Adderbury Advent – Call for Volunteers
To help the village celebrate together the weeks leading up to Christmas, St Mary’s Church is once again organising a Living Advent Calendar. The idea is that each evening during Advent there will be a new decorated front window or garden for people to see in the village. So we are looking for at least 24 houses to volunteer to take part! Each house will need to decorate one window or part of their garden, visible from the road during the evening (5.00 pm to 9.00 pm), on a Christmassy theme (eg. a Christmas carol, stars, Santa Claus, etc).
The Kleio Quartet with Helen Clement (Viola) will be performing in St Mary’s Church starting at 6.00 pm. They will be playing Haydn op.33 no.5 ‘How do you do?’, Beethoven op. 95 ‘Serioso’ Quartet, and Mozart String Quintet in G minor K51. Tickets at £20.00 are available at the door. Students and children under the age of 18 are admitted free if accompanied by an adult. (No admission for children under the age of 5.)
Tim Healy will give a talk on ‘A Victorian Christmas’ in the Institute starting at 7.30 pm. Broadcaster and writer Tim returns for another of his very entertaining talks. In this vibrant portrait of seasonal festivities in the reign of Victoria, he tracks the emergence of innovations such as Christmas trees, cards and crackers –while also highlighting the stark disparities between celebrations of the rich and the poor. Visitors are welcome at £5.00.
We meet at Lake Walk Car Park at 9.00 am – or just come along and find the group around the Lakes when you can. Bring strong gloves and if possible any loppers, rakes or spades. Coffee and biscuits are provided at break time and we finish by noon. For further details please contact Rachel Moffat at 
Yet again our fantastic Adderbury Christmas Market is to take place this year on 22 November in St Mary’s Church between 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. Santa will be in his grotto between 11.00 am to 1.00 pm and 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm.