May is the time for Oxfordshire Artweeks – so many artists and craft workers have been working hard for this but now cannot have any visitors. They still need your support so do visit the online tours and see their amazing work in this new socially distant way. Visit https://www.artweeks.org/ to find your favourite, medium or follow the virtual tours

Wolvercote Morris have put together a socially distanced interpretation of a dance called Chasing Chickens for your amusement! Happy May Day!

As the Wolvercote Festival Poetry Evening has had to be postponed we have created a Poetry Corner on the Wolvercote and Wytham website.

We invite you to send in poems you have written that  you feel will strike a chord  with others (happy or sad) in this strange time.

You can send in an accompanying recording of yourself reading the poem if you’d like, using a recording App on your phone.

The Festival theme this year was to be 2020 vision. Why not use this as a springboard for your ideas?

Please visit the page for details of how to submit. https://wolvercote.org/poetry-corner/

Best wishes from the Festival poetry team

With a huge thank you to all that have volunteered, our Wolvercote and Wytham Friendly Line is now open!
It will be open 7 days a week, from 10am to 4pm.
Anyone who’s feeling a little low and can do with a bit of company with a friendly volunteer, is free to call us!
Please share away our number to all your friends and family in Wolvercote and Wytham!
PS: For your friends and neighbours who are not online/on social media, we’ve also created a printer-friendly PDF. You can find it here: https://wytham-village.org.uk/friendly-line.pdf

We can at last inform you that work on the new access and reinforced path through the orchard will be starting next Monday 16^th March.  During this time the orchard will be closed and after the work is completed we will have to keep it closed until the new grass has grown through the pathway grid. It may look a bit messy to begin with but once the path is set and the new grass grown we hope that it will blend in quietly with the orchard. We did hope that we would be able to have an official opening on the day of Blossom Day Picnic but sadly it looks as if the grass will not be quite ready for use by then.  However, as soon as the path is mowable and ready for wheelchairs and boots we will organise an official opening, inviting all the groups who have helped us make this project a reality.  Once the path is open and usable it does not mean of course that you have to use it – those of you who are able may still weave your way between the trees as you have done before and in fact in the first year we would probably encourage this rather than constantly using the new path.

The new Wolvercote Horticultural Society programme of events, show classes and associated information has now been updated on their page: https://wolvercote.org/wolvercote-horticultural-society/

Why not think about what you can enter on the summer show? You don’t have to be a member to enter.