Village Living Issue 87 December 2016

Village LIVING

FREE l December 2016

Lifestyle | Community | Business

Steyning Bramber Beeding Ashington Washington Storrington Henfield Small Dole Shoreham-by-Sea

Oliver Simon Kay

FURNITURE FOR LIFE

Village LIVING

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FREE ● December 2016

Lifestyle | Community | Business

Steyning Bramber Beeding Ashington Washington Storrington Henfield Small Dole Shoreham-by-Sea

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Beauty & The Beast at Ropetackle

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Editors Letter

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Diary & Whats on

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VL Meets St Peter’s RC Primary School Shoreham

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Steyning & District Good Neighbors Association

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Furniture for life by Oliver Simon Kay

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Christmas on your High Street

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The Amsterdam in Shoreham under new management

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Popsicle Interiors

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Introducing – Pet Sitting Service Basking Dragon

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Karen Burge – How to be Happy

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Trade, Homes and Pets

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Public Services

Cover image – Oliver Simon Kay Ltd, Furniture for Life, Steyning – www.oliversimonkay.co.uk

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Oliver Simon Kay

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Welcome to December!

I can’t believe it’s Christmas season already! Really want to take the opportunity to say a big thank you to all our lovely readers and all the ongoing support of our advertisers, contributing writers and fantastic team that make the magazine what it is, from the amazing and incredibly patient team at Magazine Production in Shoreham, the printing boys at Newman Thomson, and the distributors at Letterbox Logistics, without these guys we just wouldn’t *be*! This month in the last of 2016 we say a big thankyou to Oliver Simon Kay for providing us with a beautiful Christmas issue cover, and editorial celebrating their second Christmas in Steyning High Street, some great seasonal editorial

Copy deadline is December 10th for the January issue. Please mention Village Living when responding to an advert.

from Popsicle Interiors, an introduction to one of Shoreham’s finest schools, an inspiring piece from Karen Burge and we are very excited to introduce the very welcome newly renovated and updated Amsterdam pub, opening at the beginning of the month, see you there! I hope you enjoy this issue, continue to shop locally, and support our local businesses and have a wonderful end to your 2016. Wishing you love and happiness over the Christmas Season – see you in 2017!

Katie & Michelle x

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6 • NEWS & WHAT’S ON

DESIGN WHAT’S ATON 32 • 6

What’s On?

SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 9AM - 2PM Artisans Market in East Street.

MARKETS

SATURDAY 3RD DECEMBER 12PM-3PM Ashington’s Annual Christmas Fayre Come along and meet Father Christmas at the Ashington Centre, Foster Lane, RH20 3PG. Lots of Christmas stalls with beautiful Christmas gifts for all ages, Christmas raffles, bric-abrac, delicious home-made cakes, bouncy castles and enjoyable hot lunch and refreshments will be available.Father Christmas arrives at 1pm. For details please phone Margaret on 01903 892633.

Henfield Hall – Monday Market from January open every Monday except bank holidays from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m a variety of stalls, ample free parking Shoreham – 2nd Sat of each month. 9.00 – 13.00. East Street Shoreham has a market every Wednesday morning at The Shoreham Centre, Pond Road, Shoreham-by-Sea. 9 am – 12.15 pm Steyning – 1st Sat of each month. 9.00 – 13.00. High St car park Storrington – Village Market at Village Hall 9-10.45am every Friday, a variety of locally home grown and sourced plants, cheeses, meats, breads & crafts West Chiltington – 2nd Sat of month. 9.00 – 12.00. Village Hall

EVENTS FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER 4PM - 8PM, SATURDAY 26TH NOVEMBER 9AM - 5PM & SUNDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 10AM - 4PM The Christmas Artisans’ Fayre on Coronation Green, Shoreham. Hand-made gifts, local produce, food and drink stalls and festive music!

FRIDAY 25TH NOVEMBER UNTIL 8PM Late night shopping in the town. Children’s funfair in East Street. Events at Marlipins Museum.

Make sure you come to Shoreham for this festive weekend to begin your Christmas shopping and to celebrate your town with friends and family!

SUNDAY 11TH DECEMBER - 14.00 -16.00PM Southdowns Concert Band. A Christmas themed concert in aid of Steyning Museum performed by this ever popular band. It will be held at the Drama Hall, Steyning Grammar School, Shooting Field site. Tickets are £7.50 for adults and £3.00 for under 16s. This includes tea/coffee and mince pies. Tickets are available from Steyning Museum, Church Street and The Bookshop, High Street and on the door.

