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March 2022

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Sandgate Farmers Market Saturday, 5th March Catherine Jordan Cakes Delightful treats from a professional patisserie

Usher's fruit and veg are based locally with lots of fruit, veg and salad sourced locally. For example their potatoes are sourced from O&P Gowers In Acrise.

Arkwrights Pantry Lovely foodie gifts including a range of Chilli based products from Carrington Foods Ltd. who are based in Faversham.

Our Eco-friendly food wraps are handmade using 100% cotton and beeswax, helping the environment and keeping your food fresh.

Pauline's hand made toys Conventional and wrap style masks, soft toys and so many more wonderful hand made gifts Gill Thompson Jewellery

Anji's Interiors Working for local, national and international clients and companies from her studio based in sunny Sandgate, on the South Kent coast, Anji creates beautiful bespoke quality curtains, blinds, soft furnishings and interior decor to suit your requirements.

* Unique gifts - Gill makes only one piece * Commissions accepted * Gill can bring broken jewellery back to life * Gill uses precious, semi precious gems,freshwater pearls, glass and crystal beads

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Marsh soap is vegan friendly, made from quality organic products. Each soap is made from 90% olive oil, coconut oil,100% natural fragrances, seeds, petals/buds added for decoration.

We’ve been sourcing ingredients and accessories from expert producers and artisans in exchange for a fair price for over 30 years.

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Our thanks to the Sandgate Parish Council and the Community Gardeners for allowing us to reproduce this diary page. We hope to make this a monthly feature in the magazine but you can read all the diary entries by clicking on this box. Luckily, Covid had decided to move on by the end of this week, just leaving the usual after-effects, and appreciation that it could have been much worse. Regardless, the seeds sown over the last week have popped up and many have been ‘pricked out’ into individual modules to continue growing. Now starts the juggling with the available space and watching the temperatures, weather conditions and pesky slugs. Paul, the Saga grounds manager, has very kindly brought the water bowser back to the garden, as it had spent the winter parked up in his yard until planting time came around once more. He was just in the nick of time as we think we should be planting the pea shoots and radishes, the fastest growing vegetables, this coming Wednesday, just seventeen days after they were sown, incredible. You may recall that just before Christmas we were tantalised by a call from Waitrose in Hythe with the wonderful news that they had decided to give us some funds; however before we could hold the cheque in our grubby hands it got whisked away back to head office because it was written incorrectly. The good news is we do now have it in our grubby hands and most grateful we are for £333.00 which will be going towards all the plans we have for this coming year – thank you Waitrose! The Incredible Edibles have had a

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busy week making a brilliant start on the dismantling and rebuilding of the big composting area at the back of All Souls churchyard. No small task as it involves pulling out all the compost in the bins, but it will be fabulous to have a system which is large enough to cope with all the plant matter being generated, from grass cuttings to leaves and weeds. On Saturday, some of our community gardeners were involved in helping to prune Incredible Edibles starting to dismantle an orchard of some 70 fruit trees, mainly cherry, a few plum and pear trees owned by the community farm ‘Muddy Wellies’ just outside Ashford on the A20. This community space is part of a series of gardens under Brogdale CIC, serving six college sites across Kent providing horticultural education for disabled young people. The event was organised by the Hythe Environmental Group, and we had guidance and instruction from a professional commercial orchard manager. The trees had not been pruned for several years, and so will take a good three years to get them back into good shape. The weather was just beautiful which was important on the day as well as settled weather thereafter, so this weekend was perfect. The day was amazing, once we got over the facility envy of polytunnels, kitchen, indoor working spaces and even two toilets! A great time was had by all, excellent company and such a worthwhile project. We are hoping to stay in touch and with any luck get involved with the pruning next year as it will be interesting to be able to follow the project through. What’s next? • Keep seed sowing • Plant the pea shoots and radishes – cover • Is the pond clear of the storm debris? • Water the plants in the cold frames 5

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A Stitch in Time Sandgate has boasted of its talented residents since the late 1700s and today is no exception. Local textile artist, author and educator Gwen Hedley has successfully bought to fruition an initiative called Threading Together. Gwen works on the table cloth Commissioned by Dover Arts Development (DAD) which, according to its web site, is an artist-led not for profit limited company that functions as a collaborative, porous framework within which its artist directors conceive, manage & deliver ambitious projects of artistic excellence within the visual arts, poetry, writing, sound & music. It goes on to say that Threading Together is a cross-generational arts project, using embroidery and photography, focusing on diverse food cultures. You can read more about the project here and thanks to the sterling efforts of Melanie Chalk, the entries can be viewed in a beautifully produce digital book here or if you email me at david@thesentinel.org.uk putting Threading Together in the subject line and I will send you a copy in .pdf format.

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From the cutting-edge London design agency Here Design - writer and poet Philip Cowell, and award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand, author of The Herbarium, this playful, original, beautifully designed book brings to life the punctuation marks we use every day, including: The dashing dash So-called "quotation marks" The colon: and on and on. Kindle edition The shouty exclamation! £9.99 Hardback The three dots of... £12.50 (Not forgetting the brackets) Great gift And even more 12

All now available in paperback and on Kindle Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s. They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!

Two plays. One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.

This is the tale of Hana, a young girl who moves from where she was born in London, to the Kent coast. They discover a wonderful area called Prince's Parade which is full of amazing animals, has a beautiful canal and is right next to the sea too! By buying this book you will be helping to protect it. All profits from it will be donated to the Save Prince's Parade campaign which aims to halt plans to develop the area into a housing estate. Very funny, and surreal story about a man and a woman on their first date: Bolton Brady and Veda, set in London, November 2001. Bolton is forty, not into assets, has never lived with a woman and looked into the future and seen loneliness. So he decides to do something about it. He advertises in a lonely-hearts column, and receives six replies, but after experiencing one disaster after another only Veda remains between him and his sanity. As the day unfolds the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred, building to a surreal, yet poignant, conclusion. 14

This walk through the history of Sandgate to the present day was first performed at the Chichester Hall a decade ago on Wednesday, 9th June. It is now available on Kindle or in paperback.

Now available on Amazon. Great evocative yarns of worldly travels.

A Loose Cannon tales of a lapsed activist

Ted Parker

The title of the book hints at how, as a ‘loose cannon’, Folkestone born Ted’s risk-taking got him into trouble on a number of occasions whilst being a considerable advantage in his working life.

As a young journalist, Reg Turnill met most of the prewar political personalities and later became the BBC's space correspondent being the only one in the press room when the historic Houston we have a problem message came from Apollo 11. 15

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