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Welcome to the July Edition.. Hello Welcome to the July edition of The Village Living.
This month’s issue has the latest from our wonderful contributors. I hope that you will find our articles interesting and informative as well as helpful. We have the latest for you from local charities as well as book reviews and also launch of Local Author Misty Gardner’s book ‘Misty Blue’. Win a free copy by sending your name and we will let you know if you have won.
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Wishing you a fabulous month and we will see you in August. We are here to help you connect up with local businesses and of course your continued support is very important to us.
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Let’s Get Wild
Seven must-haves to help you create your own perfect wildflower meadow. • Cornflowers - Cornflowers bring a touch of exotic elegance to your flowerbed. Surprisingly hardy, they flower from late spring into brilliant white flowers with deep purple stamens that bees, unsurprisingly, find irresistible.
• Forget-me-not - This lovely lilac biennial bloom not only adds a spray of colour to your lawn, but it also attracts various pollinators, and its leaves are eaten by the caterpillars of several moth species bringing an abundance of insect life to your garden.
• Common Knapweed - Though some may view it as a pest, this nonetheless brings its own rugged loveliness to your wildflower crop and also will provide food for birds if seed heads are left over winter. • Honeysuckle - With its vibrant white, pink and yellow petals and unusually long tendrils, one might be forgiven for thinking this a flower from another planet, but this fragrant bloom is as British and as iconic as they come.
• Hemp Agrimony - This noble native perennial looks rather striking when grown amid other more colourful wildflower varieties. Preferring the shade, it grows tall and untamed and provides a delectable nectar for butterflies. • Ox-eye Daisies - Tall and gracious, these white and yellow beauties are easy to grow – they thrive in the sun – though they can also overwhelm a plot if not kept in check.
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Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District’s monthly Film Nights are back in the Picture Following a break of over a year due to Covid restrictions these popular community cinema events are to recommence on 8th September 2021. Storrington Film Night, also known as Rotary Film Night, is a Community event organised by the Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District. These Film Nights have been running for over 12 years and aim to show the best and recent films for the enjoyment of the local community. The films are shown on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7.30pm in Sullington Parish Hall, Thakeham Road, Storrington RH20 3PP. The September 8th film will be chosen from ‘JUDY’, ‘Nomadland’, ‘˜The Good Liar’ or ‘Dream Horse’. Any Government Covid guidance valid at the time will be observed. Tickets are £5, and are sold in the Card Shop in Storrington. There is an interval, Bar and a Raffle at each showing. Unsold tickets are available for purchase on the door on the night. To support local residents who are unable to make their own arrangements to travel to the Hall, Rotary Club members can often help with providing transport for the Film Night ensuring that the event is open to as wide a local audience as possible. President Pippa Davies expressed her delight at the news of the reopening: ‘Many of our regular cinema goers were disappointed when we had to curtail last year’s film nights and we look forward to welcoming them all again to this popular village community event. Village Living Magazine July 2021
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Books to get stuck into this July Whether you fancy a modern romance or a fast-paced thriller, a study of sport or a delicious cake recipe, July’s book releases have you covered. Happy Cooking: Easy Uplifting Meals and Comforting Treats by Candice Brown “The kitchen has always been my happy place - it’s the only place I feel completely at ease. Cooking has got me through some proper tough times! It also helps me slow down, take a breath and take stock,” explains The Great British Bake Off champ Candice Brown on her delectable new cookbook.
and The Wire – it should come as no surprise that Miranda Cowley Heller’s debut novel is an impressive work of captivating storytelling. Set over 24 hours and across 50 years, The Paper Palace is as elegant and intoxicating as the scorching August day in Cape Cod on which it is set. The
Including everyday favourites such as chicken nuggets, cinnamon pastry twists and brown butter macaroni cheese along with ‘therapy’ recipes which use the meditative qualities of baking and cooking to ease an anxious mind, this is the kind of cookbook you’ll return to again and again when you’re craving comfort. Published by Ebury Press on July 1 The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller Having worked for almost a decade as Senior Vice President and Head of Drama Series at HBO – developing and overseeing such shows as The Sopranos, Six Feet Under
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thriller, bearing the somewhat ominous tagline “Police. Patient. Killer. Which is Alice?” We are submerged into the sinister corridors and wards of a psychiatric hospital where there is a killer on the loose. For DC Alice Armitage, a methodical and tireless game of cat and mouse begins as she races to find the truth from within the wards, for she herself is a patient. Published by Little, Brown Book Group on July 22
perfect summer read. Published by Penguin on July 8 Rabbit Hole by Mark Billingham From The Sunday Times bestselling author of the Tom Thorne crime series comes this complex and compelling new
Relentless: Secrets of the Sporting Elite by Alistair Brownlee Whether you’re training for your first half marathon or are simply a devoted sports fan, double Olympic champion and one half of Britain’s finest triathlon duo ,Alistair Brownlee’s ambitious new book seeks to answer one of sport’s greatest questions: what does take it take to become a champion?
