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EDUCATION FEATURE

Gap year adventure in Nepal

Pensions, Taxes and Wills

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1066 COUNTRY

WELCOME TO HASTINGS

Escape to the Country

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A rather special refurbished and impeccably presented C1900 attractive semi detached, semi rural cottage with ample covered and open parking. Pretty display garden to the front. Safely enclosed cottage garden to rear. Internal viewing essential. Sitting room, reception room 2, kitchen/dining room, 2 double bedrooms, large bathroom, contemporary electric heating, Georgian paned timber double glazed windows, gardens, ample parking. EPC = TBC

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An immaculately presented and stylishly decorated detached modern family home with single garage and just under 4 years NHBC remaining.

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A spacious and really nicely presented modern detached house much improved by the current owners and situated in a tucked away location fronting an open space and landscaped pond. Entrance porch, entrance hall, cloakroom, sitting room, dining room, study, kitchen/ breakfast room, superb conservatory, 4 bedrooms two with en suite shower rooms, bathroom, gardens, garage, garden room, parking, GCH, double glazed windows and doors. EPC = c

An immaculate, and luxuriously appointed spacious three bedroom link detached home with conservatory. Pleasantly tucked away in a small cul de sac close to the town centre. Entrance hall, cloakroom, sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room, conservatory, 3 bedrooms, bathroom, GCH, double glazing, garage, off street parking for two vehicles, garden, delightful countryside views. EPC = D

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A beautifully presented top floor flat in this much sought after development for the over 60’s set in attractive landscaped grounds and within easy reach of the town centre. Entrance hallway, lounge/ dining room, kitchen, bedroom, re-fitted shower room, electric heating, double glazing, lifts to all floors, alarm pulls and manager on site, communal facilities include lounge area, fully equipped laundry, landscaped communal gardens, guest apartment. EPC = C

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Inside...

Cover Stories

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Harvest Festival

10 All Hail Hastings Welcome to 1066 Country, where history

and industry abound

16 Home Front

From city life to a snug vintage style Northumberland cottage

44 Gap Year Adventure

Will Kemp’s inspirational trip to Nepal

52 Legal Issues

All you need to know about pensions, inheritance tax and wills

72 Harvest Festival

Celebrating the September harvest of seasonal produce

Features 30 Life’s a Hoot

Learn about the life of owls with Reg Lanaway

48 Library Lovers Unite

Love a good read? Then read on!

62 Wadhurst Walk

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Join Robert Veitch and his nephew Joe on their ramble

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Harvest Recipe

Editor’s Comment

Wadhurst Walk

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All Hail Hastings

With the long hot holidays behind us it’s time to get back to school, hopefully with a spring in the step! Turn to page 44 for our Education feature where you can read all about an exciting gap year adventure. And if it’s some legal advice you need, then our feature on page 52 may help you out. Also in the magazine we celebrate Harvest Festival, have a snoop around a vintage inspired cottage and visit Hastings!

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population; rising from around 3,000 in 1801 to over 10,000 in 1831. Today it has climbed to 90,000.

The May Day Bank Holiday weekend features a Jack-inthe-Green festival and the May Day Run, when thousands of motorcyclists descend on Hastings via the A21. The yearly carnival during Old Town Week takes place every August, followed by a month-long arts festival and a two-day food and drink festival. During Hastings Week in mid-October, the Hastings Bonfire Society stages a traditional Sussex Bonfire Night; with a torchlight procession through the streets, a beach bonfire and firework display. Hastings also holds a celebrated Hastings also holds Pirate Day each July - and a celebrated Pirate is currently the world record holder for most Day each July pirates assembled in one place. The town has three cinemas, two theatres and a thriving arts venue and also holds popular annual beer and music festivals. The White Rock Theatre is renowned as a venue for live music, stand-up comedy, circus, panto and community events.

Located in the Stade area in the heart of the fishing quarter, The Jerwood Gallery houses an important collection of 20th and 21st century British art never previously on public display. The Hastings Museum and Art Gallery concentrates mostly on local history. As fishing plays an integral part in Hastings’ past and present, the Shipwreck Museum and the Fishermen’s Museum recall old seafaring days and famous local shipwrecks. Next to the museums are the impressive tall black net huts, with a fish market offering fresh environmentally-caught fish, seafood restaurants and cafes.

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William the Conqueror built Hastings Castle in 1070, four years after the Norman invasion. In 1287 a storm hit the southern coast of England, causing the cliff and half the castle to fall into the sea. Today, its Grade I listed remains overlook the town centre and the English Channel from West Hill.

Hastings Pier is visible from all along the seafront. In 2010, a major fire burned down most of the buildings on the pier and damaged its infrastructure. After a £14m refurbishment, the pier reopened in 2016. Built in the 1930s, the double decker promenade runs from the pier beyond Marine Court with a break at Warrior Square.

Hastings has two funicular railways - the West Hill Lift and the East Hill Lift, which is the steepest in Britain. The recently-restored Hastings Miniature Railway chugs along

the beach from Rock-a-Nore to Marine Parade. National Cycle Network route NCR2 passes through the town, on its way along the south coast between Dover in Kent and St Austell in Cornwall.

Since 1984, Hastings has hosted a Half Marathon; starting and finishing by the West Marina Gardens in St Leonards. The Hastings International Chess Congress has attracted many world champions since its inception in 1911.

The World Crazy Golf Championship has been held on Hasting seafront since 2003.

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Di Overton and Harvey Roll left their city townhouse behind to turn their weekend cottage in Northumberland into a full-time home with idiosyncratic vintage style 16 SUSSEX LIVING | September 2018

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SITTING AREA Walls painted in cream create a cool and restful backdrop to the living room. The French empire-style sofa came from an antique shop.

Di chose a damask patterned fabric as close in design as possible to its threadbare original cut velvet. The gilt letters on the mantelpiece were part of the name sign for a pub

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BREAKFAST BAR A fallen silver birch tree trunk, found in the forest, now serves as a support for Di and Harvey’s breakfast bar. The bar surface is made from a piece of padouk. Di bought the two Louis XVI chairs at one of France’s best known fairs

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Di Overton and Harvey Roll were living in Newcastle when they first came across their Northumberland cottage, and although having a weekend retreat was his dream rather than hers, Di was keen to be involved too.

“As we pulled up outside,” she remembers, “I said, “This is tiny! Shall we even bother looking?” But the owner was standing waiting; we couldn’t just turn around. So we went in, climbed upstairs, saw the bedroom and the views, looked at each other, and that was it. We both said, “Yes!”.’

Reinvention is what Di does best.

Her current role is a designer taking vintage pieces and creating something

new – but her past career includes time as a knitwear designer, ad agency partner, and founder of a shopping website. Unsurprisingly, the couple’s cottage, too, has been imaginatively re-worked for each stage of their ownership, from its early days as the family’s weekend bolthole to, most significantly, its latest as their full-time home.

When they bought it, the cottage had been a holiday let, fully booked and popular, given its attractive location tucked into a hillside with country views, yet lacking in character. “The fireplace had a fantastic electric fire in it – it looked medieval – and the

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We look out of the two windows at the front and every day the view is different, it’s like having two ever changing oil paintings on your wall

FUN DETAILS Bertha the mannequin has been with Di since her days as a knitwear designer in the 1980s. Di’s son, Gary gave her the easel and the picture frame was a bargain buy at a French brocante fair

MAIN BEDROOM Vintage lace, bought in the South of France, covers the bed in Di and Harvey’s bedroom. The cushions were a lucky discovery, left for a passer-by to find on a street in the Bois de Boulogne

bathroom was avocado and only had a shower,” says Di. Their first task was to make the small space a cosy escape for themselves and their now grown-up children. Over time they improved the interior with a new kitchen, bathroom, and full redecoration. It was only in 2006, when they decided to sell their large townhouse and move to Northumberland, that they decided to extend.

With the help of a planner friend, they drew up a design to almost double their original floorspace, creating a large open plan kitchen and living area, and above it, moving the bathroom from the back of the original cottage, to the side, and adding a large master bedroom.

“Our friend told us to apply for 18ft and expect to receive 14ft,” says Di. ‘He told us they always knocked four feet off. But this time they didn’t.”

Before the builders could get to work an archaeologist had to visit the site. “On the first dig they unearthed the floor of a byre next to it,” says Di, which comes from the Old English word for cow shed.

“It must have been taken down and used to build the dry stone wall around the cottage. We only found one builder who would actually use those stones to rebuild, but that was important to us. The rest kept saying they’d get new stone, and we knew that would have looked like an extension. Really we have put back on what used to be there.

It doesn’t look like it’s new. It looks like it’s been there forever.”

Living in the cottage while the work was carried out was difficult; without room to work outside, the joiner had to use the living area as his workshop.

“We had fantastic builders, but it was a nightmare,” Di admits. “Most of our

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BATHROOM The bath is made from recyclable polyethylene and has interior lighting to give a relaxing glow

DI SHARES HER DECORATING TIPS It’s a misconception that small spaces need small pieces of furniture. A large statement piece can cheat the eye and huge mirrors can magically open up spaces and reflect light, if placed opposite a window.

If you have a dark room with a lighter room next door, as we did in our bathroom, place an opaque window on the shared wall to bring light in from one room to the other.

Furniture can still be placed in front of the window, which again tricks the eye.

A mix of old and new, shabby and pristine, or large and small, creates an eclectic and interesting home. The main comment from visitors to our cottage is that there is always something to look at. Be brave and experiment – it will be well worth it.

SPIRAL STAIRCASE A staircase winds up to the bedrooms and bathroom. The marble-topped table came from a depot vente near Paris; Di kept its original brass edging and handles and painted the rest.

Di gave Harvey the ebony tantalus with mother of pearl and brass inlay as a birthday present

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DESK Harvey inherited his captain’s chair from the father of a childhood friend. The handsome walnut desk was from a house clearance and the oak filing cabinet with roller shutter came from an antique shop.

Di used a leaf stencil with flexible filler for the relief design on the wall

BOWL Di and Harvey inherited the bowl from his mother. The wine-tasting cup at the centre came from France

stuff had to go into storage and it was like living in a stone caravan.”

Once complete, however, and with the luxury of space, they were free to section off a generous kitchen-dining area, leaving plenty of room for a sitting room and study space for each of them.

“It is one of the biggest rooms in the valley, but then,” Harvey jokes, “most people have more than one room.”

Upstairs, the changes have been equally significant. “What has been done is really clever,” says Di. “I kept thinking we would hit our heads on a low ceiling, but the plans managed to create a passageway in the middle where there is enough head height for us, and make room for a laundry too.”

Where possible, they have used salvaged materials. Stained glass from a Parisian apartment building stairwell has been built into the bathroom wall; kitchen cabinets made for a photo shoot have been re-fitted and painted. “I am not an eco warrior by any stretch of the imagination,” says Di, “but I do hate to see things being thrown away.”

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with the cottage’s relaxed interior style.

