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Contents

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Comment

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Parish Council Update

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Wonderland Winners Announced

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The Local Coffee Shop

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Garden View

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Pets’ Corner

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Book Review

26

Kids’ Page

28

Become a Volunteer

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Recipe

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The Perfect Lockdown Exercise

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St Leonard’s Forest

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New Funding For Climate Fund

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Hangover In Harmony

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Southwater Welcome Club

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Puzzle Answers

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COMMENT

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

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t the time of going to press we were just entering the third Lockdown and facing enormous pressures on the NHS. However, at least the light at the end of the tunnel was that the vaccines were started to be rolled out. No doubt that this will impact even further on the economy and on everyone’s mental health.

During this uncertain time that engulfs us with the coronavirus pandemic, a tsunami of anxiety is continuing to soar. Statistics prove that more than 280 million people worldwide suffer from this debilitating, all consuming and destructive mental illness affecting sufferer and their carers alike, and these statistics are only the ones we are aware of.

That’s why the book review on page 25 called ‘Hope with Anxiety’ by Lynn Crilly couldn’t have come at a more timely fashion.

Lynn Crilly is the voice of calm, which is reflected in her non-judgmental, empathetic writing style, allowing this masterpiece to equip sufferers with Anxiety to not only have a truly varied toolkit to be able navigate through their dark episodes, but Hope with Anxiety also serves as an invaluable resource to helps the families, friends and carers of people battling with this soul destroying illness. This very real and wise book, helps the reader gain a true insight into the depth and complexity of this illness and reassures all audiences that ‘they are not alone’.

We all need a little HOPE in our lives at the moment and I hope you stay safe and well in these unprecedented times.

Richard Milbourn, Editor E: editor@carnahpublications.com

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S O U T H W AT E R PA R I S H C O U N C I L

IMPROVED SIGN POSTS PLANNED Parish & District Councillor online surgeries

fire engine was able to get in and out as required.

Southwater residents can raise concerns directly with

Residents of Southwater Parish are requested to bear

Councillors online. 1st Saturday of each month

in mind access of emergency services for all residents

except August. Informal, no booking required. 10am

in their area.

to 11am via online connection. Details will be placed

• Chairman Discretionary Fund – The Chairman of

on Southwater Parish Council’s Facebook page and

Southwater Parish Council has nominated local family

website each month or Contact the Clerk at

recipients of the Discretionary Fund. To remind, The

clerk@southwater-pc.gov.uk or call and speak to the

Discretionary Fund was created by National & Local

Clerk on 01403 733202.

businesses of Southwater in December 2020 to

Vacancies

support local residents during the Coronavirus

Southwater Parish Council (SPC) has the following

Pandemic. Further details of how to access this fund

vacancies; 3 x volunteer Parish Councillors. For further

will be available on the Parish Website.

details, please contact the Clerk at clerk@southwater-

• Finger Posts in Southwater Parish – The Parish

pc.gov.uk or call and speak to the Clerk on 01403

Council is currently looking at various heritage Finger

733202.

sign Posts within the Parish and has budgeted for

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the next financial year for some

• Coronavirus (COVID 19) - Keeping up to date – The

renovation/improvement works on some of the Posts

Community is reminded of their responsibility for

with a view to looking at improvements to others in

following Government guidelines. Keep up to date

subsequent years.

with the latest Government information and

Did you know?

guidelines at https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

• Horsham District Council (HDC) has set-up a Personal

• Coronavirus lockdown – January 2021 - As of the

Safety Initiative via its YouTube channel assisted by

Governments notification on 4 January 2021, the UK

Southwater Neighbourhood Wardens. The purpose of

has entered into a Coronavirus national lockdown.

the initiative, is to provide information and advice to

Both West Sussex and the NHS can support residents

increase self-confidence, safety awareness and access

with food & medication and if possible this should be

to specialist help and support. See

where they go for support. See

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbfLo6r7Z7B

https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/fire-emergencies-

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and-crime/coronavirus-covid-19-advice-and-

• Please report all ‘crimes’ to Sussex Police as follows:

information/community-hub-covid-19/ and

Emergency – 999, (when life is in danger, a crime is in

https://nhsvolunteerresponders.org.uk/ Residents may

progress or violence is being used), Non-Emergency –

also contact the Horsham District Council Hub at

101, (when a crime has already happened, to report

01403 215100.

suspicious behaviour or damage or theft of property)

• West Sussex Fire & Rescue (WSFR) access – In

or via their website

December 2020, WSFR conducted access exercises in

https://www.sussex.police.uk/reportcrime

three locations within Southwater Village. The fire

• Follow the Southwater Neighbourhood Wardens

officers reported that although tight in places the

monthly reports at the link below.

Southwater Parish Council, Beeson House, 26 Fairbank Rd, Southwater, RH13 9LA. Phone 01403 733202, email clerk@southwaterpc.gov.uk or website www.southwater-pc.gov.uk/default.aspx Neighbourhood (Community) Wardens - Dominic Woodhead – 07789 943193 or Jacquie Cave – 07789 943156, Tweet them on @HorshamWardens, or email Southwater.Wardens@horsham.gov.uk and see web page www.southwater-pc.gov.uk/NeighbourhoodWardens.aspx Content correct at time of preparation.

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HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL

WONDERLAND WINNERS ANNOUNCED

he winners of Horsham District’s 2020 Window

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Kings Head public house picked up a District award for

Wonderland Christmas windows and displays

the Best Pub/Restaurant Display. Pulborough’s The Corn

competition have been announced. Winners were

Store just pipped The Pulborough Flower Shop for their

selected via a public vote on social media and from a

winning internal display which made great use of

judging panel of professionals. All winners will receive

products incorporating a safety message on entry.

special plaques to display in their various outlets.

The public’s favourite (most tagged) window

The choice in Henfield was close with several great displays, whilst Christina’s and Pinks was well regarded,

between 18 December and Christmas Eve was Carmela

Stokes Gift Store just edged the winning vote. Henfield

Deli in Horsham’s Carfax (above). The member of the

also provided the source for the District’s top charity

public drawn at random from those ‘voting’ will be

shop display, with St. Barnabus House being loved

notified in due course and will win tickets for a family

universally by the judges.

of four to a show at Horsham’s Capitol theatre in 2021.

The judges overall Horsham District winner was The

With such an amazing range of independent shops, Steyning made it challenging to select an overall winner

Green Room in Steyning, closely followed by special

for the town, but The Green Room came out ahead,

award winner, Joanna’s Gift Shop in Storrington. The

also receiving the District’s award for the Best Overall

Green Room wins a prize of £250 worth of packaging

Window Display, sponsored by WBC Packaging &

and display materials from merchandising specialists,

Display. Other highly placed displays in Steyning

WBC Packaging & Display, and the Green Room will also

included Sakala and Sussex Produce.

receive a prize from sponsor the Chichester College Group.

Horsham’s Carmela Deli window was also recognised by the judges for its pure entertainment value, with

The professional panel comprised the Metamorphosis

near neighbour the Market Square’s Doodie Stark

Group, the Chichester College Group, Solent University

(above) taking the plaudits for being Horsham’s best

and Horsham District Council's Cabinet Member for the

retail window. C&H Fabrics and Lower Lodge Candles

Local Economy Cllr Paul Clarke. Voting was close and

also received praise from the judges.

not always unanimous, as befits such a subjective art

Commenting on this year’s displays, Cllr Paul Clarke,

like window dressing, but each of the winners clearly

Horsham District Council Cabinet Member for the Local

merited their award in eachof the District's towns.

Economy said, “Well done on giving us all even more

Morgan Hair Design got Billingshurst’s top spot for an original and well thought out display and the town’s

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THE LOCAL COFFEE SHOP Coffee shops along with the rest of the High Street have suffered in the pandemic.

Jeremy Knight, Curator, Horsham Museum & Art Gallery, takes a look at coffee drinking and Horsham’s first known café.

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ne of the great discussions of the economic impact of the pandemic has been that of its effect on coffee shops.

Coffee shops that have bustled and boomed in London and other cities, and at railway stations serving millions of customers their early morning fix. Alongside those discussions went the realisation that some local coffee shops and cafés were thriving as stay at home workers went out and shopped locally rather near their normal place of work. Such conflicting stories will continue throughout the pandemic and beyond, so today Horsham Museum is looking at the early days of coffee drinking and the town’s first known café.

The 17th century saw the rise of two great drinks, Coffee and Chocolate, though not known about as much, there were chocolate shops serving hot chocolate. It was coffee that caught the imagination, partly because of its role in developing the news trade and stock markets, becoming a meeting house for people, who worked from home, but wanted a place to discuss – a similarity that is 250 years old.