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slowly filling with water. Panic quickly sets in, and the three flatmates find themselves in the attic desperately attempting to switch off the water supply. But when Ben, Alexa’s Hinge date from the night before, walks in, the door slams, the handle breaks, and all four of them are trapped…
Fuelled by his own obsession to reach athletic excellence, Brownlee has spent the last four years talking and training with some of the finest minds in sport to understand the kind of devotion, focus and ruthlessness it takes to become the best. From Ian Poulter to Ian Botham, this is an extensive and thorough exploration of an athletes’ inner workings. Published by HarperCollins on July 8 The Lock In by Phoebe Luckhurst Whilst nursing the hangover from hell, Ellen stumbles downstairs to discover the kitchen
Funny, insightful and full of all the joys of life as a twenty-something renting in the city, this charming rom-com from the Features Editor of the Evening Standard and regular writer for the likes of Grazia and Vogue, is a breath of fresh air and a pleasure to read. Published by Penguin on July 22
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No-Knead Bread Introduction
When Sullivan Street Bakery owner Jim Lahey came up with this recipe for no-knead bread – published in The New York Times in 2009 – it caused quite the stir. Surely something so simple couldn’t yield the kind of flavourful crust and airy middle we expect to buy from an artisan baker? Well, just give it a try and see for yourself…
Ingredients
Makes one loaf
• 3 cups of all-purpose flour (405g or 14.3oz) • 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt • 1/2 teaspoon of instant yeast • 1 1/2 cups/350ml of room temperature water
1. In a bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 350ml water and stir until blended; the dough will be shaggy and sticky. Cover the bowl with cling film, then let the dough rest for at least 12 hours, and preferably up to 18, at warm room temperature.
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When the dough is ready it will be dotted with bubbles.
• If you don’t have a cast-iron pot, you can improvise using a
2. Lightly flour a surface and
pizza stone and an upturned stainless-steel bowl, as maintaining a high temperature is essential for creating that desirable crust, you will need something to trap warm air around your bread. • Don’t worry if you need to leave your dough to rise longer than the stated time. Up to 24 hours is fine as it is this waiting time that allows the yeast to ferment and create air bubbles without kneading. • Don’t be afraid to improvise. Whether you want to try
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fold your dough one or twice before covering and resting once more for 15 minutes. Using a little flour gently shape it into a ball. Then coat a tea towel with flour and put the dough seam-side down. Cover with another towel and let it
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Wait until the bread has cooled before tucking in: this is essential to creating the perfect loaf.
rise for about two hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and won’t bounce back when prodded. 3. To bake, heat oven to 220 degrees with a heavy, cast-iron lidded pan inside. When the dough is ready, remove the pot from oven and turn the dough into it, seam-side up. Cover with lid and bake for 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is perfectly browned. Cool on a rack.
this recipe with a beloved sourdough starter or would
• Wait until the bread has cooled before tucking in: this is
prefer gluten-free flour, anything goes as long as you’re
essential to creating the perfect loaf.
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Photographing Other People’s Art Photographers often debate the ethics around photographing other people’s art.
It’s a subject which I sometimes cover in my live workshops but there are too many aspects to discuss it here. However, simply snapping a painting, for example, is notreally adding anything of the photographer, it would be a direct copy of the original and possibly an infringement of copyright if it were to be published in any form.