MONDAY, 12TH DECEMBER 2016, 10.00 AM Christmas Coffee Morning and Fund Raiser with harp recital by Fiona Hosford and a raffle. Tickets for this event are £10.00. Steyning Decorative and Fine Arts Society. For further information please call 01903 297553.

WEDNESDAY 7TH DECEMBER, 6PM - 9PM Christmas Market & Late Night Shopping 2016 Steyning. Come along to this FREE event on Wednesday 7th December, there will be shops open, stalls, food, drink, music, entertainment and a fun fair.

Parties Funeral Wakes Weddings We can cater for all events, whether it’s a platter of canapes, a cold buffet or a sit down meal with waiting staff and chefs. Please call us or visit our website for more information.

The Sussex Produce Company, 88 High Street, Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3RD. Telephone: 01903 815045 (option2) Web: the sussexproducecompany.co.uk Shop opening times: 8am to 8pm Monday to Saturday, 9am to 5pm on Sunday.

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VL MEETS ST PETER’S BACKSCHOOL IN TIME • 7

St Peter’s School Nestled in a quiet part of Shoreham, St Peter’s is one of the town’s best kept educational secrets: a small Catholic one form entry school.

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ffering caring and inclusive education with classes of thirty in each year group. With standards that are consistently high, St Peter’s is a very strong performing school at Key Stage One in the locality, with good phonics results and above national level at KS1 – data which has been verified by local authority moderation. The school is also in the top three for Key Stage Two results, which is above the majority of both local and national schools. St Peter’s has rigorous and high standards in the new challenging national curriculum, alongside a creative and engaging approach.

The school has a caring, family ethos where every child is known to all staff. The pupils feel confident and safe, knowing that if they need any help with anything either in or out of the classroom, they only need to ask. There is a no bullying policy in place at St Peters; the children from an early age are reminded of the importance of being kind, to each other and themselves.

As a parent of two children at the school I am relaxed in the knowledge that if any playground situation arises, it will be dealt with appropriately and properly. The attitude to behaviour is firm but fair and there is always a positive to be found. Children are encouraged to think for themselves, both in the classroom and with being responsible with their belongings and with their behaviour.

The school fully embraces the children’s imaginations and staff take part in all themed days such as World Book Day, book week, survival week, and other themes, such as holiday day when the children all “flew” on St Peter’s airlines to various exotic locations.

There’s a fantastic, large, new Reception outdoor area lain with high quality astro turf – making it an all-day any day place to be!

The children at St Peters enjoy playing and honing their sports skills on the expansive field, with swimming lessons based at Lancing College, for one term a year (four and up). The spacious grounds are used in all seasons, and both netball / basketball courts in the playground. The children have recently secured four first places at sports tournaments against other local primary schools. This is an excellent achievement for such a small school, the competition out there is fierce and the children have worked extremely hard across the forms to get to this level in sports such as rounders, cross country, gymnastics, football, cricket and rugby.

The school offers a wide range of clubs both at lunch time and after school, and have access to a breakfast and end of school service, which is as most of us know an invaluable service to most parents.

The PTA is very active and includes an amazing team of mums (and Dads at events!) who are fantastic at raising money for the school, getting local businesses to support with raffle prizes and which supports the school with fun Christmas and summer fayres, uniform sales, school discos and magic shows, cake sales, various dress up days plus quiz nights and even the upcoming Elvis night for the parents!

St Peters is a very welcoming, friendly, and all-encompassing school; I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone looking to place their child in a caring and safe, environment at the start of their education.

St Peter’s Catholic Primary School Sullington Way, Shoreham-by-Sea BN43 6PJ 01273 454066 www.stpeterscatholicprimary.com

“St Peter’s is a happy and friendly school. Pupils behave well, feel safe and enjoy school.

They are polite and welcoming. Pupils make good progress in reading, writing and mathematics.”

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8 • BACK IN TIME

BACK IN TIME OLIVER SIMON KAY • 9

Furniture for Life celebrate their second Christmas in Steyning High Street...

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f you appreciate the quality and robustness of old furniture but also enjoy keeping up with the trends, you should not miss having a look around this furniture shop for a bargain or perhaps just some inspiration!

furniture to create a beautiful, long lasting finish with no nasty emissions. This range of paint which includes seventy two lovely colours is available to buy in store on or online at www.oliversimonkay.co.uk.

Opened just over a year ago, this furniture shop is run by local artist, decorator and muralist Oliver Kay and is home to a wide variety of antique, vintage, painted, retro and upcycled furniture. Oliver sources all the furniture himself and particularly enjoys handpicking those items that lend themselves well to upcycling.