Coffee houses were a relatively new concept in drinking; a space that was not an ale house, did not make you drunk and that was a male preserve. Introduced into London in 1652 at the height of the puritanical Commonwealth which attacked licentious behaviour, the hot bitter black drink from Turkey proved a hit, spreading quickly through urban merchant areas.

As with anything new, it is through the copying of others that people learn. In this case, the coffee shop in Horsham would have mimicked the coffee shops in London and other towns and cities where merchants and men circulated. The drinking of

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1792 Map showing The Star location.

coffee, the coffee house and the creation of a male space were creating a brand and a culture that was unique. The experience was such that it led to satires being written about the culture, satires which help explore how the space functioned and how people responded to it, both men and women. As a caveat, it is impossible with the documentary material we have available to know for certain if Horsham viewed the coffee shop in the same cultural way as London, but London was not alien to Horsham, Horsham was not parochial.

Before we explore the culture of the coffee shop, the matter of sex needs to be explored.

Originally, in the 16th century and earlier, the coffee houses of Istanbul employed young attractive boys to serve clients coffee and sexual

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THE LOCAL COFFEE SHOP

The Star would have been on the left of the Old Town Hall, where Café @ No 4 is now situated.

favours. It was reported on by travellers and explorers. It could therefore be questioned whether the male preserve of the coffee house led to a similar culture developing in London, and by extension, Horsham. The answer has to be ‘no’.

All references in the late 17th and 18th century satires and descriptions of coffee houses are of men being enticed in by a flirtatious woman, or linking the coffee house to female prostitutes, though young “coffee-boys” were present.

However, the coffee boy was seen as an apprentice performing the function, more akin to a “butler”, doing errands, collecting newspapers, serving coffee etc.

The very male preserve of the coffee house led to some serious concerns about the effects of coffee on men’s sexual performance, though such concerns were expressed in satire and the occasional medical survey. The most well-known satire being “The Women’s Petition Against Coffee. Representing to public Consideration the Grand Inconveniences accruing to their Sex from the Excessive Use of that Drying Enfeebling Liquor.

Presented to the Right Honourable Keepers of the Liberty of Venus” (1674). The satire was full of double entendres attacking coffee for making Englishmen feeble, and that social man, the man who entered the coffee house with his endless chat and talk was impotent. The satirist accused coffee-house customers of being ‘effeminate’ because they spend their time talking, reading and pursuing their business, rather than carousing, Please mention SOUTHWATER Life when responding to adverts

drinking and whoring, “that men will soon out-talk women”. This attack was riposted with, “The Mens Answer to the Womens Petition Against Coffee… ”, published in the same year, 1674, which argued that the modern man, the coffee shop man, bent over backward to please women, going on the argue that coffee in fact makes men vigorous.

It was in so many ways a new space and a transforming space, enabling new ideas to circulate and develop. Where else could men go to discuss, debate and read, if not the tavern or the gentleman’s home? It also allowed into the discussion those who could afford a cup of coffee, 1d, thus allowing a democratisation of discussion and debate. With this new transforming space we see the introduction of the insurance market, the Bank of England, the stock market, new forms of finance enabling the wealth of Britain to circulate, as well as the democratisation of science and the development of a literary culture.

And it spread to Horsham as the probate list for The Star, date to 1701/2 in Horsham’s Market Square reveals. The innkeeper Henry Waller who, leased the large building which seemed to function as an inn and a coffee shop. It is though the room listed in the probate as “the Cooffe Rume” which concerns us. It had “one dosen of Leather Chears 4 Table 3 Arme Chears one Stolle 3 Tubes one Tonges one peare of brand Irons”, which strongly suggests “café society” had reached Horsham; a café or coffee shop with a fire, easy chairs and tables and chairs. The Kitchen had “coofee potts mille and rostar”, to roast, grind and serve the sludge-like coffee, which was drunk, dark, unfiltered and sweet. Whether we can envisage London-style coffee shops with newssheets and merchants debating the cost of trade and local and national news is open to question, but Henry Waller did have “30 pounds in the Sheare of A vessel at sea”; perhaps he was persuaded to join a joint stock venture by one of his customers? gÉêÉãó=håáÖÜí=EmáÅíìêÉë=ÅçìêíÉëó=çÑ=eçêëÜ~ã= jìëÉìã=C=^êí=d~ääÉêóF= FEBRUARY 2021

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GARDEN VIEW

HEAVENLY HELLEBORES

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fell in love with Hellebores a few years ago after an early spring visit to the Botanical Gardens in Cambridge where there are some beautiful displays. They provide a spring

garden with elegant colour, and I admit to being quite excited when they appear.

