Wednesday 24 December 2014

Can you help - damage to car

Message from Rob O`Keefe, Doctor`s Meadow.

My car, a red Citroen xsara, has been reversed into between 10pm last night and 8am this morning. I'm presuming it could of been the van that I heard reverse into our close at half 7 this morning but it could of been anyone.

If anyone saw anything please could you let me know. Also could we also have the 4 recycling boxes that were stolen from outside our house last Thursday back please. These aren't crimes of the century but it makes me sad that these people without out morals or social conscious live amongst us.
--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626  Yo's blog: http://yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Tuesday 23 December 2014

Booka Bookshop - lots of events coming up

Message from Booka Bookshop, Oswestry.

Latest events coming up at Booka Bookshop..
  • Naomi Wood - Mrs Hemingway Tuesday 27th January 2015 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
  • Anna Hope - Wake Wednesday 4th February 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
  • Next Generation Poets 2014 - Emma Jones & Hannah Lowe Tuesday 10th February 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka
  • Rosie Garland - Vixen Wednesday 18th February 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start at Booka
  • SJ Watson - Second Life Wednesday 4th March 6.30pm (for 7.00pm start) at Booka

 
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Christmas Opening Hours

Just so you know - here are opening hours over the festive period. Join us for a glass of fizz on Christmas Eve!

Christmas Eve Open 9.30am - 4.00pm
Christmas Day Closed
Boxing Day Closed

Sat 27th Dec Open 9.30am - 4.00pm
Sun28th Dec Open 11.00am - 4.00pm
Mon 29th Dec Open 9.30am - 5.30pm
Tues 30th Dec Open 9.30am - 5.30pm
New Year's Eve Open 9.30am - 4.00pm
New Year's Day Closed
Fri 2nd Jan Open 9.30am - 5.30pm
Sat 3rd Jan Open 9.30am - 5.30pm

Wishing you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year

Thanks for supporting us!

Carrie, Tim, Jess, Louisa, Rosie, Ruth, Ella, Jessie & Rose

ANNA HOPE - Wake

Wednesday 4th February 2015 - 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka

Join us for an evening with author Anna Hope as she talks about her debut novel, Wake.

Remembrance Day 1920: A wartime secret connects three women's lives: Hettie whose wounded brother won't speak; Evelyn who still grieves for her lost lover; and Ada, who has never received an official letter about her son's death, and is still waiting for him to come home. As the mystery that binds them begins to unravel, far away, in the fields of France, the Unknown Soldier embarks on his journey home. The mood of the nation is turning towards the future – but can these three women ever let go of the past?

Wake is a compelling read. We are delighted to welcome Anna to Oswestry to tie in with the paperback publication.

Tickets £5 (redeemable against book purchase. Refreshments provided)

Please book in advance - for tickets, call in at the shop, or purchase online via our Eventbrite page.


If you can't make the event, but would like a signed & dedicated copy of Wake, please let us know.

NEXT GENERATION POETS 2014 - Emma Jones & Hannah Lowe

Tuesday 10th February 2015 - 7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka

Join us for an evening of poetry celebrating the Next Generation Poets. The event will feature performances from Emma Jones and Hannah Lowe.

Tickets £5 (redeemable against book purchase. Refreshments provided.

Please book in advance - for tickets, call in at the shop, or purchase online via our Eventbrite page.

 

NAOMI WOOD - Mrs Hemingway

Tuesday 27th January 2015
7.00pm (for 7.30pm start) at Booka

Join us for an evening with Naomi Wood as she talks about her novel Mrs Hemingway.

Mrs Hemingway tells the story of how it was to love – and be loved by – the most famous writer of his generation. Set against the backdrop of bohemian Paris in the 1920s to 1960s Cold War America, Mrs Hemingway is narrated by Ernest Hemingway's four wives: Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary. Based on real love-letters and telegrams, this richly imagined novel is inspired by the explosive love-triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages. As each wife struggles with his mistress for Ernest's heart – and a place in his bed – each marriage slips from tenderness to treachery. Each Mrs Hemingway thought it would last forever. Each one was wrong.

