Noreen and Aidan took over running the Kings Head and Bell in December, and will be holding a charity beer festival over St Patrick’s weekend 16th – 19th March. They will be donating 10p for each pint of real ale or cider sold over the four days towards the Air Ambulance.
This picture is from St Patrick’s Day, 2010, in the Kings Head and Bell.
Frank from the Lock has been given a special award by the High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in recognition of exceptional services to the community.
I believe there were only 23 such awards given out after 500+ nominations.
Frank has also been featured in the Oxford Mail. So this post is aimed at people who have not already read that, including friends from abroad. While I was at the lock one of his ex-work colleagues came to visit. He had seen the Oxford Mail article and came to revisit his old friend for the first time in 30 years.
On the Market Place yesterday there was a Market with a difference. A dozen young enterprise teams, each with a company name and business idea were selling their product – a bit like the Apprentice on TV.
Pictures here are Nascent, a young enterprise team from Larkmead School. They had produced and were selling a cook book called ‘Oh Crumbs!’ with some of their staff’s favorite recipes. It included among others: Mr Crowe’s simple sausage and pasta, Miss Dering’s Lentil Dahl, and Mrs’s Box’s Fruit cake. They are seen here with the Mayor Cllr Alice Badcock, who went to Larkmead a few years ago.
A team from Abingdon School had developed a line of mobile phone products
including speakers that amplified the sound of the phone without the need for any wires. They went under the name of Acc.ESS.
Belindas Jewellery Box in West St Helen Street has started the first of a number of craft workshops in the shop
First one is a henna craft course.
For more information see Belindas Jewellery Box on facebook