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May 2017

Advertiser Essential shops & services with everything you need all wonderfully local!

Inside this month: Garden Open Day National Wine Day ASK HR: Free Seminar Oxfordshire Art Weeks Steve Knightly: In Concert Tom Browns School Museum Regent Cinema: Movies For You Shadows Of The Night: Celebrity Opening Faringdon Dramatics: My Friend Miss Flint Cranfield University: Support Worker Needed Promoting local business, trade and services.

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This Mo nths Cov er I suppose I’ve always had an interest in photography. I remember, at around the age of 11, entering a competition in a school Eisteddfod, with a shot of my sister sitting on a box hedge and it won the day. This was not because it was a brilliant portrait, but because it featured a nice shot of the Sugar Loaf in the background. I didn’t understand that at the time; in fact, it’s taken me many years to understand why. Up until recently, landscapes were boring; why would anyone choose to shoot them? How naive was I? Yes, I’d dabbled with photography about 10 years ago but when my tutor at the local college left and there was no replacement, I lost interest.

However, that all changed when my husband bought me my first DSLR a couple of years ago and I started experimenting. A whole new world of light, shade, colour, atmosphere and shape flooded my senses – why had I not seen this before? I think it was because I didn’t know and didn’t understand the cameras that I was using. I didn’t know how to visualise, compose and then execute to get the best out of a scene in front of me. It’s not easy and I’m only just beginning this journey. I wish I’d started four decades ago. But I love it, in fact I have a passion for it as I constantly strive to improve my skills.

The shot on the cover was taken from the car park at Badbury Clump during the bluebell season. I had just got out of the car and, looking up, was instantly drawn to the horizontal branch cutting across the vertical line of trees behind. I had to take it.

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WHO’S NEXT?

Business Update

The Government’s newly published small business rate relief is welcome news to some of the businesses in Faringdon. This means that no business rates are payable for those in premises with a rateable value of less than £12,000. If you are not in receipt of this relief, contact the Vale of White Horse District Council.

Our local county and district councils are on a push to support local business with a number of initiatives in progress. Work following last month’s business workshop is underway. Another event coming up is “Business In Oxford 2017” on Thursday 11th May. It is designed to engage, inform and inspire Oxfordshire businesses. “Business in Oxford” was launched in 2014, and is now the county’s biggest business-to-business networking and showcase event, bringing together Oxfordshire’s most influential decision makers, leading business owners, senior managers, employees and entrepreneurs.

For information on this event go to the Oxfordshire Town Chambers Network website. Also coming up is the relaunch of the Vale4Business website, www.vale4business.com. They are looking to recruit a select group of “ambassadors” to assist with implementing their action plan. These ambassadors will help Vale4Business by being the voice of local business, informing the council of business challenges and opportunities. Vale4Business will be holding a series of business forums, workshops and awards events and through that forum intend to engage with the business community and promote local success stories. If you are interested in becoming a V4B Call Trish: 01367 820060 Ambassador, get in touch with Vale 4 Business for full details e-mail: Cowleaze Farm, Woolstone, Oxon SN7 7QS vale4business@southandvale.gov.uk Email: thedogstudio@live.co.uk There is also plenty of activity going on in the town as most of the empty shop units have new tenants lined-up. and a planning application for further development adjacent to the new Faringdon Faringdon Business Breakfast Club Park site is expected imminently. This is all good news for Faringdon On a fresh Spring morning, we had a very good turnout at the April and its ever expanding business community. meeting of Faringdon Business Breakfast Club (FBBC) held in The Bell. The theme for the meeting was how we could mutually support the growth of our businesses by referrals. All members were asked to give at least one referral to their contacts outside FBBC before our next meeting in May. We held a lively open networking session where new and old members, exchanged details over a cup of tea or coffee before sitting down to eat breakfast. Members then gave their 60-second pitch briefly describing what they do, and identifying what they WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING SERVICES were looking for in their business. The range of businesses at the meeting and therefore what they were looking for was fascinating.

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REGENT CINEMA Weds 3rd May - What We Did On Our Holiday (12) (2014 - Comedy, Drama) Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation. Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a big secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are the biggest liability…

Find out how the rest of the family cope and see if the holiday will ever end.

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One of the first articles I wrote, way back in 2012, was about the classification of whisky into five regions – Lowland, Highland, Speyside, Islay and Campbeltown. These areas are enshrined in the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) regulations, with the exact boundaries being laid down and the precise wording on bottle labels being stipulated.

Historically, certain characteristics have been attributed to each region. For example, most people tend to think of Islay whiskies as being very peaty whilst a Lowland whisky would be expected to be light and delicate. However, unlike some other products, such as Stilton cheese, whose Protected Designation of Origin status not only specifies where it can be made but also the recipe that is used, the SWA regulations only protect regionality and not flavour. This means that it is not necessarily wise to rely on a distillery’s location to indicate the flavour profile of its whisky, as local factors and the aims/preferences of the distillery owner can lead to a spirit that is totally against type.

The recent increase in the number of new distilleries being built, and the drive for innovation by producers who want to stand out, has led to a great deal more interest in the relevance of whisky regions. This being so, it seems like a good time to look in a little more depth at why the diversity within regions that has always existed to some extent is becoming more prolific, what the pros and cons of this increased diversity are, and highlight some of the whiskies that exemplify or contradict the traditional whisky profiles for an area.

