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Steyning Bramber Beeding Ashington Washington Storrington Henfield Small Dole Ashurst Partridge Green

Autumn Harvest Foraging for fungi

Remembering Steyning The war years in pictures

Be our Food Critic and eat for free!

WIN! A case of Hepworth Real Ales We review The Ginger Fox, Albourne

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Contents 5

Welcome to November

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Village News & Diary

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And relax: Healing with Shiatsu Massage

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Home Help Southern Legal helps protect local homes

13-14

AuTuMN HArVEST 13

Autumn Harvest Foraging for Fungi

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remember Steyning The war years in pictures

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The ginger Fox – Ben McKellar’s country pad

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From The Sylvan Oak kitchen

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Sussex in Season: Not Pretty, but Perfect

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Drink Local: Battle of the Beers

rESTAurANT rEVIEW 18

Village Living takes on BeerMatt 27

gardening: Thinking Big from the Big Plant Nursery

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Mind & Body: Chris Jones & the art of Hynotherapy

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Talk Money: with Claire Cook

THE SYLVAN OAK rECIPE 21

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Welcome to November

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erhaps more than any other month, in November I really look forward to being able to ‘eat the view’ in Sussex. With summer harvests safely in and British soft fruit on its way out, my thoughts turn readily to what can be foraged for free. Hedgerow berries keep the children amused right through until the middle of November, but it’s the wild mushrooms that get us out walking in the woods come rain or shine (p13).

November is also a month for remembering, and to mark remembrance Day this year, we’ve been exploring the role of the local area and local people during the First & Second World Wars. Turn to page 16 for our photo special.

By the time you read this, we’ll be recovering from our birthday hangover. With The Sylvan Oak’s Sinan Calan in charge, we’ll be dining like kings. You don’t have to miss out – just follow Sinan’s mouthwatering recipe on page 21 for a party piece to remember.

And if you fancy yourself a food critic, we’re looking for a batch of new recruits to take up fork and pen to review Sussex’s best restaurants. Drop me a quick line, and in 50 words or less, tell me why you should be our next Michael Winner.

Melissa Congratulations: to Mrs A. Vidler who won September’s case of Hepworth Ales.

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CHAMPAGNE ENFORCERS SPOIL THE PARTY White Horse Storrington Gets Arty

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he White Horse Hotel of Storrington, is sponsoring and hosting an Art Show to raise funds for the Alexandra Bastedo ABC Champions Animal Sanctuary, to be held from noon on the 26th and 27th November 2010. The exhibition will showcase the photographic art of local Sussex Artists, including wildlife photographer Charmen Hummel and Storrington-based Art Hutchins. Images from both collections will be on sale during the show to raise much needed funds for this well loved and respected local charity to support them in their mission to care for the welfare of a variety of animals in need.

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ocal chocolatiers Cocoa Loco have been threatened with European legal action if they don’t stop using the term ‘champagne truffle decadence’ for one of their products, even though they include genuine French champagne as a key ingredient. The French champagne authority, The Comite Interprofessionnel du Vin de Champagne, wrote to them out of the blue demanding that they take the term champagne out of the product name.

“It is particularly galling because I have specially bought a lot of good champagne to use in this product for Christmas,” said owner Sarah Payne. “Far bigger chocolate businesses than mine are using the term Champagne Truffle – Thorntons for example – so why am I being singled out? I can’t afford to start defending a legal challenge in the European Courts, but I also can’t waste good ingredients which I have already stocked up on, so what do I do? It’s Chocolate Week this week and I expect high sales of our delicious champagne truffles!”.

Get the last of the champagne truffles at www.cocoaloco.co.uk or call 01403 865687.

Let them eat cake!

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oodley Dogs, Storrington’s doggy daycare centre, celebrated its first birthday recently, with an unusual kind of party. Nearly everyone celebrating had four legs and a tail and tucked into a specially created doggy birthday cake to mark the occasion. Celebrations continued all week long. “We are getting busier and busier,” said co-owner and celebrity dog behaviourist, Amy Hatcher.

