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Author: Sonja Francis

  • 29/09/12….Short comic treat from Thame Cinema

    AS part of this year’s Thame Food Festival, Thame Cinema will be screening a short comedy filmed in Oxfordshire. Cook Book is currently touring the festival circuit, having been selected for competition internationally, and comes to Thame following a screening at Cambridge Film Festival.

    Life looks bleak for a hapless bachelor who spectacularly fails when cooking a romantic dinner. Some unexpected help from his kitchen appliances unleashes a surprising transformation and a culinary adventure that leaves him in need of just a little more magic. Inspiration for this film came from a chain of events in writer Andrew William Robb’s own kitchen that nearly resulted in the second Great Fire of London.

    Out of that came this simple little story, a parable about something unexpected that gives our character the confidence to ‘get cooking’. Whether it is just a bump on the head or something more magical the audience is left to decide.

    The film will be screened before the main feature, The Imposter, on Saturday, September 29, and Thame Cinema hopes to welcome the producers to introduce Cook book to the audience.

    A very tasty opening to Thame Cinema’s Autumn season!

  • 29/09/12……Imposter coming to Thame Cinema

    THAME CINEMA will be showing THE IMPOSTER on Saturday, September 29, 2012 – UK 2012, 95 minutes, 15 certificate, Directed by Bart Layton, Starring Adam O’Brian, Alan Teichman, Anna Ruben, Cathy Dresbach.

    Fakes imposters and con artists have long entertained us in fact and in fiction, and have proved an irresistible subject for the movies. Think of Gerard Depardieu in The Return of Martin Guerre, a man who returns to his village in medieval France having been long presumed dead in a prolonged war. The story was remade as Somersby, with Richard Gere as another man apparently returning from the dead this time in the wake of the American civil war.

    There are the dazzling exploits of Frank Abagnale, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can, who engineered a glamorous career as pilot, paediatrician and lawyer all on the back of his skills in forgery. Or David Hampton who passed himself off as Sidney Poitier?s son and charmed his way into the liberal mega-rich elite, and whose story was told in Six Degrees of Separation with Will Smith in the starring role.

    There is a compelling duality in such narratives: on the one hand the brazen and often dangerously charismatic chutzpah of the imposter; on the other the desperately humiliating and painful betrayal of those who are taken in, often out of a desperate need to believe ? and often with a staggering willingness to deceive themselves. This astonishing British documentary tells the story of French con man Fr

  • 29/09/12…… Childrens’ Clothes and Toy Sale

    Tiddington Village Hall -10am ? 1pm. Coffee & cake in aid of Macmillan cancer care.

  • 29/09/12….September Oktoberfest – Why not?

    CHINNOR Rugby Club’s Oktoberfest Beer Festival is on September 29 – Book your place now by calling 01844 213735.

    Chinnor RFC – 11am ’til late. Email: clubhouse@chinnor-rfc.com

  • 27/09/12…..Look whose moo-oved into town!

    LOOK who arrived at Jordans Courtyard this afternoon! Meet Doris the cow, one of a ‘herd’ of black and white plastic cows, spotted ‘grazing’ around the town.

    Doris and her sisters will be used as mobile notice boards to publicise events like the food festival, the Arts and Literary Festival, the Carnival etc. They will have a blackboard hung around their necks on which posters and fliers can be temporarily applied.

    The cows were the idea of 21st Century Thame, the town partnership, which raised the funding from a grant from LEADER and matched by South Oxfordshire District Council. Other 21st Century Thame projects aimed at supporting economic development in the town include such projects as The Thame Loyalty Card scheme, the Historic Trails Waymarkers and the Blue Plaques recently inaugurated around the town.

  • 27/09/12…Have your say about local policing

    THE following ‘Have Your Say’ Meetings are being held in Thame during October:

    Monday, October 1, at the Co-Op Cafe, High Street, Thame, between midday and 2pm.

    Wednesday, October 17, at the Co-Op Cafe, High Street, Thame, between 1:30pm and 3:30pm.

    Thursday, October 25, at Costa Coffee, High Street, Thame, between 2:30pm and 4:30pm.