You can, of course, inject your own ideas using existing artwork as a background to a wider scene. For example, we often see street photos using graffiti as a backdrop to passing pedestrians. It enhances the image further if the person is wearing clothing of a similar colour to the graffiti. Just one idea. Another example of art that you may
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not have considered is window-dressing. Snapping a shop window display can also be plagiarising another person’s creativity but there is the possibility that random reflections can be used to add further interest and personal creativity to such a picture. I have illustrated a few ideas and different approaches here using both colour and monochrome. Perhaps you could accept the challenge of putting together a short series of images using other people’s art in ways which protect the integrity of the original by using your skills as a photographer, lending some personal input and creativity into the final scene as I have attempted to do in the accompanying images on this page. If you would like to be on the mailing list for information of my Shoreham based photographic workshops, please email
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Introducing the ‘Misty Blue’ quartet – a new collection from local author Misty Gardner The stories follow the interleaved lives of the four main characters, Micky, Alex, Davey and Nat. The stories overlap, giving parts of their lives from their own viewpoints. The first book in the series, Misty Blue, is told by the central character, Micky. Micky Culshaw is the singer in Misty Blue, a band which had enormous success in the late 1970s but who are no longer at the top of the tree. The story opens in 1983 with the murder of the band’s guitarist. Micky has also been attacked but is suspected of the murder. With flashbacks to Micky’s childhood in the late 1950s/early 1960s the story continues down to the stunning revelation of the identity of the true killer. The second book, Rhapsody in Blue, is narrated by Alex, who plays a major part in Micky’s life. Growing up in the grey days after WW2, outside the warmth of normal family life and in a country which is not his own, he carves out a successful career as a barrister before becoming an MP, but Alex has a secret – one which, in those days, could end his career – were around at the time. possibly even bring the Government down… The third book in the series is scheduled to This part of the story travels from wartime appear in November 2021 and will tell Davey’s London before moving on, taking the characters story up to the dawn of the new millennium. It Exclusive to Amazon – Available in recreates the atmosphere that prevailed in the period immediately following the 1967 Sexual paperback or on Kindle Offences Act, through the AIDS crisis and changing attitudes in society. Both stories deal with sensitive topics and explore the characters’ emotions and reactions progressively against the background of its setting. The stories are told in the context of true love and friendship and are suitable for young adults as well as ‘baby boomers’ who 10
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The Violet Nurseries Born in 1869, Decima Mary Katherine Allen was the tenth child of John and Elizabeth Allen, the owners of a Somerset farming estate. Ada Eugenie Brown was born in 1856 in Liverpool, the sixth child of Aaron and Lydia Brown. Her father sold supplies to ships. In 1901, Allen and Brown resided at ‘Holmgarth’ also known as Lavender or Providence Cottage on Henfield Common North Road in Henfield, Sussex. They ran a nearby nursery growing various herbaceous plants. This nursery was featured in an article for the Windsor Magazine. Upon selling this business in 1905, the two women set up Britain’s first violet nurseries on the land at Holmgarth, concentrating only on growing English Violets. Allen and Brown hired women who wanted to become horticulturists and employed a few men as labourers. The farm started work at five in the morning during the summer and seven in the morning in the winter. Everyone worked long hours in the open air in the violet fields digging, planting and weeding.
shilling up to ten shillings. The violets were so popular that for a time they replaced the English Rose as the flower of choice. The violet became a symbol of the suffragettes as they campaigned for votes for women. The nurseries then diversified into violet-scented products such as soap, which was available in a box of three bars priced 2/8.
