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See What’s New – March

IMG_2894Whaoooooooo #‎Spring  has sprung!!!

The daffs and tulips are budding up nicely, and although it’s still very cold the sun is bursting through so it feels promising. I absolutely love this time of year, you notice everything, each new bud and change. Just like our website which is really starting to bloom with over 50 pages, 75 published posts and all included in the calendar. We’ve included useful links, a photo gallery and now have 181 people following the posts by email, blog, twitter and facebook.

When I started the newsfeed (blog) last August I knew we needed something to include all the village activity in between the quarterly printed editions of Horley Views. Little did I know how it was going to take off, especially when I was joined by Di Marriott. Now with Di running our new village website we have one online place for all our latest news, upcoming events and information.

So What’s New for March……

*New Page*  for the  RED LION  also see the current and upcoming events:

  1. The Six Nations England Rugby matches up to 21st March
  2. Saint George’s Beer Festival from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 April, your chance to sample the 9 X Award Winning Real Ales both via Calendar. and on the Red lion page (scroll down)

*New Page* for the CHURCH with separate sub pages for:

  1. Ironstone Benefice – Lent Films- 2015 – Thursday nights from 26th February to 26th March
  2. Ironstone Chamber Music Festival 2015 – Dates are 11th, 12th and possibly 13th September

*New to * HORLEY GROUPS has new two additions Yoga Fusion  and HHH Gardening Club .

Plus the long awaited 2015 production from Horley Footlights with the latest news and dates (1st to 4th July)  A Midsummers Night Dream

The Latest News from Horley Footlights: msndAlthough we are still short of two men (anyone interested?), rehearsals for the summer production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” have started. So far, the fairies have learnt a dance and know what they are going to wear (!) and are now embarking on getting to grips with the music, under the inspired direction of David Kyle. The “Mechanicals” are practising being sillier than usual, and Oberon, Titania and Puck are already showing promise at being quixotic, feisty, and impish. At the time of writing, the Athenian Nobility have had one very productive rehearsal and I have high hopes for them– that is, if we can find the missing male lovers! Tessa Howell

HORLEY CORRESPONDENT  – remember you can see what Lucy sends into the Banbury Guardian each week by looking here on a Monday, plus activities outside the village that you might be interested in.

CALENDAR –  everything we are informed about (or notice) goes in it, remember to scroll down to find more information on the current and upcoming events like : Chipping Norton Literary Festival  April 23rd-26th being promoted by our very own Jenny Smith.

Want to share anything or have any suggestions just email us at horleyviews@outlook.com.

Regards Di and Deb

On Walking: Tuesday 24th February

The wind is cold, strong. It flips up my dress, pulls my hair from its pins, boxes my face. The dogs and I jump the ditch, cross into Dave’s field. The sun gleams in a line along the beaten mud of the footpath. I eschew its slippery promises of speed, take to the margins.

msnd‘So will I live, so grow, so die,’ I say. I push my way through the secret passage, stumbling, as I’m trying to read……..

On Walking: Tuesday 24th February.

Horley Footlights A Midsummer’s Night Dream

Ironstone Benefice – Lent Films

lentJoin us for a series of five films shown over Lent in the Old School, Horley. Starting from this Thursday 26th February through to Thursday 26th March. All five will beginning at 7pm with refreshments before the showings, then after each occasion there be an opportunity to discuss what we’ve seen in the Red Lion! …..more

 The Seventh Seal, The Way,  Heavens Above (Peter Sellers) ,Calvary ,  Of Gods and Men Ironstone Benefice – Lent Films.

On Walking in Half-Term – Just Be…

Elle walkingI am perched on a stile in the sun, feeling its warmth on my black-clad legs, on my forehead, my hair. I close my eyes, tip back my face further, breathe in, breathe out. The children are crashing around in the covert further down; I can hear a blackbird scolding them. My daughters continue their secret mission, calling to each other in the American accents of their private play world.

We’re in the Spring Field. The Sor Brook runs through the bottom of the valley, and Horley stretches cat-like over the hill beyond.

I can smell the resin of the spruces around me; the pureness of the cold air. I straighten my back, stretch out my arms, balance, imagine the sun soothing, heating; enlivening every inch of me. I don’t need to think, speak, react.  Just be. Right here, right now. Blissful.

Want more On Walking in Half-Term: Tuesday 17th February from our resident author  mrscarlielee from her diary of a country house wife

Children’s Cinema – Saturday 21st

The Boxtrolls (2014)  – 9.45 for a 10.00 start – Saturday 21st February

 The film has a PG rating

The Horley Striders | Walk On 10 miles!

Sunday 15th February Hurrah, hurrah! Our first proper walk of the year!

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We started from Horley at 1:00pm, and went over the old railway to Drayton, through the defunct golf course, and then through the cutting down the middle…. The Horley Striders | Walk On.

The Red Lion, Horley – Real Ale Finalist North Oxon

cambraOur very own Red Lion has been shortlisted again for the North Oxfordshire branch of the Campaign for Real Ale  CAMRA Pub of the Year 2015. Throughout February local branch members of the Campaign for Real Ale will be visiting and ranking the finalists.

Good Luck Dave and Natasha  The Red Lion

 

Hanwell Castle – Stars & Snowdrops – Sunday 15th Feb

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Enjoy a woodland walk amongst our ancient castle grounds, talk to the astronomers and have an opportunity to look through astronomical telescopes, and then enjoy tea and cake by a roaring log fire. Find out more…

Saturday 14 February 2015 from noon – 5.00 pm
Sunday 15 February 2015 from 10:30 am – 5.00 pm

Adults: £2.50, Under 18s: £1.00, Under 5s: free Teas: £2.00
Stout footwear is essential and, we regret, no dogs allowed except guide dogs.

Superfast Broadband is Nearly Here!

Fiber optic tipsThe latest from BTopenreach is that our exchange Wroxton St Mary is now enabled for Superfast Fibre!

The Horley cabinet is not ready yet so you can’t place an order with your ISP yet. It is planned for upgrade and updates will be made weekly, you can check progress by entering your postal code here on http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/

See our Notice Board for more on “High-speed broadband arrives in Horley” and to check out a list of ISPs on the Better Broadband for Oxfordshire website: http://www.betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org.uk/home