Grapevine Magazine June 2022

GRAPEVINE MAGAZINE Nº331 - JUNE 2022

LEWKNOR SOUTH WESTON POSTCOMBE

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FROM THE PARISH Just a quick note this edition to say thank you to everyone that came to and helped at the Jubilee party...it was a great afternoon.

The Horticultural Show will be back in its old slot of 11th September this year and the classes for entry are listed on page 6. If you would like your garden judged, please email me at: sarajanesmith@icloud.com and we will let you know nearer the time what time we would hope to get to you.

The judging is on 30th July. BYE!

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WATLINGTON SOLICITORS

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10.30am - 12pm COFFEE MORNING Little Oaks, Lower Road, Postcombe

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12pm - 5pm ADWELL VINTAGE VEHICLE SHOW Adwell

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7.30pm PARISH COUNCIL MEETING Jubilee Hall, Lewknor

Contact your local solicitor for a friendly and efficient service

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9.00am HOLY COMMUNION St. Margarets, Lewknor

Telephone: 01491 614 700 Email: info@watlingtonsolicitors.co.uk Out of hours messages: 01491 614 357

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All afternoon GARDEN JUDGING Lewknor, South Weston/ Postcombe

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WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A PARISH COUNCILLOR? Lewknor Parish Council, which oversees the villages of Postcombe, Lewknor and South Weston is looking for someone to fill the vacancy on the council Below is a job description. For more details, please email the council chair Caroline Hjorth: carolinehjorth.lpc@gmail.com or the Clerk clerk@lewknorparishcouncil.gov.uk or call 07833 126 414 TITLE: COUNCILLOR RESPONSIBLE TO: the Council and its electors.

RESPONSIBLE FOR: effective leadership to foster the interests of the electors in your community/parish ROLE TO: Bring local issues to the attention of the council, help it make effective and legal decisions on behalf of the local community and represent the views of parishioners within and outside the Parish.

SALARY: this is a voluntary position, no salary CRITERIA: You must be 18 or over, on the electoral register and able to regularly attend evening meetings.

Training and support are available.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. To represent effectively the interests of the whole parish by listening to views from the community 2. To improve the quality of life for those that live, work or visit the area 3. To participate in the formation and scrutiny of the Council’s policies, plans, budgets and service delivery 4. To ensure that the Council is properly managed 5. To prepare for, attend and participate in Council meetings, decision making and abide by corporate decisions 6. To undertake appropriate training and development to help fulfil the requirements of the councillor role 7. To keep up to date with significant developments affecting the Council at local, regional and national levels 8. To represent the Council on outside bodies to which the Councillor is appointed and report back activities 9. To maintain proper standards of behaviour and comply with the Council’s Code of Conduct 10. To deal with resident’s enquiries and representations fairly and without prejudice SKILLS NEEDED BY A COUNCILLOR: • Interpreting information • Having ideas, visualising what might happen, using imagination • Understanding budgets and financial paperwork • Encouraging yourself and others • Listening, questioning, evaluating objectively, reviewing, drawing conclusions then making decisions • Dealing with conflict • Seeing the bigger picture • Public speaking

• Persuading and motivating • Prioritising • Working as part of a team • Negotiating • IT skills

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9.00am HOLY COMMUNION St. Margarets, Lewknor

september 2022

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1pm HORTICULTURAL SHOW Jubilee Hall, Lewknor

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7.30pm PARISH COUNCIL MEETING Jubilee Hall, Lewknor

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TBC TEDDY BEAR’S PICNIC God’s Cake, Postcombe

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9.00am HOLY COMMUNION St. Margarets, Lewknor

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POSTCOMBE POSTINGS

BRINGING THE POSTCOMBE COMMUNITY TOGETHER

CELEBRATING THE QUEEN’S PLATINUM JUBILEE

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t was a long weekend full of pageantr y, jubilation, and celebration. It felt as t hough t he nation came toget her to congratulate and celebrate t he incredible milestone of He r Maje st y be ing on t he t hrone for 70 ye ars. A life time of dedicated, loya l and steadfast ser vice to t hose whom she ser ves. Here in Postcombe t he occasion was marked in t wo ways. First ly, Lewknor Parish Council has planted a beautiful Cherr y tree on t he corner of Sa lt Lane. A long-lasting reminder of t he momentous occasion and par t of ‘The Queen’s Green Canopy ’ initiative. The tree has been marked wit h a fabulous plaque as a reminder of exact ly what it means so t hat it may be long remembered in t he future.

