Flaxmill Maltings Christmas Fiesta and shopping

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FLAXMILL CHRISTMAS FIESTA & FESTIVE SHOPPING - Saturday 7th December

Slow Food Christmas Fiesta Join Slow Food Ludlow Marches for a free, festive gathering in The Dye House on Saturday 7 December. Enjoy tasting and demos from top chefs and local food producers and Kate Humble will be chatting and signing books. There will be hot food, licenced bars, food and artisan makers.  MORE INFORMATION HERE

Christmas Shopping Enjoy a more serene Christmas shopping experience at Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings. Choose from a selection of carefully curated curios, park in the free car park and when you're done, relax with a tasty treat at Turned Wood Café. ??   DISCOVER MORE

Turned Wood Café - Plantkind Pop Up After the success of their last pop up in August we're really excited to say that Plantkind will be returning for a collaborative pop up on the evening of Saturday 7th December!

BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW

Volunteering We are looking for volunteers of all ages and backgrounds to help deliver a range of activities to visitors and the community. You will have opportunities to build your CV, meet new people and make friends, share your knowledge and get to know amazing local history. GET INVOLVED WITH VOLUNTEERING

Christmas Opening Hours Please note that the visitor experience, including The Mill exhibition, shop and Turned Wood Café will be closed from 23 to 26 December. Everything will be open from Friday 27 to Sunday 29 December but will then be closed 30 December to 1 January. Everything will be open as normal from 2 January 2025. FESTIVE OPENING HOURS

Updated services for Churches round the Cliffe

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Updated December church services from Lucinda our vicar

15/12.  4:30pm GREAT NESS CAROL SERVICE

 

20/12.  6:30pm LITTLE NESS CAROL SERVICE

 

CHRISTMAS EVE
             3:30pm CRIB SERVICE GREAT NESS

             6:30pm RUYTON CAROL SERVICE

CHRISTMAS DAY

  9:00am HOLY COMMUNION GREAT NESS

10:00AM HOLY COMMUNION LITTLE NESS

11:00AM HOLY COMMUNION RUYTON

29/12 10:30am Holy Communion   Little Ness

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given".  Isaiah 9:6

Churches round the Cliffe - December services

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Churches round the Cliffe - December services

December
1st    9:15am GATHER TOGETHER (see above)        Ruyton
    10:30am Advent Sunday Morning Worship        Ruyton
 4:30pm Evensong              Great Ness
8th    10:30am Holy Communion            Little Ness
 
15th    10:30am Holy Communion             Ruyton
 6:30pm GREAT NESS CAROL SERVICE? (to be confirmed)
20th    6:30pm LITTLE NESS CAROL SERVICE
22nd    10:30am Holy Communion            Great Ness
24th    3:30pm Crib Service               Great Ness
    6:30pm RUYTON CAROL SERVICE
25th        CHRISTMAS DAY 

    9:00am Holy Communion            Great Ness
 10:00am Holy Communion            Little Ness
 11:00am Holy Communion            Ruyton

Uplifting films at Oswestry Film Society

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Message from Oswestry Film Society

Let us give you a lift in Dec...

Three films to make you smile in the Xmas run-up We know things can get a bit frenetic before Christmas. We know the short hours of daylight each day can be a bit rubbish. So the Oswestry Film Society is deliberately bringing you upbeat films for our three Wednesday night screenings this month. It starts this Wed, Dec 4, with A Royal Night Out - inspired by a true story. On V.E. Day in 1945, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the peace celebrations. It's a night full of excitement, danger, and the first flutters of romance. Margaret is befriended by a Royal Naval officer and is led into a world of nightclubs, gambling and spiked drinks.  Elizabeth and working-class Jack are thrown together by chance, and have to make their way through London on this crazy, unbelievable night. And they've both got secrets. This romantic comedy adventure is a nostalgic British affair - and a bit of rollicking fun! Tickets & more info Golden age comeback Wed Dec 11 brings on 'Thelma' - a 94 year old grandma (pictured) who fights back when she's scammed out of her savings, using her wits to track down the criminals (careering round town on her mobility scooter) in a mickey-take of all-action blockbusters. And on Dec 18, we'll supply the drinks and nibbles for our final pre-Christmas screening, Finding Your Feet. A favourite British cast (incl Imeda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley) bring us a joyous film about growing older and learning to enjoy it.  Bitter-sweet but very warming! Happy times ahead The OFS's two programming teams are already planning their schedules through to the end of March. Do keep an eye on the website as we add to the list - or better still, sign up to the newsletter via the website for automatic updates. Please encourage your friends to do the same, and help the OFS keep live cinema screenings in Oswestry. And thank you for all your positive comments about our staging the relatively unknown comedy Hundreds of Beavers last week. You clearly enjoyed it! (Thanks to koolbadges.co.uk for the Xmas cheer badge at the top)

Vote for your favourite Shropshire Market

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SHREWSBURY MARKET hoping for a 4th win as best indoor market in the country,

2018, 2021 2022 & 2023

I always tell my guests, it is `A Whole Town under One Roof`

To vote for your favourite market, it might be Shrewsbury or Oswestry, Ellesmere or another Shropshire town, go to

www.nabma.com   Public voting closes on December 13th

Booka Bookshop November events and news

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Message from Booka Bookshop, Oswestry

November 2024

Welcome to our November Newsletter! We've had snowfall,  Christmas Shopping, and another month jam packed with author events. It's time to deck the halls with books!!

