to a Christmas Coffee Morning on distributors of The Saturday 7 December, 10-11.30am, St Stonesfield Slate James’ Centre. Organised by the Parish Church, all the money raised will be given Greetings to Cecily’s Fund (our own local charity which makes education possible for Phil, Tina, Curtly and Donna would like to orphaned and vulnerable Zambian wish all our family and friends a very children). Happy Christmas and a Healthy Peaceful New Year 2020. We will again be making a Coffee and mince pies - time to chat - cake donation to Sobell House Hospice Charity and Christmas gift stalls! Do come! instead of sending Christmas cards. The Slatter family Christmas Show - Local Artists Come and visit 6 Stonesfield artists at our I would like to wish all my friends a very open studio event on 7 & 8 December at Happy Christmas and prosperous New this popular annual informal event. Lots to Year 2020. I will be sending a donation to see and buy, plus chat and refreshments Sobell House Hospice Charity again with Rachael, Becki and Griselda Sherlaw- instead of sending Christmas cards. Johnson, Jenny Lines, Kerry Burniston Judy Oliver and Ann Lowe at Grey Cat Studios, Woodlands Rise, Stonesfield OX28 8PL. This year we have paintings, prints, On behalf of Mary and myself, Ron Evins textiles, books, cards, crafts and jewellery. would like to wish all our friends Peace, Lots of unique present ideas. The studio is Love, Health and Happiness this Christmas open between 11am and 5pm on both days. and throughout the coming year. Grateful thanks also to everyone who sent or wished Quiet time and the Christmas the family condolences and sympathy after rush Tim lost his brave battle with cancer on 19 When we stop and think about the September. Gone too soon but never Christmas celebrations we may ask, ‘Why forgotten and always in our hearts. are we doing all this?’ We know we have Kind regards, John Evins (Avalon, Peaks Lane, two very good reasons: we do it for each Stonesfield) other of course, to show our friends and

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Advertisements The Stonesfield Slate is a village amenity Line ads: £1.50 per 30 words. pro duced and distributed by volunteers. It Boxed ads: 1/16 page £2; 1/8 page £4; can not be held responsible for any of the 1/4 page £8; 1/2 page £12; whole page £24. views ex pressed in its pages nor does it endorse any of the products or services Copy should be sent to [email protected] advertised. The editor and the publishers by 15th of the month or dropped in to Slate SEP 19.qxp_SLATE MASTER v3.3 22/08/2019 08:04 Page 20 Jenny Haviland, Peakes House, Peaks Lane, reserve the right to edit or shorten any Stonesfield, OX29 8PY (tel. 01993 891614). article sub mitted for publication.

family that we value them, and also to the church, from 2nd through 16th Advertisements The Stonesfield Slate is a village amenity enjoy being in company especially now it’s December. pro duced and distributed by volunteers. It colderLine ads:and £1.50 the days per are30 words. shorter. We want to You will find at each stop around the beBoxed generous ads: 1/16in all page kinds £2; of 1/8 ways. page £4; can not be held responsible for any of the 1/4 page £8; 1/2 page £12; whole page £24. churchviews a small ex pressed ‘door’ inthat its opens pages with nor does it In the church, hearing the traditional questions about how we ourselves are endorse any of the products or services ChristmasCopy should Story be is sent central to [email protected] to our doing, about our insecure world, about advertised. The editor and the publishers celebrationsby 15th of the when month Christ or camedropped as a in man to to others perhaps less fortunate than joinJenny this Haviland, human family Peakes and House, to share Peaks God’s Lane, ourselves,reserve our the feelings right toabout edit the or Christian shorten any loveStonesfield, with everyone. OX29 8PY It’s (tel.true 01993 that God 891614). the faith,article our own sub strengths mitted for and pub whatlication. we can Father wants to renew His love for each do to support our planet corporately and one of us, especially at this Christmas time. individually. ‘Great!’ you might say - but where’s the Here, at the Parish Church, we want to quiet timeJEM we all need in our busy lives? provide a quiet time for thought and prayer Well,CHIMNEY here’s one way to find a bit of quiet, as well as a reflection on our traditional reflectiveSWEEPING time. The Parish Church,Tel: 01865 open 772996 Christmas-time celebrations. daily between dawn and dusk, is a warm Drop in and see! No one will bother you – andEnjoyable welcoming drawing place, courses and will and give workshops, us a !!!!!!!!!! ! it’s all yours – it’s all ours! private spaceall thislevels. December Private tuition. for a moment !"#$%&"#! of quietnessFor more and details thought. contact It’s billedGabriele as aat Revd Roy'()*+,-*.%(/"0#.-#"#1-( Turner and all at the Parish Church 7-door ‘[email protected] Calendar’ Walk-around in or ring 01993 880430 2-*301-(

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OctoberSeptember 2019 2019 StonesfieldStonesfield Slate 2020 Stonesfield Slate October 2019 everything and the oak which has grown Other notices with a hole big enough for a small child to hide in. Slate approaches 500 It has been maintained for the last 40 years March 2020 will be the 500th issue of The by Bernard Barrett. Many of us have seen Stonesfield Slate. The publishers would Bernard out in all weathers trimming the like any of your stories or anecdotes that banks and hedges or removing fallen trees. may then be included in this milestone Single handed and on a totally voluntary issue. basis he has done what was needed to keep Please send your input by 10 January to the path accessible and beautiful. He has [email protected] now decided it is time to call it a day and will not be doing the path anymore. I'm Gratitude sure that all of us in the village who use the path will join me in saying a very heartfelt When we came to Stonesfield in 2011, it and sincere thanks to Bernard. Hopefully, was not long before we received a copy of others, inspired by his example, will carry the Stonesfield Slate - and what a on his good work. delightful introduction it was to all the many activities and interests that make up Jon Gordon village life. Eight years on and we have grown to value even more this unique Stonesfield triumph expression of the character of our village Congratulations to the two who ran and and we want to say thank you to Simon and cycled and also to the stalwart few who Jenny for all their sustained hard work walked, sat, welcomed and gathered over many years as the Slate's publishers. donations for the Ride & Stride, which took We wish them well as they relinquish this place as always on the second Saturday in role that they have performed so September. Oxfordshire Historic Churches magnificently. Association raises funds to help keep Henry Hollanders and Wendy Lynch historic churches of all denominations at the centre of our Oxfordshire communities. Thank you Bernard Barrett This could be contributing to repair roofs, create kitchens, repair stained glass, build Since we moved to Stonesfield 15 years ago loos, etc. etc. The sum raised by our two our great delight has been to take our activists amounted to £475 (to which a visitors down the Brook Lane path to the further 25% will be added) in aid of St river and the bridge so that they could say James's Church. The Methodist Church how lucky we were to have ended up in was also open all day. such a beautiful place. The Brook Lane path is full of treasures, but it never lets Congratulations to all on a great you see them all at once. The path where community action! We look forward to the brook in flood has etched a deep more Riders and Striders next year! channel into the rock, the wild flowers on Alison Eastwood [email protected] the banks, the exposed layers of Stonesfield slate showing what is underneath

4 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate other social care infrastructure to come Climate Emergency meeting into play. I'm looking for ways in which I, as an individual, can respond to the climate The Parish Church has been supporting emergency. You may be, too. Here in this initiative for a few years now and Stonesfield, we have a strong community, organizes a schedule of drivers who take and it's time we had a forum for people to food weekly to Kidlington Baptist Church, get together to share ideas on how we can where it is processed and bundled up by a adjust our lives and spending habits to team of enthusiastic volunteers. reduce carbon emissions. It is a sad fact that food is still desperately I'd like to propose a meeting once a month needed. Any food you can give will be very at which we share information on specific warmly received. There are collection topics: household shopping, buying/ boxes under the table just inside the exchanging clothes, transport, gas/oil/ church, which is normally open during the electricity, choosing holidays, choosing day. Thank you. banks, eliminating plastics, supporting For more about the Foodbank, please visit Extinction Rebellion ... and more. We the website at: would then write up our shared www.northoxfordshirecommunityfoodban information, tips and ideas and post them k.org.uk online for all to see. Simon Haviland If there is anything you do that you think others could copy, come and tell us about Sorry for the inconvenience it. If you don’t know where to start, come and listen! Apologies to our neighbours and passing village traffic for all the builders’ kit Our first meeting is on Monday 2 outside our home in Church Street over the December at 7.30 pm in the St James’ past two months. Hopefully the families Centre. Please drop me a line if you intend going back and forth to school liked to come. Many thanks. watching the builders at work…

Caroline Friend ([email protected]) Richard & Dale Morris

Please support your local Dear Editor foodbank! Like those of Stonesfield and Combe, The North Oxfordshire Community Fawler residents beg those who speed Foodbank is a voluntary group formed by through our hamlet to slow down. We too members of local Christian churches. It believe that 20 is best. provides food parcels to people in need within the Kidlington, Woodstock, Most drivers are considerate and aware of Chipping Norton and Charlbury area. The the potential dangers of our road but parcels contain essential food for occasionally some travel too fast, a few of individuals and families in case of whom having been recognised as living in emergency, covering the time it takes for Stonesfield.