Also available are furniture painting workshops – see website for bookings and available dates www.oliversimonkay.co.uk/workshops/

Oliver uses Earthborn Eco Chic “breathable” Clay Paint which has been developed specially for use on

For more information please call on 01903 815043 or browse our website where there are plenty of bargains to be had.

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16 • THE AMSTERDAM INN

The Amsterdam Inn Come aboard and join us at the newly refurbished The Amsterdam Inn...

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onday 5th December, we invite you to join us for the opening night! From 5pm – Tuesday 6th December we open our doors and your appetites with The Amsterdam Inn’s Christmas showcase. Between 5 and 7pm we will lay on a sample of what is available from our Christmas menu.

We at The Amsterdam Inn are proud to introduce you to our fantastic new team who cannot wait to get to know all your friendly faces. We guarantee a warm smile and kind ear awaits you all day, every day. Debbie and the team are dedicated in providing you with the highest level of customer service whatever the occasion. Join us for all your special occasions and allow us to surprise and accommodate your every need, with a little quirkiness thrown into the mix.

“The name itself comes from ‘The Amsterdam’, a ship that was shipwrecked in Hastings, run ashore in a severe gale on Sunday 26 January 1749. Apparently, the wreck can be seen in Hastings at low tide… we have embraced the nautical theme, with a quirk or two...

As part of the renovation and new look, we are bringing in some new ways for you to enjoy our service.

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And if that’s not enough for a mid week night, then we have our PUB QUIZ from 8pm!

Thursdays is GRILL NIGHT – 2 x 8oz Rump Steaks cooked as you like for only £15.99.

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Perfect end to a week, and perfect start to any weekend!

We are looking forward to sharing with you our newly installed ‘GIN BAR’ – a selection of our classic 7 Deadly Gins including a range of homemade botanical gins that we will change periodically... and in the summer will be perfect for a speciality gin or Friday night prosecco, sitting on our newly renovated courtyard, a beautiful haven for our customers old and new who want to kick back and either enjoy the view or watch the world go by…

Why not pop in at the end of your walk, we are a family friendly pub, welcoming children, dogs, difficult relatives.

Everyone is welcome to join us at the Amsterdam!

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DECEMBER – If you are stuck for the upcoming Christmas party season, drinks with friends or an intimate meal for two we can cater for all. Choose from a set two or three course menu, or keep it casual with our amazing buffet range, just let us know what you have in mind and we will do our best to accommodate.

All through December we will be hosting at The Amsterdam Inn a ‘pass the parcel’ event where we will be taking donations towards Dogs Trust. Any spare blankets, dog beds, food, toys etc. are more than welcome to help provide support to this wonderful charity.

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Xmas Table Settings As promised in our last article here is this month’s Christmas table setting article. Christmas to us here at Popsicle Interiors would be nothing without the films that have come to represent the Festive Season, so we have taken our top 3 Christmas films and turned them in to Christmas day table settings.

First on our list is Elf, an iconic film, full of colour and humour. If you have children then this theme would be perfect. Colours; go for bright green and candy cane red and white.

Start with a crisp white table cloth, place a white and red stripy table runner down the middle. Choose bright green plates and red and white spotty napkins folded up on top of the plates. Splatter the table with jars of brightly coloured sweets (well it is Christmas!) and use candy canes to make homemade place holders.

Finally make sure every person round the table can join in with some Elf selfies, we found this set at John Lewis.

Second on the list; The Nightmare Before Xmas, this theme is as dark as Elf is bright. Colours; use purple, black, white and hints of orange.

Start with a black tablecloth, black and white striped table runner and dark purple charger plates with plain white plates on top. Make placeholders out of Jack baubles and black and white paper napkins. Pop an orange and white striped candy cane into your guests drinking glass and place this large snow globe, from collectibles, as a centre piece to complete the theme.

Last, but by no means least, is my most favourite of all film’s ever; Home Alone. The theme for this film table setting doesn’t jump up and smack you like the previous 2 but we can assure you it’s going to be a good one! The main reason we love Home Alone so much is that the film colours and in particular the McCallister house decorations are Christmas personified, they are traditional and classic, with rich colours. Colours; choose deep reds and golds with hints of dark green.

Start with a red tablecloth, layer with a gold and red table runner, gold charger plates, red coloured glass wine glasses and your finest Christmas crockery, this set by Williams-Sonoma works perfectly with the theme.