As an introduction we’ll have a brief look at blended malts, as it seems logical that anyone creating a regional blend would endeavour to create a whisky that could be seen as typical of the area and, indeed, this is the intention of the Douglas Laing Regional Malts range. Their Big Peat represents the Islay region and is very much what you would expect – lots of phenols and takes no prisoners. By way of contrast their Speyside whisky, Scallywag, highlights the difficulties of defining a region by flavour. It’s generally agreed that Speyside whiskies are on the sweeter side, easy to approach and a good starting point for novices BUT as the area encompasses over half the distilleries in Scotland it’s not surprising that the style can range from light, fruity and floral to heavily sherried – with both styles sometimes appearing from one distillery. Scallywag goes down the sherried route, using classic distilleries such as Mortlach and Macallan. However, the flavour profile would have been quite different had they included other well known Speyside malts like the Glenlivet, or used mainly whisky matured in ex-bourbon rather than ex-sherry casks.

The next few articles will expand further on this conundrum of the usefulness, or otherwise, of using regions to assist in selecting a whisky.

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Oxfordshire Art Weeks

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Forty eight artists in and around Faringdon are part of a group of 1000 artists and designer - makers who are preparing to turn the entire county into a giant art gallery for the Oxfordshire Artweeks Festival this spring (6 th - 29 th May) with nearly 500 exhibitions and events in every corner of the county . In our area, Art inspired by The Ridgeway, delicate jewellery using the silhouette of Great Coxwell Barn, ephemeral land art by schools on a trail in Badbury Clump Woodland and spirited ceramics with a Scandinavian influence in Littleworth, are just some of the things to look out for as eighteen art spaces locally host pop up exhibitions for the first week of the festival. The full exhibition listings is available on line at www.artweeks.org & the printed festival guide will be available from April.

GREAT COXWELL ARTISTS OPEN FOR OXFORDSHIRE ARTWEEKS. 15 artists exhibiting and demonstrating in 5 venues in the village.

6th&7th and 13th&14th May, 11.00 – 5.30pm. Come and see ceramics, drawing, jewellery, mosaics, painting, bookbinding, photography, pottery, sculpture and woodworking. Children’s craft activities on Sunday 7th at the Great Barn. Delicious home-made cakes, lunches and teas in the Reading Room café. Plant sale at the church.

Artists trail map to guide you through the village and an area map showing other local Artweeks sites. Chamber music concert at ‘Stonevale’, 4.00pm, Sunday 14th May. For more information contact Karen Vogt: 01367-241707, karen@vogt.org.uk

Oxfordshire Artweeks Stone Sculpture by Sharon Rich A local artist.

“Come and visit an exhibition of unique, hand-carved stone, held in my garden & studio” Henleaze Farm, Fernham, Faringdon, SN7 7PR (B4508 between Longcot & Fernham) Opening Dates: Daily Sat 6th until Sun 14th May. Times: 11am - 5pm weekends and 1pm - 5pm weekdays Free entry/parking, teas available, sculptures for sale. www.sharonrichsculpture.co.uk

Artweeks at Littleworth Ceramicist Marjut Robert has created a unique body of work drawn from rugged landscapes and lately to include everyday observations of things that are interesting or beautiful.

Yvonne Robinson develops subjects to represent memories, often pleasurable and sometime tinged with melancholy but always aspiring to provoke thought.

Sara Withers continues to develop her Magpie range of jewellery which alludes to fascinating articles that may be considered found but are actually beautifully thought out and designed.

The Reading Room, Littleworth, Saturday 7th to Sunday 14th May, Noon to 6 pm

Local Artist Michele Wallington will be holding her exhibition as part of this years Oxfordshire Artweeks at her home studio off Main Street in Clanfield (down the gravel drive next to Blake's Kitchen) from Sunday 13th-21st May. The studio opening times will be 10.00-4.30 Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, Thursday and Sunday 2pm-4.30pm www.michele wallington.co.uk

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Welcome to the month of May where May blossom has beaten the calendar again. Cherry trees are losing their flower petals like scented confetti and the weather’s been really sunny. These warming temperatures have already awoken hibernating queen bumblebees from their underground over-wintering places. The queens will go house-hunting, looking for suitable nest sites, even a mouse hole or an abandoned bird box. To raise her first, worker-bee brood, she must collect sufficient pollen for these larvae to feed on as they grow into workers. So, flowering plants AND flowering trees and shrubs are equally important in the field edges, crops and our gardens. Apple trees, cherry trees, hawthorn, blackthorn, medlar, blackcurrants, borage, even winter flowering heathers are all important to her. Later come other fruit bushes, buddleia and lavender. Under planting with hellebores and heathers add to the benefit of bees.

These hellebore plants led to a very interesting forum on the Gardeners World .com web site in 2012, also regarding poisonous plants in the general garden. The general opinion was to teach toddlers to ask before handling any plant, to take the flowers off before seeding (and possibly net the plants to stop cats eating the foliage). Children need to be taught what’s safe to touch and handle. It would be interesting to know my Reader’s opinion!

I’ve had news that our Veterinary Poisons Information Service is about to launch a pet owners web-based service. This is the announcement web page link: https://vpisglobal.com/2016/08/23/vpis-public-helpline The VPIS states as follows: “Animal Poison Line, our new service for pet owners, will launch at 9am on 10th April 2017. This will be a triage service, which will let owners know if a trip to their vet is required. We will serve as the first point of call for owners concerned that their pet may have been exposed to something that could potentially be poisonous.The line will be open 24 hours a day. Calls will cost £20 from 8am to 8pm on Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays), and £30 outside these hours. Owners will not be advised on specific treatment. If the owner is recommended to see their vet, then the practice should call the VPIS for further advice, as required. Please note that practice recalls following an Animal Poison Line inquiry will be charged as a new case, due to the in depth advice provided.”

From bees to birds now.

