Swap Shop (For Sale & Wanted)
Pet sitting exchange
We have recently moved to the Island with our kitten, and are hoping someone might like to exchange pet sitting favours. We’d like to find someone who would be happy to feed and check-in on our kitten if we are away for the odd weekend, and would be happy to return the favour to other cat or dog owners. Please contact me via email if you are
interested: charlottevbates@gmail.com.
Carpets – two nearly new
We have taken up two nearly new fitted carpets in our home in Bridge Street, each 10′ x 10′ approximately, good quality wool (we think) pile and top quality rubber underlay. They are in excellent condition, clean and free to a good home (and we can recommend a cost-effective carpet fitter). Will fit many Osney Island homes. Contact Joyce or Brian at homeinoxford@btinternet.com.
Free to a good (musical) home…
I have two old-fashioned music stands which are surplus to requirements and are free to a good home. Contact belinda.jack@chch.ox.ac.uk if you’re interested.
About Osney Island
Osney Island is one of Oxford’s best-kept secrets. Located to the west of the city only minutes from the railway station and just off the busy Botley Road, it’s a small ‘village’ of some 300 households surrounded on all sides by the Thames and the Osney Stream.
Walk over the footbridge and drop down to the Island you are immediately in another world with boats, wildlife and the tranquillity of the river. It really is an island in the centre of Oxford.
Shaped like an old-fashioned belt buckle, streets named after the points of the compass provide its frame with Bridge St the prong in the middle. Most of the houses are small terraced homes – but you’d be amazed how inventive people have been in making the most of small spaces.
The population of Osney Island is an eclectic mix of people. Some have been born and bred here, others are commuters, academics, artists. We all enjoy the very special community spirit.