    Please come along; this is your opportunity to speak with your neighbourhood officers to discuss any local issues of concern you may have. If you are unable to attend but wish to speak with your neighbourhood officers, please call 101.

  • 27/09/12……Tenants? work reaches national shortlist

    THE voluntary work of Oxfordshire social housing tenants is to be pitted against professional teams from Glasgow City Council and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

    The Annual Report, which Soha residents produced for their landlord last year, has been shortlisted for The Guardian newspaper?s Public Services Award for best communications project.

    Chief Executive Richard Peacock said: ?It is very exciting to see our residents? production in this illustrious company. Glasgow is one of the largest local authorities in the UK and the stock-in trade of the FCO is communicating British foreign policy. Soha, by contrast, is a mid-sized rural housing association. Over 100 tenants were involved in the creation of a watercolour which they called ‘Painting a Picture’.

    “The scenes from a year in the life of Soha, which the watercolour featured, were the basis for articles the tenants wrote about Soha?s performance. Another group of tenants has just designed, written and photographed for the 2012 report.?

  • 26/09/12….ATTN: All Thame Business – REMINDER

    TONIGHT; THAME Neighbourhood plan – topic group meeting “The Economy of Thame” – open to all businesses – Thame town hall – 6.30pm

  • 26/09/12…..Invitation to Thame runners! Be a Superhero for a day

    THE Florence Nightingale Hospice charity, has issued an invitation to all Thame runners and walkers to join their ‘Superhero’ fun run coming soon to Aylesbury.

    AYLESBURY SUPERHERO RETURNS TO WATERMEAD ? WILL YOU BE A SUPERHERO FOR THE DAY IN HOSPICE CARE WEEK?
    Put your superhero powers to the test as Aylesbury Superhero returns to Watermead on Sunday, October 14, at 10am ? a 5k fun run, jog, walk or crawl around the village and picturesque lake in aid of the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity (FNHC), which support local families affected by life-limiting illness through in-patient and at-home services.

    Last year?s event saw over 100 superheroes of all ages taking part in the challenge, including 12-week-old Ruby and Lily. The fun event helped to raise close to

  • 26/09/12…Lions Message in a Bottle is lifesaver

    SOUTH Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS) is recommending that older persons and younger people living with a disability or long term health condition get their hands on the Lions’ ‘Message in a Bottle.’

    The Lions ‘Message in a Bottle’ is a simple idea that encourages people to keep their basic personal and medical details including a list of the medication they are taking or a repeat prescription form in a common place at home where these can easily be found in a medical or other emergency. Your information is kept on a sheet of paper provided in a plastic bottle in the fridge and the bottle comes with two labels – one to be displayed on the inside of your front door or the main entrance to your home and the other on the door of your fridge. Why keep the bottle in the fridge? Because it’s the last thing that burns in the event of fire.

    SCAS Clinical Mentor Karen Skillicorn-Aston said: “You don’t have to be old or infirm to be unwell. For your local ambulance service having access to a ‘Message in a Bottle’ in a patient’s fridge can be a real lifesaver. When a patient is in pain or distressed the last thing they need is to be quizzed about their life. Often we have to waste valuable time in rummaging around for a patient’s medication, time that could be much better spent in getting them definitive care at hospital.

    “A Stroke can prevent a person speaking and result in a reduced level of consciousness. If any patient has a condition that we need to know about and is not in a position to tell us having a ‘Message in a Bottle’ in their fridge can make a real difference to the outcome for them.

    “Whilst having a ‘Message in a Bottle’ is great, patients should remember to update this every time they are prescribed a new medication or are diagnosed with a further health complaint. It’s also the best place to keep a passport sized photo, details of any allergies, and a repeat prescription, ‘do not resuscitate’ form or living will.”

    The Lions ‘Message in a Bottle’ is FREE from your local Lions Club. To order yours please email: miabcenorder@lions.org.uk or telephone 0845 833 9502 for details of your local Lions Club.

    Brian Lazenby of Alton Lions Club commented:

    “I would urge the relatives or neighbours of older persons and those living with a disability to contact us to ensure that those who may be vulnerable and at risk in their local community have a ‘Message in a Bottle in their fridge where the Ambulance, Police and Fire & Rescue services can quickly and easily find it in the event of an emergency.”