As with many other communities up and down the country we also celebrated with a wonderful Tea Party by the ‘God Cake’. The weather was wonderful, and the generosity of our community was incredible. Tables laden with cakes and sandwiches, scones and sausage rolls, tea, coffee and even a cheeky Pimm’s or two for those with not far to walk home.

Bunting was hung around the God cake, music played and people from all around Postcombe and their families shared tea and stories, jokes and anecdotes – it was an enormous pleasure to see so many people coming together, thank you to everyone who came and contributed in any and every way.

The Postcombe party by the ‘God Cake’

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COMPETITION TIME!

ostcombe a nd it s communit y is const a nt ly cha ng ing a nd developing, a nd it is so lovely to welcome new members into our communit y. However, a s w it h life in genera l t he pace of people mov ing a round t he v i l lage appea rs to be get t ing fa ster. We would li ke to put up some posters just to remind a nyone v isit ing or t r y ing to get somewhere on t ime t hat we have a lot of young people who li ke to r ide t heir bi kes a nd play by t heir houses, lot s of people exercising, wa l k ing dogs or r id ing horses.

We wou ld l i ke t he you ng pe ople of Pos tcom be to de sig n some ‘ Slow Dow n’ Pos te r s t hat ca n be put up at s t rate g ic poi nt s a rou nd t he v i l la ge to help rem i nd ever yone to slow dow n jus t a l it t le.

Unveiling the Parish Cherry Tree plaque to celebrate The Queen’s Green Canopy – for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

Entries can be drawn, painted or printed, preferably on a single sheet of A4 paper and can be handed in to either The Old Bakery or Country Comfort on Lower Road. You can start handing in entries now and the competition will close on 16th July. Winners will be announced in the next edition of The Grapevine and the top three winning entries will receive a Book Token.

SAVE THE DATE

SAVE THE DATE

COFFEE MORNING

TEDDY BEAR’S PICNIC

FRIDAY IST JULY - ‘LITTLE OAKS’ - LOWER ROAD 10.30AM – 12.00PM

17TH SEPTEMBER ON THE GOD CAKE

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BOOK CLUB

PIRANESI, THE IMPROBABILITY OF LOVE, I GIVE IT A YEAR AND THE CHILDREN ACT:

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ince the last Grapevine we have read Piranesi by Susanna Mary Clarke (2020, 272 pages), The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild (2015, 512 pages), I Give it a Year by Helen Whitaker (2021,384 pages) and The Children Act by Ian McEwan (2014, 224 pages).

The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild was a very different book. It was a Finalist for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize.

The cover of the edition that we read really let the book down. It was a lurid pink with several empty gilt frames on it. Two of the frames contained silhouettes of a man and a woman. This cover suggested some sort of Clarke’s first novel was Jonathan Strange and light weight romantic rubbish but the cover Mr Norrell which weighed in at 1000 pages was very wrong. and took 10 years to write. Piranesi at 272 pages was a better choice for the Book club Annie, with a failed relationship behind her, but showed a similar amazing imagination. has left the business that she was running It won the Woman’s Prize for Fiction. and moved to London. She meets a new man and is too confident in this new relationship.

The narrator thinks he is called Piranesi. She plans to cook a birthday dinner for him.

He lives alone in some sort of labyrinthine She finds an old painting in a junk shop and house on several levels with the lower buys it as a birthday gift. The new man stands storeys some flooded by the sea and some her up and she is left with the painting. The subject to tidal invasion and the upper painting is very full of itself and narrates its levels containing clouds. There are halls own story throughout the narrative. stretching to all points of the compass, each one containing many statues. To Annie suspects that the painting might reinforce the labyrinth idea two of the be valuable and starts some inquiries statues are Minotaurs. He manages to encouraged by her mother. Her mother, a survive on fish, shellfish and seaweed flamboyant drunk, has descended on her collected in the lower levels. daughter for a ‘short’ visit. Annie’s initial research suggests that the painting might Gradually we learn that another person be by Watteau or one of his contemporaries. visits the house and supplies him with some Rumours that the painting has reappeared necessities and the means to keep a journal. get around and the book is partly about the We follow his thoughts as he works out what scramble to possess it and partly about its the house really is and what his place in it is. past history.

likely young man.

