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Spend an evening with the amazing voice of Lou Fowkes singing classics from the likes of Billie Holiday, Etta James, Adele, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Beth Hart and Amy Winehouse......plus a few surprises!
Hello Readers,
Welcome to the November issue of Look Local Magazine.
Tickets £15 from Thame Town Hall, tel: 01844 212833,
or online thameplayers.co.uk Can you believe we are inatthe penultimate month of the year! I don’t know about you but I feel like I blinked and Exclusive Competition it’s almost the end of 2022. I don’t think I’ll be alone in For ahas chance complimentary tickets saying that this year beentoawin tough one for lots of usfor a family of four to a Thame Players’ production answer the following question: with the rising costs of living as well as the *war in Ukraine travels from England to Monte Carlo? and the Queen’s Who passing. The nations Mental Health has sure taken a battering is whywith it’s so important, Email which your answer your name andnow contact details to more than ever, info@look-localmagazine.co.uk to support all the small localbycharities, 31st August businesses and each other. *There are five Thame Players’ productions a year. See website for details.
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Although its been a challenging year for many, it has been wonderful to experience a full year without restrictions in place and being able to enjoy local events and attractions in their full glory. There’s lots of local Fireworks Displays to awe at across our region during the first week of the month and towards the end of November all the Christmas festivities are back which I can not WAIT for.
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CONTENTS 07. Home & Garden Loft Ladders you can trust from Home County Loft Ladders. 08. INTERIORS Coulon Stone’s Guide to Buying a Wood Burner. 12. health & wellbeing The benefits of Baby Sensory with Yasmin 15. Sound of music This months music scene with Simon Markland 15. Competition WIN Thame Players Theatre tickets. 16/17. News & Events Whats On in our local area. 20. home & Garden Mimosa Garden Design’s ‘Plant of the Month’.
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Guide: Buying a Wood Burning Stove... By Coulon Stone Wood burning or multi fuel stoves are a popular way of warming homes. They are efficient, and when complimented by a natural stone fire surround and hearth, they create a completely cosy look. They come in a variety of sizes, shapes, colours, designs and heat outputs which can make it difficult to decide which is the best stove for your home. Based on 30 years of experience working alongside stove and fuel installers, as well as guiding customers on appropriate hearths and surrounds, we’ve come up with some of the things you should consider when choosing a stove. First you’ll need to decide which fuel you want to use. Wood burning stoves are of course the most traditional and in many ways the most simplistic with just one or two vents controlling the fire. You’ll need to consider your access to wood and whether you have room to store it. As the name suggests, multi-fuel stoves can burn a variety of solid fuels – wood, coal, pellets and peat. Wood requires an air supply from above to burn efficiently, whereas coals needs a source of air from below, so multi-fuel stoves have extra vents to allow for this. Some people find that multi-fuel stoves create more mess than their wood-burning counterparts. To get the most out of your fireplace, it’s important to get the right size for your space. If it’s too big, it will dominate the room and it could be too hot, but if it’s too small, it will be overloaded and could jeopardise the lifetime of the fireplace. When you go to a showroom or contact your local stove installer, go armed with information – the size and use of the room, the insulation in your home, how many windows are there, potential stove placement and the ceiling height. All good stove and flue systems installers will visit your home before any work is done to work out what needs to be done to the chimney, whether you need an exterior fireproof wall, and whether any work needs to be carried out on the stove inset. Installation of a stove and flue system should be carried out by a HETAS registered engineer. Installation can take as little as two hours, or multiple visits depending on the complexity of the job. In most cases you’ll need a fire retardant material for the stove to sit on. Hard, natural stones like granite, slate and limestone are a popular choice as they are extremely durable, easy to look after and come in a variety of gorgeous colours and textures. The hearth will need to be fitted before the stove so it’s often best to have the stove installer and stone mason communicating with each other to ensure all is completed in the correct order. If you’d like some advice on trusted stove and and flue system installers, speak to your stone mason as they are likely to know the best local ones, and visa versa. Whether you want to go over the top, keep it simple or somewhere in the middle, updating your fireplace will always be a welcome addition to your home – and may even add value.
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Baby Sensory provides ideas for creative play, massage, tummy time, movement, visual development, textures, scents and music in simple practical ways that can be easily repeated at home. We also use a combination of original and traditional songs and rhymes to develop early speech and language skills, and sensory signing activities to help you and your baby communicate from birth.
