| Excerpts
from the village gossip column throughout 2007,
offering you a summary of life in the village from the
webmaster's (admittedly heavily distorted)
perspective. Most recent entries come first.
|
|
|
| 17
December |
A large house in the
middle of the village is going on the market to be
sold by Marlborough agent Henry
George.
|
| 17
December |
There was a serious
accident this evening just after 5pm involving 2 cars
in the village last night. Several emergency services
vehicles attended, including the police, an ambulance,
and fire appliances. Click
here to see some pictures.
|
| 16
December |
Click
here to see some fascinating old pictures of the
village, many of them 100 years old. .
|
| 16
December |
Last night was the annual
Women's Institute Christmas get-together. Click
here to see the photos.
|
| 15
December |
The village Carols Round
the Tree took place last night and a good time was had
by all.
|
| 12
December |
December so far (excluding
a couple of days when the server was down) average 145
people a day viewing this site, the fourth highest
month in 2007 to date.
|
| 6
December |
The Hungerford Round Table
Santa Claus float arrived in the village last night to
much glee from the village's children.
|
| 4
December |
A couple of photos of the
Chilton monoplane have been sent in. Click
here to see them.
|
| 1
December |
Yasmin, Sam and Alex
Wolclough's new baby was christened in the
village.
|
| 1
December |
A few weeks ago, 4 ospreys
were seen on the river.
And the river-keeper has reported a major decrease in
the trout population. He suspects this is to do with
some local residents whose properties adjoin the
river,
|
| 1
December |
A few weeks ago there was
a balloon race in the village, which you can see if
you click here.
|
| 22
November |
The
latest web stats are published, click
here to see them.
|
| 22
November |
Peter Camfield resigns as
chairman of the Village Hall Management Committee
after may years.
|
| 22
November |
A villager aged 10 now
stars on his band's website. Click
here to see and hear it.
|
| 16
November |
A villager has just sent
us the results of a BBC poll of the craziest laws in
Britain. As well as some from other countries. Click
here to see them
|
| 14
November |
Residents need to keep
their eyes peeled for overweight hedgehogs, following
reports in this morning's papers. The ideal weight for
a hedgehog is 1lb 5oz. But a hedgehog has been found
in England that weighs in at a staggering 5lb!
Apparently, there's nothing wrong with it. It's just
greedy.
|
| 9
November |
Click
here to see members
of the village disporting themselves in the pub on the
recent Halloween night.
|
| 8
November |
The
School Halloween Disco on Friday at the village hall
raised an impressive £376. 82 children came, and had
a ball.
|
| 8
November |
Inkpen Church yesterday
was very full for villager Aislinn Stacey's
funeral.
|
| 5
November |
Today, an elderly lady
suffered a break-in. In the morning. Apparently, a car
containing 3 males and a blonde girl pulled up
opposite the old lady's house. 2 stayed in the car,
and 2 knocked on her door.
|
| 26
October |
The webmaster is sorry to
have to report the death of local resident, Aislinn
Stacey, who had only recently moved to the village,
with her husband Stuart. She died from natural causes
at the early age of 44
|
| 18
October |
The centre of the village
is being transformed on Wednesday nights. Outside the
village hall there is much barking and baying, and
general rowdiness and mayhem. It's dog training night
at the village hall.
|
| 7
October |
Neighbourhood Watch
Newsletter has been relaunched. The latest one has
just been received. Click here
to read it.
|
| 24
September |
The annual harvest took
place on Saturday, to a packed village hall. A great
success all round. Click
here for pictures.
|
| 19
September |
The jokes have been rather
thin lately, but a villager has now made up for it
with a wonderful politically incorrect one. Click
here to read it.
|
| 2
September |
The
church is holding an Autumn Produce Fayre on Saturday
22nd September.
|
| 1
September |
The
pub held its first vegetable show last weekend. Click
here for some pictures a villager has sent in.
|
| 27
July |
A bored villager has sent
in some terrible jokes. Click
here to read them.
|
| 27
July |
The script is finished for
next year's panto (oh yes it is!).