At the end of March, BBC Radio 4 Today Programme had a short piece about the research going on at the University of Swansea under the guidance of the Professor of Biosciences, Emily Shepard. This new study has found that birds killed in traffic tend to have smaller brains than those of others that have learned to adapt to speed limits and the flow of traffic. A larger brain size would allow greater sensory awareness of oncoming traffic and allow them to respond more quickly. A whole range of species were examined and the study needs to learn the various cues that birds respond to, as there are lots of different factors in the bird’s ability to detect large objects coming towards them. Although a small percentage of birds killed in any one year, the number actually killed by vehicles is still a staggering 340 million birds. Hats off to the scavenging birds and mammals who seem to keep the road kills under some control.

So it’s quite unlikely that our bird population will need to take advantage of an invention made many, many years ago by a subsequently well-known and respected scholar and scientist, Roger Bacon, who was also an English Franciscan friar and philosopher, of the 13th century. He studied optics and the refraction of light through lenses at Oxford University. The “father” of the spectacle lens Several times a year I am asked the question whether I would chose to be a vet again? There is absolute certainty that I would and that I’d still want to be learning new things, facts and techniques every day because I wanted to rather than simply because a certain number of hours is required nowadays by our governing body, the RCVS. I wish that I could have made more use of an urban farming background, where I learned to handle and milk cows all those years ago. My first test was cleaning out the Jersey bull pen, luckily without him in it at the time. Two foot deep, heavy, wet straw and muck. I also enjoyed working with pigs and sheep when at College – and kept them later, better to understand them and the farmers’ side of the business.

As a Practice, we welcome work experience and EMS University students and I’ve just finished an online course with my old vet school, the RVC, University of London, to learn how to better support and mentor such students.

In my regular e-mails from the Alzheimers Society, which we support, they’ve announced another Cupcake Day, for Thursday June 15th. I’d like to make the Practice a venue this year for the exchange of cupcakes for this forward-thinking charity, so, to quote part of the e-mail : “Whether you're an off-the-shelfer or a make-it-yourselfer, we'd love you to join us for Cupcake Day on 15 June.

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National Wine Day, on the other hand is more focused on the practical element of imbibing in a glass or two of your favourite grape variety.

As every day can be National Wine Day depending on your outlook, here are a few ways in which to pay your respect to this Vinous Wonder.

Try Something New – Invite a group of friends around and each bring a bottle that is masked or covered in foil. Have fun trying to guess what wine it is. You may be surprised with what you like when not having any pre-conceived judgements!

Visit a vineyard – We are fortunate to live in an area where there are vineyards nearby. Yes – you heard right! Bothy Vineyard is located at Frilford Heath, near Abingdon. They run 2 hour tours at 2pm on the last Saturday of each month £9pp bookings required.

Coinciding with English Wine Week, they are running FREE 1 hour tour on Sat 27th May and Sat 3rd June at 12:00 and 2pm.

No bookings required for this special event – just rock up!

Cook with wine – As the saying goes, sometimes I may even add it to the food! Wine adds flavour to sauces and jus, I’ll let you experiment on that one!

Make wine slushies – New to this concept, I am yet to test this one out. To make a Strawberry Peach Wine Slushy: Ingredients: Baking hot sunshine, see why I’m not there yet with being convinced? 1 bottle of white wine, sauvignon blanc, 2 peaches, blanched, peeled, sliced and frozen, 2 cups of frozen sliced strawberries. Directions: Puree 2 cups of wine and the peaches, add the strawberries and remaining wine and blend until smooth. If the mixture is too runny, just leave it in the freezer until it freezes up.

Open a bottle you’ve been saving for a special occasion – Share it with somebody you love!

Happy National Wine Day!

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Hangover Square By Patrick Hamilton

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01367 243800 I’m not sure whether any novel quite captured the desolation of debauchery quite like Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square (1941). The novel – subtitled A tale of darkest Earls Court – is set in that area of London in 1939.

Hamilton’s Earls Court is a grimy hinterland teeming with intrigue, danger and all manner of dark nights of the soul.

Britain is on the brink of war. George Harvey Bone is waging a war of his own inside himself. A borderline alcoholic, troubled by a split personality, Bone – our unlikely hero – is hopelessly infatuated with the feckless Netta.

Greedy and self-serving, failed actress Netta is nothing if not opportunistic, and is able to use her significant physical charms to extract money, and drink from the hapless Bone to further her hedonistic pleasures.

Troubled as he is, Bone has managed to establish a loyal friendship with Johnnie, a theatrical agent whose link with Eddie Carstairs, a powerful theatre entrepreneur makes him an extremely attractive lure for scheming Netta. Her limitations are obvious to everyone but Bone, who only – ironically – sees the light of day during his ‘dead moods’ – the blackouts that are symptomatic of his split personality.

Needless to say, things don’t end well.

Hamilton’s prose never flags and the switches that mark Bone’s ‘dead moods’ are terrifyingly sudden and strange – disorientating but also filled with remarkable clarity.

This is testament to the skill of the author. Hamilton, novelist and playwright, was responsible for some of the most enduringly dark tales of the time. Gaslight (1938) and Rope (1948) both flowed from his pen and were made into successful films.

But Hamilton’s life was far from rosy. A childhood spent flitting between boarding houses due to his father’s alcoholism, becoming disfigured by a car accident in the late 1920s and a less than perfect love life led to Hamilton succumbing to the ‘demon drink’ in 1962.

Hamilton is now largely forgotten in discussions of contemporary literature, which is a great shame. But there are still those flying the flag. Actor and playwright Mark Farrelly, whose 2013 play The Silence of Snow was based on the life of Hamilton, says of the author ‘Patrick Hamilton is the brimstone poet of inter-wars London. Nobody has better captured the exquisite agony, the beautiful brutality, of trying to be fully alive’.

A beautiful testament to an author who is long overdue a renaissance.

