MARCH 2012 | Contents
07 What’s on listings
14 28
14 News
from the BN5 area
26 Books
from Steyning Bookshop
28 Art & crafts
courses from the area
30
30 Art & crafts
artist Claire Phillips
36 Food & drink Truffles Bakery
36 50
50 Art & crafts Camelia Botnar
60 Health
with Kristina Banner
64 Business
with Paul Samrah
66 Index
Editor’s LETTER
I find the winter months particularly gloomy, but March brings a little warmth to the earth and some early signs of spring. It’s a time to look forward, make new plans and think about having some fun. This is reflected in our listings pages, people are slowly coming out of hibernation. We’re looking forward to hearing from you with your events and news over the coming months. There’s a real buzz about crafts and creativity at the moment so we thought we’d shamelessly jump on the bandwaggon and explore what’s available locally. Have a look at page 28 and find some inspiration, if you’ve always wanted to have a go at painting, printmaking or perhaps flower arranging or quiltmaking then now is the time to get busy. Our local bakery Truffles is celebrating 30 years in April. I caught up with Peter Tompsett, the founder of the company, and satisfied my childlike curiosity about how those lovely big mixers, bakers and rollers create tempting delicacies. Read Peter’s story on page 36. Partridge Green artist Claire Phillips is not only immensely talented but also has a big heart and a social conscience to match. Her work is crossing boundaries to communicate other lives and worlds to us. Find out what motivates her on page 30. Enjoy March and keep those lovely stories rolling in. This is our 68th issue and we’ve not managed to run out of things to say yet!
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Many thanks to our editorial and photographic contributors this month; Kristina Banner, Paul Samrah, Sara & Gudrun Bowers and Mike Beardall. Cover images courtesy of Sussex Printmakers, Sussex Prairies and David Plummer, Sussex Wildlife Trust. BN5 magazine is printed by Evonprint in Small Dole on 100% FSC approved managed forests paper and is printed using vegetable-based inks.
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Copy Deadline
Copy deadline for any advertisement or editorial submission for the April 12 issue of BN5 magazine is Friday 2 March. For editorial submissions email Emma Osman editor@bn5magazine.co.uk or just call us for a chat on 01273 494002.
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