TheS tonesfield Slate Issue No 493 July 2019
Dates for your diary – July Publishers Simon & Jenny Haviland 1,8,15,22 Monday Coffee St James’ Centre 8.45–10am Peakes House, Peaks Lane, 1,8,15,22,29 SJC Cuppa St James’ Centre 10–11.30am Stonesfield, Witney, Oxon OX29 8PY 3,10,17,24,31 Country Dancing Village Hall 8–10pm (tel 891614, email 8 Stonesfield open gardens Start at village shop 7pm [email protected]) 10 Parish Council meeting Village Hall 7.30pm Editor for this issue Vivienne Kendall 11 Over 60's Club Lunch Village Hall 1pm (891803) 11 Bingo SSSC Eyes down 7.30pm Editor for August 12,13 Concert St Mary’s, Woodstock 7.30pm Vivienne Kendall 13 Summer Reading Challenge Library 10am–12noon Printer Windrush Press, Witney 14 Players’ auditions St James’ Centre 2pm The deadline for copy 14 Treasure Box Methodist Chapel 3pm and advertisements 15 Bike Night SSSC 6pm for the next issue is 15 July 20 Manor Summer Party Manor garden 3–5pm Please email copy to 20 Duck Race & BBQ River 5pm slate@stonesfield.com 21 Six-a-side cricket SSSC 11am or hand it in at the village shop (Suriya Express). 24 Village Hall AGM Village Hall 6.30pm Advertisements to 26 Pop-up Café SSSC 9.30–12noon [email protected] 26 Treasure Box St James’ Centre 10.30–12noon
ContentsS Notices 2 Politics & local affairs 8 Education & culture 10 Clubs & societies 13 Sport 15 Church news 16
May Day celebrations at Stonesfield School on Thursday 23 May
1 Come along for tea and enjoy this beautiful garden, with plenty of time to Stonesfield Community Trust Notices relax, chat, and play bouncy castle; games Trustees are pleased to announce that the and activities provided! Dean Court land has now been sold. The proceeds will be used for future STOP PRESS! Please remember that children need to be Community Trust projects. Summer Treasure Box accompanied by an adult. CALA Homes appeal dismissed There will be two Treasure Box sessions We have previously mentioned that we We look forward to welcoming you! are interested in doing a 2019 Xmas The CALA Homes appeal against refusal in July to start our summer programme, Community Lunch, aimed at people who of their planning application for land which is all about ‘Stories of Jesus’. Lindsey Sellar would otherwise be alone over the festive north of Woodstock Road was dismissed On Sunday 14 July from 3pm there will period. Sadly, to date we have had no one on 21 June by the Inspector appointed be an event for all ages in the Methodist Stonesfield Village Hall News contact us to express any interest in either by the Secretary of State. Chapel. This is Rural Missions Sunday – Our AGM and Committee Meeting is on coming along on the day, or helping with In a long and detailed statement, he don’t be put off by this title! We will be 24 July. the event. As this will take a lot of stated that ‘the proposed development celebrating the occasion with lots of We would welcome anyone who is organising, it is quite disheartening. would cause significant harm to the Treasure Box fun – activities for all the interested in the upkeep and running of We know that Christmas seems a long character and appearance of the AONB’ family. the village hall to come along and support way off at the moment, but if you know and that ‘the loss of part of the field, Then on Friday 26 July from 10.30am to us with any new ideas, to join the of anyone that may be on their own on which is characteristic of the local 12noon in the St James’ Centre there will committee, or possibly assist us by being Christmas day, please do let us know so landscape, and its replacement by 68 be the usual mix of crafts, games, stories our new Chairman? that we can start arrangements to make dwellings would represent a highly and songs. All children are welcome We would also like to extend the sure that they have a special day too. adverse magnitude of change.’ (adults, too); children under 5 must be invitation to anyone from other groups Jacqueline Carthew, Property Manager, The report is available on accompanied by an adult. within the village, as we are hoping to Stonesfield Community Trust https://stonesfield.online The dates for the other Treasure Box build a core group of people who can ([email protected] or 07896 summer holiday sessions are Friday 9 liaise with all the other committees when 847722) August and Tuesday 20 August 10.30am we all need to pull together and pool our Irene Harris to 12 noon, and there will be a Treasure resources. Many thanks for all the cards and Box Family Walk on Sunday 1 September SAFER If you would like any information prior to messages of sympathy I received when my starting at 2.30pm. As with other Stonesfield residents, the mum, Rene Harris, passed away. the meeting, or would like to hire the hall folks at SAFER are not enjoying the If you need more details, please contact please let me know. prevailing wet weather. In our case the Also a special thank you to Ann for all the Muriel Barrett on reason is that Oxfordshire County meals and help you gave my mum over We also need a cleaner, to maintain the [email protected]. Council has been unable to start its one- many, many years; to Jenny for all the hall throughout the week. For further week monitoring of traffic on the four rides to wherever and whenever they were information, please do get in touch. roads in our village as a laptop is needed needed; to Jane for her quick response, Manor Summer Party (Jamie’s Jacqueline Carthew, Secretary & Booking to set this up and weather conditions are help and advice whenever she was called; Party) Clerk for Stonesfield Village Hall (01993 to the volunteers and members of Lunch Saturday 20 July 898919 or [email protected]; Club and Stonesfield Over 60's Club for A warm welcome awaits everyone, of all facebook.com/stonesfieldvillagehall; the happy times Mum spent with you all. ages, at the Summer Party on Saturday 20 stonesfield.info/stonesfield- A sincere thank you to everyone. July, 3–5pm, in the Manor garden. It’s for life/venues/village-hall.php) Barbara the village with love from St James’s Church and all friends.
