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Friday, 27th November 2009

As much of my own constituency is rural, I enjoyed meeting with the Chief Executive and Directors of the Woodland Trust just outside Kidlington on Friday.   After a walk through mature woodland, I saw the new planting they have undertaken and discussed with them how we can protect and sustain our threatened woodland and countryside.

I then visited Combe CE Primary School, which was placed joint top of last year’s national primary league tables.  Having joined in a class debate about whether Goldilocks was right to enter the house of the three bears and inspected the school vegetable patch, I joined the whole school at Assembly where we celebrated the new school buildings and I announced the winners of my annual Christmas card competition.  There were some wonderful drawings and you can look at the top ten by clicking here.

It was over to Witney next to have brunch with the Witney Big Breakfast Club to celebrate their 5^th birthday.  For those of you that don’t know, this is a great organisation set up to encourage links between local businesses.  I launched it five years ago and I’m so pleased it is still thriving.  It was great to chat with so many local entrepreneurs.

We have a new Team Rector in Witney, Revd Toby Wright, who I met after lunch and we had plenty to talk about.  I then walked over to the Witney & District Museum who have a special Christmas display on at the moment.  I would urge you all to visit – I certainly enjoyed looking at all the Christmases past in Witney and having a go at making sugar mice and peg dolls for my children.

A visit to the company E-Z-Rect followed this where they are producing storage lockers for the fold-up bicycles, Brompton Bikes.  This is a truly innovative project and I wish them well with their aspirations to incorporate them into the 2012 Olympic complex.

I then hosted my advice surgery where people came to talk to me about subjects as diverse as allotments in Carterton, the A415 and the political system in Jersey.  My last job of the day was to switch on the Witney lights which I very much enjoyed as usual!  I also managed to look around most of the stalls, including enjoying some hot chestnuts and buying some Fair Trade produce.  Many congratulations to all those who worked so hard to organise such a wonderful evening.

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