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Contents

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Comment

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Why a Mediation Service Started

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Letters Page

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Recipe

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Become a Volunteer

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Stay Safe at Home

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Sussex Miscellany

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IT Hints & Tips

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Gardening

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Health

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Book Review

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Seasonal

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Humour

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Community Information Board

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Puzzle Page

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Kids’ Page

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Advertisement Index, Discounts & Offers and Puzzle Answers

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COMMENT

LET’S HOPE THE END IS IN SIGHT s we go to press with this March edition we’re

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gradually get our lives back together we will be able to

all desperately wondering when the Lockdown

keep the best bits from Lockdown. Be it, more working

restrictions will eventually ease. The only thing

from home and a better work/life balance, less rushing

we have learnt over the last year is not to try and

around and thereby reducing our carbon foot print,

predict too far into the future and try and take each

helping the vulnerable and being more considerate to

day at a time. But that’s easier said than done when

all sections of society, keeping up excercise regimes to

you’re worried about your job, your business, your

taking a more mindful approach to life.

child’s education, putting food on the table and more crucially, your health.

When restrictions do ease we must support our local businesses, high streets and the advertisers in

There is definitely Lockdown fatigue as we come up

this magazine. This will help the whole region to get

to the anniversary of restrictions being enforced but

back on its feet as quickly as possible and provide

one thing that is incredibly positive at the moment is

the jobs and security we all desperately need. Now

the speed of the vaccination roll out. The supplies of

that the end is in sight and we adjust to a new

vaccines appear to be good and a chance that the

normal, let’s not forget some of the lessons we’ve

restrictions will start to be eased by the time you read

learnt. Stay safe and well.

this magazine. This whole period has certainly taught us

Richard Milbourn, Editor

to take nothing for granted and I hope that as we

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W E S T S U S S E X M E D I AT I O N S E RV I C E

WHY A MEDIATION SERVICE STARTED ur service was the brainchild of a Crime

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make joint funding bids. In 2020 we were awarded the

Prevention Officer in Horsham back in around

Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service.

1999-2000 (Nigel Tickler) who, through some

Case Study (Community Mediation)

research, determined that about 5% of frontline Police

The case concerned the use of a small patch of grass

time was spent going to repeat calls to the same

between two sets of houses, within a T-shaped close of

addresses/neighbourhoods regarding neighbour

about 25 houses. Boys were in the habit of playing

disputes, giving words of advice or ‘banging heads

football on the grass, using walls, a tree, a pole and a

together’ but not having to ‘feel collars’. However, this

Sky junction box as markers. The boys, aged 10+,

was not addressing the underlying causes of those

sometimes numbered up to 10. Neighbours were

conflicts. He believed that by forming a mediation

disturbed by shouting, alleged swearing, possible

services these cycles of conflict could be broken and the

bullying, and the frequent arrival in their gardens of

demand on Police time reduced. He secured some

footballs, which the boys called to ask for, sometimes

‘pump priming’ funding from the Police, Council and

many times in a session. There were incidents of damage

WSCC to train 9 mediators and launch the service. We

to parked cars. The complainant parties felt unsupported

now have 50+ mediators and cover the whole county.

when they complained to the police or the council. One

In addition to the police, the bulk of our referrals are self

party in particular contacted the council and the police

reported and from housing associations, the council and

frequently.

others. As well as community mediation which is free of

Mediators visited the aggrieved parties; one party

charge, we also cover intergenerational disputes, family

was very cynical about mediation, which they saw as a

(pre-divorce) mediation, workplace mediation and civil

waste of time. The other party was eager to find ways

mediation and these are currently being delivered online

to manage or improve the situation. Mediators also

when self distancing requires it.

visited three parties, whose sons played football on the

How important are donations and fundraising for

patch of grass, and who made the case that their sons

your organisation? We don’t have a high profile and

were too young to go further away, and that they

provide our confidential services quietly in the

weren't doing any harm.

background. We are not the sort of charity that

A Joint Meeting involving five parties is always a bit

individuals would naturally gravitate towards. This makes

daunting. In this case, a sixth mother of a footballing

fundraising difficult. We have a very small office staff -

boy turned up unexpectedly after about half an hour.

our service co-ordinator, Nick, plus three part-time

It started rather tense, with the complainant who

colleagues who help manage the 330+ annual referrals -

didn't rate mediation making a bid to dominate, but the

hence the challenge of fundraising support as we don’t

process held; everyone had their say, and then discussion

have a team of dedicated fundraisers. Every pound we

ensued. The parties all traded views and ideas without

receive is important to us. We don’t waste money on

the need for mediators, gradually arriving at what was

gimmicks or extravagances. We do like to show funders

practical and enforceable, with a recognition of what

that we are doing our best to self sustain. Covid-19 has

was outside their control (boys coming in from other

affected our income, like so many other charities and all

streets to play there).

our community mediation is provided free of charge.

