Sussex Local Magazine Pulborough April 17

April 2017

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Pulborough - Bury - Fittleworth - Nutbourne - West Chiltington

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

WIN! Weekend tickets to Common People Festival (featuring Amy Macdonald) Petworth Antique & Fine Art Fair tickets Book - Kut: The death of an army

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PUZZLES For younger readers Plus Prize Crossword

LOCAL NEWS Council & Community

What’s On, Local Walks, Recipe, Prize Crossword, Charity, Gardening, Local Groups & News, Business Directory

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April 2017 Cover Photo Amy Macdonald. Performing at Southampton’s Common People Festival, see page 17

Welcome...

Talented singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald is our lead feature on page 24 this month.

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, see page 17.

In our other competitions this month you can win a WWI history book -‘Kut: Death of an Army’ the story of part of the largely forgotten Mesopotamia campaign see page 42. We also have tickets to the Petworth Antiques & Fine Art Fair to give away - p34.

In this month’s gardening feature, Andrew Staib gives plenty of ideas to help you create the quintessential ‘English Cottage Garden’ see page 36.

Our Parish Council news round-ups start on page 44 and we are grateful to all the councils who contribute each month.

With Easter this month, our recipe on page 32 is for roast Spring lamb, perfect for family get-togethers.

There are also plenty of ideas for things to do over the Easter holidays in our What’s On guide starting on page 4. 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.

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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...........................................................................What’s On .........Win! Weekend ticket to Common People Festival ........................................................................Local Walks ..............................................Charity & Community News ......Amy Macdonald - new album ‘Under Stars’ now out ................................................................Prize Crossword ................................................................................Recipe ............Win! Tickets to Petworth Antique & Fine Art Fair ...................................................................In Your Garden ............................................Young Readers’ Puzzle Page ..........................Win! Book - ‘Kut: The Death of an Army’ ..........................................................Parish Council news .............................................................Business Directory ...........................................................Index of Advertisers

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Tuesday April 4th Rico Tomaso’s Hot Rhythm Boys. A star line-up of musicians playing the hits of the 20s and beyond with vocalist Analucia Tomaso.

Tuesday May 2nd The Cornish Armada, back by popular demand, a really superb band led by Roger Marks Tuesday June 6th Bill Phelan’s Muscrat Ramblers, a great hit last season!

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WIN weekend ticket to Common People Festival!