Why attend one of our award-winning Baby Sensory classes? An educational, interactive and developmental programme, which will help your baby learn and develop important skills. Every class has been carefully designed, planned and researched by Dr Lin Day with you and your baby’s needs in mind. Classes built on your baby’s natural play-rest-play cycle to ensure they are not overstimulated. An ideal place to meet new parents, ask questions, share ideas, experiences and memories together. Highly trained Class Leaders who are all DBS checked. Received the Gold Award accreditation with the Children’s Activities Association (CAA) - peace of mind for parents.
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To mark the 30th Anniversary of Wendlebury Winds there will be a special concert on Saturday 5th November at St Mary’s Church Thame. Featuring music by Mozart, Dvorak, Francais, Aleksander Lalo, Malcolm Arnold and a selection from Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks. You can purchase tickets here: https:// www.renniegrove.org/support/our-events/ events-in-your-community. Tickets are priced at £12 (£10 concessions and under 12’s are free).
Jazz in Thame!
A unique opportunity to experience a fantastic live performance. Celebrated Irish pianist John Donegan spent many years based in the exceptionally musical city of Bristol, where he was a much respected performer and composer on the circuit, before his other career in banking took him overseas. He’s now very much back in England from where he travels to perform in his native Ireland and the rest of Europe and he’s creating fantastic music still as a pianist and as a composer with several acclaimed recordings to his name. His latest offering – A Kite for Kate – is dedicated to his daughter and brings together five (plus John equals six) musicians
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from his career in the jazz world over the last 30 years. This very fine CD contains fabulous swing tunes, bebop, a waltz and some Latin pieces all of which he’ll be playing for us at this very special concert. The line-up for the concert will be: John Donegan (piano), Steve Fishwick (trumpet/flugel), Alex Hitchcock (tenor sax), Jamie O’Donnel (alto sax), Paul Jefferies (bass) and Matt Fisher (drums. Ticket’s are priced at £17 and are available via: www.jazzinthame.co.uk
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This brand new choir takes place at Little Milton Village Hall on Monday evenings (term time only) from 7:30 – 9 pm. The choir welcomes new members from the age of 16 upwards. The ethos is to have a great community feel, learn and sing a selection of popular music and music from the shows with the aim of performing at various events throughout the year. The fee is £8.50 per week/per member (payable on a termly basis) and your first session is free! To find out more please contact Simon Markland via e-mail: simarkland@ hotmail.com.
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COMPETITION WHAT’S ON at the PLAYERS THEATRE in THAME
WHAT’S ON at the PLAYERS THEATRE in THAME Friday 4th to Sunday 6th November at 7.45pm WHAT’S ONat at the PLAYERS THEATRE in THAME Sunday 9 October 7.15pm th
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Tickets from Thame Town HallHall Tickets£18 £7.50 from Thame Town Telephone 01844 212833 or online thameplayers.co.uk Telephone 01844 212833 or online from thameplayers.co.uk Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens from st music21by Stephen Flaherty Friday October at 7.45pm th
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The Boodlums’ cul-de-sac show
journey from England based AWitherspoon’s comedy by Sarah Archer, described in to theMonte press Carlo, as ‘really, really, funny’. Michael Butterworth’s novel "The Man Who Broke Aon show not to be missed Don’t miss the last ever performances by Thame’s the oldest boy Bank at £12 Monte Carlo". Tickets from Thame Town Hall
band. Miss it now and you’ll never see them again! Telephone 01844 212833 or online from thameplayers.co.uk Tickets to £10 from Thame Town Hall, Tickets£8 £14 (concessions £13) from Thame Town Hall tel: 01844 nd 212833, or online at thameplayers.co.uk Telephone or online from thameplayers.co.uk Saturday 22 01844 October212833 at 7.45pm Sunday 25 September at 7.45pm Shadowing Saturday 19th Hank November at 7.45pm th
The New Foxtrot Serenaders return with
Comedy @ the Players The Fabulous 40s Olaf Falafel andThame Bilal Zafar Tickets £15 from Town are Hallthe comedians in this
Justin Daish performs an authentic tribute to Hank Marvin, playing all the greatest hits from the Shadows The show is a celebration of the swing era featuring the music
Telephone 01844 212833 online fromofthameplayers.co.uk regular comedy gig at the or Players Theatre. Both return from of the greatest swing bands and crooners the 1940s. Featuring the music of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, successful with their latest sets. th past visits Friday 28 October at 7.45pm Duke Ellington, BingThame Crosby,Town FrankHall Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Tickets £13 from Doing Shakespeare Telephone 01844 212833 orHall, online thameplayers.co.uk from Thame Town tel:from 01844 212833, ATickets funny £15 show performing Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him or online at thameplayers.co.uk nd th Friday 2 Sunday 10 December before. The to show is a must. th Friday 30 September at 7.45pm Thame Players present Tickets £13 from Thame Town Hall Giles Shenton Productions present
Jack and the Beanstalk
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Saturday 29th October 7.45pm for all the family. Songs, A traditional pantoatsuitable
slapstick, corny jokes and great fun for everyone from Celine Dion Spend an evening with the amazing voice of Lou Fowkes
five Martin to ninety-five. Thame Players panto always sells out Julia performs of Billie superstar, Celine Dion, featuring singing classics from the the songs likes of Holiday, Etta James, so be sure to and book early. ‘the Vegas Years Beyond’ Adele, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Beth Hart and Amy
Tickets£16 £10from (concessions £9) from Tickets Thame Town Hall Thame Town Hall Winehouse......plus a few surprises! Telephone01844 01844212833 212833ororonline online from thameplayers.co.uk Telephone from thameplayers.co.uk Tickets £15 from Thame Town Hall, tel: 01844 212833, or online at thameplayers.co.uk
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Christmas in Thame....