WSMS is a Registered Charity (1084592). We are part

As well as some suggestions being adopted in the final agreement, to the satisfaction of all, the parties

of a Pan Sussex Mediation Alliance formed of ourselves

agreed to several types of communication. Mediators

and three other charities who cover Brighton & Hove

agreed that it had all gone much more smoothly than

and East Sussex. We share good practise, resources and

they could have hoped. www.wsms.org.uk

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o you want to become a volunteer in 2021? St Catherine’s is looking for motivated individuals to volunteer their help in the trading

department. Below, five volunteers in our Rowfant donations warehouse have shared their own experiences of volunteering and why they encourage you to do the same.

Richard, from Crawley, started volunteering for us last year after being furloughed and made redundant from his full-time job in the travel industry. Describing

Richard (Left) and Kevin.

Sarah.

more about his background, he said: “I’ve worked in travel for the whole of my working life.

I’ve worked for some of the best travel companies,

husband passed away, I knew that I needed to do something, so I decided to take up volunteering. I’ve

one for 11 years and another for 18 years. I’ve only

volunteered at other places before St Catherine’s, but

ever done that, it’s a fantastic industry to be in and I

it’s so much different here than anywhere else I’ve

did love my job. I was furloughed on the 1st April

been. You’re not just a number, they know your name

2020 and I haven’t worked since, and I was made

and you feel as if you’re part of something.

redundant in December. Volunteering has always been at the back of my mind, but like a lot of people, I always felt like I never had the time to do something. I

I would recommend everyone to try volunteering at some point in their life.

Sarah, who also works in the travel industry in

also never fully understood how simple it was to give

London, became a volunteer after she was furloughed

some time and make a difference.

due to Covid-19.

Kevin, also from Crawley, started volunteering in our

“Being furloughed started to have a big effect on

warehouse two years ago after retiring from his job in

my mental wellbeing, so this opportunity came at the

the banking industry. Describing more about his

right time for me.

experience, he said: “Like a lot of people who retire, I knew that I

I get a sense of achievement from volunteering for St Catherine’s. When I see all of the things that people

needed to still do something. I always knew I wanted

have donated and know that they’re going to be

to volunteer and two years ago I decided to join St

going to a shop to help raise money, it makes me feel

Catherine’s. I knew all about the hospice as it’s very

very proud to be a part of that. This opportunity came

local to me, I saw an advertisement for volunteers at

at the right time for me and it’s really helped me.

the warehouse to sort through donations and since starting I have loved every minute of it. That’s why two years on I’m still here.

Good friends, Carol and Joyce, are also part of our

I would recommend everyone to give volunteering a go because you don’t know until you’ve tried.

It makes you feel really proud to do something for somebody else, especially during the difficult times

volunteering team at Rowfant and worked together in

that we’re currently in, and I’m sure volunteering will

finance before volunteering at St Catherine’s. Joyce:

give you that feeling too.”

“I would really miss it if I didn’t do it. Volunteering

Would you like to be part of our volunteering team?

here really helps me as it gets me out of the house,

Please visit www.stch.org.uk/volunteer/ or call the

and I feel very lucky to be volunteering for a local

Volunteering Team on 01293 447351 to find out

cause and helping people in my community. After my

more.

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the service is encouraging residents to look out

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DODGY DIETS AND DRINKS

By Kevin Newman, a Sussex-born author, historian, tour guide and history teacher ith lockdown 17 hopefully ended by the time you

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removing a comb from the island Chieftain’s hair. Although

read this (I think that’s the right one – have lost

to be fair the Viti Levuians were also rebelling against the

count) and the latest COVID variant vaccinated

encroach of Christianity at this time. This was apparently

away, I might have a new problem. It isn’t the fact I’ve lost

punishable by death by eating, but Sussexians should not try

sleep at night wondering why each new variant isn’t called

to lose weight by travelling to Fiji and eating one of the

COVID 20, 21 etc. Nor is it my endless internal monologue as

tribe’s descendants in revenge as the current chief back in

to why we shouldn’t name the variants the way the Met

2003 issued a formal apology on behalf of his ancestors’

