Free concert to support Children`s Music

Dear Blogger

Message from  Sianjones10@gmail.com forwarded by Ingrid Knowles Oswestry.net

FREE CONCERT to HELP SAVE CHILDREN'S MUSIC!

Please come and hear Ridgeway Chorale, a choir from Hertfordshire, who are performing on behalf of Music MOB, Oswestry's children's music charity, providing free music tuition and instrument loan to children in Oswestry and surrounding areas. Their programme will be very varied. The concert is free but all donations will go to the charity to support more music-making. Some of our own students will be featured during the concert, so don't miss it!

- 3.30pm Saturday 25th April

- Christ Church, Oswestry

- Interval refreshments

- Free entry with donations to Music MOB

Further information by visiting www.musicmob.co.uk 

Road closures in Ruyton XI Towns - a complete mystery

Dear Blogger

I am hoping SOMEONE - Parish Council or Robert Jones Ruyton and Baschurch County Councillor, can sort out the road closures in Ruyton.

I received this from a Mailing list member on Tuesday

In connection with this, (changing the Zebra Crossing to a Puffin Crossing) have you seen the road closure notice for 4 days in April? There is also an additional 11days scheduled in May if you look on the shropshire council website

    https://next.shropshire.gov.uk/roads-and-highways/roadworks-road-closures-and-events/interactive-roadwork-map-all-works/

I checked out closure of Platt Bridge on 30th and 31st March - no times given
 and 
 road closure in Church Street on 7th - 10th April from 9.30am to 3.30pm

Also, 7th to 17th April appears to be COMPLETE CLOSURE of Church Street

Conversion of Zebra crossing to Puffin crossing. Removal of redundant equipment, installation of TS controller, retention sockets, poles, feeder pillar and associated TS equipment. Civils to excavate road crossing during week1 under closure. Peds to have alternative route during footway works. . . . . . .
Footway closure: Alternative route will be provided

    However, I could not find anything about road closure for 11 days in May.

Yesterday, Saturday I asked my original Mailing List correspondent to confirm and got the reply

Have just logged back in to the interactive map and the May dates seem to have been removed. It was showing 11-22 may, but there must have been a rethink. Who knows with the council!

This morning, Sunday, the council website says

Church Street closed April 7th - 10th, 9.30 to 3.30 for conversion of Zebra to Puffin crossing.

and

Church Street April 7th to 17th complete closure.

ALSO,
Coming through the village on Friday, the sign in the village is saying the road will be closed for 3 weeks!! This sign has been put face down a couple of times -  a bit heavy for the wind.
     

I understand the bus company have not been told where or when they can come through Ruyton XI Towns.

If I hear of any useful information about road closures in Ruyton XI Towns,

if only I could find someone with any ability to communicate, I will let you know.

Living in Hopes,
Yoland
   

Booka event - an evening with Dominic Gregory `Lifeboat at end of the world`

Dear Blogger

Message from Booka Bookshop, Oswestry

Join us in either Bridgnorth (Tues 7th April) or Oswestry (Wed 8th April) for an evening with Dominic Gregory, a volunteer on the Dungeness Lifeboat, as he talks about his wonderful new book Lifeboat at the End of the World. On the empty shingle beach of Dungeness, the volunteer crew of the lifeboat await her next launch. It might come in another week. Or it might even happen in the next few seconds… For two hundred years, the Dungeness lifeboat has launched in storms and heavy seas to frigates and barques, trawlers and dinghies. Like all lifeboat stations in the British Isles, it is led by a coxswain and staffed entirely by volunteers. Dominic Gregory volunteers as part of her crew. Dungeness is itself a place apart. An ever-shifting expanse of shingle jutting into the English Channel, it is overshadowed by its nuclear power station and made famous by Derek Jarman's flotsam garden. Dungeness is also where millions of migrating birds and insects first make landfall in the British Isles. A small place perhaps, but one that finds itself now at the centre of one of the biggest political stories of modern times. At the heart of this wonderful book is the lifeboat crew with whom Dominic Gregory serves, many of them from families who have crewed the lifeboat for generations. These are remarkable yet ordinary men and women – who serve as shore crew, or boat crew, or who keep the records and brew the tea. All, in their different ways, give up their time, livelihoods and safety to brave wind, tide and storms, not to mention the peril of navigating between the vast floating skyscrapers that make up so much of modern shipping. Then there is coxswain Stuart Adams whose quiet, competent leadership ensures he acts as the still point in a spinning world. Lifeboat at the End of the World is the first book to depict the experience of what it is like to volunteer on a lifeboat; the smells of the station, the emotions when the call to 'a shout' comes, how the crew is trained, the teamwork and trust, the ethos of the service. And incident aplenty – terrifying rescues both past and present, often to overladen inflatable small craft and their desperate passengers. Gregory's book is non-fiction writing of extraordinary power and immediacy. While most of us will never serve in a lifeboat, we might well find ourselves thankful for their unquestioning and dauntless assistance at sea. Further Information 01691 662244 | hello@bookabookshop.co.uk | Message via social media

