Market By the Green at The Institute, Adderbury - 25th April 2015

It's a beautifully bright sunny morning but windy and it becomes duller later on.  However, I'm off to the Market By the Green at Adderbury, for their Spring Market, and I'm excited.


The Market has a monthly meeting date and some very good craft stalls which it is a pleasure to return to for the good items  they present for sale.

The catering arrangements are good too, cheerfully presented and well served.  They can seat a few folk outside The Institute  at nice tables and chairs and, on a sunny morning, its a jolly nice venue for eating and viewing the world going by.  On this particular day in April,  Adderbury was hosting the Day of Dance for the Morris Men groups - the Adderbury Village Morris Men, the Adderbury Morris Men and Sharp and Blunt the Ladies Morris Dance Group and The Institute provides a good vantage point for all activity.

At The Institute, the following craft stalls were set up and ready for business -

Aunty Alice by Tricia Lusted - with her 100% natural yarn   "hand knitted accessories and gifts" at tricialusted@gmail.com

All You Need is Cake by Amy Davies - with her Cupcakes and Novelty Cakes....at allyouneediscake@mail.com

and just look at her beautiful tablecloth...


Forever Living Products by Linda Stevens -  Forever Aloe Vera....at -  istevens2609@icloud.com

Stags Leap Holistic Therapy wth Purdies Creams and Soap and Damask Night Wear... at - iva@stagsleap.co.uk

New stallholder Helen with Harry's Corner...

Susie Lu Jewellery and lovely scarves....https://www.facebook.com/susie.l.jewellery.

Cardewellery Gift Shop for beautiful cards @ www.facebook.com/cardewellery

Mrs. G's Kitchen - "homemade and bespoke cakes, biscuits and preserves" at - Sgelleburn@sky.com..

Also new to the Market - Arteangels Shineys - "Mosaic - inspired to make broken Wholeagain"...at www.facebook.com/Arteangels Shineys..

Vicky Wolfe Pet Portraits - "Affordable  portraits painted or drawn from your favourite photographs" -  wolfeworld1@btinternet.com...

Looking forward to the next Market By the Green in May.......

Margaret

ps I'm always drawn to craft fairs and markets!!! x

Deddington Farmers' Market - Saturday, 25th April 2015065

Here in the church, I find these colourful and attractive Stone Coasters for sale - just love the patterns

Out bright and early for we're visiting Deddington's monthly Farmers' Market and we'd also thought Saturday was the day for  our local council body, Cherwell District Council was giving out free bags of compost to citizens of Banbury, but it wasn't, so out earlier than intended,  we headed off to Deddington for their market.  Then we were there far longer than intended, chatting to stallholder friends, sampling cheese, biscuits, cured meats, savoury balls of a delicious mixture and I had a smashing piece of chocolate walnut cake. from Elli's Kitchen while He tucked into a large square of a savoury tart of some kind!!!

good food from Eli's Kitchen - at - ellistago@gmail.com

We bought some food items of course, picking up a few nice goodies to take home with us and I bought tomato and pepper plants which, actually, are still waiting to be dug into my greenhouse.

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Then we wandered over to Deddington's historic church of St. Peter and St. Paul where the craft stallholders congregate with their temptingly colourful stalls.  The church kitchen is just inside the main door, manned cheerfully by three friendly village church goers,  happily dispensing beakers of steaming hot drinks with cakes and biscuits  We wandered around all the stalls, me clicking away madly with my camera, as I'd been doing outside too.  While all this was going, suddenly the Scout group on duty action for the day with their leaders snaked their way around the stalls.  A long green body with a fearsome head, it was rather fun and definitely added to the ongoing chaos.

"here be dragons"

Outside the church the regular Big Issue magazine seller was doing her bit but the wind was getting to her and people were supplying her with hot drinks and cake to keep her going.  She also sells her magazines in Banbury which keeps her busy during the week.

We finally tore ourselves away and drove off to Adderbury where the craft Market by the Green at The Institute was being held and it was also Adderbury's Day of Dance when our three Morris Men dancing groups entertain throughout the village.  There's the Adderbury Village Morris Men, the Adderbury Morris Men and Sharp and Blunt, our ladies Morris dancing group.

We were having a very active day with lunch and coffees out on a bright warm but windy day

Locally farm sourced wood turned into beautiful items for the kitchen and home by Jonquil Sabin of - jonquilsabin@hotmail.co.uk 

Here;s a few photo memories of our day...

Nathan Tuckwell of Pie and Mighty Pies

Team-Kitchen friends - with delicious cakes and hot drinks to go!

the Traidcraft stall

Sue Jeffries Antiques at - farmhen@googlemail.com

Vicky Hibberd - Silversmith at - vahibberd@gmail.com

Handmade - for luxurious knitwear comfort 

Virginia Yip with well-made items sourced via the Thai Children's Trust - I bought a much needed night-tine reading lamp...

My super new book lamp for night-time reading...

Appealing knitted items by "Wednesday's Child" - No woeful faces wearing any of these delightful creations!!!

Here at Feast's stall, I began my feasting on their curried mango chick pea dish and their delicious rounds of savoury  - mixture - contact Feast at  - info.@feast.uk.net