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Help To Buy - What’s the Numbers and Is It Helping?

When you look at the maths, it’s easy to see why help is needed.

As of January 2017, the average house price was £218,255 and the average UK salary is currently around £27,000. Most lending sources offer up to four times salary for a single purchaser and two and half times for a joint application. Based on these figures, that’s a maximum mortgage of £108,000 and £135,000 respectively. Put another way, that’s a shortfall of £110,255 and £83,255 based on the average house price.

Let’s take a quick look at the three options currently available with the Help to Buy scheme: 1.

Help to Buy ISA - For first time buyers who are saving to buy their first home, the Government will boost your savings by 25%. So, for every £200 saved, they will receive a government bonus of £50 up to a maximum of £3,000 in bonuses.

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Shared Ownership - If buyers can’t quite afford the mortgage on 100% of a home, Shared Ownership offers them the chance to buy a share of the home (between 25% and 75% of the home’s value) and pay rent on the remaining share. Later on, they have the option to purchase larger shares or all of the property.

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Equity Loan - The Government lends buyers up to 20% of the cost of the newly built home, so they’ll only need a 5% cash deposit and a 75% mortgage to make up the rest.

There are no charges on the 20% loan for the first five years and there is a maximum purchase price of £600,000.

So the questions are, is Help to Buy helping people to buy and what is the likely impact when these schemes will inevitably end?

The ISA does give a little ‘something for nothing’ for those that are dedicated savers, disciplined enough to be making the maximum contribution to get the maximum bonus. However, there are other ISA’s that are offering higher returns. The Help to Buy ISA does guarantee a return regardless of what the market does so it’s probably down to your attitude to investment and risk.

The Shared Ownership scheme for us is a very narrow market, very much inwardly focused on new and existing shared ownership property and not benefiting the wider housing market.

Interestingly, Equity Loans account for one in three new homes purchases. We think it’s a bit disconcerting that 30% of the new homes market required Government support. Take that away and you have transaction levels more associated with a full blown property recession.

Our summary is that the main challenge with the Help to Buy scheme is that it does very little to help the wider property market.

As an industry, we’re still very much dependant on people moving from one property to the next, the classic ‘house chain’ situation.

With Shared Ownership being about new homes and existing shared ownership property, and the Equity Loan being only available on new homes, the upward surge of ‘closed-chain’ buyers is just not being created.

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Free Business Information Seminar Wednesday 24th May at Sudbury House

Friday May 19th in the Faringdon Corn Exchange.

Doors 7pm for 7.30pm.

Tickets are £18.00 and are available from the Faringdon Information Centre, The Pump House, Market Place tel 01367 240281 or from wegottickets.com

Ask HR Limited, a local specialist Human Resources & Business Consultancy, is offering a free business information seminar for Company Directors, Owners, Senior Managers and decision makers for small to medium and start-up businesses on 24 May 2017 at Sudbury House Hotel, London Road, Faringdon, SN7 7AA. Registration is at 12:00 noon for a prompt start and a light lunch will be provided with a networking session, ending around 14:30.

‘Steve Knightley is the songwriting force behind ‘Show Of Hands’, widely acclaimed as the finest acoustic roots duo in England. People will remember Steve from the two sold out shows that Show Of Hands did at the local ‘Live At The Tithe’ events.

This seminar will outline changes to employment law during 2017 and offers advice and support to local businesses:

In the duo he’s been the winner of Best Live Act" award at the 2004 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Duo" and "Best Original Song" at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

Are you ready for:

This solo tour ‘The landlocked Tour 2017’ follows on from his previous ‘All At Sea Tour’ and comes just after what is looking like another sell out show at the Royal Albert Hall with Show Of Hands in April.

This will be Steve’s first visit to Faringdon www.steveknightley.co.uk

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MORTON&MEAD’S Hairdressing For Men

Claire Marie: 07774 510599

Vintage Goth Shadows Is here to stay!

After signing a 3yr lease on our shop on the 1st of April, we had to do it in a fun quirky way with Celebrity Ghost hunter Ray Jorden, from TV paranormal show Haunting Australia, who is one of my dearest friends, Kindly helped us to launch VGS by cutting the ribbon with Brad pit look alike!!!

What an amazing fun turn out it was, And the support from local business and the people of Faringdon was just over whelming! Everyone all gathered around outside the shop to watch Ray cut the ribbon, All cheered once ray did his speech, Which everyone had then had the advantage of looking around the shop with a glass of fine bubbly, We had plenty of sweets for the little ones that just love to come in and check out our gothic themed room (even when they come out of school) Ray Jorden was signing autographs while the ladies were getting there pictures taking with our Brad pit look alike, What a giggle we all had! Ray and Brad got the chance to walk around Faringdon and mingle with the locals they even went for a cheeky pint at the Wheatsheaf pub!!! Both staying at the shop the whole day, signing autographs and taking plenty of pictures, a crazy day, definitely!

As we are here to stay we have so many different new ideas for VGS, as not just a clothes shop, you may know we do Victorian séance parties and Steampunk hat parties for the kids and Adults, which I have to say, keep posting those pictures on VGS Facebook page totally love them!! But yes we have gone down a new avenue, launched Easter weekend with our very own Gothic style furniture, this has been an amazing success! Yes guys you heard right yep we are doing Gothic Style furniture! As we do like to be different and quirky, we also have some amazing vintage Dressers, Jewellery Stands and much more on its way so watch this space everyone!!

Vintage Goth Shadows has many new ideas and upcoming events in Faringdon, We are going from strength to strength and it's only going to get better and VERY exciting!!

I couldn't of done it without the support of you guys my beautiful VGS customers! Remember ladies summer is coming, we have stunning Vintage dresses in for those hot summer nights.

When I get someone feeling down about those lumps and bumps and they leave, loving those curves and knowing, I’ve made my gorgeous VGS ladies smile and feel good about there curves ( Not lumps & bumps) It makes my job well worth it!!

Claire Marie

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Rob.. The Cheese Man! Best Cornish Pasty’s.

Really Tasty Gammon Ham.

Rob

01367 241702 Market Place Faringdon SN7 7HP

Est. 1986

GARDENSCAPE Individual Design, Construction & Maintenance To discuss your personal garden requirements phone: 01865 250372 or 07773333531 Roger Hutchence - BA (HONS) NCH (Landscape Construction) www.gardenscape.biz Roger@gardenscape.biz

Healthy Living!

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The sun is shining and the flowers are blooming. This is a great time of year to get out and walk. Walking might not get into the headlines when it comes to fitness exercises but it does have many benefits.

At any age and any fitness level most of us are lucky enough to be able to do some walking.

Getting started doesn’t need any special kit, appropriate footwear and clothing is all you need. How serious you take it is up to you.

Whether it is a 15-minute stroll around town or a 4 hour hike up White Horse Hill, walking has positives to offer.

It doesn’t have to be a lonely affair either, walking in a group, whether it be friends or an organised group, it can be great fun and very uplifting for the spirit. For some it can be an opportunity to meet new people or the chance to bring along a pet for its daily exercise.

Walking is a great way to stay active and improve your fitness, without the added intensity that other exercise forms bring, so almost anyone can do it.

Walking can be a great workout. Regular walking, like most aerobic activities, is a cardio-vascular exercise. It strengthens the heart and lungs, increasing overall fitness. Together with diet and other exercise plans, it can also help with weight loss and tone up muscles too. I know of people that have added 15 minutes of walking into their daily routine and seen their weight dramatically change.

Regular brisk walking helps you, maintain a healthy weight, prevent or manage conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes, strengthen your bones and muscles, improve your mood, improve your balance and coordination.

You can increase the benefits of walking just by changing your routine. Find a more challenging route, some steeper inclines or change your pace. It's always a good idea to keep changing your course so your body doesn't get too familiar with your workout.

Walking uphill uses more energy than walking along flat surfaces.

You could try speed walking sprints between trees or various objects if you are able. You can track your walking with mobile apps and trackers – this can motivate and keep the interest in your daily steps.

Walking outside as opposed to on a treadmill is a great way to connect with nature, take in the air and admire the changes of the seasons. Great for the soul!

If you don’t want to walk alone ask a friend to join you or set up your own group, or if being alone works for you see it as a chance to clear your mind and take a new perspective on any decisions you are trying to make in life.

It may be sensible to consider your technique when doing a lot of walking: Turning a normal walk into a fitness stride requires good posture and purposeful movements. Head up and looking forward, neck, shoulders and back relaxed, arms swinging freely with a slight bend in your elbows, stomach muscles slightly tightened and your back straight, and walking smoothly, rolling your foot from heel to toe.

If you are really fit and are doing walking solely as exercise then the best way to see the benefits is to concentrate on intensity. It’s not how long you exercise for necessarily but how hard you are pushing yourself. A brisk walk should be seen as the way you would walk if you were hurrying to catch a bus. It's walking fast enough so that you begin to feel winded!

I understand that not everybody wants that. I suggest you could start by just getting out and setting up your regular routine. Then do what you can and add a little bit more as you begin to feel fitter.

Make it your own special time and enjoy. Oh and by the way - start now!

Richard Marfell – Wellness Coach 07800636004 Richardmarfelluk@gmail.com

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HIGHWORTH TRAVEL INDEPENDENT LUXURY TRAVEL SPECIALIST The decision to announce a snap-election has rightly focused attention on the potential impact on business and finance.

The various parties will review their commitments, make fresh campaign pledges, and promises over how they’ll handle Brexit. If we accept that the Referendum vote was a presentation of disenchantment with the status quo, and that our London and finance-focused elites should be reined-in to benefit the wider populace; then this election is a water-shed moment in our island history.

UK-based companies, their owners, shareholders and investors could and should enjoy more rights to regulate their boards. Reminding the corporate executives that they are in fact employed to fulfil a role, with salaries capped, we’ll hopefully see a shift towards “ordinary” employees represented on the boards, should Mrs May win in June. In doing so, the bigger companies will find it harder to loophole their tax arrangements, and we could see more intervention for socially justified causes being imposed.

Given the failure of polling to predict Brexit, and the Trump presidency, it’s hard to call right now who will reign victorious. Should the Tories pull ahead, Theresa May will likely have a greater majority to push through her vision, and she has repeatedly stated that where capitalism is seen to be failing to benefit, she will encourage government intervention.

The market reaction to the announcement of the Election, was an immediate increase in the value of sterling against other currencies. Normally, the announcement of an election is generally regarded a “bad news” for currencies because of the uncertainty of the election outcome. It could be that the currency traders have got it wholly wrong, but this time, the announcement has been generally received as an indication that the Conservatives will increase their majority and thus make for a smoother Brexit process; or perhaps that “hard” Brexit won’t be so hard after all.

By far the most important question for business owners, employers, and employees is taxation. The main parties have their own views on this tricky area and we’re still in the traditional left-right camps that make for easy headlines.

Two things that are traditional battle-grounds are the State Pension and tax-relief. What we earn, what we pay ourselves, our employees and the tax and National Insurance contributions paid to the Treasury will come under more and more scrutiny. Chancellor Philip Hammond attempted to increase NI contributions for the selfemployed during the recent Budget – the option for Mrs May to review the commitment not to increase tax, National Insurance, or VAT has implications for us all – opening the way for changes to State Pension, pension tax-relief's and a whole host of policies associated with personal and business finances.