July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 2 3 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 not propitious. This means we are not of their own choice and brought to the and tempting gifts to buy. Everyone is able to bring you the results from the auditions with them. Rehearsals will Sunday Cream Teas in Combe very welcome and transport can be survey. For the moment the elements are commence in September. We will be serving delicious homemade arranged. triumphing over technology. cream teas on 14 July, and every Sunday David Stevenson afternoon till 25 August, from 2.30 to Kathleen Albért (891733) However OCC assures us that this will be ([email protected]) 5pm at the Reading Room, Combe; accomplished in the very near future and raising funds for local Combe charities. Oaklands Farm supports we hope to have the results and analysis Relax Kids and Chillskills biodiversity and Bird Aid for the July Parish Council meeting. We Sally Purssell (01993 898348) I am thinking of starting Relax Kids It was a beautiful May evening when are also aiming to provide Slate readers community classes in September for Genny and I visited Ollie Stobo and with details in next month’s issue. Let’s all children in years 1 to 4 at primary school, Book Break's Break Oaklands Farm to find a new Bird Aid pray for the return of areas of high as well as running Chillskills sessions for Book Break is taking its usual August feeding site. Ollie kindly gave us two pressure! children aged 10 to 13. break and will start again on Thursday, 5 hours of his time, driving us around his SAFER is a sub-committee of Stonesfield September. It has been another year of fields, with his Natural England All Relax Kids classes include mindful Parish Council and was formed by a group good reading and lively discussion. Countryside Mid-tier Stewardship report movement and games, stretching, self- of residents who are concerned about Although our focus tends to be upon the to give us the facts and figures. massage, breathing techniques, positive increased levels of through-traffic, shorter novel, this year we have read two affirmations and relaxation. Children will We were delighted to hear that Ollie has speeding and dangerous driving in the longer, modern novels: The Children Act finish the course with a toolbox of currently 4.9 hectares of land planted village. Would you be interested in by Ian McEwan and Exposure by the late strategies and techniques to help them with Nectar Pollen Flower mix & Winter helping to make Stonesfield more Helen Dunmore. In contrast to our usual notice, understand and manage their big Bird Food mix, and has replanted 800 sustainable and safer for existing families reading aloud of a novel, we also enjoyed emotions (such as anger, stress, worry). metres of hedgerows on his land. His and future generations? More information a shared play-reading of An Inspector 6800m of in-field hedges (not adjoining on how you can become involved is I am proposing to run a family session on Calls. A tense and engaging read, the play roads) are cut only every three years to available on the Parish Council’s website: Wednesday 10 July from 3.30 to 4.30pm, seemed topical in a number of ways, help wildlife. Hares abound in the fields – https://stonesfield.online/safer/ based around a 'happiness and holidays' particularly in its portrayal of a society we saw six or more while we were there! theme which is aimed at the younger failing in its compassion for its most children. If you are interested in finding vulnerable members. In at least five fields, Ollie grows Winter Stonesfield Players out more, please contact me either via We are grateful for the use of Stonesfield Bird Food mix crop to feed wild birds and Reminder email to [email protected] or Library as our venue but this does, help pollinators, including the field Auditions will be held in the St James phone 01993 898159. inevitably, limit our group size. down Witney Lane (covered in white Centre on Sunday 14 July, starting at 2pm, campion last year). Bird Aid will start Lucy Martin for parts in a pantomime to be staged Wendy Lynch (891107 winter feeding on this site in the early in the New Year, hopefully at the autumn. Thanks to Ollie for his beginning of February. Wine/coffee and nibbles evening Afternoon teas at the Methodist contribution to supporting wildlife in our Advance notice countryside as part of his commercial Which pantomime we produce will Church Everyone is very warmly invited to come farming practices. depend entirely upon the amount of Scrumptious cream teas, cakes and special along to the Rectory (Brook Lane) on support we get at the auditions. All are gifts will be on sale at the Methodist Please get in touch using Saturday 31 August, between 7pm and welcome to attend. However, junior parts Church on Saturday 3 August, 1 to 5 pm. [email protected] if you could 9pm for wine/coffee and nibbles – time will only be open to those in school year 4 help with surveying once a month or for a chat and to make some new friends. With our large wall-crack inside the and above, as at the start of September Church yet to be fully diagnosed,we hope feeding our farmland birds once a week term 2019. Juniors who wish to audition Make a note of the date now! to raise funds in preparation for what is this winter. Thank you. will be expected to read either a piece of St James’ Church, Stonesfield to come. It will be an afternoon of good Judy Anders & Genny Early prose or poetry, or sing a song. This will be company and fellowship, delicious food
