south oxfordshire issue 17 May-June 2015
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We have had our first ice lollies in the Pick office, which means only one thing –summer is here! As sure as the first cuckoo of spring or the first robin in winter, the first Magnum in the Pick office is an important moment! It seems like winter has lasted forever, so it is a nice sight to look out of the office window and see the sunshine radiating off White Horse Hill. Friday 29 May 11am – 2pm As always, Pick is full of great ideas of things to do this summer. The thriving What’s On section will tell l More free events lined up for the summer you all of the local things to do and we also have details of some fantastic festivals. Wilderness is fast l becoming the hot ticket in town, especially as they burnt a whole helter-skelter down to the ground Fortnightly farmers’ market last year! For the dedicated music fan, Cornbury is a must! We’ve also got details of Abingdon Food l Monthly Street Fair market Festival and Blenheim Palace Flower Show if you are after something less musical. l Keep checking our website for details Whatever you get up to this summer, have a good one! l New tenant InHouse Sales & Lettings
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Once again the successful Abingdon Food and Drink Festival will be held at the Miele centre in Abingdon on Sunday 7th June between 10am and 4pm. It combines a relaxed village fete atmosphere for the whole family with exciting food sensations from Britain and around the world. Explore around fifty food and drinks stalls located around a large green. Buy food and drink from a wide variety of vendors and enjoy a picnic on one of the many garden benches. Enjoy scintillating cooking demonstrations from seven expert celebrity chefs in Miele’s state of the art demonstration kitchens. Savour cheese and wine from Italy and Portugal with a knowledgeable presenter. There is even provision for sheltering from a summer shower if the weather is not brilliant! The first Abingdon Food and Drink Festival, in 2014, was a huge success. An estimated 1500 visitors enjoyed exploring the thirty food and drinks stalls in glorious June sunshine. Miele hosted the event and provided the perfect setting on their wide lawn where families relaxed with great local food and drink. Children decorated cupcakes, painted pottery and played games in the warm afternoon sunshine whilst adults listened to local choirs. Come along to the 2015 event to enjoy the same relaxed, village fete like atmosphere. This is a charity event and proceeds will be going to support the work of The Rotary Club of Abingdon Vesper and local charity SeeSaw.
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There is a reason Cornbury Music Festival is so popular with families. It’s not just that it’s one of the safest most relaxed festivals in the country, nor that there’s music to appeal to all ages, a great range of child-friendly food and quiet camping. It’s the fantastic Kids’ Zone with activities to suit all ages running throughout each day of the festival: things to watch, things to join in with, things to have a go at, things to listen to, things to throw around, and quiet things - musical moments and gentle yoga. The Kids’ Zone is a colourful, creative, friendly space right in the middle of the festival, in sight of the main stage, so families can drop in and out whilst seeing all the festival highlights; and, unlike other festivals, all activities are free and there is no need to book in advance, just turn up and join in. Spread over three tents and an open area, the wide mix of activities means there is something for all ages on the go all the time - activities to engage and inspire, whether for a few minutes between acts or for a whole afternoon. From Clay Modelling and Lantern Making to Circus Crafts and Bollywood Dancing - plus knitting, the new rock and roll! New highlights to this year include Marky J’s Monkey Magic Show - a marvellous mix of puppets, magic and circus; Dizzy O’Dare and The Big Balloon Experiment - an amazing show featuring a VERY big balloon; and the truly nutty Professor Pumpernickel with the greatest show on earth! Kids can learn to play the ukulele with Sarah Kelly, join in Miniature Music sessions, or Songs For Kids with Nick Cope, find their inner rhythm at the Drumming workshops or pick up new moves with Sohan Kailey’s Bhangra, Bollywood and Indian Dance lessons or get crafty in the craft and making tent. As always world class street performers invade the Festival site. Ones to watch out for this year include Loz Because’s Walkabout Hula Hoop Show, Creature Encounter’s larger than life exotic avian amigos Squawk with their inquisitive beaks and joyful squawks; and leading tightrope artist, Dizzy O’Dare’s innovative tightwire shows, The Airettes and Lumi. KIDS ZONE | FAIRGROUND | GOURMET CATERERS | FESTIVAL SHOPS DISCO SHED | AMAZING VIP & GLAMPING For tickets and information go to cornburyfestival.com 9 When you are actually playing at a festival (and done electronic music have made a conscious you are doing a few this year) does it feel a bit like decision to go down that route because they wanted being on tour? to do something other than just be a pop star or AM: Festivals are a very different vibe. On tour you be in the charts. They have made a decision to try get into a daily routine of travel, hotel, sound check, to do something which usually is more intellectual, concert, travel, hotel, sound check, concert...etc.. challenging and experimental. There is a tendency Whereas festivals are little islands. You have the I think for that music to be the most interesting whole week off and then you go off to the festival. and that’s why I chose that course and that’s why You don’t do a sound check and you usually arrive people still choose that course too. I think that’s why just a few hours before you are on stage. At festivals generally there’s a much higher percentage of music I this is completely different. Also you have to bear in find to be interesting in that genre. mind that when you do your own tour, everybody Do you ever listen to a track and hear a little who comes has bought a ticket because they want reference to OMD? How does that make you feel? to see you. At a festival, there’s no guarantee that AM: I do certainly and it is sometimes in the places people who are going to watch us haven’t really come where I don’t go looking for it! Fortunately we are very to see ABC or somebody else you know so again, honoured to be name checked by many bands, and all the more reason why you take the path of least even some of the recent ones, and that is wonderful. resistance and hit them between the eyes with your I mean, it is much nicer to be told that you’re iconic best shot. and inspirational rather than past your sell by date! So getting away from festivals, what is your take And also the fans of these bands tend to find us for on the massive revival in vinyl? There is a new themselves because we have been name checked by vinyl chart now so do you think OMD are going to an artist that they like, so it broadens our audience, appear in that chart? which is great. AM: I think it’s been very interesting that something You mentioned a new album coming out next that was consigned to history is actually a very year, how long will it take to complete it? important part of the sales plan of any release these AM: It’s a long process. It’s important when you want days. Vinyl sells for anything between £13 and £30, to create something that you are throwing your considerably more than downloads or a CD. This is bucket into a well that is full of ideas. In the mid to possibly because there are people who enjoy the late 80s we had unconsciously found ourselves on record as an artefact in itself. You get the artwork and OMD – Cramming in the hits the conveyer belt of the music business and success the record itself, which is completely different to just had its own dilemma because you end up touring the The festival circuit has opened up the flood gates for a whole stock of acts that hark back to our younger having a file on your computer or on your phone. Its world for eight months and then the record company days! The Rewind Festival is a master of harnessing this new desire for hearing the live acts which formed serves a very different purpose and I think people say ‘can we have the next album?’. Then we have six our musical landscape and laid the foundations for modern artists. One such act is a distinctive Orchestral respond to it differently. I would certainly hope that weeks to write an album. Basically the first ten things Manoeuvres in the Dark. We went along to chat festivals, vinyl and odd band names with co-founder of the next year when we release the new album that a you write, good, bad or ugly, tend to be the album. band, Andy McCluskey. substantial proportion of sales will be vinyl and that It’s not good, so these days we don’t have anybody certainly in the week of release, it would be nice if it So you are appearing at Rewind this year, which is great news! There are lots of 80s bands doing telling us what to do it’s a bit we are masters of our of was in the vinyl chart. the festival circuit at the moment. Did you take a while to decide whether to join in with this? Was destiny. We have to hope that doesn’t lead us towards there a point where you thought ‘shall I just sit in my garden and soak up the sun instead’? Electronic music has come a long way since OMD’s some sort of self-centred decadent misbelief that we AM: I think that spending weekends in the garden was not the issue but certainly you have touched pioneering days. Are there any artists that are are still doing something relevant when we are not. I’ll on something important to me. When the band reformed eight years ago we started playing and emerging that really catch your eye…or your ear, be honest with you there are people who still make making new music we were reticent to become involved in so called ‘heritage’ festivals. We wanted to more accurately? records who frankly are going to an empty well and establish ourselves as a standalone credible touring act. However, having done that, we are now entirely AM: There are a few. If I name names then by they just feel the need to make a record because they comfortable with basically playing what is essentially a big party. But also, it’s not just the 80s that are omission I’ll be undermining other artists, but yes. need a title for their next tour or something. They having a revival. I think now it in this sort of postmodern era, there’s a feeling that the old idea of a fashion There are always people trying to do something don’t have anything left to say. So yea, we are taking timeline has been decimated. There is nothing new anymore. Popular culture, whether its music or films, that is individual and then there are other people our time over this as we did on the last two. It will be fashions or architecture, are eating their own history. So if you’ve got a catalogue that is deemed credible who are sort of copying or following. I tend to have ready when it is ready, but we are hoping it will be out and you can still perform it, then there’s opportunity to go and enjoy it. At Rewind we are going to go a preference, understandably, for people who are by the end of next year. out and have a great time. We are not going to do the self-indulgent thing and say ‘hey, here are a load trying to do something which is individual and there of tracks from our new album’ and then everybody goes to the bar! It’s all about cramming as many hit are wonderful artists out there. Obviously it appeals singles in as we can! to me because I think that most people who have