I Give It a Year is a more run of the mill novel.

Iris discovers that her husband, Adam, is having an affair with an old girl friend.

She throws him out and installs her father in the house to help with the children.

Unfortunately her father stars to show the beginnings of Alzheimer’s. Do Iris and Adam get back together?

Some of us enjoyed this book and some found that it didn’t hold the attention.

The Children Act has been made into a film with Emma Thompson playing Fiona Maye.

Fiona is a High Court Judge specialising in Family Law. She is respected by her peers but her involvement in her career has caused her husband to consider having an affair with a younger colleague. He doesn’t want to separate and asks if she is prepared to tolerate the situation. She is furious and tells him that this is the end of their marriage. He leaves the flat.

She is asked to rule on the case of a young Jehovah’s Witness who is refusing a life saving blood transfusion. Her decision and what effect it has on the lives of those involved is the basis of the book.

We were divided between those who had seen the film and those who hadn’t. Emma Though this was not the choice of many of the We were all pleased that the prophecy of the Thompson had been so impressive in the Book club we all found it fascinating. Clarke lurid pink cover was not fulfilled. This book role that her performance influenced the and her narrator describe a believable and is about why art is desired, who manipulates reading of her character in the novel. The fantastical world entirely formed of rooms the markets and what sort of dirty dealing various strands in the narrative gave us a lot and corridors of marble. We were even goes on in the auction houses and galleries. to discuss particularly the problem of the ready to believe that Piranesi could live the Hannah Rothschild is the one to know. She right to deny treatment. cheerless, fish eating life he describes. has been involved in this world and made documentaries about art and artists. This If you are interested in coming along to a Any one who decides to read this book should was her first novel. We all found the insight meeting with no obligation to join contact have a look at the engravings by Piranesi of into this shady world intriguing but the first Luarena Durston on 07791 442209. his fictitious and atmospheric “prisons” Le pages are slow going. It is worth persevering.

Carceri d’Ivenzione.

If you are interested Annie does meet a more Jo Blenkinsop

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EVENT

HORTICULTURAL SHOW AND FÊTE Below are the entry classes for this year’s horticultural show which will be held on 11th September.

We will also be holding the garden judging on 30th July. If you would like to be included in the garden judging, can you please email me at: sarajanesmith@icloud.com

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VEGETABLES 5 potatoes (same variety) 5 runner beans 3 carrots 4 tomatoes 5 cherry tomatoes 4 globe onions 3 courgettes 2 marrows Basket of mixed vegetables Longest runner bean 2 sweetcorn 5 French beans 6 chilli peppers The uglie st ve ge table FRUIT 3 pears 3 dessert apples 3 cooking apples Autumn raspberries Basket of home-grown fruit FLOWERS 8 cut mixed flowers 4 mixed roses 1 specimen rose 3 stems identical roses 5 dahlias 1 specimen dahlia

26. 1 pot plant (flower) 27. 1 pot plant (foliage) FLOWER ARRANGEMENT 28. Basket with Autumn theme 29. Bee friendly flowers DOMESTIC 30. Fruitcake 31. Chocolate cake 32. Victoria sponge 33. Fruit pie 34. Quiche 35. Preserve (marmalade, chutney or jam) (PHOTO) 36. 6 eggs 37. 5 named herbs ART AND CRAFT 38. 1 sewn or knitted item 39. Craft item 40. Painting (Country theme) 41. Nature photograph 42. Portrait photograph JUNIOR 43. Painted pebble 44. 3 decorated cupcakes 45. Handmade mask 46. Flowers in a jam jar 47. Junk model vehicle 48. Photograph (theme ‘ANIMALS’) 49. Painting (theme ‘AUTUMN’)

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RULES All entries must have been grown or made by those who entered them.

Exhibitors must reside in the parish.

Pupils of Lewknor School and Krakatoa who do not live in the village are eligible to enter.

Ex-pupils up to the age of 16 are eligible to enter.

Exhibits are to be brought in between 9am and 11am on the day.

Entry is 50p per exhibit.

Judges decision is final, they may withhold prizes if they see fit.

No responsibility is accepted for items left after the show.

Exhibits NOT FOR SALE must be clearly marked.

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LEWKNOR PARISH FETE AND HORTICULTURAL SHO SH OW 11TH SEPTEMBER 2022 1PM - AUCTION AT 3PM JUBILEE HALL, LEWKNOR free entry proceeds to: Lewknor school, krakatoa pre-school, st. margaret’s church and jubilee hall

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EVENT

JUBILEE STREET PARTY A fabulous time was had by all who attended the Jubilee street party on 3rd June. Special thank you’s to James the BBQ, everyone who helped set up and transport tables from the hall, Singi Dona Weerasekara for the flowers and balloon arch, Donna at Fabric Fields for the beautiful bunting and display and an especially big thank you to Jean Senior for organising the event!

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LEWKNOR PRIMARY

JUBILEE PARTY

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here was much fun at the Lewknor Church of England Primary School’s playground party to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Thank you to all the parents who provided home-baked cakes and biscuits.

A concert was held at the end of the day where the children sang The National Anthem, Jerusalem and the very popular Sweet Caroline. The younger children also sang the lovely Platinum Jubilee song by Sue Bleazard and the children shared their impressive artwork to mark the jubilee with our parents.

Upper and lower juniors enjoy the party lunch.

DIARY DATES

Noah and Isaac with the Queen. Thank you to the Full family for providing the balloon arch and cardboard cut out.

Welcome days for our new Reception children; Wednesday 22nd June, Friday 1st July, Friday 8th July Year 6 Go Ape Trip on Friday 24th June Lower Juniors Music Performance in the classroom on Tuesday 5th July at 2.30pm Upper Juniors summer production Wednesday 13th July at 1.30pm and Thursday 14th July at 6.30pm Sports Day (and barbecue) Friday 15th July, from 1.30pm Colour Run at school on Monday 18th July Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly on Tuesday 19th July, at 9am

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LEWKNOR PARISH COUNCIL PLANNING APPLICATIONS AS OF 28TH MARCH 2022

i) P21/S4555/FUL BEECH GROVE FARM, THAME ROAD, POSTCOMBE The conversion of a barn to a single residential dwelling (use class C3) together with associated infrastructure.

REFUSED ii) P22/S0596/HH 10 HIGH STREET, LEWKNOR Single storey front extension. Single storey and first floor rear extension. New porch at front of property. Re-orientation of bathroom and bedroom 3 DECISION AWAITED iii) P22/S0629/FUL HILL FARM HILL ROAD NEAR LEWKNOR Demolition of existing house and redundant agricultural buildings and construction of new replacement house DECISION AWAITED iv) P22/S1308/HH ANNTARA HOUSE, 8 SHIRBURN ROAD, LEWKNOR Erection of a front porch, extension of / alterations to the roof structure of carport / garage including six dormer windows, conversion of the roof space into a home office / gym and an external staircase.

DECISION AWAITED v) P22/S1403/FUL THE MANOR HOUSE, WESTON ROAD, LEWKNOR Storage shed for garden equipment and vehicle storage DECISION AWAITED vi) P22/S1711/PDH 18 WESTON ROAD, LEWKNOR Single storey rear extension of 4m added to a previous 1970’s extension of 2m (6m in total) DECISION AWAITED vii) P22/S2063/HH LAUNDRY COTTAGE, 3 RECTORY LANE, SOUTH WESTON Single storey front extension & first floor rear extension over existing single storey DECISION AWAITED viii) P22/S2049/FUL PRIMARY SCHOOL AND PLAYGROUP, HIGH STREET, LEWKNOR Add a climbing frame to grassed area next to the playground in front of the school DECISION AWAITED To view the full planning register, go to: www.southoxon.gov.uk/services-and-advice/planning-and-building/find-application/planning-application-register

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