July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 4 5 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 group that matches your abilities. I look Stonesfield Cycling forward very much to cycling with you Rolling down the hill from Chipping soon. Norton to Charlbury on my road bike on a sunny warm spring afternoon, it Miles Barrington-Ward occurred to me that perhaps other cyclists would like to arrange to meet Woodstock Music Society and ride as part of a ‘pop up’ cycling Concert group. Woodstock Music Society’s summer I have set up a WhatsApp group concert presents the Requiem by Bob Woodstock, Bladon, Combe, Long ‘Stonesfield Cycling’. WhatsApp is very Chilcott, Haydn’s Drumroll Symphony Portable Pictures (no 103) and also his Missa Brevis in F. Hanborough, Church Hanborough, easy to install on a mobile phone, and is brings the big screen to your home or The concert will be held in St Mary Stonesfield, Wootton and Cassington the a free of charge messaging system. party venue Magdalene Church, Woodstock, on opportunity to purchase tickets for this Brek and Luke of Fawler have set up an Anyone (over 18 years old) can join the Friday 12 and Saturday 13 July, at year’s show at an exclusive price of £10 Oxfordshire branch of Portable Pictures group. Group members can send and 7.30pm. Tickets are £13 in advance or for an adult ticket and £5 for a child and are offering residents of Fawler, receive ride invitations stating where £14 at the door, from The Woodstock ticket. This represents a saving of Stonesfield, Charlbury and Finstock 15% and when to meet up for a cycle ride. Bookshop (01993 812760) or by email £25/70% on the door price of an adult off summer bookings (ends 31 October) People can reply to invitations; say from [email protected]. Full ticket. whether or not they will join the ride, as part of our launch. Whether it's for a time students’ tickets are £5, and Full details are on and find out more about who plans to children's birthday party, entertainment accompanied children under 16 are free. https://www.countryfilelive.com/blenhei ride and where the ride will go. at your wedding or you just fancy m-palace/local-resident-ticket- screening your favourite film in your I have set up a website with application offer?fbclid=IwAR3syFVDTeNSBTLKqhlI garden, we can tailor a cinema package to form at Blenheim Palace WeeN86T588d4UBMjLSgfwE- suit your needs. https://sites.google.com/view/stonesfield- Blenheim Estate have developed and NamAA7UBzbG-HqTA cycling/home. The form asks for your opened a new area of permissive We will set up a large portable cinema name, mobile phone number and the footpaths in Long Hanborough giving screen, professional PA system and full estimated average speed you like to ride. access to the surrounding countryside Charity golf day 13 September HD projector in any location, turning Using this information, I will send you and the wider estate surrounding New Yatt Riding for the Disabled is your living room, back garden, village an invitation to join the Stonesfield Blenheim Palace. More details will be holding a charity golf day at North hall or local pub into a movie experience Cycling WhatsApp group which most available soon. Oxford Golf Club on 13 September. to remember. A popcorn and hot dog machine are also available if you fancy closely matches your average speed. Blenheim and the University of Oxford Teams of four are invited @ £50 per person, which includes coffee and bacon authentic cinema catering! You can become a member of more than have officially signed a Memorandum of rolls, 18 holes of golf & a light meal, one group while you work out which Understanding to work together on a Brek and Luke have both worked in film; followed by prizegiving. 18-hole team one suits you best. You can leave the series of new initiatives and research Brek as a director and Luke as a sound Stableford, best 2 scores on each hole. groups that don't match your ability at programmes relating to historical technician. If you have an innovative Closing date for entry is 6 September. any time, and remain a member of only heritage, forestry and the environment. idea for bringing people together in those groups that do. If you are unable to make up a team, Stonesfield to watch films, and/or want the organisers will happily pair you up support with a fundraiser, then get in Interested? Please send me your details Countryfile Live with one. To enter, please visit touch as we like to work locally as much by visiting Special rates for local residents www.newyattrda.org.uk or contact Adi as possible. https://sites.google.com/view/stonesfield- The organisers of Countryfile Live would Hughes on [email protected]. For more details: www.portablepictures. cycling/home, and I will add you to the like to offer local residents of co.uk or call us on 01993 898937.
July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 6 7 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 The newly elected council is settling West Oxfordshire District Council down to business and it bodes well for Politics & local affairs The District Council has had its hands the future of West Oxfordshire. full dealing with current matters and looking to the future. The Council's Richard Bishop (01993 891414; Stonesfield Parish Council There have been reports of the odd concern for the wellbeing of all its [email protected]) The Parish Council held its latest property in the village leaving bins residents is exemplified especially in the meeting on 12 June 2019. outside all week long. Please can period following elections. Proposed development at East Witney residents remember to move bins off the West Oxfordshire District Council has The Council discussed planning Environmentally, the Scrutiny public highway and back on to launched a public consultation on the application 19/01315/FUL and has Committee considered various important driveways when it is not a bin collection East Witney Strategic Development site, submitted an objection to this on the matters including air quality, which was day. which is allocated in the Local Plan for basis that the access to the site via the deemed to be of concern in central some 450 homes. It is seeking views on existing driveway is not adequate for Cllr G Lawrence reported on the Village Witney, particularly in the area around the provision of links across the existing use (it is single drive access Hall. The hall is still waiting for quotes Bridge Street and the adjacent road Windrush Valley and into Witney town only) and there is a hazardous junction for repair work, which the Village Hall junctions. Also of concern locally and centre; the type of housing and open with Church Street, which is a blind committee is arranging. The Parish nationally was the possible curtailing of space needed and the potential for a new corner and not safe to take additional Council does have concerns that repair the use of single-use plastics. Difficulties ‘community hub’ as part of the traffic. This change of use is for work is not being carried out in a timely with Thames Water were again aired and development. commercial use and those visiting will manner, and reiterates that the village preparations made for the next Water not know the area, making this hall is not a Council asset, and therefore Day conference were detailed. The consultation is available until 17 July the Council does not have control of the on www.westoxon.gov.uk/spd, at local particularly hazardous. In addition, the The current Disabled Facilities Grant funding and maintenance of the hall. libraries and other key locations Council felt that this could set a scheme will be increased. The precedent for further development including the District Council offices at Cllr G Lawrence also reported that she Community Facilities Grant Scheme requests on this land. Elmfield and the Witney town centre checks the defibrillator regularly. It has period for the current request period will shop. There will also be an exhibition at Jim Astle represented the Parish been checked and the battery is be extended to 31 December 2019. Cogges Farm on Thursday 4 July between currently fine. fantastically well at the last day of the At the recent full Development Control 2pm and 8pm. CALA planning hearing and the Council Countryfile tickets are available to Committee (includes both Uplands and would like to formally thank him for his residents at a discounted rate. Details are Lowlands Sub-committees), the Mullin work on this. The Council is waiting for on p.5 above and on the website. Automotive Park on the old airfield in From our County Councillor a decision from the planning inspector. Enstone was debated and decided. £3.5 million investment for highways The clerk can confirm that replacement At this time we are hoping for a decision Members of interested local groups, More than more than 50 miles of road signs at Greenfield Road and Farley prior to August 2019. It is difficult to representatives of the developer and the across Oxfordshire are to be given a new Close have been requested as these are ascertain which way the decision will go. architect, Sir Norman Foster, all gave lease of life thanks to the ‘surface damaged / in need of repair. Michael Heduan provided a report on their opinions. Peter Mullin himself dressing’ technique which waterproofs SAFER, which will be submitted to the The date of the next Parish Council spoke about his aspirations and hopes for and extends the life of roads. The cost of website with the minutes. OCC traffic meeting is Wednesday 10 July, 7.30pm the area. All were succinct and to the the work is in the region of £3.5m. surveys have not yet been done but will at the village hall; all are welcome. If point in their comments. After much Oxfordshire County Council takes road hopefully be done soon. you have specific questions for the discussion, giving all members ample repairs and maintenance seriously and Council or items you would like to opportunity for expressing their Richard Bishop presented a report to the has put around £25m extra into fixing discuss, please contact the clerk in individual views, the decision was finally Parish Council. A copy will be placed on highways in this and last year, as part of advance at [email protected]. taken to approve this innovative and the website with the minutes. a £120 million investment in infra - exciting scheme. structure. After a short period of bedding