10 11 So this is a question that has probably been asked thought that we need a name that sets us aside. We For 2015, Wilderness is already shaping up to be producer Kim Ann Foxman leading the charge with of you a million times, but the name OMD, is it are not punk, we are not rock, we are not pop - this is one of the most exciting events of the festival her raw electronic music, along with a very rare true that the name came from lyrics written on different. So we chose the most preposterous name season, with such gloriously legendary and eclectic set from the elusive and mythical DJ Harvey and your bedroom wall? precisely because no band should have a name like performers such as Bjork, George Clinton and Ben the world renowned Tom Middleton, who has been that! Little did we know we would still be stuck with it Howard headlining, globally acclaimed and Michelin- redefining the musical landscape for about 25 years AM: Well you know coming from the ‘Grim North’, 37 years later. starred chefs like Angela Hartnett, Nuno Mendes and now. Also along for the ride are Amsterdam’s Rush we didn’t have money for paper so we used to have James Knappett whipping up a culinary storm. The Hour founder Antal, weaving house and techno spells to write things on my bedroom wall! No, I’m kidding, What does it actually mean? likes of Intelligence Squared, V&A Museum and the with Afro and disco magic, Felix Dickinson, one of the but I did actually use my bedroom wall as my sort of AM: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark? It means Sunday Assembly are offering activities of a more champions of the burgeoning dance underground creative blotter. Paul and I have been writing music nothing. People have tried to read metaphors into intellectual pursuit, and leading London theatre from and partystarting Leeds duo PBR Streetgang, Also together since we were sixteen and we made music it, but it literally, is just the most ridiculous thing we the groundbreaking Foolish People, Opera Holland appearing are Mojo Filter, the production and remix that even our best friends didn’t like very much. So could think of. All I can say is that it could have been Park, Battersea Arts Centre and Old Vic New Voices. incarnation of Ben Zaven Crane, championed by we never dared to play it live until 1978 when we worse because right underneath it, I had written the likes of Todd Terje and Chemical Brothers for thought right, we are going to do one gig just to say ‘Margret Thatcher’s afterbirth’. Things could have First up, the roster of chefs is now even more his relentless quest for new and unheard cosmic that we have done one. As it was a mad idea, the two been very different! superlative with the addition of Raymond Blanc frequencies, funk/ soul/ disco enthusiast and LWR of us playing music not even our friends liked, we OBE and Sweden’s Niklas Ekstedt alongside Angela programme controller YOMS, and Ollie Keens, who Hartnett. Raymond Blanc, he needs little introduction. has shared stages with everyone from Grandmaster As one of the world’s finest chefs, his banquet will Flash to Jackmaster. To find out more about the line-up at the Rewind Festival and to snap up what few be highly anticipated indeed! From his role as Chef tickets remain, go to www.rewindfestival.com Patron of Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, to For those who want a more relaxed vibe, there is an presenting TV series such as Kew On a Plate and absolutely staggering and deliciously varied buffet The Restaurant, Blanc’s influence on the culinary of gorgeous folk bands on offer at the Travelling landscape is wide and far-ranging, and It is an Folk Barn, from the Eastern European vibes of The honour indeed to welcome him to the Wilderness Turbans, to the beat pop melodies of The Buffalo family in 2015. Hailing from Stockholm, Ekstedt has Skinners; the West Coast Americana of Goodnight A Celebration shaped by Nature, a perfected his own culinary style, cooking totally Lenin to Canadian wunderkind Zachary Lucky. Every without electricity or gas over open flames, with stripe and flavour of folk is catered for here, so dive in perfect smoke skills and hot coals as his tools of and enjoy the smorgasbord. Landscape Transformed by the Arts the trade. His Stockholm restaurant EKSTEDT was Elsewhere, on the Carousel Stage, Shangri-La’s voted an impressive second in Zagat’s list of the best Chris Tofu has curated a weird and wonderful roster restaurants in the world in 2013 too, so this is a rare of diverse musical marvels, including The Brass Wilderness Festival August 6 – 9th 2015 opportunity to taste Ekstedt’s food in the UK. Funkeys, who draw from New Orleans’ rich musical Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire. Music-wise, 2015 is proving to be damn near history to create a hypnotic blend of gypsy, swing and unbeatable, with some of the hottest up and coming Latin funk, Bristol’s six piece theatrical showband artists all coming on board. 21 year old Icelandic Carny Villains, Duffy Moonshine Big Band, who meld sensation Asgeir will enchant crowds with his big band with modern basslines and chunky beats beautifully melancholic songs and unusual poetry, to stunning effect, astonishing 13 piece Balkan brass while, on the other end of the geographic spectrum, monolith Trans Siberian March Band, and the 60s Sahara Desert native Bombino will dazzle with his indebted, pan-Atlantic musical stylings of Voodoo particular brand of world music meets rock and roll Love Orchestra, among others. soul. XL Recordings will also deliver an exhilarating The Juke Joint, presented by Petersham Road, is one-two punch, with two of their hottest new artists set to transform Cornbury Park to a blues shaking in the form of Southport electronic virtuoso Lapsley paradise with a line-up stuffed to the gills with and disco funk princeling Shamir, hailing from Las marquee acts from the UK blues scene. Big Joe Vegas. Legendary dance pioneer Damien Lazarus Louis, whose collaborative history spans from Muddy & The Ancient Moons will be also be appearing at Waters to Van Morrison, are sure to entrep with their Cornbury Park this year. Rounding up the main stage take on down-home Chicago blues. From Chicago are CC Smugglers, self-made showmen who worked to New Orleans, Piano auteur Diz and The Doormen their way up from young street performers to playing evoke a potent gumbo of Barrel House, Rhythm and some of the biggest venues and festivals in Europe. Blues and boogie-woogie, whilst Errol Linton’s raw Meanwhile, in the Hidden Valley, a roll call of the Brixton inspired blues offers an invigorated guise on a finest DJ talent are bursting forth, with Hercules defining genre. and Love Affair vocalist cum underground house 12 13 Always bringing new venues, performances and entrepieces being the V&A: From Woodstock formats to reinvent and reimagine the festival, to Wilderness. Curated by V&A Theatre and Wilderness 2015 also sees an array of festival firsts, Performance curators Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey including the Saturday Night Spectacular still to Marsh, who put together the singular David Bowie come, a new collaboration with Village Productions smash hit exhibition, this explores the cultural and The Clubhouse, the brand new fine arts venue – The political upheavals of the late 60s and the explosive Wilderness Art Studio, A new musical project to join sense of freedom of the era expressed in festivals, the festival’s own orchestra – the Wilderness Choir music, art, fashion, design, TV, film, photography, and a fire walking ceremony. performance and literature. Then there’s also the Wilderness Orchestra, who, on their return Music and food aside, another thing Wilderness has engagement will be playing live orchestra of film always done well is tapping into a more intellectual scores, and Shlomo’s Vocal Orchestra will also be vein as well, with the Talks and Debates on offer present and correct to blow festivalgoers’ minds. always a standout. To that end, apart from previously Additionally, The Artful Badger will be back with announced participants such as Sunday Papers more animal antics in the forest, and concert guitarist Live, The Sunday Assembly, Guerrilla Archaeology, Richard Durrant will also be on hand with his richly The V&A Talks and more, this year will also see romantic, truly virtuosic guitar playing which breaks Wallingford participants such as GQ’s award winning editor Dylan all musical boundaries. Jones, Matthew Taylor, the Chief Executive of the RSA, historian and television presenter Dan Snow, Throw in a whole host of family activities including FoodFestival2015 comedian Dom Joly speaking on the ups and downs Rhubarb Theatre and Cardboard Kingdom, and of celebrity life and Marigold Hotel author Deborah workshops focusing on costumes and wild creatures, Moggach and famed philosopher John Lanchester. as well as Wellbeing goings-on like Meditation with This is just a taster of the myriad speakers and Headspace, Massage and Facials with Neal’s Yard thinkers to be announced in the coming weeks… Remedies products, Paddle Board Yoga, Hot Pod Yoga, workshops and more, and you have a glorious festival Equally essential at this multi-arts festival is getaway from it all that will truly feel like an entirely the Theatre and Arts program, with one of the unique experience like no other.
