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CRICKET: Downs facing cup tester
11:42am Thursday 17th January 2008
Oxfordshire champions Oxford Downs will face a tricky second-round trip to Aston Rowant or Tiddington, if they get past minnows Bledington in the npower Village Cup first round on Sunday, April 20.
Downs, who went on to reach the national semi-finals last year, could meet their Cherwell League rivals on Sunday, May 4.
OXON GROUP DRAW.
1st round (Sun, Apr 20): Aston Rowant v Tiddington, Bledington v Oxford Downs, Cropredy v Baldons, Freeland v Great & Little Tew.
2nd round (Sun, May 4): Aston Rowant or Tiddington v Bledington or Oxford Downs, Peppard v Shipton-under-Wychwood, Tetsworth v Kingston Bagpuize, Hanborough v Horspath, Cropredy or Baldons v Freeland or Great & Little Tew, Britwell Salome v Uffington, Kidmore End v Oxford & Bletchingdon Nondescripts, Warborough & Shillingford v Cumnor.
Oxford have been drawn at home to the winners of Sawbridgworth and Shepherds Bush in the Evening Standard Challenge Trophy second round on Sunday, June 15.
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The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Early taste of Christmas wine
Next week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
Dylan Moran: New Theatre, Oxford
‘I was the first person to discover that if you infected a person with Marmite, he would stand up and bark at the moon.” “Everybody under the age of 35 has the intelligence of raspberry jam.” “Children can hear vegetables hiding.”
Sleeping Beauty, Chipping Norton Theatre
There’s nothing King Couer-de-Loup likes more than a good battle: “We’ll march on King Florizel’s wet and wicked army,” he proclaims. His Queen is not so sure, however. She would rather her husband stayed around: there’s the christening of their daughter Princess Aurora to arrange for a start. And he certainly can’t go out and fight looking like that: “Your chain mail’s got a ladder in it,” she wails.
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