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For all your gorgeous goodies! Lots and lots of lovely stalls including professional photographic studio, children’s craft area, plenty of Winter Pimms and mince pies, hot chocolate and cookies. St Joseph’s School on Saturday 29 November 2008 1pm – 4pm. Free entry. To book a photo slot in advance please phone Clare on 01296 655468 or email clare@lowephoto.co.uk.

2pm at Scout Headquarters Southern Road Thame. Admission 30p.

BETWEEN 5pm-9pm, on November 27, at the Thame Barns Centre, Church Road (Parking also available at Priest End)
A Variety of Different Gift Stalls, Chocolates, Cards, Books, Stocking Fillers, Mulled Wine, Jewellery, Handbags, Colour analysis, Christmas Foods from Thame Country Market formerly known as WI Market and lot?s more??.Free Entrance

THE work of some of the county’s finest contemporary craft designers and makers will be on display and for sale at The Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock this festive season.

The Oxfordshire Craft Guild Christmas Selling Exhibition brings together an array of artistic skills, including furniture, glass, jewellery, pottery, textiles and woodturning.

The event will be launched at the Oxfordshire County Council-run museum at 2pm on Saturday, November 22, by Marion Stevenson, deputy Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire, and will run until Sunday, January 4.

More than 30 artists from the Oxfordshire Craft Guild will display their work at the exhibition, which has been a fixture at the museum for 25 years. There is a 10% discount on purchases during the exhibition’s first weekend.

Tam Frishberg, a potter who is a member of the Oxfordshire Craft Guild, said: “Our members are very skilled and have had years of experience in their specific fields.
“This exhibition is something that is really different and a real opportunity to see and purchase some unique items.”

Oxfordshire County Council Museum curator Cherry Gray added: “The Oxfordshire Craft Guild Exhibition has been running for a quarter of a century and is an excellent chance to see some very unusual pieces of
art.”

The Park Street museum and exhibition opening hours are:

Tuesday to Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 2pm to 5pm
closed Mondays, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day

The museum will stay open until 7pm on Saturday, November 29, for Woodstock’s A Night of a Thousand Candles celebrations.

IN AID of Thame Guides new headquarters, Southern Road, Thame, on Sunday, December 7.
Starts at DAF Trucks 11am; 1.5 miles or 3 miles.
Pre-book on 01844 261269 or 260074 – Santa hats provided.

BEST DRESSED SANTA COMPETITION PRIZE

Entry before December 1 –

THAME PLAYERS’ panto this year will include voice overs by BBC Radio 2’s mid-morning man, Towersey resident, Ken Bruce.
BEAUTY AND THE BEASTIE is written and directed by Robert Duncan, best know for the famous, Not particularly Orange range of greetings cards.

Beauty and the Beastie is set in the highlands of Scotland and when Robert needed a strong, resonant Scottish voice to read two voiceovers in the script, finding the right person was proving a problem. Step forward Radio 2 DJ, Ken Bruce. As Robert himself put it, ?I realised that Ken Bruce was the ideal person to provide the voiceover, so I simply asked him if he would do it, and of course I am delighted he agreed. In fact he has already made the recordings and they are exactly what I was looking for?

Beauty and the Beastie is a traditional family pantomime with lots of colourful costumes, stunning special effects, evil Baron, daft brothers and of course, a pantomime dame. Beauty herself will be played by newcomer to Thame Players, Kimberley Thornton. The music for the panto has been specially written for the show by Molly Paynter whose musical, A New Light, was performed on the Players Theatre stage in 2000.

The show will be performed between 5th and 14th December with evening performances at 7.45pm on weekdays, and matinees at 2pm and 5.30pm on weekends.

Thame Players pantomimes have sold out in recent years and tickets for Beauty and the Beastie are selling well and likely to follow suit. Tickets cost

Saturday, September 15, (Held every 3rd Sat of the month) at Tetsworth Village Hall, Just off the A40
9.30am -12.30pm.
BBq and refreshments available;
Stalls including; Organic Vegetables, Pork, Organic Beef & Lamb, Traditional Poultry, Game, Organic Breads, Cakes and puddings, Honey, Preserves, Quality homemade meal solutions, eggs, cheese and plants.

Thame Town Hall from 10am to 12.30pm. All welcome.

THAME and Wheatley Ramblers Group is holding its AGM at 2pm in Stanton St John Village Hall. It will include an illustrated talk on local BBOWT reserves.

The meeting will be preceded by a 7 mile walk via Beckley and Sydlings Copse starting at 10am from the Village Hall. The hall will be open from 1pm for picnic lunch. All are welcome on either the walk or the AGM or both, but sorry, no dogs allowed. 01865 358905. All welcome.

JOHN Hampden School on Saturday November 15 at 7.30pm. The cost is