Sussex Local Magazine Arundel April 17

April 2017

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Aldingbourne - Arundel - Barnham - Burpham - Climping - Eastergate - Fontwell Ford - Oving - Slindon - Tangmere - Westergate - Walberton - Yapton Local news and events through the door to 6,500 homes in this area every month

AMY MACDONALD The award winning singer-songwriter is back with a brand new album

WIN TICKETS! Weekend tickets to Common People Festival (featuring Amy Macdonald) Family weekend ticket to Joy Festival Petworth Antique & Fine Art Fair tickets

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PUZZLES For younger readers Plus Prize Crossword

ARUNDEL HISTORY The old port

What’s On, Local Walks, Recipe, Prize Crossword, Gardening, Local news, Local groups & charity, Business Directory

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April 2017 Cover Photo Amy Macdonald. Performing at Southampton’s Common People Festival, see page 11

Welcome...

To new readers in Eastergate, Westergate, Aldingbourne, Oving & Tangmere! You will be receiving our new Barnham edition of Sussex Local each month and we hope you will find it useful and interesting. Please do get in touch if we can help you promote a local event or a charity you are involved with. There is no charge for not-for-profit events or charity publicity.

Talented singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald is our lead article on page 24. Our nephew plays bass guitar with Amy and has helped her write her new album Under Stars. Amy Macdonald is performing locally at the Southampton Common People Festival and you can win a weekend ticket to see her along with many other great artists, p11.

You can also win a family weekend ticket to Joy Festival - p10. Taking place from 16th to 18th June in beautiful grounds near Tunbridge Wells, Joy brings together live music, shopping and food! You can also win a book; ‘Me & My Valley’ by local author Nadine Baldock see page 29. Finally, we have tickets to the Petworth Antiques & Fine Art Fair to give away, see page 12.

This month’s gardening feature gives ideas for creating the quintessential ‘English Cottage Garden’ see page 30.

Our history piece on page 28 is about the old port at Arundel and the antics of a rather inebriated sailor in April 1855.

Happy Easter!

Kris & Jeff

Words of Wit “Always remember the golden rule of politics: never kick a man until he’s down” – GERALD KAUFMAN Disclaimer - Whilst advertisements are printed in good faith, Sussex Local (Kay Publishing Ltd) is an independent company and does not endorse products or services that appear in this magazine. Sussex Local cannot be held responsible for errors or omissions or claims made by contributors.

The views and opinions of contributors are not necessarily those of the publisher.

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WIN a family weekend ticket to Joy Festival 16-18th June Groombridge Place, Tunbridge Wells Joy is an innovative, eclectic and unique festival that brings together the latest trends in creative shopping, gastronomy, music and lifestyle.

Celebrate summer with eclectic and joyous live music and dancing featuring Squeeze’s Chris Difford, samba, jazz, steel drums and flamenco. Enjoy amazing acrobats and magicians, birds of prey displays, sensational street food, pop up bars, a vintage funfair and creative workshops for all the family.

Set in the beautiful grounds of Groombridge Place, a 17th Century moated Manor House near Tunbridge Wells, Joy features an amazing collection of exhibitors: pop up shops, boutiques and Night Market encompassing fashion, homewares, interior and garden design, artisan food, art and vintage.

Camp under the stars in a walled garden in a teepee, bell tent, yurt or VW Camper Van. Explore glorious formal gardens alongside roaming peacocks, wild fallow deer and the famous zedonk!

Take a canal boat ride to a wondrous enchanted forest with giant tree swings, a raised boardwalk with zip wires, wooden bridges, a maze, Pirate Ship, teepees and Gypsy caravans. Indulge yourself with a healing spa treatment, sauna or hot tub.

Head deeper into the forest and discover the Secret Illuminated Valley and Wild Child: a family party with DJ’s by day and a grown up party by night.

Early Bird Day, Weekend & Camping tickets on Sale until 28 February www.joyfestival.co.uk

Win a family weekend ticket worth £100!

Q: What is the name of the party in the forest ? a) “Wild Child”

b) “Bad Boy”

c) “Orphan Annie”

Send your answer and full contact details including daytime telephone number to: ‘Joy Festival, PO Box 2237, Pulborough RH20 9AH or email competitions@sussexlocal.net Winner will be first entry drawn after the closing date 30th April 2017.

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WIN weekend ticket to Common People Festival!

On Southampton Common bank holiday weekend May 27th & 28th

Common People, the ultimate bank holiday bonanza is back on Southampton Common for its third twoday metropolitan adventure, uniting the community through music, art and good times. Produced with love by the creators of Bestival, Common People 2017 is set to kick off the festival season with a proper party!

Speaking to Sussex & Chichester Local, Common People curator Rob da Bank said “Common People is all about having some proper moments together as friends and family. Our cast this year include none other than recent number one album artist, Mr Pete Tong, a legend of the dance and Radio 1 for over quarter of a century now. Also stepping up is Sean Paul, a dancehall god with more bangers up his sleeve than a fireworks factory. And providing able support will be Tom Odell and Groove Armada and loads more, so see you in the fields my lovely Common People!”