They are poisonous plants so are probably best avoided if you have young children. They have a somewhat magical history. A mythological physician named Melampus was said to have observed the cathartic effect of hellebore on goats

Ashwood Garden hybrids, which come in a variety of

who munched on the plants. Melampus allegedly then used

colours but don’t seem to self-seed as freely, at least in

the milk of the same goats to cure the daughters of the

my garden.

King of Argos of their madness. The plant was used for its

Dig in plenty of mushroom compost before planting,

purgative properties into the Middle Ages and beyond.

and mulch after you’ve cut the leaves off. Dust with a

Personally, I would recommend growing them only for their

blood, bone and fishmeal mix after flowering and mulch

attractiveness!

again with well-rotted leaf mould or compost. Dig up any

The original species originated in the northern parts of Greece and Turkey, but they grow incredibly well in British

small self-seeded plants and use them as gifts, or to increase your own colony. Happy gardening.

gardens. Having said that, I was disappointed when my first hellebore plants didn’t thrive initially. They seemed to succumb to disease quite easily. I subsequently learned this this was black rot. Then I heard Alan Titchmarsh’s advice to carefully cut the large fingered leaves from the plant at ground level in January, taking care not to damage the buds. This somewhat brutal treatment has worked a treat and my hellebores are now flourishing.

Hellebores like well-drained soil in sun or dappled shade.

My clumps are happily increasing in size year-on-year. The stems shoot up to 25-30cm high between late January and February and the flowers appear at the top. Colours tend to be subtle: green-tinged white, yellow, oxblood red or dull purple but they glow in the more subdued light at this time of year. They would certainly appear washed-out in the bright sun of late spring and summer. The flowers are rich in nectar so provide food for early bees.

There are many varieties of hellebore, with single or double flowers. Just note that not all of them are easy to grow. I have struggled to get the Christmas Rose Helleborus niger to survive, never mind flower, but I’ve had much more success with the Green hellebore, Helleborus viridis, the pretty pink Lenten rose Helleborus x hybridus, which selfseeds quite nicely, and also the Helleborus x hybridus

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his syndrome is caused by a disturbance in the normal function of the vestibular system, which is responsible for balance. Most commonly, it occurs in middle to old age dogs. The cause is not known.

The vestibular system controls the animals balance and allows the brain to be able to respond to very subtle positional changes.

The symptoms come on very suddenly, most commonly the animal will tilt its head to one side, have difficulty maintaining its balance and the eyes will be flicking from side to side. It often will feel motion sick and may physically vomit.

Diagnosis is usually based on typical clinical signs being present; tests can be carried out to rule out other potential causes such as ear infections or true strokes.

Straightforward vestibular syndrome carries a very good prognosis for a full recovery. It can be distressing for owners to watch their pets with these symptoms and perseverance is required. The symptoms generally peak in the first few hours and, over the next few days to a week they regain their balance and their appetite tends to return.

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HOPE WITH ANXIETY

uring this uncertain time that engulfs us with

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“We can all benefit from Lynn’s wisdom, HOPE and

the coronavirus pandemic, a tsunami of anxiety

reassurance that we can not only live with our anxiety,

is continuing to soar. Statistics prove that more

but thrive. We recommend this book to everyone, as it

than 280 million people worldwide suffer from this

shows how we can all be liberated from fear and

debilitating, all consuming and destructive mental illness

foreboding.” Says Wallace.

affecting sufferer and their carers alike, these statistics

Lynn Crilly is hoping her book will empower the

are only the ones we are aware of. That’s why this

reader whether they are the sufferer or a carer with

extraordinary book ‘Hope with Anxiety’ written by

the strength and courage to face the challenges that

Lynn Crilly (above), author, counsellor and mental health

living with an anxiety disorder can bring. Hope with

expert, couldn’t come at a more timely fashion.

