Saturday 13 June 2015

Adderbury in Oxfordshire for their Community Food Market - Thursday, 14th May 2015

We have our own Community Market in Adderbury, Oxfordshire, which meets every month at The Institute on the second Thursday from 6 - 8.15pm.

The market is run and organised by a  Village committee who themselves meet on a regular basis to plan and prepare for  future dates, stall holders, themes and happenings like the Christmas market and the regular charity or local body stall at a future market event.

The Institute faces onto the Village Green and is positioned adjacent to the main Oxford Road through the village which makes for easy access by foot and vehicle.  There is a balcony over the front door entrance where market supper maybe taken whilst watching the comings and goings down below which is rather fun, don't you think?

My dear Aunt, who  will rather splendidly celebrate her 94th birthday soon, used to take me out to dinner when visiting her in the school Easter holidays.  We would go out for dinner and well, curiosity would get the better of us as we waited for our dinner to arrive, and make guesses about our fellow diners!  How naughty of us, you think, no not really, just a little harmless fun to while away the waiting hour!!!

And the idea sometimes comes to life when I find myself without employment for a minute or two.

But now I must confess this blog post was begun a month ago on May 14th and it's my Aunt's birthday tomorrow, and well my nwotes were interrupted, my computer broke down so here I am,  still making heavy headway with its newness; ah well life's little difficulties must be overcome, somehow!!!

Well, now its June and we were all together for supper at June's Community Food Market in Adderbury for it was the dear SO's birthday and we'd heard that Smart Cookies were putting  on a salmon  dish, so we decided to meet up there even though the birthday boy doesn't include fish in his "most favourite" food list.  I love salmon and many other types of fish making me very happy to eat Virginia's supper.


Salmon terriyaki...


Six family members sat down together with friends upstairs at The Institute where the talk was all family driven or holiday fascinating about Austria and Salzburg in particular, where my dear Sister Sally and I spent a lovely holiday together years ago in 2004.

And talking about Austria, did you know the next GP comes from Austria?  I once sat thru' an entire race, once, but not after that,  preferring to do as my Aunt does and peep occasionally at the TV sports reportage or even have the TV coverage showing, without consciously viewing its progress, kidding oneself you're not watching it.  Hehehe!

Ah ha, the TV is on now and they're showing a review of today's Trooping the Colour ceremony in London for HM The Queen's Birthday Parade from Horse Guards Parade.  Such a brilliant spectacle with HM inspecting Her troops, the colourful uniforms, the soldiers mounts' and the well turned-out invited audience closely watching the majestic performance unfold before their rapt eyes.

 The dear SO has just fed us rather well on his best roast pork with apple sauce and a good variety of veggies - its been a good day!

Toodle loo

Daisy xxx








ADDERBURY Happenungs and Events - Saturday 13th June 2015

Since burdening myself with a new and complicated computer, having great difficulties with getting to grips with its running programme - Windows 8 -  and everything else,  I've allowed myself to get behind with my Blog posting, so here's with quick update to be going on with.

Last weekend, I was with Team WI at our Adderbury WI grow Wild Seed Kit garden at Katharine House Hospice for their Volunteer Garden Team's Open Garden Day when our newly created Wild Seed Flower garden was on display.  We're very excited to be gardening with KHH and the GWS team of Kew Royal Botanic Gardens supported by The Big Lottery Fund and looking forward to our garden's flowering in mid-August. Find us at The Katharine House Hospice, East End, Adderbury, Banbury OX17 3NL and on FaceBook and Google.  Here's a photo of our garden...



This Saturday our WI Jam Jar Tombola stall will be at the Christopher Rawlins Primary School and St. Mary's Church Fete at 12noon at the Lucy Plackett playing fields or at the school if it's still raining.  Our covered jam jar s are filled with all kinds of lovely items to win with all proceeds from our Tombola going to the School.

JS Auctions of Bodicote host another of their auction sales today and find them at - www.jsauctions.co.uk and at Oxford Road, Bodicote, Banbury, Oxfordshire OX15 4AQ - for JS Auctions and JS Fine Art.

Broughon Grange, Wykham Lane, Broughton, Nr. Banbury (OX15 5DS) are hosting an Open Garden event and Katharine House Hospice will present a Cake Stall with homemade cakes from friends and followers and I wish them a good day.  It's rather wet at the moment but I'm hoping the sun will emerge later on....

Charlbury Farmers' Market also meet today for their summer market and Wolvercote Farmers' Market is on tomorrow.

More tennis with the Aegon Tennis Championship at The Queen's Club, London, from Monday and of course, Wimbledon will be with us soon, and Royal Ascot - OMG - how busy our summer is!  Himself eagerly anticipates next weekends Austrian GP  and I'm happily gardening throughout the summer, looking forward to harvesting my courgettes and tomatoes sometime.

In  the meantime, I shall continue to grapple with my new computer which at the moment is being an ABSOLUTE PAIN,

It's my Auntie Joyce's  94th Birthday tomorrow and much love and best wishes arē with her for he special day....I wonder if I'll make my 94th birthday?  Himself was  69 on Thursday when the family enjoyed Smart Cookies Salmon Terryiake at Adderbury's Community Food Market cooked and presented by Virginia Yip which was delicious - thanks Virginia x

It was sad to lose Marguerite Pattern, Christopher  Lee and Ron Moody this week and R I P to all of them.


Must dash as my tomatoes need watering and must get to the Fete snd Diane who is waiting for me to go with her....and do apologies for any remaining typos which my  new computer misses !  I will master this new fangled machine one day soon.

Cheerio,  Daisy


another view of our Adderbury & District wild seed flower garden.... 
 


Sunday 7 June 2015

Adderbury Life - Sunday 7th June 2015

Breakfast toast with the last pot of my dark thick cut Seville Orange Marmalade from January 2014 - how to get thru' to Jan. 2016 before finding that season's new batch of Seville oranges for the marmalade making session!!!




It's just life or the managing of its complexities...

Oh well, never mind, time will pass ...which reminds me.......last weekend, whilst still being perplexed with my new computer, we joined family and friends for The Big Lunch  at St. Mary's Church in Adderbury where we dined royally on donated platters of homemade kitchen foods from the congregation....





On Thursday morning I created a Ha Ha for Team WI's Addebury & District wild flower garden at Katharine House, with seeds from the Grow Wild Seed Kit people - flowers to the people - with Kew Royal Botanic Garden supported by The Big Lottery Fund.  Wē've been working with the Volunteer Garden Team since the end of April, helping to create a beautiful wild flower bed for KHH, and they have been untiring in their help and assistance for which we are all very grateful; and we're terribly excited by the very  idea of developing our wild flower garden when these wonderful plants are so under siege from modernity.  Long live the natural world I say and let's have more environmental diversity and enrichment for all living beings.

Now its Sunday morning and in a few hours Team WI  will be at our wild flower garden at KHH and I'm looking forward to meeting our visitors and telling them how our garden came into being.  Here it is yesterday still being made ready for the Open Day ....



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Of course, there's also the Canadian GP,  the French Open Tennis championship and many other events going on this weekend; and I didn't even get to watch the tiniest fragment of The Derby yesterday!


What  busy time of year is summertime - "and the living is easy..." - not quite sure about that Mr. Gershwin!!!

happy days!!!
Daisy xxx