There was also a hand cream described as ‘for chapped hands and rough skin. NonBell-shaped glass covers protected the violets greasy.’ It was priced at 1/6. Plus Perfume was sold in bottles for 1/9, 2/9, 5/3 and 10/6. from frost, insect pests and disease. This was considered very affordable and Harvesting the flowers from October through the violet scent was much sought after. It to April, the nurseries provided the entire floral was popular in those days to use it to add a arrangements for many a society wedding. fragrance to a handkerchief. The nurseries became so successful that by June 1908, they were exporting the violets to The products from the nurseries came in a purple presentation box and were sent Egypt, Switzerland, Russia and India as well postage-free. For a sample of the products as supplying the British flower markets. you had to send four-penny stamps for each The nurseries also received patronage from item you required. Queen Alexandria. Advertisements for Allen and Brown The price per size of box ranged from one Nurseries featured in international Village Living Magazine July 2021
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newspapers and magazines as well as Votes for Women the suffragette newspaper. Allen and Brown boycotted the national census of the evening of Sunday the 2nd April 1911. Like many other women they were taking part in a countrywide protest about not being allowed to vote. Many women refused to stay at home and be counted, when government census inspector came calling. The country was in the grip of heavy rain and snow but many women were undeterred and camped out for the night, on places such as Wimbledon Common. In 1913, Allen and Brown published ‘The Violet Book’ with a dedication to the American actress and writer Elizabeth Robins of Backsettown House. Allen and Brown Nurseries received royal patronage from Queen Alexandra. When Ada Brown died in 1915 having suffered from ill health for some years, Ellen Rachel Dyce Sharp became a partner in the nurseries. During the First World War with the country threatened with starvation, the nurseries briefly switched to growing fruit and vegetables. The post-war years saw a return to horticulture and an expansion into carnations, lavender and related products. The main venture remained violets however, and it was featured again in international newspapers and documented on film by Pathe News. Ellen Sharp died in 1950 aged 64 and Decima Allen in 1951 aged 81. The Allwood Brothers, whose nursery in Wivelsfield specialised in growing carnations, purchased the violet nurseries. Judy Upton Sources Western Herald, Bourke, New South Wales Saturday 27th June 1908 The West Australian, Wednesday 27th March 1935 Pathe news. Suffrage Stories: Sussex Violets And ‘Votes For Women’by Elizabeth Crawford
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George’s Story In 2011, my husband George was diagnosed with lung cancer. His condition deteriorated rapidly, to the point where I was struggling to cope and recognised that he needed specialist nursing care from St Barnabas House. On arrival at the hospice they were able to control George’s sickness and pain. He died within 36 hours of arriving but the care they provided during this time was incredible.
Following George’s death, I was supported by a lady called Rosemary, a bereavement buddy provided by St Barnabas. Rosemary helped me learn to live in spite of the fact that I’d lost the person I loved most in the world. I would have struggled without her. Now, Rosemary and I are the best of friends. I went to the Sunflower Memories service at the hospice the summer after George died. It
was a beautiful experience. Everything was about the future, hope and the way forward. It was so uplifting. A hospice like St Barnabas isn’t just a place to die. It helps you to live the rest of your life in the best possible way you can. Please, if you can, make a gift to St Barnabas. Your generosity will make a big difference to so many people’s lives.
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Food & Drink Festival on the horizon! The Steyning & District Food and Drink Festival Committee are beavering away collecting loads of lovely special offers from local businesses for you to enjoy during this, their 10th year, of the annual month long Festival – beginning on 4th September and running
Events are mounting up thick and fast too, including such things as a Wiston House Garden Tour with Wiston Sparkling Wine Tasting, Local Distilled Spirits & Cocktail Tasting at the Farmers Market, Beer Festival and Open Brewery Days – that’s just a few of the “boozy” ones ! Then there’s a Teddy Bear’s Tea Party at Cobblestone Tea House, the Indian Street Café at Sakala, Denhams Antique Valuations with Wine & Nibbles, Springwells Coffee Morning for our Festival charity The Chestnut Tree House, Springs Smoked Salmon Smokery Tour and Caroline’s Higgidy Pies Foodie Challenges. Outdoor events include such things as the Daylands Farm Walk & Cream Tea, Bramber Brooks Trail with Brianne Reeves and optional tea at The Old Tollgate and the ever popular Pubs & Breweries of Steyning Walk with Dr Janet Pennington. Our Festival Charity will also benefit from special “charity
dishes” on the menu of many of our eateries – if chosen a donation will go to Chestnut Tree House. . These dishes include lunches, dinners, pizzas and a charity scone. This is just a small taste of all that will be on offer as plans are not, as yet, fully completed – lots of work still being done. The Festival Team aim to have all details advertised on www. steyningdistrictfooddrinkfestival.co.uk for around mid-July and the guides available within many pickup points in the district by end of July – so look out for both! All this would not be possible without the wonderful sponsors, who are: Cocoa Loco, Higgidy Pies, Horsham District Council, Steyning Parish Council, The Sussex Grocer and West Grinstead Ploughing Matches. A massive “thank you” to all of them. So, lots of event dates to put in your diary together with taking up all those superb offers! Not too long to wait.
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