Anxiety highlights the importance of communication

Lynn Crilly is the voice of calm, which is reflected in

and acceptance which is often the first step to finding

her non-judgmental, empathetic writing style, allowing

the right help and support. Whether is be through the

this masterpiece to equip sufferers with Anxiety to not

GP or other routes.

only have a truly varied toolkit to be able navigate

The book encapsulates the recognition of anxiety

through their dark episodes, but Hope with Anxiety

and how it manifests, alternative guides to therapies

also serves as an invaluable resource to helps the

and treatments to restoring well-being; anxiety in the

families, friends and carers of people battling with this

under 25’s and at schools; universities; and work; and

soul destroying illness. This very real and wise book,

how anxiety and the online world has a huge impact in

helps the reader gain a true insight into the depth and

the rising figures and how to seek treatment. There is

complexity of this illness and reassures all audiences that

acknowledgement on how global events to include

‘they are not alone’.

political and economic uncertainty and climate change

Lynn herself has supported members of her family through difficult times and has also faced her own mental health challenges. She has applied her coping

all play a major role in our anxiety and general mental health.

We all need a little HOPE in our lives, and Lynn Crilly

mechanisms to the book, which she also practices when

guides us in this masterpiece which has been based on

counselling, which have proven to be an outstanding

long experience, years of research and the input from

success. Her aim is to emphasise HOPE for leading a

specialist practitioners explaining therapeutic, both

fulfilled life unconstrained by the effects of anxiety.

mainstream and alternative.

Hope with Anxiety has been sanctioned by Marjorie Wallace, Founder and Chief Executive of charity, SANE.

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S T C AT H E R I N E ’ S H O S P I C E

BECOME A VOLUNTEER

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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 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,

Richard (Left) and Kevin.

Sarah.

you’ve done something to make a difference and that you’re contributing to a local charity who needs all the

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

help it can get. I would recommend volunteering to

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

people of all ages, particularly those that have been

did love my job. I was furloughed on the 1st April 2020

furloughed, are in between jobs, or not working at all,

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

as it keeps you active and helps your mind to stay

in December. Volunteering has always been at the back

ticking over. It’s easy to be out of work and fall into

of my mind, but like a lot of people, I always felt like I

the trap of thinking negatively, but this doesn’t take up

never had the time to do something. I also never fully

a huge amount of time and it can give you that extra

understood how simple it was to give some time and

bit of motivation to keep going. I only do 10 hours a

make a difference. Being furloughed gave me a bit

week, but even if somebody only does one morning a

more perspective on what makes me feel good and I

week, it can make a huge difference.

needed to find something that gave me more purpose.

I struggle to sit indoors all day and just listen to my own thoughts, so not only is this volunteering role

It makes you feel like you’re actually contributing something and making a huge difference.

I always think that it may only be a part-time

helping the hospice, it’s also helping me.

volunteering role, but the impact that it has on St

I struggled a lot during lockdown.

Catherine’s makes a great difference. If we can get

I really look forward to coming here, it gives me

enough stock out to our shops that is sellable, every

some structure to my week and I look forward to catching up with the other volunteers. I’ve met some

penny counts.”

Kevin, also from Crawley, started volunteering in our

great people whilst doing this who I now consider my

warehouse two years ago after retiring from his job in

good friends. One of the things that makes it easier is

the banking industry. Describing more about his

that there’s quite a lot of comradery here, we help

experience, he said:

each other get through each day.

You don’t realise how rewarding volunteering can be until you just get out there and do it.

It’s not a difficult role either, it’s easy to do and you

“Like a lot of people who retire, I knew that I needed to still do something. I always knew I wanted to volunteer and two years ago I decided to join St Catherine’s. I knew all about the hospice as it’s very

can work at your own pace. There’s no pressure from

local to me, I saw an advertisement for volunteers at

anyone and there are many rewarding benefits. It feels

the warehouse to sort through donations and since

really good at the end of each day to know that

starting I have loved every minute of it. That’s why two

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years on I’m still here.

I tell everyone what I do, many people ask “Why do

would volunteer for St Catherine’s. A local group started in our area, the Friends of Crawley Down, so I

you do that?” and I say “Because it’s great, I’m making

started in that initially, and it was from there that

a difference to my local community and my local

someone asked me if I wanted to come and work in

charity, and I just love it.” Volunteering here is lovely.

the warehouse. I’ve loved it ever since.”

The people are great, we all have a good laugh

Sarah, who also works in the travel industry in

together and we work hard as a team to get on with

London, became a volunteer after she was furloughed

what needs to be done.

due to Covid-19.

It’s also great to be getting out of the house every

“Being furloughed started to have a big effect on my

week and to do something for a great cause. Every day

mental wellbeing, so this opportunity came at the right

is different here because you get different things

time for me.

coming in. We have a laugh when funny things come

There must be so many people out there that are in

in and we love it when we find some hidden gems, we

the same boat as me or somebody that just wants to

find silver ware, brand new designer handbags, shoes,

fill some time whilst they look for work. I’ve also

all sorts! I would recommend everyone who wants to

volunteered at the St Catherine’s Dragon Boat event

do volunteering to just try it. Come and spend a session

which I loved, it was so much fun and I would

with us, meet the team and see what we do.”

recommend it to everyone, there is always something

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

you can do as a volunteer. My nan was cared for by St

volunteering team at Rowfant and worked together in

Catherine’s and some of my family and friends have had

finance before volunteering at St Catherine’s. Joyce:

relatives there too, so I do have some connection to the

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

hospice. But volunteering like this has never been

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

something that I thought about doing due to working

I feel very lucky to be volunteering for a local cause and

full-time.

helping people in my community. After my husband

I get a sense of achievement from volunteering for

passed away, I knew that I needed to do something, so

St Catherine’s. When I see all of the things that people

I decided to take up volunteering. I’ve volunteered at

have donated and know that they’re going to be

other places before St Catherine’s, but it’s so much

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

different here than anywhere else I’ve been. You’re not

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

just a number, they know your name and you feel as if

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

you’re part of something.

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

Whatever you’re doing as a volunteer really helps

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 that

the charity in many ways. It may just seem like we’re

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

sorting out donated items, but the bigger picture is

you that feeling too. Charity shops need to be there,

that we’re helping to raise money for the hospice.”

not just for the hospice but for everyone in the

Carol: “It’s nice to be able to come somewhere and talk to other people.

When you’re by yourself for so long you have to make sure you’re getting out and doing things to stay

community who needs them.”

Would you like to be part of our volunteering team?

Please visit www.stch.org.uk/volunteer/ or call the Volunteering Team on 01293 447351 to find out more.

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HULA FITNESS

THE PERFECT LOCKDOWN EXERCISE

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uring the first lockdown I rather enjoyed the enforced laziness. I am a gym member, but I don’t really love it.

After a while though I noticed that while I didn’t miss weights and running on the treadmill, I did miss the classes, and the rush of endorphins that followed. Then one day while idly flicking through YouTube videos I came across a ‘hula-fitness’ workout. It looked fun. I grabbed one of my daughter’s neon hula hoops and had a go. Much harder than it looked but I enjoyed it. The next afternoon I had another go and my teenage daughter joined in. We laughed a lot (which was a bonus as anyone who has a teenage daughter will acknowledge) and afterwards we investigated hula-fitness a bit more.

Hula hooping is inexpensive, and you can do it practically anywhere, which was kind of the point back in lockdown. All you need to get started is a hoop and room to move.

Standard hula hoops are cheap as chips but after a few sessions we invested in weighted ones. Even they didn’t break the bank. Ours cost about £15 each but even the more expensive ones were only £40.

It is important to find the right-sized hoop.

Larger hoops are a little easier as a beginner because you spin more slowly. If using a weighted hoop, begin with a lighter one (around 0.5-1Kg) and increase the weight as you get more proficient. Correct form is more important than weight, and I did have a little accident where I pulled a muscle in my back for a few days because in my enthusiasm the first hoop I bought was too heavy.

There are a few online tutorials that talk you through how to hula hoop with proper form.

To my delight I found our gym offered a beginner’s online hula fitness class, so we signed up for that.

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With hula hooping, you teach your body how to move the right way with the hoop while working your cardiovascular system.

Shorter workouts are better at the start. We started with two ten-minute sessions a day and worked up from there.

BASIC FORM AND POSTURE Feet should be a little more than shoulderwidth apart, with one foot slightly in front of the other.

Your back should be straight, and your core engaged to protect your back.

Hold each side of the hoop around your waist, resting against your back.

With the hoop against your back, start spinning the hoop in whichever direction you find easiest. As the hoop starts to spin, move your waist in a circular motion to keep the hoop moving. Push your hips slightly forward as the hoop moves across your stomach and push back when the hoop moves across your back. KEEP THE CORE MUSCLES ENGAGED – TUMMY TIGHT. If the hoop drops just pick it up and get going again.

Finally - If you have a back injury or chronic back pain, check with your doctor or physical therapist before trying hula hooping to make sure it’s safe for you.

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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

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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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HORSHAM DISTRICT COUNCIL

NEW FUNDING FOR CLIMATE FUND

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orsham District Council is delighted to

Fund applications can be related to any of the

announce the initial recipients who have

following themes:

successfully been awarded valuable

• Energy – such as reducing consumption and increasing

contributions from its Community Climate Fund.

The Council launched the Horsham District

the use of renewable forms of energy • Water – such as reducing consumption and reducing

Community Climate Fund in July 2020 to enable

the threats from flooding

voluntary and community groups, as well as Parish and

• Waste minimisation – reducing waste, reusing

Neighbourhood Councils, to work on projects to reduce

resources and recycling resources for example using

carbon levels locally and improve our environment.

composting bins

The successful first recipients are:

• Biodiversity – increasing wildlife, such as the creation

Greening Steyning for the Greening Steyning 2030

of pocket parks and community orchards

Project which will be taking action on a range of

• Sustainable transport – such as encouraging cycling

environmental issues; from encouraging residents to

and walking.

improve the energy efficiency of their homes to

There are three levels of funds available:-

starting a Repair Café and carrying out a wildlife survey.

• up to £1,000

Springboard – the provision of Smart radiator valves to

• up to £2,500 (which requires more information from

improve the energy efficiency of their building.

the applicant)

St Mark’s Church, Holbrook – tree and bulb planting,

• up to £5,000 (which requires match funding from the

food recycling, rainwater collection and ongoing wildlife

applicant).

and local community surveys to review progress.

The funds must be used for brand new projects,

Sustainable Henfield – recycling of disposable PPE via

which will last beyond the funding provided by the

the introduction of Zerowaste bins at strategic points

Council, and include a commitment to inform the wider

around Henfield.

community about the project and encourage others to

Transition Horsham Community Allotment –

take action.

creation of a new accessible site, ‘heritage bed’ and

Commenting on the announcement of the first

seed cage to address increased demand locally. Also

recipients and the availability of new funds for early

sharing the benefits of a community allotment to

2021, the Council’s Cabinet Member of the

inspire more local residents to grow their own food

Environment, Recycling and Waste Cllr Philip Circus said:

which also includes expanding the already successful A new grant funding tranche will be available from Monday 4 February 2021. Applications for this tranche will close on 12 February 2021, with the judging panel meeting on 3 March 2021 to consider the applications.

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“I am delighted that these organisations can now benefit from the funding they have received and they

Seedy Saturday seed swop initiative.

can now make a start on their valuable contributions to building a greener Horsham District.

“That we are able to make these vital funds available to spread awareness and embed action on climate

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change at a local level is a really key priority for us as a

Orchard project will both bless local people and greatly

council.

enhance the biodiversity in our area.”

“We have committed to work together towards

The Horsham District Community Climate Fund

becoming carbon neutral both as an organisation and

supports community projects that have long term

as a District, and this funding gives everyone the

tangible climate benefit and provide positive

opportunity to make a difference to improve our local

environmental change.

environment and inspire others to take action.

“I am also really pleased that we have a further

Key aims of the funding are to reduce carbon emissions and contribute to the move to the District

tranche of money available from FEBRUARY 2021 and

becoming carbon neutral whilst adapting to changes to

we look forward to receiving your applications.”

the climate and reducing the use of resources such as

Revd. Dr Richard Caldicott, Vicar of St. Mark's Church, Holbrook added: “At St. Mark’s we are passionate about looking after

energy and water, as well as encouraging the minimisation of waste.

There are certain criteria that must be met to receive

the beautiful world God created and we have been

funding. Applications need to be submitted by 12

looking at ways in which we can develop our church

February 2021.

grounds to serve the needs of our community and benefit local wildlife.