Whatever your political sway as a business owner my advice is to review those party policies and pledges, and make a judged decision on what works for you, and your business to make your vote count this coming June 8th.

Paul Hukins – Faringdon Business Group Treasurer and Chartered Financial Planner for Lighthouse Financial Advice Ltd.

office@highworthtravel.co.uk www.highworthtravel.co.uk

Est. 1975

Westland Autos www.westland-autos.co.uk

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Out and About Date

Event

Venue

Time

Contact

Charge/info

Wed 3rd

What we Did on our Holiday

Regent Cinema

12.30pm

Faringdon Info Centre on 01367 242191

Single £4 Annual £24

Sat 6th Sun 7th

Great Coxwell Artists Open for Oxfordshire Artweeks

Venues around Great Coxwell

11am 5.30pm

Karen Vogt 01367 241707 Karen@vogt.org.uk

Free

Fri 5th Tue 16th

Longcot Flower Festival

St Mary’s Church, Longcot

10am 4pm

Shirley Dalton-Morris Hirsley-village@mybtinternet.com

Free

Sat 6th

Wantage & Grove Lion’s Plant Sale & 2nd hand garden bits

East Hanney British Legion Hall

10am 1.3pm

Sat 6th

Soul Night No.5 with DJ Citizen Cane

Pump House Project

7 - 11pm

Sat 6th Mon 29th

Oxfordshire Artweeks Festival

Venues around Faringdon

Sun 7th

Folly Tower Open Day

Folly Hill

Wed 10th

Talk: “George Cruikshank: the man who drew Oliver Twist”

Wed 10th Sat 13th

Free Alcitizencane@gmail.com

£5 on the door or from Dawn the Barbers

www.artweeks.org

Free

11am 5pm

www.faringdon.org.uk

Over 16s £3 11-16 £1 U11 50p

Corn Exchange

2.30pm

Faringdon and District U3A Peter Smith 01367 241241

Visitors £1.50

My Friend Miss Flint

Buscot House Theatre

From 6.30pm

www.faringdondramatic.org.uk

Gates open at 6.30pm for picnics in grounds

Fri 12th

White Horse Medical Practice Tombola and Cake sale

White Horse Medical Practice

All day

Claire Harris 01367 718351

Proceeds to Great Ormond Street

Fri 12th

Magical Musicals

Old Mill Hall, Grove

7pm

www.wsmc-music.co.uk

£9 Concessions £7

Sat 13th Sun 14th

Great Coxwell Artists Open for Oxfordshire Artweeks

Venues around Great Coxwell

11am 5.30pm

Karen Vogt 01367 241707 Karen@vogt.org.uk

Free

Sat 13th

Family Fun Day and Chocolate Tea Party

Stanford in the Vale Hall

12noon 5pm

Jane Braddy 01367 718627 Funday.braddy.net

Free

Sat 13th

White Horse Garden Club: Mega Plant Sale

Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall, Uffington

2.30 4pm

Pamela 01367 820251 Parrottspreene@aol.com

Buy an d Sell plants

Sat 13th

Magical Musicals

East Hagbourne Village Hall

7pm

www.wsmc-music.co.uk

£9 Concessions £7

Mon 15th

Dementia Awareness Week

Market Square, Faringdon

12.30pm 4.30pm

Pop along for advice from a Dementia Advisor

Tue 16th

Coffee Morning & Cake Sale

Barber Rooms, All Saints Church, Faringdon

10.30am 12noon

Julie Campbell 01367 242589

In aid of Christian Aid

Wed 17th

Faringdon Historical Soc Talk: Child Labour

Old Town Hall, Faringdon

7.45pm

Fri 19th

Steve Knightly in Concert

Corn Exchange

7pm

www.wegottickets.com/event/384048 or Information Centre

From £18

Fri 19th

Magical Musicals

Steventon Village Hall

7pm

www.wsmc-music.co.uk

£9 Concessions £7

Sat 20th

Blackbird Day Market

Market Square, Faringdon

Sat 20th

Concert for Christian Aid

All Saints Church, Faringdon

7pm

Julie Campbell 01367 242589 Iajuca.ca@gmail.com

Adults £10 U17 £5

Sat 20th

The Mayor Rocks the Place

Corn Exchange

7 - 11pm

Faringdon Town Council 01367 240281

£2

Sat 20th

Magical Musicals

Old Mill Hall, Grove

7pm

www.wsmc-music.co.uk

£9 Concessions £7

Sun 21st

Folly Tower Open Day

Folly Hill

11am 5pm

www.faringdon.org.uk

Over 16s £3 11-16 £1 U11 50p

Fri 26th

Lion (PG)

Regent Cinema

7pm

Faringdon Info Centre on 01367 242191

Adults £4 U18s £3 Family £10

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Local Events Date

Event

Venue

Every Day

Faringdon Home Library Service

Books to your door!