Friday 2nd December | 5:30pm | Thame Town Hall The festive period is kicked off in style at the Christmas Light Switch On outside Thame Town Hall on Friday 2nd December. The lead up starts from 5.30pm, will the actual switch on at 6pm. Come along and soak up the atmosphere. There are several food stalls selling a variety of options, mulled wine, a couple of stilt walkers, the local concert band keeping the crowd entertained with seasonal tunes, and a stage for the all-important switch on (and Santa will be there too!). On Saturday 3rd Santa is back in his Grotto at Thame Town Hall, with a Gift Fair upstairs in the Upper Chamber from 10am. Here you will find local stalls of arts, crafts and much more.
Winter Emergency Appeal 2022 ... In 2022, Lindengate Mental Health Charity has already supported over 1500 people, through visits to their gardens, volunteering and participation in their programmes. They want to be able to continue to support people, but, in this economic climate, need additional funding just to be able to maintain current levels of service. 1 in 4 people experience mental ill health, which could be one of your loved ones. Together, we can help change lives. Please support the appeal now. Lindengate are recognised as a flagship charity in Bucks, but this does not protect them from the enormous pressure that is being put on all charities. They need £2,500 per day to support the 2000 adults and young people who will benefit from being at Lindengate each year. Despite diversifying thier income streams and working tirelessly, Lindengate needs an additional £80,000.
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MOST ARE YOU READY FOR THE R? WONDERFUL TIME OF YEA • Ice Rink • Santa’s Grotto • Animatronic Polar Bear
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Stars of this year’s Aylesbury Waterside Theatre Pantomime, Aladdin & Princess Jasmine, will switch on our Christmas Lights!
The need within the community is greater than ever and, with the cost of living crisis continuing to rise, Lindengate can be a lifeline to so many.
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Look locally over the garden gate with Lucie Giselle Ponsford
‘Tis the season, well mid way through Michaelmas season which is September - December and this month’s plant in focus is the Michaelmas daisy. The star of our late season perennials, its blooms of pink, purple, white and blue are perfectly paired with autumnal leaf colours, of oranges, reds, yellows and browns. Asters are named after astéri the Greek word for star due to the astral-like composite (daisy) flowers that float on strong stems in otherwise quiet and browning borders. I love these plants, they are great for pollinators getting in the last of the nectar stores and of course extend the interest in the garden way beyond late summer. In fact, they are triggered into flowering precisely by the reduced sunlight of autumn days, an adaptation no doubt to take advantage of the reduced competition as other flowering plants become dormant. They will hold after a frost too unlike the Mexican Sunflowers (Dahlia) who, from hotter climes will rupture with the destructive force of liquid to solid in their turgid water packed stems. I highly recommend a garden centre visit to see the diversity in size, stature and colour and once you have them they are an interesting plant to propagate, easy when you know how! - you can of divide after about 5 years as with most perennials but they will grow decent plants from inch long root cuttings taken in spring, which is a little bit of an extra chore of the season but well worth lifting the perennials and seeing the new, white fleshy growths full of juvenile vigor and ready to plant out by the end of that year. Let their stems and seed heads stand with grasses and other strong stemmed perennials like Verbena bonariensis and Echinacea and they will provide frost-covered beauty through winter too. Truly a heavenly herald to starry nights and cosy jumper days in the garden. For more garden tips and information visit my Facebook page @mimosagardendesign and our community group @ilovemynewgarden.
With love, Lucie
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