WHAT’S ON IN SHROPSHIRE
Oswestry ‘Festival of the Word’ Events Listing l 8th March, 7:30pM Oswestry Cricket Club, Tickets: £6 BULLETS & DAFFODILS Musical tribute to Wilfred Owen with Chloe Torpey and full supporting cast. Book on 01691 662244 or mail@ Walk on by... bookabookshop.co.uk. spring is the perfect time for a stroll with your loved ones so why not leave the car at l 4th – 9th March, 7:30pM Attfield Theatre, Tickets: £6 home and venture out. Nobody welcomes the hour lost in the morning when the clocks DEATHTRAP A wonderful performance in store go forward at the end of March, but the upside is that we get an extra hour of daylight with this fine production of the famous play by in which to explore our natural surroundings in the evenings. Ira Levin. Book on 01691 680222. ready, Steady, SloW! 10th March, 3pM Hold a snail race! On a flat surface, draw a large circle then mark the centre with a The Marches, Tickets: £10/£5 MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF smaller one. This smaller circle will be your starting line. Gently collect your competitors WARHORSE. Book on 01691 662244 or mail@ from your garden, and place them in the inner circle – the winning snail will be the first bookabookshop.co.uk. to reach the edge of the outer circle. snails like damp conditions so keep the course 11th March, 7pM watered and remember to put them back where you found them when the fun is over. Booka Bookshop, Tickets: £5 Full oF beanS THE BOOKSHOP BAND IN CONCERT, as seen at the Hay Festival, live in Oswestry. You don’t need to be particularly green-fingered when it comes to runner beans 12th March, 7:30pM as they are one of the easiest vegetables to grow and take up very little space. With The Ironworks, Tickets: Free just a little love and attention, they can reach heights of two metres and by the time POETS’ HOWL Local poets’ open mic night. summer comes round the plants will be sporting beautiful flowers as well. For the best Email info@oswestrylitfest.co.uk to perform. results, sow seeds about two inches deep and nine inches apart in beds, borders or 13th March, 2pM, large containers of potting compost. Provide wigwams of canes for support –they can THE WALLs, Tickets: £25 HOW TO GET PUBLISHED & CREATIVE WRITING double up as an ornamental feature. Workshop with Alison Baverstock. Get hot and croSS 13th March, 7pM Treat your loved ones to a batch of traditional Easter hot cross Oswestry Library, Tickets: £4 buns! see our tasty recipe on page 77. STORY OF BEATRICE CADBURY with Jelly JeWellery! Fiona Joseph. Book on 01691 677388 or oswestry.library@shropshire.gov.uk. Here is a great alternative to those calorie-laden Easter 14th March, 7:30pm eggs! simply pierce your favourite-coloured jellybeans with On the first day of Spring Oswestry Library, Tickets: £4 a needle and thread them on to a piece of string to make (or vernal equinox, VOICES FROM THE TOUCHLINE bright, tasty, inexpensive gifts for the youngsters in your life! Football correspondents Ian Herbert meaning ‘spring’ and and James Bond with beer by ‘equal night’) there are stonehouse Brewery. 12 hours of daylight and 16th March, 2:30pM The Marches, Tickets: £8/£4 12 hours of darkness THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Fantastic musical production for children. Book on 01691 662244 or mail@bookabookshop.co.uk. Haunted LudLow the 18th century nurseryman with 17th March, 2pM CastLe shropshire the sweet Pea festival, which hosts a Oswestry Library, Tickets: £2 is famous for its ghosts variety of popular events and competitions. YIKES! THERE’S A DALEK IN THE LIBRARY! Come and one in particular; face-to-face with a real Dalek – if you dare! Marion de la Bruyere LoCaL CeLeBRity Prolific author edith Pargeter Book at Oswestry Library. haunts Ludlow Castle was born in the shropshire village of Horsehay in 1913. 18th March, 7pM almost 900 years after she created many literary characters, perhaps the most Booka Bookshop, Tickets: pay what you wish her death. Late one memorable being Brother Cadfael, the Benedictine WILFRED OWEN: LIFE & LETTERS with Oswestry evening, Marion agreed Monk with a talent for solving mysterious crimes. Parspeakers Club and salt solutions. Book on to meet her suitor (an geter wrote 21 detective novels starring Cadfael, many 01691 662244. enemy of the castle’s lord) and lowered a rope from of which were filmed for television in the 1990s. though 19th March, 7:30pM the high tower for him to climb. Her double-crossing she had used several different names as a writer, it was Holy Trinity, Tickets: £16 lover left the rope dangling which allowed his soldiers not until 1959 that she first used the more recognisable ENDELLION STRING QUARTET with ANDREW to gain access to the castle. Realising his betrayal, pseudonym of ellis Peters. the much-loved writer died MOTION. Call Oswestry school on 01691 she cut his throat with his own sword and then threw in shrewsbury in 1995 following a stroke. 681135 to book. herself from the tower onto the rocks below. 22nd March, 7pM stone Me! shropshire’s geology is extremely The Walls, Tickets: £15 Pea, PeRfeCt Pea! Besides having one of the diverse with over 300 geologically important sites IN CONVERSATION WITH KATE ATKINSON shortest names in Britain, the shropshire town containing a great variety of rocks and fossils Kate Atkinson speaks about her new book, of wem is responsible for giving the world the dating back over 660 million years. areas like Life After Life. Ticket includes a copy of the beautiful sweet pea. Horticulturist Henry eckford Ludlow and wenlock edge have even given their hardback. Book on 01691 662244 or mail@ crossbred and developed the plants until he came up names to geological periods, and one of the world’s bookabookshop.co.uk. with the highly scented flowers common today. evoldest known complete fossils was discovered in ery July the town of wem commemorates the life of shropshire at Caradoc.
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