Office does with storms – after people. This is as I do think

behaviour. The museum in Fiji still has the soles of the

that ‘COVID Geoffrey’ or ‘COVID Margery’ sounds much

Reverend’s sandals, which were boiled by the tribe but, it

nicer than ‘the South African variant’. No, my problem is

seems, were more unpalatable than the munchable

after working from home and remote teaching for many

missionary as they turned the potential footwear foodstuff

months I need to lose weight. My children often now

down. So, should my barf-inducing banquet not have turned

mistake me for a budget bouncy castle but I’m sure I’m not

your stomach so far, you might want to, unlike the Fijians,

alone, and so, valued reader I’ve decided to help us all with

try eating footwear instead?

tales of revolting recipes and disgusting drinks from Sussex’s

Perhaps try some revolting remedies instead to lose

past. Nausea will spread across the county and our scales will

weight post-lockdown? An ancient Sussex remedy was to

all stop groaning as we can’t face food and drink. Let the

‘roast one mouse’ for whooping cough, but, who knows, it

upchucking commence!

might work for obesity? Don’t forget though if you do try

We’ll start with the man who put Brighton on the map as

this, local medics suggested you needed to dry another two

a heathy seaside resort, Dr Richard Russell. The hypocritical

mice in the oven and crumble them into a powder. This

Hippocrates follower wasn’t exactly a paragon of health as

lousy mousey medicine then needed to be added to your

you’ll see if you look at portraits of the portly physician. His

drink morning and night. Should remedies not rectify your

1750s book on the uses of seawater may have helped many

rotundity, how about a bit of poverty and fighting? Perhaps

Londoners with his suggestions of Sussex seabathing and

recreate for your family a Littlehampton dish that once

sea air, but his suggestion of mixing seawater with milk? It

existed called a ‘Swimmer’. This got its name as it was where

may well be your first port of call to lose the contents of

a whole poor family had to share a bowl of gravy with just

your stomach, even if not a few pounds. I’ve also mentioned

one dumpling in it – which the children had to fight for.

before the Sussex drink of Bumboo, also a drink from the

Being blessed with a ‘chopper’ would have helped out a

1750s in East Hoathly and made of brandy and beer. This

family in this situation and may also be your route to

sounds a bit more palatable than the Doctor’s drink but

roundness reduction. It was nothing to do axes though to

unfortunately the effects were said to be regrettable. I

help you fight (or even a 1970s bike), but the old Sussex

know which one I’d prefer though, despite the name.

name for a dried pig’s face. Mmmmmmmn!

If seawater and awful alcoholic mixes aren’t your thing,

For zoom or (eventually) group Sussex talks and motorised

then why not a bit of cannibalism to put you off food and

tours, please call All-Inclusive History on 07504 863867 or email

help the pounds peel off? You could replicate a Victorian

info@allinclusivehistory.org. Other tours, talks and events are

era feast where the chief ingredient was one of our clergy,

available including ‘Spooky Worthing, ‘Brilliant Brighton’, ‘Super

who became a tasty dish for people from a Fijian Island. The

Sussex’ and ‘Scrumptious Sussex’. Kevin’s next book, ‘Celebrating

Reverend Thomas Baker, who hailed from Playden in Sussex

Brighton and Hove’, out in June can be pre-ordered from

was eaten by tribesmen from Nivosa, which is on Viti Levu

www.waterstones.com/book/celebrating-brighton-and-

island in Fiji back in 1867 after making the fatal error of

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• Fitness - Lawn bowls and Croquet helps moderately

• Bowls can be played indoors and/or outdoors, and so

improve muscle strength (arm, shoulder, leg muscles),

can be an all year-round activity. In addition, a variation

flexibility and endurance.

of bowls, called shortmat is available at some clubs which

• Mental Health - The games gets you out into the fresh

is played typically in clubhouses or community halls and is

air and helps alleviate depression and anxiety.

a little less strenuous than the traditional game.

ou can find details of all the bowls and croquet

• Social Interaction – Both sports help improve social

clubs in Crawley on page 26 of the Community Information Board - but why should you play?

belonging and enhances mental wellbeing.

• Increases Skills – Bowls and Croquet involve some

• Bowls and Croquet are two rare sports where men

element of problem solving skills and also helps improve

and women, young and old, able bodied and not so

co-ordination and concentration

able bodied can all play alongside each other.

