There will be a private family cremation service on Wednesday 9th October followed by a thanksgiving service at St Andrews for all at 11.00am and afterwards at the Fleur.

Many thanks
Geoff Lawson and family

Thank you to St Andrew’s for welcoming and blessing our pets.  A wonderful selection of 10 dogs, 3 rabbits, 2 cats, a tortoise and a Shetland pony as well as many children filled the church.

Many congratulations to the cup winners at the 2019 Village Produce Show and thanks to all entrants for the very high quality of entries this year.

David Rickeard  -The Community Cup

The Egg Cup – Michelle Bowden

Children’s Cup – Alice Stephenson

Outstanding Entry in Children’s category -Evie Virgo

Flower arranging Cup – Denise Horswell

Produce Cup – Helen & Charles Stutley

Kenyon Baking Cup – Annabel Ainger

Craft Cup – Malcolm Brownsword and Annabel Ainger (jointly)

Newcomers Cup – Jim and Vikki

Curry Cup – David Brewer

Volunteers needed to help ensure that the pool stays open. All offers of help are welcome and in particular a Chairman and Treasurer on the pool committee are needed. Full details in parish magazine.

It has been suggested that it would be nice to make new bunting for our 2019 St Andrew’s Church Christmas Tree and other Festivities and we would love you to put your name forward to help in this task.

We have produced an instruction sheet and a template to ensure
uniformity of size etc and would be very pleased to provide these and some material for anyone wishing to help make our bunting at home, which avoids having to take sewing machines, materials and an ironing board etc into church.  Bunting instructions.jpg

We are also seeking materials, reels of thread and any other
sewing/embroidery notions you may wish to donate.  Maybe too you have ideas for designs etc as we hope our bunting will be displayed and enjoyed for many years to come by everyone who loves and visits our beautiful church at this special time of the year.

If you would like to help, perhaps you would kindly contact as soon as possible Rosie Jackson-Kilham 01235 818020, 07942826282,
rosie@jackson-kilham.net or Sylvia Wilcox 01235 814648,
sylvia.wilcox@ntlworld.com and we will deliver the instruction sheet, material and template to you.  Thank you.

Bring along your entries to the Village Show!  Proudly showcasing garden produce, home produce, crafts, flower arranging and childrens categories, and this year a special curry category! Teas, cakes, cream teas, and Prosecco on sale. Kids lucky dip and biscuit decorating activities. Staging of entries 9-11am, show opens 2pm, raffle, prizes at 3pm and auction of produce at 3.15pm. Show sponsored by the Village Shop and the Fleur de Lys. Download and complete your entry forms and leave them at the shop. Schedules with entry forms also available from the shop now and at the Show on the day.

Hagbourne Village Show schedule 2019.pdf

Entry form 2019

The Phoenix Drama Group are performing a murder mystery comedy, THE BOLD, THE YOUNG AND THE MURDERED in Hagbourne Village Hall on Saturday, 14th September at 7.30pm with a bar opening at 7.00pm.  They have chosen to support SEASAW (grief support for children and young people in Oxfordshire)

Tickets are £10 (£8 full-time education) and are available in Hagbourne Post Office (during PO hours).  Tickets can also be bought through Wegottickets but a booking fee applies.

Hagbourne Action Group are also supporting this event and tickets can be bought or reserved through members:  Di Duff, Mary Harrison, Doug Amos, Susan Proctor, Marian Varnom, Alice Smith or Viv Stocks.

7:00pm 22^nd August.

Village Hall

Second HAMS Workshop exploring their next production “Our Day Out”  Willy Russell.

See the photos of the 2019 Party here

For those houses on this list, you can now contact your service provider and swap over to ‘Ultra’ fast broadband.  Unfortunately, if you’re with Sky, they don’t provide this yet, so you may need to swap to BT.

East Hag Ultra Fast list

Scarecrow winner results:

1st      E.T.   The Extra Terrestrial

2nd     Knitwitch

3rd      Tin Man

A new Action Group cup was also given to Fieldside for their wonderful Yellow Brick Road.

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