FLOWER festival and classical music at St Mary’s Church, Great Milton, from 2 – 5.30pm. Entrance free. Cream teas available. Auction of promises from 6.30pm, entrance £5 to include wine and canapes.
Many promises on offer including cookery course and garden tour at Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Q’uat Saisons and a day on the set of the TV drama Endeavour.
Tickets for the auction available from Great Milton Post Office.
PHOTO: ST Mary’s, Great Milton – Courtesy of Nofolkboy1 via Flickr
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FOLLOWING the success of a similar event in Henley, the Oxfordshire Bridge Association (OBA) is planning a Café Bridge tournement in Thame, which will take place across five venues in the town, including the old Thame Courthouse, now a museum.
OBA Social Bridge are inviting enthusiasts to join them for a relaxing day playing friendly duplicate bridge in Thame.
After meeting at the famous Spread Eagle Hotel at 10am for registration and coffee, before the first session, players will be given playing instructions for the rest of the day. Subsequent sessions will take place at Rumsey’s Chocolaterie, The House of Spice, Mia Capri and finally the Thame Museum.
Although participants will need to buy any drinks as and when they need them at the venues, a two-course lunch at the venue just played at will be supplied. The House of Spice will be putting on their Lebanese Menu and those playing their pre lunch session at the Museum will lunch opposite at The Thatch.
When play has finished at around 4pm, all players will return to the Spread Eagle where complimentary drinks will be waiting for them and scoring will be completed and prizes presented.
Cost for the day’s bridge, which includes the coffee at the start, the lunch and the drinks at the end is, £60 per pair, all proceeds to Thame Museum.
To book your place contact Claire MacDonagh
Tel: 07584 047140 email: obasocial@gmail.com
For more information contact : Barbara Jordan, OBA Social Bridge. 01844 212195 Banjo44@btinternet.com
SOUND FORCE Big Band + The Velvet Tones; VENUE: Thame Snooker Club, Wellington Street, Thame – 8-11pm Thurs 12th September 2013.
FREE Concert – supporting donations to Cancer Research UK would be gratefully received.
Local Orchestra featuring the Classic Big Band Sound of the 1940’s using the Big Band Charts + Vocal Ensemble.
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AN INSPECTOR CALLS by J.B. Priestley – The Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame, at 7.45pm from Tuesday, September 10m until Saturday, September 14.
Tickets £9 and £8 with £1 off for concessions available from Tickets Anywhere, Greyhound Walk, Thame, telephone 01844 217228 or online from www.thameplayers.co.uk
AN Inspector Calls is a play written by the celebrated English dramatist J. B. Priestley. First performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union, and in 1946 in the UK, it is one of Priestley’s best known works for the stage and considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play’s success and reputation has been boosted in recent years by a successful revival by English director, Stephen Daldry, for the National Theatre in 1992, and a tour of the UK in 2011-2012.
The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in 1912, focusing on the prosperous middle-class Birling family who live in a comfortable home in Brumley, “an industrial city in the north Midlands”. The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
Long considered part of the repertory of classic ‘drawing room’ theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian/Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley’s political principles. The play is studied in many schools in the UK as one of the prescribed texts for the English Literature GCSE examination.
EIGHTIES-themed disco night in aid of Thame Youth Memorial starting at 7pm; The Spread Eagle Thame – tickets available from Wallaces Home Boutique, ForeGolf or email tymevents2013@gmail.com
Tickets £17.50 each, 2 course buffet, 80’s fancy dress positively essential!
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THAME Barns Centre has almost hit its target to provide a community defibrillator on site, after £440 was raised towards the piece of life-saving equipment at a coffee morning held there on Wednesday (04/09).
Following an incident at the Centre many years ago, Patsy Baker, one of the Centre Managers, was keen to get the first community defibrillator in Thame and so the Centre has been holding fund raising events since June.
Patsy told ThameNews: “Around 50 people attended and enjoyed delicious homemade cakes and coffee, Nic, a member of the ambulance service, came along with a demonstration model of a defibrillator for people to see how easy they are to use. With the generous donations from some local businesses and individuals, we nearly have enough funds raised.”
The defibrillator will be situated on the outside of the Barns Centre for anyone in the local area to use. If it should happen that someone’s heart stops in the vicinity, the emergency services would give instructions to anyone locally to collect the defibrillator which can be used whilst the ambulance is on its way.