On Southampton Common May bank holiday weekend 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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Local Walks - April All walks are led by friendly, trained volunteers - please do check with the organisers for full details and for any last minute changes. Health walks are 30 – 90 minutes, supported by Walking for Health & Horsham District Council. Level 2 & Level 3 are more challenging, for fitter walkers, supported by Horsham District Council Sat 1 2:00pm Fryern Park 3 miles Glebe Surgery car park, Monastery Lane, Storrington, RH20 4LR Sun 2 10:00am Downs Farm 6 miles Kithurst Hill Car Park (TQ070124) – off Storrington to Amberley Road Sun 2 2:30pm Horsham Guided Walks 2 miles Horsham Museum in the Causeway. Learn more about Horsham’s history Tue 4 11:00am Health Centre, Steyning 2 miles Steyning Health Centre, Tanyard Lane, BN44 3RJ (TQ176113) Thu 6 11:00am Billingshurst 2.3 miles Billingshurst Library, Mill Lane, RH14 9JZ Sat 8 8:30am Gumber & Great Down 9 miles Car park just off the Whiteways roundabout , BN18 9FD Sat 8 9:00am Wiston/Steyning Downland 2 miles Dog Walk. Steyning Cricket Pavilion, BN44 3LE Sat 8 2:00pm Sullington Warren & Church 4 miles Glebe Surgery car park, Monastery Lane, Storrington, RH20 4LR Sun 9 10:00am Wiggonholt Common 5.2 miles RSPB Wiggonholt Overflow Car Park, RH20 2EL. Dogs welcome Wed 12 10:00am Henfield Byways 2-3 miles Henfield Library, High Street, Henfield, BN5 9HN Fri 14 11:00am Southwater 2.6 miles Car park (50P) of the Country Park, (off Cripplegate Lane, RH13 7UN) Sat 15 2:00pm Kithurst South Circular 3 miles Kithurst Hill car park. (Off B2139) Sun 16 2:00pm Chanctonbury Ring 3 miles Washington South Downs Way Car Park (TQ120119) Sun 16 2:30pm Horsham Guided Walks 2 miles Outside the Museum in the Causeway Tue 18 11:00am Health Centre, Steyning 2 miles Steyning Health Centre, Tanyard Lane, BN44 3RJ (TQ176113) Wed 19 10:30am Storrington Riverside Walk 2.5 miles Storrington Recreation Ground Car Park, RH20 4PG Thu 20 10:00am West Chiltington 4 – 5 miles Public car park adjacent to West Chiltington Village Hall, RH20 2PZ Sat 22 8:30am Washington & The Downs 6.5 miles National Trust Georges Lane Car Park Washington, RH20 3JH Sat 22 10:30am Slinfold 3 miles Red Lyon PH car park (courtesy of owner). The Street, RH12 0RR Sat 22 10:00am Hareswith 3.9 miles Glebe Surgery car park, Monastery Lane, Storrington, RH20 4LR Sun 23 10:00am Hurston Place 4.8 miles Glebe Surgery car park, Monastery Lane, Storrington, RH20 4LR Mon 24 10:00am St Georges Day Walk 5 miles Park at St George’s Church, Steyning Road, West Grinstead, RH13 8LR Tue 25 12:00pm Horsham Park 3.3 miles Bandstand in Horsham Park, by café, RH12 1RJ Sat 29 2:00pm Thakeham Circular 3 miles Thakeham Church car park, RH20 3EP. Not suitable for buggies Sun 30 10:00am Houghton Forest 5.5 miles Whiteways roundabout at the junction of the A29 and A284, BN18 9FD

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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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Wiggonholt Church Lychgate.

Dear Editor It was delightful to see the photograph of the Lychgate of Wiggonholt Church on the cover of your Pulborough edition (March 2017). Together with the Church and Churchyard these iconic Grade 1 listed structures are familiar to many people visiting the RSPB centre or on local walks. What is less well known is that the lychgate is becoming structurally unsound and there is a fund raising appeal to rebuild it. The appeal is short of its financial target by several thousand pounds and any contribution from walkers or visitors would be much appreciated. Donations could be sent to The Churchwarden, The Old Rectory, Wiggonholt, Pulborough RH20 2EL Yours, Mervyn Jeffery, By email

Volunteer Mentors for Vulnerable Young People

The award-winning Positive Placements project, currently funded by Horsham District Council, matches volunteer mentors with vulnerable young people to help them on their journey back to education, training and employment. Recruitment of suitable volunteer mentors is ongoing and Catherine Pardoe, Positive

SUSSEX LOCAL Placements coordinator at the YMCA in Horsham, would love to hear from anyone interested in volunteering as a mentor, to help a vulnerable young person (for about an hour a week) on their journey back to education, training and employment. There is plenty of support and guidance from the Positive Placements team – volunteer mentors just need to want to help young people build their confidence and overcome barriers to unleash their potential. Contact: Catherine Pardoe, Community & Volunteer Engagement Coordinator, Tel: 07392 879247 catherine.pardoe@ymcadlg.org www.ymcadlg.org Facebook: www.facebook/positiveplacements Twitter: www.twitter.com/pos_placements

Vineyard Charity Run

Get Fit Boot Camp is inviting people of all levels of fitness to join them on Sunday 14th May at for the first of this year’s Nutbourne Vineyards Runs. Entrants can choose a scenic 5km, 10km, 15km, 20km or half marathon undulating run or walk, all off road. Entry fee is £18 per person and includes medal, tea / coffee, water, free parking, free (c)getfitbootcamp.co.uk photos, cake and a glass of wine. £6 per entrant charity donation to Partners in Art, which provides opportunities for people with support needs to follow their interest in art, operated by the Pallant House Gallery in Chichester.