|
| 27
July |
England has been
(literally) inundated with floods following
unprecedented rain storms. Luckily, Chilton Foliat has
escaped, but neighbouring towns and villages were
badly affected. Click
here to see some pictures of Newbury station taken
by Nic C, a villager.
|
| 1
July |
The web stats for June are
now available, and are a record high. Again! An
average of 259 people every day visited our web site
during last month, including an amazing 643 people on
8th June.
|
| 26
June |
More pics of the double
wedding are now available. Click
here to see them.
|
| 24
June |
The school fete took place
yesterday. As usual, it was a very successful event.
|
| 24
June |
There was a double wedding
in the village yesterday. For the first batch of
photos click
here.
|
| 11
June |
Saturday night witnessed a
streaker in our local pub. There are not many reports
available, apart from one regular who was there and
said it was obviously 'cold out'.
|
| 6
June |
The web site is going mad.
During the last 2 days an average of 357 every day
have visited our web site.
|
| 6
June |
The village fete has gone
national. Innocent (the nationally-known fruit drinks
brand) has featured the fete on its web site. Click
here to see it.
|
| 3
June |
The village fete took
place yesterday in glorious sunshine. The new chair,
Lizzy Grey, and the many helpers and committee members
from the village did an excellent job in enabling a
great family day. Rumour has it that over £4,400 was
raised for deserving village causes. Click
here to see the pics.
|
| 29
May |
There have been several
break-ins in the village recently. No fewer than three
properties have been burgled.
|
| 20
May |
Apparently a village
resident is thinking about getting an inflatable hot
tub.
|
| 19
May |
Today saw a fascinating
exhibition in the village hall about the history of
the village. There were pictures of football and
cricket teams, school productions, and photographs of
the village going back to the 19th century.
|
| 18
May |
Ducks are invading the
village! They have been seen all over the place. One
family, whose garden backs onto the river, found a
duck in their living room recently. ASBOs all round
for the village ducks!
|
| 4
May |
The village pub is holding
a Flower and Vegetable Show 2007 and Beer Festival on
Bank Holiday Monday 26 August.
|
| 3
May |
A new business has been
launched in the village - Jackie Hynes now has a
children's bouncy castle for hire.
|
| 3
May |
Rumour has it that there
is to be a double wedding in the village on 23 June.
Who knows who this will be?
|
| 2
May |
The web stats for April
are out, and show an all-time low of 114 visitors a
day to the web site. However, it should be noted that
this is artificially lower than it should be, as there
was a period between 17 and 22 April when the web
server went down and there were zero visitors a day
for that period. If it wasn't for that, the average
would be 145 visitors a day.
|
| 1
May |
The village
pub, one of the last outposts of thriving,
innovative, modern business practice, has unilaterally
decided to pre-empt the government ban on smoking in
enclosed public places which officially was to start
towards the beginning of July. The
Wheatsheaf is now a non-smoking environment.
For non-smokers, this is great news. For the dying
breed of smokers, probably not.
|
| 9
April |
he village enjoyed a quiet
and peaceful Easter break, and the only excitement was
a bouncy castle in the pub garden, combined with a
children's East Egg hunt.
|
| 4
April |
An excellent leaflet has
been produced showing events at the village hall. Click
here to read it.
|
| 1
April |
Welcome to James and
Catherine, and their two daughters, Grace and Laura,
who have now moved into the village.
|
| 30
March |
Today sees the departure
of two households from the village, both of whom will
be missed. Mr M is moving to a nearby village to live
with Debbie, the love of his life. And Lisa and Ollie,
and their son Tristam, are moving into somewhere with
a bit more space.
|
| 24
March |
There's a disco on
Saturday 31 March at 8 pm
|
| 22
March |
It snowed again this
morning. Click
here for pictures.
|
| 20
March |
It snowed on Monday. The
village woke up to a thin covering of the white stuff
which looked very pretty. And since then it has been
sub-zero, certainly overnight. The chicken saga goes
on, and the village is becoming chicken mad.
|
| 4
March |
Chilton Foliat is about to
be re-named Chicken Foliat. We think.
|
| 2
March |
Ignore the puerile
comments in the entry below and welcome Lizzy, who is
running the village fete this year. Click
here to read her first message to the
village.
|
| 1
March |
The village fete has a
fantastic new Chair. Or at least that's what the PC
members of the community call it. PC, by the way, does
not stand for the ubiquitous Personal Computer, or
Parish Council, but Politically Correct. Not an
accusation that can be leveled at your webmaster. The
new person who will be chairing, guiding, enabling the
fete will be Lizzie Grey, a newcomer to the village.