“I looked for reclaimed flooring,” says Di, “but it was a ludicrous price for boards so thick that they would reduce the head height here, so we just put normal floorboards in and bashed them with chains. When the builders were working here, I was saying, ‘Scrape things over them…’ They couldn’t believe it.”

Work continued as they added a new chimney ready for a woodburner, and addressed the serious issue of damp.

Despite its stout walls, the cottage was scarcely weatherproof. “It’s the first stop between Newfoundland and here, so the weather hits us with force,” Di points out. “The cottage is so old that it was built without any gap in the wall, and there seemed to be so many pathways for water to enter. We were getting torrents coming through.”

Dealing with the damp is a long term prospect. “I asked them to rough render the wall,” she says. “Any water trapped in the walls will eventually come out and calcify, and I can just

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paint over it. It will take years to dry out completely.”

The biggest challenge has been to introduce more light. Di is philosophical: “It’s a cottage and cottages are dark. You can’t get round it: you have got low ceilings and windows that are set back into really thick walls.”

Painting the walls in a subtle cream and window returns in bright white both help, but Di clearly found some of their darker furniture difficult to place, including the carved oak dining table left to them by Harvey’s parents. She admits she hesitated, then, “One day I said to Harvey, ‘Would you mind if I painted your heirloom?’ and he said: ‘No’. It took me two weeks to get the bottle up to do it. I used to look at that end of the room and always think: ‘Oh no, it’s so dark!’ Then finally I painted it.”

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We saw the bedroom and the views, looked at each other, and that was it, we both said yes!

DAYBED A French cot, a gift from a friend, makes a pretty day bed, piled high with cushions. Di made the lampshade from a Victorian petticoat and vintage lace

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Vintage fabrics, off beat finds from French brocantes and favourite antiques all come into the decorating mix. The wit and flair Di brings to her design is evident in quirky details, from the silver birch supporting the breakfast bar to bookshelves made from a chest of drawers.

Elegant as the interior is, it is the surrounding countryside Di and Harvey love best. “We look out of the two windows at the front and every day the view is different,” says Di. “It’s like having two ever changing oil paintings on your wall. The colours change with the seasons, and the landscape is not rugged here, it’s pretty.

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INTERVIEW

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With over fifty years of experience, Reg Lanaway certainly is an expert in the field of bird ringing. Peter d’Aguilar spoke to him about his lifelong love of animals and birds

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eg Lanaway was born Reg took a one-year agriculture course in 1934 and spent his and, on its conclusion, was offered childhood years in the job of managing the dairy herd Arundel. The war broke of Shorthorn, British Friesian and out when he was six, but life went on Holstein cattle - spread across a 2000pretty much as normal; though local acre estate and its outstations. Over airfields such as Ford and Tangmere his twenty-six year tenure, the herd attracted their fair share of bombs. increased from forty four cows up to “When the one hundred and sirens went off, eighty – it now we headed for almost Bird-ringing dates back as far numbers the cellar,” Reg three hundred. He as Roman times. It involves reflects. “But I also met his wife don’t think the Pat at the estate. the attachment of a small Luftwaffe would It was through metal or plastic tag to the have dropped a his work in the leg or wing of a wild bird bomb on Arundel Sussex countryside Castle – as Hermann Goering fancied it as his country seat! We were told not to pick anything up in case it blew our hand off. The whole thing was a bit of an adventure, really.”

After school and National Service as a radar operator in the RAF, Reg returned to his first love – animal husbandry. He had worked with animals on local farms during the school holidays and he himself had pedigree, as his great grandfather had won a claret jug for champion livestock beast back in 1896. Aged twenty one,

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Reg explains. “Nowadays you just don’t see them. It was through these discoveries that I first became interested in bird ringing.” In 1968 Reg applied for a bird ringing permit and, fifty years on, he has caught, ringed, released and monitored thousands of birds of every species. As well as this, he became a member of the teaching faculty at an agricultural college, after taking a Cert Ed at university. As well as his daytime teaching duties he also gave evening classes to adults on Wildlife of Sussex.

He finally retired from formal teaching in 1999 when he reached sixty-five, but continues to give talks and lead walks - particularly to show parties of schoolchildren where their food really comes from.

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and holler and hammer your fingers with their beaks. I’ve ringed every kind of warbler and all sizes of bird from the smallest goldcrest to the largest sparrowhawk. They are attracted to the maize crops close by my garden.”

Owls are also regular visitors. Reg has ringed barn owls, tawny owls and little owls. “Owl numbers tell you a lot about wildlife in general. We had four chicks last year, none in 2016 and twenty-two in 2015. It all depends on the local vole population, which is their food of choice. Since the introduction of field margins, the quantity of voles has increased - which in turn results in more barn owls.”

Generally, the attachment of a small metal or plastic tag Owl numbers tell you a lot owls make use of the triangular nest to the leg or wing about wildlife in general boxes a couple of of a wild bird to fields away from enable individual Reg’s garden, but he recalls finding a identification. This helps in keeping nest full of young barn owls in a tunnel track of the bird’s movements - as inside a stack of hay bales - which well as its life history. During capture provided a perfect habitat. If the chicks for ringing, it is common to take survive their first winter they can live measurements and examine conditions of feather moult, subcutaneous fat, age for ten to twelve years. Once they have indications and gender. The subsequent left the nest in the autumn, they need recapture or recovery of the bird can provide information on migration, longevity, mortality, population, territoriality, feeding behaviour and other ornithological data.

“We catch the birds in mist nets, which can only be bought with a licence – as ringing is strictly controlled,” says Reg. “We then attach a ring with a unique serial number and the address of the British Museum to the bird’s leg, having made a note of the date and location. The rings come in several different sizes. Surprisingly perhaps, some nestlings need larger ones than their parents - as they have fatter legs.”

Reg has ringed over fifty different species of bird in his garden in Streat.

The rarest include grasshopper warblers, pied flycatchers and one black redstart – which is rare in England but the equivalent of a robin in certain parts of mainland Europe. “The trickiest to deal with are sparrowhawks, which have fearsome talons, and great spotted woodpeckers, which scream

to find a safe territory to roost with a plentiful food supply and not too much competition from other owls. “One of the young owls I ringed turned up in Sevenoaks, over forty miles away,” recalls Reg. “Generally, owls don’t travel more than ten to fifteen miles.

I once ringed a swallow that was found between Switzerland and Italy – which made it the first one properly authenticated, as I saw it in the nest as an egg.”

Reg now works with one of his sons, who is also a dairy farmer. Together they ring about three thousand birds each year – though Reg is currently nursing an arthritic finger which is keeping him on the sidelines at present. “I’ve no regrets about any part of my life,” says Reg. “I’ve always loved animals and birds, and have enjoyed passing on my knowledge and enthusiasm to others.” l

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It’s a Dog’s Life Keeping cool is hard work for a hot dog! Rolo the Border Terrier explains how he managed to navigate the recent heatwave

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ell, oddly enough for a country whose summers are normally marked by over-optimistic anticipation drowned in disappointing realism, we’ve actually had a spell of hot weather! This has been attended by the usual chorus of, “I like it warm, but not this warm,” and everyone rushing to buy fans and air conditioning units.

We dogs are not exempt from this concern about the weather. After all, we have to wear fur coats regardless.

My apprentice, Teddy, has a heavy, double coat, whereas I have a lighter, silver version, which conveniently reflects the sun. What can I tell you, I’m a highly evolved canine. Teddy, on the other hand, has had to undergo hand-striping, which is not a dubious dance in a night-club with blacked out windows, but a process that involves pulling all the dead fur out, revealing a slim-line profile beneath.

Anyway, he’s looking rather dapper and is better suited to the prevailing climate, which is a blessing.

You can also get doggy bandanas in absorbent material that you soak in water and which cool you down by evaporation You can help heat-suffering canines by buying cooling mats for them to lie on, but ‘Her Indoors’ reckons our cold, tiled kitchen floor does the same job without any extra expenditure.

I think she’s just being cheap-skate so Teddy and I got our revenge by lying in front of the fan so she didn’t benefit from any of the cooling air. That’ll teach her. I did think of attaching a paper fan to Teddy’s tail and then getting

‘Her Indoors’ to repeatedly tell him that he’s a good boy, but in the end the electric version seemed less effort.

You can also get doggy bandanas in absorbent material that you soak in water and which cool you down by evaporation. There have been some shameful examples on social media of people buying them for their dogs and then wearing them themselves, but by the time ‘Her Indoors’ had finally got around to buying us one each, it was raining. Typical! However, ‘Her Indoors’ was glad to get a temporary break from lugging cans of water around the garden for the plants.

I don’t know why she’s complaining; it’s cheaper than the gym and at her age, is a good way of avoiding bingo wings, so she should be grateful.

Still, with the children heading back to school in their new winter uniforms, we’re bound to have another hot spell and we shall ensure we deploy ourselves strategically in the sun until we’re hot enough to fry an egg on, then retire to the shade, panting vigorously.

I don’t know who halitosis is, but he seems to get a regular mention on such occasions and he doesn’t seem very popular. Still, you’ve got to make the most of it whilst you can, it’s a long time winter! l

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Witnessing a natural marvel in her very own back garden, Ruth Lawrence takes a close look at the truly amazing world of bee swarms on the move

bout to pick a crop of apples from the laden tree in our garden, I found the ultimate gift to mark the end of summer; a swarm of bees has set up a temporary home on one of the gnarled branches.

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new place to inhabit. A week before swarming, nursery bees prepare vertical combs to hold eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of whom will become the reproductive force for the colony. When these eggs are halfway developed, the bees realise its time to swarm. A signal tells each bee to take a drop of honey and they pour from the hive by the thousand.

Their only intention is to protect the Queen during flight as she flies in their midst; early this summer I walked through a swarm in flight on the downs and the air was filled with

deep humming as they passed. The Queen’s fertility is apparently restored by this flight when she at last leaves the darkness and flies in sunlight – this happens throughout her natural life.

The swarm settles on a branch or other suitable resting place. This is where they will stay for a few hours or days while scout bees go out looking for a more permanent location for the colony. When the scouts return, they communicate the direction and distance of the potential location to other bees by a special dance that may convince other scouts to go and check it out for themselves. The scout conveys her enthusiasm for the new location in her dance and gradually a selection process occurs. Eventually when 80% of the scouts have agreed on the most suitable nest site, the swarm departs once more. They may fly a kilometre to a new nest site, which must be just right. It must be large enough to accommodate the swarm, be well protected from the elements and receive a certain amount of warmth from the sun.

When 80% of the scouts have agreed on the most suitable nest site, the swarm departs once more I have been able to view the swarm at close quarters. The bees are gentle and avoid me even when I’ve been taking photographs nearby. I’ve seen the scouts dancing to convey the potential new nest site; they turn and waggle their bodies while the others ‘listen’. In a day or so they’ll have flown on so I’m keeping a close eye on them, hoping to witness their flight together to a more permanent home. l 36 SUSSEX LIVING | September 2018

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EVENTS

SPOTLIGHT EVENTS Weekends 22-23 & 2930 Sep

Chiddingly Artists Open Studios

Weekends of the 22-23 and 29-30 September Taking place in and around Chiddingly and East Hoathly during Chiddingly Festival, artists will be opening their studios and exhibiting their work in several locations during this celebration of the local arts scene.