Mrs Hemingway was one of our favourite novels of 2014 and was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize. We are delighted to welcome Naomi to Booka to tie in with the publication of Mrs Hemingway in paperback.

Tickets: £5 (redeemable against book purchase. Refreshments provided)

Please book in advance - for tickets,  call in at the shop, or purchase online via our Eventbrite page.

If you can't make the event, but would like a signed & dedicated copy of Mrs Hemingway, please let us know.

OSWESTRY LITFEST No.6  13th - 27th March 2015

2015 HEADLINERS ANNOUNCED
 

Richard and Judy, Alastair Campbell, Sophie Hannah, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Dame Stephanie Shirley 

 The sixth Oswestry Literary Festival takes place from Friday 13th March – Friday 27th March 2015 with a host of top authors, writers and journalists appearing at a range of events celebrating words written, spoken and sung.

Big names attracted to Oswestry's LitFest next year include Richard Madeleyand Judy Finnigan, Alastair Campbell, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Dame Stephanie Shirley and crime novelist Sophie Hannah.

Tickets for Oswestry LitFest's four major headline events can be booked online at www.oswestrylitfest.eventbrite.co.uk or purchased from the official Oswestry LitFest Box Office at Booka Bookshop

Full programme details and news on the other events in the programme can be found at www.oswestrylitfest.co.uk and on the LitFest's Facebook page.

Follow the LitFest on Twitter @OswestryLitFest or on hashtag #OsLitFest.

 

 

Booka News

Animalium window display win
Remember our Animalium window display showcasing one of this year's best children's books? We've just found out that we've won a signed Tree of Life print from the book - so pleased! Look out for it in the shop. 

Signed Copies now in stock
The Taxidermist's Daughter - Kate Mosse
The Sunrise - Victoria Hislop
You Are Here - Chris Hadfield
Walking Home - Clare Balding
Our Zoo - June Mottershead
Narrow Road to the Deep North - Richard Flanagan
The Bone Clocks - David Mitchell
Waterloo - Bernard Cornwell
Owls - Matt Sewell
So Anyway - John Cleese
How to Drive - Ben Collins/The Stig
KP: My Autobiography - Kevin Pieterson
Crossing the Line - Luis Suarez
Life & Loves of a He Devil - Graham Norton
Thinking About it Only Makes it Worse - David Mitchell
Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party - Alexander McCall Smith

Best Ever Dishes - Tom Kerridge 
River Cottage Light & Easy - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingsall
Behind the Mask - Matthew Dennison
England & Other Stories - Graham Swift
The Long Haul - Jeff Kinney
Awful Auntie - David Walliams
Once Upon an Alphabet - Oliver Jeffers
Goth Girl and the Fete Worse Than Death - Chris Riddell

These can also be purchased online via our website


Book Clubs

Booka Book Club - Currently reading: Hidden Girl. Next meeting TBC
Book & a Beer Book Club - Currently reading: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Next meeting Thursday 8th January 7.30pm at Booka

Both groups meet at the Shop and are free to attend. New members are always welcome. So, step outside your comfort zone and come along to explore new authors and genres – we'd love to see you. 


Children's Book Club (7-9 yrs) - Currently reading: Chicken Mission: Danger in the Deep Dark Woods by Jennifer Gray (Next meeting Tuesday 20th January 2015 - 4.15pm)
Children's Book Club (10-12 yrs) - Currently reading: Knightley & Son by Rohan Gavin (Next meeting Wednesday 21st January 2015 - 4.15pm)
Teen Book Club (13+ yrs) - Currently reading: After the Snow by S.D. Crockett (Next meeting Thursday 22nd January 2015 - 4.45pm)


Our Children's Book Clubs & our Teen Book Club are fully subscribed. We have a reserve list in operation for those who would like to join. 
 
