If you haven’t had the chance to pop around to the new village Pound after dark then you are in for a surprise. With money available from the Village Improvement Fund, 1000 lights have been placed in the small oak tree in the centre of the pocket park.
Thanks go to the volunteers including Stewart and yours truly who put them up, but particularly to Paul Roberts and Alex Smith who climbed the ladders like monkeys. Also thanks to the Hill’s for supplying the electricity.
Thanks to everyone who moved their cars when Cherwell district council swept the streets of the village on Tuesday. A road crew accompanied the lorry to get leaves blown off the pavement and the work was completed in four hours with the lorry removing to full loads of mainly leaves.
Saturday 2nd November can be remembered on two accounts. England unfortunately NOT winning the rugby world cup and Stratton Audley Fayre being a very happy occasion – by contrast.
There was a great mix of excellent quality local stalls and, after shopping, what better way to revive oneself than with a cup of coffee and a slice of delicious cake! Thank you to everyone who made the fantastic cakes!
This week has seen raffle prizes delivered, and believe it or not a couple of enquiries from potential stall holders wanting to have a stall for next year!!
Needless to say lots of great big thank you’s; to Becky and the great team of ladies who worked tirelessly serving the teas and cakes and the men who helped the stall holders carry their goods to and from their cars. Also a big thank you to Stephanie and Yvonne who ably helped man the tombola stall (always a great draw!) which – like the raffle – had some fantastic donations from villagers. A total of just over £1000 was made which was great.
Shall we do it again next year? Maybe we could think about it in 2020?
The top raffle prize winners (of 22) are shown below.
Ticket No. Prize Winner
89 Bottle of Glenrothes Whiskey Penny House
393 Nyetimber English sparkling wine Yvonne Mullins
843 Nicolas Feuillate Champagne Dorothy Howarth
590 DKNY Tote bag Anne Flack
223 Gibson Organic Liqueur Alison Bromley