• Improves Confidence - Participating in a sport helps

All the clubs listed offer taster sessions which allow

improve self-esteem and gets you out and about and

you to “try before you buy” and are their locations are

meeting people.

listed to enable you to locate one nearest you.

• Self-Discipline - Sports such as these involves turning

Tony Ludbrook, Captain of The Downsman Bowls Club

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GARDENING

Pick a Pepper Growing your own peppers is as easy as cultivating tomatoes. Pepper plants are pretty too, with fruits in a range of shapes and colours, generally on compact plants and preceded by VPDOO ZKLWH ¿RZHUV 7KLV LV D SODQW ZLWK JUHDW ornamental as well as edible potential.

Chilli and bell peppers can both be grown in a greenhouse border, in a sunny spot in the garden or on a sheltered spot on the patio, although a greenhouse or conservatory will give you a heavier and earlier crop.

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pots for extra drainage, and make sure that the pot is 30cm (12in) or more in diameter. Once there is no danger of late frosts, ideally by early June when temperatures are also warming up, you can put the plants outside.

Some sweet pepper plants can get quite tall and rather ungainly, so be ready to give them a bit of extra support if necessary. A bamboo cane will usually do the trick – tie the plant in loosely with twine, string or any other soft garden tie.

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HEALTH

Don’t Suffer In Silence Being able to hear is fundamental to our ability to communicate. If we can’t hear, we can’t respond to others nor speak clearly or judge our pitch – try talking to someone wearing headphones and they’ll shout back at you. But like most of our senses we take our hearing for granted and only notice it if it starts failing.

Most age-related hearing loss is not noticeable until later life, but deterioration begins much earlier. You start to lose some of your range as early as in your twenties. Constant exposure to the noisy modern world gradually wears away at the ‘nerves” in our ears. ‘ What can you do to protect yourself?

Even if you already have some loss, looking after what’s left is imperative. Be aware of situations and environments that can damage your hearing such as: • Playing loud music through headphones and earphones • Attending loud live music concerts – even some classical concerts • Using simple DIY equipment such as hammers and power tools • Day to day activities such as riding a motorcycle (wind noise – not the engine noise as you might think) or even driving in a car with the window down (some truck and taxi drivers have more pronounced hearing loss in their right ear, nearest the open window) • Recreational activities such as shooting So be aware when there may be damaging levels of noise present, and protect your ears if there is.

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It’s really not necessary to – literally – suffer in silence. A simple trip to a specialist hearing centre or audiologist will mean your hearing is tested and assessed, usually free of charge.

Discrete and almost invisible, the latest aids can make such a difference and vastly improve your hearing. You’ll never regain what has gone, but you can make the best of what you have left.

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BOOK REVIEW

ST LEONARD’S FOREST, WEST SUSSEX: A LANDSCAPE HISTORY

Dr Maggie Weir-Wilson with her book.

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ave you ever wondered about St. Leonard’s Forest as you pass it by in your car, bicycle, or in the bus; maybe you have walked its footpaths, with or without a dog? Was it a royal forest? Who owned it? And what about the dragon? Wasn’t there something about a saint and the white and pink spring flowers, lily of the valley? Wonder no more.

This is the first in depth study of St. Leonard’s Forest and it is clear from reading this thoroughly researched and engaging book that its author, Dr Maggie Weir-Wilson, has a deep interest in and love of the Sussex landscape, particularly its forests. St Leonard’s Forest, West Sussex: A Landscape History, covers the period from approximately the mid-18th century to the beginning of the 20th century. To make sense of the Forest’s development, this volume is set in its earlier historical and geographical context; Maggie researched how social and economic history effected this forest landscape. St. Leonard’s Forest, West Sussex: A Landscape History focusses on both the physical and social changes to the landscape of St. Leonard’s Forest and how these changes have impacted its population and growth.

Follow the Forest’s journey from the early days of hunting, iron and charcoal production, stone quarries, rabbit warrens and poor heathland, through to the transformation to high value

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properties with attractive gardens and parks. Five estates in the centre of the forest are considered, and inevitably St. Leonard’s dragon has his story told, along with other forest legends and myths.

When she came to live in Horsham in the year 2000, Maggie was keen to know more about this lovely forest on her doorstep, so she began taking evening classes at the University of Sussex for a BA in Landscape Studies. When she retired from her work as a Probation Officer and Practice Teacher, she continued studying for her doctorate under the supervision of Professor Brian Short, and produced her thesis on the historic landscape changes of St. Leonard’s Forest. Maggie was awarded her doctorate in 2014 and has always been keen to make her research more widely available to West Sussex residents, historians and those who love forests, hence she wrote St Leonard’s Forest, West Sussex: A Landscape History.