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 5 I'm sure that the reason is often only a Thank you for your continued support, and spasmodic loss of concentration but at the wishing you all a very Happy Christmas last Fawler Parish Meeting residents again and bright New Year 2020. expressed their constant concern and fears Jacqueline Carthew, Secretary & Booking Clerk about walking on a road which not only has for Stonesfield Village Hall (898919) no pavements, but is too narrow to allow two vehicles to pass without difficulty. Vulnerable and elderly adults We therefore ask if we might draw the within our community. attention of your readers to our difficulties I've recently had to report an incident and to request that they drive through our regarding rogue traders and intimidation, hamlet with even more care. Thank you. and was advised to let people in the local Hilary Stacey: Chairman, Fawler Parish Meeting community know so that they could be aware and also look out for neighbours and Election on 12th December friends around them. As you will all be aware by now, the I was absolutely mortified when so many elections have been confirmed and booked, people responded to my online posts, with so voting will be held in the Club Room of knowledge of others locally that had the Village Hall on 12 December from similar experiences. 6.30am to 10pm. Don't forget your polling Because we live in such a quiet and cards! peaceful little village, it’s easy to sometimes forget that we aren't in a Village Hall News bubble, and that we are just as at risk of We have lots of activities running every crime and horrible incidents as anywhere week, but please do bear us in mind if you else. are needing a bigger space over the There are a number of safeguards that can Christmas period. be put in place to help protect people from New Year, new resolutions, so why not join doorstep menaces such as : one of the activities we have running, or • Display ‘No Cold Calling’ signs. start a group of your own: • Don't answer the door to people you Pickleball: Tues 10am / Wed 6pm don't know. Tae Kwondo: Tues 5.30pm / Thurs 5.30pm Zumba: Tues 7pm • Ask the caller to come back another time. Zumba Strong: Tues 8.15pm According to Age Concern, utility Pilates: Wed 9.30am / Thurs 7.30pm companies run a Password Scheme via a Folk dancing: Wed 7.45pm Priority Service Register for the vulnerable Babies and Toddlers: Thurs 10am or elderly - utilise this if it is available to you.

We also offer a Discounted Children’s Call 999 if people are being persistent or Party Booking Fee of £50 for 3 hours in the you feel threatened. Main Hall at weekends!

6 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate However,More in-depth we have safety been information talking about can be to come along, so it looks like something Minute of silence howfound we from could a number help in ofthe sources case where but I that isn’t needed? youfound need the to following phone the particularly doctor’s useful.surgery 2019 marked 100 years since the two- If you do know of anyone who will be on first thing in the morning to get an minute silence was first observed on www.ageuk.org.uk/globalassets/age-uk/ their own on Christmas Day and would appointment, and may then need Armistice Day on 11th November 1919. In documents/information-guides/ like to join a community Christmas transport at short notice. Most of our Stonesfield on 11th November the victims ageukig01_staying_safe.inf.pdf dinner at the Village Hall, we really need drivers have agreed that unless they of war were remembered by a short people to come forward and register their haveJacqueline other Carthew commitments, they would reading and minute silence at the war interest as soon as possible. be able to offer lifts at short notice; that memorial. is,Stonesfield the same morning Community or the same Trustday. Please contact me on 07896 847722 or We will therefore be offering this service [email protected] It’s doubtful that the people who originally from the beginning of October, and founded Stonesfield Community Trust will review it at the end of the year, or some 33 years ago could ever have foreseen Stonesfield Village Hall earlier if it becomes unsustainable. the rate that it has grown at, or the scale of As the summer holidays have passed, the Ithe hope village this now.is a useful So with extension that in mind, of our evenings have drawn in, and the weather serviceheading and into we 2020, will dowe ourwonder best whatto make other starts to turn, we have to start thinking itchanges work. If and we challengesare unable are to helpgoing you to evolve on a about more indoor pursuits. We are very particularin our ever-growing day, please community. understand that it is lucky to have lots of different activities on because we are only volunteers and have We hope that with our affordable housing offer within our little community, but if other demands on our time. scheme, and the support of grant you think there is something missing and applications provided to various Viv Kendall (01993 891803) wouldAll passing like to car start and your van driversown class, came please to a organisations over the year, we have dohalt let during us know. the minute’s silence. A big continued to be of some value and thank you for this. The residents who Stonesfieldassistance, and Community hope to continue Trust this work We also welcome back the flu clinic in turned out were able to show their respect in the future. October, which is held in the clubroom Thank you to all those who have forin peace.those who can’t get to the Woodstock respondedWishing you offering all a very to helpMerry with Christmas our surgery for their jabs. This year it is communityand a Happy Christmas New Year lunch,2020. your booked for Tuesday 22 October, from 2 to kindness is overwhelming. At the 2.30pm. As always, please do contact the moment, we have had very little interest surgery directly if you want to attend the from anyone potentially being on their clinic on the day. own on Christmas Day who may want

STONESFIELD VOLUNTARY TRANSPORT SCHEME arranges car transport to doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries in Woodstock, Charlbury, Long Hanborough and Witney, and to Water Eaton Park & Ride (for buses to JR, Nuffield and Churchill Hospitals) If you need a lift for a medical visit in DECEMBER or JANUARY please ring Viv Kendall (891803) or Nigel Collier (891372) Every effort will be made to find a volunteer driver for you, but please give as much notice as you can. This is a free service, but donations to costs are welcomed.

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 7 October 2019 Stonesfield Slate 4 Politics & local affairs

Local vandalism Neighbourhood Watch Stonesfield subscribers to the Oxford Mail Stonesfield Neighbourhood Watch is a will have been dismayed to read that scheme that welcomes all residents from paper’s recent report on vandalism to cars the village to join. The scheme is there to in Church Street overnight on Thursday increase awareness about what is 24/ Friday 25 October. In fact damage was happening around us and to also make more extensive than reported and cars sure we are looking out for each other, in were also ‘keyed’ (paintwork scratched particular the elderly and more vulnerable deep by a sharp instrument) on the Cross members of our community. It is and in Boot Street. The vandals seem to important to get to know who your have followed a clear path up through the neighbours are. village creating thousands of pounds worth By working together as a group, we can of damage en route. Motor insurers will help to tackle local issues, including anti- only offload these losses on all our policies social behaviour and criminal damage, and we will all end up paying extra. These which can help to reduce crime. are damaged cars which ordinary residents need for essential journeys to work/ You and the scheme members could help: shopping/hospital visits and for which they • Promote home security and other do not have the luxury of off-street measures to reduce crime parking. They mistakenly thought they • Encourage members to report suspicious could park safely in the street in our activity to the Police village. • Support vulnerable people in the Police at Thames Valley have been community and help them avoid informed of all this mindless damage and becoming victims of crime have issued a number of crime incident • Encourage neighbourliness and closer numbers. Thames Valley Police Kidlington communities can be reached on ‘101’ (crime ref no. It’s all part of improving our village and 43190333117) or anonymously at making Stonesfield a better place to live. CrimeStoppers on 0800 555111. They will If you are interested in joining Stonesfield look into CCTV but advised that Neighbourhood Watch please email: Stonesfield should consider more CCTV [email protected] giving your and some street lighting in strategic places. name, address and contact number. You They made the relevant point that will then receive an email inviting you to criminals thrive under cover of darkness. sign up to the scheme; you will then receive your membership pack.

Deanna Asplundh, NHW Co-ordinator – Stonesfield

8 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate Developers have massive resources so it Sustainable Stonesfield was a true case of David v Goliath, David in SUSTO are delighted to announce that this case being a very small band of CALA Homes have abandoned their appeal volunteers who put in enormous amounts to the High Court. of time and energy on the fight. After our victory was announced in June, Figures CALA produced at the Planning we were dismayed, but not altogether Appeal showed planning permission would surprised, when we learnt that CALA were have resulted in gross profit to CALA of taking the decision to the High Court. The between £12 million and £20 million. That Parish Council then bravely and shrewdly “unremarkable field” on the edge of our took a barrister’s Opinion on whether village could yet prove a gold mine to SUSTO plus the Parish Council plus the someone, and we are pretty sure that CALA Cotswold Conservation Board (ie the “Rule or another developer will sooner or later be 6 parties”) should join the High Court back. Let’s celebrate this great victory – proceedings as a distinct party, or put our but bear in mind we may well need your evidence before the High Court in the form support again. of a witness statement for WODC, who were defending the High Court case. The With that last thought in mind, SUSTO and barrister sensibly advised the latter the Parish Council will in the next few because we thus avoided the risk of costs months be deciding whether to produce a against us if CALA won. The Rule 6 Party Neighbourhood Plan (NP) for Stonesfield. spokesman therefore provided WODC with NPs work alongside the District’s Local a witness statement setting out our case Plan and give the residents of a community and exhibiting all the Rule 6 parties’ a say in what houses should be built to evidence. meet real local needs, not give a national house builder vast profits. There was then a “sifting process” in which a single High Court Judge considered the Caroline Friend papers. He found CALA’s Grounds of Appeal were not sound. CALA still had the West Oxfordshire District right to argue the case before the full Court Council but they have decided not to do so. So we Another election! Let's hope there is not have won. There is no further right of only a good turnout but also an acceptable appeal on this case. CALAmity has been result. avoided. Not only have we prevented the outskirts of our village from being ruined At District, the collective mind has been by an ugly, unwanted development, but we concentrating on good housekeeping and have put down a line in the sand for other preparations for the 2020/21 budget. As settlements seeking the protection of their you may remember, I have publicised the AONB status. Community Facilities Grants which WODC has managed to offer again to parish and Please, however, remember we did not town councils. In this accounting period, achieve this without a huge amount of Chadlington Parish Council has been given work and the support of the Parish Council a grant to resurface the car park of the and the Cotswold Conservation Board.