July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 8 9 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 in, loose chippings are swept away and stories, songs and rhymes for the under- the surfaces are indistinguishable from From our Member of Parliament National Summer Reading fives; free any other except for the absence of Small businesses Challenge TOM-ART 2–4pm: creative drop-in cracks and potholes. Skid resistance is If you are one of West Oxfordshire's It’s here again! This year it’s a Space sessions. £2 child / £5 family also improved. many small business owners, you'll know Chase. See the advert overleaf for how to that late payment can be a huge problem sign up. Wednesdays: Wicked Workshops for As part of the surface dressing – not just in terms of cashflow but also At the end of the Chase, which starts on children age 8+, to include archaeological programme this year, the County the future of your business. The Office of 13 July and goes on for the whole of the investigations, hands-on science, Council will be trying out a technique the Small Business Commissioner (SBC) summer holidays, the Friends of animation and Vikings. See the museum called ‘Surface Seal’ – an additional was launched in December 2017 to Stonesfield Library will host the annual website (below) for times and cost. treatment added to a newly dressed road, ensure fair payment practices for Britain's Medal Ceremony for all those children which prevents defects, cracks, and small businesses, support them in Thursdays: TOM-ART 2-4pm, creative who have read their six library books and potholes. resolving their payment disputes, and drop-in sessions. £2 child / £5 family completed the challenge. Electric vehicles bring about culture change. Friends of The Oxfordshire Museum That date will be Wednesday 11 Oxfordshire County Council has taken While noting the great improvement in talks September from 3.30 to 5pm at the delivery of a new fleet of electric cars and broadband connectivity in West 3 July: Tony Hadland talks about Village Hall. vans for its fire and rescue service and Oxfordshire, I am inviting users to take agricultural labourers general staff pool car resource. The part in a survey on the quality of their There will also be an Adult Reading No talks in August vehicles can travel up to 160 miles on a broadband service and/or mobile signal. Challenge. Read a library book and enter single charge. The information provided will help him a prize Draw which offers free tickets for Talks are free for Friends of the Museum; visitors are welcome for £4. Talks start at The County Council is committed to in discussions with utility providers, many treats, eg Blenheim, Cotswold 7.30pm. being carbon neutral by 2030. regulators and the Government when Wildlife Park, Wychwood Brewery, tackling the issues of speed, quality and Cogges, and many others. More details For further information visit Cllr Ian Hudspeth (07956 270318, choice. The survey can be found on are available at the Library. friendsoftom.org.uk. [email protected]) https://www.robertcourts.co.uk/news/bro Val Phillips (891455) adband-mobile-signal-survey. Festival of Archaeology – 20–21 July Over the course of the weekend Cherwell Robert Courts ([email protected]) The Oxfordshire Museum Community Archaeology plan to display Wonderland – continues until 8 finds from previous local digs, and September encourage public participation in Fall down the rabbit hole and into the archaeology. We will be at The magical world of Alice in Wonderland in Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock during this interactive exhibition for families. the normal opening hours. This will be a Alice’s Day on 6 July offers a tea party touch, feel and identify session for both Education & culture celebration with Mad Hats and Masks, adults and children. giant garden games and The Mad Hatter’s Full details of all events are available on Tea Party at 2-4pm. https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents Stonesfield Library Wednesday 10am–12noon Summer Holiday Activities for children /leisure-and- Thursday 2.30–5pm Telephone: 01993 898187 Tuesdays: TOM-TOTS 10.30–11am, with culture/museums/oxfordshire-museum. Friday Closed Opening Hours: Saturday 10am–12noon Monday 2.30–7pm Manager: Debbie Wilson Tuesday Closed Stonesfield Library (01993 89818)
July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 10 11 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 Clubs & societies
Stonesfield Folk Dance Club www.stonesfieldfolkdance.danceorg.uk or June was a very special month for us, contact Stewart Nicholls on 01295 ! ! with our 47th annual Folk Dance 730271 or [email protected]. ! Weekend when we welcomed dancers Get set to blast-off in our FREE Space Chase reading from all corners of UK. With one of the challenge at your local library this summer! best folk bands in the UK, ‘The Night Stonesfield Gardening Club Before’ with the fantastic Nicky June is traditionally the month when Join Stonesfield Library from McConkey on fiddle, we danced the many villages open their gardens to 13 July to 14 September weekend away with dances being called curious members of the public, and for an intergalactic reading adventure into space! by Andrew Swaine & Daisy Black – two of Stonesfield is no exception. Every two the best, who did not disappoint with a years the committee of the Gardening mixed programme of traditional, contra, Club manage to persuade some of the Children across Oxfordshire can take part in the Space square and Playford dances. keen gardeners in the village to let us have Chase Summer Reading Challenge 2019. Join our a peek behind the hedges. As is the case in super space family The Rockets for a special mission to Daisy, who is regularly on BBC Radio 3, track down books nabbed by mischievous aliens! so many places, the real gems are hidden was commissioned by Stonesfield Folk away behind an unassuming stone wall Dance Club to adapt the story of William Read at least six library books of your choice over the and open up into a plantsman’s paradise Kempe’s ‘Nine Days Wonder’ when he summer holidays and as you read, collect stickers (some or a fun-filled