Saturday night will be filled with cultivated White Isle vibes as BBC Radio 1’s Pete Tong presents Ibiza Classics performed by The Heritage Orchestra, conducted

by Jules Buckley. Fresh from ruling the charts with his Clean Bandit collaboration, and a jaw-dropping headline set at last year’s Bestival, Sean Paul is back, bigger than ever and set to bring Common People 2017 to triumphant close on Bank Holiday Sunday.

But that’s not all, on Saturday The Common Stage will see performances from Tom Odell, Faithless (DJ Set),

Loyle Carner, Becky Hill, Stefflon Don, Seán McGowan, Kassassin Street, Elvana: Elvis Fronted Nirvana and Black Kat Boppers. Dancefloor duo Groove Armada will be hitting the decks on Sunday, and there will be more mainstage appearances from Wild Beasts, British Sea Power, Amy MacDonald, Nadia Rose, Novelist, House Gospel Choir, Signals and The Novatones.

Dance arena the Uncontained Stage will feature two takeovers with Moxie presents on Saturday, while on Sunday My Nu Leng & M8s,with very special guest Goldie, will be in charge.

There will be new music on the Uncommon Stage presented by The Joiners and Common People Antics will transform Common People into an amazing festival wonderland, with plenty of off-the-wall fun including The World’s Biggest Bouncy Castle, Vintage Funfair Rides, The People’s Front Room, Saints Brass, Spinney Hollow Bush Crafts, with Scrumptious Street Food, The Jam Jar Bar and Sugar Skulls Cocktail Bus, a fantastic Kids Area with Big Top Mania Circus, Face Painting & Crazy Inflatables, the Nuttfield Theatre Pop-Up Shows, Batala Samba Drummers and much more!

Phase 1 day tickets are on sale now from £27.50.

See commonpeople.net for full line up and tickets.

Win a pair of weekend tickets to Common People Festival Sussex Local has a pair of weekend tickets worth £57.75 each to give away for Southampton’s Common People Festival. To be in with a chance of winning answer this simple question.

Q. Who is presenting Ibiza Classics at the Festival?

A) Pete Tong B) Amy Macdonald C) Tom Odell Send your answer and full contact details including daytime tel. no. to: Common People Competition, PO Box 2237, Pulborough RH20 9AH or send an email to: competitions@sussexlocal.net. The winner will first correct entry drawn after 30/4/17. Please indicate if you would like to be on our/Common People’s mailing list.

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Win one of three tickets to visit this year's Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair Friday 5th - Sunday 7th May The Petworth Park Antiques & Fine Art Fair is taking place for the third year and attracts collectors, interior decorators and discerning individuals. Some 48 specialist dealers, including a number of new faces, are converging from around the country to present the finest art and antiques for sale, including oil and watercolour paintings and illustrations, some of which relate to Sussex.

You can enjoy a day out with all that is on offer in the marquee, including light refreshments, or visit the various restaurants and cafés in the market town itself.

There is a courtesy bus running between the town centre and the antiques fair, where parking is free for antiques fair ticket holders right outside the marquee.

Each winner will be able to take up to two guests to all three days of the Fair, Further tickets can be bought for £10 each at the fair or through Eventbrite.

The tickets also allow free access to Petworth's grounds and the opportunity to visit the treasures in the mansion in the care of the National Trust, free-ofcharge, during the fair.

For more information: www.petworthparkfair.com.

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Young Readers’ Puzzle Page Wordsearch - at the Farm

Maze

Find the listed words in the grid. Words may be hidden horizontally, vertically or diagonally and in either a forwards or backwards direction.

Help the hungry mouse reach his tasty cheese! Start at the arrow on the bottom right of the maze.

CATTLE FARMER GOAT

COW FIELD HARVEST

CROPS GEESE HAY

HORSE PIG TRACTOR

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Number Tower

Place the numbers 1 – 6 once in each row, column and 3x2 bold-lined box

Fill the tower so that every square contains a number.

The value of each square in the number tower is the sum of the two squares directly under it.

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Chocolate & Banana Fondue Memory Lane! Enjoy this naughty family pud any time! Serves 4 Ingredients.  200g good dark chocolate  150ml double or whipping cream  2-3tbsp golden syrup or light soft brown sugar  4 small bananas, cut into medium slices  110g whole strawberries, washed  Other fruits to taste  Also meringues, small biscuits & marshmallows are great dippers

Method: 1. 1 Place the chocolate, cream and syrup in a small - medium pan and heat through gently until quite smooth. Keep warm but do not let it boil.

