UPTON OIL SYNDICATE
The next order is scheduled to be placed on Monday 23rd August (that’s a week later than normal). To be included, I need to have your orders by Saturday 21st August at the latest.
My current contact details are (preferably by e-mail) colin.batchelor@eggconnect.net or by telephone 01235 851362 (after 7.00pm).
Colin Batchelor
Congratulations to the following young parishioners who have recently been awarded University degrees.
Matthew Smith B.Sc. Sports Management, Ben Shaw B.A. Hons Politics, Alex Davies B.A. Hons History, Ross Telling B.Sc. Mathematics, David Yates B.A. Hons History, Charlotte De Wilde B.A Communications and Media.
We wish them all good fortune in their chosen careers.
Just 10 tickets left for the very popular Pimms Pate and Pudding Event on Sunday 15th August 2010 at 12.30pm at, or hopefully outside, the Upton Village Hall.
If you would like a ticket and have not already purchased please call now to avoid disappointment on the day.
Advance tickets - £10.00 - Adult, £5.00 - 5-15s and Under 5s free
We can only cater for a maximum of 70.
Celia Davies 850684 or Maggie Maytham 850126
Theatre Group
We now have just 2 seats remaining for the trip to "Hairspray" at the New Theatre, Oxford on 12.October. Are you interested?
We are beginning to think about next year, so if you have requests or information do let me know.
Malcolm Wright 850705
Charmian and Derek Whitmell would like to thank the many people in Upton (and further afield) who have helped out in various ways over the recent weeks since our mishaps. We are now recovering and hope to be fully operational before long. We have been really touched by the generosity and kindness of the village community and our dogs have met lots of new, exciting walk-mates.
Jo and I would like to say thank you for the kind wishes and support that the people of Upton have shown towards us since our taking over the George and Dragon. We have made some changes and plan to make a few more along the way. One of the changes that we have made is to the fence in the pub garden. I am sure you will all agree that this was well overdue. A new wooden fence with a secure gate was installed last week to divide the Garden area from the Aunt Sally area, as well as to prevent small children from running around in the car park.
Another change you would have noticed is that the pool table has been re located to the patio area outside. The old pool room has been re fitted to allocate more dining tables in order to use as an overflow as and when required. This room will also be available for small private parties.
The 27th July is Jo’s birthday, we will be have a birthday party for her at the pub, a full Pilipino buffet will be provided, so feel free to come along and celebrate with us.
On the 30th of August (Bank Holiday Monday) Pig Roast all day as well as our full menu will be available there will also be live music from 4 pm
Wednesday Mid-week Roast
Roast Dinner and a Dessert £10.00 - Bookings Available
See you at the Pub
Kenny and Jo
The big day for the change over to the new multi-bin refuse collection in this village is October 5th.
From that day onwards you will have your rubbish and re-cycling waste collected on the same day of the week but on alternate weeks. Food waste in your separate bin/caddy will be collected every week. If you sign up for the optional garden waste collection, that will be collected at the same time as the re-cycling waste.
In this village our collecting day will be every Tuesday although the day will change for one or two weeks immediately after a bank holiday.
Your new bins will be delivered to your residence between the 9th and the 23rd August but the bins must not be used until after your last normal September collection and must not be put out for collection before Tuesday October 5th.
When your bins are delivered you will find an information pack including a collection calendar inside your kitchen caddy. If your bins have not been delivered to you by 23rd August please go on the District Council website at www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk to look up the telephone number that you need to contact or give me a call and I will sort out the number for you.
If at any time you are unsure about a collection date please go onto your village website and look on the calendar of what is happening in the village. Collection dates are one of the items kept up-to-date on the calendar.
Mike Brown 850135
Advance tickets - £10.00 Adult, £5.00 5-15s and Under 5s free
On the Day - Adult £12.00, Child £6.00
On sale from 1st July from
Celia Davies 850684, Maggie Mayham 850126
Clare Lightfoot 850486, Jessie West 851206
Book your table now, ticket includes the first glass of Pimms, soft drinks also available.
All proceeds to UVHAT
Please be aware that work will start on extending and re-surfacing the car park on Monday July 12th. The car park will be closed to all vehicles for the whole of the week starting on the 12th but the pedestrian access to the hall, the play area and to the Recreation Ground will remain open; all persons using that access should proceed with caution.
It is requested that all children visiting the play area during that week are at all times accompanied by an adult as there will be large equipment operating and at times will be using hot material.
Alternative arrangements are being made for the Blewbury School Bus to pick up from a safe location.
ANTONY and CLEOPATRA
The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford, 21 June 2010
Perhaps it was just as well we went on the longest day because the performance ran for three hours and twenty minutes, even with a few cuts. But tedious it wasn’t for a moment!
The last time I saw the play at Stratford, Antony was drunk - literally - and Cleopatra spent her time in what looked like a shapeless dressing gown. So I was worried that the group were going to be subjected again to a director’s weird ideas or an actor’s incapacity. Wrong on both counts. Granted there was modern dress, but the business suits and Air Force uniforms of the Romans acceptably contrasted with the colourful, often outrageous, fashions and khaki camouflage battledress of the Egyptians. The set was simple so that the action was almost breathlessly continuous, and often excitingly choreographed.
While the ensemble’s portrayal of the characters was always good and sometimes brilliant. Kathryn Hunter’s Cleopatra was tiny, wrinkled, skeletal, and she limped, but the passion and charisma and temper and theatricality were all there, and she rose effortlessly to the tragic regality of her end. Darrell D’Silva’s Antony was also well past his prime, but it was easy to see how he engendered such loyalty, how he had once been a consummate general, and he matched the fire and fury of his great love. Octavius is always a clear contrast to Antony but John Mackay gave him a new dimension. He was an eminently calculating politician who became more and more objectionable as his power grew, though he was allowed displays of anger and a deep affection for his sister.
It was a pity that some jobsworth official would not allow us to board the minibus near the Stage Door and kept the group waiting while the driver toured Stratford’s one-way system to get the bus back outside the theatre after practically all the audience had departed Still, all the other memories are exciting and colourful and entirely pleasurable.
Malcolm Wright
June 2010
