
Forever Barton-on-the-Heath
Ah, the Barton-on-the-Heath fete! An annual fixture of the last ten years for The Oxford Classic Jazz Band. It is perhaps one of the smallest village fetes in Christendom, taking place as it does on a tiny triangle of green beneath the benign arms of an ancient oak tree in an antique Cotswold village. The fixtures and entertainments have never changed in the decade the band has played here. Children attempt to Splat the Rat as he shoots down his plastic tube while Daisy the C