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Horley Village information, news and beautiful views. Helping to continually improve communications in our small but perfectly formed community. Hope you enjoy it, let us know what you think and feel free to share.

January – See What’s Up ……….

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You may have noticed the daylight hours are increasing, snow drops are glistening and next week is the last one in January… yay spring is in sight! What you may not have noticed is more pages, posts, and things on the “right side” that have been added to thehorleyviews website, so here is a summary of what is new:

TWO NEW *PAGES* :

Village Calendar showing all the events that you have notified us of. If you would like to include more just email us at horleyviews@outlook.com.  See this weeks two remaining events: Parish Council Meeting – 22nd January and the Burns Supper – 24th January

Horley Village with links to a history of Horley as show in this British history report  and a wiki entry for Horley. Also a link to the map of the  Horley Circular Walk with  information about the village as well as the fields that connect us to Horton. We will be adding a village map and house index, and more photo “views” of Horley. Again if you would like see or share anything you can add comments below or email horleyviews@outlook.com

ONE NEW *Form* under about:

Simply add your comments via Contact Us

ONE NEW *Post* on the Parish Council Notice Board

  • See if you are eligible for free loft and cavity insulation?
  • Also see Broadband in Oxfordshire,  the Electoral Review of Cherwell  and the Winter Awareness campaign.

NEW ON THE “RIGHT SIDE ” under :

Recent Comments showing our 1st comment on the sighting of men in yellow coat with fibre cable on Wroxton Lane just as we posted the notice about  faster broadband coming to Horley.

Views – we added some more photographic “views” of Horley to the galley, if you would like to share any of yours new or old please email them to horleyviews@outlook.com

*Other Links*:

Regards Di and Debra

Burns Supper – 24th January

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tartanmill_large-scottish-lambswool-tartan-scarf_1Why not treat yourself to a….Burns Supper!?

7.30pm Saturday 24th January at The Old School

Tickets £15 from 730039

Singing – quiz & entertainment

Bring your own tipple – wear something tartan (anything!)

 

Parish Council Meeting – 22nd January

The next meeting of the Horley Parish Council  is open to the public and will be held in the Old School at 7.30 pm on Thursday 22nd January.

  1. Apologies
  2. Declaration of Interests
  3. Minutes of the meeting held on 13 November 2014 (attached)
  4. Matters arising
  5. Finance
    • 2014/15 Budget monitoring
    • 2015/16 Precept
  6. Planning report
  7. Kerbing works in Wroxton Lane
  8. Village website
  9. Reports from other organisations
  10. Date of next meeting – 16 April 2015
  11. Any other urgent business

See the full agenda and reports here or contact David on 07872 930030.

David Marriott– Clerk to Horley Parish council

On Walking: Thursday 8th Jan

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Next time its miserable outside and in, get inspired by Carlie and push through….” I take off my hat, tip back my head, grateful to the sun, the fields. Conscious of my luck.”

On Walking: Thursday 8th Jan.

View from Spring Field

View from Spring Field

mrscarlielee's avatarCarlie Lee

I don’t want to walk today. It’s cold; windy and raining, and I want to stay at home, use my sour mood to skip out the gritty-bottomed saucepan cupboard. But Pants keeps laying his silly face along my back as I scrub, and every time I straighten, Dora runs to the leads, claws skittering on the floor. I clatter pans and slosh bleach to express my irritation, but they win, like they always do.

The rain drizzles away and we go down the Banbury Road to the Spring Field, because we haven’t been there yet this year, and because there’s a scrap of blue sky in that direction. There are a double set of gates into the first field, and usually I like the satisfaction of foiling their idiosyncrasies to open them. Not today: today I haul myself straight over the top of both, perch like a grumpy crow, before splotting down…

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Happy New Year – See What’s New …..

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THREE NEW *PAGES* under Horley Groups:

Michael Hardinge Trust , do you know about all the educational grants that are available to children living in Horley and that there is a new one that you can apply for at age 18 to 25?

Horley Bell Ringers, learn about the multiple sequencing of the six bells in our church and what is coming up on the morning of Saturday 7th February.

Ladies Guild and the upcoming meet up on Monday 19th January 2015 at 19:45 in the School House.

ONE NEW *PAGE* under the Parish Council:

Notice Board where you will find the latest on our local area such as Broadband in Oxfordshire,  the Electoral Review of Cherwell  and the Winter Awareness campaign.

 TWO NEW LINKS – under *Other Links*:

Ironstone Churches Services check for the latest information

Cherwell Bin Collection check for blue, brown or green

Ladies Guild January 2015 Meet Up

New members are always very welcome – just come along on 19th January at the Old School House at 19:45 for 20:00 in the School House.

For more information email either Alison Tite (Chair) alison.tite@gmail.com or Sandra Easton (Secretary) pandraw@gmail.com

 

 

On Walking: Sunday 28th December

Now getting into the New Years Eve Spirit with our own resident blogger Mrs Lee. I’m just of for a walk on this fine frosty sunny morning and will take some photo’s of our fab Horley “views” to include on our site. If you have any you would like to share please email them to me horleyviews@outlook.com and we can all enjoy them…………..

mrscarlielee's avatarCarlie Lee

It’s all four of us walking, the last walk of the year, and we’re going on the Wroxton Loop, which the children and I love, and which Stevie’s never done.

‘There’re surprises,’ we tell him. ‘It’s not just all trees.’

It’s past eleven when we leave Horley, and the ground is still held tight by frost. Our breath plumes fleeting clouds in the windless air and our wellies slip on the frozen tarmac of the Wroxton Road. The dogs know we’re off on adventure and pull at their leads, towing the children up onto the crisped verges and down again; Pants high-stepping in excitement.

At the bottom of our village, we go left, across Emma’s Meadow, then right, across the new wheat field and towards the old rail track. The sun has melted the frost on the path and our feet squelch through rich, red mud. The acid-green and yellow crab…

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To see or not to see, that is the question?

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Alice, 2013

Did you know that you can now see collage pictures of nearly all of the Horley Footlights productions going back over a decade, starting with Mother Goose Rocks (2003) up to last years Alice.

Still to post are some of the programmes and photos of “Puss in Boots”, if you have any to share please email me Debra on horleyviews@outlook.com

MGR

Mother Goose Rocks, 2003

Hope you enjoy them as much as I have putting them together, especially seeing how our early “toe-lighters” have grown, such fun!

Merry Christmas Debra

Horley Footlights  is listed under the Horley Groups page at the top of thehorleyviews.com