And a very welcome breath of fresh air. In fact, the
Noise Pollution Officers had no idea how loud fresh
air was until they met Lizzy!
|
| 8
February |
Spring has sprung in the
village. The first flowering cherry tree is in full
flower. The birds are going mad. Especially the
woodpecker, which wakes the webmaster up every morning
at dawn. And yesterday saw brilliant sunshine.
|
| 17
February |
A couple of villagers have
decided to prepare the village for a major catastrophe
by digging mass graves. The webmaster thinks there is
a Russian link here. Click
here to see the evidence.
|
| 8
February |
The village woke up to a
white morning today, after a heavy snowfall overnight.
Most local schools are closed, and the village looks
fabulous. Click
here or here
to see the pictures.
|
| 7
February |
The village is about to be
subjected to yet more noise. No, not ghetto-blasters,
a much more rural phenomenon, cockerels.
|
| 6
February |
Chris and Caroline have
asked the webmaster to put an official notice of
sincere thanks here on the web site to all the very
many people who have sent in offers of help in one way
or another since their house burnt down on 25th
January.
|
| 5
February |
The web stats are out for
January 2007. 134 people every day visited the site,
which is an all time record. The most was 213 people
on 26 January.
|
| 4
February |
Someone has nicked the
plants from outside the pub, pots and all. Can't they
just come in and order a beer and pay for it?
|
| 27
January |
Chris and Caroline have
had lots of offers of help from villagers since losing
their house. it's good to see that people in the
community are prepared to help others in
difficulty.
|
| 26
January |
The village woke up to
dreadful news this morning. Chris and Caroline
Kaneen's lovely cottage on the Littlecote corner burnt
down last night.
|
| 25
January |
The first snow of the
winter has appeared in the village. It wasn't a huge
amount, but was still enough to get some children
excited thinking school would be off. No such luck.
All the local schools opened as normal. But the
village does look very pretty!
|
| 22
January |
Yet more web stats are
available. If it carries on like this, this web
site will beat all records. December was a record
breaker in itself, with an average of 115 people a day
visiting the web site. In January so far, 116 a day
have visited here, eclipsing December!
|
| 21
January |
Great news! Moving to
Chilton Foliat is apparently a potentially fertile
exercise. There is a new engagement in the village
with Andy and Charlie (as in Charlotte - it's a
red-bloodedly heterosexual union).
|
| 18
January |
Shock, horror!. The
webmaster injured his head last weekend. Quite badly.
The most surprising thing to come out of this is to
discover from the scan that the webmaster actually has
a brain. The scan showed it up, and you can click
here to see it.
|
| 11
January |
The Chilton Chicks (that's
the village toddlers) Christmas Party 2006 pics are
now up on the web. Click
here to see them.
|
| 1
January |
The latest web stats are
available. An average of 115 people a day visited the
web site during December, the highest since the web
site started two and a half years ago, even exceeding
June's 114 a day. The highest day was the 16th, with
188 visits, and the lowest (not surprising really
because everybody had better things to do than look at
the web site) were Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,
with 66 visits a day each..
|
| 1
January |
Last night was, of course,
New Year's Eve, and there were two public parties in
the village. The pub held a Wild West theme night, and
several parents, led by Jackie H, organised a great
kids' evening in the Hall. Everybody had a great time,
and there were some very good costumes. Click
here to see the pictures.
|
| 1
January |
Yasmin and Jeremy
contacted the webmaster today, asking for a message to
be posted here to sincerely thank everyone who sent
cards, letters and messages expressing their
condolences for Brendan's sad death late last year.
|
| 1
January |
The pictures of the
Christmas decoration party at the pub on December 15th
are now up on the web site. They were taken by local
ace professional photographer, Phil Tull. there are
some great pictures of village kids. Click
here to see them.
|