Contact Rob Dale BSc (Hons), Personal Trainer 07793 036 189, or email rob@getfitbootcamp.co.uk www.getfitbootcamp.co.uk Pallant House Gallery - Lucy Greenfield, Community Programme Manager.Call: 01243 770833 or email: l.greenfield@pallant.org.uk.

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Children’s Hospice Week Children’s Hospice Week (22 to 28 May) is the UK’s only awareness and fundraising week for children with life-shortening conditions and their families and the palliative care services that support them. The aim of the week is to improve public understanding of what life is really like for families caring for seriously ill children. The round the clock care that children with life-shortening conditions need impacts on the entire family. Chestnut Tree House is encouraging people to support them during Children’s Hospice Week by holding their own fundraising event – from a Superhero Day at your School or workplace to cake sales or afternoon tea, or think up your own fun activity. The Fundraising Team are on hand to provide ideas, materials, advice and support. Contact: 01903 871820 www.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk

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Charity Seeks Donkey Walkers East Clayton Farm is a Care Farm, and a registered charity (Lorica), just outside of Storrington that gives disadvantaged people the opportunity to work alongside their animals and engage in land based activities to help them move forward with their lives.

As part of their provision, the farm has six donkeys that play a key part in the work that they do with groups of vulnerable young people, and they have established a team of very committed donkey volunteers that visit on a regular basis to care for the donkeys. Volunteers also get involved with supporting young visitors and with farm activities.

In the spring the farm is launching Donkey Walking Experiences for members of the public and is now looking for ‘donkey leaders’ to facilitate this. The role would include greeting the public and leading a grooming and walking session.

Contact: East Clayton Farm - 01903 741011 www.eastclaytonfarm.com

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Theatre Arts Club News West Chiltington Theatre Arts Club hosts talks on many aspects of the Arts and other subjects, which take place on the The Mary Rose (c)www.maryrose.org second Tuesday of each month at the West Chiltington Village Hall at 2.30pm. Every month (except August) they visit a local theatre to see a carefully selected production.

These outings are always very popular avoiding car travel and parking problems; tickets for the shows sell very quickly. Each month they publish, and circulate to members, a newsletter giving details of forthcoming events.

For this month’s meeting on Tuesday 11th April the club’s speaker is Mr Ron Morgan. His talk is entitled “The Mary Rose”, Henry Vlll’s doomed flagship. This month’s theatre outing on Wednesday 12th April will be to the Devonshire Park Theatre to see “Gabriel,” a mystery play set in the Channel Islands during the Occupation. The coach will leave the Village Hall Car Park at 11.30am giving theatre goers time to enjoy lunch in Eastbourne. Membership is £15 per person per annum (pro rata as year progresses). Contact: Hon. Secretary Geoffrey Adams on 01798 812984.

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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

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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

SUSSEX LOCAL contribution of guest guitarist Leo Abrahams, recently 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,

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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,

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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 17.

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5. Place the lamb on top and roast for 1 hr uncovered.

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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.

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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.

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This book gives a full account of the siege, the foiled attempts to lift it by British forces, the increasingly desperate expedients made to survive by the garrison and the unfortunate local population, culminating in the surrender of the remains of the garrison on 29 April 1916. Over 1,700 men of the force died in the siege, of whom 700 died of disease. About a third of those who went into captivity, 4,000 men, died: their treatment was inexcusably poor. This was a key event, along with those in Salonika and Italy, that has almost been entirely erased from popular memory, despite recent British military action in the area over the last twenty five years.

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Bury News

A29 Speeding - Can You Help?

A plan has been formulated to join in with Coldwaltham and Watersfield in forming a Community Speedwatch campaign in an effort to monitor and reduce speeding on the A29. This would involve volunteers using police-approved hand-held speed guns at the side of the road. (Editor’s note - The scheme works in Storrington, where drivers noticeably reduce speed when they see the team on duty.) If you think you would like to help calm the traffic on the A29 through the village, contact the Parish Clerk by email clerk@buryparishcouncil.org.uk

Saturday Coffee Mornings

Mike Billsbury has been running a coffee morning for the last eight years, and the latest one held on 5th March raised ÂŁ180 for the Village Hall. Sadly Mike has said that he can no longer run the event, so someone is need to take over the organisation. There are various helpers who would probably continue if someone were to take the helm. All proceeds raised go towards buying equipment for the hall, most recently glasses and cutlery.