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 9 Memorial Hall. Burford has been given the Most of your Christmas waste ability to convert an 18th century barn into can be recycled - we’ll even an Archive Centre. The Porter Recreation collect your excess... Ground Charity has received help install outdoor playground equipment. Money is Extra recycling: We will recycle all your still available for parishes if there are extras like biscuit and sweet tins, urgent projects which will benefit the local Christmas crackers and cards. Just put community. your extra recycling out in clear open bags or cardboard boxes. Please keep your glass The Council has developed a strong bottles and jars separate in your recycling box.. strategy to deal with long-term empty property, so that buildings can be returned Extra food waste: We collect your food to full domestic use. waste every week. We’ll even take leftover sprouts and turkey bones. Simply put your A new post has been created so that the kitchen caddy out for collection too if your Council now has a dedicated climate food waste bin is full. If you need a food change manager who is keen to further the waste bin or caddy, please get in touch. work that the District can achieve towards that end. Christmas & New Year collections: Normal collection Revised date New electric charging points are hoped to be installed in the spring of next year. Tues 24 Dec no change I hope none of our residents have been Tues 31 Dec Thurs 2 Jan affected by the torrential downpours of recent days. One can only feel for the poor Tues 7 Jan Wed 8 Jan folks in Derbyshire and the surrounding counties. Normal collection resumes Monday 13 January. I have spent some time recently dealing with some housing issues where residents in our villages have urgent need of Council Partnership wins accommodation. If any of you have issues award enabling design and which you cannot easily solve yourselves, delivery of carbon-neutral please do not hesitate to contact me. I will homes put your needs to the correct officer and try Cotswold, West Oxfordshire and Forest of to find an acceptable solution. Dean District Councils have been awarded £30,000 from the Local Government Richard Bishop (891414) Housing Advisers Programme to develop a [email protected] toolkit to aid the delivery of highly efficient carbon neutral homes. (The Programme for 2019-20 is designed to support councils seeking to innovate in meeting the housing needs of their communities.) This year, each of the partnership councils declared a ‘climate emergency’ with the

10 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate aim of achieving carbon neutrality in their Pothole reporting areas within the next decade. Now they have made a successful bid to secure expert If you have seen a pothole that needs fixing advice to assist in the production of a (and who hasn’t) then did you know you toolkit (similar to a residential design can report it via the internet in a few guide) that will guide how carbon-neutral simple steps. developments could be achieved. Work • Log on to the website towards the toolkit will run alongside the • Click on the map to show location of hole production of local plan policies with an Add photos (optional) aim to introduce the toolkit for publication • by spring 2021. This toolkit will assist • Give your name & email developers, housing providers, existing You can then track progress. I found this homeowners, self-builders and local worth doing as I was told ‘your pothole is communities wishing to work with the fixed’ and it wasn’t! The website is: councils to bring forward sustainable www.fixmystreet.oxfordshire.gov.uk carbon-neutral applications. Paul Bates Secretary SAFER www.stonesfield.online/safer/

Evenlode in flood at Stonesfield: November 2019

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 11 Education & culture

Nature-friendly Christmas days. Traditionally farmed organic local (Stonesfield Pre-school) food reduces food miles and packaging; it’s We all want to prevent waste and look after better for the environment overall and our environment. Many of us have been supports local farming. thinking of ways to do this over Christmas, The Table: Use natural materials (pine when household waste increases by around cones, dried flowers) to dress the table, 30%. At Stonesfield Pre-School, we have fabric napkins and a tablecloth that can be been talking with staff, children and used every year. parents about how to make Christmas more ‘nature friendly’, including the Pre- Energy: With the extra power that we use school Christmas Party! on winter’s dark nights (and our twinkly Christmas lights), it’s a brilliant time to Trees: Trees are tricky. Real or plastic? switch energy supplier to a 100% Maybe some decorative twigs or branches renewable energy company. Options from your garden instead? include Good Energy, Ecotricity, Green Gifts: Many of us would prefer less ‘stuff’ Energy or Octopus Energy – future bill in our homes. Changing the type of gifts we payments will be used to fund British give at Christmas or running a family renewables. Secret Santa can help. Wrapping gifts can Party clothes: Could we hire or borrow be problematic too – glitter, foil and plastic clothes instead of buying? There are great make much giftwrap impossible to recycle. places to hire clothing locally, and plenty of Using cloth (a scarf or tea towel) with options online. If buying, get something fabric ribbons or reusing children’s second-hand that you will wear often. artwork are attractive alternatives. There are many good charity shops in Some gift ideas: a stainless steel lunchbox / Eynsham and Witney. Lush toiletries / an e-book / a plant or Pre-school Christmas party: We will tree / a bee hotel, bird feeder or hedgehog be trying out lots of these ideas at our Pre- house / a course or experience day / an school Christmas party. We are planning IOU for a task or homecooked meal / a crafts (e.g. making crowns and tree donation to a charity. decorations) that use natural materials and Food and Drink: Food waste is rife at avoid glue and stickers. We will be using Christmas. But with a little care we can our own (reusable) cups and plates, and enjoy festive meals without wasting food: decorations saved from Christmasses past. write out a meal plan, build a shopping list The food is carefully planned to avoid around it, and stick to it. Let guests plate waste and food miles (no strawberries this up their own food and store leftovers in year!) and we are inviting the children to reusable containers to eat over the next few choose a small toy or book of their own to

12 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate give to a friend, which we’ll help them to last. The countdown started. 5-4-3-2-1- wrap in pretty cloth and ribbons. We will BLAST OFF! The rocket shook as its let you know how it goes! engines spat flames, scorching the dry tarmac. The crowd erupted into cheers, Frances Mortimer (parent), Lizzie Wharton watching the take-off with open eyes as the (Pre-School Manager) & Rachel Hemingway rocket became airborne -like an unsteady angel - rising into the silvery clouds.’ Stonesfield Primary School Ben Trevail, Headteacher Beech and Rowan classes, Years 4-6, have been writing about the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Here is an extract from The Witney Music Society Lunar Landing by Finn Carpenter. In the next of our 2019-20 season of ‘As the trio of astronauts gazed up at the concerts, the acclaimed pianist Clare Moon, they thought about the next few Hammond will make a welcome return days. Soon they would be up there. visit to Witney with a recital featuring Walking with the stars - that crowded works by Bach, Myslivecek, Schumann, around the Moon - and planting the flag Szymanowski and Rachmaninov. The for America. The Moon was particularly recital will be at High Street Methodist bright that night, it shimmered with an Church, Witney at 7.30pm on Friday 13 enchanting glow, its pearly-white surface December. illuminating the deserted city. As the sun In January, the Piatti Quartet will be went down, the Moon shone brighter, its playing string quartets by Haydn, creamy-white light casting a gentle, serene Shostakovich and Beethoven. The concert aura over the dilapidated roads of Texas. is at 7.30pm on Friday 11 January. Like a halo of mystery, it flowed across the Tickets (£12, £1 for under 19s) will be sky, lighting up the silvery tears on each available at the door from 7pm or in astronaut's cheek, its many seas shining in advance online or in person from unison, like a single harmonic note. Then Greenway Antiques or Rapture in Witney. they remembered, on July the 17th 1969, For more information please telephone they were going to the Moon. 01993 702296 or visit the Witney Music Society website The next day, the team of astronauts www.witneymusicsociety.org.uk walked out into the open, breathing in the sweet, succulent air with a sigh. They walked up to the rocket towering above Woodstock Music Society them, its steely-white glaze shining in the Winter Concert morning sun. They took a moment to wave Gounod: St Cecilia Mass and Méditation back at the cheering crowd, then they took Fauré: Dolly Suite the elevator up to the top, where the Debussy: Marche Écossaise Columbia was waiting. They stepped out of Helen Lacey, soprano; Joseph Buckmaster, the elevator, taking a final glance at the tenor; Richard Weston, bass apple-green landscape, then, they stepped Friday 13 and Saturday 14 December 2019 into the rocket. It was time. They strapped at 7.30pm, St Mary Magdalene Church, in, and took a deep breath - possibly their Woodstock.

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 13 Tickets: £14 in advance or £15 at the door, Reminiscence: Do you remember…? full-time students £5, accompanied A monthly group for people to reminisce children under 16 free, from The about the past and share memories. Meet Woodstock Bookshop (01993 812760) or on 1st Friday of each month, 2-3.30 pm, £1 email: [email protected]. per person. Tea and coffee will be served. The Oxfordshire Museum Friday 6 December: Let there be light! - How lighting our homes and streets has The Oxfordshire Craft Guild – Christmas changed. selling exhibition. 16 Nov–29 Dec For further information T: 01865 300639. Smocks Exhibition, until March 2020 No meeting in January. Sessions will Talks: 7.30pm, Friends free. Visitors £4 resume in February 2020. on the door www.friendsoftom.org.uk We would like to wish our visitors and Friends of the Oxfordshire Museum supporters a very Merry Christmas & 4 December: Last supper in Pompeii by Happy New Year. Jude Barrett, Ashmolean Education Officer 8 January 2020: History of Medicine in Oxford by Victoria Bentata Azaz, Tour guide and speaker

We have a fully extended childcare provision running from Pre­School. Here is what is currently available: Breakfast Club Monday–Thursday, 8–8.50am (£5.50 per session) Cereal, toast and fruit juice included Pre­School Sessions 9am–3pm daily for children aged 2–4 years (£16.00 per session) A"er School Club Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 3.15–6pm (£16.00 per session) If you would like registra"on forms for any of the above, please contact our administrator, Mrs Zena Rozee (tel. 01993 898012 or email: stonesfi[email protected])