Weekend Tickets: £175 Children aged 10 and under: £5 All tickets available via: www.wildernessfestival.com
sat 16th – sUN 17th May www.wallingfordfoodfestival.co.uk 14 This year the fabulous Alan Coxon is back again The location of the festival is always noted as to amaze us with his talent and culinary skills. a fabulous place for the event. Bridge Villas Along with Alan we welcome back our own Bake Campsite has hosted the festival for four years. Off Queen, Christine Wallace. Nick Galer who is It has great facilities and the number of people creating a real stir with his food at the Miller of who come and stay during the festival has grown Mansfield in Goring will also delight us. We have each year. Is there a correlation between camping, some new chefs who will challenge us with their food and drink? What you you think? Thanks to flavours, these include Mary Ann Paderna from the team at the site for putting up with us and for Wallingford the Phillipines and will offer a glimpse into her hosting the festival again. wonderful world of cookery, Tuyen Huynh hails We introduced music to the festival in 2013. We from Vietnam and will impress with the flavours are looking forward to the same experience this in her cooking and Nin Dulai whose Indian flavours year. We are working on having music again this will amaze us. We will have the princess of the FoodFestival2015 year – The Occasional Orchestra will be back to kitchen, Kelly Mauger, from the WI Cookery School entertain with a different format this year. Details th th showing us how glamorous you can be in the the SAT 16 – SUN 17 May www.wallingfordfoodfestival.co.uk of others will be on the website. kitchen and with your baking. Paul Bellchambers will be there to give us his style of cooking using Finally, we are planning a little surprise for the The 2015 Wallingford Food Festival celebrates time. There is also a noticable trend developing in locally sourced ingredients. There are potentially a evening of the 16th May to celebrate the fact that local food and drink producers in Oxfordshire and asian food with Vietnamese, Indian and Goan food few others who may join us this year. it is the fifth year of the festival. This will include surrounding counties. We are also celebrating our producers offering a taste of the exotic and spicy. We a little music as well. If we can finalise some The festival could not run without its sponsors fifth year! It is hard to believe that the festival has look forward to sampling their wonderful delights. arrangements it will run until 8pm. and this year the list includes:- The Head established itself and become a main event in the We also have local sausages, cheese maker, sauces, Partnership, Just Right Marquees, Chapman calendar but it has happened. What started as a toe jam, chutneys,preserves, oils, bread, macaroons and We have been blessed with good weather every Worth Accountants, South Oxfordshire District in the water in just ten weeks in 2011 to what it is now more. There is also a strong drink turn out with the year and we have our fingers crossed again. Council, Pettits of Wallingford, Open Imagination, has been a great experience. From the beginning it usual suspect of beer, cider and wine. Great to see Please come along, whatever the weather, and SPC Group and The Late Chef. We are as ever was a challenge and an opportunity to see if such a this diversity and quality. support local food and drink. Fundamentally, the grateful for their support of the festival. festival would be successful in the area. It seems that availability of local food and drink is vital to us The festival would not be what is has become without all. The quality and provenance of the produce is the challenges have changed but the opportunity is to Aspire Oxford are the charity of choice for the the producers and it is so gratifying to see that we there to see and the passion of the producers is keep promoting the benefits and the range of locally festival and we are grateful for their teams who have a large number return each year. They are obvious. Supporting local business is important produced food and drink! We are also proud that we provide help with loading/unloading, stewarding obviously doing something right when you see them as without these local champions we will find have been recognised over the last three years with and lots of the grunt work needed to get the back year on year and their businesses growing. We products of the lowest common demoninator and awards from Tourism South East and the two Silver site set up and ready for the weekend. If you are welcome the new producers to our small celebration that cannot be good for any of us. Awards we have won mean so much to us, it is a interested in the work Aspire do you should take a of the wealth of local food and drink producers. Some team of volunteers who make the festival happen! look at their website. Thank you to the team from are very new and hopefully the festival can help a Aspire for their continued support. This year there are some changes and we are looking little on their journey to success. at a number of new producers joining us for the first 16 17 John Lawson’s Circus 2015 at Millets Farm Centre 23rd May 2015 - 31st May 2015 Sinodun Players The Circus is back in Town! Inclusive daily performances at 11am, 1pm and 3pm. The award winning John Lawson’s Circus voted ‘Best Small Circus’, will make its return to Millets Farm this The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter May Half Term. With an entirely human cast and new acts and routines. (Please note that the 20-23 May 2015 acts below are correct at time of going to press. Due to the nature of the routines and the risks involved some acts may be changed without prior notice, thank you). Sinodun Players’ next production is Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, which takes place at the Corn Exchange, Wallingford, 20-23 May at 7.45pm. Confirmed for 2015 are: Ringmaster Attila Endresz, The action revolves around Stanley Webber, whose birthday turns into a nightmare when two strangers family fun with Bippo the Clown, Ukraine’s Miss turn up at the boarding house where he lodges. Their unusual interest in him causes events to take a Natalia’s amazing bubbles, knife-throwing with disturbing turn for the worse. Stanley has his birthday, his lodgings and even his sanity brought into The Marshalls, Miss Claire-Marie Weight with question. What is going on? sword and dagger balancing and Devid Tsytko This early version of Pinter’s work is funny, awkward, tense and thought-provoking. Who are these people – the youngest performer at 16. and why are they there? What has Stanley done to prompt their visit? Is it really Stanley’s birthday? Tickets are only £6.99 a person – tremendous value for an hour of live entertainment. 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TTBR is back with a new look and an even bigger display of spectacular traditional craft and expanded additional Football club to hold live music attractions for all the family, including over 100 classic, vintage and military vehicles Music fans in Abingdon will soon be flocking to the football club. Why? Because Abingdon United are and a variety of builders, restorers and planning to make their social club in Northcourt Road the hub of the local music scene. Already popular with suppliers of classic boats and equipment. those who want to dance the night away, the club are now keen to attract live bands and music fans. Their welcome change of direction started in April with a show by a U2 cover band (U2 Tribe) and support from www.tradboatfestival.com local indie rock band 31 Hours. The club has said that one of its main aims is to support young musical talent Supported by in Abingdon and is keen to hear from local bands of any age that are looking to perform their own material. Gig nights will be the last Friday of the month and tickets are around £10.