For more information please contact the Centre on 01844 217308 and for more information, visit: www.communityheartbeat.org.uk
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A GROUP of artists from Thame will be exhibiting their latest works on the theme of food, at a Thame cafe, and the town Mayor will be helping them to launch ‘Eating Our Words’ to coincide with the Thame Food Festival.
The Mayor of Thame, Clllr Peter Lambert will open the exhibition by Sparksartists upstairs in Time Out Café, 12 High Street, Thame, at 3pm on September 25, during a private viewing to invited guests.
The exhibition will be open to the public and will run from Saturday, September 21, to Saturday, October 5, during the normal café opening hours (closed Sundays).
Sparksartists formed as a registered charity in 2001 with a common commitment to otheir work as individual visual artists but also with a desire to collaborate and share ideas and experiences. They work in a range of media from Printmakers and Painters to Textile Artists and meet regularly in Thame.
They have been running The Big Draw an international scheme to encourage people to draw, in Thame every year since 2007, for which they won a ‘drawing inspiration’ prize.
Maryl Bird, one of the Sparksartists, explained: “Some of the work exhibited will be for sale, and along with selling work, we hope to raise the profile of Sparksartists within the local community.”
A real ale fan from Shabbington, near Thame, has been named the lucky winner of a competition organised by The Vale Brewery Company to name its beer of the month for September, a brew that will also be on tap at this year’s Thame Food Festival as well as watering-holes across the county.
Jim Crews came up with the winning name of ‘Thame’in of the Brew’ when he decided to enter the competition set up by the Brill-based brewery and the Thame food festival organisers, to get more people drinking and enjoying cask ales.
As well as seeing the name he chose on pump clips throughout the region, as part of his prize, Jim will also get to pour the very first pint of the beer at Vale Brewery’s annual open day festival on Saturday (September 7), which will be attended by the Mayor or Thame. The Mayor, Peter Lambert, runs The Cross Keys pub in Thame, and is himself a brewer.
“I don’t think you can beat a proper pint of beer served in a proper pub, which for me is my local, The Old Fisherman here in Shabbington,” said Jim. “So, when I found out about this challenge, I was naturally keen to enter. My idea for the name came from the fact that it needed a link to Thame, have a traditional feel to it and yet be nice and simple. So I decided a connection with Shakespeare would work – Thame’in of the Brew reminded me of Taming of the Shrew – and would be memorable.
“When I entered the competition, I wasn’t trying to win, though when I got the news that I had, I was obviously really chuffed,” he added. Now I’m looking forward to pulling the inaugural pint at the brewery and of course to trying the beer I’ve named.”
Vale Brewery’s Ian Mackey and his team have just finished brewing the beer, a 4.1% mid-strength seasonal bitter that’s burnished gold with English hops and English malted barley giving it a truly traditional harvest festival feel, and getting it ready for the brewery’s open day this coming Saturday.
“We loved Jim’s name for the beer and thought it was a great choice for the special festival ale that is also our beer of the month for September,” said Ian. “It’s a unique beer that’s sure to go down well at the bar as well as the Thame Food Festival at the end of the month, and I for one will be raising a glass to its success at our forthcoming open day.”
The Vale Brewery Open Day Festival on Saturday is FREE to enter, and will include free brewery tours, live music, a tasty hog roast and of course beers to try.
More information on the open day can be found at www.valebrewery.co.uk The Thame Food Festival takes place from 9am to 6pm on Saturday, September 28, in the heart of Thame town centre, where the beer Jim named can also be sampled. www.thamefoodfestival.co.uk
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THAME pub, the James Figg, has been nominated in the Traditional Pub category of the Oxfordshire Restaurants Awards 2013.
Local people were invited to vote for their favourite pub or restaurant in various categories earlier in the year. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony to be held on October 1, at The Manor Hotel, Weston-on-the-Green.
To find out more about the competition and for tickets for the big night, visit: http://www.oxfordshirerestaurantawards.com/index.html
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A man from Chinnor, who admitted stealing 24 cans of Strongbow cider to the value of £31.74, from BP Express in Park Street, Thame, has been fined by Oxford Magistrates.
Lee Wallis, 37, of Station Road, Chinnor, admitted stealing the alcohol on August 10, and was fined £165. He was also ordered to pay £5.29 compensation a £20 victims’ surcharge as well as £85 costs.
He also admitted possessing cannabis, a class B drug, in Abingdon Police Station on August 10, for which he was fined an additional £165.
SOURCE: The Oxford Mail