Ridgeway creative forum 2019 v3.pdf

You would be welcome to join in to get creative on The Ridgeway on Saturday 29^th June 2019 at St Dunstan’s church, Monks Risborough, Bucks.

See attached flyer or website for details and booking tickets – www.nationaltrail.co.uk/ridgeway/2019forum

 

Follow in the footsteps of famous artists, writers and photographers who were inspired by what they found along The Ridgeway, including Robert Macfarlane, Thomas Hardy, Eric Ravilious, Clare Leighton, Fay Godwin and others.

 

• You can look forward to a morning of talks from Anna Dillon, landscape artist, about her Ridgeway series and the famous Nash brothers, and also from James Crowden about his Wessex Ridgeway poems and memories of the Chilterns Ridgeway in the 1970s. Mike Pringle will be telling us about Richard Jefferies, a great nature writer who loved The Ridgeway and whose influences can be seen in today’s writers.
• There are afternoon workshops on nearby Whiteleaf Hill, famous for its chalk cross, exploring outdoor sketchbooking, photography and poetry. Alternatively, there is a tour of the church and historic village.
• There will be a small exhibition of creative work inspired by The Ridgeway as part of the Swire Ridgeway Art Prize competitions.
• A BBQ lunch is being provided by Orchard View Farm.

 

This event is for beginner and professional artists, writers, photographers and others interested in exploring the creative inspiration that can be found in the countryside. We want to raise awareness of The Ridgeway National Trail and encourage people to enjoy the Trail and contribute to its creative heritage.

Faster Broadband is to be activated for 105 houses at the west end of the village.  You will see Openreach vans around and some digging up of the road/paths over the next few weeks. Completion is at the end of June.

This has been fully funded by 3 separate grants.

These are the houses who will receive the faster broadband:

East Hag Ultra Fast list

For more information you can see these weblinks:

Better Broadband

Openreach

The Annual Scarecrow Trail in East Hagbourne – Saturday, 25th May to Sunday, 9th June.

The theme this year: Characters from Science Fiction and Fantasy.

£5 to enter.

Tea and Cakes in St Andrew’s Church on 26th May, 2nd and9th June.

Buy a map at the Community Shop or The Fleur to follow the trail and vote for your favourite scarecrow. A fun event with profits going to St Anne’s Hospital, Liuli in Tanzania.

Details in the parish magazine together with an entry form.

Congratulations to Hagbourne United Football Club Reserves Team on a very successful season.

– Winners of the 2018-19 Division 4 title in the North Berks League by a margin of 12 points.

– 100 goals scored, the highest in the whole league.

– Winners of the League Cup which is for North Berks League Division 4 sides, beating close rivals Harwell & Appleford by one goal to nil after extra time in the final played at Milton FC.

But the icing on the cake must be in winning the A. G. Kingham Cup, which is open to all reserve sides, where they beat East Hendred Reserves, a very successful side playing 2 divisions higher, by 3 goals to nil at Abingdon United FC. Well Done lads!

Credit to the Herald

Residents across southern Oxfordshire, who are signed up for brown bin collections, can put out twice as much garden waste during the extra garden waste weeks in May.

South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils are giving those who are part of the paid-for service the opportunity to put out the equivalent of one extra bin’s worth of garden waste (around three large 80 litre bin bags) in the week commencing 20 May.

Residents should leave their extra garden waste out in bin liners or sacks beside their brown bins on their usual collection day during these weeks.  Trade waste bags will not be accepted., however you can re-use old compost bags.

The garden waste is taken to a recycling plant in Oxfordshire where it is used to make compost, which goes to local farmers, allotment holders and an annual compost giveaway.

Hagbourne Fun Run 2019 – Winners

Men’s full results

Ladies full results

Drayton (Abingdon)               Thurs 16 & Fri 17 May

Oakley Wood (Wallingford)   Thurs 23 & Fri 24 May

Redbridge (Oxford)               Weds 29 & Thurs 30 May

Thank you to those who helped make our village sparkle at the annual Litter Pick on Saturday!

If you couldn’t make it, then please look outside your own doorstep and check for litter, or even dig out a few weeds.

Do you know that 95% of collisions are due to human error? Distraction, speeding, not wearing a seatbelt and driving under the influence of drink or drugs are the big fatal four on our county’s roads.

Could you?

• put your phone in your glove compartment or set your phone to do not disturb before you start your journey
• adjust your speed and make sure you have time to react to the unexpected
• make sure everyone is wearing their seatbelt before you set off
• get a taxi, the bus or be the designated driver on a night out
• make sure you’re safe to drive the morning after, you could still be over the drink drive limit, even if you feel fine

 

Oxfordshire County Council Fire and Rescue Service have put together top tips to help you avoid the fatal four, and have created an handy ‘don’t get caught out the morning after’ guide 365alive.co.uk/fatalfour.

Monday 6^th May @ 11am

Registration: 9.00am-10.30am in village hall.

For details see here.

The next surgery is on 7th May in the Committee Room in Hagbourne Village Hall from 12.00 to 13.30.

This is not a surgical operation! but rather a chance to tell Iain Face-to-Face what the Parish Council is not doing and what it could do, or just come along and talk to a sympathetic ear.

Saturday, May 4^th

Hagbourne Village Hall, 7:00pm for 7:30pm

A fun and stimulating quiz contested by teams of up to 8 assembled from  villages and societies in the area, for the honour of carrying away the prestigious Churn  Trophy. Entrance £10 per person including home-made hot supper. Please support our bar and raffle as all the evening’s proceeds will be split between Christian Aid and Style Acre.  To enter a team, please contact Doug Amos on (01235) 814024.