Village Hall Bookings

The Village Hall is available to hire for a variety of uses and functions and, of course, there is the se-

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cluded village green alongside. The light and airy interior is neutrally decorated and flooded with natural light, with a vaulted ceiling and large windows on two sides. The Hall is well equipped with a modern kitchen, projector and large wall-mounted screen, washrooms. There is a car park on the south side of the building. To the north side with direct access from the hall, there is about an acre of grass playground area with climbing frames and other items for children. It would also be possible to erect a marquee in this area. The booking calendar may be viewed on the council website, and bookings made through the Clerk. www.buryparishcouncil.org.uk

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Coldwaltham News Edited extracts from the Parish Council meeting held on 7th February.

It was a quiet time at Alban head playing field, which meant that some maintenance was able to be carried out on the play area. The equipment will be sent off for annual maintenance and repairs, and there is a possibility of a donation in future for further refurbishment of the play area.

A draft letter was distributed setting out the increase in the Parish Precept (the amount of money charged for Parish Council activities within the Council Tax paid by each resident) and councillors’ agreement to the draft wording was requested in order that the letters may be produced by the time residents receive their Council Tax bills.

There is to be no increase in the precept to fund the appointment of a manager for Alban Head.

There was an item marked “Correspondence” which the council agreed to keep confidential and which was not to be published on the website.

Six people have come forward as volunteers for the Speed Watch campaign, from Coldwaltham and Watersfield. It is hoped there will be volunteers from Bury Parish but, at the time of the meeting, there had been no response. It was thought that a team of fourteen may be needed in total.

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new Parish Vicar during March. Items were collected

by Councillor Evans for inclusion in the Parish Link magazine for March. West Sussex Highways have been contacted about the potholes in Sandy Lane. Balances held at the bank as at 7th February were £10,076.18. The annual parish meeting is to be held on Tuesday 25th April at 7.30pm at St James School. For full meeting minutes visit www.coldwalthampc.org.uk Editor’s note - we received an email and letter from the Clerk to the Parish Council over the long-running saga about whether we were allowed to publish council information from its website. The letter asked us to donate a sum to the Parish Council in order that we can use the information.

To make our position quite clear, we have no intention of directly reproducing any website content - that is plagiarism. We do, however, reserve the right to report on that information, and also to reproduce any minutes of official meetings. This is public information and we do not believe we should need to pay for this. We left a message for the clerk to call us, but, to date, sadly have not received a response. The offer remains open to the parish council to use us for publicity purposes - we’re happy to help.

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Fittleworth News Planning Applications

Planning applications processed and in progress during early March by the South Downs National Park Authority.  Extension and infill of existing loggia to form living room and associated works. The Barn House Tripp Hill Fittleworth RH20 1ER Ref: SDNP/17/01166/LDP  Proposed new grain and secure fertilizer storage building. Fitzleroi Farm Fitzleroi Lane Fittleworth Pulborough West Sussex RH20 1JN Ref: SDNP/17/01116/FUL.  Variation of condition 1 from planning permission SDNP/14/02892/FUL - amendments to plans to include alterations to car barn, bin store and levels. Coal Yard School Close Fittleworth RH20 1JD Ref: SDNP/17/00980/CND

Mobile Fish & Chip Shop

A new mobile fish and chip service is visiting Fittleworth every Friday evening between 5.00pm and 7.30pm. We spoke to the owner Andy, a very pleasant chap, who tells us he will be stationed in the Village Hall car park unless there is a function on and there is no space, in which case he will sit in the lay by outside the school.

Pupils enjoy Forest School The children of Fittleworth C. E Village School enjoyed their Forest School session in the sunshine. This week they built bug hotels and made their ground portraits using the natural resources found in the woods.

Headmaster, Graham Bloomfield says ‘our children are stimulated by the outdoors and we often experience an increase in their confidence, learning, enthusiasm, communication and problem-solving skills in these Forest School sessions and these transfer back into the classroom’. www.fittleworthschool.org.uk.

