NEWS
Site Last Updated 4th April 2024
April 2024
Library News
We have a blood pressure machine in the library for public use. Anyone can pop in when we are open and use it. There are leaflets available for further advice.
I am grateful to Linden who has kindly stepped in to cover while I am away in New Zealand and Australia.
It’s been a pleasure to have our Duke of Edinburgh student, Jess, here for three months, helping to produce our Christmas Advent calendar and spring collage for the children’s area. She has also been learning about the library. I wish her the very best for the future.
Gail Cripps,Manager Gail.Cripps@oxfordshire.gov.uk 01865 816010
April Calendar Reveal
Thank you Hamptons Deddington for supporting the production of the 2024 calendar!
Our April mage shows the 'Lamb with view to Leadenporch Farm and Deddington ' and was taken by Nick Hardwick.
March 2024
Friends News
Now that the weather is warming up and spring is in the air, we are launching this year’s calendar photo competition. As in past years we are looking for images to include in the 2025 Deddington Parish Calendar with an emphasis on identifiable scenes from within the parish and the surrounding countryside. Images should be in landscape format, 5Mb or larger in size and saved as a .jpg file. The deadline is 2August 2024. Please send your entries to me. Bryn Williams abw@brynwilliams.com
Library News
Great news. The two embroidered collages generously donated by Carol and Chedly Mahfoudh, look absolutely splendid. Do come in and take a look. As I mentioned previously, we would like to start Rhymetime again for babies and toddlers and their carers. We need three or four volunteers who could spend half an hour every five or six weeks to lead the group in singing nursery rhymes. Retired grandparents would be very welcome in this role. In addition to our recent batch of new books on rotation through the library service, we have a good selection of jigsaws for both children and adults, free to be borrowed without any need to be a member of the library. I am still looking for 150 and 250 piece ones for younger children and would be grateful for any you may wish to donate. To protect books from damage when transferring them between libraries we pack them in envelopes of various sizes. If you have any spare Padda bags or other large reuseable types of envelope we would be very happy to have them and will recycle them many times over.
Gail Cripps Gail.cripps@oxfordshire.gov.uk
March Calendar Reveal
Thank you Cox's Garage Deddington for supporting the production of the 2024 calendar!
Our March mage shows the 'Flooding along the Cherwell, Clifton' and was taken by Alan Collins.
February 2024
February Calendar Reveal
Thank you MediPill Pharmacy Deddington for supporting the production of the 2024 calendar!
Our February mage shows the 'Sunrise over Chapmans Lane', Deddington and was taken by Christopher Darkins!
Friends of Deddington Library (Deddington News)
First of all, a very happy New Year to all. I hope you had a fabulous festive break. We’d like to thank everyone who supported our photo competition and calendar last year. Entries were up and the quality of pictures always impresses us. Our sincere thanks to our loyal and valued sponsors who make it possible to produce such a high quality calendar, the hundreds of you who buy the calendar each year and the army of talented photographers who traverse our parish for new angles and spectacular vistas. You’re all a key component of making our calendar possible and keeping our valued library open, so take a bow and thank you. Keep taking those pics as we’ll be opening our entries again in March for this year’s competition. The likely deadline will be early August. Bryn Williams abw@brynwilliams.com
Deddington Library (Deddington News)
With 2024 now in full swing, I have had a busy few weeks catching up with our Christmas returns and it’s been wonderful catching up with all my readers. The Christmas Book challenge went well with some very happy children and adults who completed it, receiving certificates and rewards. In the library we have jigsaws for anyone to borrow. You don’t have to be a member to borrow them. If anyone has any children’s puzzles they no longer need, please consider donating them to the library and also 250 piece puzzles. When you recycle padda bags, please could I have them for the library? I have exciting news regarding a new display for the library so watch this space. A happy new year to everyone. Gail Cripps 01869 338391 Gail.Cripps@oxfordshire.gov.uk
January 2024
January Calendar Reveal
Thank you Deddington Deddington Dental for supporting the production of the 2024 calendar!
Our January mage shows the 'Hazel Hedge Cottage, Clifton', and was taken by Kevin Mayo!
December 2023
Friends News
As Christmas approaches, what better way to support our wonderful library and share the beautiful scenes from our parish with friends and family than buying one of the few remaining library calendars. We’ve nearly sold out of our A5 calendars and have a handful more of the A4 calendars remaining, so get yours now before they’re gone. We’re likely to sell out before the December farmers’ market so we won’t have a stall there but you can get yours from Nellie & Dove, Hamptons, Fenemore’s Farm Shop and, of course, the library itself. If you can’t get to any of the retailers before Christmas, we’ll get a calendar to you; just call Julia Cork on 07881 438930. The Friends have been grateful recipients of two donations from community organisations, the farmers’ market and the parish show, as well as contributions this month from two parish residents. We are grateful for everyone’s continued support, be it through donations, buying books, cards or our calendar. As the festive season and the end of another year approaches, we’d like to thank one and all for your support and wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas with family and friends and a healthy and joyful new year!
Bryn Williams abw@brynwilliams.com
Library News
The library is looking for two volunteers to help with Rhymetime starting in the new year. This involves singing nursery rhymes with toddlers and babies and their mothers for half an hour on a Monday every few weeks, on a rota basis. Please pop into the library for more information. I had great pleasure in returning to the primary school recently to hand out the certificates and medals from the summer reading challenge. It was a great success with almost 100 children taking part and an excellent 85% completion rate. Thank you to the parents for encouraging their children to take part. My follow-on challenge, for both children and adults, of 20 books before Christmas is still ongoing. The Friends of the Library’s 2024 calendar is on sale in the library – as well as at the December farmers’ market, Nellie and Dove and Hampton’s. It makes a lovely Christmas present and the proceeds help keep the library open. Please note: the library will close on 23 December at 1.00pm and will re-open on Wednesday 3 January 2024 at 9.30am. Wishing all my readers a very happy Christmas and a blessed New Year.
Gail Cripps Gail.Cripps@Oxfordshire.gov.uk
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