Club Corner Aston Wine Club
Aston Wine Club has been established for more than 25 years, and is probably one of the best local wine clubs in the country! Our aim is to have fun socializing with friends and enjoy tasting wine from all over the world. It provides the opportunity to taste unusual & sometimes very expensive wines outside of the wines that we might normally imbibe. With old and new world, still & sparkling, red, white, rosé and orange, we have a really varied & interesting tasting programme. We meet on the third Friday evening of most months in Buckland Village Hall, where you will be welcomed with a glass of wine in advance of a relaxed, fun and informative evening, led by a wine merchant, wine writer, wine educator or other expert. We sample eight wines with a break for a light supper after the first four, then on to the last four wines. All this for a whopping £15 for members and £20 for guests! We like to keep things lively and over the years we have enjoyed trips to Waddesdon Manor for private tastings in their cellars, fish n’ chip & champagne evenings, members’ nights where members introduce their personal favourite, presentations focusing on certain countries or regions within a country, and special Christmas events with a meal.
knowledge of different wines and enabling me to Sunday mornings from 27 February and Senior now enjoy a much wider variety of wine regions nets are on Saturday mornings from March. and grapes." All this is dependent on covid measures not adversely affecting the programme. For further information please see our website www.astonwineclub.co.uk. We look forward to The club would welcome interest from potential welcoming you to a future meeting. umpires and/or scorers, especially for Saturday Frances Luget League matches. For junior enquiries, please
contact Vee Patel at wccjuniorscontact@gmail. com or for girls, seniors, umpires, etc to Jonathan We are Aylesbury Vale Stitchers - a friendly, Seabrook on 07767 148119 or jseabrook@ welcoming group to everyone who picks up any talktalk.net. form of needle, thread, fabric and fibre and to those who don't but are interested in textiles, More information can be found at www.pitchero. their history and any aspect of their creation. com/clubs/wendovercricketclub. J Seabrook We have been running the group via Zoom meetings once each month on a Saturday RSPB afternoon but plan to return to meeting in person RSPB Aylesbury Group’s next indoor meeting at the Memorial Hall from March. is on Monday 17 January 2022 when Graham Lenton talks on “The Wildlife of Madagascar – We have a wide range of speakers joining us a genetic melting pot”. Held at the Prebendal through the year showing us their diverse range Hall Community Centre, Aylesbury HP19 7QW, of work. We offer some workshops plus social starting at 7.30 p.m. More info at www.rspb.org. sessions for tea, cake and chat. uk/groups/aylesbury. Jonathan Seabrook
Aylesbury Vale Stitchers
January and February meetings will be via Zoom. On Saturday 15 January our speaker is Hillary Waters Fayle - joining us from Richmond, Virginia, USA - showing her work using leaves to create amazing images and embroidering on them.
Wendover Horticultural Society
Wendover Horticultural Society will hold its meeting on Thursday 6 January 2022 in St Anne’s Hall at 2.30. There will be a short AGM, then the speaker is Phil Townsend of BBOWT speaking mainly about Aston Clinton Ragpits, a place well On Saturday 19 February Emma Wigginton will worth a visit and so near to Wendover. A couple of quotes from our members: be showing us her amazing pictures and textiles Neville Morton "Coming to the club has expanded my horizons made using fabric and thread. and introduced me to lots of wines I would never have tried before – and not all of them expensive! For more information on our group, how to join BBOWT in January I have learned never to have preconceived ideas as a Member or Friend and the programme This is a great time for visiting all local reserves, about any wine producing country and that price of activities for 2022 please email us at for example tree spotting at Dancersend, birding at College Lake and Weston Turville Reservoir, is not always an indication of a good wine. It’s all aylesburyvalestitchers@gmail.com. Chris Oakley - Chair - Aylesbury Vale Stitchers or simply a fast walk round the Lakes without down to your own personal taste – there is no spending time on the Tufted Duck, Pochard, such thing as a right choice." Wendover Cricket Club Wigeon and Teal that have flown in from the "I have always enjoyed drinking wine but had Wendover Cricket Club has planned a full Arctic asking to be admired. When you get back to become a little stuck in my ways and would programme of indoor training for all ages, with the café at College Lake you can take a bowl of hot typically always drink my go-to favourites. the junior age groups starting in early January on soup out into the hide and see them in comfort or Wine Club has been fantastic in expanding my Saturdays. The Girls Section will be training on keep warm inside with some retail therapy in the
Wendover Swimming Pool resumed public sessions in April and is also running Family Splash sessions again. Please book online before you come to the Pool, as numbers are limited. Please check our Facebook page for information and updates before you come. The Wendover Swimming Pool is easy to get to - it’s in the middle of the schools campus on Wharf Road. Our social media team posts variations to normal opening hours on our Facebook page. Want to volunteer? Email trustees@wendoverswimming.org.
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