Media include painting, ceramics, glass, dressmaking, sculpture, photography,

stone- carving and mixed media, with artwork across a compelling variety of techniques, colours and styles. The diverse range of work showcases technical craft through representational illustrative work to more abstract, expressive processes. Some artists will be demonstrating techniques, and Farley Farm Gallery will be hosting its own exhibition. www.chiddinglyartists.co.uk

Sat 15 & Sun 16 Sep

Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival

Chiddingly Festival

Thur 20 to Sun 30 Sep

Sat 22 to Sun 30 Sep

Thursday 20 to Sunday 30 September This year, Chiddingly Festival holds its 40th festival. This is a remarkable achievement for a village mixed arts festival run by volunteers. Described as “punching above its weight,” this little gem of a festival offers acts of high artistic integrity in and around the intimate venues of Chiddingly Village Hall, church and pub, at affordable ticket prices, aided by many private and business sponsors.

This year’s Festival will be a celebration of all that’s good in the Arts; comedy, folk, classical music, art and craft show, two days of workshops alongside beer and cider, film and jazz. It’s a harvest of the Arts! www.chiddinglyfestival.co.uk

Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September, 11am-6pm Now in its 13th year, the Seafood and Wine Festival is a hugely popular event, showcasing the excellent quality and variety of Hastings fish.

Enjoy delicious fish dishes from local restaurants and wines from local vineyards, along with a range of the best produce the area has to offer. Fantastic locally made beers, ciders, meat and vegetarian dishes will also be available.

There’s also story-telling, circus skills, craft and fish related activities during the weekend for the whole family to enjoy.

Tickers £2 in advance from Hastings Tourist Info Centre or £3 on the gate.

Under 18s free. www.visit1066country. com/fishfestivals Stade Open Space, Old Town, Hastings

Eastbourne & Lewes Walk Fest

Saturday 22 to Sunday 30 September Discover new walks from Lewes town to Cuckmere Haven.

From historic Lewes town to the iconic cliffs in Seaford and Eastbourne through to the lost village of Tide Mills. This nine-day walking event offers a range of free and chargeable walks with a mixed programme for all ages and abilities.

Find out more about the culture, history, and landscapes of one of the country’s most stunning regions. This is also a great opportunity to meet other walkers and find out more about the community walking groups in your area.

Choose from a selection of the most interesting urban and rural walks. www.eastbourneandleweswalkfest. org 01323 415415

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International Classical Concert Series at Vinehall School 30th Season 2018 -19 The Vinehall concerts offer music lovers the chance to hear world-class artists perform locally. Concerts take place in The Chaplin Theatre at Vinehall; a purpose-built theatre which seats 250 in tiered seats, providing excellent visibility with superb acoustics.

The concerts attract many distinguished classical musicians, including the talented young pianist Lara Melda, winner of the BBC Young Musician Competition 2010 aged only sixteen. The concerts welcome young talent,

Weekends 15-16 & 2223 Sep

Hurstpierpoint Open Studios - an accent on ‘Peace’ for 2018

such as the wonderful young Trio Isimsiz, and world-famous musicians including Martin Roscoe (Piano), Piers Lane (Piano) and Australia’s leading ensemble, the Goldner Quartet. Also, featuring in the series are the leading Baroque orchestra, the Avison Ensemble, the Elias and Navarra Quartets and the E.C.O. Wind Ensemble.

For tickets and free mailing list contact Geoffrey Whitehead 01580 883092 geoffreywhitehead@vinehallschool.com post Vinehall School, Robertsbridge TN32 5JL

Sat 13 Oct to Sat 8 Jun

Dahlia Days at Pashley Manor Gardens Wednesday 5 to Saturday 15 September, Open Every Day 10am-5pm As summer turns to autumn the gardens at Pashley are ablaze with colour, provided by thousands of dazzling dahlias.

Over 60 varieties of this diverse perennial are planted throughout the garden complemented by the second flowering of roses, late flowering perennials and other annuals.

During ‘Dahlia Days’ Bloms Bulbs will be at Pashley with a display of cut dahlias, giving advice and taking orders and Pashley’s gardeners will be giving talks on dahlias.

The café, with terrace, serves delicious cakes, scones and light lunches; the shop

has gorgeous gifts and plants, and there are exhibitions of garden sculpture and floral art. www.pashleymanorgardens.com Pashley Manor Gardens, Ticehurst, Nr. Wadhurst TN5 7HE Wed 5 to Sat 15 Sep

Weekends of the 15 & 16 and 22 & 23 September, 11am-5pm “Art making is a way of experiencing peace” Melanie Circle – Artist

The Good Life Show at The View Hotel, Eastbourne Thursday 27 September, Thur 10am–4pm 27 Sep Come along to the Good Life Show presented by Eastbourne Seniors Forum.

Browse the numerous stalls and chat to providers about health, clubs, legal, fitness, hobbies, leisure and learning. A wide range of lifestyle information and demonstrations for the over fifties. Raffle and refreshments available. Free – no need to book.

The View Hotel, Grand Parade, Eastbourne, BN21 4DN

Wander around the lovely village of Hurstpierpoint and look for the blue and white balloons showing the Hurstpierpoint Open Studios art trail which is part of Hurst Festival. A great opportunity to view fabulous pieces of art by 26 artists at 13 venues, showcasing work in all media, digital printing, calligraphy, photography, jewellery, stained glass, textile crafts, sculptures and woodwork.

Please be aware that some venues are only open for one weekend. To find out more visit: www.hurstpierpointopenstudios. com (also on Facebook)

Autumn Show & Game Fair Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 October, 9am-5pm This year’s Autumn Show & Game Fair is jam-packed with entertainment, countryside displays, have-a-go activities, shopping and family fun for all ages! Jonathan Marshall and his dancing Spanish horses will be wowing the crowds in the main ring with his stunning display of falconry set to music – unmissable! Visitors can have a go at country pursuits including terrier racing, dog agility, clay pigeon shooting,

fly fishing, archery, axe throwing and gundog scurries, plus there’s a family fairground, children’s entertainment, great shopping and heaps of delicious seasonal food and drink to enjoy. Dogs welcome!

Buy tickets online for 10% discount, offer ends midnight 5th October. Adults £11; Seniors/Students £9; children under 16 free with a paying adult; Members free.South of England Showground, Ardingly, RH17 6TL 01444 892700 www.seas.org.uk

Sat 6 & Sun 7 Oct

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Classic Cars, Bikes, Scooters, and Vans at Uckfield Revival Saturday 6 October, from 10.15am Uckfield Town Council is planning this year’s Uckfield Revival - a parade of classic vehicles through the town. The procession will start at 10.15am at The Highlands Inn and make its way to the Luxford Field via the High Street. The vehicles will be on show at the Luxford Field during the morning and over lunch,

where vehicle enthusiasts will be able to view them at close hand. There will also be stalls with automobile literature, autojumble and memorabilia.

You will also find a range of refreshment stalls and children’s entertainment offering Sat 6 Oct something for everyone. A great fun event for all the family.

He Ain’t Heavy at The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne Tuesday 23 October, 7.30pm and Wednesday 24 October, 2.30pm A show which is full of love, He Ain’t Heavy, is a poignant, moving and intimate look at growing up with an autistic sibling, using circus skills and physical theatre in this theatrical treat. We meet Grania who’s

Tue 23 & Wed 24 Oct

Classical Music Season at The Hawth, Crawley Starts Friday 28 September The first concert in The Hawth’s 2018/19 Classical Music season sees The Hawth’s resident orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, getting the season off to an impressive start on Friday 28 September when it performs Beethoven’s Leonore Overture, Grieg’s Piano Concerto and Brahms Symphony No.2. The Orchestra are conducted by Barry Holdsworth and joined by renowned pianist Andrew Zolinsky. The season features three other RPO concerts including a film gala as well as four RPO Minatures - recitals performed in the more

younger brother Sean is autistic, has severe learning disabilities and epilepsy; drawing from her own experiences of growing up in a family with a sibling who faces challenges every day comes this personal and stunningly honest portrayal. With a unique take on puppetry and physical theatre aerial circus skills, audience interaction and storytelling this production presents Sean’s unique take on life and how this has shaped and influenced Grania.

Tickets are priced at £10 and £7 for children and students.

Wednesday matinee 2.30pm is a relaxed performance with tickets priced at £7.

Box office 01323 412000 or www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk

Eastbourne Splash Point Jazz Festival Fri 28 Sep

intimate Studio - and concerts by the Russian State Symphony Orchestra, pianist Mark Bebbington and the National Youth Harp Orchestra with soprano Faryl Smith.

Further details at www.hawth.co.uk or call 01293 553636

Hever Castle Wedding Showcase Sunday 14 October, 12 noon–4pm Hever Castle & Gardens is hosting an elegant Wedding Showcase giving brides and grooms an exciting opportunity to experience the stunning venue set up for a wedding. Be it the stately grandeur of the Castle itself, the country house atmosphere of the Astor Wing, or the stunning lakeside location of the Guthrie Pavilion, Hever Castle offers a dream-come-true location.

Intimate gatherings, exuberant parties and outdoor weddings are all catered for. Guests

Sun 30 Sep

can wander around the spectacular facilities and experience first-hand the magic of a wedding at Hever Castle. Meet members of the events team who will be on hand to discuss requirements and answer any questions. For more information on holding your dream wedding at Hever Castle please visit hevercastle.co.uk/weddings.

Anyone interested in attending should preregister by emailing weddings@hevercastle. co.uk including basic details of the date and approximate numbers of guests.

Sunday 30 September Eastbourne’s seafront will come alive to the sounds of jazz when the town plays host for a day to some of Europe’s top jazz musicians. Gigs will be in three venues within easy walking distance of each other in the ‘East of the Pier’ Heritage Area of Eastbourne: The Fishermen’s Club on Royal Parade (home to the successful monthly Eastbourne SPJC gigs), Christ Church Seaside and Leaf Hall Seaside, one of Eastbourne’s most iconic historic buildings. Leaf Hall will also feature an exhibition by renowned jazz photographer Brian O’Connor.

Full details at: www.splashpointjazz.club

Sun 14 Oct

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Weddings tailored to suit your budget

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EDUCATION

When student Will Kemp, who joined Sussex Living for work experience in 2014, first decided upon a gap year, little did he know that a trip to Nepal with International Citizen Service would bring such life changing experiences. Sasha Kanal finds out more

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hen you think of the traditional student gap year, all sorts of options spring to mind. Backpacking with friends in South East Asia, travelling around Australia or interrailing across Europe to name a few.

There are also numerous charitable options that young people can access to gain life and work experience in some of the worlds’ poorest communities.