18-19 July 2015 • Fawley Meadows • Henley-on-Thames To find out more, visit www.abingdonunitedfc.co.uk
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GLL_PCR_VOWH_Advert_MakeASplashThisSummer_LidoPass_148x210_April2015_fv.indd 1 24/04/2015 15:10 Blenheim Palace: From May to Christmas Experience a ‘Night at the Museum’! The Battle of Blenheim, The Blenheim Tapestries, Blenheim Palace in WWI and much more! Experience a special ‘Night at the Museum’ at Wallingford Museum anytime from 6pm – curfew (9pm) on 21 May 16 September Friday 16th May! Following the great success of last year’s World War II event, this year the clock is turning The Battle of Blenheim Sarah the Indomitable Duchess – a Lesson in back to The Middle Ages! Blenheim Palace was built as a gift to John Love…and Hate Be sure to bring your torch so you can explore the museum’s medieval secrets at night and seek answers Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough after his victory The first Duchess was a passionate woman who to our special quiz. If you are brave enough, you can find the man in the dungeon, the hooded monk, the at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. at times favoured or alienated all around her; wicked robber on the pillory... and much more. You can even dig for ‘treasure’! This talk & tour explains the importance of the those closest to her were often the object of her And even if this isn’t your thing .....it’s a great opportunity to see the Museum in an evening, instead of battle and those who fought in it. Time: 2:30pm irrational and damaging emotions. Sarah was once described as ‘a good hater,’ this talk will help you to our normal opening daytime opening hours! There’s plenty to see – not only can you read original letters 5 June decide whether this description was well deserved. from Agatha Christie, you can find out more about her life in Wallingford during the 42 years she lived at Consuelo Vanderbilt Time: 2:30pm Winterbrook House. You can also discover the fascinating story of Wallingford’s Royal Castle and learn From the 1870s to the 1900s, some 300 British about the Town’s place in Magna Carta. aristocrats married American heiresses for their 8 October All this for the price of the entry ticket – just £4 for an adult, and free for children – but if you’ve already wealth and they became known as the Dollar The Blenheim Tapestries visited this season, of course you can use your ticket again, and again and again…. Princesses. They crossed the Atlantic equipped The Blenheim tapestries are outstanding works of with extremely generous dowries, which helped art, commissioned by the 1st Duke of Marlborough save numerous stately homes from ruin. to illustrate his significant victories. This talk and tour will include additional textiles such as carpets Blenheim Palace was no exception to this. In 1895, and captured standards, also in the Blenheim the 9th Duke of Marlborough married heiress Palace collection. Time: 2:30pm Consuelo Vanderbilt. This talk offers an insight into Consuelo’s life as a child of the Gilded Age 11 November and as a new member of the English aristocracy Blenheim Palace in WWI and provides an overview of some members of Join us on Armistice Day for a poignant talk & the Spencer-Churchill family who have married tour on how the people who lived and worked at American ladies. Time: 2:30pm Blenheim Palace played their part during this time of immense change and sacrifice. Explore the 7 July role of the Palace, the family and the people that A Closer Look at Baroque worked here on both the front line and the home Baroque was the first style to have a significant front, and hear of the moments of humour amidst global impact, changing as it crossed the world, all the hard work and bad news and the ‘near adapting to local tastes. A sense of drama and misses’ that left all involved with a determination a love of the ornate characterise the Baroque to live life to the full. Time: 2:30pm style. This talk and tour explores in depth the many aspects of the Baroque style that employed 10 December Architecture, Ceramics, Furniture, Interior Christmas at Blenheim Palace Decoration, Garden Design, Painting, Music and Throughout the 300 year history of the Palace, the Applied Arts, and its influence on the Baroque Christmas has always been a time of celebration collection at Blenheim Palace. Time: 2:30pm and giving but particularly so in the Victorian era. 15 August The 7th Duke and Duchess followed the lead Running a Great Estate of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in making Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse into Christmas a family time and a time to give gifts to daily life at Blenheim Palace, and learn what it those that worked here. The traditions established takes to run an Estate of such great proportions. by the 7th Duke and Duchess are in many ways still This talk & tour highlights the small army of people continued to this day. who help run, restore, preserve and maintain the This talk looks at how Christmas has been Palace, Parkland and Formal Gardens, and gives celebrated over the years and how the present you an insight into their roles and routines. staff transform the Palace each November into a Time: 10:30am Christmas feast for the eyes. Time: 2:30pm Tel: 0800 8496500 Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, OX20 1PP www.blenheimpalace.com 24 25 GYM REFURBISHMENT COMING SOON A BETTER WAY Steam Gala with guest locomotives 1501 & 1450 Saturday 2 may – monday 4 may
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For more information and to Didcot Railway Centre Teams Up With Five Other Railways claim your guest pass, visit for Joint Promotion Didcot Railway Centre has again teamed up with: Pendon The other unusual thing about this promotion is that the www.better.org.uk/wantage Museum, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, Cholsey offer is transferable. So if visitors are unable to use the and Wallingford Railway, STEAM (Museum of the Great vouchers, they can give them to friends or other family Western Railway), and Swindon and Cricklade Railway, to members to use. offer visitors discounts on future visits. There are a small number of exclusion dates for each All the attractions in the scheme give every visitor a railway when the vouchers cannot be used. Otherwise, £2 discount voucher that can be used for a return visit the discounts are available until 22 November 2015. or to visit any of the other participants. The even better This is the fourth year of this promotion and the number news is that the discounts continue. of railways involved has doubled from three When visitors pay their admission charge on their next visit to six over that time. to any of the six attractions, and redeem their voucher or Visitors are advised to check opening times on attraction vouchers, each visitor will be given another £2 discount websites when planning their visits. voucher, making this a self-perpetuating offer.
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GLL_PCR_Wantage_Advert_FEB2015_BetterWayToGetActive_148x210_fv.indd 1 19/02/2015 15:26 Wife After Death by Experience a night in Eric Chapell wartime Britain! Tuesday 6th May - Saturday 10th May at 7.45pm Experience what it was like in wartime Britain at a special ‘Night at the Museum’ Thame Players present Eric Chappell’s comedy Wife at Wallingford Museum anytime from After Death. 6pm – 9pm on Friday 16th May! Bring a torch Dave Thursby’s friends are gathered at his funeral. to this event , which will appeal to adults and Their memories of him are very different and often children alike. clash. When the mysterious Kay arrives to drop And even if this isn’t your thing..... it’s a great her bombshell everyone endeavours to keep up opportunity to see the museum in an evening, appearances for the sake of the widow. Later, when instead of our normal opening daytime the time comes to dispose of the ashes and Dave’s opening hours! There’s plenty to see – not An Evening with the Wit of Bob secret life is finally exposed, tempers and ashes fly. only can you read original letters from Agatha Newhart and Tom Lehrer Tickets: £9 and £8 (£1 off for concessions) Christie, you can find out more about her life in Wallingford during the 42 years she lived at Saturday 6th June at 7.45pm Winterbrook House. You can also discover the Peter Gill and Andy Meller perform some of the best sketches and Towersey Festival presents… fascinating story of Wallingford’s history. songs from the catalogue of two of America’s greatest satirists of ‘A night of great acoustic music to celebrate the All this for the price of the entry ticket – just the 50s and 60s launch of your local Festival in its 50th year’ £4 for an adult, and free for children – but if Tickets £10 you’ve already visited this season, of course Saturday 17th May at 7.30pm you can use your ticket again, and again and BBC Award winner and Radio 2 play listed artist again…. Megan Henwood from just down the road in Henley, has been heralded by The Guardian and Mojo Music Magazine as one of the brightest stars Shakespeare Revue of the acoustic music world with her debut single being played regularly on BBC Radio 2. Stunning and Didcot & District Sunday 14th June at 7.45pm heartbreaking song writing and a pure voice, coupled University Of The Third As a curtain raiser to our own production of Taming with brilliant and intricate guitar playing will have you of