Out & About Autumn 2018

Find out what’s happening in West Berkshire and the surrounding area, with concerts, theatre, fetes, lectures, exhibitions and markets to choose from. You can find more detailed listings every Thursday in the Newbury Weekly News or online at www.newburytoday.co.uk WHAT’S ON Food, glorious food...

own with Hungerford Allotments. Enter the Hungerford Cook-Off – class details available on the website. Judges will include Masterchef semi-finalist Ollie Hunter from the Wheatsheaf, Chilton Foliat, Lanie Allen and food journalist Hilary Scott. Tea and cake will be provided by Hungerford Scouts and the raffle is in aid of Hungerford Environmental Action Team. You can also enjoy a special food festival cream tea on the Rose of Hungerford , departing 2.30pm. Book your tickets on 01380 721279 or Fare Wise Travel, Hungerford High Street. Food Festival wristband holders will get a £1 refund on the boat on the day. There is also a schedule of live cookery demonstrations, including Ollie Hunter andAudley Inglewood head chef Gert Pienaar. For the latest news go to www.hungerfordfoodfestival.com

Sunday October 7 - Hungerford Food Festival various venues 10.30am-4pm Local foodie fun with more than 40 stalls across Hungerford Town Hall and High Street. Local producers include grass- fed Brunskill Beef and award-winning Foxglove Flock lamb, local rapeseed oil, apple juice, honey, beer, cider, charcuterie, cheese, and cakes. Sample the first vintage from Winding Wood Vineyard near Hungerford, Wiltshire Liqueurs will be offering wild strawberry and sloe gin and The Naked Grape’s bar will be serving local tipples. Organic farmer, owner of The Royal Oak pub in Bishopstone, and chief executive of the Soil Association, Helen Browning will be talking about her new book Pig: Tales from an Organic Farm, which follows nine sows from the week of their farrowing, through a long hard winter. Bring your surplus apples to be juiced by My Apple Juice, have a go at pressing rape seeds, discover more about bees and honey with Newbury & District Beekeepers and learn how to grow your

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Trust talks

Sew interesting Newbury Embroiderers’ Guild St Francis de Sales Church Hall, off Warren Road, Wash Common, 7.30pm Monday, September 10 My Life in Stitch , talk by Alison Hulme about her unusual journey into textiles, her inspiration for printing new designs and how she uses these new fabrics. Monday, October 8 AGM, sales table and exhibition of work for forthcoming

InCantata Choir Sunday, September 16 St Mary’s Church, Greenham, in aid of the Tear Fund. Sunday, October 14 St Mary’s Church, Thatcham, part of Thatcham Festival. For further details www.incantata.co.uk Singing in harmony The National Garden Scheme: Angela O’Connell gives an illustrated talk on the National Garden Scheme, for which she is a volunteer. Non-members and friends are welcome to come along for a small entrance fee of £3 Newbury National Trust St Georges hall, Wash Common, 7.30pm Monday, September 10 The Rebirth of Railway: Charles Clarke, a retired legal draughtsman, talks about the restoration of the Welsh Highland railway, using then and now photographs of the 25-mile-long restored heritage railway from Caernarfon to Porthmadog. Monday, October 8

exhibition Novel Stitches at West Berks Library. Visitors welcome. £5; Contact: 01635 862289;

info@newburyembroiderers.org.uk www.newbury-embroiderers.co.uk

A day at the races Newbury Racecourse www.newburyracecourse.co.uk September Friday 21 & 22 Dubai Duty Free International Flat racing October Friday 26 Afternoon Racing; Flat racing Saturday 27 Worthington’s Armed Forces Raceday; Flat racing November Thursday 8 Afternoon Racing; Jump

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