escape. Stonesfield gardens danced all the way from London to are smelly!) to help the Rockets track down the aliens were open on Sunday 30 June and I hope and find the missing books. Complete the challenge Norwich in nine days back in 1599. and get a Space Chase bookmark and game, wristband, that many people took the opportunity to medal, and certificate. Under 3s have their own special The Club also produced a CD featuring enjoy them. card and stickers. Alan Kimber-Nickelson singing a Members of the Gardening Club, many selection of English folk ballads. Alan was of whom will have either opened their Out of this world… at the Folk Dance Weekend and sang to own gardens or served teas in the St great acclaim many of the songs; each of There’ll be lots of brilliant new books and activities at the James’ Centre on the day, will get their the dancers was given a copy of the CD. library throughout the summer holidays and there’s a chance to see the gardens during a village website to add to the fun too, as we celebrate 50 years It is now the start of the Folk Dance walk on Monday 8 July, when we will be since the Moon Landing and 20 years of the Summer Reading Challenge. Festival Season and between now and the visiting four of them, finishing with wine Visit www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/spacechase to find out end of August many of our members will and canapes. This is a ‘members only’ more. be attending Festivals around the evening, but I’m sure the Membership "##$%&'(&)*+%!,!-.(/!0&*12'!3*'!452!62(.)+7!-72+89! ! country. Secretary will be on hand to accept the ! modest £8 that constitutes our annual fee Why not come and join in the fun? It is should any non-members be interested in surprisingly easy to pick up the basics of joining us. We will gather at 7pm outside traditional English Country Dancing. We the Village Shop. meet 8 to 10pm on Wednesdays at the Village Hall. Diane Bates([email protected]: //stonesfieldgardening.info) For more information about us see
July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 12 13 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 Summer skills Stonesfield Over 60's Club Since Easter, Cubs have been learning The atmosphere in the Village Hall was Sport about lambing at Blenheim, how to play bright, warm and welcoming as we golf and making small rafts to race in the arrived for our June meeting on a very river. In the coming weeks the Cubs will wet day. We were down in numbers, as be building shelters and practising their Stonesfield Cricket Club The U15 team have played some good expected, but those of us who had made campcraft skills in time for County As of mid-June, both the 1st XI & 2nd XI cricket so far, winning games vs Chippy & our way to the hall greeted one another Camp, visiting Enstone airstrip, kayaking teams have started well, and both sit Minster, but losing narrowly to Rissington cheerfully. We gathered round tables on the Thames and abseiling from trees. handily placed in the top half of their & Witney Mills. Next are big games vs forming ourselves into teams for a Quiz. divisions – ready to push on mid-summer. Charlbury & Shipton-U-W. Fred Holloway As usual there was a lot of fun and The Scout troop are working on map- We also have an Airey Cup fixture still to has been in the runs, with his 2nd half- laughter as answers were agreed and reading skills, orienteering, pioneering come. We've had more standout individual century score. recorded. Scores at the end were close: and their survival badge this summer performances: innings of 97 by Adrian The U13 team have been training hard two teams tied for first, one mark less was term, ready for camp in July, when they Birkett & 76no by Jamie Burns, and 67no every Tuesday evening, and it's been third and one mark down was fourth. will be building shelters and sleeping in by 2nd XI keeper Sam Townsend. New lovely to have some keen young lady them. signing spin bowler Scott Thomas is Various bits of business were dealt with players join up! So far only one match has currently top wicket-taker, with 15 to date. and names were taken for the Summer We had an amazing 5-day camp at Easter been played, a spirited loss to Kidlington, Lunch. This will be on 11 July at 1pm. If in Dorset. In the words of one of our We had a lovely social match at the end but we hope to have more games in late you haven't already done so and wish to scouts: "Our trip to Dorset was a great new of May when some much loved old stars June / early July. New U13 & U15 players come, please let either me (898134) or experience, very tiring by the end of the turned out for Kevin Sherbourne's Presi- are still welcome! Diana (891392) know by 6 July. week, but still one of the best trips the dents’ XI as they narrowly beat a mixed Stewart Moss (07866 278685) troop has been on because the activities adult / U15 Stonesfield team – great fun! Another happy afternoon ended with the (axe-throwing, raft building, and loads raffle before we all headed home. more) were really fun!" The troop cooked I look forward to seeing you for the on fires all week, visited the Tank museum Summer Lunch. Best wishes, and rode in an armoured vehicle, and took part in a wide range of adventurous Avis activities. In June we have also AquaCamp – a weekend of water sports with other Scout Group Oxfordshire scout troops. Duck Race & BBQ Saturday 20 July 1st Stonesfield Scout Group from 5pm An evening of family fun down by the river! Buy a duck from any Beaver, Cub Stonesfield Sports and Social or Scout or outside the shop on Saturday Club mornings in July. Ducks cost £1, all The social club is holding its first ever proceeds help us raise essential funds for bike night on 15 July; there will be live equipment and activities for our young music and a BBQ from 6pm. people. Don't miss the BBQ, bar, cake Here also is a polite reminder that the sale, amazing raffle and stalls open from annual membership renewal of £5 for 5pm. Ducks released at 6pm – you'd be 2019-2020 is now due. quackers to miss it! Brian Clarke