14 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate Clubs & societies

Stonesfield Gardening Club Monday 13th July Bridewell Gardens – Our November meeting was a visit from Richard Woods Rob Jacobs who works at Waterperry Monday 14th Sept Visit – Ashwood Gardens, taking us through a typical year Nurseries of the garden started by Beatrix Havergal Monday 12th Oct Propagation – Rob in 1932, as a way of getting more women Jacobs into horticulture. Monday 9th Nov Wychwood Project – Neil Now a thriving garden open to visitors Clennell which produces much of what it sells in its Monday 14th Dec Christmas Quiz & plant centre and café. membership renewal Diane Bates, secretary; The garden is particularly well known [email protected] locally for its wonderful display of www.stonesfieldgardening.info snowdrops in February followed by the Snake’s Head fritillary meadow in April. These are followed by the herbaceous Stonesfield Players borders during the summer, then the Pantomime asters and orchard fruits in the autumn. Friday / Saturday, 7 & 8 February Rob was a delightful speaker, full of The Players are pleased to announce that anecdotes and with wonderful pictures to they will be performing The Wonderful show us. Story of Mother Goose, a traditional Our December meeting will be our annual pantomime for all ages. This will take place social and quiz on 9 December at 7.30 pm. in the Village Hall on Friday evening and with a matinee and evening performance There will be no meeting in January. Our on Saturday. Tickets, costing £10 for adults calendar for 2020 is as follows: and £8 for juniors up to the age of 16, will Monday 10th Feb AGM + Wildflowers on be available in the village stores in the New the Common – Genny Early Year (details to follow). However, they can Monday 9th March How to be a 21st be booked online beforehand Century Gardener – Timothy Walker at [email protected] Saturday 25th April Plant Sale at Four So practice your boos and hisses, make a Acres, Pond Hill 8.30am – 11.30am date in your diary and get ready to come Monday 11th May Making great displays in along for a great deal of fun and laughter. pots – Harriet Rycroft David Stevenson Monday 8th June Walk – Stonesfield Gardens – Members only – 7.00pm start

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 15 received, all proceeds from the evening will 1st Stonesfield Scout Group go towards the new scout hut and It's been a busy term for the scout group equipment for the Scout Group. with plans to demolish the scout hut starting to take shape. The leaders have Post boxes for senior citizens' Christmas been emptying it and uncovering photos cards will be available from 1 December at and memorabilia of scouting through the Amlu's shop, the Derby & Joan, and Lunch ages in the village. We are very grateful to Club as usual. Please ensure that cards are Dave Holloway for allowing us to store kit fully addressed with house names and at Callow Farm. roads, for delivery within the village only, by 16 December. Two patrols from our scout troop took part in the County Patrol Camping Weekend, If you're looking for ways of beating the with one patrol coming third out of over 60 winter blues, meeting new people and want patrols at the Desert Island themed to make a difference for the young people competition. We have welcomed a number in our village, then get in touch and we'll of new scouts, both from Cubs as well as find a way for you to help the scout group, from the waiting list, and are now up to a whatever your skills or experience! Contact full complement again. Scouts have us at [email protected] if you organised various evening activities by or someone you know would like to get themselves, including a Master Chef involved. evening; we have had an Expedition Season's Greetings from 1st Stonesfield Scout Challenge skills day at Youlbury and we'll Group be bag-packing in Sainsbury's to raise money for the scout hut in early December. Stonesfield Sports & Social Despite not having permanent leaders, Club Cubs have still managed to run with Beaver Come along to our Christmas Bingo on 5 and Scout leaders covering a varied December - special prizes. On Wednesday programme of activities, including the 18th come along and support our local pioneering, a night hike and a visit to the team OXFORD UTD against premier side Soldiers of Oxfordshire museum. Manchester City. On the 20th we are Beavers are now back in the hall. They holding a Christmas Quiz Night + Meat joined Cubs at the museum to learn more Draw + Xmas Draw. On the 21st there's a about why we observe Remembrance Christmas Jumper Party with Music prize Sunday and have also been learning about for best male and female jumper. On all Beaver Scouts around the world as well as events, non-members welcome. working on their Health & Fitness Any problems with the above feel free to challenges. ring me on 891770. Come and enjoy the fun and refreshments The Sports & Social Club would like to wish at our Christmas Bingo night on 6 everybody a Very Merry Christmas and a December at the Village Hall - doors open Happy New Year. at 6.30pm, 'eyes down' at 7pm. Donations Brian Clarke, Sports & Social Club on the night for the raffle will be gratefully

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guide you through the moves. Only three Stonesfield Over 60s Club nights dancing in December: It was good to see so many at our 14 Nov. meeting, just a couple of apologies from 4 December - Peter Vallender calling with The Quarry Turners 8–10pm. some not able to be with us, we hope you GOURMETood will be back next month for our party. As 11 December – Davidbistro - style Sandford - catering calling with

usual we had our pre-Christmas Bingo, The Quarry Turners 8–10pm. Tis September visit... Good Gourmet thank you to the ladies who shopped for 18 December – Stonesfield Christmas the prizes. Final numbers were taken for Salon Privé Classic DanceUpcoming with The events Donkey at our Housepop-up Bandrestaurant 8– the Party and the& Supercarraffle tickets sold. 10pm. There were a few announcements: Please 8th September Did you know6 Sept the 3-course Club isBistro now – in£30 its note our December meeting will be 12.30 11 Sept Mid-Week Simple Supper – £20 48th year! for 1pm on Election Day 12 Dec. - you 27 Sept 3-course Bistro North Africa – £30 Maurizio Cattelan 23 Oct Mid -Week Simple Supper – £20 could voteat first!! Blenheim We have Palace entertainment For further2 Novinformation 3-course Bistrosee – £30 booked12th afterwards.September Next - 27th year ourOctober first www.stonesfieldfolkdance.danceorg.uk or meeting is booked for 9 January at the on Facebook. BYO normal time of 2pm. SsangYong EmailSee [email protected] our website calendar for menus or phone and Tea/Coffee & Cakes were prepared and Blenheim Palace Horse Trials 01295-730271details of our new Midweek suppers served by19th the -'A' 22nd Team, September as usual our meeting ended with the raffle. Visit www.goodgourmet.co.uk to see menus The membersblenheimpalace.com would like to wish everyone Northand make Leigh a booking History or call 01993 Society 898614 a Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New 3 December: 24 Square Miles - a film Year & send a Big Thank you to Simon and based on a 1943 study by the Agricultural Jenny. Economic Research. The meeting includes festive refreshments. Hedges Decorating and Property Maintenance Sewing & Altera!ons Stonesfield‘No Folk job too Dance small’ Club Turner . .Hall, . to make Church that Road, garment North fit youLeigh,! Daniel Hedges Anyone fancyPainting some andexercise Decorating over these OX29Fi! ngs,6TX hem at 7.30 levels, p.m. and Visitors a varied £4, range of dark winterGarden months? and Property Then Maintenance please come Membersaltera" free.on and Further sewing details work carried from Dianaout. Dresses, Skirts, Tops, Shirts, Jackets, and join us. IfFencing the age and of Repairssome dancers is Power 01993 882301. Trousers, Curtains, Cushions and beyond! anything to goDemolition by dancing and Removal must be good for Please note, the first meeting we are both brain & Smallbody. Carpentry No partner, Work then no Louise Evere"­Brown holding inlou.smiley1@b 2020 will be" nternet.comon 4 Feb as we worry as one Mobile:of our 07957sociable 437347 dancers will Email: [email protected] don't meet in January.01993 813873

FoSL: Friends of Stones!ield Library

Open to anyone who wants to help keep our village library open. We have been providing voluntary cover for half of the existing library hours (about 6 hours a week) since the library service was cut back. For further details, or to join us, please contact Tony Scott on 01993 891380, [email protected] December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 17 21 Stonesfield Slate September 2019 Sport

Stonesfield Football Club The Reserves were also called upon to It will be no surprise to anyone to learn perform heroics in the 1st round of The that this has been one of the wettest Jack Busby Memorial Trophy away at their Autumns on record, so you’ll be less than eternal bogey-team, Chadlington Res. In a shocked to discover that our teams have fantastic encounter, goals from Liam played very few matches this month. Harris, Luke Burns and Dan Thomas saw Having said that, The Firsts have been our boys record something of a shock in a involved in two cracking games! In the 3-2 win. If they can keep up that kind of league they entertained Minster Lovell at fighting spirit, then the immediate future home and in a pulsating encounter a goal looks bright! from Mike Phipps and a double from Raffy No real surprise on the Fredo award this Rice saw our boys take full points in a 5- month: Jordan Newman’s winning strike goal thriller. That was a great result, but it against Hardwick in The Shield was one of got even better when Hardwick Sports the most memorable goals seen on the field from Banbury came calling in the second in recent years and good enough to win any round of The Oxon Junior Shield. A game of football. Great to see Nick Higgs lacklustre performance in the first half saw and the dynamic Rice brothers having such our lads a goal down, but oh boy, did they a great season so far, but the accolade goes turn it around in the second half! Spurred to Jordan, step forward that man, The on by the ever-green Nick Higgs, the Fredo belongs to you. Christmas time is irrepressible Jordan Newman and selfless fast approaching so on behalf of your hard work from Carry and Raffy Rice they football club, allow me to wish you all a fought back to send Hardwick crashing out very Happy Christmas and hope Mr Claus of The Shield. Jordan was the man-of-the- is good to one and all! moment as he thundered in a stunning free kick from all of 35 yards, then went one Tom Flanigan (891979) better with a 40-yard pile-driver that had ‘goal-of-the-season’ written all over it! The fans were jubilant but they had to endure a tense final 10 mins with Hardwick on the front-foot, Mike Phipps sin-binned (tut, tut) and our boys down to 10 men, Jordan and Nick held firm in midfield and denied them the equaliser! If our lads can keep that central midfield pairing together then we could be in for some great games in the coming months.

18 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate then on into Christ the King in November to celebrate with us the wonderful times ChurchChurch news news with its colour of Red or White. of year that we have here in our villages. Why not join us to sing the seasonal I suppose with our food coming from all songs of praise. I know for me, I would around the world to a ‘supermarket near really miss joining in song together and you’, we have lost the marking of the thanking God for all his love, not only Anglican Worship in the Parishes passing of the seasons and the foods that shown in the harvest, but right through of Stonesfield with Combe Longa would have been available to us just at 7) Practise the year and, of course, for our lives Rector: The Revd Roy Turner that time of year. Whatever, or however together. The Rectory, Stonesfield, Witney, Oxon, OX29 8PR caution.you Within feel about that, the church still Telephone: 01993 898552 – Email: revroystonesfi[email protected] little moreindicates than the a way through the year for us Hope to see you soon, and of course, www.stonesfieldparishchurch.org decade andwe I,will for one, love the markers that we D.F.T.W. have. Stonesfield Churchwardens: Neil Melrose (891566) and Kate Harris (898781) Combe have had two Rev Roy Longa Churchwarden: Andrew Hobson (891273) thousandWhy years not join of us at St Laurence or St James BCP=Book of Common Prayer: CW=Common Worship Christianity, a fact For pastoral help please contact the Rector that shouldSERVICES FOR OCTOBER From your Parish Priest out your woolly sweaters and warm coats? encourageSunday every 6 October [Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity] From your Parish Priest I am. I love to crunch around and feel 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] Here we are in Harvest Festival time believer to stay firm in the faith: what we the crispness underfoot, to look forward 9.30am Combe Longa All Age Worship I already.hope you Please are look all at getting the service ready schedule for the believe has been tried and tested over a to Remembrance and to the celebrations 11am Stonesfield All Age Worship – Harvest Festival greatand make day a and date toour come Christmas along and joincelebrations. at the end of thevery year. long It always time. seems This to means that almost Sunday 13 October [Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity] Weus as have we celebrate all sorts the ofnew opportunities harvest and to getme that it gets more family orientated every new idea will, almost certainly,8am haveStonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] therefore the food on our tables. We do it towards the end of the year as we plan our ready through our Advent offerings both at 11am Combe Longa Harvest Festival traditionally, of course, so if you want to get-togethers aroundbeen hottested meals and and triedwarm in the past. As a first 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion [CW/sung] Stonesfieldbring some produce and at to Combe.the services Do please please fires.check principle, the maxim ‘If it’s new, it’s not feel free. Sunday 20 October [Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity] out our services and quiet reflective I hope it will betrue; a blessed if it’s time true, for you it’s not new’ has much to 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] meetingsBefore I get tointo get my ready subject for for thiswhat does through the last quarter of the year. What commend it. ‘Historic’ or ‘mainstream’9.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [CW/sung] month, can I thank you all for your I love about the church year is that we amount to a very busy time on the 25th. Christianity has survived precisely11am because, Stonesfield Communion Service for all ages generosity with regard to the Gift Days at always have something to join together Stonesfield and Combe. It is very heart- Last month I shared with you an abridgedfor. We have theover different centuries, colours onit has been provenSunday to 27 October [Last Sunday after Trinity] warming to me, and to the respective version of dear Canon J. John’s the font of the Communion Table and 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] congregations, that you value the Parish provide safe and wholesome pastures for Lecterns. Of course, in the old days the 9.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [CW/sung] suggestionsChurches and theirof how upkeep. to get It is readya joy and God’s flock. dressing of the church was more vital 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion [CW/sung] prepareto have such our wonderful faith for buildings this coming to month.than now.I Folks did not have as many 8) Practise humility. Pride is oneSunday of the 3 November [Fourth Sunday before Advent] sharedworship within and you I am thesure firstthat the five; next now hereways are to tell the time through the day 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] generation as they come to use them for and the seasonssubtlest through theand year. most One powerful evils and is the second five for us all to consider. 9.30am Combe Longa All Age Worship their weddings, baptisms, and their saying of the indicators was the colours that the often a major factor with those who11am leave Stonesfield All Age Worship goodbyes to loved ones will appreciate our church was dressed in: Purple for Lent and 6) Practise self-examination. Paul, writing 5pm Combe Longa Service of Remembrance for the recently departed commitment in our day. Advent, Gold forthe Easter, faith. Red Be for very Saints wary of any sense of to Timothy, says, ‘Watch your life and So do you like autumn? Are you ready to days, Green forsuperiority; the time we are of in seeingnow, yourself asMid-week better Communion Service [said] doctrineput away yourclosely’ summer (1 Timothyclothes and 4:16).get It’sbefore a we get throughthan other our time people, of Trinity, more educated,Wednesdays more at 9.30am at Stonesfield. Everyone is most welcome. wise, if often overlooked, practice to keep home in the culture. In 1 Corinthians 10:12 checking on how you are doing. Losing October 2019 Stonesfield Slate 16 we read, ‘So, if you think you are standing 17 Stonesfield Slate October 2019 your faith is like finding you have a flat firm, be careful that you don’t fall!’ Use tyre. It may be because of some sudden every opportunity to serve, and where it is dramatic puncture but, more likely than at all reasonable, count others as better not, it’s due to a slow, steady and than you. unnoticed leak. Don’t store up your doubts or problems: find someone who can wisely 9) Practise honesty. In reading what some guide you out of them. of the more outspoken ex-believers have said, I have come across reasons but, more commonly, excuses disguised as reasons.

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 19 So, for instance, although many of them almost impenetrable barrier. There is a talk about being ‘disillusioned by the great wisdom in this standing together. church’, often what they are referring to is Pray for others and be prayed for by them. a specific branch of Christianity, a specific Finally, ultimately, practise perspective. local church or even particular individuals. This life is short and eternity is very long. It’s dishonest and unwise to turn away Jesus asks that his followers stand firm in from all that Christianity is, on specific their faith not for ever, but only until he events and individuals! comes to us, or we go to him. And that may 10) Practise solidarity. One of the most be sooner than any of us think. Stand firm! successful innovations of the Roman army Have a great and harmonious Christmas was the way that its soldiers had shields every one and God bless, and of course which could interlock in order to create an D.F.T.W. Services for December: Sunday 1 December [Advent Sunday] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 9.30am Combe Longa All Age Worship - Christingle 11am Stonesfield All Age Worship Sunday 8 December [Second Sunday of Advent] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 9.30am Combe Longa Matins [BCP/sung 1am Stonesfield Parish Communion [CW/sung] Sunday 15 December [Third Sunday of Advent] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 19.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [CW/sung] 11am Stonesfield Communion Service for all ages Sunday 22 December [Fourth Sunday of Advent] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 9.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [CW/said] 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion [CW/sung] 3pm Combe Longa Village Carol Service 6pm Stonesfield Village Carol Service Christmas Eve: Tuesday 24 December 3.30pm Stonesfield Crib Service – for all the family 10pm Combe Longa Midnight Holy Communion 10pm Stonesfield Midnight Holy Communion Christmas Day: Wednesday 25 December 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 9.30am Combe Longa Family Service with Holy Communion 11am Stonesfield Family Service with Holy Communion Sunday 29 December [First Sunday of Christmas] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 10am Stonesfield United Benefice Communion [CW/sung

20 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate Services for January: Sunday 5 January [Epiphany] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 9.30am Combe All Age Worship 11am Stonesfield All Age Worship Sunday 12 January [Epiphany 1] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 9.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [CW/sung] 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion [CW/sung] Sunday 19 January [Epiphany 2] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [CW/sung] 9.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [CW/sung] 11am Stonesfield Communion Service for all ages Sunday 26 January [Epiphany 3] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 9.30am Combe Parish Communion [BCP/said] 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion [CW/sung] 6pm Combe Longa Evensong Sunday 2 February [Candlemas] 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] 9.30am Combe Longa All Age Worship 11am Stonesfield All Age Worship Mid-week Communion Service [said] Wednesdays 9.30am at Stonesfield. Everyone is most welcome.

There will be an opportunity at the Carol Service on Sunday 22 December to donate to The Porch, a charity helping the Roman Catholic Worship homeless in Oxford. Hark, the Herald Angels Sing At the Crib Service, children often like to Why did those angels sing so? Because they place a gift under the Christmas tree - we were rejoicing for humankind about that would be grateful if this could be a gift of momentous event that changed and still money for the Children’s Society, instead changes the course of our global history. of a toy. It would be fun if children After two thousand years, the rejoicing, wrapped up a parcel of money to look like a celebration and causes to sing aloud have present! Thank you. not dimmed or changed. The churches Rev Roy might be emptier, people more cynical and Christmas itself more commercialised than ever before, but we can still find gladness in our hearts at the birth of that baby boy to that young woman.

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 21 Luke tells us (Luke 2,6:14) 13 And all at once with the angel there was a great throng of the hosts of heaven, ‘Now it happened that, while they were praising God with the words: Glory to God there, the time came for her to have her in the highest heaven, and on earth peace child, 7 and she gave birth to a son, her for those he favours.’ first-born. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger because In our confusing, complicated world, this there was no room for them in the living- one simple fact of this birth can still make space. significant differences to our lives and those around us, by listening to His words 8 In the countryside close by there were and reflecting on His life and how He died shepherds out in the fields keeping guard to save us. over their sheep during the watches of the night. Fr Tony Joyce can be contacted on [email protected] or 9 An angel of the Lord stood over them and telephone (01608 642703) the glory of the Lord shone round them. They were terrified, 10 but the angel said, For Parish Updates and any further 'Do not be afraid. Look, I bring you news of information, www.stteresaschurch- great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole charlbury.com/ or contact Clive Dytor people. [email protected]

11 Today in the town of David a Saviour has Roman Catholic Community in Stonesfield been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. 12 And here is a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.'

Xmas Service Times at St Teresa’s 15 December 3pm Carol Service 24 December 8.30pm Mass of Christmas Night with carols 25 December 9.15am Mass of Christmas Day For times of confession: see the weekly newsletter on: stteresaschurch-charlbury.com Mass Times SUNDAYS St Teresa's, Charlbury: 9.15am St Kenelm's, Enstone: 9am, second Sunday of every month WEEKDAYS St Teresa's, Charlbury: 9.30am, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, preceded by Morning Prayers at 9.15am. CONFESSION: Confessions will be at 10am after morning Mass on Saturdays, and on request.

22 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate Stonesfield Methodist Church SERVICES FOR DECEMBER Sun 1 11am The Reverend Rose Westwood Holy Communion Sun 8 11am David Sarbutts Sun 15 11am Jude Levermore Sun 22 3pm The Reverend Rose Westwood Carol Service Sun 29 10.30am Service at High St. Methodist Church, Witney. No Service at Stonesfield SERVICES FOR JANUARY Sun 5 11am Andrew Maisey Sun 12 11am The Reverend Rose Westwood Covenant Service Sun 19 11am Penny Fowler Sun 26 11am Rachael Prince

New Church thought The verse below is not specifically a New Church thought, but it seems relevant as the country goes to vote in a General Election: where is the ultimate seat of government? ‘For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.’ Isaiah 9:6 Wishing you a peaceful and contented Christmas season.

Dale Morris

December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate 23 Advertisements For boxed ads please email [email protected] for full details of availability, sizes, requirements and cost. Line ads: £2.00 per 30 words. Advertisements should be emailed to [email protected] by 10th of the month. Slate SEP 19.qxp_SLATE MASTER v3.3 22/08/2019 08:04 Page 20 Line ads can also be delivered by hand to Diane & Paul Bates, Waterloo Barn, Laughton Hill, Stonesfield, OX29 8DY. All advertisements must be paid for in advance. Disclaimer Advertisements The Stonesfield Slate is a village amenity pro duced and distributed by volunteers. It The Stonesfield Slate is a village amenity, producedLine ads: and £1.50 distributed per 30 words. by volunteers. can not be held responsible for any of the It can not be held responsible for any of the viewsBoxed expressed ads: 1/16 page in its £2; pages 1/8 pagenor does £4; it endorse any of the products or services advertised.1/4 page £8; 1/2 page £12; whole page £24. views ex pressed in its pages nor does it endorse any of the products or services Copy should be sent to [email protected] Whilst we strive to ensure all information is correct, we are not responsible for advertised. The editor and the publishers anything that happens as a result of you usingby the 15th information. of the month If oryou dropped find any in to Slate SEP 19.qxp_SLATE MASTER v3.3 22/08/2019 08:04 Pagereserve 20 the right to edit or shorten any errors or omissions then please contact the PublisherJenny Haviland, and we Peakes will endeavour House, Peaks to Lane, article sub mitted for publication. correct them. Stonesfield, OX29 8PY (tel. 01993 891614). The editor and the publishers reserve the right to edit, shorten or omit any article submitted for publication. Advertisements The Stonesfield Slate is a village amenity Line ads: £1.50 per 30 words. pro duced and distributed by volunteers. It Boxed ads: 1/16 page £2; 1/8 page £4; can not be held responsible for any of the I’m a local 19-year-old studying English 1/4 page £8; 1/2 page £12; whole page £24. views ex pressed in its pages nor does it endorse any of the products or services at University offering lessons in English Copy should be sent to [email protected] advertised. The editor and the publishers literature; I received A* grade at A-level. by 15th of the month or dropped in to I can teach all ages from secondary Jenny Haviland, Peakes House, Peaks Lane, reserve the right to edit or shorten any school up to A-level standard. I’m willing Stonesfield, OX29 8PY (tel. 01993 891614). article sub mitted for publication. to offer online or face-to-face sessions on how to structure essays or just general guidance if that is what you’re looking for (I’m available between mid- JEM December and mid-January for face-to- CHIMNEY face sessions). SWEEPING Tel: 01865 772996 Please contact me with any further Enjoyable drawing courses and workshops, !!!!!!!!!! ! enquiries or questions on my phone/ !"#$%&"#! email. I look forward to meeting you! all levels. Private tuition. For more details contact Gabriele at '()*+,-*.%(/"0#.-#"#1-( [email protected] Andrew Stimpfig: 07748-948278 2-*301-( [email protected] or ring 01993 880430 78#!9#5!*##!6'%33:! 24 December 2019 / January 2020 Stonesfield Slate Experienced local Mathematics tutor with BSc for students aged 8 – 14 years old. JEM (4+#."1.(5-$6(78897(:9;;<;( TailoredCHIMNEY sessions based on the student’s individual needs with a focus on improving low confidence in 5-$=*-#->3".0+#?1+?@A( SWEEPINGthe subject in a friendlyTel: way.01865 772996 !>>>?B&$C"#$%&"#?1+?@A( Available on Thursdays after school. EnjoyableSessions drawing will take courses place in and your workshops,home. !!!!!!!!!! ! all levels.From Private £30 p/h tuition. "#$!%!&#'()*+*+,)!-.#*)!/!!"#$%&"#! For moreCall details Jade on contact 07758 512848 Gabriele at '()*+,-*.%(/"0#.-#"#1-(0$+)1234!$)3+%53)!6)$,+&)! or [email protected] [email protected] or ring 01993 880430 2-*301-(

September 2019 Stonesfield Slate 20 78#!9#5!*##!6'%33:! Experienced local Mathematics tutor with BSc for students aged 8 – 14 years old. (4+#."1.(5-$6(78897(:9;;<;( Tailored sessions based on the student’s individual needs with a focus on improving low confidence in 5-$=*-#->3".0+#?1+?@A( the subject in a friendly way. !>>>?B&$C"#$%&"#?1+?@A( Available on Thursdays after school. Sessions will take place in your home. From £30 p/h "#$!%!&#'()*+*+,)!-.#*)!/! Call Jade on 07758 512848 0$+)1234!$)3+%53)!6)$,+&)! or email [email protected]

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GOURMETood bistrobistro -- stylestyle -- cateringcatering Forthcoming Events Tis ChristmasSeptember visit… visit... Good Gourmet LivingThe ChristmasCrafts for Christmas Market 22nd14th November NovemberSalon Privé - 15th - 17th ClassicDecember November 2019 Upcoming events at our pop-up restaurant & Supercar Christmas Bistro Dates: ChristmasThe8th Christmas atSeptember Blenheim Market Palace SaturdaySaturday6 Sept2nd 14th November3-course Dec 3-courseBistro – 3-course – £30 bistro Bistro 11Thursday Sept Mid-Week 19th Dec Simple 3-course Supper bistro – £20 2222nd November November 2019 - -15th 5 January December 2020 27 Sept 3-courseChristmas Bistro Bistro North Dates: Africa – £30 Our Christmas menu is on our website Maurizio Cattelan 23 OctSaturday Mid -Week 7th/14th Simple December Supper – £20 Illuminatedat BlenheimRestoration Christmas Palace and Trail January bistro2 ThursdayNov date 3-course to 19th be announced BistroDecember – £30 in new year 12th September22ndConservation November - 27th Tours 2019 October - Menu available soon BYO 10 January1st January - 9 February2020 BYO SsangYong AliceLet’s inMisbehave the Palace - See our website calendar for menus and Blenheim Palace Horse Trials Seedetails our website of our newcalendar Midweek for menus suppers and 22nd1920s November Exhibition 2019 - details of our new Midweek suppers 19th15 5th -February 22nd January September - 132020 April Visit www.goodgourmet.co.uk to see menus Visitand www.goodgourmet.co.ukmake a booking or call 01993 to see 898614 menus blenheimpalace.comblenheimpalace.com and make a booking or call 01993 898614

Hedges Decorating and Property Maintenance Sewing & Altera!ons ‘No‘No jobjob tootoo small’small’ Crystal . . . to make Clear that garment Cleaning fit you! Daniel Hedges Painting and Decorating Fi!is ngs,here hem for levels,all your and cleaning a varied needs! range of altera"on and sewing work carried out. Garden and Property Maintenance Crystal Clear Cleaning services can Fencing and Repairs Dresses, Skirts, Tops, Shirts, Jackets, Trousers,offer you Curtains, a range Cushions of cleans and such beyond! as: Demolition and Removal – regular cleans Small Carpentry Work Louise Evere"­Brown – deep cleans lou.smiley1@b"nternet.com Mobile: 07957 437347 – end of tenancy cleans Email: [email protected] 01993 813873 – spring cleans – oven cleans – white goods cleans Sewing & FoSL:Altera !Friendsons of Stones!ield– Library personalised cleans . . . to make that garment fit you! Fi!ngs, hem levels, and a varied range of We are fully insured and DBS checked altera"on and sewing work carried out. and very flexible! OpenDresses, to Skirts, anyone Tops, Shirts,who Jackets,wants to help keepPlease our contact village Chloe library Winterbourne open. Trousers,We have Curtains, been Cushions providing and beyond! voluntary coveron for 07539 half 177541 of the or existingemail libraryLouise hours Evere "­(aboutBrown 6 hours a week)[email protected] since the library service lou.smiley1@b"nternet.com for more information 01993 813873 was cut back. For further details, or to join us, please contact Tony Scott on 01993 891380, [email protected] December 2019 / January 21 2020 Stonesfield StonesfieldStonesfield Slate SlateSlate NovtemberSeptember 201925 Slate NOV 19.qxp_SLATE MASTER v3.3 21/10/2019 21:13 Page 22

SCSC Salon Copenhagen 3 Pendle Court,Salon Pond Hill, Stonesfield, Copenhagen Oxon, OX29 8PZ. Tel. 01993 891101 3 PendleUnisex Court,hairdressing Pond salon Hill, for Stonesfield, ladies, gentlemen Oxon, and children.OX29 8PZ All aspects of hairdressingTelephone undertaken 01993 by our 891101 professionally trained stylists, Sally and Donna. We also offer earpiercing and our nail bar is open for OPI Unisex hairdressingmanicures, salon pedicures for ladies, and Gelish gentlemen Polish. and children. All aspects of Wehairdressing are now offering undertaken beauty treatments by our professionally Eyebrow Shapingtrained – Eyelash stylists, and Eyebrow Sally and Tinting Donna. – Facial Threading Facial Waxing – LVL Lash Lift – Manicures and Pedicures using OPI WePolish also oroffer Shellac earpiercing – Quick Dip and Manicures our nail – Makebar is Up open Application for OPI manicures,Please pedicures call 07810 301087and Gelish to book. Polish. Find us on Facebook. Open Tuesday to Saturday. Find us on Facebook. Open Tuesday to Saturday.

Challenge Salon Copenhagen is nowthe offering Winter beauty Greys! treatments

EyebrowFriendly Shaping Art

Eyelashand Drawing and Eyebrow Classes Tinting in: Facial Threading Bespoke, handmade curtains, Stonesfield,Facial St Waxing James’ Centre, blinds and soft furnishings Mondays, fromLVL Lash 6 Jan, Lift 1.30 to 4 pm ManicuresFinstock, and Pedicures Village Hall, using OPI Friendly and professional Tuesdays,Polish from 7or Jan, Shellac 2 to 4.30 pm service Quick Dip Manicures Combe, Reading Room, Make Up Application Free, no obligation Fridays, from 10 Jan, 10Coming am to Soon12.30 . pm. . consultations Massages FacialsCost for using 6 weeks Dermalogica is £95 Tel. 07880 880314 Body Waxing SiennaTo find X Spray out more, Tanning [email protected] please contact Gabriele Pleaseat gabrielekern31@gmail call 07810 301087 to combook www.kingfishersoftfurnishings.co.uk

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the perfect Cotswold hideaway

Located in the beautiful village of Ramsden

Ideal holiday home for when family or friends

come visiting PET Sleeps 4 with parking SITTING Cot and highchair available Do you go on holiday and worry about your pets? For more details and how to book: I am a pet lover and I am offering to look after 07305 816115 your animals (feeding, playing, etc.) after school/ [email protected] weekends/school holidays. I also ride ponies, water plants and can supply a reference from my www.gablecottagecotswolds.co.uk cat sitting job. Rates negotiable. Please call 01993 898620 and ask for Tara Taylor.

Plumbing, Heating, Bathroom Refurbishments/Installations, Tiling THAMES VALLEY 01993 252643 or 07515 284286 TREE CARE LTD [email protected] A Stonesfield based company providing a professional and reliable service in all aspects of tree surgery and hedge management Virtual Office Guardian Business Support Services FREE no obligation quote

All office, organisational and Tel: 01993 891381 Jacqupaperwork functions untertaken Mob: 07971018279

jacquel Email: [email protected] [email protected] www.tvtreecare.co.uk

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Stonesfield Based, Family Run Firm

All types of electrical work undertaken, no job too big or small We are fully insured & NICEIC approved electrical contractors nstallations, Kitchens and Bathrooms , Outbuildings & Rewires (Full & Partial) eplacement inding ew or Additional Power Sockets/USB Sockets nstallations & Smoke Alarms

All Work Guaranteed & Certification Supplied when Applicable Call 01993 222444 or Email [email protected] Web www.OxElec.co.uk

KINGS CLEANING SERVICES Bed and Breakfast Family business est. over 40 years. Cleaning windows – UVPC fascia at Combe boards – cladding – frames – gutters. Specialized equipment for cleaning For details conservatory roofs & solar panels. please view Fully insured. www.greenclose.net For a professional and reliable service ring 01993 882727 or 07974 991269. or call 01993 891223

A. K. P. DIXON VEHICLE TECH Home & Garden Maintenance Mobile mechanic servicing, repairs, diagnostics & General Handyman & MOTs prepared and arranged For all those jobs you need doing for all makes & models inside & outside – I’m your man! Friendly & reliable service at competitive rates, Call Ade on 01993 813873 19 years experience & based in Stonesfield or 07825 631111 Call Rob on 01608 646100 or 07791 755771 or email [email protected] Email: [email protected]

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Suriya Express & Post Office 1 Pendle Court, Pond Hill, Stonesfield Tel/Fax 01993 898379

Bread & Pastries Fine range of Groceries Fruit & Vegetables Beers, Wines & Spirits New range of Organic Products Dry Cleaning

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 7am–8pm Saturday and Sunday 8am–8pm* Bank Holidays 8am–8pm*

*P.O. closed on Sundays & on Bank Holidays

WILLS ~ PROBATE ~ POWERS OF ATTORNEY INHERITANCE TAX PLANNING Tel. 01993 811 792 Email [email protected]

Woodstock Solicitors - 1st Floor - 32 New Road - Woodstock - OX20 1PB

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Hypnotherapy

For help with anxiety, stress, pain control, insomnia, phobias, unwanted habits, confidence and self-esteem, exam and interview nerves. Acupuncture for stress reduction, pain relief, arthritis, migraine, fatigue, hormone imbalance, and more. Contact: Linda Flanigan clinic or in your own home. Clinical Hypnotherapist GHR Registered & Member (Lic.) of National Council for Hypnotherapy consultation please contact me on 01993

898102 / 07791 278618 Tel: 07866 360359 Email: [email protected] or visit www.lfhypnotherapy.co.uk

PROBLEM FEET? Imagine Life! NAIL CUTTING • CORNS • CALLUS if you had your own…! PROBLEM NAILS • FOOT MASSAGE Gardener! Treatment in the comfort of your own home Decorator! SHARON DAVIES MCFHP MAFHP Babysitter! (01993) 891132 / (M) 07941843353 De-clutterer! Registered member of the British Association of Foot Health Professionals I can help you clear your clutter, weed out your wardrobe and find new homes for your unwanted items.! Dog Walker! "#$%&'()!%)#*+($,! Spring Cleaner! -#./'!0#))1!2!3(+%!45!6'!36.-7! Moving House Help!

089:!;!:;<<=!>?8@A!;BC!CAD8B89A@=!BE!F;GHEBI! House & Pet Sitter…! JA/KA!LAAB!:A@<8BH!M>AG>!;BC!9:A8G!NE?! DEG!EKAG!9:8G9=!=A;G>O!0A!:;KA!AP9AB>8KA! all rolled into one!! AP89=!>=>9A?I!;BC!JA! QBEJ!;@@!;LEM9!6<<@A!$;N>!'##7! For one-off events or regular help please contact Lindsey )4.R!*#*!#.S!TUVWX !VVTWTT!Y!TZZWV!Z[\U\[! ! [email protected] or call ! 0A!NE?A!9E!=EM!J89:!>;?A!C;=!>AGK8NA!8D!>8L@AO!! 0A!CEB/9!N:;GHA!DEG!9:A!N;@@]EM9!EG!8D!JA!N;B/9!D8P!89O! 01993 898620 07941 561471

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A tree surgery company with the integrity you can trust. Tel: 0845 458 2980 Mobile: 07976 261850 Email: [email protected] www.townandcountrytrees.co.uk

MICHAEL PRICE & SON PLASTERING For all your internal plastering tel 07710 170049 or 01608 811642 [email protected] 58 Ticknell Piece Road, Charlbury, Oxon, OX7 3TW

GEOFF BOOTH Landscaping · Paving · Walling Driveways · Fencing · Brickwork Building maintenance Hardwood logs delivered Free quotations Tel: 01993 891945 Mob: 07710 628248 Email: [email protected]

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YOUR LOCAL STOCKISTS & INSTALLERS OF GARAGE DOORS & REMOTE OPERATORS GARAGE DOOR REPAIRS & SPARES LOCAL RESIDENTS –10% DISCOUNT ON STOCKED DOORS P. Fletcher CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE Painting, Decorating 01993 778836 / 01865 246444 MANY WORKING DOORS & OPERATORS & Wallpapering ON DISPLAY AT: SHOWROOM: Forty years’ + experience UNIT 24, AVENUE ONE, STATION LANE, WITNEY, OXON, OX28 4XZ Tel. 01993 891207 !!!"#$%$#&'((%)"(%# or mobile 07884 430300

BLINDS AND CURTAINS

Made to Measure

♦ WIDE RANGE OF FABRICS

PHONE ♦ TRACKS AND POLES 01993 870606

♦ FREE FITTING FOR A FREE CONSULTATION

www.windowdesign.co

COMPLETE SERVICE DIRECT TO YOU AT HOME

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ROOFIX All aspects of roof work undertaken

Slates • Tiles • Flat roofs Chimneys • Valleys • Leadwork Moss clearance UPVC fascias • Soffits • Gutters Advice and estimates free

Freephone 0800 955 5063 Mobile 07817 792194

in the frame

Cotswold frames gallery and gift shop is situated in the market town of Charlbury, on eastern edge of the Cotswolds...

