Sandgate September 2022 Local SMatter entine la dce2.0 company This magazine is compiled and edited by David Cowell who is totally responsible for content If you do not wish to receive these magazines please email UNSUBSCRIBE to him at david@thesentinel org uk
2 R e t u r n i n g Catherine Jordan Cakes Delightful treats from a professional patisserie Anji's Interiors Working for local, national and ternational clients and companies from her studio based in sunny andgate, on the South Kent coast, ji creates beautiful bespoke quality urtains, blinds, soft furnishings and interior decor to suit your requirements Pauline's hand made toys Conventional and wrap style masks, soft toys and so many more wonderful hand made gifts 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. Gill Thompson Jew * Unique gifts Gill makes one *pieceCommissions *accept Gill can bring broken jewellery back to life * Gill uses precious, se precious gems,freshw pearls, glass and crys beads Sandgate Farmers and Makers Market Saturday, 3rd September We’ve been sourcing ingredients and accessories from expert producers and artisans in exchange for a fair price for over 30 years. Hand made clothing and greeting cards NEW Saffron Roses We are delighted to welcome back Christina and her wonderful arrangements. I'm excited to be joining the Sandgate Farmers and Makers Market I have been selling at craft fairs for about 10 years and painting since taking early retirement in 2008 NEW A mix for original art, prints, greeting cards and associated goods made from bespoke fabric printed from my art and things printing with my art
3 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 The shouty exclamation! The three dots of... (Not forgetting the brackets) And even more Kindle edition £9 99 Hardback £12 50 Great gift To advertise in all three of The Sentinels with circa 3000 targetted readers and growing please email me: david@thesentinel.org.uk for a rate card. Now on the radio too
4 Support your local AirAmbulanceCharity Host it. Roast it. Raise it. Bring together your family, friends or colleagues for a delicious roast this November and raise funds to support our critical care aakss.org.uk/hostaroast Charity no. 1021367 Join us in the fight to save lives, scan to sign up or for more information: Alternatively, call us on: 01634 471900
5 Sandgate Library Temporary Closure Sandgate Library will be temporarily closing for refurbishment work. The library will be closed from Monday 5 September 2022 for 3 weeks, re-opening on Monday 26 September. Alternative local libraries include Hythe Library, Cheriton Library and Folkestone Library. We also have a number of mobile library stops in the local area including Golden Valley (Digby Road) and Seabrook (Seabrook Court). Mobile library services can be found at www.kent.gov.uk/libs via a postcode search. If you have any questions, please do contact Sandgate Parish Council (who run Sandgate Library).
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Every Thursday, June to September Discover the secrets of this ancient Cinque Port and soak up the atmosphere amongst its historic architecture. See the Royal Military Canal, built to keep Napoleon at bay. Visit St Leonard’s Church (free tour included) and wonder at the bones in the famous ossuary/crypt. Tours of the church (without a walk) start at midday. Meet at Hythe Town Hall, High Street CT21 5AJ at 10:30am - no need to book. per person (Ossuary £2 church/ossuary
It has been an eventful week one way or another, and you can just begin to feel the summer starting to dwindle and the very earliest signs of the oncoming autumn We of course spent time sorting out our plants for the sale so they will look their best; the rest of the Chinese cabbages got planted as well as the winter radishes. Once again the badger found the newly planted cabbage bed too inviting and dug great holes, sending some of the cabbages out of the bed and to their doom, so on Saturday morning we replanted the space with a few random lettuces needing a home, and netted the whole bed to see if that will solve the issue.
On occasion, we plant up a bed of brassicas such as cabbage or broccoli, and find that after a few days one or two of the plants are drooping and fail to thrive; this is usually because there is something lurking in the soil (wire worms) which love eating through the roots of plants and that is the end of the plant. Putting another plant in the same space is usually a waste of time as it can happen again and so this week we have been replanting replacements in other spaces, close but hopefully safer!
One of the important jobs to get done last Tomatoes looking great and very tasty
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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. This newsletter is being written on the eve of the Sandgate Festival, so when you get to read it, the event will probably be all over. We will be reporting back on how well we did at our stall in next week’s news with some photographs. Not to be outdone by all the other professional stalls, we got ourselves a banner printed, and very smart it looks too Even though we have been asking for rain and on the odd occasion dancing the rain dance, we will be happier if it stays warm and dry, and so far it looks like it will be fine.
New banner
• Prick out some of the pak choi plants
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9 week was the turning of the rather large compost bins. Bin number one is always the bin that gets the fresh materials from kitchen scraps to discarded or finished plant material from the garden as well as weeds and hedge material. In order to be able to turn and empty bin number one, bin number two has to be emptied into bin three, so it is quite a long task. Most of the time the job is uneventful, a little smelly at times, hot work in the summer, and might cause discomfort later from muscle pain which always seems to find the muscles you did not know you even had.
This week I (Leonie) decided that it would be a wonderful addition to the compost heap if I was to retrieve some cow manure near to where I was working. The manure pile is based on a farm and quite large. However the long hot summer has meant that much of it has dried up so that the cow shed bedding of hay/straw and wood shavings is mostly all that seems to be left. With a shovel I was digging to find a good section to start bagging up, when I stuck the shovel into what seemed a promising area only to unfortunately cut into a wasps nest. All I can say is that it was certainly an experience for the volunteers I had with me to witness the squealing and unimaginable sight of me stripping off my outer clothing where the wasps had aimed for anything fleshy. Uncountable stings later from head to ankles I can confirm it was an excruciating and memorable experience I would never wish to repeat. Of course the wasps are very efficiently defending their territory and I was a threat The point being that doing something as simple and enjoyable as gardening can at times bring the odd rose thorn or head bump from the rake you left on the ground and consequently trod on; but sometimes you can get more than you bargained for. Lesson learnt, I will henceforth be more careful around compost/dirt piles and be more observant.
• Find a space for some of the dill and coriander plants
• Keep up with removing more leaves from the tomato plants and brassicas
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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.
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.
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.
Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s. They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!
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All now available in paperback and on Kindle
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.
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 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.
Ted Parker ta es o a lapsed activist
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Janet Holben Paperback Folkestone Cemetery has around 15,000 graves (27,000 people) there are stories of skulduggery and innocence, murder and bravery, grandeur and squalor but mostly there are stories of everyday people living their lives This account brings some of those stories back to life and will perhaps bring an understanding of how Folkestone was shaped by terrible wars, widespread disease, the unforgiving sea, the new railway and fashionable society but mostly, by the people who lived, loved, made their livelihood and finally died here
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22 Friends of St Nicholas Church Newington Restoring and maintaining this historic building and its grounds Charity Number 1122652 U 3 A Swing Band Concert & Cream Tea Traditional Jazz and Songs by the U3A Swing Band, together with a Cream Tea Saturday 3rd September 3:00pm £10.00 in advance, tickets available from Greta Raja 01303 488091/greta.rajadhyaksha@tiscali.co.uk Mel Wrigley 01303 837146/text only 07543 629444 Raffle Bus Route 17
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