This is what Will Kemp, 18, from Sussex did when he was looking to fill part of his gap year in 2017. Will chose to go with International Citizen Service (ICS) – a UK Government funded programme providing volunteering

placements to 18-25 year olds and team leader placements to 23-35 year olds.

“I always planned to do a gap year and trying to get on a placement with ICS felt like a great way of filling part of it in a meaningful way. I opted for ICS because of the gravitas associated with this organisation and the projects they undertake in developing countries,” says Will.

ICS is run by respected development organisations and funded by the UK Government’s Department for International Development. Their projects are carefully designed to help end poverty in a socially sustainable way.

So, in October 2017, Will spent 10 weeks in rural

ICS projects are carefully designed to help end poverty in a socially sustainable way

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Nepal, staying with a Nepalese host family and fully immersing himself in their way of life. According to Will, this was one of the highlights of his trip with ICS. He explains, “Experiencing family life in the small village of Tiltar was amazing. My host family were wonderful and couldn’t have been more welcoming towards me. They were literally the happiest people I’ve ever met. In terms of Western culture, they have very little in the way of material things, so their life as a close-knit loving family is everything.”

Part of Will’s project in Nepal was to teach in two local schools. “I taught lessons on culture, careers and because I was so immersed in the culture, I picked up quite a bit of Nepalese by the end of my trip,” says Will.

And what were the challenges to being away from home and in an entirely different culture for 10 weeks?

“Oh, there were lots!” laughs Will. “As a young person, having no WiFi and therefore little access to social media was a real challenge for me! But in the end, it was actually brilliant to detox from it all. Where I stayed was really geography for 7-11 year olds and to older kids of about 15,” says Will. “It was really interesting as many of the children said they wanted to be pilots when they grew up. They had a real thirst to travel.”

Much of the other work he undertook was infrastructure and agriculture-based with a particular focus on climate change. “We helped to build poly-tunnels, plastic ponds, vegetable gardens and even worked with the local blacksmith. After the 2015 earthquake, the country is still recovering to a certain extent.”

How did Will find the language barrier?

“There were four ‘in-country’ Nepali volunteers in our group who would help to translate into English. Plus,

part of the festival offerings - there was no getting out of it! Plus, Nepal is a stunning country. We went on so many wonderful treks and I had plenty of time to self-reflect.”

Will also came face to face with his arachnophobia when a friend planted a giant spider on his shoulders. “Well I got over that phobia and fast!”

Aside from facing his fears, Will also grew in confidence on his trip. “I used to be a relatively shy person,” he says, “but I’ve gained so much in terms of confidence and ability to meet new people and challenges. The beauty of an ICS scheme is that’s it’s structured and you receive plenty of training and

My host family were literally the happiest people I’ve ever met

remote and very rural and it took a while to acclimatise. Also eating the same meal of rice and beans each day with little variation took some getting used to. But this really makes you appreciate other people’s way of life compared to your own.”

Similarly, the highlights for Will were multifold. “I met so many great people. There were 12 of us in the team and I’ve made some lifelong friends out of it. When you’re forced out of your comfort zone with others, you tend to bond. A good example is our participation in a Buddhist and Hindi five day festival where we had to dance every night in the village as

support. Two out of the ten weeks you are given the role of Team Leader which means you have to organise everyone’s daily timetable and oversee your team. It gives you invaluable insights to take back to your own life and career.”

Indeed because of ICS’ focus on climate change, Will’s experiences in Nepal fit perfectly with his career goals and he plans to study Natural Sciences at Leeds University in October.

“Applying to do ICS is one of the best decisions I ever made,” says Will. “Plus, the way it is structured enables you to get on with the process of working hard and challenging yourself. The Government funds 90% of your trip and as a volunteer you fund 10% yourself – usually around £800.

Your visas, flights, travel and medical insurance, medication, vaccines, food and accommodation are all included.”

So, for anyone thinking of taking a gap year, consider ICS – it could be one of the best decisions you ever made. l For more information on ICS, go to www.volunteerics.org

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COMMUNITY

LIBRARY LOVERS

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Sara Whatley is a book lover. Here, she extolls the brilliance of libraries and shares her experience of them being so much more than silent, stuffy reading

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y memories of visiting the library stretch and movements to classic and new nursery rhymes. We first all the way back to before I could see over went when she was just a few months old and she stared in the counter. I clearly remember sitting in fascination at all the other children and babies. Now, at a the bright and cosy children’s corner rifling year and a half, she joins in, claps her hands, shakes her through the books, the excitement of taking them home rattle and laughs her way through sessions, sitting on her ready for my parents to read again, and again, and again. own mini chair or joining the inevitable gang of toddlers I would carry my pile over to the desk, tottering around at the front. my little hand lifting each book up and It’s not just Rhyme Time sessions sliding it over the counter to be stamped, that libraries run; there is a wealth of We join in with Rhyme Time followed by my own special library card different activities for children and adults sessions, a fun half hour of which I think I even remember signing alike from Saturday Sing Along, Toddler singing and movements with a squiggled signature. Then as I Time, Board Games and Multi-sensory got older I found the teenage and young Story Magic to reading groups, Knit adult section and discovered a whole new and Knatter, I.T drop in sessions, Relax world of reading, one which sometimes kept with Colouring, writing groups, Asperger me up until the small hours, or until my reading group, Cancer support groups torch began to flicker, anyway. and many more. Sessions vary from At university I sometimes felt like library to library and are all free.

I lived in the library, and the sight Many of the sessions are run by of snoozing students mid-way volunteers along with library staff, through a mammoth work session and from what I have experienced was not uncommon – why everyone is exceptionally friendly provide sofas if not to encourage and helpful. Our local library a restorative power nap? And staff stop and chat with my beyond uni I was a regular in daughter, giving her high fives many libraries, beavering away and generally making her, and at my short stories, willing the my, experience really positive. words of thousands of great I hope I can instil in her what my authors to seep through my own parents instilled in me; fingers. reading is brilliant and libraries are And now, with my own daughter, magical places. Let’s use them and we are weekly visitors to our local keep them alive. l www.westsussex.gov.uk library. We join in with the Rhyme www.eastsussex.gov.uk Time sessions, a fun half hour of singing

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BOOK REVIEW

Elizabeth Kay offers Sussex Living readers her thoughts on recent reads that have caught her attention. She gives her views on a selection of books from different genres which may capture your interest

ELEANOR OLIPHANT IS COMPLETELY FINE

by Gail Honeyman

And so, obviously, she’s not fine at all. It becomes clear straight away that she has an OCD/Aspergers personality, so her days are rigidly structured and she has no friends. She doesn’t regard this as a problem – it’s the rest of the world that’s out of step. And then, after an incident involving the collapse of an elderly man, she starts to develop a rather prickly relationship with Raymond, who works in her office where she holds an administrative job well below her capabilities. Gradually, the reader begins

She is a very engaging character in her own oddball way to discover things about Eleanor’s past and her insane and dominating mother.

The one thing I’d like to have known was a bit more about the mother’s past, and how she became the multi-faceted and sadistic individual she was. There is a twist in the plot, which I guessed before the reveal, but not so much in advance that it spoilt anything. She is a very engaging character in her own oddball way, and I loved every minute of the book. One of those novels that you’re disappointed to finish – I felt it could have been a lot longer, as it’s original, well-written, and juggles comedy and tragedy with style.

DARK PLACES

by Gillian Flynn

THE BAD BUNNIES’ MAGIC SHOW

This novel was written before Gone Girl. It alternates between the present and 1985, when seven-year-old Libby’s family was massacred and she was instrumental in having her older brother convicted. Psychologically damaged by the event, Libby has drifted in an aimless way, living off donations from well-wishers and the proceeds of a book about the murder of her mother and two sisters. The money isn’t going to last forever, and as she looks for a way, to generate some

This is a pre-school book for little ones, with several clever devices for concealing pictures on the page such as a stage curtain that folds back to reveal Mr Abra and Mr Cadabra.

These are the two bad bunnies who put on a magic show in place of the real magician, who has unaccountably disappeared. The two bad bunnies have the sole intention of stealing all the jewellery worn by members of the audience by hypnotising them to put everything they own into a sack – a

Libby is drawn in, and rather unwillingly starts to play the detective

The two bad bunnies have the sole intention of stealing all the jewellery

income, she is contacted by the Kill Club, a voyeuristic group of people obsessed with murder who disagree with the verdict that Libby’s brother Ben received, and want to investigate it.

Ben has led a blameless life in prison for twenty-five years, and as the club can’t contact the people involved themselves Libby is drawn in, and rather unwillingly starts to play the detective.

There are some upsetting descriptions of violence along the way, and your opinion on who is actually guilty of the crime changes from chapter to chapter.

The plot unravels in some surprising ways, and I did not guess the outcome.

by Mini Grey

real disappearing act! There are all the usual turns – knife-throwing and sawing someone in half and escapology.

I would have found this a bit worrying for young children, but for the final few pages when the real magician arrives and fires the two miscreants from a cannon to teach them a lesson. Author and illustrator Mini Grey has produced an attractive book that would make good bedtime reading, particularly for those parents who like putting a bit of expression into their reading – most of the punch lines end in O, and rhyme, so there’s lots of scope for kids who know what’s coming to join in.

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LEGAL MATTERS

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LEGAL Understanding the law surrounding the three key issues of pensions, inheritance tax and will making can be tricky at best. Here, Lisa de Silva puts it into simple, jargon free terms

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he UK legal system has evolved over hundreds of years to keep pace with our ever-changing society, to ensure that it remains as civilised, fair and protective of citizens as possible.

As such, it is one of the most important institutions in the land. But how well do you know your legal rights when it comes to long-term financial planning?

Long-term financial planning is important in maintaining a good quality of life and the earlier you start the better. To help you understand how legal issues can impact financial planning, both positively and negatively, we’ve taken a closer look at the law around pensions, inheritance tax and will making. Hopefully, some of the issues raised will help set you on the road to creating and maintaining a quality lifestyle for you and your heirs, but we would strongly advise you seek the professional services of a solicitor or accountant to advise you on your individual circumstances.

HOW THE LAW HAS RECENTLY CHANGED AROUND PENSIONS The issue of pensions is a vast and complex area, so we have chosen to focus on how the law has recently changed to affect pensions.

Automatic Enrolment Schemes In April 2017, it became a legal requirement for employers to enrol staff in a workplace pension under the automatic enrolment scheme. All employees are eligible for automatic enrolment as long as they meet the following criteria:

• they are not already in a workplace pension • they are aged 22 years or older • they are under State Pension age • they earn more than £10,000 p.a.

• they work in the UK Employees can opt out, but as employers have to contribute to the scheme as well as the employee, it is a good idea to join. What’s more, employees get tax relief on their contributions to the scheme.

‘Pensions Flexibility’ Rules The law has also changed since April 2015, when new ‘pensions flexibility’ rules were introduced to allow people over the age of 55 years to access as much of their savings from a defined contributions pension scheme as they

Long-term financial planning is important in maintaining a good quality of life wish, with 25% of the sum being tax-free.

The money can then be used in three main ways: • t o buy a lifetime annuity but with the option to take a tax free lump sum of up to 25% of your pension pot • t o put the funds into drawdown with no limit on the amount you can take each year, again you can take a tax free lump sum of up to 25% of the pot at the same time • t o take the money as a lump sum payment, with 25% being tax free.

This is called an ‘uncrystallised funds pension lump sum’ (UFPLS) PLANNING FOR INHERITANCE TAX Inheritance tax (IHT) is a tax levied on the property and assets you have at the time of death and anything you have given away during the previous seven years. Generally, there is no IHT to pay if the total estate is valued below £325,000, or you leave everything to a spouse, civil partner, charity or community amateur sports club.

The standard level of IHT is 40% and it is only charged on the part of your

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estate that is above the tax threshold.

For example, if an estate is worth £500,000, the 40% tax will be due on £175,000 (£500,000 minus £325,000).

The assets that make up an estate include any property and its contents, vehicles, shares/investments, banks/ building society accounts, foreign property, jewellery and anything given away seven years before your death. It is the job of your executor(s) to value the estate, send the valuation to HMRC and then pay any tax owed. The estate’s

If you leave your home to your children or grandchildren, the tax threshold increases to £450,000

value needs to be reported to HMRC even if it is under the £325,000 threshold.

In recent years the law has changed around IHT to include Transferable Main Residence Allowance (TMRA) to help people pass property onto descendants. This means that if you leave your home to your children or grandchildren, the tax threshold increases to £450,000. For married couples and those in a civil partnership, the unused threshold can be added to your partner’s threshold giving a total estate value of £900,000 before any IHT is due. This figure is set to rise

HOW TO REDUCE INHERITANCE TAX

Early planning is key to minimising the amount of IHT payable.

Firstly, do ensure you have made a will to protect your decisions on how your assets are distributed after your death and to ensure that your affairs are dealt with tax efficiently. One way to reduce the tax is to reduce the value of your estate before you die. However, do be aware that any money or property given away will be liable for IHT if you die within seven years and it is strongly recommended that you invest in professional legal advice before embarking on this course of action as this is a complicated area.

THE MAIN WAYS TO HELP REDUCE IHT INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: give up to £3,000 away each year and pay no tax if unused this tax-exempt allowance can be carried over to the following year to £6,000 gifts of up to £250 a year to any one recipient are excluded from IHT, so this small amount can be given annually to a large number of relatives give a wedding gift up to £5,000 to a child and £2,500 to a grandchild tax-free. As the allowance is per person, couples can give up to £10,000 downsize your home and spend the capital leave 10% of your estate to charity and under Legacy10 legislation, the level of IHT on the rest of your estate reduces to 36% set up a Discretionary Trust which could help to reduce the rate of IHT put money into specialist tax-efficient investments, loan and bonds plans and flexible revisionary interest trusts use a ‘gift inter-vivos’ or whole life assurance policy to generate the money to pay for IHT a trading business can be wholly or partially exempt from IHT agricultural land that is let out or farmed can be exempt from IHT if death was caused by an injury or wound sustained from active service against a state enemy exemption can apply

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THE IMPORTANCE OF MAKING A WILL It is important to make a will to ensure that your estate is distributed in accordance with your wishes after your death. A will gives you the opportunity to specify which family members, friends and charities receive your assets.

It is particularly important for those with children under 18 years to make a will in order to name those they wish to become legal guardians in the event of both parents’ deaths. You can also use a will to give instructions about your funeral. Once you have written a will do make sure family members know where it is kept, or any details of a solicitor it is lodged with.

If you die with no will, or your will is deemed to be legally invalid, your estate is divided up under the rules of intestacy.

Under the rules of intestacy only married, civil partners or other close relatives can inherit. So, making a will is vital for unmarried couples as if one dies intestate, it will cause serious problems for the remaining partner.

Upon death, the executor(s) of the will makes a valuation of the estate that is submitted to HMRC. They can then apply to the Probate Registry for a Grant of Probate. Once any inheritance tax has been paid and an oath has been sworn in court, the Grant of Probate is given which allows the executor(s) to close accounts, transfer assets, deal with property and pay any debts. All debts must be settled before the assets are distributed. This process can be completed by a solicitor if required.

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PUZZLES

PUZZLE PAGE SUDOKU

A simple process of logic is all that it takes to solve each puzzle in this game. Put the numbers 1 to 9 in each vertical column and each horizontal line. Each number must appear only once in each column and line and in each of the 3x3 boxes in the grid.

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1. Spread throughout (8) 5. Sword handle (4) 7. Rime (9) 9. Scheme (4) 10. Urban area (4) 11. Italian staple food (5) 14. Accounts (5) 15. Push gently (5) 16. Oak fruit (5) 17. Former South African province (5) 18. Reproductive organ (5) 19. Masculine (5) 22. Very short skirt (4) 24. Profound (4) 26. Moving staircase (9) 27. Theatre box (4) 28. Continent (8)

1. Splendour (4) 2. Earth’s satellite (4) 3. Main artery (5) 4. White heron (5) 5. Vast multitude (4) 6. Stormy (8) 7. Frozen raindrop (9) 8. Highest level (3,6) 11. Biblical poem (5) 12. Faint (5) 13. Irritate (5) 14. Organic fertiliser (8) 20. Be of use (5) 21. Memorise (5) 23. ---- of Skye (4) 24. Fate (4) 25. Elapse (4)

CROSS CODE

Each number in the grid represents a different letter of the alphabet.

You have three letters in the control grid to start you off. Enter them in the appropriate squares in the main grid, then use your knowledge of words to work out which letters should go in the missing squares.

As you get the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and control grid. Check off the alphabetical list of letters as you identify them.

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Kakuro puzzles resemble crosswords which use numbers instead of words. The aim of the game is to fill all the blank squares in the grid with only the numbers 1-9 so that the numbers you enter add up to the corresponding clues. When the grid is filled, the puzzle is complete.

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BLOOMING TIMES

Get Spruced Up! Don’t believe the myth conifers aren’t boring! Easy to grow, architectural, they have much to offer your garden, says Flo Whitaker

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ost shrubs will survive an injudicious pruning attack.

Like a bad haircut, they’ll eventually ‘grow out of it’ but when it comes to conifers, put those secateurs down! Most conifers do not take kindly to pruning. They don’t usually regenerate from old wood so choose the site for new plantings carefully, or be prepared to remove a plant if it outgrows its allotted space.

Conifers come in every colour, size and shape; adding much to the garden but asking for little in return. Keep them well irrigated in their first year, give them a feed every spring and they’ll probably last for donkey’s years.

Don’t be fooled by plant labels that read dwarf conifer. Few conifers are ‘dwarf’ in habit - it’s more accurate to say that some are very slow-growing indeed and take a long time to reach full size.

Many Juniper varieties are ideal for rockeries or gravel gardens. Juniperus procumbens ‘Nana’ is a perfect evergreen ground cover plant that reaches the dizzying height of 30 cms.

Well-behaved Juniper compressa grows

The wood from the Incense Cedar tree is used to make pencils - that’s why they have that distinctive aroma when you sharpen them.

approximately 3 cms per year and will eventually makes a neat and slender shrub 60-90 cms high.

Calocedrus decurrens, the ‘Incense Cedar’ is a huge forest tree. The wood is used to make pencils - that’s why they have that distinctive aroma when you sharpen them. There are several garden-suitable varieties of Calocedrus,

including ‘Berrima Gold’, whose bright golden foliage takes on additional fiery orange hues during the winter.

Berrima Gold will eventually reach 3 metres in height, but takes 20 years or more to do so; a good example of ‘slow’, not ‘dwarf’.

The mature bark often becomes golden in colour too, making it a real show-stopper for a winter border.

Pinus mugo used to be called ‘The Mountain Pine’. Nowadays it should probably be re-named ‘The Car Park Pine’, such is its prevalence in dreary urban landscaping. It has stiff bottlebrushtype branches, grows 2-3 metres tall and, along with the seemingly indestructible yew, is one of the few conifers you can successfully prune. It is unbelievably tough; copes with boiling sunshine, snow, rubbishy soil, road salt and survives where nothing else will. It should be better appreciated.

The fabulously architectural Korean fir, (Abies koreana) eventually attains 10 metres, but takes ages getting there, so don’t rule it out. It bears upright cones in astonishing shades of inky purple and violet. Abies ‘Silberlocke’ is even slower and may be content to reach 2 metres in height.

Imagine a Korean fir, festooned with cones and planted in a large terracotta pot in a wintery garden setting. What an irresistible idea! It’s enough to make you grab your coat and credit card and head for your favourite garden centre.

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Jon and Vicky Tate In the 60s their son Jonathon joined the business, who by this time was a well-known and highly respected plants man specialising in the propagation of conifers. He was a founding member of the British Conifer Society, and discovered several new varieties as well as rescuing others from the brink of extinction. Selling container grown conifers, trees and shrubs to the wholesale market both in the UK and internationally the business expanded during the 1970s with the rise in popularity of conifers.

As the conifer market started to go out of fashion during the 90s the business continued to specialise in

conifers and despite the hard times started to diversify as the new millennium arrived. By the middle of the 2000s Lime Cross Nursery had built a new shop with a café and then daughter Vicky joined in 2008 to help run the business after studying fine art and working at The Auckland Botanical Garden.

Six years later, Jon’s other daughter also joined the business having studied Viticulture at University and travelled the world working in the wine industry. During this period, unfortunately and very sadly Jon had become ill with cancer and after 7 years of treatment he passed away in 2014.

However, his spirit and legacy lives on in his daughters and the trees that he propagated as they now combine their knowledge, experience, energy and passion into Lime Cross Nursery.

In the last couple of years, Vicky and Helen have been helping to revive the interest and popularity of conifers by attending major shows such as Grow London, Wisley, Chatsworth and by

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With conifers coming back into fashion Lime Cross Nursery has been working with eminent gardeners such as Matt Pottage, the Curator at Wisley, who is also passionate about the revival of conifers and have supplied specimens of conifers to the new Exotic Gardens at Wisley. Many Garden Designers are going to Lime Cross for their expertise and knowledge of conifers. As they are recognising the uniqueness, robustness, structure and forms that conifers offer with vibrant greens and blues mixing beautifully with other plant groups like grasses, tropical specimens and acers.

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Thought trampolining was just a lively leap? Well think again, Sasha Kanal explains the science behind the bounce

MORE OUNCE FOR YOUR BOUNCE So, what’s so special about rebounding and how you can practice the activity in the safest way possible?

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FEEL THE FORCE! Trampolining is a low impact activity compared to jogging or other aerobic activities that use a hard surface. The impact from the bounce is naturally absorbed by the trampoline, in turn reducing the risk of injury to your muscles and joints. When you jump in the air on a trampoline, you experience

According to data collected

by NASA, rebounding exercise or trampolining is 68% more efficient than jogging a momentary state of weightlessness at the top of the jump. Yet, when you reach the bottom of your jump and land, your body will experience as much as 4Gs of gravitational force, twice the force of gravity! It’s this shift in gravity that is super beneficial to

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But if you think bouncing is purely the reserve of youngsters or a quick 2-minute go on a summer evening with little ones, then think again!