2 Prepare the fruits and serve in small bowls with the hot chocolate fondue and small cocktail sticks or tiny forks.

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Local Walks - April These walks are supported by Chichester District Council, are led by volunteers and are designed to cater for all ages and abilities. No booking is required but please arrive 10 mins before the walk is due to start. Dogs are welcome unless otherwise stated but must be kept on the lead. If the weather is poor the walk may be cancelled, if unsure please check, contact 01243 534589 health@chichester.gov.uk www.chichesterwellbeing.org.uk. L = Walk Leader Mon 3rd 10.30am Rowlands Castle L: Anne 1 hour 30 mins 4 miles Hilly, some stiles. Not suitable for beginners. Recreation Ground off Links Lane, PO9 6AQ Mon 3rd 10.30am Harting Hill L: Andrew 2 hours 4 miles Harting Hill Car Park (NT) GU31 5PN Tues 4th 10.30am Canal Walk L: Janet 1 hour 30 mins 3 ½ miles A level, easy walk Return by bus. Chichester Canal, Basin Road, Chichester PO19 8DT Weds 5th 10.30am Selsey L: Helen 30mins 1 mile Selsey Centre Car Park, Manor Road, Selsey, Chichester PO20 0SE Thurs 6th 10.30 Cocking L: Bruce 2 hours 40 mins 5.75miles Ascent 250m. Moderately strenuous linear walk with 5 stiles, visiting the 13 Chalk Stone sculptures

by Andy Goldsworthy. Bring bus pass. Cocking South Downs Way Car Park (Nearest postcode GU29 0HS) Fri 7th 10.30am Boxgrove L: Peter 1 hour 30 mins 2 ½ miles A flat circular walk past Boxgrove Priory and through surrounding fields. Car park at the Village Hall in Boxgrove SU906076 Mon 10th 10.30am Hayling Billy L: Peter 2 hours 4 miles Walk along the track to the Theatre and back. Ideal for beginners. Meet behind the Esso garage Mon 10th 10.30am Midhurst L: Helen 30mins 1 mile Entrance to Grange Leisure Centre Bepton Road, Midhurst GU29 9HD Tues 11th 10.30am Birdham Stroll L: Judy 1 hour 1 ½ miles A walk partly along Lipchis Way through Birdham Pool and onto Westlands and Greenacres.

Fine Harbour views. Car Park near Boathouse Café at Chichester Marina Weds 12th 10.30am Durford Heath & Woods L: Fiona 2.5 hours 5 miles A walk along the Sussex border path taking in a variety of woodlands. Durford car park, SU791260.

Any problems call Fiona 07767400039 Weds 12th 10.30am Slindon Estate L: Simon 2 hours 4 miles Passing through farmland, woodland as well as visiting Slindon Folly. Good paths and no stiles.

Wonderful views. At the road entrance to Slindon College and the National Trust Slindon Estate Thurs 13th 10.30am Bognor to Felpham L: Jane 1 hour 15 mins 2½ miles Bognor Regis pier on the seafront Sun 16th 10.30am Burpham L: Dominic 2 hours 4 miles Hilly walk with some stiles. Lovely views. Public car park behind the George at Burpham Weds 19th 10.30am Portsdown Hill - Fort Widley L: Bruce 1 hour 45 mins 3.5 miles.

Lovely panoramic views to the north and south of Portsdown Hill with a circuit of the fort.

Portsdown Hill - Car Park past The Churchillian on Widley Walk. SU659064 (Nearest postcode PO6 3LS) Fri 21st 10.30am Stoughton Down L: Jane 2 hours 30 mins 5.5 miles Not suitable for beginners. It is a hilly walk with great views but can be muddy and slippery in places.

Stoughton Down car park - Forestry Commission car park east of Stoughton on the sharp bend (SU815126) Mon 24th 10.30am Westgate L: Helen 30mins.

A flat walk at a gentle pace, suitable for beginners. Entrance to Westgate Leisure Centre, PO19 1RJ Tues 25th 10.30am Slindon Park Lane L: Janet 1 hour 30 mins 3½ miles A walk through the wood, hopefully amongst the bluebells and up onto the Downs.

National Trust Car Park, Park Lane, Slindon, BN18 Weds 26th 10.45am Climping L: Dominic 1 hour 15 mins 2½ miles Along dunes and beach to Climping Mill, then across fields to Ferry Road and Rope Walk to club.

Arun Yacht Club Car Park, Rope Walk, Littlehampton, BN17 5DL Thurs 27th 10.30am Stopham L: Bruce 2 hours 15 mins.

5 miles Ascent 200m. Moderately strenuous. 3 stiles. Might be muddy. Stopham Church. TQ025189 (Nearest postcode RH20 1EG)

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Sussex Snippets Rockinghorse Children’s Charity is looking for an army of walkers, of all fitness levels, to take part in a walking challenge across the beautiful South Downs, to raise funds towards their Sussex Giving for Sussex Children appeal. The charity aims to raise £500,000 in 2017, which will be split between 10 children’s centres and paediatric services in Sussex, and they’ve teamed up with Just Walk as an official charity partner of the event which takes place on Saturday 13 May at Goodwood Racecourse in Chichester. Contact: Hannah Seltzer, Events Fundraising Co-ordinator – Tel: 01273 330044, Email: hannah.seltzer@rockinghorse.org.uk.

Swarming is a natural instinct for bees and all colonies if left to their own devices will eventually swarm this is part of their means of reproduction; if they didn’t there would be no bees. Swarms of bees are not normally aggressive but best not approached, and if you come across a swarm local beekeepers are on hand to give advice - find one in your area on The British Bee Keepers Association website. www.bbka.org.uk The Kent, Surrey & Sussex Air Ambulance is inviting local groups, clubs, societies and other organisations to book a talk (free of charge) to find out more about

SUSSEX LOCAL the work of the charity. By inviting one of their volunteer speakers to your group, you will be helping to raise awareness of the air ambulance’s work and therefore ensuring they can be there when needed, now and in the future. Contact: Tel -01622 833 833, Email: talks@kssairambulance.org.uk West Sussex County Council is reminding residents that they must be on the on the electoral register to be able to vote on 4th May for the County Council elections, which will be to elect 70 county councillors, who each represent an electoral division in the county. Anyone who has recently moved house, or who didn’t complete an electoral registration form, sent out in the autumn, can request an electoral registration form at any time from their local elections office (at the local district or borough council) but must register by Thursday 13th April for the County Council elections. www.westsussex.gov.uk Families and infants are being promised a more ‘secure foundation’ of help under a new manifesto the 1001 Critical Days Manifesto for West Sussex highlights the importance of a child’s wellbeing during the vital days from when a baby is conceived until age two. It aims to ensure that every baby receives sensitive, appropriate and responsive care whilst also ensuring parents feel confident that they are raising their children in a loving and supportive environment. www.westsussex.gov.uk/1001Days.

From 1st March, motorists caught using mobile phones while driving will receive a £200 fine and six penalty points on their license - receiving six points on a license that has been held for less than two years will result in it being immediately revoked.

The Tim Peake exhibition at The Novium Museum in Chichester has been shortlisted for a national award.

The free exhibition has been recognised in the Museums and Heritage Awards, Temporary or Touring exhibition category. www.thenovium.org

Tim Peake visits the Novium exhibition (c) Novium Museum.

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Unintended Consequences You will have seen the disastrous news regarding the cancellation, by the Secretary of State (SoS) at the Department of Transport, of the upgrading of the A27 junctions at Chichester - due to various local Councils not being supportive of the proposals.

Basically the leader of West Sussex County Council (WSCC) had been pushing for a northern route, cutting through the Goodwood estate, and not supporting the Chichester upgrade proposals. Then Chichester District Council voted to open up the debate again, so you had the County and the District pulling the tent poles away from the Chichester scheme.

Our MP, Nick Herbert, had warned of this back in January and I had put out Facebook posts critical of Louise Goldsmith, the leader of WSCC. The fear being that because of the lack of support for the Chichester upgrades all three schemes, i.e. Arundel, Chichester and Worthing, would be cancelled. Nick Herbert has worked hard at lobbying the SoS, Chris Grayling, to de-couple the Chichester scheme from the other two.

It’s now very important that Arundel Town Council (ATC), Arun District and WSCC hold together to deliver the Arundel off-line bypass. There is consensus that

this will happen, but there are dissenting voices at ATC - hoping to cancel or amend the bypass to an online or partial solution.

The anti road campaigners are now emboldened to think that they can get the Arundel & Worthing schemes cancelled too, but in politics you don’t always get what you want and the art is to deliver the possible rather than try to deliver the impossible.

There is a lesson here for our Local Plan. Many protesters think that Arun Councillors should resist at all costs any more houses. Arun has been trying to pursue that strategy for the last eight to twelve years, and now, rather than settling on 550 houses back in 2009, we are looking at 1000+ houses per annum and I fear this might even go up to 1200. As our first priority we have lost the battle for houses, so we need to be realistic and agree something, because if we don’t our green and pleasant land will be covered by concrete. Paul Dendle is Arundel & Walberton Councillor and Cabinet member for leisure & Amenities on Arun District Council. Send an Email to cllr.paul.dendle@arun.gov.uk or visit his website at: www.pauldendle.org

Beer Festival Supports Scouts The Cub Scout Leader at 1st Arundel Cub Scouts, along with some friends, is organising a community event in the form of a beer festival in Jubilee Gardens on Mill Road in Arundel on Saturday 29th April. The festival will run from 12pm to 10pm with a selection of ales, a cider and a lager, food will be available from the Waterside Café (which is under new management) and there will be live music throughout the event. All proceeds will go to the Arundel Scout Group.

Calling All Budding Cricketers Clymping Cricket Club fields two sides in the West Sussex Invitation Cricket League and is looking for new players.

The club currently runs indoor nets at Arundel Castle on Sunday evenings and outdoor nets throughout summer, from mid April, on Tuesday evenings - 6:30pm to 8pm.Players of all ages and abilities are welcome, so any budding, or retired, before-their-time cricketers who fancy representing a local village cricket club with great facilities, playing at one of the most picturesque grounds in Sussex should contact: Paddy Horne 07767 787642 or Dean Holden 07877 507849 email: Dean.holden1@btinternet.com

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Local Vision for the Arun Local groups and agencies have come together to form a new group to consider how the Lower River Arun should be managed in future. The Arun Valley Vision Group (AVVG) will be a community-led group to include farmers and landowners, which will work with the Environment Agency to develop a plan to address issues such as the risk of local flooding. The Group was set up at a conference convened in January at The White Swan in Arundel, and delegates included representatives of the Environment Agency, local councils, the National Farmers Union (NFU), farmers and landowners, together with other groups who have a stake in how the River Arun is managed. It was agreed the need to work together to develop a new vision for the Lower River Arun that will continue to protect properties, habitats, and farming. www.gov.uk/government/publications/lower-tidalriver-arun-flood-risk-management-scheme/

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SUSSEX LOCAL Festival Theatre Supports Dementia Charity Local charity Dementia Support is enjoying a partnership with the Chichester Festival Theatre to provide wellbeing sessions for people living with dementia.

The Theatre has been running two types of sessions since early February at the Dementia Support Hub in Tangmere – Mindful Movements and Creative Responses.

The Mindful Movements sessions explore the positive benefits of dance on physicality and wellbeing and are led by an experienced dance and movement specialist, who guides the participants through ‘chair dancing.’ The Creative Responses workshops involve reminiscence and evoking memories in people with dementia, using simple practical drama exercises to share tales and create new ones together in a relaxed creative atmosphere.

As well as the Chichester Festival Theatre session, Dementia Support currently runs pilot sessions and activities for people living with dementia – including art sessions, clay workshops with the University of Chichester and socialising Tea at Tangmere - and is running a fundraising appeal to raise £1.74 million to keep the Hub and its services open.

Contact: Chichester Festival Theatre sessions 01243 784437; Dementia Support fundraising appeal - 01243 888 691 info@dementia-support.org.uk

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Amy Macdonald It’s been four years since her last album, now the award winning singersongwriter is back with “Under Stars” her most ‘rocking’ record yet.

Even when Amy Macdonald’s not visibly around, she’s busy. If her hiatus whilst recording new music made her seemingly a long way from the radio-play ubiquity she enjoyed as an award-winning teenage singersongwriter straight out of Scotland, she’s actually performing to vast audiences at European festivals.

Even when she’s meant to be taking time off, she’s being asked to represent her country at flagship events, or is scratching an ever-itchy writing urge.

Macdonald might have enjoyed a decade’s success in the music industry, here, there and everywhere, but she’s still in her twenties.

The fact is, Macdonald is that rare thing: the natural musician in whom a new song is never far away. Rarer still: the British artist with a top-of-the-bill status in multiple international territories. Just when we thought Amy was gone… she was knocking them dead at the Montreux Jazz Festival, her performance immortalised in a football goalsized poster that’s hung in the arrivals hall at Geneva Airport “for about five years now!” she laughs.

Macdonald thinks back over the four years between the release of her third album, summer 2012’s Life In A Beautiful Light, and the completion of her upcoming fourth, Under Stars. And she considers the steps that led to the making of the record that is, frankly, her most rocking yet.

“I toured the third album till end of 2013,” she begins. “Another long tour – it always is,” grins this dedicated live performer. “People think, ‘oh, I’ve not heard a song on the radio from you for a while, you must be sitting at home with your feet up?’”

Much as Macdonald likes escaping from it all, back to her home in small town Scotland, back to her dogs and her Ferraris (she has two at the last count) taking it easy “is never the way,” she affirms. “That was 18 months’ touring, finishing up with a two-month orchestra tour. I got home at 1am on Christmas Eve. “That was nice feeling,” she beams. “I was finally having a bit of a chilled time and there was no rush. I knew that was me for a while, and I could take 2014 off.”

But it wasn’t, and she couldn’t. As perhaps the biggest young female Scottish artist in the world – not to mention a huge football fan – Macdonald was asked to raise the curtain on two sports events that brought the planet to Scotland. “That year I was asked to perform at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. Then I was asked to sing at the opening of the Ryder Cup. It was never really quiet,” she admits.

Then, just to completely ruin her well-earned break from a career that had roared out of the traps with 2007’s three-million-selling debut This Is The Life, “I decided to start writing songs.” But this time, Macdonald broke with tradition. Rather than write

through the door practically everything herself, as she had done on This Is The Life, A Curious Thing (2010) and Life In A Beautiful Light, she connected with the circle of musicians with whom she’d become fast friends in the ten years since she signed a record deal aged 19, namely bass player Jimmy Sims and his friend/ her occasional acoustic guitarist Ben Parker.

The trio realised they’d hit immediately on a winning writing formula. Macdonald’s plans for “a really slowpaced” album-making process went out the window.

Within less than a year, they had 17 or 18 songs. “It’s a new lease of life after ten years,” she affirms.

“Everybody involved is excited and invigorated again.

It’s a fresh start, with fresh ideas. "Everyone I played the songs to was just absolutely buzzing," Macdonald continues. "And for me it was generally a much more enjoyable process because I didn’t feel as much pressure because I was doing it with other people. There are still songs on the album that I’ve written all on my own, but Jimmy, Ben and I just struck up such a close friendship and working relationship.”

In early 2016 Amy and her wingmen began recording in the unremarkable-but-inspiring surroundings of the Clapham studio of fellow Scot Cam Blackwood (George Ezra, Florence and the Machine). There were additional sessions in another unprepossessing corner of London, at the studios of production duo My Riot (London Grammar, Birdy).

Dream On was an early stand-out. A gung-ho, positive rocker which showcases the new power in her voice, it also speaks of the greater volume – in both senses – of Macdonald’s new music. From almost the minute it was written it staked its claim to be the first single from her fourth album. That feeling was underlined when she and her band road-tested it over the summer.

“I did a few festivals in France, Germany and Switzerland, and we put a few new songs in the set to see how they went down. And Dream On, we played it at one festival in Switzerland, and people were dancing, singing – which is completely opposite to the normal reaction when you say, ‘we’re gonna play something new!’” laughs this twentysomething touring veteran.

The mooted second single Automatic came together when the band, thinking they’d just mess around and feel for a creative connection, struck gold on the first day of writing with the hard-driving track. “Because Ben is so skilled on Pro-Tools, it almost sounded finished after the first day. We beefed it up a bit and added some more exciting electric guitars later,” she says, highlighting the cracking solo that was the contribution of guest guitarist Leo Abrahams, recently

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fêted for his work producing Regina Spektor’s critically acclaimed Remember Us To Life album.

As for the words – “Hitting the road is all that I got…

Foot to the floor, I can’t take any more…” – “that was me just thinking about people constantly running away from problems – and also trying to think of who I wanted to sound like. And on that one I was thinking of the Bruce Springsteen, big American thing…”

Down By The Water is a horse of a different colour; simple blues that emerged seemingly out of nowhere one afternoon when “Jimmy and I were just sitting messing around. He came up with some really nice notes on the bass, and we just added to it. It was one of those songs where, when we were writing it, we didn’t think it was up to much. It just sounded a bit too simple, pared down, not really a big extravagant song.”

But in that simplicity was majesty.

The punchy, crunchy title track is surely another chart contender. “We wrote that as maybe an album opener, but it didn’t have a chorus. That’s the great thing

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The next day I came up with something in about two minutes, no kidding. And obviously I was convinced it was rubbish. But Cam loved it straight away.”

Under Stars is full of moments like that: honest, persuasive, instinctive songwriting built for summer festival or daytime radio singalongs. It’s also full of smart, incisive, inclusive lyrics that can’t help but reflect the times in which they were written. A young worldlywise Scotswoman, Macdonald found herself writing during a hinge in history.

“The album is not the slightest bit political,” she begins, “but it was written before, during and after the Scottish independence referendum. Being in Scotland at that time, you couldn’t escape it. And from a writer’s point of view it was amazingly inspiring, even tangentially.

We were talking about the events all the time, and that comes came through in The Rise And Fall,” she says of one of the album’s most anthemic numbers.

“If I’m honest I was thinking about Frank Underwood, Kevin Spacey’s character in House Of Cards, when I

was writing – I was obsessed with that show at the time!” she laughs again. Then, recording the song in London in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, realworld events couldn’t help but filter in again.

The rousing From The Ashes has a similar backstory.

“It’s another song that sounds part of what’s being going on, but it was completely unintentional. That song was me writing a song I thought would be perfect for The Hunger Games. It’s a really, really bleak song but It ends in euphoria with chanting and the idea that everything is OK. That’s the song that ends the album, which in my mind is the place where it’s always meant to be.”

“It’s crazy all the things that have happened,” 29-yearsyoung Amy reflects. “The one thing I regret slightly is not taking it in more, especially with the first album. It just exploded in Europe; there was one country after another doing exceptionally well. But I just thought that’s what happens – you put an album out and bang, it does really well! Now I know that’s not the norm, and that was an exceptional thing. I wish I’d be more aware at the time of how amazing it was. But now I know how lucky I was then – and how even luckier I am to still be doing what I want to do ten years later.”

Amy Macdonald is performing in the Common People Festival at Southampton Common on 27th & 28th May. We have a weekend ticket to give away in this issue see our competition on page 11.

Happy New (Tax) Year

By Richard Cohen JP FPFS ACII MCSI Chartered Financial Planner For reasons unbeknown to me people don’t celebrate the new tax year in the same way they do the new calendar year. Much to my disappointment there are no fireworks or singing of Auld Lang Syne and my lobbying for a single bank holiday for the new tax year’s day seem to be falling on deaf ears! The other thing that I think should happen is New Tax Year’s resolutions.

Here are my suggestions: Start saving for your retirement – the longer you put this off the more it is going to cost you in the long run.

Unless you’re going to be able to survive on £8,000 a year from the government and a small amount extra through your auto-enrolment pension, you’re going to have to take responsibility for yourself and get saving.

Stop wasting money on out of date insurance policies – this could mean “rebroking” mortgage protection policies where the sum assured has decreased but the premium has not or cancelling extended policies that cover things you no longer own.