We are a small independent shop where we offer a bespoke picture framing service with an extensive range of frames and mounts and offer the option of normal or speciality glasses - all the work is undertaken here on site.

We also stock a superb selection of cards and gifts, and lots more for the home, ranging from cushions and throws (made from recycled plastic bottles) to gorgeous sheepskins.

Or there’s our beautiful range of jewellery, hand creams and candles, leather wallets with inbuilt anti card clone systems, there’s cuddly toys for the kids, we even have marbles and a host of other traditional games to delight the family - the list goes on and on, so as you can see we’re not just framers, why not come and take a look, be inspired, you never know what you

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D. J. R. MILES BATHROOM, PLUMBING & HEATING ENGINEERS LTD (Company number 4633496)

Winner of the: Worcester Bosch environment 2007 installer of the year for sustainable heating and hot water systems • WAI Worcester Bosch accredited installer • Gas safe register engineer: registration: 37123 • Oftec oil fired engineer: registration: C4970/101/105e/600a • Unvented hot water registered engineer • Greenskies solar panel registered engineer • Ground Source heat pump engineer • Air to water source heat pump engineer • Green Source air to air engineer • Underfloor heating engineer • 6084 city and guilds energy efficient domestic heating registered engineer • Part P electrical engineer • All types of central heating services, new energy efficient installations and design service • All types of bathroom installations and design service

Address: Polperro, The Ridings, Stonesfield, Witney, Oxon OX29 8EA Telephone: 01993 891904/01993 891314 Mobile: 07860 142230 www.plumbingandheating4oxfordshire.co.uk E-mail [email protected] www.worcester-bosch.co.uk

A. L. SOLE & SON mike Funeral Directors chambers Bidston Close, Over Norton, Chipping Norton, ox7 5pp maintenance A professionally qualified Funeral Director providing a dignified and personal service at any hour. small area tiling Private Chapels of Rest in a peaceful garden setting.

0 7 9 7 3 6 2 4 7 9 7 Tel. 01608 644112

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&20387(5 +(/3  Broadband and Wireless. Installation and Training. Problem solving. Jargon-free advice. Upgrades. Digital Photos. Virus Protection and Removal.

Call or email me, Len Kehoe phone: 01993 810125

- Computer Science graduate mobile: 07944 877437 with over 30 years experience email: [email protected] web: www.thepcbuddy.co.uk

Roberts Garden Machinery Ltd !"#$%&'()*")$ ·Professional servicing and repairs of most makes of garden machinery Member of the · Chartered Institute of Building New & second-hand machinery supplied ! ·Collection & delivery by arrangement General property 18 years’ experience with LAWNMOWER SALES & SERVICE maintenance and Open 8–5 Monday–Friday, 8–12 Saturday high quality DIY Unit H5, New Yatt Business Centre, New Yatt, OX29 6TJ ! General repairs Tel: 01993 881320 or email: robert.milloini@ btinternet.com All carpentry - Decorating Minor plumbing Andrew A. Adams FCCA Prompt, reliable and Chartered Certified Accountant recommended service Quality personal service for your No job too small Accounting, Taxation and Business needs

Competitive fees agreed in advance Tel: 07876-275300 Free initial meeting [email protected] Telephone: 07790 854574 01993 891280 “A job done well” Email: [email protected]

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Painting, Decorating &

Tiling With Care

Lighting Your Way Into The Future * Local & Reliable Tradesman STEPHEN J. WILEY House & Home Services ELECTRICIAN * · · INTERIOR DECORATING Additions Alterations Rewiring TILING – ALL TYPES Surveys · Security Lighting HOME MAINTENANCE & REPAIRS Cookers · Showers PERIOD PROPERTY EXPERIENCE FULLY INSURED Telephone Points * NO JOB TOO SMALL Richard Buck Elbie House East End Tel (01993) 882778/881409 Tel: 01993 880166 90 Main Road, Long Hanborough, Witney, OX29 8JY Mob: 07791 046583 [email protected]

Jerrams Brothers Funeral Directors 33 High Street Woodstock OX20 1TE (01993) 811491

• Private Chapel of Rest • 24-hour personal family service • Pre-paid funeral plans

As the third generation of a funeral-directing family, Nicholas and Benjamin Tonks believe that at the time of bereavement, compassion and the families’ wishes are paramount. In partnership with the Church and community we endeavour to give the bereaved as much care and support as possible.

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A C E Car Repairs and Servicing 01993 700041

SERVICING, BRAKES, CLUTCHES, AIR CONDITIONING, EXHAUSTS, DIAGNOSTICS, MOT’S PREPARED AND ARRANGED

Alan Claridge Engineering is a garage in Witney that has been repairing cars for over 30 years. I now live in Stonesfield and will collect your car from your house and deliver it back free of charge. I service and repair all makes of car so please call me to arrange an appointment.

!"#$%&'(%%)*+,''' RPAINT S Services TECH !"#$%&'()*#'+&"#' Aerial,Mobile Satellite automotive & TV re-finishing Installations and repairs. !-%'.)/%"'0/1)2'!"#*+*+,'34%$*#)*52' Painted bumpers, alloy wheels, Qualified Engineer with over 40 years ) paintless dent removal, screen repairs, interior trim experience. and seat repairs !"#$%&'()*+(#%,"(-".#/-%"01(2/0*&'"01( For a free quote Full body shop facilities 3%//"0(.&4(#*&'"05( Call Shane Berry ) David Lee 07831 193999 7am–6pm ,-.--)//0-12 ) 01865 882300 / 01865 881313 6667-#"/%+-%#)2-#+/8*2+%557$971:' 07815Established 095704 1991

RuraScape Landscaping & gardens - Patios - Turfing - Fencing - Lawns & grassland - Hedge management - Garden/scrubland clearance Tel 01993 898733 or 07811 598958 Email [email protected]

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WITNEY WELDING PELLMANS Solicitors Architectural, Construction, Agricultural and Equestrian • Business, Agricultural and Employment Law Steel Fabricating Services Contracts, Legal Compliance & Disputes We can also provide a full welding • Property service in Steel, Stainless Steel, Buying & Selling Homes, Commercial Aluminium and Titanium, including & Agricultural repairs to Steel, Aluminium and Iron castings • Wills, Probate and Trusts Tax Planning, Las!ng Powers of A"orney For a free no obligation quote, & Elderly Client Advice contact Peter on: Tel: 01993 891198 Mobile: 07751 678412 01865 884400 Email: [email protected] www.pellmans.co.uk 1 Abbey Street, Eynsham, Oxford OX29 4TB Unit A, Farley Lane, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, OX29 8HB Home visits and evening appointments available

Fixed priced repairs to Domestic Call Andrew include electrical safety test Appliance Repairs 01993 Electric cooker WASHING MACHINES connections both REFRIGERATION freestanding 891339 and built-in ELECTRIC COOKERS

TUMBLE DRYERS BS7671 accredited or DISHWASHERS Mobile Full public liability cover

Professional Same day, evening & 07989 945971 Descaler Available weekend appointments normally available

38November 2019 StonesfieldDecember Slate 2019 / January 34 2020 Stonesfield Slate We would like to wish our many friends and clients from Stonesfield and Combe a very Happy Christmas, a prosperous 2020, and, of course thank them for their continued and valued support booking holidays with us during the past year

Whatever your holiday requirements might be for the coming year, whether travelling for business or pleasure, we will be delighted to help you find the best arrangements, wherever you wish to go, and whatever your budget.

Please call us, call in, or visit www.greatexperiencetravel.co.uk Waterloo Walk, High Street, Witney, OX28 6EU Tel: 01993 627815 e-mail:[email protected]

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The White Horse, Stonesfield

CHRISTMAS IS COMING…… We are still taking bookingsSUMMER’S for Christmas END Day Lunch. We will be having two sittings again, one at 1pm and one at 3pm. We have Withavailability the School for holidaysboth so givealmost us overa ring and or thepop nights in if you drawing would in like it’ll tobe book. You’llstarting find to the feel menu very autumnalis on our website.

At theWe pub will our be Quizringing Nights in the and New Folk Year Nights as usual are continuing and hope toyou be will a great successcelebrate so thank with youus. Thisto everyone year we who will supportsbe having us. a NewWe also Year’s enjoyed Eve dinner a lovely nightthen of listeningGuinguette to music,the chimes so much of Big so thatBen weat midnightwill try to withmake a it glass a regular of fizz. Details can beevent. found on our website

WatchOur this Christmas space for and news New of upcoming Year opening events times during are thealso Autumn. on our website We’ll have our butHalloween in the meantime,Party, which don’t is always forget great our fun, Quiz and Nights we’ll onstart Wednesday doing our Pie nights,& apart a Pint from Nights the to first warm Wednesday you up during of each the month colder whennights. we hold our popular Folk Night.

Bar opening hours Food served Wed–Thursday 5pm–Close Wed–Thursday 6pm–9pm Friday 12noon–3pm Friday 12noon–2.30pm 5pm–Close 6pm–9pm Saturday 12noon–3pm Saturday 12noon–2.30pm 6pm–Close 6pm–9pm Sunday 12noon–4pm Sunday 12noon–3pm

Children are always welcome and WE NOW OFFER A CHILDREN’S MENU. Dogs are very welcome in the bar area or garden! Phone 01993 891063 Web: www.whitehorsestonesfield.com Email: info@whitehorsestonesfield.com Also, search for The White Horse Stonesfield and follow us on Facebook!

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