Midsummer Fete Saturday June 24 from 1pm until 5pm.
Plant Stall: Suzie Heybrook, with help from Joy, is running the plant stall this year at short notice and is in urgent need of donations of plants. Maybe you have some vegetable plants surplus to your own needs which could be potted up and brought to the stall on Saturday morning or some plants which have self seeded and are large enough to pot up. Whatever you can find will be gratefully received by Suzie Heybrook and Joy. Please contact or take your donations to Joy at 1 Bernard's Close or bring up to The Green on the morning.
The Bell at The Fete
Hopefully the present glorious weather will hold until Saturday and The Bell with its Beerfest and outside bar will be in great demand dispensing liquid refreshment all day and late into the evening.
Sunday June 25 in the Threshing Barn, Manor Farm, Chearsley Thame Choral Society are performing a selection of English Partsongs by Elgar, Sterndale Bennett, Stanford, Sullivan and others with readings to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen. This will take place on Sunday June 25 in Manor Farm’s recently restored Threshing Barn at 4pm. Pedestrian entrance is available from 3.45pm via Church Lane. The cost is £5 per head, children are welcome. Please bring your own seating and refreshments to enjoy in the many intervals.
Sunday June 25 Pet Service at St Nicholas Church at 10am All types of pets, large and small are welcome to this service to celebrate God’s creation and to give thanks for the way that our pets enrich our lives. There will be refreshments, including dog biscuits after the service. If your child would like to read a prayer, please contact Sharon at Sharon@cloverdale.biz.
How they Grow!
Not wishing to embarrass either Marcus Travers or Harrison Siddall, but I would like to mention their recent achievements. I remember them both as babies and growing up in Chearsley, and learn that Marcus has now been offered a job as trainee Geography teacher at his old school, Aylesbury Grammar School, having taken his degree at Bath University and starts work shortly. Harrison has passed his driving test and has been seen driving a very smart red car. Where have the years gone? Congratulations to them both and good luck to Marcus in his new life and to Harrison as his horizons broaden.
Bucks Open Studios
Mark Stallwood’s studio at Orchard House, Lower Green Lane will again be open this coming weekend June 24 and 25 from 10.30 until 4.30pm as part of the Bucks Open Studios. He will be delighted to welcome all visitors. View his work at imagineoils.co.uk
Red Kite Radio
I have been enjoying listening for a few days to Haddenham’s new radio station, Red Kite radio, broadcast from Haddenham Garden Centre, since it was magically and apparently automatically tuned in on our car radio.(Not our Riley car!). It can be found on 107.2fm. Give it a try. They are welcoming businesses who would like to advertise with them and to contributors to The Voice Box from groups or charities with details of forthcoming events. Worth remembering for future events in the village. For more information, visit the radio’s website at www.redkiteradio.com.
Services at St Nicholas:
- Sunday June 25 Pet Service at 10am
- Saturday June 24 Village Fete 1 until 5 onwards on and around The Green. Pig Roast and Live Band at The Bell 7pm until late
- Saturday June 24 and Sunday June 25 10.30am to 4.30pm Mark Stallwood’s work on show as part of Bucks Open Studios at Orchard House, Lower Green Lane.
- Sunday June 25 Thame Choral Society concert at The Threshing Barn, Manor Farm, Chearsley at 4pm
- Friday, Saturday, Sunday, June 30, July 1 and 2nd Flower Festival in St Nicholas church. Plants for sale, tea or coffee and homemade cake available all day.
- Thursday July 6 to September 9 Eric Carte appearing in Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web at The Mill at Sonning
- Saturday July 8 Meadow Song from 6.30pm at the village hall.
- Sunday September 10 Chearsley Classic & Vintage Fun Day from 12 noon at the Cricket Club
