Just a quick point of information: I posted a link to this site on the chippingnorton.net forum and have had a fantastic response. (Kudos to Chipping Norton for having such an active forum.) In the subsequent comment thread, a poster called Gerry wrote the following:
“You need to know that nobody from Chippy does their shopping at the Daylesford Farm Shop.”
Big Billy Boswer added: “We can’t afford it with the cuts
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So there we are.
Elsewhere, others have claimed that my joke about the Movable Feast chippy has no validity since “moveable” can also be written without an ‘e’. Sadly, they are right and I am wrong. Damn.
UPDATE
And here’s another fantastic Daylesford post from “Newshound”:
It never ceases to amaze me how many column inches in newspapers, magazines and just about anywhere else are given to Daylesford Organics or whatever it’s called. For some reason editors and hacks seem to think it’s the new centre of the universe or at least the Cotswolds and it’s the Cotswolds version of ‘arrods’ if they set their satnavs to Chipping Norton it takes them to Daylesford or Daylesford they get Chippy and think the locals are in awe of celebrities and the rich and famous in their midst.
So Sam this is the secret of Daylesford – Daylesford is a meeting place for the rich and famous, people who want to be famous and people who want to think their famous and want you to think they’re famous by having a cup of coffee alongside the “crowd”. The Hurley’s and the Winset’s who moved into the countryside thinking they are going to be an important member of the community and to show off to anyone their new lover/husband/someone else’s husband and no one’s going to bother them have come to realise that no one gives a rats-arse who they are, so they have to be seen somewhere, add to that the rich who are not famous but like to be seen in the company who are.
As Gerry mentioned nobody actually shops there, why on earth anyone would pay £16 for a breast fed chicken I don’t know, mind you people have been known to spend £50 on a few bits just to say they have rubbed shoulders with Samantha Cameron, which brings me back to Chippy while the “I shop where its posh” set go to Daylesford to rub shoulders with the likes Samantha and et al , in reality Dave joins the queue like everyone else in Chippy and shops in Sainsbury’s where nobody bothers him recognises him or gives a toss, that is the reason for him living here, personally if I want to catch a glimpse of Dave I wouldn’t spend 70 grand on a Range Rover to be “seen” at Daylesford I would wait until Dave’s in Sainsbury’s, plus I can buy a chicken for a fiver.
One other thing Sam, Chippy have had the famous and not so rich in our midst for years, Keith Moon the loon from the Who once owned the Crown & Cushion Hotel who after his hangers-on had gone was actually normal, on one occasion upon his arrival in town in his pink Rolls Royce parked in the car park full of birds with the music cranked up loud was told by a friend I was with ‘you can turn that f****** row down’ which he did, plus there are many others around from stage and screen who I can’t be bothered to mention.
Welcome to Chipping Norton Sam.
It never ceases to amaze me how many column inches in newspapers, magazines and just about anywhere else are given to Daylesford Organics or whatever it’s called. For some reason editors and hacks seem to think it’s the new centre of the universe or at least the Cotswolds and it’s the Cotswolds version of ‘arrods’ if they set their satnavs to Chipping Norton it takes them to Daylesford or Daylesford they get Chippy and think the locals are in awe of celebrities and the rich and famous in their midst.
So Sam this is the secret of Daylesford – Daylesford is a meeting place for the rich and famous, people who want to be famous and people who want to think their famous and want you to think they’re famous by having a cup of coffee alongside the “crowd”. The Hurley’s and the Winset’s who moved into the countryside thinking they are going to be an important member of the community and to show off to anyone their new lover/husband/someone else’s husband and no one’s going to bother them have come to realise that no one gives a rats-arse who they are, so they have to be seen somewhere, add to that the rich who are not famous but like to be seen in the company who are.
As Gerry mentioned nobody actually shops there, why on earth anyone would pay £16 for a breast fed chicken I don’t know, mind you people have been known to spend £50 on a few bits just to say they have rubbed shoulders with Samantha Cameron, which brings me back to Chippy while the “I shop where its posh” set go to Daylesford to rub shoulders with the likes Samantha and et al , in reality Dave joins the queue like everyone else in Chippy and shops in Sainsbury’s where nobody bothers him recognises him or gives a toss, that is the reason for him living here, personally if I want to catch a glimpse of Dave I wouldn’t spend 70 grand on a Range Rover to be “seen” at Daylesford I would wait until Dave’s in Sainsbury’s, plus I can buy a chicken for a fiver.
One other thing Sam, Chippy have had the famous and not so rich in our midst for years, Keith Moon the loon from the Who once owned the Crown & Cushion Hotel who after his hangers-on had gone was actually normal, on one occasion upon his arrival in town in his pink Rolls Royce parked in the car park full of birds with the music cranked up loud was told by a friend I was with ‘you can turn that f****** row down’ which he did, plus there are many others around from stage and screen who I can’t be bothered to mention.
Welcome to Chipping Norton Sam.