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Barn Festival and Stonevale Concerts - St Giles Church, 23 September at 3 PM

15/8/2023

Dear friends,

Sebastian Muller and I are happy to announce that we will once again be part of the Great Barn Festival in Great Coxwell. As some of you know, we played in the barn for the past two years, and it was an amazing setting. However, we were quite limited in our choice of repertoire, because the space is very big and the acoustics are quite dry so we could not really indulge in the Romantic repertoire. We decided to change our venue this year to St Giles' Church, and it will still be part of the Great Barn Festival. Now we can at last play the Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano, the ideal piece for this acoustics. Some of you might know this work, one of the most beautiful sonatas written for violin and piano. The second half of the programme will included some selected works by Kreisler.

Tickets are now on sale and for any enquiries, please email Ainslie Williams at [email protected]

Full details here.

Hope to see you there,
Lynette

Great Barn Festival

13/8/2023

Great Barn Festival 22-24th September will once again fill the village with music, theatre, art and fun for all the family.

Our Saturday Audience with Mark Chadwick is all but sold out so don’t delay. Stonevale Concerts will once again be part of the attraction, this year in the slightly less draughty St Giles’ Church but ticket holders are welcome to spend the day in the grounds at the barn before taking their seats in the church for what promises to be another beautiful performance.

Boogie Me will be raising the rafters on Sunday evening for a family barn dance with a difference and we will round off with some national circuit comedians from The Cackling Bat Comedy Club – there was never a more apt venue.

Join us to kick things off on Friday Evening with Robin Hood, a musical romp through one of our favourite tales full of big laughs for all ages from the director and producer of The Show That Goes Wrong. It is a wonderful night out and the bar will be open.

Tickets are online or avoid the booking fees and drop me a note at Danes Cottage 07774459046, [email protected] and I will extend a villagers discount to some of the performances and grounds passes without a fee.

Ainslie

Village barbecue at the Vicarage this Saturday (22nd) at 5pm

20/7/2023

A reminder that the barbecue is being held at the Vicarage on Saturday. Do come and enjoy burgers and hot dogs. There will be salads to go with them and lovely mouth-watering puds to follow. Wine and soft drinks will also be available. We hope to see many of you there and that the weather will be kind to us. No tickets needed but donations to the church on the day will be welcome.

Help needed! If anyone is available on Friday at 4pm or Saturday morning at 10am and would be willing to spend an hour to help put up the gazebo/tent and move tables and chairs, please let Pat ([email protected] or 241632 or Sylvia ([email protected] or 241179) know.

Picnic and Donkey Walk

17/7/2023

We are having a picnic and Donkey Walk at Pennyhooks Farm on Sunday July 23rd starting at 11.30.

Any donations raised will go to help with the refencing of the donkey paddock for the 3 donkeys at Pennyhooks,

For full details click here.

Village Barbecue

10/7/2023

The village barbecue is again going to be held in the Vicarage garden on Saturday, 22nd July from 5-8 pm. Look out for the posters around the village. We hope as many as possible will be able to join us. If you are new to the village, do come along and meet everyone.

Please let Pat (241632 or [email protected]) or Sylvia (241179 or [email protected]) know if you intend to come so that we can make sure we have plenty of everything! There will be cover but we hope the weather will be kind to us again, so that we can enjoy the garden.

Funerals of David and Gillian Quartermaine

29/6/2023

David’s funeral will take place at St Giles church on Friday, 14th July at 2 pm. Gilly’s will be the following day, Saturday, 15th, at 11.30 am.

To help with seating arrangements it would be helpful if anyone intending to attend either or both services could let Pat (241632 or [email protected]) know in advance.

Bar’s funeral on Wednesday 21st June

19/6/2023

Just to make sure that everyone is aware of the link to the livestream of Bar’s funeral at 10.30 am on Wednesday, at St Katherines, Exbury. It is being streamed to the Reading Room, but you can watch it at home using the following link:

https://www.funeralstreamingservice.co.uk/barabara-gilmour
Password: Wednesday

Revd Maureen has been asked to take the service. It is planned that there will be a memorial service here to remember Bar in September.

Wicklesham Quarry SSSI

11/6/2023

This update on the data centre proposal for Wicklesham Quarry SSSI and local opposition may be of interest to people of great Coxwell. (The previous update can be found on the petiton main page with more information.) https://www.change.org/p/the-vale-of-white-horse-district-council-and-secretary-of-state-michael-gove-protect-wicklesham-quarry-from-development/u/31655273

Anna Hoare

SOS

10/6/2023

Please is there anyone who can help in setting up a mobile data signal in the Reading Room on Wednesday 21st of June to live screen Bar's funeral.

Please contact Richard on 07786494568

Thank you

To the community of Great Coxwell

9/6/2023

Some of you may have already heard..

Bar moved to Great Coxwell more than 20 years ago. She fell in love with it instantly.

Over the years she became more and more involved with village life, the church and the community - even more so in the past decade. As a family we would like to thank you all for the incredible love, support and friendship you have extended to her over the years. She loved so many of you. She was often humbled by the care and support she had: i.e. cakes that frequently turned up on the doorstep. Since she stopped terrorising everyone in her car and moved to more sedate wheeled transportation, I know that one of the highlights of her day was to get on her scooter and ride up through the village chatting to so many of you as she went.

She will miss you all very much.

Thanks you for love, cakes and enriching her life.

Fondest regards
The Gilmour family

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