During the last two years Maggie has worked extensively to write her book. Jeremy Knight, Museum and Heritage Officer with Horsham Museum, kindly read Maggie’s draft and offering detailed feedback. In addition, Maggie has had the support and blessing of Emeritus Professor Brian Short of University of Sussex who has encouraged her efforts in writing this book. Bryan's support extended from being Maggie's supervisor, guiding her towards her DPhil thesis in 2014, through to writing the foreword for this book. Maggie’s first publication was Secret Horsham (2019) published

by Amberley Publications. St Leonard’s Forest is her second book, and is published by new local publishers and complete author support team, Author’s Pen. Not keen to sit around since completing her doctorate, Maggie has focussed on writing, both fiction, non-fiction and also poetry. Maggie’s other

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hobbies include: research, poetry, botanic watercolour painting, local history and gardens. St Leonard’s Forest, West Sussex: A Landscape History, has allowed Maggie to combine a number of these hobbies and really challenge them and herself. Her watercolours and poetry make a beautiful addition throughout her St Leonard’s Forest book.

Maggie hopes her book will encourage everyone who reads it to consider the value of the landscape, and particularly its forests, not purely in terms of the financial value of their land, mineral and plant content, but also in terms of their undoubted value for the mental health and wellbeing of our society. Maggie’s book touches on the fascinating subject of terrapsychology, which rejects the concept that the earth is of use only as a source of resources for humanity, but rather looks at it as a living ecosystem which impinges on the human psyche in a positive or

negative way. The ways it does this can be recognised as feelings, dreams and archetypes, such as the dragon and devil that appear so frequently in the myths of St. Leonard’s Forest.

Ultimately, though there is encouragement to get to know St Leonard’s Forest by the footpaths that were so nearly closed at the beginning of the 20th century, and to give thanks to those locals who fought to keep those footpaths open and who won the day. To walk through St Leonard’s Forest and appreciate its history, its legends, and get that restorative feeling that can only come from the sight and smell of pine, beech, oak and birch.

Readers can find out more about Maggie, her book about St. Leonard’s Forest on her website: www.maggieweirwilson.uk. Copies of St Leonard’s Forest, West Sussex: A Landscape History can be ordered through high street and online retailers, the ISBN for the print book is: 9781838343606 and the e-book: 9781838343613

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SEASONAL

Time For A Spring Clean

During the long, dark winter, when the sun is low in the sky and the perpetual cloud blanket obliterates its light anyway, dust and dirt are able to hide themselves very effectively in the corners, on the surfaces and even on the windows of our homes.

By early spring all is looking brighter – in every respect. But those unforgiving shafts of light slide DFURVV WKH URRP VKRZLQJ XS WKH JUXEE\ ¾QJHU marks on the door, the ring marks on tables and the thick layer of dust on the mantelpiece.

It must be time for a spring clean.

An article in the Manufacturer and Builder magazine of 1872 (a ‘practical journal of industrial progress’) describes spring cleaning as “The season of general cleaning, when all the corners and closets are overturned and hidden things are brought to light”.

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for spring cleaning. During the holiday the faithful are instructed to refrain from eating any leavened foodstuffs (‘chametz’). The Bible commands that even tiny crumbs must be removed from the house and this results in a ritual hunt for crumbs by candlelight during the evening before the holiday begins.

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HUMOUR

The Zen of Chickens

by Derek Thompson

You can learn a lot about life from a chicken.

Behind that beak and those golden eyes lies a creature bristling with poultry wisdom.

Be in the moment. Chickens seem to have a very short attention span, unless they’re on the trail of a worm. However, they’re actually demonstrating an DELOLW\ WR GHWDFK IURP WKH VXSHU¾FLDO ZKLFK ° WR D FKLFNHQ ° LV DQ\WKLQJ LQHGLEOH Be curious about the world. Chickens are life’s OLWWOH H[SORUHUV 7KH\ FDQ ¾QG WKDW KROH LQ WKH fence that I blocked with some feeble bamboo canes and never got round to repairing properly, the last wild strawberry, or a snail who thought hiding behind the coop was a foolproof survival strategy.

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Be how you feel. Our cat learned early on that it’s wise to keep out of the path of a broody, moody hen. She also discovered they can run surprisingly fast and launch themselves at unwitting felines. Me? I learned that the term ‘an affectionate peck’ doesn’t apply to poultry.

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