More Christmas present ideas

Message from Sian Roberts at Mile End Tourist Information Centre (just off Mile End roundabout)

If you're looking for that perfect Christmas gift here are a few ideas from Mile End Tourist Information Centre.

We have many local crafts for sale, perfect for a Christmas gift. From local handmade jewellery to carved walking sticks we have a range of items to suit all types, whether buying for men, women or children.

Here are some examples of local crafts people whose products we stock:

Priory Ceramics, providing handmade Christmas tree decorations as well as pottery cats, owls, mice and a beautiful Father Christmas.

Michelle Lloyd, who crafts jewellery of all types shapes and colours, with earrings, necklaces and bracelets.

Jeff Dodd who collects windfalls on his walks and crafts them into walking sticks.

Ken Taylor who paints beautiful images of birds and other wildlife onto slate plaques, finishing them with wooden frames.

Mrs Jones who knits tissue boxes in the shape of houses and cats, and this year has made a penguin and baby owl.  

We also stock a variety of handmade Christmas cards, with each one being different from the last.

As well as this we have just had lots of new books in, well worth a look.  

So why not pop in to Mile End Tourist Information Centre and support local craftsmen while at the same time getting a gift that's a little bit different?

 

Kind Regards

Sian, Calum, Ann and Sharon.

Sian Roberts, Centre Manager, Oswestry Mile End Tourist Information Centre, Mile End, Oswestry

SY11 4JA         01691 662 488

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Also a reminder for Designs in Mind at 17a Cross Street, Oswestry SY11 2NF Friday December 4th 1-7pm and Saturday 5th, 10am to 2pm

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Cliffe Garden Club Christmas Social

Message from Margaret Lycett, Cliffe Garden Club.

A quick reminder that our Christmas Social will be held on Thursday next, 3rd December (not 5th as erroneously stated on our programme) in the Victoria Room, at 7.30 pm.  As usual, contributions of food by members will be appreciated.

New members are always welcomed.

Visitors £2.50

 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

URGENT!! Can you help??

Message from Sarah Bayliss

***URGENT***

There has just been an RTC by the church, with the at fault driver leaving the scene in a hurry... a blue Renault/new shaped Astra.. caused considerable and extensive damage to a camper van!!.

The car concerned is LOCAL and had emerged from by the monument.. If you see a similar vehicle with a large amount of damage please report....

Following the collision it spun round the triangle and headed back down the village. This was a serious collision and incident has been reported however police were uninterested in attending.

Remember this could have been any one of us, and in a smaller vehicle may have been serious injuries ! There were several witnesses however none managed to get the vehicle ID.

Thanks for reading.

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Church Coffee Morning

Message from Chris Ayers, School Road.

You are warmly invited to our big Christmas Coffee Morning to be hosted by Mrs. Eunice Dicken on Saturday, 5 December, 2015 beginning at 10.30 a.m. in the Victoria Room, Ruyton XI Towns.

Coffee, mince pies, big draw, bring and buy, cakes, Fair Trade stall.
Hope to see you there.

Friends of Ruyton XI Towns Church

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Pinocchio in Ruyton XI Towns

Message from Ann Johnson, RATS.

IT'S PANTO WEEK!!

Tickets for RATS' production of Pinocchio are starting to go fast, so make sure you get yours very soon!
Performances start this Wednesday, December 2nd and run until to Saturday the 5th, when there will be a matinee and an evening performance.
Tickets available from Cafe Eleven, Baschurch Post Office and the Tourist Information Centre at Mile End, or by calling Nigel on 01939 261645.

 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

An invitation to an open evening

Message from Upstairs Downstairs, Oswestry.

A special invitation from The Cookery Workshop. View this email in your browser

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--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Ruyton Shop Update

Report on meeting in the School Hall on Friday 20th November
by Mick Berry

Ruyton XI Towns Shop

 

A meeting was held at St John the Baptist school on Friday at 7pm on 20 November to discuss what the people of Ruyton could do to ensure the future of our village shop, bearing in mind it is up for sale. Fifteen people attended and apologies were received from 10 others, most of whom were involved with RATS

The ideal outcome would be for someone to buy the shop and continue trading as a shop and post office.

However Mary Drinan, with Dee Plozsay and Jason Bent, have set up a working party to look at the possibility of starting a community shop should anything happen to jeopardise the future of the shop.

Mick Berry who had recently joined the working party gave a brief history of what the group had done so far.

They have explored the funding options with particular reference to the Plunkett Foundation http://www.plunkett.co.uk/

Plunkett  provide advice and support to local enterprises in the funding and running of such enterprises.

Mary, Mick and Dee had visited the community shop in Cheswardine to see how they started and operated.

They had received a lot of information which could be helpful if the community decided to set up such an enterprise.

Dee gave details of the visit.

They have also contacted a community shop in Wigmore near Hereford and Brian Casbourne from their committee provided details of how they had set it up and how it was run.

There followed a brief discussion about the possible options,

            Continue as is,

            Rent the shop from a new owner,

            Open another outlet somewhere in the village, possibly in the pub, the                      flower shop, Café Eleven or a portacabin.

The purpose of this meeting was to get volunteers from the village to form a committee to take this forward.

Yoland volunteered to do any marketing and Jo Brobeck-Brown said she was keen to help.

Mick suggested the others go away and think about it, speak to friends and acquaintances and hopefully volunteer to join the Committee. Interested parties can contact

             Yoland  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk

            Mary     mary.drinan@gmail.com       01939260392  or

            Dee       dee.ploszay@gmail.com .

Mick thanked Dee, Mary Jason and Brian for their contributions and thanked those attending.

Ideally the shop will be sold and continue to trade but we need people to work out contingency plans in case this doesn't happen.

Mick Berry

 

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

Christmas .....Looking for something really different?

Get along to The Ironworks and see their vast aray of very unusual things to buy.

Get along the The Heritage Centre in Oswestry for all sorts of locally sourced items.

Get along to Qube for unusual hand crafted fabric items.

4th December - Christmas Live. Oswestry Town Centre
                            Huge celebration of Christmas with funfair rides, music, ice rink,                                     Christmas market, Santa grotto, fireworks etc.  

5th December - Christmas Parade, Oswestry
                           enjoyed by hundreds of children and adults every year.

13th December - Oswestry Christmas Market

18th December - Oswestry Farmers` Market

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk

The Mikado - change of start time

Message from Kinokulture, Oswestry.

Clarification of start time for ENO Live: The Mikado 3rd December at kinokulture cinema, Oswestry View this email in your browser

Dear customers it has come to attention that the start time for The ENO Live broadcast of The Mikado on Thursday 3rd December has been listed wrongly on our Ticket Source box office site and our December listings. The correct start time for this event is 7:30pm with doors opening at 7:00pm We sincerely apologise for this mistake which has now been corrected on Ticket Source. If you haven't yet booked we still have 11 tickets available. Tickets can be booked online here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/178647

--   Yoland Brown  Brownhill House B&B & Garden, Ruyton XI Towns nr. Shrewsbury SY4 1LR  Tel:  01939 261 121  brownhill@eleventowns.co.uk  www.eleventowns.co.uk www.eleventowns.org uk  www.eleventowns.com  ShACC - Shropshire Alternative Car Club - www.ShACC-uk.org  MAILING LIST  for Ruyton XI Towns area  Yo`s blog:  http://Yo-emails.blogspot.co.uk