Forthcoming school events; Saturday, 1 April - Jumble Sale 10am-12pm; Friday 7th April – Bingo Night, doors open at 7pm, eyes down at 7.30pm. www.fittleworthschool.org.uk

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Pulborough Parish Council

Sports Pavilion Rebuild Proposals

Extract from the minutes of the Parish Council meeting held on 16th February 2017.

Members had received a briefing report produced by Cllr C Esdaile. The Clerk reported on various contacts made to other authorities seeking advice or similar experiences for comparison. Considerable discussion took place regarding potential next steps and Members considered the options of appointing an architect and the process that would follow, or the alternative of appointing a construction manager/project manager to oversee the process including design.

This would reduce the time taken overall but meant a larger contingency fund may be necessary, although the process should keep costs down in the long term.

Members wished to ensure that if proceeding with such an appointment, once costs were known, there would be a stage to pause to consider financial viability and project funding, and probable public consultation. Query was made as to whether there was sufficient information currently available to provide to a construction manager.

The Clerk suggested that the Council should produce a business plan and clear design brief, however Members felt this was not necessary at this stage.

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Meetings April 2017 Planning & Services Committee - 6th April Sports Pavilion Recreation & Open Spaces Committee - 13th April Sports Pavilion Finance & Policy Committee - 27th April Sports Pavilion All agendas are published on the Parish Council website and notice boards at least three days before the meeting www.pulboroughparishcouncil.gov.uk

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West Chiltington Parish Council Posters to appear at dog walking hotspots Dog walkers are urged to keep their dogs on a lead when walking in rural areas and around livestock.

Even the most docile of pets can quickly turn given the opportunity, and very often owners are horrified by what their dogs have done.

Posters will shortly be appearing at popular dog walking locations around the county warning dog walkers that there are sheep or other livestock in the field, and the consequences they may face should their dogs be out of control. The posters have been developed by Sussex Police with support from West Sussex County Council, the National Farmers Union (NFU) and the South Downs National Park. It is hoped that dog owners will take note and incidents such as the recent sheep-worrying outside Chichester, which resulted in a dog being shot, will be avoided. Sergeant Tom Carter, the Rural Crime lead for Sussex Police asks that if you see any incidences of sheep worrying please report them, as it is believed that many attacks go unreported. You can report any incidents via email 101@sussex.pnn.police.uk or by calling 101.

National Plant Monitoring Scheme Is there anyone out there with an interest in wild plants or who would like to learn more about them?

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As the weather warms and the days get longer The National Plant Monitoring Scheme is looking for people to help.

They need people to help understand what is happening to different habitats across the UK. Over 900 volunteers have already signed up and been out surveying - many of these volunteers are new to plant surveying and are enjoying taking part and exploring places close to them and finding out new things.

Volunteers are recruited and supported to survey 5 plots in a kilometre square close to where they live.

Go to www.npms.org.uk - for further information please email: support@npms.org.uk or phone 01722 342743.

Keeping in Touch Everyone is welcome to our Council meetings - Agendas and minutes can be found on the website www.wchilt-parishcouncil.org.uk as well as contact details of all the individual councillors. Our clerk is Mrs Anna Chambers and she is normally in the office Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 10am – 2pm. If you would like to call in to see her there is now a doorbell and it would be a good idea to phone first Tel: 01798 817434 or email wcpcclerk@aol.com

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01903 743 579 6 High Street Storrington RH20 4DU

£20 a month plus VAT - includes design. Book & pay online at sussexlocal.net or call us on

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Hairdresser

Hair I Come - Hair I Go Mobile Hairstylist Amy Gilbert Fully Insured Free Consultations Pulborough & Surroundings

07460 213 351 amygilbert3@hotmail.co.uk

Locksmiths

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LOGS

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Call 01243 920 299 Colin 07976 750 259

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Painting & Decorating cont JOHN MILLS DECORATING   

Interior & exterior decorating to a high standard Free estimates & advice Fully insured

Call John for quote:

