Beebombs – April 2019
Let’s bring the bees back
I have an idea about making one of the earth banks on the A4500 between Upper Heyford and the new roundabout a thriving hub for insects and more importantly our Bees. There is a large earthwork bank that makes up part of the new road layout, it can be found on the left as you approach the roundabout from Upper Heyford. My vision is to support our local Bee population with wild flowers and at the same time make the landscape beautiful.
If anyone would like to join me, could they help by purchasing a pack of seeds from the link below. I can arrange a time and tools for their distribution. I have already started by planting some seeds, bulbs as well as Lupins etc.
Steve Corcoran
Category: Letters
Village Signs – April 2019 Update
Village Signs – April 2019
Sue and I have put ourselves forward to help get Heyford looking pretty. We are starting with planting bulbs and flowers on all the Nether Heyford signs on the entrances into our village. The first thing we need to do is find volunteers who would like to help set this up. We could possibly have volunteers to look after the entrance nearest to where they live within the village.
You can contact me on 07912 971799 or by email at jillgarrett@hotmail.co.uk if you have any interest, We can get together to discuss the way forward and work out costs etc.
We really hope to get a reasonable response in helping to make this a reality going forward. People have tried in the past and failed for various reasons, so let’s try to make this work for all of us.
Thank you
Jill and Sue
Village Signs – February 2019
The signs into the village seem a bit drab and we would like to decorate them with containers and plants to make them more welcoming. If you have any ideas, suitable containers for the plant boxes, or any other items i.e. compost and plants, we would be pleased to hear from you.
Please contact either Jill Garratt, Sue Boutle or The Prattler
Pensioners Meal Club – April 2019 – Cook Wanted
As villagers may or may not know, there has been a pensioners meal club run in the village for many years now. However due to a change of circumstances and work commitments, my wife and I are no longer able to run the meals club.
We have run this meal club ourselves for the last 7 years approx and before that it was run by another couple from the village who left the village so were unable to continue to run the club hence we then took the club over. When we started there were around 18 members, we now have in excess of 50 members and more and more enquiries every week.
The club runs on the first Thursday of every month and is a once a month meal club but could be run as often as weekly if anyone wanted to do this, or just keep to how it is at the moment. It was a very emotional last meal club on the 7th March when we had to tell everyone that we could no longer run the club due to our immediate work commitments and also we will be very sad if we cannot find anyone to carry the club on.
So is there any one out there who would be prepared or able to take on this meal club and keep it going? We would give any advice to any interested people and explain how the club runs at the moment. There is a fantastic team of helpers who have helped us over the years to serve and wash up etc and with them the club would not have been as successful as it is, I am sure most of these will still be able to help run the club but they feel they could not fully run the club on the same scale as it is run at present. MY WIFE AND I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE TO ALL OF THE HELPERS DURING OUR YEARS OF RUNNING THE CLUB.
We really hope there is someone out there who is able to cook for around fifty people once a month or more if they want and keep the club running.
Neil & Debbie Botterill
1 The Pound, Nether Heyford
The Nether Heyford Prattler 