Every Sun

Easy Cycling

Under the Town Hall, Faringdon

Mon, Tue & Wed

Free One to One IT Help

Every Mon

Time

Contact

Charge/info

Sheena or Jane 01367 240311

Free

11am

Cycling at a gentle pace, Families welcome. No one gets left behind

Free

Faringdon Library

2:30pm 4:30pm

Faringdon.library@oxfordshire .gov.uk

Free

Button Bicycle School Of Sewing

Rookery

7:00pm

Buttonbicycle@gmail.com

Every Mon

Lunch Box Singing

Faringdon Library

1 - 2pm

Sheena 01367 240311

Free Open to all

Every Mon

Sing and Sign Classes

Old Town Hall

9:30-10:30am

www.singandsign.com

Reserve place on website

Every Mon

Bridge Club

Faringdon United Church

6.45pm 10.15pm

Françoise Stacey, Secretary of the Club: 01367 241813

£2 per person Free tea/coffee

Every 2nd & 3rd Mon

Disco Dots

Pump House

9:30-11am

Lucy 07900 800657

£1

3rd Mon

Faringdon WI

Corn Exchange,

2pm

Denise Monk dmamg@talktalk.net

Every Mon & Thurs

Faringdon Day Centre

Baptist Church Hall Bromsgrove

9:15- 2:15

Supervisor 07523 116918

£7 inc lunch. Transport available

1st Tue

Junior Book Club

Faringdon Library

3.45- 4.45pm

Sheena 01367 240311

Ages 8-11 yrs

1st Tue

Farmers Market

Market Place, Faringdon

Until 1pm

01367 710445

Every Tue

Coffee Morning

Faringdon Library

10am - 12:00

Sheena 01367 240311 wantage@babysensory.co.uk Kat Culverwell 07800568040

Free

Every Tue

Baby & Toddler Sensory

The Pump House Project

10:30am 11.00am

Every Tue

Whist Drive

The Old Town Hall

2:30pm

Sylvia 01367 242007

Just turn up

faringdontoddlers@gmail.com Alex Molton

£2 Everyone welcome

Every Tue&Thur

Baby & Toddler 0-4yrs

United Church

9:30 11am

Every Wed

Open Coffee House

Great Coxwell Reading Room

10:30-11:30am

Sylvia Athawes 01367 241179

Every Wed

The Cake Cafe & Craft Connections

The Pump House Project

9.30am 11.30am

info@thepumphouseproject.co.uk

Every Wed

Walking for Health

Leave from Old Town Hall

10:30am

www.faringdon.org/walking-andcycling.html

A slower or faster walk available

Every Wed

Faringdon Shed

Woodwork Classroom at F C College

7pm - 9pm

0845 4740142

Free

Every Wed

Community Singing Group

The Pump House Project

11.45am 12.45pm

info@thepumphouseproject.co.uk

£2 per person

Every Wed

Citizen Advise Bureau

Pump House

10am - 11am

01367 242191

Free

1st Wed

Open Mic Night

Horse and Jockey, Stanford in the Vale

9pm

Info@horseandjockey.org

Free

1st Wed

Buckland WI - Speaker and meeting each month

The Memorial Hall, Buckland

7pm

Libby Calvert 01367 870803

Non members £4 incl. refreshment

1st Wed

Information & Gadget Drop-in

Community Cafe, Pump House

9:30am-11:30

Sonia

7827 235414

2nd Wed

Follies Dollies WI

The Old Town Hall

7:30pm

Becka 07841 431219

Every Wed in term

Maths Homework Club

Faringdon Library

3pm - 4:30pm

faringdon.library@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Years 1 to 13

1st & 3rd Wed

Faringdon Youth Project Drop-in Sessions

Faringdon Library

4pm - 5:30pm

faringdon.library@oxfordshire.gov.uk

Free

1st & last Wed

The Knitting Group

Horse and Jockey, Stanford in the Vale

7pm

Ruth Chester 01367710362 caston@tlkc.co.uk

Free

Every Wed & Thurs

Slimming World

United Reformed Church

Wed 5:30pm Thurs 9:30am

Wed 7:30pm Louise 07717 681939

£4.95

Every Thu

Chatterbox

Stanford Small Village Hall

10am - 12noon

Sandra 01367 718303

Coffee/Tea, Chat, Raffle

1st Fri

Book Club

Faringdon Library

6pm - 7pm

All welcome

2nd Fri

Messy Church Uffington

THMH SN7 7RA

3:30-5:30

Sue Jennings 07956534478

Donations Welcome

Jenny Howard-Jones 01367710382

Tea & coffee available Goods orders taken Free

Every Fri

Country Market

Corn Exchange

9:15am 11.00am

Every Fri term time

Rhymetime

Faringdon Library

10:30am 11am

Sheena 01367 240311

Every Sat

Yoga Classes

Faringdon United Church

9am - 10.15am Adults

www.yogabear.org.uk 7875633923

Every Sat

Family History Sessions

Faringdon Library

10am - 12:00

01367 240311

Every Sat

Stagecoach Faringdon

Faringdon Junior School

Various

Stagecoach.co.uk/faringdon 01367 240663

Great Coxwell Teas

The Reading Room, Great Coxwell

2:30pm - 5pm

(14/01 - 01/04)

2nd Sun

Call to book a 1 to 1 slot

Tea, Coffee and delicious cakes available

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Experts - local services The Veterinary Surgery of Robert Elliott

Court Cattery

As an independently run family practice, established in 1994, we are able to combine traditional standards with modern techniques and selected high-quality equipment.

We aim to provide high quality care in an especially warm and friendly environment.

E-mail: enquiries@vets-surgery.com www.vets-surgery.com

Stanford-in-the-Vale FAB now ICC & Vale licensed Established in 2000 Family run – Short or long stays; Medical management service available on enquiry.

Veterinary Care provided by the adjacent Robert Elliott Veterinary Surgery you are always welcome to arrange a first-time visit E-mail: sam@vets-surgery.com www.court-cattery.com

01367-710595

01367-711952

Self Storage Rooms for Business and Home

The Cheap Way to Add Space www.storage4all.co.uk

www.lisamoore-photography.com

lmoore965@btinternet.com

01367 240880

House and Animal Sitting

drew.cameron@ storage4all.co.uk

Swan Hill

If you need someone to help look after your animals or home whilst you’re away. I’m happy to help out. I have a car and am happy to travel between Faringdon and Woodstock twice a day. If you’d prefer me to stay over, that could be arranged too.