Café Booka Have you heard? Our festive menu is here! Enjoy Festive Foccacia's, sublime Sourdough Toasties, plus our amazing Winter Warmers...

December events, wrapping up our 2024 schedule. What an incredible year we've had, and we're certainly ending it on a high!

OSWESTRY An Evening with David and Stephen Flynn – The Happy Pear 20 Join us for an evening at Booka with The Happy Pear, celebrating their new book The Happy Pear 20. Enjoy a talk, cooking demo, samples and book signing!

OSWESTRY Christmas Wreath Making Workshop with bloomin' el Due to popular demand we are running another workshop! In this hands-on session, you'll learn how to craft a beautiful and eco-friendly wreath using locally grown and British-sourced foliages. We are proud to use sustainable and reusable materials, ensuring your wreath is both stunning and environmentally friendly.

OSWESTRY Ballet in the Bookshop with The Ballet Pod – Oswestry Join us for a magical and enchanting Storytime, Ballet Performance & mini ballet workshop, in partnership with The Ballet Pod.

BRIDGNORTH Ballet in the Bookshop with The Ballet Pod – Bridgnorth Join us for a magical and enchanting Storytime, Ballet Performance & mini ballet workshop, in partnership with The Ballet Pod.

OSWESTRY An Afternoon with Tom Parker Bowles and Matt Tebbutt Join us for an afternoon in conversation with Tom Parker Bowles and Matt Tebbutt, celebrating their latest cookbooks; Cooking with the Crown: Royal recipes from Queen Victoria to King Charles III

Yes, we've got one eye on next year with exciting events to announce already!

CHESTER An Evening with Sara Davies – The Six-Minute Entrepreneur Booka Bookshop and Linghams Booksellers are delighted to present an evening with business woman, entrepreneur and TV personality Sara Davies as she talks about her new book, The Six- Minute Entrepreneur.

OSWESTRY An Evening with Lora Jones - The Woman In The Wallpaper Join us at Booka Oswestry on publication day of the most anticipated historical debut of 2025: The Woman in the Wallpaper by Lora Jones.

BRIDGNORTH An Afternoon with Jojo Moyes – We All Live Here We are delighted to welcome you to Bridgnorth Library for An Afternoon with Jojo Moyes and her new book We All Live Here. The #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, whose books so many love, brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family.

OSWESTRY An Evening with Jojo Moyes – We All Live Here Join us for an evening with Sunday Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes as she talks about her new novel We All Live Here. Jojo Moyes brings us a fresh, contemporary story of a woman and her unruly blended family.

OSWESTRY An Evening with Jake Morris-Campbell – Between the Salt and the Ash Join us for an evening with Jake Morris-Campbell, talking about his new book Between the Salt and the Ash: A Journey into the Soul of Northumbria.

More exciting author events to be announced soon! Watch this space...

This Friday 29th November,  bring joy and shop small at Booka...We're celebrating Colour Friday, the movement formed by Holly Tucker, founder of Holly & Co.

#ShopIndependent #ChooseBookshops

In collaboration with The RJAH Orthopaedic Hospital – help us provide paediatric patients & local primary children with books this Christmas. Support your local independent bookshop and help us raise money for the Orthopaedic Hospital's Annual Christmas Bazaar!  £7.99 gifts a child one book. Make a difference, this Christmas.

CHRISTMAS PROMOTION

In partnership with local author Annie Garthwaite and Penguin Books, we are offering dedicated signed copies, just in time for Christmas! Give The King's Mother for Christmas! Order from us and we'll have it especially signed and dedicated to the one you love by the author - and delivered to their door (or yours). Order by 15 December for delivery by Christmas or in-store collection.  This has been one of our bestselling titles in 2024, so do hurry to secure your special Christmas copies.

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Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey Where there is wonder, there is love – an unforgettable novel of the beauty and terror of the Alaskan wilderness, from the author of the million-copy international bestseller, The Snow Child. Birdie's keeping it together, of course she is. So she's a little hungover on her shifts, and has to bring her daughter to the lodge while she waits tables, but Emaleen never goes hungry. It's a tough town to be a single mother, and Birdie just needs to get by. And then Birdie meets Arthur, who is quieter than most men, but makes her want to listen; who is gentle with Emaleen, and understands Birdie's fascination with the mountains in whose shadow they live. When Arthur asks Birdie and Emaleen to leave the lodge and make a home, just the three of them, in his off-grid cabin, Birdie's answer, in a heartbeat, is yes. Out in the wilderness Birdie's days are harsher and richer than she ever imagined possible. Here she will feel truly at one with nature. Here she, and Emaleen, will learn the whole, fearful truth about Arthur. Limited Edition Signed Copy of only 1000. Available to Pre-Order now!

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