Our term began by learning about the music used at Remembrance services, before attending the village parade. As the festive season approached, we enjoyed working for the Chocolate badge. The Guides found out about the history of chocolate, surveyed household consumption, learned about Fairtrade, designed their own confectionery and took part in some tasting. We …
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At the time of writing we are looking forward to one of David Holt’s talks. This one is entitled “Uncut Van Gogh” on the 16th of November. His previous talks including one on Babbage and his calculating machines have always been excellent, and I am sure this one will be no different. …
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Following Oxfordshire’s fantastic Quest 2015 county camp over the summer holidays, this term began with the subcamp reunion party. Guides from Abingdon and the surrounding area gathered for a barbecue and campfire, as well as swimming, table tennis and trampolining. The following week we continued working on the Growing Up Wild badge scheme, designed to …
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By the time you read this the Society will have had the benefit of a talk by Timothy Walker on the history of the Botanical Gardens in Oxford and our annual visit, which this year is to Winchester. A fuller account of both will appear next month. In October we hope to …
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In July a small group from the Kennington History Society visited the Oxford Bus Museum at Long Hanborough. It is most interesting having a wide selection of buses from the very early charabangs of the post-World War I period up to the present, with many local examples. We were also able to visit the Morris Car …
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Thames Water is to take on the responsibility of 4,000 sewage pumping stations from property owners and managers The utility will take over electricity and maintenance costs under new legislation, potentially saving customers thousands of pounds The firm is appealing for help tracking 1,800 ‘missing’ stations The utility, which serves 15 million customers across London …
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The link to our website is http://www.florenceparkcommunitycentre.org.uk/ or http://www.florenceparkcommunitycentre.org.uk/whats-on.html
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Love Parks The Leisure Team of Vale of White Horse District Council will be running an Outdoor Fitness Circuits session on Thursday 30 July between 10 and 11 am at the Playing Fields at Playfield Road. The session costs £1 and can be booked online at www.whitehorsedc.gov.uk/loveparks. For more about the Love Parks project, click …
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The KOA Shop may well have been the first POP-UP shop! It has certainly become a village institution, and this year it opens on MONDAY 27th JULY. If you have goods to donate to the shop, please bring them along to St Swithun’s church hall between 12 noon and 2 p.m. on Sunday 26th July, or …
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The Annual Garden Competition took place on Sat 20th June 2015 The winners were as follows The ‘Geoffrey Blackman Cup’ for best front garden 1st Pauline & Peter Anderson of 15 Playfield Road 2nd Stephanie Owen of 44 The Avenue 3rd Janet & Alistair Erskine of 31 …
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Sunday 28th June is Open Gardens Day in Kennington, in aid of Kennington Overseas Aid’s 2015 charity, Standing Voice, which provide medical aid to people with albinism in Tanzania. Around 10 gardens will be open throughout the village between 2 and 6pm, each of them with a character all its own. Come along and get new ideas …
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There will be a Blood Donation service in the Village Centre on Wednesday 24 June. Please see the attached poster for details.
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