I charge £10.00 per visit or £40 per stay over.

Dog Grooming & Spa All aspects of modern and traditional ladies, gents and children's mobile hairdressing Sarah Reynolds

07890 539 877 natsplayer@hotmail.com

Swan Hill Farm Buildings Townsend Road Shrivenham SN6 8HR

Located

Call Beth Keene on 07398 505794 Swanhilldoggrooming@outlook.com

Chickens & Poultry Feed All at unbeatable prices

01367705030

07955499467

FARINGDON COBBLER’S WHERE QUALITY COUNTS 8 CORNMARKET FARINGDON SN7 7HH

FARINGDON 01367 244 611

We stock Nitty Gritty Headlice Lotion

Open Mon-Sat 8am-12 noon Closed bank holidays Tel: 01865 821537 or 07759551946 www.mjhodgkins.co.uk New Barn Farm, Longworth, OX13 5ED

Book in for a hot towel and traditional “cut throat” razor shave

Facebook.com /TheBarbersFaringdon

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Homeopathy Hours of business: Monday: 9am - 1pm Tuesday: 9am - 6pm Wednesday: 9am - 6pm Thursday: 9am - 7pm Friday: 9am - 6pm Saturday: 8:30am - 2pm

Society of Homeopaths

GENTLE EFFECTIVE HOLISTIC THERAPY Daytime & Evening Appointments Clinics in Uffington and Wantage Heather Abel BA/BSc RSHom Tel: www.homeopathy-oxfordshire.co.uk

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Quality Shoe Repairs Key Cutting Engraving Watch Repairs ID & Visa Photo’s Trophy's Gifts For all Occasions Authorized Zippo Retailer VAPE’S & E-Liquid *NEW IN*

Open Mon - Fri 8:30 - 5:30 Sat 9:00 - 5:00

01367 243134

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Experts - local services M.Y. Garden Services Qualified gardener with over 20 years of garden/estate maintenance.

Home and business support Windows 10 Upgrades Desktop, laptop,server support and installs Virus removal and repair Free advice - no fix, no fee Based in Faringdon

·

All types of gardening - maintenance and some design

·

Stone work - walls/repairs, pointing, concreting etc

·

Winter - leaf collection, painting, some plumbing/building work

Fully insured and excellent references on request Tel Mike on 07957867951 or 01793 976709 email mrdyates@yahoo.com

20% Off First Booking See Facebook For Our Specials gregg@allseasonstrees.com www.allseasonstrees.com

Carswell Golf & Country Club, Faringdon, SN7 8PU

Monika Becker H.P

MTS FENCING

Holistic Practitioner

Domestic & Commercial Specialising in Closeboard

07742 982757 Grove Technology Park Downsview Road Boston House, Unit 39 Wantage, Oxon OX12 9FF

Quality workmanship and reliability at a fair price

For a free Quotation Contact Matthew 07866 792222/ 01993 845669

groveclinicoxon@gmail.com www.grovewellnessclinic.net

Keratin Hair Treatment No more frizzy hair!

Keratin…

Smooth, silky, shiny & tangle-free hair Lasts 3 - 4 months, only £60 Call Jane @ Tangles Lechlade 01367 252374 or 07788156438

Den Boer Wines Quality wines, tastings and events

www.denboerwines.com Tel 01367 241169 Mobile 07919 241881 Email: donnarogers @denboerwines.com

JOE PEARCE PLASTERING 07709960598 jplasterer3@gmail.com All internal plasterwork,Traditional lime plastering, External rendering & specialist finishes

15 Year Guarantee on Closeboard Fencing

Ohm Electrix Electrical services and Installations Fully qualified and insured electrician.

All types of domestic work undertaken, from small jobs to garden and garage power, to full rewires.

Commercial and Solar PV work also catered for.

Friendly, professional service from a local company.

Contact us to discuss your needs, and get a free, no obligation estimate and advice.

Phone: 07879 013359 Mail: Ohm.Electrix@Gmail.com Registered with the NICEIC domestic installer “part P” SCHEME

Yogabear Saturdays Adults class 9:00am Kids 10:30am Faringdon United Church.

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Tom Browns School Museum

Uffington Museum celebrates 400 years!

Tom Brown’s School Museum in Uffington was originally the old school room, founded in 1617 by Thomas Saunders for 12 worthy boys at a time when education for the poor did not exist. The building became the village museum in 1984 and this year celebrates 400 years with a special exhibition on the founding of the schoolroom & education in Uffington through the past 4 centuries.

Tom Brown’s is one of the smallest museums in Oxfordshire and was granted Accreditation status in 2013 by Arts Council England. It is run entirely by volunteers who plan the exhibitions each year, care for the collection and organise a rota to open the museum from Easter until the end of October.

The museum also explains the history and archaeology of the area including the White Horse, illustrates the village’s connection with Thomas Hughes and Tom Brown’s School Days and also the time that the late poet laureate Sir John Betjeman lived in the village with his family. It continues to record the changes in village life in Uffington with nearly half the collection consisting of photograph’s and articles from the late 1800’s to the present day.

This year’s quadricentennial exhibition tells the story from Thomas Saunders the founder through to the present day primary school including artefacts from a Victorian schoolroom. There is also a display about the history of the building and how it has survived 400 years.

The museum is open 2pm to 5pm every Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday from 15th April until 29th October and entry is free. If you have an interest in the White Horse, John Betjeman or Thomas Hughes or if you have relatives that lived or are still living in Uffington then don’t miss the opportunity to visit this lovely museum. www.museum.uffington.net Broad Street, Uffington, Oxon SN7 7RA or contact 01367 820978 All visitors to the museum will have the opportunity to be entered into a free prize draw to win one of three hampers.

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