Easter at Park Hall Countryside Experience

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Several people did not receive this message so I have now sent it as an attachment.

EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA AT PARK HALL

Easter Eggstravaganza at Park Hall Countryside Experience

Dear Blogger

Message from Farmer Richard at Park Hall Countryside Experience

Egg-cited for Easter! We're lining up an egg-xtra special event for the Easter holidays. Park Hall will be open daily from 28th March - 12th April.

Meet the baby rabbits, have a photo with the Easter bunny, walk through our new Egg Lane, and hunt for the Golden Egg around the farm. If you're a winner on the day, you will receive an extra-large chocolate egg!

Back by popular demand this Easter - The Great Egg Hunt in the Hay! If you find a coloured ball in the hay, you can swap it for a chocolate treat.  This activity costs an additional £1 per child.

There will be lots of Easter fun around the farm, including meet and greets with the Easter Bunny, plus the farm team will be dressing up for the daily bunny run.

Get creative in the role-play village, watch pigs racing, challenge yourself to the demon drop slide, take a tractor ride, ride the barrel train, or explore the WWI trenches.  There is so much to enjoy here, you'll be hard pushed to fit it into one visit! Tickets are £14.95 in advance online, or £16.95 on the door. Under 2s go free.

Buy Tickets

We're open daily from 28th March to 12th April. After the Easter holidays, we'll be open Wednesday - Sunday (closed Monday and Tuesday only), until the next half term. See you on the farm very soon, From Farmer Richard, the farm team and all the animals ??????????????????

Ruyton`s Zebra crossing to be changed to a Puffin crossing

Dear Blogger

People might be interested in the planned

REPLACING THE ZEBRA CROSSING IN RUYTON - Church Street, between the school and The Dog

Replace zebra crossing with Puffin Crossing?

in Church Street, between the school and The Dog

 

Any comments to Shropshire Council about whether the zebra crossing should be replaced with Puffin ((Pedestrian User-Friendly Intelligent) Crossing must be made by 25 March 2026.

 

Comments in favour or against should be sent to traffic.engineering@shropshire.gov.uk

 

Comments must be in writing or by email.

 

Please remember to send a separate email for each person who wishes to comment. 

 

You can see more details of this and the proposed markings on the road by the school at getinvolved.shropshire.gov.uk/consultations/ruyton-xi-towns-church-street-puffin-crossing/ 

 

Oswestry Maona cinema listings for this week

Dear Blogger

Message from Holly Maries, Oswestry Independent Cinema

Films showing in the next week

Wednesday 25 March

Holy Cow (15), 19.30 (an Oswestry Film Society screening)

 

Thursday 26 March

Folktales (12), 16.30

Blue Velvet (18), 19.30 (40th Anniversary Restoration)

 

Friday 27 March

FolkTales (12), 16.30

Crime 101 (15), 19.30

 

Saturday 28 March

Stitch Head (U), 14.00

Crime 101 (15), 16.30

Amakki (12A), 19.30

 

Sunday 29 March

Stitch Head (U), 12.00

Crime 101 (15), 14.30

 

Wednesday 1 April

I Swear (15), 19.30 (an Oswestry Film Society screening)

 

Thursday 2 April

Stitch Head (U), 14.00