the Shrew, White Cobra Productions perform this transfixed from the first note. Age meetings Shakespeare Revue which is a light-hearted collection With just over 100 seats this promises to be a are held on the third Tuesday of each of sketches, songs and anecdotes inspired by the beautifully intimate night of acoustic music, with month. The May 2014 meeting of Didcot & works and reputation of William Shakespeare. support coming from another great local artist Evette Judge who delivers folksy acoustic rock District University of the Third Age is is being Tickets £10 through her own songwriting and covers.The evening held at 2pm on Tuesday 20 May at Didcot (concessions £9) will be introduced by Towersey Festival Director Joe Civic Hall. I attach an announcement of the Heap who will show a short film about the event and May meeting and one for the May and June some of the best pictures from the last few years to meetings for Pick South Oxfordshire. get us all in the festival mood. Please send me some information about your copy deadlines and publication dates. I hope Tickets £12.00 (concessions - Over 60’s and that you will be able to include information Under 16 years £10) about our meetings in Pick South Oxfordshire. Thank you very much for your help. Tickets online from www.thameplayers. For further information contact: Anne Hales, Chairperson D&D U3A on co.uk (10% booking fee applies) or Tickets 07804159993 Tickets online from www.thameplayers.co.uk Anywhere, Greyhound Walk, Thame Email:didcotdistrictu3a@virgin media.com 01844 217228 Website:http://u3asites.org.uk/didcot (10% booking fee applies) or Spear Travels, Greyhound Walk, Thame 01844 217228 28 29 UK & European Coach Holidays Rugfest is back, better still! HOME PICKUP Wallingford’s summer music festival…Rugfest 2015 on tours 4 days and over, see back cover for details 19th/20th June 2015, Hithercroft Sports Park, Wallingford
Rugfest – now in its seventh year and hosted by Wallingford Rugby Club, this ever expanding summer festival offers fans the Rugfest is a fun packed very best musical talent from across the country, tons of activities weekend for the whole family for all the family and a superb range of beverages and cuisine. and priced very reasonably: After last year’s musical extravaganza that included a stand out set from HUE & CRY, this year the organisers are delighted to Friday night session: £10.00 announce that THE CHRISTIANS, the outstanding, soul influenced group who had hits in the late 80’s and 90’s including ‘Forgotten Saturday day pass: £15.00 Town’, ‘Harvest For The World’, ‘Born Again’, ‘Ideal World’, and Weekend pass: £20.00 ‘Hooverville’, will be headlining Saturday’s stage joining other bands already announced LAND OF THE GIANTS and festival Under 16s when accompanied favourites WILL AND THE PEOPLE. by an adult: Free! But that is not all, Rugfest will also be hosting: The Americana brilliance of The Mojo Slide, the fabulous Alternative folk of On site camping: available for Flight Brigade who join The Revue and The Unusual Suspects to £2.50 per person per night. complete our Friday night line-up. On Saturday the music just cannot be pinned down with Normanton Street fusing Hip-hop For more information visit soul and spoken word, The Novatones providing some energetic www.rugfest.co.uk Britpop, The Original Rabbit Foot Spasm Band offering jump-jive, 2015 Hope and Glory adding ska nuttiness, Fleur Stevenson mixing in a little jazz and Quadrophobe adding their usual blend of badger inspired insanity.
www.barnescoaches.co.uk If this massive mix is not enough to whet your musical appetite then the return of RSVP Bhangra to the [email protected] Hithercroft should be enough to get everybody jumping; a lot of styles and something for everyone, possibly 01793 821303 the reason that this festival continues to grow in popularity. Rugfest truly is a family event and little ones will be spoilt for choice this year. There’s everything from Trampolines to Jan’s Blackboard Van, Zorb Balls to an Arts Woodside Road • South Marston Park • Swindon SN3 4AQ and Crafts tent. It doesn’t stop there; Bouncy Castles, Bungee Runs, Blow up Boxing, high flying trampolines, Face Painting and, if they’re still standing, a two hour disco; just for kids! Enjoy all this with a local tipple of your choice. Variety is the key with freshly made cocktails from the mixologists of Wallingford’s Old Post Office, plus Loddon Ales, Cotswold Lagers and chilled ciders from across the country. A variety of fresh and tasty hot food is available throughout the event, including some of your favourites but some new ideas from Ostrich burgers to Noodles and Curry.
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Land of the Giants 30 31 Take a walk on the pink side and help us beat breast cancer! Against Breast Cancer have decided that it is time to launch a new event, something that doesn’t require running shoes or jumping out of an aeroplane but that is open to all ages and involves a fantastic day spent out in the fresh air! Our day-time walking full or half marathon is open to men, women, children and even dogs. Join us on this incredible walk along the beautiful Thames riverside from Abingdon to Beale Park and help us to fund our ground breaking research. Against Breast Cancer is the story of the personal crusade of founders Dr Anthony Leathem and his wife Patricia in their search for a future free of breast cancer. Against Breast Cancer funds pioneering research by expert clinical scientists at the University of Westminster in London. Its national Diet & Lifestyle Study of breast cancer survivors involves over 3,300 women in 57 hospitals across the UK. It is the largest study of its kind in the world. Ultimately, our goal is to discover a vaccine against breast cancer. So are your boots made for walking? Don’t delay take a walk on the pink side and help us beat breast cancer. Sign up today at www.breastwalkever.org
Abbey buildings repaired Even the oldest of buildings are not immune to the ravages of time and recently, the Abbey buildings has started to look a little worse for wear in places. However, the Friends of Abingdon Civic Society have come to the rescue and made sure that the historic Abbey buildings will live to see many more days yet. The British weather throws quite a lot at the Long Gallery, which was built back in the late 15th century. A part of the Checker end had eroded so badly that there was an area of approximately 25 meters square that needed to be replaced. There was also quite a lot of foliage growth on the ornate chimney which needed to be removed. Both of these tasks have now been completed and the work was carried out by English Heritage. This means the integrity and appearance of the building have been preserved for many years to come. It is thought the Long Gallery was built to accommodate guests visiting the Abbey. After the dissolution of the monasteries it was used as living quarters before being converted into a brewery in the late 16th century. The Long Gallery now hosts local events and can be hired for private gatherings as well. The Friends of Abingdon was formed in 1944 and secured funds to buy all the Abbey buildings, some of which were due for demolition. The Long Gallery was acquired in 1948 along with several other buildings and were restored to their former glory. The society now maintains all of the buildings, which are now classified as an Ancient Monument.
33 Sculpture in the Vineyard Wood Festival 2015 23-25 May, 27-31 May and 3-7 June, Bothy Vineyard, Frilford Heath 15, 16 & 17 May Where can you see a rotating 15 foot stainless Festival of music and nature at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, is delighted to announce the first acts for the 2015 steel yacht, a blue Neolithic Egyptian goddess line up and a life sized horse gamboling among wildflowers in the Oxfordshire countryside? 3 nights camping, workshops, kids activities, amazing food and drink, run on 100% renewable power. These unlikely companions will be unleashed in the grounds of Bothy Vineyard, Frilford Heath, Wood Festival, created to be one of the UK’s greenest events, takes place on the 15, 16 & 17 May at Braziers Park, as part of an ambitious sculpture show from near Wallingford, Oxfordshire. 23 May to 7 June 2015. All three headline acts have been confirmed: Enjoy for free Oxfordshire’s largest outdoor sculpture exhibition this year in a beautiful and Tunng - Songhoy Blues - Treetop Flyers unique setting. Featuring over 200 sculptures Joining them on stage will be an exceptional crop of musical excellence: CC Smugglers, Spiro, Gill Sandell & by 35 artists, placed in 7 acres of the oldest Chris T-T and wood favourites Jali Fily Cissokho, Alan Tyler, Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou, Knights of Mentis, vineyard/winery in the country. Refreshments Natureboy and Oxford Ukuleles. and parking available. In aid of the Nasio Trust. Also part of English Wine Week. Also for the first time Barna Howard, Tamara, Brickwork Lizards and Cooling Pearls. It is recommended you investigate all of them… For more details, visit Early bird tickets have already sold out in record time, but weekend tickets for this celebration of music and bothyvineyard.co.uk nature are now available, priced £74. https://www.gigantic.com/wood-festival-tickets As always, children aged 12 & under go free accompanied by an adult. Tickets are also available in person from the Truck Store, Oxford.