Kevin McCallister loves Christmas tress so use tree ornaments to decorate the table along with little house scenes. For place cards use quote cards from the movie like this one found on printables.

All that leaves us to say is “Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animals”!

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How to be Happy :) As 2017 approaches, are you someone who waits to see what will happen, or do you dream of what you might be doing by the end of next year? If you dream, do you know that you’ll achieve them?

We are brought up to be sensible and logical but that doesn’t help us follow the calling we have inside.

We stick with the job and the pension, we stay where we feel comfortable and then we end up watching travel programmes or reading magazines to vicariously live our dreams through others.

This month I’d like to propose that you be the one that goes after your dreams rather than the “maybe one day” person. My gift to you this Christmas is a 3 Step process to follow if you want to make 2017 a different kind of year.

Step 1. Get clear on what you want.

This sounds obvious but I see so many people who don’t really know what they want. The way to discover this is to listen to that inner voice, the one that keeps whispering to you but you push away.

You carry on being logical, saying to yourself, “I could never do that’ I’m silly to dream of that, I don’t have the time, I don’t have the money…” You can choose to ignore this longing inside, or you can choose to live a more fulfilled and inspired life.

If you know what your dreams are it’s time to act!

You’re not getting younger – and it’s never too late!

You have the capability to bring these experiences into your life; you just have to trust yourself. You have these dreams because you know deep down that you only have this one life. What are you waiting for?

Give yourself permission to create the lie you desire.

Step 2. Decide to do one thing that will move you in the direction of your dream.

Your dream might feel just too huge and unattainable right now. That’s good, why dream unless it is a big fat audacious dream?

I know it can feel overwhelming but you can break it down into baby steps that feel more comfortable.

For example, your desire might be to write a best seller. So what is the first step you can take? You could join a creative writing group, or start writing a daily journal. There will be other steps, but the first one sets you on your journey.

Step 3. Get moving!

Think of creating your life the way you’d take any journey. First you have to choose the destination.

Only then can you work out the route. The next step is to put your foot on the accelerator and start driving! So to reach your dreams you have to focus on your dream and spend time on making them happen. Nothing ever happened from sitting on the sofa. If you really want to do the thing you’ve always wanted to do in 2017, you have to take those action steps.

Go and get what you need, whether it’s practical help or support. If dreams are going to become reality they need investment, and that can be investment of time, money or effort.

I wish you joy this Christmas, but more than that I wish you allow your dreams to become your reality in 2017. www.villagelivingmagazine.co.uk | tel: 0785 2231512

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We let you achieve this with our new boiler installa,ons, We let you achieve this with our new boiler installa,ons, providing you with ongoing warmth throughout the year. providing you with ongoing warmth throughout the year.

Whether you want a cosy night in during the deep mid Whether you want a cosy night in during the deep mid winter, need a long, relaxing shower, or whilst ploughing winter, need a long, relaxing shower, or whilst ploughing through the dishes aQer a fun dinner party with friends, through the dishes aQer a fun dinner party with friends, a high-quality boiler is absolutely essen,al. a high-quality boiler is absolutely essen,al.

For every new boiler we install, we’re dedicated to quality workmanship and providing an excepJonal service, at an affordable price.

How we work...

When it comes to your home, we know you expect the best. That’s why we work so hard to provide the best service, installing boilers to the very highest standards.

We also provide our customers with a fixed-price quote at the outset of the work, so you’ll never have to pay any hidden costs, or be liable for any extras. For us, the service we provide is just as important as the quality of boiler we install.

Where we work...

Why Choose Us?

• Local, Family Run Business • Boiler Installa,on Specialists • Affordable Fixed Price • Friendly, Efficient, Reliable Engineers • Flexible Hours, Evenings & Weekends • More Than 18 Years Experience • Fully Insured & Gas Safe Registered

We’re based in Steyning, West Sussex and we’re pleased to serve customers throughout the county and all surrounding areas.

Contact Us Today For a Free, No-Obligation, Fixed Price Quote Tel: 01903 412035 / Direct Line: 07526 442474 Email: info@westsussexheating.co.uk - Web: www.westsussexheating.co.uk

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Colette Harber Independent Funeral Celebrant

As an independent funeral celebrant, I conduct Celebration of Life ceremonies reflecting the life, values and wishes of the deceased. They also fulfil the needs of the people closest to them and meet the expectations of everyone attending the ceremony.

If you would like to contact me about a Celebration of Life ceremony please feel free to:

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Long established & family owned business, dedicated to making traditional funeral services as personal & special to you as possible . . .

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