According to data collected by NASA, rebounding exercise or trampolining is 68% more efficient than jogging when it comes to burning calories and supporting a healthy metabolism, not to mention the whole host of other benefits it brings.

every muscle and cell in our body as it helps kick start the lymphatic system.

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With summer holidays nearing their end and autumn term fast approaching Robert Veitch and his nephew Joe packed a rucksack and went off to explore the foothills of Wadhurst

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Between the pretty tile hung homes the newly surfaced road falls away downhill, bordered on either side by neatly trimmed hedges.

After 300m take the entrance to Little Pell Farm that’s straight ahead, where the road turns left. Along the track there are hops, farmhouses and two barns. Keep left of the farthest barn, following the unmade track to the pair of metal gates. Cross the stile by the gate on the left and continue downhill into the glade, passing a pond on the way.

When the unmade track ends, keep going, straight on, into another glade. The path narrows down as it approaches a stile with a dog flap.

Beyond the stile, keep to the left, passing a decaying tree trunk on the way to the bottom of the field where a gate and stile co-habit in the corner.

Turn right and join the ‘Bewl Water Route,’ which encapsulates the reservoir.

It’s firm underfoot as this is a path well used by walkers and cyclists. The path twists and turns through the trees, gently undulating… A genteel woodland bobsleigh track as Joe and I noted.

Leaving the trees behind the scenery

expands into the wonderfully rich vista of Bewl Water… possibly accompanied by the sound of honking geese. The route runs parallel to the waterside for a while, mostly level, following the contour lines through the meadows, flowers and colours of late summer.

It all comes abruptly to an end by two posts and a brown sign marked ‘Bewl Water Route.’ Walk uphill for 100m, before turning 90° left. Will you spot the giant gnarled beech tree engraved with ‘Dave T was here’ at

Will you spot the giant gnarled beech engraved with ‘Dave T was here’?

head height, about 100m before the junction with the road?

Turn right at the road, then after 50m turn left at the fingerpost, walking down the concrete drive towards Bryant’s Farm. Turn right at the gate by the ‘Private Property’ sign, down the flight of steps where it says ‘¼ mile to Hook Hill.’

The path turns sharp left and the reservoir can be seen once again, through low-lying branches that caress the rippling surface of the water. “It’s a perfect place for crocodiles to lie in wait, ready to ambush a passer by,” according to Joe. Alan Hatton’s bench is a nice place to pause for a moment or two and absorb the scenery. Just beyond his bench is an old road (most of which is now submerged). Turn right towards the pair of wooden gates, and walk uphill to the junction.

At the junction, turn right onto the resurfaced Ward’s Lane. It’s just under ¾ mile to the entrance to Chesson’s Farm, and almost 200m after that bear right at the gate marked ‘Lambing Season Notice’ not forgetting to close it behind you.

Keep to the right side of the field, walking downhill between the two large oaks, turning left immediately after and heading into the gulley that leads to

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Beyond the gates, the path follows the curve of the land as it gains altitude gently, leveling off, straightening and then ending at a gate by a telegraph pole.

Turn left onto the drive and after ⅓ mile take the steps on the right, down to the iron kissing gate and into the field. After 50m bear left, diagonally downhill across the field towards the distant metal gate. Entering the woods, follow the path around to the left, over the bridge and the iron coloured stream beneath. The route hugs the left side of the field populated with wheat and maize, joining Foxhole Lane at the top.

Over the stile on the other side of the road, walk southwest across the field until ‘John Jefferson’s’ stile is encountered.

Beyond this, turn right and head back to Wadhurst for whatever refreshments you think you deserve! As Joe commented, “There’s a lot of scenery and variety in this walk and it’s covered in not too many miles at all.” l We are very grateful to Robert Veitch for bringing us new and exciting local walks every month. Robert insists on testing all routes personally, making sure they are suitable for walking.

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LONG WOOLLEN COATS A bit like the grown-up version of the dressing gown coat but can be worn fitted – giving you a long elegant silhouette – or oversized – guaranteed to fit over bulky jumpers. Patterns adorn this style of coat, from tartan and windowpane checks to houndstooth plaid and gingham or if you fancy something a little simpler try one of the many single colour options in trend. Just make sure it’s bright – pink was a big look on many of the runways!

FAUX FUR AND ANIMAL PRINT COATS The faux fur trend has catapulted into popularity

SKI JACKETS Heading down from the slopes, ski jackets have made their way to street style. A more relaxed style of coat which embraces the sportswear trend, you can still dress them up with a fur collar and a feminine pretty pastel colour. Best paired over casual separates like jeans, joggers and hoodies.

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This year the Harvest Festival falls on the 23rd September when glorious displays of produce will be gathered and celebrated.

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China, Taiwan and Vietnam, so called very year I am surprised as it coincides with the full moon on by the arrival of the first the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. early blackberries in late ‘Mooncakes’ are the special delicacy July. To my mind they consumed during this festival. They are a signifier of the start of crisper consist of a thick, round pastry with mornings, of autumnal mists and a a rich filling of red bean or lotus seed time of harvest celebrations, but there paste and sometimes salted duck egg they are every year in the blazing yolks surrounded by a sunshine in their clusters thin, sweet crust. of green, red and black Michaelmas, or the drupelets. They are the A successful harvest Feast of Michael and start however, of the All Angels, is celebrated serious fruit and veg glut ensured the local which ramps up until community would be on the 29th September as a marker to the end we are laden in August fed throughout the of the Harvest Festival. and September. Then Traditional celebrations the harvest is underway, potentially barren include feasting on a the crops are gathered winter months goose which is said and it’s time to celebrate to bring financial with the Harvest protection for the Festival. following year.

It is one of the oldest and most Schools, community groups and traditional British festivals taking place Christian churches celebrate Harvest at the time of the Harvest Moon (a full Festival especially, although church moon that is seen nearest to the time of celebrations only began in earnest in the Autumn equinox), which this year Victorian times. Baskets of produce falls on the 24th September. Harvest and gifts of food are gathered together celebrations are traditionally held on the Sunday nearest to or of the Harvest in fabulous seasonal displays, often with the traditional corn dolly nestled Moon, this year the 23rd September. amongst the harvest. Much of the The origins of the Harvest Festival gathered food is then donated to those in Britain bring us right back to pagan in need, and special collection days times, when thanks were given for a and drives are set up to donate food successful harvest. It was a vital time to charities. UKHarvest is a charity of the year, when success was a matter working in West and East Sussex with of life or death. A successful harvest a mission to nourish the nation. They ensured the local community would be collect surplus food from all sorts of fed throughout the potentially barren outlets and deliver it to charities and winter months. The word ‘harvest’ are especially busy at this time of year comes from the Old English word with Harvest donations. Brogan Rehill haerfest meaning ‘autumn’, the season said, “We have a dedicated collection for gathering the food of the land. driver this year who will hopefully Harvest festivals are celebrated collect larger donations gathered from around the world, from the Rice Harvest Festival in Bali which is held in the Harvest Festival.”

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FOOD & DRINK

Use up the glut of ripe fruits in this juicy jam for a late summer treat. Berry flavours naturally complement each other, particularly when blended with the juniper berries, which lend a gentle and subtle taste of gin to the jam

Summer Berry Juniper Jam &

Makes about 1.3kg of jam to pot.

Raspberries and blackberries are used in the recipe below but any ripe summer berries can be added.

INGREDIENTS 700g fresh raspberries 700g fresh blackberries 2 teaspoons of juniper berries (crushed) 300ml water 1.3kg granulated sugar (warmed) Juice of 2 lemons METHOD 1 Put the juniper berries in a mortar and gently crush

with a pestle to release their flavour.

2 Wash the fresh whole raspberries and blackberries and put them, with the crushed juniper berries, in a large heavy pan with the water.

3 Set over a low heat, cover with a lid, and cook gently for about 15 minutes, or until the juices from the fruit begin to run and the berries start to break down.

4 Add the granulated sugar and lemon juice to

the pan, and cook over a low heat, stirring frequently, until the sugar has dissolved. Be careful not to break up the summer berries too much as you stir.

5 Bring up to the boil and cook for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the jam reaches the setting point (105°C/220°F).

6 Remove the pan from the heat and skim off any scum and impurities from the surface using a slotted spoon.

7 Leave to cool for about 5 minutes, then stir gently, and pour into warmed sterilized jars. Seal and label, then store in a cool, dark place.

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LIFESTYLE

THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER As September begins, we start to notice the shorter days and beautiful autumnal colours appearing, Michelle Brett tells us what to expect from this transitional month

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eptember, (from the Latin septem, seven) was originally the seventh month on the Roman calendar. Heralding the start of meteorological autumn, the days will noticeably get shorter after the 23rd, the autumnal equinox.

Generally, September can put summer to shame with less rain and storms as the temperatures drop, but this year… who knows? Expect mists to form overnight, especially towards the end of the month and we may see what remains of any hurricanes that cross the Atlantic. The 29th of the month, Michaelmas Day, is the date when the Lord Mayor of London is elected and used to be an informal administrative new year: annual rents due, annual employment terms expired, local courts held, and new school terms began after the harvest was completed.

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In the Garden Most hyacinths need around ten weeks in the cool and dark and then three in the light – so now’s the time to plant the bulbs if you want them ready for Christmas flowering! Bring them out of the gloom when the shoots are an inch or so tall. If you have any potatoes left out, now’s the time

to dig them up before the slugs get to them. Put netting over any ponds to catch the leaves as they fall and plant the spring bulbs along with any new perennials: the soil is still warm, but there’s generally more rainfall.

Don’t forget to keep deadheading annuals and perennials – they’ve still got time to flower! To help with the development of buds for next year, keep the rhododendrons and camellias watered well.

Eating goose on Michaelmas Day was as common as turkey is now to Christmas.

As fewer people became linked to the harvest collections with the advent of machinery, goose on the 29th also became rarer – although in recent years it’s seen a rise in the tradition again. Why not treat yourselves on the last Saturday of the month?

Arriving in huge quantities this month will be the damsons. Rich and sour and plum like, they’ll appear all at once in the hedgerows. Ensure that you get them preserved quickly though, as they spoil after a couple of days. Damson jam is a well known commodity, but why not also try some damson cheese? Slowly simmer 2kg damsons with a splash of water until they’re completely soft, then rub through a sieve to remove the skins and stones. For every 500ml of puree add 350g of sugar and simmer, stirring regularly for up to an hour until it’s thick enough to draw a line in the bottom of the pan. Pour into oiled plastic containers to set and then slice and serve with cheeses.

Facts and Figures We lose another one hour and fifty-three minutes this month, making the day length less than twelve hours and on the equinox, the day and night are the same length. The sun will rise precisely due east and set due west. Allegedly the average sea temperature should still be rising at 17.3°, but this year has proved well above average, with the south coast being particularly pleasant.