Start your tax return early – over 1 million parents now need to do a tax return because of the removal of child

benefit for those with a “high” earner, many of whom have never needed to do one before. Submitting the return earlier gives you plenty of time to deal with any queries as well the chance to budget for any tax that is due.

Stop smoking – as well as being bad for your health it’s expensive, not just in terms of the cost of a packet of cigarettes but also the extra it costs you in life insurance premiums. With most insurers once you have not smoked or used nicotine replacement products for a year you are a non-smoker so if this applies to you - review your policies.

Start using your allowances – there are a number of “use it or lose it allowances”, everyone knows about the cash ISA allowance but don’t forget to investigate using your investment ISA allowance and your capital gains tax allowance.

I’m off to find a suitable song to sing at midnight on 6th April, feel free to send me your suggestions.

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What Shall We Do with The Drunken Sailor By local historian Mark Phillips

Photo of the Kings Arms - c1948 - From Mrs Baker (nee Silverlock)

groans.’ His startled shipmates rushed towards the disheveled figure with confusion and concern wanting to know the ‘origin and cause of this terrible disaster.’

Apparently, Jack had enjoyed ‘a little flirtation with the servant-girl from the inn’ and after she had gone to bed, he, with the intention of ‘having a lark,’ managed to silently evade his companions and somehow clambered onto the roof of the inn with the intention of, ‘climbing down the chimney into the girl's bed-room.’ (Although I’m more inclined to think his plan was to try to get in through one of the upper floor windows.) Unfortunately for Jack, while climbing from one chimney to another, he dislodge some of the old tiles’ that were already in a poor condition, and fell ‘helter-skelter’ like into the road, accompanied by ‘a clatter of bricks and tiles, and falling a distance of about 40 feet.’

I am in debt to Arundel born Eric Nash for giving me the copy of an old newspaper cutting from the West Sussex Gazette and County Advertiser from 26th April 1855 that inspired this month’s article.

On 20th April 1855 a ship called ‘The Dame’ anchored at Arundel port next to the bridge to unload its cargo and pick up a new shipment. The following day, Saturday 21st April, a ‘north country’ sailor from the ship came ashore with some of his companions to spend a convivial evening in the town.

They ended up in the The Kings Arms 36 Tarrant c17th Kings Arms Inn Street - Believed to be the oldest pub in Arundel. located in Tarrant Street where ‘generous liquor passed very freely from one to the other, until they became very merry—some people, perhaps, would say drunk.’

At about one o'clock in the morning these ‘jolly dogs’ left the inn to head back to the ship, when Jack (the reluctant ‘hero’ of this story) was missed by his companions. In the words of the original article, ‘His exit was sudden, and the surprise of his messmates was great.’

Right in the middle of a rather drunken and disorderly search, Jack ‘made his appearance somewhat as suddenly as he had made his exit, and which was announced by his falling pell mell [in a disorderly manner] from the roof of the house, bringing with him tiles, bricks, and mortar, and uttering loud moans and

Cargo ships moored in Arundel port by the bridge. - Late 1800’s

The earsplitting commotion created by Jack’s fall and screams alerted the authorities who promptly arrived on the scene. However, it appears that Jack refused the ‘interference’ of a surgeon, and requested he be assisted back to his ship.

An ‘informant’ told the newspaper the following day that Jack had been incredibly lucky and appeared to have got away with just a few bruises and a damaged ego as, ‘He is at this very moment in the King's Arms, drinking rum-and-water!’

History does not record if Jack was ultimately successful in wooing the young servant girl or even if she was impressed by his somewhat foolish act.

Hand tinted photo of cargo ship being guided into Arundel port. - Late 1800's

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She recently lost her husband and needed something to do with herself so she decided to fill her time and write a book about her upbringing and life as a child during the years of 1939 to 1955 and so “Me and My Valley'' was born. It's not a History book, but a story of Nadine’s own life growing up in those times, good and bad, funny and sad.

Although Nadine's parents were living in War torn London, she was actually born in a South Wales Valley and the town of Ebbw Vale in her Grandparents home.

She started off with just a hundred copies, but sold out in three short weeks. She had another hundred printed and the same thing happened, and the book is still selling! Nadine's biggest thrill came when the

National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth requested a copy of her book for their famous library.

Nadine says, “It goes to show, that no matter what age you are, you can do many things if you try, it's in there somewhere you just have to find it. If you see and buy my book I really hope you enjoy it”.

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In Your Garden Monthly gardening ideas and tasks by Andrew Staib of Glorious Gardens As our focal point we might have a lovely deep pink shrub rose and if we are going for a blue and pink colour scheme we might have Catmint, Penstemons, spikes of pale purple Delphinums and Lupins. At the front we may have a splash of Red Valerian, some softer Lavender and silver Lamb’s Ears with bright green Oregano foliage and some white Allysum. And though all this great Allium Mount Everest and Purple Sensations bursting though like fireworks.

The English Cottage Garden An English Cottage Garden - the very words put one into a dreamy, scented state of relaxation.

