May and Gil were always in Church on Sundays and before they moved from Westcott, she was an active member of the PCC. We all remember her plant sales at the Fete. She raised enormous amounts for the Church and other local charities as well as for Fairbridge, now part of the Prince’s Trust. She was a brilliant gardener and plantswoman and her plant sales both here and in London were legendary. She lectured both in the UK and in the USA. She wrote two books, one on the history of glasshouses and the other on European gardens. May was successful at everything she did. From that day in September 1974 we became firm friends. They lent us the cottage for two weeks while we searched for somewhere to live. It was May and Gil who rescued us after our house had burnt down on our wedding day. They had lived at Westcott, Middle Aston for 50 years and their cottage at weekends was a joyful place, full of friends and family. May died peacefully at home on February 4th surrounded by her family. Her friend Caroline Parsons has written this tribute: There is to be a Thanksgiving Service for her life in Steeple Aston church on Tuesday, 2nd May. May Woods, a long time resident of Middle Aston, has died aged 78. Remembering May Woods, formerly of Middle Aston The money will be divided with Parkinson Disease and Dementia. I am very grateful to you all who donated. Thank you to all of you who attended the funeral of my husband Mel Smith on 20th January 2023. When a second cold front moves across the region on Sunday night and Monday, Ms Westcott said snowseekers could get a "second bite of the cherry" but it was not likely.If you would like news and photos of your family to be included in this section, please email you are interested in tracing your family history in Steeple Aston, try the Oxfordshire Family History Society website for lots of useful services and links. It's going to be a little bit of a shock to the system when it starts to get cold again." "It's certainly not the coldest it has been, we did have a minus 5.5 degree start on Wednesday, June 15, but the last five or six mornings have been reasonably warm. "The forecast is minus 3 degrees to start off with in the Canberra region, that 's pretty cold," Ms Westcott said. Ms Westcott said the big high coming through on the weekend that would push the cold front away from the ACT region would also send the temperature plunging, making for some very cold starts in the capital come the weekend. "It will take the resorts a while to groom the slopes, they have to mark all of the obstacles so that will take a little bit of time but definitely on Saturday there should be some lifts opening up and then through Sunday I'd say even more." The high pressure systems that have been stopping all of these cold fronts from hitting the mountains have weakened and we should see consistent snow fall in coming weeks," he said. "The outlook looks pretty good at the moment. The best days to hit the slopes would be Saturday and Sunday, Mr Taylor said. Saturday we actually have a little bit of a break in the weather, it'll be a little bit cloudy but it'll stay cool and the snow guns should be able to operate and then we have another front coming through on Sunday sho we should get another 10 to 20 centimetres from Sunday through to Tuesday." "We should see about 20 to 40 centimetres through Thursday and Friday and as a result we should start to see lifts open on the weekend. "We will have low level snow probably getting down to around 700 metres so there's going to be snow pretty much all over the roads throughout the mountains and the winds will be strong so it will be blizzard conditions," Mr Taylor said. Snow forecaster Peter Taylor from Snowatch said there would be plenty more on the way from Friday to Tuesday.
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