Songhoy Blues © Andy Morgan 34 35 Didcot Faringdon In Harwell, Robert Strange is preparing for his In Faringdon’s historic centre you’ll find new face in may open studio with sparse textured landscape multi-artist exhibitions in two of its oldest buldings Thousands of artists paintings inspired by the Ridgeway, each taking just – from photographic collages of local landscapes a few hours to complete. These are a total contrast meticulously reconstructed from hundreds of across 400 local venues to his other work - colourful ephemera squashed originals, jewellery, textiles and sculpture in The into boxes drawn in coloured pencil, his obsession Rookery, with its chequered heritage; to local with ‘collecting things in boxes’ serving a source of landscapes in watercolour and oils contrasting inspiration and each takes between 80 to 120 hours with fresh animal portraiture in the Old Town Hall. to complete. Head West to Longcot for three stone carvers a stone’s throw apart with neighbouring funky mosaic With four ceramicists on The Green in Steventon, mannequins, or visit the beautiful National trust textiles at Milton Hill House, rag-rugs in Upton, village of Coleshill for four art spaces for quirky painters in Aston Tirrold and small suclptures in black and white fine art photography and lino-prints, East Hagbourne there’s plenty to explore. In Didcot paperworks, pottery and more in Old Stable Yard centre, the Cornestone hosts its annual open show studios. Take the ever popular artist trail through for Artweeks, with drawings created traditionally and Great Coxwell or head to Watchfield’s wind farm digitally, see silver jewellery by Charlie Davis or head for kinetic & sonic sculpture at community-owned to North Bush Furlong and visit new exhibitor Ruth windfarm with occasional performances too. With Rothery and her appealing animal portraits and fun artists throwing open their studios in Bourton, speckled flower art. Standford and Uffington, there;s plenty to explore on Expect West Oxfordshire to burst into life this spring with as many as a thousand the edge of east Swindon this May. artists of all ages at more than 400 venues, as artists and designer-makers prepare for hundreds of exhibitions and events across the county for Oxfordshire Artweeks (2nd-25th May) in the longest-running and biggest open studios event in the UK. Painters and designers, potters and sculptors, wood-turners, photographers, jewellers and textile artists will all be opening their homes and studios across the county to the public for free to showcase their talent through exhibitions and demonstrations. From fashion to furniture, in collage, ceramics, mosaic, on fabric, on film and on canvas, artists are telling tales of wonderful places and journeys travelled, their inspiration and idea.
Abingdon In Abingdon historic town hall, five jewellers showcase their new pieces inspired by the Roman remains discovered an nearby Marcham, and now housed in the Abingdon Museum. Enjoy striking sculpture in Garford or enjoy ‘Views from a Taxi’, photography from India & Sri Lanka by Bernard Auton alongside ceramic birds & driftwood sculpture by Shira Gal both new to Artweeks for 2015. For large group exhibitions with a wide variety of professional artists head to Dry Sandford, Appleton or Peachcroft Farm Barn to discover a new group of artists in a medieval barn, just metres away from the Jewellers and Silver Society of Oxford who will also be demonstrating their craft. With two schools and new responses to Old Masters by Oxfordshire Mind in the Well-being centre there are artists of all ages and abilities opening their doors to welcome you in. Bicester You’ll find a wealth of sculpture in the heart of Bicester, as Bicester Sculpture Group show their talents in the beautiful studio and garden of The Old Vicarage by St Edburg’s Church, or enjoy a fresh exhibition of contemporary design, photography, print-making and furniture by nine artists in the classic summer setting of Heyford. There’s decorated earthenware & sculptural stoneware on show in Lower Heyford’s Old Rickyard, and in Upper Heyford, established artist Stephen Yorke exhibits with talented newcomer, sixteen-year old Beatrice May as his fascination with light combines with her modern interpretation of village life. 36 37 Thame Stuart Roper who explores the many elements Sue Tucker and Neil Cap; or be surprised by the medieval barns in England, a West Oxfordshire wind that creates a bigger picture and take on a life of talent of the young people who access Witney Early farm, and a classic 1930s barge on the river Thames. Enjoy a sea view in Thame with painter Janine their own on great big canvases. In the town too, for Intervention Hub. Head to Eynsham to follow a village Art aficionados and everyday enthusiasts, adults and Philips, whose giant canvases being the tide right into example, regular Artweekser Jill Cooper’s surprising trail with local scenes and travels abroad, pottery, children alike will be able to follow art trails through Thame or explore a real artist’s studio with Christine intricate fabric collages will surprise you with the textiles, photography and steel sculpture both large Oxford streets, Cotswold villages, along the Thames Tacq and see her printing presses at work! Visit an skill in which they capture people and places, while and small; explore the Kingfisher studios in Crawley or through the county’s market towns. artist in her studio or head to a stable studio at Brill’s across in Ardington, a group of professional art tutors to see glass art, jewellery and mixed media art, or And with art talks, events, and workshops at The Manor House for a collection of contemporary fabrics will demonstrate their crafts including sculpting visit Pip Shuckburgh, Bampton’s resident Downton OU Museum of Natural History, The Ashmolean and and silk inspired by traditional botanical illustrations in stone, wood carving, working with leather and Abbey artist, in her studio. art centres across the county, there’s something and herbaria. Heather Hunter, artist-in-residence at windswept images drawn from thread onto fabric Discover the natural world, from the poles to the to inspire all ages and aspirations. Visitors will Turn End Gardens in Haddenham is also inspired by and paper. Explore examples of the local offerings equator, take a journey in a gondola through the have the chance to see the art produced in their the natural world. In addition, she’s developing art as in an exhibition at The Charlton Centre, Wantage Venetian archipelago, or travel back in time and own communities, to ask local artists about their a reaction to the lace work in Thames Museum for throughout May. her artist books, each a mini gallery, and sculptural share memories of childhood. Come nose to nose influences, techniques and materials, and even have ‘altered books’ –books. Witney with a highland cow in a Cotswold pub, or follow the a go themselves. fine lines of a bird at flight in a bookshop. Find nature Wallingford In Witney, start at the SOTA gallery in Langdale Court encapsulated in glass or reproduced as fine silver The listings are now available on-line where Andrew Harrison’s breath-taking artistic jewellery, or enjoy art good enough to eat, or eat off! at www.artweeks.org and the printed Visit a well-established group of artists in sculptural pieces which combine the traditions of Visitors are invited into hundreds of interesting festival guide is also available. Brightwell-cum-Sotwell with work ranging from woodturning, and carving with a modern touch; spaces, many of which are usually closed to the large lively canvases to botanical watercolours; head to Cogges Manor Farm for wool and textiles public, including Oxford Colleges, two of the finest discover fresh jewellery and ceramics in a delightful art by local Cotswold artists and Cogges volunteers, Little Wittenham barn and orchard garden or visit the neighbouring Sylva Wood centre, with tree art and new workshops dedicated to the best in home- grown wood. You can escape to Cornwall with vivid seascapes by painter Jane Duff or travel further afield in Dorchester-on-Thames where narratives, history, people & ideas are captured in wall- mounted tree-dimensional ‘theatres’. Ceramicist Lucienne De Mauny is celebrating 30 years as a professional potter and welcoming you into her new Crowmarsh studio to see her craft, and in Castle Lane print-maker Marion Hill celebrates ‘50 years an artist’ with a retrospective exhibition of the art she has produced as an artist and teacher. Wantage In Letcombe Regis you’ll find four artists in The Old Manor Stables with art on an equestrian theme with paintings and more. Gutsy seascapes, landscape and cityscapes by Jane Vaux will grace the centre of town in The Dolphin Gallery, just a stone’s throw from the Vale & Downland Museum where local artist
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Everyone can benefit from One of Oxfordshire’s best loved music festivals has announced its line-up. Truck, which takes place in Steventon, exercise, whatever your age, will be headlined by none other than Basement Jaxx this year. The electronic dance music duo will be heading down to Hill Farm this summer to join some other great national and local acts, including Saint Raymond, Peter whatever your ability. Hook and the Light and Pulled Apart by Horses. Basement Jaxx rose to fame in the late 90s and will be heading to the farm directly from headlining at the O2 Arena. They will be showcasing the whole of their 20 year catalogue, which includes well known singles For more information and to such as ‘Red Alert’ and ‘Where’s Your Head At’. Their biggest hit to date is their 1999 house track Rendez-Vu, which rose to number 4 in the charts and can still be heard on the dance floors of clubs up and down the claim your guest pass, visit country every weekend. www.better.org.uk/thepark Returning to the fields will also be in-demand indie pop band Saint Raymond. Co-Founder of Joy Division Peter Hook will also be at the festival with his band The Light. Together they will perform some of New Order and Joy Division’s greatest hits. Pulled Apart by Horses are also back to headline the Barn with their brand new album. Tickets are now on sale via the website - www.truckfestival.com
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Steak Night Thursday’s Seated in our Picturesque, River View Restaurant or our Bar Area. Dine on a Succulent English Steak Selection Cooked to your preference. Modern British menu, authentic paellas and tapas, freshly prepared and locally sourced ingredients £30 for two Steaks and a Bottle of Wine. Fresh fish Friday NEW!! Lunchtime specials menu £8.95 £45 for two Steaks and a Bottle of Prosecco. 2 x fish main courses, 1 x bottle Tuesday & Wednesday evening Selection of dishes available of house wine red or white, Freshly prepared pizzas from Tuesday-Friday lunchtimes Fish and Chip Friday’s Perfect for family and friends to get together on a Friday. every Friday from 6.30pm £10 freshly made tomato changes every week £8 per person or Two for £15. Eat in or take away. choose from 3 dishes every sauce, homemade mozzarella, week, £27.00 for two people take away available Open 7 days a week from 12pm - 9pm Enjoy an Afternoon Tea for Two by the River for just £17 Traditional Sunday lunch, real log fire, June 21st sofa style seating, real ales Father’s day bookings For something a little more substantial, why not book a table for now being taken dinner in our River Side Restaurant? With Panoramic views of the River Thames, the Shillingford Bridge Hotel is the perfect place to enjoy an evening away.