July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 14 15 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 there when we return to our normal way Europe free. I remember reading of all the Church news of life, and then there’s also the credit church services that preceded those card bill to pay for the holiday of a landings to ask God for His help. I lifetime that was going to bring us that believe that He is still with us today to peace of heart and mind that we were bring real peace to all our hearts, if we Anglican Worship in the Parishes searching for. will let Him. of Stonesfield with Combe Longa The truth is we need to make sure that I know that the church has not always Rector: The Revd Roy Turner the ‘peace’ we so long for is not out there presented itself as it should, but let’s not The Rectory, Stonesfield, Witney, Oxon, OX29 8PR in some holiday hide away but in our throw the baby out with the bath water. Telephone: 01993 898552 – Email: revroystonesfi[email protected] hearts 365 days a year. You know what is Let’s join together and regain our coming next. Yes, the peace we so desire heritage of peace and joy that I believe www.stonesfieldparishchurch.org is in the faith we can find in the roots of only our Christian faith can assure. Hope Stonesfield Churchwardens: Neil Melrose (891566) and Kate Harris (898781) our Christian faith. to see you soon and in the meantime, D.F.T.W. Combe Longa Churchwarden: Andrew Hobson (891273) We have just celebrated the 75th BCP=Book of Common Prayer: CW=Common Worship anniversary of the D-Day landings to set Rev Roy For pastoral help please contact the Rector
From your Parish Priest days is contributing to a decline in people’s wellbeing. It occurred to me that I hope you are all well and looking SERVICES FOR JULY we ought to include in that simple menu forward to what you have planned for our spiritual health too. the summer break. I look forward to the Sunday 7 July [Third Sunday after Trinity] summer with warmer weather (maybe) As I talk to people in my daily work, I 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] and the sense of ease that the sunshine know that there is a hunger for peace of 9.30am Combe Longa All Age Worship can bring. heart and mind that is almost universally 11am Stonesfield All Age Worship Whatever you have planned, I hope that sought after. We all know of people who it will be a time of refreshment and a anonymously ask advice from agony Sunday 14 July [Fourth Sunday after Trinity] time to recharge your batteries. For me, I aunts concerning their problems. These 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] find it difficult to plan holidays a year in questions are very often: Is this the right 9.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [BCP/said] advance. My yearly calendar gets booked course of action? Is this the right person 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion [CW/sung] up a year in advance as far as weddings to be my soulmate? Should I take that 6pm Combe Evensong and services are concerned, and I have to job overseas where I know no one and book blocks of time without knowing would have no friendship base to rely Sunday 21 July [Fifth Sunday after Trinity] what we are going to fill them with so on? 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] that I can plan my own recreation. 9.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [CW/sung] There are so many worries and stresses of 11am Stonesfield Communion Service for all ages life that people need guidance on. There Speaking of recreation, I believe that we is no wonder that people look forward to neglect our physical and emotional Sunday 28 July [Sixth Sunday after Trinity, St James transferred] a time away on holiday to try and health at our peril. I was listening to a 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [CW/sung] regroup and take stock. The trouble is Radio 4 programme concerning mental 9.30am Combe Longa Parish Communion [CW/sung] that the problems are so very often still health issues and how our lifestyle these 11am Stonesfield Parish Communion [CW/sung]
July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 16 17 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 Sunday 4 August [Seventh Sunday after Trinity] MASS TIMES Father Tony Joyce can be contacted on 8am Stonesfield Holy Communion [BCP/said] [email protected] or SUNDAYS 9.30am Combe Longa All Age Worship telephone (01608 642703). St Teresa’s, Charlbury: 9.15am 11am Stonesfield All Age Worship St Kenelm’s, Enstone: 9am, second For parish updates and any further
Sunday of every month information please see: Mid-week Communion Service [said] https://stteresaschurch-charlbury.com Wednesdays 9.30am at Stonesfield. Everyone is most welcome. WEEKDAYS or contact Clive Dytor, Chair, Parish St Teresa’s, Charlbury: 9.30am, Committee: chair.stteresaschurch Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, charlbury@ gmail.com preceded by Morning Prayers at 9.15am Roman Catholic Community in Stonesfield were sitting; and something appeared to Confession: Confessions are at 10am Stonesfield Methodist Church them that seemed like tongues of fine; these after morning Mass on Saturdays, and on separated and came to rest on the head of SERVICES FOR JULY request. each of them. They were all filled with the Sun 7 11am Hilary Ewing Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign Holy Communion languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech (Acts of the Apostles 2:1–11). Sun14 11am Stella Bristow Further, the traditional rituals by which Sun 21 11am Keith Crawford the followers of Christ had lived their Sun 28 10.30am Farewell Service for lives were replaced with others which Revd Melanie Reed at we are told in the Acts of the Apostles: High Street Methodist ’It has been decided by the Holy Spirit and Church, Witney. No ourselves not to saddle you with any burden service at Stonesfield. beyond these essentials’ (Acts 15:22–9.) In other words, focus on the important Kathleen Albért (891733) message that Christ gave us through His life and sacrifice of Himself. Roman Catholic Worship in June we celebrated the Solemnity Pentecost and Ascension of the Ascension of the Lord. The Pentecost was that moment in the life of Ascension of our Lord signals the end of the Church which signalled that his earthly mission and demonstrates everything that followed would be incontrovertibly the Resurrection of Our different from everything that went Lord Jesus Christ. It was also a before. Most importantly, Pentecost tells homecoming for Jesus as he returned to us that Christ’s universal message will be his Father in Heaven, signalling to us understood by all: that we too may follow him to heaven When Pentecost day came round, the should we so wish. Then, we too, like Apostles had all met in one room, when the Apostles at Pentecost, may share the suddenly they heard what sounded like a ’marvels of God’ (Acts of the Apostles powerful wind from heaven, the noise of 2:1-11). which filled the entire house in which they
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Enjoyable drawing courses and workshops, • NO FUSS• Hedges Decorating and Property Maintenance all levels. Private tuition. Sewing & Alterations JEM •NO MESS • ‘No job too small’ For more details contact Gabriele at . . . to make that garment fit you! Daniel Hedges CHIMNEY • NO PROBLEM • [email protected] Painting and Decorating Fittings, hem levels, and a varied range of SWEEPING Tel: 01865 772996 or ring 01993 880430 Garden and Property Maintenance alteration and sewing work carried out. Fencing and Repairs Dresses, Skirts, Tops, Shirts, Jackets, Demolition and Removal Trousers, Curtains, Cushions and beyond! Small Carpentry Work STONESFIELD VOLUNTARY TRANSPORT SCHEME Louise EverettBrown Mobile: 07957 437347 [email protected] 01993 813873 arranges car transport to doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries in Email: [email protected] Woodstock, Charlbury, Long Hanborough and Witney, and to Water Eaton Park & Ride (for buses to JR, Nuffield and Churchill Hospitals) FoSL: Friends of Stonesfield Library
If you need a lift for a medical visit in July Open to anyone who wants to help keep our village library open. We have been providing voluntary cover for half of the existing please ring Viv Kendall (891803) or Nigel Collier (891372). library hours (about 6 hours a week) since the library service Every effort will be made to find a volunteer driver for you, but please give as was cut back. For further details, or to join us, please contact Tony Scott on much notice as you can. This is a free service, but donations to costs are welcomed. 01993 891380, [email protected]
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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. Appointments available at my Stones昀eld Contact: Linda Flanigan clinic or in your own home. Clinical Hypnotherapist To 昀nd out more or arrange an initial GHR Registered & Member (Lic.) of National consultation please contact me on 01993 Council for Hypnotherapy A tree surgery company with 898102 / 07791 278618 Tel: 07866 360359 the integrity you can trust. [email protected] Email: [email protected] or visit www.lfhypnotherapy.co.uk Tel: 0845 458 2980 07976 261850 www.maeveodonnellacupuncture.co.uk Mobile: [email protected] @ maeveodonnellacupuncture Email: www.townandcountrytrees.co.uk
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July 2019 Stonesfield Slate 32 33 Stonesfield Slate July 2019 WITNEY WELDING PELLMANS Solicitors Architectural, Construction, Agricultural and Equestrian • Business, Agricultural and Employment Law Steel Fabricating Services Contracts, Legal Compliance & Disputes The summer months are We can also provide a full welding • Property service in Steel, Stainless Steel, Buying & Selling Homes, Commercial just around the corner, Aluminium and Titanium, including & Agricultural repairs to Steel, Aluminium and if you haven’t done and Iron castings • Wills, Probate and Trusts so already, it’s a great Tax Planning, Lasting Powers of Attorney time to be thinking For a free no obligation quote, & Elderly Client Advice contact Peter on: about plans for the Tel: 01993 891198 01865 884400 summer, especially if Mobile: 07751 678412 you can only get away Email: [email protected] www.pellmans.co.uk 1 Abbey Street, Eynsham, Oxford OX29 4TB in the school holidays. Unit A, Farley Lane, Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, OX29 8HB Home visits and evening appointments available We’ve got a fantastic array of holidays from beaches to mountains, cities to deserts.
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The White Horse, Stonesfield
THE WHITE HORSE MICRO BEER FEST . . .
Back by popular demand . . .
We are holding our Micro Beer Fest on Saturday 17 August this year. We will have more local ales to try and once again we are pleased to announce that The Village Idiots will be playing in the evening. It will be their last public show of 2019, so let’s make it a good one for them!
Due to the problems of queueing last year, we are going to sell beer tokens in advance, so you can buy 3 for £10. We will also be putting alternative drink stations outside (weather permitting), selling bottled beers and soft drinks.
In the meantime, our marquee is now up in the garden, so it’s the perfect place to come and enjoy a meal and a few drinks during the lighter evenings.
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–6pm 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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