PLANNED SOCIAL EVENTS FOR 2012 Further details or any amendments will be circulated by email or hard copy to those not with email facilities QUIZ NIGHT Saturday 10 March at Condicote Village Hall GALLOPS BRUNCH Saturday 24 March at Martins Hill with Graeme & Seanin McPherson. A £5 per person donation has been requested, and all contributions will be given to the County Air Ambulance Trust. SKITTLES EVENING Friday 13 April at the Farmers Arms, Guiting Power Supper & skittles – c. £15 per head. No previous experience necessary! VISIT TO HONINGTON HALL Wednesday 2 May 10.45 for 11.00 at the Hall – pub lunch afterwards EARLY SUMMER WALK Sunday 13 May an easy walk of about 4 miles with the option of a pub lunch afterwards DIAMOND JUBILEE WEEKEND 2 – 5 June DISPLAY OF JUBILEE EPHEMERA Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues in The Granary PARISH PARTY Monday 4 June 8.00pm for dinner & fireworks CHEESE & WINE PARTY Sunday 26 August at Park House, lunchtime AUTUMN LECTURE Friday 12 October PROGRESSIVE SUPPER Saturday 17 November AGM JANUARY 2012 The Annual general Meeting of the Maugersbury Residents' Association was held at the Fosse Manor Hotel on Sunday 15 January 2012. The minutes of the meeting are included here and a downloadable version can be found at the bottom of this page. A note issued by the Cotswold District Council concerning the twice yearly Stow Fairs, which are held within the Maugersbury Parish, is included as an attachment below. REPORTS AND PHOTOS OF RECENT MRA EVENTS
We include reports and photographs of some of some recent social events held by the Maugersbury Residents' Association below. Other social events held in the village can be viewed via the Maugersbury Today/Photographs page. ANNUAL VILLAGE OUTING 2011 Rousham
House
All went well after a slightly sticky start after some confusion over
suitable accommodation for those unable to manage the tour of the house, they
ended up having coffee at the hotel where we were having lunch, and over how
payment was to be made. We ended up in a crocodile down the steep steps leading
up to the front door while the chatelaine went in search for the tin box in
which to deposit the money. Thankfully it wasn’t raining. Then as soon as the
penny dropped as to who we were and where we came from things improved and we
were given a full, instructive and unhurried tour of what is a very interesting
and important house.
A couple of points that seemed to capture particular interest were the
spyhole in the huge solid oak front door to see who was outside, and below an
even bigger hole for a blunderbuss to dispel unwelcome visitors, the latter
hole being lined with lead in case the barrel got too hot and set fire to the
door, and the fact that the main living room had only been redecorated once in
all the years and that in the 1930’s and was not likely to be done again in the
foreseeable future. A lesson for us all but bad news for interior
decorators.
The garden was not at its best as the weather was cloudy and damp and late
frosts had turned all the tops of the box edgings yellow thus giving them an
unusual two tone effect, but impressive none the less. For those who made it to
the tiny church in the grounds the usual memorials made interesting reading and
particularly reminded one of how precarious life was then by how many were for
infants or children or young adults.
Following the look around the garden we hotfooted it to The Holt Hotel
where a special carvery had been set up for us and where we found the special
non-tour four comfortably settled in the lounge. The lunch was various and
plentiful but as we seemed to be only clientele our custom must have been doubly
welcome.
Next year we are considering visiting Kelmscot Manor the home of William
Morris and an Arts and Craft mecca. Any comments or suggestions would be
welcome and addressed to Tony Sumner.
MRA QUIZ - MARCH 2010 The Quiz, organized by Beryl Saunders, was held on Saturday 6th March at Fosse Manor Conference Room, which was kindly made available by the Manager, Chris Gear, free of charge. It was well attended with ten tables of four each participating. The Quiz consisted of 10 Rounds together with an Interval Round plus a Food Round set by Chris Gear for which he gave a special prize. The dominance of the Steeles and the Holmes (winners in several previous Quizzes) was successfully challenged by the Greenhills and their guests the Bunstons who tied with them. In a true exhibition of sportsmanship they agreed to split the prize which was generously supplemented by Chris Gear. Numerous raffle prizes were won, and a most enjoyable evening was had by all (except the winners of the cabbage who will remain nameless). After a supplement from the Santander Charity Fund (arranged by Bob Fisher) a sum of £1,555 was donated to the Air Ambulance who presented a Certificate to the Residents’ Association to record the event.
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