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01865 858567 • [email protected] www.theswanfoodhouse.co.uk Shillingford Bridge Hotel, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8LZ 46 47 To celebrate 150 years of village cricket, comedian Mike King comperes Ipsden Cricket Club’s 2015 Sportsman’s Evening Thursday 18th June from 7.30 pm, The Barn, Ipsden Farm, Ipsden, OX10 6AJ Our Extensive menu caters for both traditional and more The Ipsden Cricket Club Sportsman’s Evening includes Imaginative tastes and is regularly updated to include seasonal Ipsden Cricket Club 1938 dinner and will be compered by Mike King: He has produce to bring you the very best in fine food to eat a unique style telling hilarious stories in numerous Extensive Garden for outside dining accents and he really is the KING of comedy. We look forward to welcoming you to the Fish but please Shaun Udal, former England Test Cricketer who note booking is strongly advised. played County Cricket for Hampshire and Middlesex, will be guest speaker. During his time in first class, one day and 20/20 cricket he took a total of 1330 wickets Menu du Jour and scored 9947 runs. Shaun is a very interesting LUNCH Tuesday to Saturday & DINNER Tuesday to Thursday 2 Courses - £15.00, 3 Courses - £18.00 after dinner speaker who will keep you entertained with his wonderful cricketing stories. Tickets only £30 T: 01235848242 Contact Charlie Cox to book your place 4 Appleford Road, Sutton Courtenay, OX14 4NQ Email: [email protected] www.thefishatsuttoncourtenay.co.uk Mobile: 07810 714924 ICC today Closed Sunday and Monday evenings
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48 49 The BarringTon arms The Bell Hotel 13 Market Place, Faringdon, Oxon, SN7 7HP Hotel and RestauRant • open all day from 12 mid day New Spring • Beautiful Beer garden especially for Menu Now alfresco dining – new Pizza Menu Available! • Restaurant open Mon to sat Includes New lunch 12 - 3 | dinner 3 - 6 Salad menu • Carvery sunday 12pm -3pm Come along and try our Fabulous adults £9.95 Children £5.95, Sunday Carvery Choice of 3 meats £7.95 Per Adult | £3.95 Per Child • 8 luxury double rooms at £70 Pn Light Bite Menu • luxury Family suite a £110 Pn £10 for three courses including breakfast. Main course £5 Adrian and Tracy add starter or dessert for £3 each look forward to meeting you Senior Citizen Discount 2 courses for £6 01793 784692 [email protected] Available Mon to Fri 12 - 3 www.barringtonarmshotel.com 01367 358050 25 High Street, Shrivenham SN6 8AN [email protected] www.thebellhotelfaringdon.co.uk
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The aristocrat was • Exciting innovative and breads new menus • Crisp salads and grills 18 Market Place, Faringdon, known for his eccentric ways, which included inviting a horse to tea and walking Oxfordshire SN7 7HP through the centre of the town in a diving suit. Today, you can still see a few of the quirky notices he erected in the town, such as one which advises passers-by not to T: 01367 241114 Sudbury House Hotel, London Street, Faringdon. SN7 7AA throw stones at the sign. The Folly, which Berners designed and paid for, is open the Tel : 01367 241272 E: [email protected] www.deacons-jewellers.com 1st and 3rd Sundays throughout the summer months. And in the town, if you are lucky, www.sudburyhouse.co.uk 50 51 boosted by the presence of a A freelance florist with over 14 years’ Wendy House Flowers experience in the industry. farmers market on the first Tuesday Often referred to as a community florist, of the month. 07810 716073 working with many local charities including Swindon SANDS and Swindon Young Carers. 3. Parking Arrangements are created from our private design studio and means we can offer Sounds like a daft reason to visit a competitive prices. town, but the reality is that how easy/ Our services are diverse and unique to each cheap it is to park in a town is actually customer. Bouquets for special occasions are very important! And when it comes to designed with the recipient in mind. Catering transport, Faringdon is fantastic. There for any size and style of wedding, offering advice and support along the way. are two good sized car parks, both of Funerals are a deeply emotional time. We which are in the town centre and offer create simple or bespoke tributes to help you the first hour for free (and the hours say the perfect goodbye. after are very reasonable as well). If Our business services range from flowers you don’t drive, then Faringdon is easy • Funerals • Weddings for reception areas to large corporate events. • Special Occasions Designs are unique to each company and to reach by bus as route 66 (no, really!) event. Perfect for promotions when you need stops in the town and sets off from • Corporate & Special Events to stand out. Oxford City centre, passing several other We also run workshops for parties and team stops along the way. [email protected] building events. 4. Sports If you are a keen walker, then you have plenty of reasons to visit the town! There are Modern Offices • Rural Environment you might even see a pigeon dyed a few circular walks, both around the Folly and further afield into the rolling fields of in a pink, purple or green colour, Wicklesham farm and Little Coxwell. For the younger ones in your life, there is a well- another of Berners’ traditions that designed skate park as well as indoor climbing and the chance to try Parkour at The carries on today! Pump House Project. Being surrounded by quiet roads and small villages, Faringdon 2. The shops also makes an ideal lunch stop on a long day’s cycling. Tel: 01367 244794 www.wicklesham.co.uk Faringdon was the first Fair Trade 5. Surroundings town in the whole of the UK and If you don’t like the idea of spending the whole day in a town centre, then Faringdon WICKLESHAM COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES this legacy is built on a town full of has some fantastic other places to visit within easy reach. You could spend the independent shops. If you want big morning shopping then maybe head to White Horse Hill for a picnic. Then nip over brand names and massive stores, to Waylands Smithy to wander around the Neolithic long barrows. Maybe stop in at this is completely the wrong town Millets Farm on the way home to get some fresh veg for tea. Buscot Park, which is a for you. If you want small shops very short distance from the town, offers the chance to wander round the beautiful selling all manner of interesting house and its grounds, which is now owned by the National Trust. things that you simply can’t get anywhere else, then this is definitely And most important of all, Faringdon is where your ideal shopping location. The town also holds a traditional market Pick Magazine is based, so remember to call in every Tuesday morning, which is for a cup of tea….but maybe leave your horse at home!
52 53 The Grange Care Centre Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxfordshire Quality 24 Hour residential nursing care for elderly persons
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54 55 Visit our Health and Wellbeing Keeping the county happy Centre today Oxfordshire’s Health Experience the friendly and supportive atmosphere of a Health and Wellbeing Centre. Qualified staff offer a wide range of services designed to help keep you healthy and & Wellbeing Centres independent. How about quizzes, yoga, crafts and seated exercise? If you’d prefer Health and Wellbeing Centres managed and run by something more relaxing, try hairdressing services, manicures, podiatry, relaxation or Oxfordshire County Council are located in Abingdon, Didcot, Wallingford hand massage. Or maybe you’d just like a cuppa and a chat? and Wantage and are open from Monday to Friday 9am- 4.30pm, What Our Happy Wallingford is also open on Saturdays from 9.30-2.30pm Customers say There really is something for everyone at your local Health and Wellbeing Centre! The Centres offer a wide range of activities all aimed at supporting adults living in the community to remain independent and happy about us for as long as possible through improved health and wellbeing ‘The atmosphere is so Wantage Health & Wellbeing Centre Why not experience a hand or foot massage, manicure and polish, friendly, the staff are super relaxation session or seated exercise all included in the cost of attending!!! Manager: Jane Doyle - Tel: 01235 765934 and nothing is too much trouble. It’s my lifeline’ To arrange a FREE NO OBLIGATION ‘Coming to the Centre Abingdon Health & Wellbeing Centre is like coming to an Manager: Pauline Krason - Tel: 01235 521094 TASTER DAY INCLUDING LUNCH oasis in the desert’ contact your local Centre: It’s really enjoyable, Didcot Health & Wellbeing Centre it keeps my brain active and I’ve made lots of new friends. Acting Manager: Gemma Booker - Tel: 01235 518444 Abingdon – 01235 521094 Didcot – 01235 518444 I don’t feel lonely any more’ Wallingford – 01491 836467 Wantage – 01235 765934 ‘The seated yoga has improved Wallingford Health & Wellbeing Centre by mobility and I feel much Where our qualified staff will be happy to discuss more flexible now and Manager: Kerry Coleman - Tel: 01491 836467 your individual support needs I am finding getting around at home a lot easier’
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Have you found people mumble a lot recently? Maybe your family keep turning the sound down on the television when you are watching it? Are you struggling to understand people at parties? do you suffer from tinnitus? All of these are a sign that your hearing may not be what it should be. But where do you go to get a test?
The Oxford Hearing Centre is a totally independent hearing aid dispensing practice that specialises in individually designed hearing health care rehabilitation, auditory training programme, and hearing instruments not available through the NHS. You are guaranteed completely impartial and professional advice for a complete and holistic solution to your hearing difficulty. Oxford Hearing Centre is able to select systems and instruments from a range of internationally recognised manufacturing companies worldwide to ensure that you can confidently receive the most up to date help available. All new technologically innovative hearing instruments are assessed and evaluated very carefully before they are included to ensure they are reliable and of good quality before they are offered at the Oxford Hearing Centre. There are many different reasons for acquiring hearing impairment, and the correct solution to an individual’s needs is equally varied. That is why it is of the utmost importance to have your hearing properly assessed and evaluated thoroughly before a decision is made about which hearing system and rehabilitation programme is the most appropriate for you. On many occasions, it is a build-up of wax preventing the sound from reaching your eardrum in the first place. It is also the main limiting factor to the continued satisfactory performance and operation of a hearing aid and up to 80% of all hearing aid repairs are as a result of wax ingression to the device. The Oxford Hearing Centre has a dedicated and fully equipped treatment room for the provision of ear-canal examination using a video-otoscopic camera, excessive earwax can be removed safely and effectively either by specialist water irrigation system, or by an instrument under the camera.
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61 Brownie Guides returns to Kingston Bagpuize and Southmoor Good news for girls aged five to seven who live in the Kingston Bagpuize and Southmoor area as a group of volunteers have got together to restart a Brownie Unit in the area. There hasn’t been a Brownie Unit in the area for some time, but now a group of volunteers with a good mix of experience have come together to offer education, fun and achievement for local girls all in the safe environment of the village hall. The first meeting will take place on a Thursday night after half term and any parent interested in finding out more information should email [email protected].
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63 Have you or a family member ever served in the forces? Do you know if you have served or a parent or spouse has served you could be entitled to help from SSAFA? Just one day of service entitles that person to SSAFA support. Whether it is a welfare or general advice, social, domestic or professional – SSAFA may be able to help. As the oldest service charity SSAFA have supported lot’s of the ex-forces service community and their families. We have seen many things and supported people through many issues so whether you are young or not so young if you need us we will try and help. Call 01235 548039 for more information and in complete confidence Ssafa.org.uk/commitment Registered Charity No: 210760 & No: SC038056
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Retired? Getting bored? Want to do something worthwhile and rewarding? SSAFA the oldest Military charity is looking for Volunteers to help service and ex- service families in need. Now is the time to help those who have served our country. Give as much time as you can afford and make someone happy because of your help 65 Registered Charity No. 210760 Est. 1885 Registered Charity (Scotland) No. SC038056 A JOB FOR SUPERVET Noel Fitzpatrick modestly shrugs off his ‘Supervet’ title - but he’s certainly a hero to our nation’s pets. Noel Fitzpatrick knew that veterinary medicine was his calling from an early age. Growing up on a rural farm in Northern Ireland, animals were his first friends. Today,running a successful practice in Surrey and at the helm of TV show The Supervet, he still adores his four legged companions. “I much prefer spending time in the company of animals because they don’t judge you,” he says. “They allow you to be yourself, they give unconditional love - and most human beings are incapable of love without conditions.” 10% By age 11, Fitzpatrick was coming to realise that animals weren’t being given a fair deal. “I was OFF looking at how humanity had got so much from animals over the years ... numerous drugs and * Any new Scooter if you bring this ad into store. Valid May 2015. implants used for humans have gone through animal testing first. It struck me as totally unfair, that animals would give their lives to serve humanity as clinical animals - while animals did not have that True Mobility Ltd. 2 Market Place, DIDCOT, technology coming back in their direction.” Determined to give back, Fitzpatrick set up The Humanimal Trust, the running of which he calls his life’s goal. “It’s about bringing the technology that animals gave us back to help them. It’s about funding projects that help study disease that attacks both humans and animals - if you fund research that helps a dog and a human at the same time then that’s far superior to giving a rabbit cancer to study cancer in humans.
66 67 Fitzpatrick will take to the stage at the London Pet Show for Supervet Live sponsored by Eukanuba to discuss advances in the veterinary profession, as well as recounting heart-warming success stories from the TV show. Embracing the good atmosphere, he’ll also be hosting the SuperDogs Live talent competition, celebrating doggies nationwide. The UK’s most talented, heroic and entertaining dogs will take centre stage, competing to win awards in a fun-filled, action packed show at the Zoflora Super Theatre. It’s what the vet describes as a rewarding public side to the work to does at the practice.
“Supervet Live and SuperDogs Live are about interacting with the people who want to experience that uplifting joy that a companion animal brings into your life, whether that’s a rabbit, cat or dog … I believe we have a moral responsibility as a society to look after animals. The London Pet Show, though undoubtedly a commercial event for those exhibiting, for me it’s more of a physical representation of what’s in my heart and about being a vet.”
With hundreds of different animals, amazing animal action displays and fun and informative talks and demonstrations, the London Pet Show is the ultimate day out for animal lovers nationwide. From the cute and cuddly to the weird and wonderful, you can discover everything you need to know about dogs, cats, rabbits, chinchillas, ponies, parrots, hamsters, fish, geckos, and lots more! London Pet Show (ExCeL London, 9-10 May 2015) www.londonpetshow.co.uk
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