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LIVE music is now regularly being organised for Thursday nights at the Social North Street in Thame.
Tonight, November 23, the line up is Van Diemens, Hotel Bad Boys and Shed Sound.

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Fri 24th Charity Stall. Haddenham Third World Link (HTWL) will be selling home-made cakes, biscuits and preserves, as well as Christmas cards and gifts and copies of their quiz sheet, at Age Concern’s Friday Coffee Stop this week in the Mabel Parkinson Room at Haddenham Village Hall (10am-12noon). Enjoy an excellent cup of coffee or tea and biscuit, good company and a chance to support Haddenham Age Concern and HTWL’s third world projects.

Fri 24th Christmas Fayre. St Mary’s School’s PTA will be having its annual Christmas evening (8-10pm) at the school in Aston Road, Haddenham. There will be more than 20 stalls, including local artists and crafts people, Fairtrade chocolate and Christmas gifts, charity Christmas gifts, jewellery etc. Live music will be provided by a local jazz band and a folk duo and there will be flower arranging demonstrations etc. Tickets at the door are

THIS question will be the subject of a debate to be organised by the Lord Williams’s School Debating Society, on December 4, at 7pm.
The debate is outside of normal school hours which it is hoped will encourage as wide a cross section of local people as possible.

The title of the debate will be: “This House Believes that there is no such thing as a selfless act.”

The discussion promises to be lively, helped along by free wine and mince pies!

SATURDAY, November 25th. Haddenham’s Witchert Chorale is on tour to Long Crendon (St Mary the Virgin Church) for a concert of carols, spirituals, and songs for Advent starting at 7.30pm.
The group is conducted by villager, David Quinn and the concert also features Doug Kennedy (guitar) and Ed Cairns (poems); the latter is known for his roles in Haddenham Players’ and Thame Players’ productions as well as in the Long Crendon mystery plays.

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THE Spread Eagle, Thame, is launching its new Tapas Menu with a special event during Thame’s Christmas weekend.
The proprietor and staff are inviting people to join them for Tapas and Spanish Wine on Friday evening, December 1, at Fothergill’s Brasserie.
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The Holistic Health and Clairvoyant Gathering is not a profit event.
Admission and fund raising money for purpose of Lord Williams School Fund Appeal.

WHEN? Sat 18th & Sun 19th November, AT 10am ? 6pm
WHERE? Masonic Lodge, 14 HIGH STREET, THAME

Complimentary Therapies
Taster sessions in Reiki, Angelic Hosting, Indian Head & Therapeutic Massages, plus others
Clairvoyant Gathering
Experienced clairvoyants, spiritualist mediums, tarot readers, psychic artist plus others ?

und raising and retail stalls
Including Aloe Vera and Bioflow, also many unique gift ideas?

Cafe refreshments

Call: 07922 231 079 for info or to book a stall
Email: odysseyofspirit@hotmail.com

THAME Choral Society will be performing Handel?s Messiah in St Mary?s Church, Thame, this coming Saturday, November 18, at 7.45pm.
The choir will be accompanied by The Thame Sinfonia.

The Messiah was written in 1741 and is Handel?s most popular work, with its famous Hallelujah chorus. Thame Choral Society have been rehearsing it since September and it should be an extremely enjoyable evening.

Tickets are available from Mi Casa, Upper High Street, Thame, and on the door on the night.

For further information please contact Claire Forrest on 07790 006748 or email cforrest@chilternsaonb.org

BRILL Oldies Radio 87.9 Mhz (Community Radio Station) returns for another Broadcast in December, playing all the vinyl classics from the 50s, 60s and 70s.
The dates are December 26 (Boxing Day) through to January 1, 2007.
Website address: Link

LOCAL yachtsman, Adrian Flanagan, will describe sailing with the ?Everest? of the seas during his record breaking attempt to sail single handed, non stop around the world, via the South and North polar regions.
Date: Thursday, November 30.
Time: 7.00pm ? Reception
7.30pm – Talk by Adrian Flanagan including slide show followed by questions

Places for this special event are strictly limited so early booking is advised.

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ON stage in concert at the Players Theatre in Thame at on Sunday, November 12, is Bernard Wrigley (“The Bolton Bullfrog”).
He is no stranger to the area, having visited the Thame/Long Crendon area many times in the past.

Bernard is known as an actor as well as a singer and storyteller. Some will remember him from Emmerdale a few years ago, when he played Barry Clegg ? the hapless rocket builder whose wife Lisa left him for Zak Dingle.
Over the years he has played no less than seven different characters in Coronation Street. He was also in three episodes of Dinner Ladies, where he complained about the food, danced and sang, and played the concertina. Recently he played the part of Dodgy Eric in Phoenix Nights, where he sold a mechanical bucking bronco to the club (with disastrous results) and in the second series insisted that Brian Potter hire a bouncy castle with a fifteen feet phallic extension – “Sammy The Snake”.

Recently, BBC Radio 2 listeners could hear Bernard guesting on the Mark Radcliffe show four times. Just released is his new book, “Shorts For All Occasions”, being a collection of daft, one verse poems.

On the 12th at the Players Theatre, he’ll be performing his unique blend of songs, stories, monologues and guitar playing, culled from almost 40 years of singing in the folk music world.

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