OPENING TIMES: MON-SAT 9.30-5.30
SUN 11.00-4.00
CALL: 01691 662244
EMAIL:  mail@bookabookshop.co.uk


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Ruyton Centrury Club winners in 2014

Message from Colin Case.

Here's the full list of Century Club Winners this year - well done all.
There are still a few free numbers - and we will be collecting for 2015 in the New Year.


January £25.00 78 Mr S Kynaston

£10.00 77 Eunice Dicken

£5.00 81 Christine Saunders




February £25.00 34 Susie Hancock

£10.00 30 Mr J Yates

£5.00 83 Marjorie Ballantyne




March £25.00 65 Mrs K Evans

£10.00 72 Pat Ford

£5.00 68 Julie Ball




April £25.00 33 John Wigley

£10.00 91 Pearl Bourne

£5.00 50 Ann Miller




May £25.00 36 Rhiannon Guppy

£10.00 93 Tony Gittins

£5.00 27 Barbara Gallimore




June £25.00 47 Colin Gittoes

£10.00 66 Sarah Dean

£5.00 93 Tony Gittins




July £25.00 21 Hazel Yates

£10.00 84 Linda Case

£5.00 83 Marjorie Ballantyne




August £25.00 59 Mrs A Peate

£10.00 82 Mrs D Kynaston

£5.00 81 Christine Saunders




September £25.00 82 Mrs D Kynaston

£10.00 89 John Gittins

£5.00 20 Evelyn Gough




October £25.00 87 Emma Proctor

£10.00 64 Fiona Blount

£5.00 96 Karen Longland




November £25.00 21 Hazel Yates

£10.00 48 Bob Evans

£5.00 29 Jennie Baker




December £100.00 73 Stewart Ballantyne

£25.00 69 Sandy Wilson

£20.00 6 Mrs M Mathers

£10.00 56 Dot Williams

£5.00 5 Nigel Leadbeater




--
Colin Case
www.ruytonxitowns.org.uk
Tel: +44 1939 260628
Mobile: +44 7860 904006
Fax: +44 872 115 8730


--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626  Yo's blog: http://yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Monday 22 December 2014

Urgent - plastic bottles needed!

Hi everyone,

It seems I have overstretched myself and I have not got enough 1 1/2 and/or 2 litre plastic pop bottles for the 5 gallons of beer waiting to be bottle today or tomorrow at the latest!

Can you help PLEASE!   I need 8 or ten or all that festive alcohol will go down the drain!!!

Yoland
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Subject:   Calling Flower Arrangers

Roger has pruned the Contorted Hazel and there is loads of it if anyone wants to go and collect it off the lawn.

Otherwise it goes on the bonfire!

Yoland
--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626  Yo's blog: http://yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Saturday 20 December 2014

Upstairs Downstairs sends a festive message

Message from Yossi at Upstairs Downstairs.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Upstairs Downstairs!

Here is our December newsletter informing you about our great new offers and keeping you up to date with The Cookery Workshop

We at Upstairs downstairs Cookery workshop would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has continued to supported us throughout the development of our new and very successful cookery workshop. The school would not function without our customers' enthusiasm and passion for our classes so we can not thank you enough.
During this year the school has really taken off and we hope it will continue into the future! We look forward to seeing all of you in the new year in some of our exciting new lessons (and some old favorites as well!).

To book onto one of our exciting cookery courses taking place in the new year please email us at shop@globalcookshop.co.uk or call us on 01691 658591. Alternatively you can visit us in store at 35-37 Leg Street, Oswestry.
Le Creuset Sale - 20% OFF ALL Le Creuset products in store now! For a limited time only, come and grab yourself a bargain!
With a lifetime guarentee Le Creuset is recognised worldwide for market-leading, premium quality ranges of enamelled cast iron cookware, multi-ply stainless steel, toughened non-stick, stoneware and ceramics, and an outstanding range of wine accessories.


--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B, Ruyton XI Towns, nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club  www.eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.com  www.ShACC-uk.org  Tel:  01939 261 121       Fax:  01939 260626  Yo's blog: http://yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk