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5 THINGS TO CONSIDER IF YOU COME INTO UNEXPECTED MONEY Everyone has at some point daydreamed about what they’d do if they came into a large amount of money.

It has the potential to transform your life if used wisely. Whether it’s enough money to buy a new car or a gold-plated yacht, if you receive an unexpected windfall you should always think carefully before spending it. Take your time to consider your options as you might be feeling overwhelmed.

aside enough money to cover three to six months of expenses. With this, you can rest easy knowing that even if the worst should happen, you’ll have some money to fall back on.

2. PAY OFF YOUR DEBTS Settling your debts is usually the most sensible thing to do if you come into unexpected money.

By settling debts now, you can save yourself from having to repay interest on that debt later. Shortterm debts, like overdrafts or credit cards, are usually the best to pay off first since they typically have higher interest rates.

A study by YouGov has shown that only 27% of people would consider speaking to a financial adviser after receiving a windfall. If you want to use your money more effectively to reach your goals, you shouldn’t be one of them. Please get in touch to discuss how we can help you realise your goals.

3. KEEP AN EMERGENCY FUND It’s always worth keeping a rainy-day fund in case disaster should strike. Generally, it’s worth setting

The value of your investment can go down as well as up and you may not get back the full amount you invested. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance.

4. DECIDE WHETHER YOU WANT TO SAVE OR INVEST One important decision you will have to make is whether you should save your new-found money or invest it. Putting your money in a savings account is a good idea if you have a short-term goal in mind, Here are our five tips on how to use it to its full but if you have a long-term goal, it might be worth potential. investing instead. Investing can help build your 1. MAKE A PLAN OF YOUR GOALS It is important to make a detailed plan to set out your wealth but does come with risks. You should invest goals before you start spending recklessly. A plan will with a minimum time frame of five years in mind.

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Welcome to October

Contents

Hello and welcome to the October edition of the Village Living It that time of the year when the clocks go back an hour on the 25th of October. Now is the time to prepare for spring with planting bulbs and pruning back trees. Also getting your chimney swept by Neil, who owns and runs Chimney Sweep. Any repairs needed then Jason of Steyning roofing can mend roofs, lead work or gutters before the cooler months draws in. Do you have any pests causing you problems, Terry, your local Pest Man can help on that.

We also have Pembroke’s financial services. They can help with any questions such as what if you came into a large amount of money! Lovely problem to have.

Do you fancy a lovely cup of soup and cosy up under a blanket, we have a great one from Dominic Franks Belleau Kitchen – Pea, Fennel, Mint and Potato Soup.

Wishing you a great month, good health and keeping safe.

Pea, fennel, mint and potato soup

Causeway House - A Horsham Icon Brought to Life

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Please send in your articles, charities and events so that we can help you promote them in your area.

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Horsham Teenager Raises £200 For Charity

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Horsham Teenager Raises £200 For Surrey Based Disabled Theatre Charity

By Cycling Over 34 Miles 12 year old Horsham resident and cycling fanatic, Sophie Rayner, has cycled 34.5 miles in under 4 hours in order to raise much needed funds for Head2Head Sensory Theatre.

Sophie’s Nan and Grandad have been carers for three young people with special needs for many years and, as such, have taken part in Head2Head’s inclusive theatre performances both live and online. However, they felt that their seven grandchildren should not miss out on the fun either. So, from an early age, Sophie and her siblings have also enjoyed the charity’s uniquely tailored shows as well. Then when Sophie’s Nan, Ann Potter, told her about the My Prudential Ride London Sophie leapt at the chance to try to raise some much needed funds for the charity.

Sophie attends Millais School, Horsham. She enjoys all sports and loves to try out new things and is looking forward to some surfing lessons on her next holiday. She cycles to and from school each day and regularly goes out with her Dad at the weekends. So, when the opportunity to raise money for the charity arose, Sophie – accompanied by her Dad – decided to tackle Box Hill in Surrey, a place famous for its inclusion in many professional bike races.

When asked what made her choose to support Head2Head Sensory Theatre Sophie said, “The theatre group does good work and I wanted to help”.

Head2Head Sensory Theatre are a specialist theatre charity from Ashtead in Surrey who have been using lockdown to connect with a much wider audience online. Since the charity’s inception in 2006, it has been the dream of the charity and its founders to one day develop a permanent, uniquely designed base from which to produce their ground-breaking work.

Head2Head are about to launch a fund raising campaign to realise this dream and the support of Sophie and her peers is a wonderful launch pad for the campaign.

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A permanent base will enable the company to reach even more disabled young people who have never had the opportunity to experience the wonder of theatre in its many forms. The vision of the charity is to be able to provide an innovative, educational, arts-focussed space that will include a sensory garden, dance studio, theatre space and life skills arena (for people transitioning from special school education) as part of its remit.

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Causeway House - A Horsham Icon Brought to Life We look without seeing, walk past without really noticing. The past is often hidden in plain sight waiting to be discovered. How many of us have walked past 9 Causeway and thought “that’s an old building” without any deeper consideration? In order to rectify this oversight Jeremy Knight has told the story of the building in a new, exciting and visually interesting book; Causeway House: a biography of a Horsham landmark.

Known today as the home of Horsham Museum, our historic building has been on this site for 600 years and, as the book Causeway House: a biography of a Horsham landmark reveals, it has had an eventful life! From being the home of the Tudor equivalent of a celebrity, giving its occupants the right to vote for 6 MPs, to having a fake past deliberately created, Causeway House has been the home of merchants, lawyers, a royal tutor, a tailor’s daughter who went from being the subject of a scandal to a wealthy heiress, and much more.

The origins of Causeway House lie in a lost building that was erected as Horsham was developing into a bustling market town. Next to this all-in-one building a modern timber framed home and workplace was erected. Three of that building’s original sections still survive, and their stories have been uncovered by building archaeologists.

The wooden remains tell us that this new building was erected around 1420, a time when Horsham was rising in the league table of wealthy Sussex towns. Some 25 years later a new market would be established by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Lower West 6

Street (today’s Bishopric).

The rising wealth of Horsham can be seen in the changes to the building, such as the construction of a kitchen.

Causeway House: a biography of a Horsham landmark does not only look at the architecture of the building, but also relates it to the lives of those who lived and worked there. In today’s COVID-19 world the home has become a multifunctional space, a place for work, rest and play, just as it was 500 years ago when a merchant owned Causeway House.

The word merchant has a Shakespearian glow about it and it should, for in Elizabethan England a merchant was the nearest thing they had to today’s celebrities. Merchants were people of status, it was a trade that many people aspired to as it was a job in which someone could grow wealthy.

Today we may not trust what a celebrity says, although many do, but in Tudor times the

merchant’s word was his bond.

It was this type of man who lived in Causeway House and adapted it to his status in life.

This included the creation of a whole new building that now faced the Causeway, rather than facing north.

By late Georgian times Causeway House had seen many changes; relics of which exist still exist today, from the addition of a grand staircase, the upgrading of oak panelling to walnut, to rearranging the rooms. Into this grand house stepped Sarah Smith, the widow of General Smith. She was brought up only a few meters away and had eloped with the far older Captain Smith, causing much consternation in the street. After his death, Sarah returned to Horsham and set up home in 9 Causeway as a wealthy heiress. As a woman she could not use the right to vote for the 6 local MPs that male owners of Causeway House had, a right that didn’t disappear till 1832.

The colourful book is full of unusual pictures and photographs of both the house and its setting; from an 18th century etching of a 14th century map of Britain that put Horsham on the map, to a watercolour by volunteer museum gardener Heather Glenny of a fig leaf from a tree grown from a cutting of the fig and walnut walk that adorned the extensive 17th century garden. There are unusual photographs such as one that shows the Causeway as the town’s first official car park back in the 1920s, as well as images of the architectural features hidden in the roof spaces.

Causeway House became home to the Museum during the Second World War, and as late as 1983 it stopped being a residence. The book, written by the current Curator, is a visual delight.

Entertaining without being heavy going, it is packed full of interesting stories. Published to mark the 600 birthday of the building Causeway House: a biography of a Horsham landmark reveals a building hidden in plain sight. Priced at £7.50 plus postage. To order your copy please email: museum@horsham.gov.uk or contact the museum on 01403 254959. Also available to purchase at Waterstones in Horsham.

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pea, fennel, mint and potato soup

By Dominic Franks Back at the cottage this weekend which always makes my heart sing and even though the weather is horrid this pea soup is perfect for warming the soul. It’s been a long old week down in London and I forgot it was half-term so when I got onto the short train to Skegness it was teaming with people.

There seemed to be children everywhere, climbing the walls, hanging over the backs of seats and generally overexcited about being on a train.

It was lovely to see so much pent-up excitement although the whole carriage was way too stuffy and smelt rather of soiled nappy, which is never particularly a nice thing to tolerate for an hour an a half.

But tolerate it I did and now i’m home. It’s chilly and windy this weekend and I believe that soup is the answer.

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easy it is to make. Plus most soups are also ridiculously cheap too. Pret-a-Manger create a Pea & Mint Soup on a Tuesday which is lovely but costs £3.25 a pot. I think my whole soup costs under £5 and will last for at least 4 servings and can be frozen in portions to take to work.

The great thing is that you can make soup with basically any old vegetables you have in your fridge – ‘back-of-thefridge‘ soup is an often-made and all-time favourite here at Belleau Kitchen – it’s just about having a few basic steps up your sleeve.

I always start with an onion, which adds a nice depth of flavour, then I like to layer on the vegetables. The soup i’m making today has a fennel bulb and some potato to add thickness (this can also be done with cauliflower if you’re trying traduce carbs.) The mint goes in close to the end for a final burst of flavour and mint compliments peas so beautifully. I like a blended soup but with this one I don’t go completely smooth as I like the texture to be a bit more substantial.

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We chose to decorate circles as a circle is the perfect representation of completeness. It has a never-ending line, is balanced and a symbol of unity.

Each class was given a main colour as their focus and once finished the circles have been displayed to create a beautiful rainbow. We wanted to create a rainbow as this has been such a prominent symbol during the pandemic.

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It has certainly has brought joy to our school and has put a big smile on our faces. The children are very proud of their work.

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Ingredience • • • • • • • • • • • •

butter and olive oil 2 banana shallots – finely chopped 1 fennel bulb – finely chopped 1 small carrot – finely chopped 3 small new potatoes – finely chopped 1 clove of garlic – crushed 1 teaspoon fresh thyme 2 teaspoons fresh mint – finely chopped salt and pepper 400g frozen peas 1ltr good quality vegetable stock 4 or 5 mint leaves – finely chopped

Pour in the stock and let it gently plop away for 15 minutes then take it off the heat and let it cool for another 10 minutes before blending – I use a stick blender as I don’t want it completely smooth, stir in the 2nd teaspoon of fresh mint just before you blend Eat and of course, enjoy!

OCTOBER SUDOKU

Method Melt some butter and olive oil in a warm soup pan (i’m using my 32cm shallow casserole dish but a deep soup pan would work well.)

Add the shallots, stir well and let them soften gently for about 5 mins, then add the fennel, stir and saute gently for another 5 mins.

Stir in the carrots, potatoes, garlic and thyme and season well with salt and pepper and let them saute again for another 5 mins.

Add the peas and 1 teaspoon of the chopped mint, stir well and place the lid on and with the heat quite low let the whole lot sweat for 5 minutes until the potatoes are soft.

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Rotary in action in the community Local people have given generously to the Rotary Club of Storrington and Pulborough Collection in Storrington for victims of the devastating Beirut disaster.

District collection for the British Red Cross emergency relief appeal for the disaster. £475 177 people are known to have died, 6500 are left injured and hundreds of was collected from shoppersthousands in Old Millhave Square lost their homes after the explosions that devastated the port andand surrounding area of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. in Storrington. The Rotary Club members rounded it up to £1020 to send to the Red Cross Local people have given generously to the Rotary Club of Storrington and to help the victims.

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LITTLE WOMEN Jo March reflects on her life, telling the story of her adored mother and three sisters. All four are determined to live life on their own terms. Growing pains, family tragedies and romance all play their part as the family live through the aftermath of the American Civil War. Cert U, duration 135 mins. Tuesday 20th October, 2.00 pm. Tickets available from Box Office £4. See Ropetackle web site for Covid-19 safety arrangements.

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Evelyn Waugh The famous novelist Evelyn Waugh (1903 – 1966) went to school at Lancing College.

Born in Hillfield Road, West Hampstead on the 28th October 1903, he was christened Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh, but was known in the family and in the wider world as Evelyn. He was the son of the publisher Arthur Waugh and his wife Catherine.

Evelyn began as a day pupil at Heath Mount preparatory school. A lively boy of many interests, he had written and completed his first story “The Curse of the Horse Race” by the age of seven. He soon began to write plays for his friends to perform in too. In 1914, after the First World War had begun, Waugh and other boys from the Boy Scout Troop of Heath Mount School were sometimes employed as messengers at the War Office.

In May 1917, Evelyn Waugh joined Lancing College as a boarder. There he was known to be single-minded, for example during a football match, he once stood in one spot for the entire game and when the ball came towards him just kicked it in any direction. While clearly not enamoured of football, he became president of the debating society and editor of the school magazine. He also won numerous art and literature prizes. He then attended Hertford College, Oxford. There he neglected his studies to throw himself into the social side of university life, becoming part of a hard partying set. Poor exam results meant he lost his scholarship and had to leave without obtaining his degree.

After briefly going to art school, Waugh worked as assistant schoolmaster in various posts, a role he did not enjoy and did chiefly for the money. His experiences as a teacher influenced his first comic novel ‘Decline And Fall’, as did his own school days at Lancing. Published in 1928, ‘Decline And Fall’ was extremely successful and in the same year Waugh married Evelyn Gardner.

The couple divorced in 1930 and Waugh was received into the Roman Catholic Church that same year.

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satire of the times with comic characters included the London set ‘Vile Bodies (1930) and ‘Black Mischief’ (1932) set in Africa. Waugh also established himself as a travel writer, journalist and man of letters, journeying through Africa and South America.

Although apart from Lancing College there are few references to our local area in Waugh’s work, ‘A Handful Of Dust’ does feature Brighton, when unfaithful wife Brenda Last, demands her husband Tony is discovered there in a compromising position to enable her to acquire a divorce. Waugh saw the novel as a comment on what he saw as the moral vacuity of the 1930s. In 1937 Waugh married Laura Herbert, a cousin of his first wife, moving to Somerset and Gloucestershire, and having six children.

During the Second World War, Evelyn Waugh served in the Royal Marines in Crete and Yugoslavia, yet still found time to write ‘Put Out More Flags’ (1942). He later also served in the

Horse Guards. His wartime experiences were also put to good use in the trilogy of books; ‘Men At Arms’, ‘Officers and Gentlemen’ and ‘Unconditional Surrender’.

The war also features in Waugh’s most well known novel ‘Brideshead Revisited’ which was published in 1945. Narrated by a man named Charles Ryder, it describes his involvement with an aristocratic Roman Catholic family, after he meets their youngest son Sebastian Flyte at Oxford University. For Waugh, this novel marked a change from his usual satirical style and was darker and more moving and complex. He described the book’s theme as ‘the operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely connected characters’. In I980, the book was turned into a major TV series starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews and in 2008 it was made into a film. According to a BBC website, scenes from this film were shot in Lancing College’s chapel. The novels ‘A Handful Of Dust’ and ‘Vile Bodies’ have also been adapted as movies and ‘Decline And Fall’ was another Waugh book given the TV treatment recently.

In 1960, Waugh was offered the honour of a CBE but declined, believing that he should instead have been given a knighthood. By the 1960s however, he was in poor health. On the 10th of April 1966, after attending a Latin Mass in a neighbouring village with members of his family, Evelyn Waugh died of heart failure at his Combe Florey home, the village in Somerset to which he and his family had moved in 1956. He was only sixty-two.

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