01903 776956 07783 386865

Plastering

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RENDERING All areas covered Free quotations Fully insured

northyathome@msn.com

01903 504 877 07920 798 071

Nutritional Therapist

PAINTING AND DECORATING

01903 411 507 07917 341 535

25 years experience Qualified Excellent references

Painting & Decorating

DAVID HUGHES

Painter - Decorator - Property Maintenance

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30+ years experience Exterior & Interior Free quotations Fully insured 01798 875 033 07774 676 115 david.hughes10@btinternet.com

J.H. BROWN LTD

PAINTING AND DECORATING     

20+ years experience Free written quotes Exterior & Interior Fully insured 01903 532984 All areas covered 07713 147280 jameshaigbrown@fsmail.net

www.love-your-home.org

Personal Training

Reliable & friendly service Free quotations Fully insured Many satisfied clients City & Guilds Qualified 01798 872 832 Mr P Nelson 07904 537 686 15%

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Pest Control

Plumbing & Heating

Des Bone Limited Pest Control Services

(24hr)

Wasps - Hornets - Rodents - Moles Ants - Pigeons - Squirrels - Moths Specialist Bird & Squirrel Proofing Electric Fly Killer & Insect Screens

A J Maddox All aspects of

Plumbing & Heating Established 30 yrs

01903 266 219 07941 277 163

01403 786 100 www.desbone.co.uk

Harry Jackson

Pest Control

INSECTS - RODENTS - BIRDS 01903 200 278 07718 355 716 i n f o @ hj p e s t c o nt r ol . c o . u k w w w . hj p es t co n t r o l . c o. uk

M.C. SERVICES

Plumbing & Heating

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Installation, Service & Breakdown Call Matthew No job too small for prompt No VAT to pay reliable local service

553992

07979 746239

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Private Hire / Taxi

Roofing

All aspects of Plumbing and Heating.

Bathrooms, Boiler installations & Repairs

01903 740 538 07871 725 133

01798 873311

pipelineplumbingservices.co.uk info@pipelineplumbingservices.co.uk

Property Services

ALL IN1    

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HANDYMEN

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE LANDSCAPING, GARDENING NO JOB TOO SMALL Rob 15 YRS EXPERIENCE

Shirley

07796 950 876

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30 years experience Flat Roofing Leadwork 01903 746 487 Tiling 07795 821 627 RandRRoofing.co.uk Slating

STEVE CHISWELL Roofing & Building  Door Hanging RIVERSIDE HOME  General DIY MAINTENANCE  Painting & Decorating  Kitchen & Bathroom

Fitting & Tiling

 Wooden Flooring  Patios & Decking  Flat Pack Assembly  Fencing & Sheds

Podiatry/Chiropody DAWN N JONES MSSCh MBChA

Pulborough Podiatry

Visiting appointments available

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01903 872365 07801 295889

For a free quote please call Nigel on

07768 510 463 01903 745 685

www.riversidehomemaintenance.co.uk

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New roofs, Chimney repairs, Re-pointing, UPVC fascias/guttering, Flat roofing, Leadwork. Est. 30 years

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Flat Roofs Slating /Tiling UPVC Soffits Fascias Guttering Lead work Free estimates

Roofing since 1988

No VAT

01903 713 423 07984 884 642

younger.roofing@yahoo.co.uk

Tree Surgery D.R. GRADY

TREE SURGERY

- West Chiltington  Felling  Hedge Cutting  Pruning  Stump Grinding dr.grady@yahoo.co.uk

01798 815415 / 07703 358874 Insured & Fully Qualified

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Garry Miller 07786 447 554 sussextrees and hedges@hotmail.co.uk

Fully Insured - NPTC Trained & Qualified

Window Cleaning

Window Cleaning Traditional & Professional

Climbing Reductions Felling Stump Grinding Pruning

JONATHAN CARTER

Interior & Exterior Conservatories  Year round 01903 745 949 07971 000 270 Services 

Covers Pulborough, W. Chilt & surrounding villages NPTC City & Guilds. Insured

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Window Cleaning Services

KEVIN L. JONES

TREE SURGERY All aspects of tree surgery & hedge cutting. Fully Qualified & Insured.

Locally Based

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