Hinksey Heights Captains Drive In

We are the Hinksey Heights Golf Club Captains Charity for 2016 and they are donating the proceeds of the raffle to us, as well as other ingenious fund raising ideas.

Raffle

Their members have donated some very generous prizes.
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A wide selection of raffle prizes – many, unsurprisingly, with a golfing theme.
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Although not everyone could make it to the event, we were very pleased to have the support of those who did manage to get there.

Exploring

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When the initial rush of raffle ticket sales had died down – since most of the golf club members were out playing their round of golf – we went for a walk to explore the course.
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The view of Oxford is amazing.

Footgolf

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One of their activities is Foot Golf, which is like a combination of Football and Golf, though we invented our own variant – by seeing how many throws were needed to go from the tee box to the hole.
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Here is the ball heading for the hole !

It is trickier than it looks !

Simon teeing off in our hand thrown variant on FootGolf – note also the amazing view of Oxford in the background.

Simon makes it look easy !
 
 

Easter Bingo

wp-1458329123684We play for chocolates ! Members bring some eggs, or chocolate bunnies or other treats and we redistribute them through the evening.
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Our caller, with our fancy Bingo machine.
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Two full cards – once we have played a few games we tend to carry on until everyone has won a prize.
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Happy winners with plenty of chocolate to take home !
 

Quiz Night

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Robin had created a very well organised quiz, which we did in teams – as well as drinking tea or coffee and eating biscuits.
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We had a Disney Princess based word search, as well as anagrams, and a chance to show our knowledge (or lack of), of the titles of Carry On films.
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One of the other teams hard at work !

Craft Night

Decorating Picture frames. and other items – some with an Easter theme, some as gifts for Mothers Day and some just for fun.
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We had quite a few roses left over from Alendra Rose Day and here they are used to decorate a bag
.wp-1456520064341Lovely pictutre frame !

Phab Art and Crafts Day in Hounslow

We had an early start, boarding the minibus for the journey to Hounslow.
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All aboard !
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On the bus and ready for a jolly day with our friends from other Phab clubs.
On the way we played “I spy”.
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Warming up with hot drinks
Once we were warmed up we started on the crafts, making mosaics,
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decorating eggs,
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making keyrings,
 
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and decorating mini bags.
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Glass painting
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Photos –
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to go into picture frames
 
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and of course there was a raffle.

Pancakes !

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Cooking pancakes in the Wesley Memorial kitchen.
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Production line!
We built up to two pancake makers and someone putting them in the oven to keep warm.
 
Then it was time to eat !
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we had a good selection of fillings –
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bananas and cream,
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bananas and chocolate sauce,  as well as sugar and lemon juice,  or Golden Syrup.
 
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we even had a Birthday pancake !

Wheelchair Dancing

You don’t have to be in a wheelchair to take part in Wheelchair Dancing – as Patrick and Lynn from the Wheelchair Dance Sport Association showed as when they came to teach us the rudiments of Wheelchair Dancing.
wpid-wp-1454700700445.jpegWe already enjoy Discos, Barn Dances and Zumba, and wheelchair dance can have similarities to all of these, but cleverly adapted to make the dances more accessible.

 
Here is Patrick giving us some initial instruction – he is starting off simple – it became more complicated as we went along !

Some pictures of us  dancing.

Getting more active !

And this one is more like a Barn Dance.
 

We finished with some winding down exercises.