September’s birth flower is both the Forget-Me-Not [Myositis] and Aster: patience, daintiness and

remembrance. The birthstone is the Sapphire.

Present in almost every colour, it’s most desirable in a rich blue colour. It represents loyalty and trust. Those born in September will either be a Virgo or Libra, and will share their birthday month with HRH The Duke of Sussex (15th), Idris Elba (6th), Serena Williams (26th), Hugh Grant (9th) and Catherine ZetaJones (25th).

Have a wonderful September!

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Lewes Road, Little Horsted, Uckfield TN22 5TS on the A26, 10 minutes from Lewes, 15 minutes from Crowborough

Tel : 01825 750581 www.horstedplace.co.uk

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Now until Sunday 28 October

The Triumph of Hope

Nymans, Handcross RH17 6EB An exhibition exploring and highlighting the three women who influenced the garden’s design at Nymans.

01444 405250 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nymans Saturday 1 September to Sunday 11 November

Mr X Stitch

Standen House and Gardens, East Grinstead Mr X Stitch will be bringing his revolutionary embroidered designs to Standen House. www.nationaltrust. org.uk/standen-house-and-garden Monday 03 September, 19:30 – 21:30

East to West

Ninfield Memorial Hall, Bexhill Road, Ninfield TN33 9EE Floral demonstration by Helen Hare Ninfield Flower Group. ekeen@btinternet.com Wednesday 05 – Saturday 15 September, 10:00 – 17:00

Dahlia Days at Pashley Manor Gardens Pashley Manor Gardens, Ticehurst, Nr. Wadhurst TN5 7HE

Over 60 varieties of this diverse perennial are planted throughout the garden complemented by the second flowering of roses, late flowering perennials and other annuals. www.pashleymanorgardens.com Thursday 06 September, 10:00 – 17:00

Battle Mowers Ltd, Grand Opening & Sale!

Units 15-19, Vinehall Business Park, Vinehall Road, Mountfield TN32 5JW (just off the A21) Join for a day of celebrations and discounts in the brand-new showroom. From mowers to hedge cutters and tools to oils. 01424 773096 Saturday 08 September, 10:00 – 15:00

The Hurstwood Market

The Hurstwood Pub, High Hurstwood TN22 4AH Local produce stalls selling food, drink and crafts. Brunch in the pub and lunches with live music in the pub garden.

Saturday 08 September, 19:00

Star Walk

Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN Join us beneath the stars for this sponsored walk and lay a lantern to remember loved ones. www.stpjhospice.org 01444 471598

TIM RICE AND ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S MASTERPIECE

‘a monumental show’ Sunday express

Bill Kenwright

BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP PRESENTS

LYRICS BY

MUSIC BY

TIM RICE

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER ‘A Classic is reborn.

N OV 24 – DEC 9 (W E D – S U N ) DEC 1 0 – 24 (DAI LY)

All of the Evitas I have seen over the years seem like dress rehearsals for this one. It has reached its apogee.

Stunning’ Sunday Telegraph

‘shout it loud.

Evita is back with a bang’ the guardian

‘a gold-plated Winner’ mail on sunday

‘gripping’ the times

‘superb’ daily mail

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Saturday 08 September – Sunday 23 September

Hailsham Festival 2018

Hailsham and Surrounding Areas Dance, Drama, Music, Theatre, Poetry, Literature, Cinema, Food, Drink and Music. Arts Trail featuring 100 artists across 25 venues. www.hailshamfestival.uk Sunday 09 September, 11:00 – 15:00

Wedding Fair at The View Hotel

Grand Parade, Eastbourne BN21 4DN Meet our wedding coordinators in this fantastic venue and speak to the exhibitors who will all be on hand to talk through your wedding plans.

Free entry. www.theviewhoteleastbourne.com Thursday 13 September, 18:00 – 20:30

Wedding Open Evening at The View Hotel

Grand Parade, Eastbourne BN21 4DN The Horizon Suite will be set up as if your special day has come early. Get the chance to meet the dedicated wedding coordinators and wander around the venue at your leisure. Free entry. www.theviewhoteleastbourne.com Thursday 13 September, 18:30 – 19:30

Hip and Knee Pain Information Evening

BMI The Esperance Hospital, Hartington Place, Eastbourne BN21 3BG Free hips and knees information evening at BMI The Esperance

Hospital. Take the opportunity to speak with the team about the available treatment.

Booking essential: 0800 157 7762 info@bmihealthcare.co.uk Friday 14 September, 17:00

Open Air Theatre – Illyria presents The Merchant of Venice

Burrswood, Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells TN3 9PY Shakespeare’s great courtroom drama is by turns thrilling, funny, romantic and unsettling. International awardwinning Illyria promise a production to keep you on the edge of your seat!

Tickets: Adult £20 Child £12.

01892 865988 www.burrswood.org.uk Friday 14 September, 19:30

British Alstroemeria and The UK Cut Flower Industry, with Ben Cross

East Hoathly Village Hall, South Street, East Hoathly, Lewes BN8 6DS East Hoathly & District Preservation Society presents this talk with Ben Cross, a 4th generation grower from Crosslands Flower Nursery in Arundel.

He will talk about British Alstromeria.

Opportunity also to buy blooms!

Admission is free to members, visitors very welcome - £4.

Toni Whewell 01825 872460 Saturday 15 September

Friends of Sussex Hospice: Walk the Hospice Trail

Embark on one of the 26 walks along

the Sussex Hospice Trail and raise money for a fantastic cause. From Chichester to St Leonards, the routes vary from 3 to 11 miles with something for all abilities. Why not do the entire trail?! www.hospicetrail.co.uk

Saturday 15 September to Sunday 30 September

Rye Arts Festival

Expect a celebration of the finest music, literature, theatre and other art forms with many well-known

A packed fortnight’s programme of classical and contemporary

literary talks, walks and much more!

D EC E MB ER 1 , 8, 14, 2 0 & 2 1 (EVEN I NG S)

15th - 30th September 2018 www.ryeartsfestival.org.uk

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faces making an appearance. This years theme will be the centenary of WWI and the introduction of votes for women. www.ryeartfestival.org.uk Saturday 15 September to Sunday 18 November

Snailspace

Across Brighton and Hove Colourful snail sculptures will be found popping up around the area. Painted by local artists and community groups, they’re designed to encourage us to ‘be more snail’ by taking life a little easier. In partnership with the Martlets Hospice and Wild in Art to bring about this ‘snailway’, raising funds for their indispensable services. www. snailspacebrighton.co.uk Saturday 15 September, 10:00

Creative Writing Walk - Mayfield

Meeting point: Mayfield, Long Stay Free Car Park on South Street TN20 6DF Map ref: TQ 587269 Wander through an atmospheric woodland and enjoy creative writing exercises to help you observe, imagine and connect ideas. Notebook and pen essential. This walk is led by local author and walking expert Deirdre Huston - all writers are welcome.

Distance / duration: 2 miles /2.5 hours.

To view all walks of High Weald Walking Festival visit www.highwealdwalks.org Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September, 10:00 – 16:00

Dovecote Garden Heritage

Dovecote Garden, The Lane Opposite Church, West Dean, Seaford BN25 4AL Dovecote Tours, live WW2 radio station, market stalls in two barns, Farrowing Barn Church tea and cakes.

Free entry and parking.

Julian Martyr 01323 87023 www.dovecotegarden.co.uk Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September, 11:00 – 17:00

Hurstpierpoint Open Studios

Wander around the lovely village of Hurstpierpoint and look for the blue and white balloons showing the Hurstpierpoint Open Studios art trail which is part of Hurst Festival. www.hurstpierpointopenstudios.com Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 September, 11:00 – 18:00

Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival

Stade Open Space, Old Town, Hastings Now in its 13th year, the Seafood and Wine Festival is a hugely popular event, showcasing the excellent quality and variety of Hastings fish. £2 in advance, £3 on the gate. www.1066country.com/fishfestivals Saturday 15 September, 14:00 – 15:30

Grand Jumble Sale

Bodle Street Green Village Hall, Bodle Street Green, Hailsham BN27 4RA Come and join in a recycling bonanza with something for everyone including refreshments. Adults 50p, children free.

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Thursford Christmas Spectacular

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Warner’s Bembridge Coast Isle of Wight

Sun 16 ‐ Thu 20 September Sun 7 ‐ Tue 9 Oct Mon 11 ‐ Fri 15 Feb 2019 Half Board from £595.00 p.p Half Board from £299.00 p.p Half Board from £299.00 p.p

Warner’s Sinah Warren Hayling Island, Hampshire

Torquay Turkey & Tinsel

Irish Music Weekend

4* Holiday Inn Elstree, London

Mon 24 ‐ Fri 28 September 4* Belgrave Sands Hotel & Spa Fri 22 ‐ Sun 24 Feb 2019 Half Board from £465.00 p.p Mon 19 ‐ Fri 23 November Half Board from £289.00 p.p

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Olde Worlde Wonders 4* DoubleTree by Hilton, Newbury North, Berkshire

Warner’s Holme Lacy Herefordshire

Fri 28 Sept ‐ Mon 1 Oct Mon 26 ‐ Fri 30 November Half Board from £359.00 p.p Half Board from £445.00 p.p

Newquay Special

3* Esplanade Hotel, Fistral Beach Mon 25 Feb ‐ Fri 1 March 2019 Half Board from £375.00 p.p + light lunches on Tue,Wed & Thu

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Brede High Woods – Conservation & History Walk

Monday 17 September, 10:00

Horam Heritage Walk

Meeting point: Horam Car Park, Hillside Drive TN21 0HL. Map ref: TQ578174 Exploring part of the Cuckoo Trail, experience the combination of Horam’s industrial heritage and the wealth of nature that now inhabits the same spaces. Distance / duration: 1.52hr (mostly gravel surface). To view all walks of High Weald Walking Festival visit www.highwealdwalks.org Monday 17 September, 19:30

Revealing Discoveries - Pevensey & Westham - A Talk with Jo Seaman St Saviours Hall, South Street, Eastbourne BN21 4PA An Association of Sussex Folk evening meeting. Guests welcome: £2.

Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 September, 19:30 with 14:30 matinees

EVITA

Saturday 15 September, 14:00 – 16:00

Laura Muir: 07932 736710 egembroiderers@gmail.com

East Grinstead Library, 32-40 West Street, East Grinstead RH19 4SR An informal drop-in session for everyone whether beginner or experienced. A time to learn new skills and share ideas. Donation towards costs only.

Saturday 15 September, Registration from 17:30

Sew Time with East Grinstead Embroiderers

St Wilfrid’s Starlight Stroll

A walk to remember. To find out more and to register www.stwhospice.org/starlightstroll 01323 434241

The Hawth, Crawley Featuring an all-star cast, including Lucy O’Byrne and Glenn Carter and telling the story of Eva Peron, the wife of former Argentinian dictator Juan Peron. www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 September

Rain Man with The Classic Screen to Stage Theatre Company Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne Two brothers, one destiny.