“We are therefore thrilled to have been awarded a

For more information about the Horsham District Community Climate Fund please email community.development@horsham.gov.uk or go to

£1000 Community Climate Fund Grant by Horsham

our website: www.horsham.gov.uk/climate-and-

District Council, and we hope the Holbrook Community

environment/community-climate-fund

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SUSSEX MISCELLANY

HANGOVERS IN HARMONIES

By Kevin Newman, a Sussex-born author, historian, tour guide and history teacher

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ith COVID-19’s effects rolling over into the new year, and our new variant (shouldn’t it be technically called COVID20?) still wreaking havoc, we are experiencing what could be called a 2020 hangover. Normally at least a hangover is associated with enjoyment the night before but that isn’t the case with 2020, so I thought we’d look at the normal type of hangover that many of us would have normally recently experienced at this time of year. Therefore, I thought this month I’d delve into how many singers and bands were regretting in the past overdoing things in the events of the night before.

Who knows? Perhaps songwriters feeling terrible might cheer us all up.

So let’s start with the most apt name for a band writing about hangovers, which must be British band Blur. Lead singer Damon Albarn wrote a song about finding a positive direction ahead despite feeling the effects of a depressed and drunken Christmas back in December 1992.

Website Songfacts explains how at that point, Blur were at their lowest point following disappointing sales of their first album and a recent disastrous live performance. They had failed to hit the big time yet with the album Parklife, were heavily in debt and on the verge of being dropped by their label. Perhaps even more depressingly, Albarn was spending Christmas with his parents and getting himself thoroughly drunk. His father woke up on Christmas morning to hear his son tinkering on the piano, producing what became one of their early hits: Bad Head. Guardian journalist and writer John Harris wrote in the book The Last Party of the song: "Somewhere from behind a hangover, its lyrics wound the existentialist notion of nausea around a panoramic picture of London that managed to be both beautiful and unsettling.”

During a gig at unusual music venue the East Anglian Railway Museum, Albarn announced that

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Bad Head, from the album Parklife was also "about hangovers." He added: "Not that we want to encourage that kind of behaviour."

He didn’t need to encourage other musicians to excess as many seemed to be regretting overindulgence all on their own. Better In The Morning by Little Boots back in 2015 was about her hangover as was Champagne Problem by Nick Jonas in 2016, and Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk

by Rufus Wainwright. In the latter, Wainwright was not referring to causes of a hangover, but his cravings during one when living in the infamous Chelsea Hotel in New York City. Songfacts explains that “after a long night out, [Wainwright] woke up in the afternoon bleary and thirsty. He decided he must have chocolate milk, so went to a store, bought some, gulped it all down, and felt sick to his stomach. Then he smoked a cigarette, which made him feel even worse. Fully aware of the symbolism, Wainwright was able to see himself objectively and write an honest song about it.”

Wainwright more recently wrote a later song about hangovers during a period of addiction called Early Morning Madness in 2020.

Much earlier in the 70s, Do You Feel Like We Do [sic] by guitar rocker Peter Frampton asks listeners if they too were hungover. The song came about as Frampton went to rehearsal incredibly hungover, strumming some chords he was playing the night before on his acoustic guitar. His band liked the tune and asked Frampton to create lyrics for it, to which his response was, "I can't, I have a really bad hangover." The result was that bandmates told him to just write about that, and so he did. If you too are suffering the effects of a hangover and are musically unable to benefit from it, then why not banish the feeling with a song by Florence and The Machine? According to the NME, singer-songwriter Florence Welch said of her song Shake It Out, “when you've got a hangover, it is

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almost like a hangover cure.”

As Frank Sinatra once said, “I feel sorry for people that don't drink, because when they wake up in the morning, that is the best they are going to feel all day.” It might not be much, but with the new year not starting off as well as we’d hoped, perhaps we can take Frank’s words and know we all too before too long will feel better soon.

Perhaps not within a day, but hopefully not too far into 2021.

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Other tours, talks and events are available including ‘Spooky Worthing, ‘Brilliant Brighton’, ‘Super Sussex’ and ‘Scrumptious Sussex’. Kevin’s next book, ‘Celebrating Brighton and Hove’ can be pre-ordered from www.waterstones.com/book/ celebrating-brighton-and-hove/kevinnewman/9781398100206 for £15.99

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Deborah and our Committee ensured that every member received a Christmas Card containing a £20 Voucher to let them know they are not forgotten at this time of the year.

Val Roots who hadn't long moved to a Care Home last year and loved being there, sadly passed away. She was a wheelchair user and wasn't very well but always cheerful and came to meetings when she felt well enough. She will be missed.

Margaret Mepham also moved to a Care Home last year. We wait with baited breath in regard to being able to meet up again later in the year.

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