Informal borders and winding paths, eccentric wheelbarrow sculptures, veg patches and roses draped over every fence and up every tree - a Tom’s Midnight Garden for every plant lover.

Like a local cafe, the most common garden we are asked to design is a Full Traditional English. Yet I ask people in quite a lot of detail what they mean as this can mean many things to different people. Do they want ornamental grasses? Topiary? A fountain in a formal pond? Indeed the very idea of an English Cottage Garden is a recent one that is evolving all the time.

It was only in the Elizabethan times, when an expanding middle class became more prosperous, that livestock and medicinal herbs, plus basic edibles like apples and potatoes gave way to the growing and appreciation of Flowers! Pretty colours and shapes for their own sakes were normally only the province of the wealthy. Today if you did an inventory of the most famous plants in a typical English Cottage Garden today most of them come from all over the world! Lavender from France, Azaleas from China, Tulips from Afghanistan! One example to mention here. The Penstemon range is so long flowering with its delicate bell flowers on tall spikes it is a perfect English Cottage Garden Plant even though it is from North America and Asia!

So can we squeeze out an essential definition to help us in the design process? To help us let’s take a classic combination of English Cottage border plants. Tall Hollyhocks at the back of the border, with great windows of the transparent structure in front in the form of 5 foot Fennel plants letting us see through to the big Hollyhock blooms. Floating in front like clouds around these two taller plants we might have Gypsophila ‘Bristol Fairy’ and the coop parsley Selenium.

And maybe a path that runs through this border to a vegetable patch so that you feel enveloped by the planting. This planting combination says everything.

The informal grace of the plants, combined not just for their colour but also for their different heights, leaf size and tonal qualities. There is a lack of straight lines, edibles are mixed with flowers and heights are irregular. Another quality is the woven tapestry effect. A good English garden derives its power from appearing artless, as if it had never been designed but that the plants grew and found cohabitation with each other harmoniously. A kind of relaxed

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democracy of plants compared to the more formal gardens where rows of Yew and Buxus march up and down the drive. A Garden that is friendly and bountiful, supporting the day to day activities of a family.

So if you are thinking of designing your own Cottage Garden think also about these principles not just particular plants. Below are some categories of plants that will help with creating the atmosphere that you want.

Rambling plants.

The garden we have in mind is tumbling and plants have the permission to be curious. Grapes, Roses and Clematis grown on pergolas, fences and up trees. Nasturtiums at ground level with their bright orange and yellow edible flowers or climbing up a shed. Fragrant sweet peas grown near the back door in generous pots.

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Focal point plants.

These are ones that grab attention. They are bursts of colour and shape with the other plants around them chosen to compliment them. They might be a succession of shrub roses, Hydrangeas, Lilacs or a stand of miniature Philadelphus Manteau d’Hermine. For focal pint you could introduce some evergreen structure like Buxus or Hebe balls or Yew columns and of course antique pots and fountains.

Edibles The English Cottage Garden is always reinventing itself, no more so with the mixing up of flowers and edible plants. Vegetables like Chard and Rhubarb, small fruit bushes like Gooseberry and Raspberries, plus herbs such as Sage, Mint, Sweet Woodruff and Feverfew can all hold their own in a mixed border.

Plus you can have the clean lines of a raised vegetable bed surrounded by the rest of your beds and only reached by a journey through the more informal tumble of other plants.

Scent Try these for scent: Jasmine, both deciduous and evergreen, Daphne odora, Wallflowers, Lavender ‘Hidcot’, old Heritage Roses and Lilly of the Valley.

Plus you can grow Camomile between the stepping stones and use annuals such as Nicotiana.

Colour Many people are trying out hot coloured borders. In some case you may need to introduce more exotic

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Trees and Shrubs Bearing in mind we are looking for more relaxed shapes with an eye to being both beautiful and practical, small feature trees might include the Crab Apple and Sorbus varieties as well as Pear and Apple trees (they can come as dwarf, column or spreading shapes in different sizes). Also don’t forget the maligned Buddlea - it is so generous for insects and the unsightly trunk can be hidden by planting Choysia, Hardy Fuchias or a good Rosa rugosa in front of it.

Maybe the main thing to say is don’t panic- an English Cottage Garden by its very nature is woven together with different plants used for different functions.

What to do in April Lots, basically!  Start planting Perennials and Shrubs- the soil is nice and moist and warming up.

 Sew vegetables The majority can be sewn outdoors now as with annuals and wildflowers directly into cleared spaces in your beds.

Where to visit in April?

 Feed and mulch all your plants.

Pashley Manor, East Sussex

 Lawns can be scarified for the last time and given their first mow.

Pashley Manor Gardens is known to be “one of the finest gardens in England” It was once the home of the Boleyns and is a romantic landscape full of colour and interest. Bluebells, wisteria and thousands of tulips are just some of the plants are the things to watch out for this month. The Tulip Festival at the end of this month features over 100 different varieties.

 Towards the end of the month you can take a trip to your nursery and buy some Dahlias and they can be planted in well draining soil.  Begin your snail and slug sentry duty!

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