Box Office 01323 412000 www.eastbournetheatres.co.uk Thursday 20 September, 10:00

Meeting Point: Brede High Woods Western Car Park, Map ref: TQ 794 208 A fascinating walk and talk taking in the varied habitats, management and history of this large and complex Woodland Trust site, guided by the Site Manager David Bonsall.

Difficulty: Leisurely pace, moderate terrain. Distance/duration: 2.5 miles/3 hours. To view all walks of High Weald Walking Festival visit www.highwealdwalks.org Thursday 20 to Sunday 30 September

Chiddingly Festival

Celebrating the festivals 40th year with comedy, folk, jazz, arts and crafts and much more. www.chiddinglyfestival.co.uk Friday 21 to Sunday 23 September

Flower Festival: For the Beauty of the Earth St. Margaret the Queen Church, Buxted Park TN22 4AY Celebrating Harvest in The Year of Prayer. In aid of Parish funds.

Refreshments by Macmillan Cancer Support. Free Entry. jan.cox@bhdchurches.org.uk www.bhdchurches.org.uk Saturday 22 September

Hurstpierpoint College Open Morning

Excellent all-round education with a strong academic core. www.hppc.co.uk

The Snow Queen The perfect children’s show for half-term Wednesday 24 October 11.00am and 2.00pm Tickets £7.50

Headway East Sussex supports people, their families and carers rebuild their lives after brain injury. Remember: brain injury does not discriminate, it can happen to anyone in seconds, so please come and support us.

Italian Opera Dinner Three course dinner, glass of prosecco on arrival and our Glyndebourne soprano Friday 26 October 7.30pm Tickets £35.50

Jack and the Beanstalk Traditional pantomime starring Allo Allo’s ‘Mimi Lebonq’ (Sue Hodge) Thurs 13 - Sat 15 Dec Tickets from £5.50 (depending on performance day and time)

Booking office 01825 769694 www.civiccentreuckfield.com

HEALTH & WELLBEING OPEN DAY

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SATURDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2018, 11AM - 3PM

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ENTRY FEE £1 Adults 50p Children

Smoothie Bikes Children’s Activities inc Swoove, Stoolball, Football, Giant Jenga & Giant Connect 4

Please contact us for more info: Tel: 01825 724323 yvonne.summers@headwayeastsussex.org.uk

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Autumn Fair

This October visit the Bluebell Railway for

Giants of Steam 12th 13th 14th October 2018 Don’t miss the visit to Sussex of Gresley A4 Pacific No. 60009 “Union of South Africa” (courtesy of the Cameron Trust)

Bricklehurst Manor School, Bardown Road, Stonegate, Wadhurst TN5 7EL From home-made crafts and produce, to hair braiding and from classic cars to the coconut shy… there’s something for everyone! bricklehurst.co.uk Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 September

Chiddingly Artists Open Studio

In and around Chiddingly and East Hoathly Artists will be opening their studios and exhibiting their work in several locations during this celebration of the local arts scene. www.chiddinglyartists.co.uk Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 September, 11:00 – 17:00

Hurstpierpoint Open Studios

Wander around the lovely village of Hurstpierpoint and look for the blue and white balloons showing the Hurstpierpoint Open Studios art trail which is part of Hurst Festival. www.hurstpierpointopenstudios.com Saturday 22 to Sunday 30 September

Eastbourne & Lewes Walk Fest

LNER Thompson Class B1 No. 61306 “Mayflower” (courtesy of David Buck)

Discover new paths and walks from local history, nature, dog and health walks. www.eastbourneandleweswalkfest.org 01323 415415 Thursday 27 September, 10:00 – 16:00

The Good Life Show

The View Hotel, Grand Parade, Eastbourne BN21 4DN

Browse the numerous stalls and chat to providers about health, clubs, legal, fitness, hobbies, leisure and learning.

Raffle and refreshments.

Free entry, no booking required.

Friday 28 to Sunday 30 September

Small Wonder Festival

Charleston, Lewes BN8 6LL In its 15th year, it’s the only UK festival dedicated to short stories. Authors, poets and artists will be flocking to Charleston including the Booker Prize winner Ben Okri. www.charleston.org.uk Saturday 29 September, 19.30

Paul Young

White Rock Theatre, Hastings TN34 1JX Box Office 01424 462288 www.whiterocktheatre.org.uk Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 September

Chiddingly Artists Open Studio In and around Chiddingly and East Hoathly Artists will be opening their studios and exhibiting their work in several locations during this celebration of the local arts scene. www.chiddinglyartists.co.uk Saturday 29 September & Saturday 6 October, 10:30 – 12:30

Charcoal Drawing Workshop

The Crypt Gallery, Seaford BN25 1HD Booking essential: modernmakers@cecilegarcia.co.uk Sunday 30 September, 09:00 – 15:00

• Lots of opportunities to travel behind

both locomotives

• Harveys Beer Tent at Hosted Keynes • Up to five locomotives in steam throughout the weekend

Try something different... come curling & love

it!

• Buffets and restaurant open every day breakfast available at Sheffield Park Station from 8 am

Halloween Specials!

Staff outings

Visit the Bluebell on 29th/30th or 31st October for a spooky experience - more details on the website - booking essential Bluebell Railway - Sheffield Park Station - East Sussex

Entertaining clients Birthday parties Stag & Hen parties Social events

Find us on Facebook & Twitter

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Horam Village Hall (A267 Horam) TN21 0JE Antique and Collectors Fair.

Refreshments, breakfasts.

Plenty of parking. Entry ÂŁ1:00 Mary: 07899 996568 a_fenner@sky.com Sunday 30 September from 13:30

Eastbourne Splash Point Jazz Festival

Playing host to some of Europe’s top jazz musicians, the festival is spread across three venues with twelve bands performing throughout the day. www.splashpointmusic.com

October

Autumn Show & Game Fair

South of England Showground, Ardingly RH17 6TL The ultimate countryside experience.

Falconry displays, animal barn, shopping, food and drink, fairground and much more – a great day out for all the family. www.Seas.org.uk/booking 01444 892700

Wealden do the best

2018

Antique and Collectors Fair

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Open Morning at Michael Hall School

Kidbrook Park, Priory Road, Forest Row RH18 5JA Please register on-line. www.michaelhall.co.uk/visit-us

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Wednesday 10 October

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Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 October

Bountiful Botanics Weekend

Thursday 04 to Sunday 07 October

Cuckfield Bookfest

Queens Hall, High Street, Cuckfield RH17 5EL The second Cuckfield Book Festival will be packed with exciting events for all. www.cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk Friday 05 & Saturday 06 October, 10:00 – 16:00

Chestnut Tree Open Days

Dover Lane, Poling, Nr Arundel BN18 9PX An invitation to visit this wonderful hospice, meet the Care Team and see what your support has achieved for the children and families who need the care Chestnut Tree House provides. No need to book. www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk Saturday 06 & Sunday 07 October

Wakehurst, Ardingly, Haywards Heath RH17 6TN Celebrate the seasonal bounty with a weekend of activities and fun for all the family. Bountiful Botanics is a feast of tours and hands-on workshops where you can explore all that nature has to offer. Roll up your sleeves and have a go at gardening with the horticultural team, or join a foraging walk through the woodlands.

Children will adore the tractor rides, apple bobbing and tree-climbing with professional instructors. Want to find out more about one of the most biodiverse spots on earth? There’s plenty of food and drink stalls to keep you going all day. www.kew.org/wakehurst

WATERCOLOUR PAINTING Weekly classes and One Day Workshops at Framfield and Forest Row with professional artist JOSEPHINE HUDSON

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Friday 5 and Saturday 6 October 2018 As  part  of  our  15th  birthday Â

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Folk & Blues Club alternate Tuesdays.

Musicians bring your own instruments

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Fri 28th - Big Kahuna Sat 29th - Fixer Sun 30th - Savannah

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MONEY MATTERS

Melanie Richardson highlights how changes to tax could affect you and your finances, including Capital Gains Tax Payment on Account and the introduction of Making Tax Digital

LET’S TALK TAX

T

ax is often used as a tool by the government to influence and change our habits. Take the recent extra duty on sugar based soft drinks as an example. The medical profession advised that sugar based soft drinks were contributing towards child obesity and so the Government imposed an 18p/24p levy on these drinks, effectively giving a win win situation – the increased cost would perhaps stop so many sugar drinks being bought and if it didn’t then the money raised would help pay for breakfast and sports clubs for the children to increase exercise.

Well that was the general idea anyway, whereas what appears to have happened is that some drinks manufacturers have reduced the amount of sugar in the drinks to avoid their products attracting the levy!

A similar levy to stop us buying so many plastic bags also seems to have been quite a success, certainly in my house we now try to remember to take bags with us when we go shopping.

But tax is changing in other ways as well, and possibly the biggest upheaval since the introduction of self assessment in 1996 is the introduction of Making Tax Digital – a part of which is coming in without a lot of fanfare and could come as an unexpected shock to the unprepared.

Capital Gains Tax Payment on Account legislation will affect those selling residential property from April 2020.

At the moment, Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is payable on

the 31 January after the end of the tax year. So, if you sold an asset on say 6 April 2018, the tax arising on the gain on that sale, would not be due for payment until 31 January 2020 – a full 20 months after you have received the money.

If however, you sold an asset on 5 April 2018 , you would pay your capital gains tax on 31 January 2019 just ten months after the sale. To the government, it means a substantial delay in the receipt of what are probably significant tax receipts, as most people will try to maximise the length of time they have to pay.

From April 2020, the new legislation will require those people selling residential property to estimate and pay their CGT within 30 days after the sale has completed. It remains to be seen whether lawyers will be required to deduct this from completion proceeds!

The main problem however, apart from a cashflow issue is that capital gains tax is an annual tax and is payable at different rates depending on that individual’s actual annual income. This means that you may not be able to estimate your CGT liability accurately before the tax year has ended.

In addition, many people will make several disposals in a year, so the situation could easily arise whereby a capital gains tax payment on account is paid at the beginning of the year, only for the taxpayer to dispose of assets later in the year at a capital loss.

As you can offset any capital gains against similar losses, some taxpayers will find that they have overpaid their tax liability for the year and then will have to wait to get a refund until after their tax return has been prepared and processed.

Making Tax Digital is going to be applied to all parts of the tax system eventually, and everyone will be required to account for their tax on a quarterly basis – seems like a pretty good money spinner for the Treasury!

As ever, if you have any queries on tax or accounting matters, please get in touch. l Money Matters is written by Melanie Richardson - Managing Partner Swindells LLP Chartered Accountants & Chartered Tax Advisers Tel: 01825 763366 As individual circumstances vary considerably from person to person, the views expressed in this article are meant only as a general guide, and any specific advice required should be sought from your own professional adviser or by contacting the writer at her place of work.

No responsibility for loss resulting to any person acting as a result of any material in the above article can be accepted by the writer or Swindells LLP.

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