“It’s wonderful to be able to work with so many lovely dogs.”

Many happy returns.

Find out more at www.doodleydogs.co.uk or call 01903 741713.

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FARMERS’ MARKETS Ashington Farmers’, Artists’ & Makers’ Market – 1st Fri of month. 9.30 – 13.30. Methodist Church, London rd Horsham – Every Sat. 9.00 – 16.00. Carfax, Town centre Pulborough – Last Sat of month. 9.00 – 12.00. Village Hall Shoreham – 2nd Sat of month. 9.00 – 13.00. East Street Steyning – 1st Sat of month. 9.00 – 13.00. High St car park West Chiltington – 2nd Sat of month. 9.00 – 12.00. Village Hall Worthing – 4th Sat of month. 9.00 – 14.00. South Street Square

SATURDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER Minibus charity appeal for HIV affected children in Mumbai, India upper Beeding Baptist Church. 10am - 4pm.

Coffees, soup lunches, afternoon teas. Cakes, “Just Patchwork” and other crafts for sale. Everyone welcome.

EVENTS

SATURDAY, 20TH NOVEMBER Christmas Fair upper Beeding Village Hall. 11am to 3pm. There will be a variety of stalls which include handmade gifts, cakes, local honey, jewellery and for children face painting, bouncy castle and more. refreshments for lunchtime will be available. The money raised will be put towards improving the facilities available at the Hall.

THURSDAY, 4TH NOVEMBER Charity Bingo. Storrington Village Hall 59 West Street, Storrington, West Sussex, rH20 4DZ. regular bingo evening in aid of the Mary How Trust for Cancer Prevention and on the first Thursday of every month. Only 50p entry.

Doors open 7pm Play starts at 7:30 pm FRIDAY 5TH NOVEMBER Jolesfield School Fireworks Night 6pm - 8pm Partridge Green Advance tickets: Adults £4.50/Children £2.50 (on the gate Adults £5.00/Children £3.00). gates open 5.30 Decorated pumpkin competition, Fun Fair, BBQ, Bar/refreshments plus fantastic firework display.

TUESDAY, 9TH NOVEMBER An Illustrated talk by David Lyon in aid of the Mary How Trust Pulborough Village Hall, rH20 2BF. 7pm Join David Lyon for a fascinating talk on the Lunana trek and the rarely visited Brokpa peoples of far eastern Bhutan. Tickets £20 and include a glass of wine & refreshments. Call 01798-877641.

FRIDAY 12TH NOVEMBER Chanctonbury Playschool Winter Treats Night Ashington Community Centre, Ashington. Evening fayre of luxury gifts for all the family and fantastic local produce to buy for now or order for Christmas. refreshments available. Entrance fee £1.

To book nails call Sarah roberts 07825181784 FRIDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER 2010 Curry and Beer night in aid of HART with RetrOactive Henfield Hall 8pm to midnight Let your Autumn get off to a swing with the 11-piece band retrOactive in a curry and beer. Tickets £15 available from Villiage Care, Henfield Furnishings or on line www.retroactive-jazz.co.uk SATURDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER Stephen & Laurie’s Musical Evening 7pm. St Mary’s Church, Storrington. An outstanding programme of musical talent, including Jacqueline Hill, the 2010 BBC Choir girl of the Year; Bayleaf Brass; chamber choir, Cantus Choralis, orchestral group, Chameleon; Sax Therapy and others. Tickets £10 each, to include an interval drink, on 01903 741272, 01903 742542 and Fowlers Estate Agents in Storrington on 01903 745844.

WEDNESDAY, 17TH NOVEMBER Upper Beeding Village Hall Monthly quiz.

3rd Wednesday of each month with cash prizes. Teams consist of up to 6 players each paying £1 entry. Bring your own refreshments and nibbles, tea and coffee are available.

TUESDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER Henfield Garden Club “Container Ideas for the 21st Century”. A talk by Neil robertson at the Henfield Hall at 7.30pm.Entry: members free, non-members £3. Further information from 01273 493754 TUESDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER The Mary How Trust Film Society West Chiltington Village Hall. 3pm & 7.30pm Tamara Drewe (15) directed by Stephen Frears and starring Dominic Cooper, gemma Arterton& Tamsin grieg. Bar, raffle, refreshments and ample free parking.

Tickets £5.00 from guy Leonard Estate Agents of Pulborough & Storrington & The Card Centre, Storrington WEDNESDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER The Queen’s English Society Storrington Meeting Trinity Methodist Church Centre, Thakeham road, Storrington rH20 3Ng 2.30 pm Wednesday 24th November 2010 Dr. Bernard Lamb, President of the Society, will speak on ‘The Joy of Names’. Admission free. refreshments.

SUNDAY 28 NOVEMBER Childrens Party for Under 8’s upper Beeding Village Hall. 4.30-6.30pm.

Hosted by well known upper Beeding entertainer Tomfoolery.

Admission free. There will be refreshments, face painting and an interactive disco. The party starts at 4.30pm finishing 6pm.

27TH-28TH NOVEMBER Christmas at Horsham Park Barn A Horsham Open Studios event.

Horsham Park Barn, North Street, Horsham, rH13 1rL Horsham Open Studios artists & makers showcasing & selling their work. Including, paintings, photography, cards, ceramics, jewellery & textiles. Free to enter.

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9 • SHIATSu

Don’t suffer in silence Local Shiatsu massage practitioner, Tim Mayhew, can help...

can be painful. “With certain conditions it can be painful, but it’s a good pain, a healing pain” says Tim. “Pain is blockage, so Shiatsu simply tries to allow pain to move and disperse, using the body’s own energy to move it along.”

A graduate of the Shiatsu College and the European School of Shiatsu, and in practice for over ten years, I couldn’t be in better hands and by now, I’m kind of intrigued. Tim gets to work and soon zeros in on the affected area. unlike a massage purely for relaxation purposes, Tim talks to me to find out where it hurts and how much. The experience is quite intense, both mentally and physically and there are times when the muscle manipulation is painful, but it feels like it’s doing me good. After nearly an hour, I feel relaxed but energised and the localised pain in my back is gone.

That’s not unusual as pain often disappears when muscles are warm. The real test will be the next morning, when the muscles have cooled down and had time to relax.

I’m quite surprised to find that there isn’t even a twinge.

If I’m being completely honest, I just wasn’t expecting it to be so effective and I feel a bit silly for having left it for so long. Over the next week, I get the odd twinge, but the pain is much less intense and I have a feeling that a few sessions with Tim will soon take of it.

Contact Tim on 07828 935702 or visit www.sufishiatsu.com for more information.

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ots of people suffer unnecessary pain.” That’s the message from upper Beeding -based Shiatsu massage practitioner, Tim Mayhew. “It may not be intense pain, but nagging pain can easily get worse and plenty of people don’t bother to seek out treatment because they think it will get better over time.” gulp. Tim could be describing me.

Since the birth of my second child, I’ve had a niggly bit of lower back pain which is exacerbated by long days hunched over a computer and the usual nights of broken sleep and bedhopping associated with having small children. And of course I’ve never done anything about it or even given much thought to who could fix it. If pressed, I’d probably have said a chiropractor.

So what makes Shiatsu special? According to Tim, it “refreshes the parts that other massages don’t reach. It’s a much deeper experience than chiropractic massage. In fact, it’s a holistic form of bodywork, originally from Japan. It combines massage techniques with deep work on the energy system, using the same meridians and points as acupuncture but using only the trained hands of the practitioner. using the principles of Chinese medicine, treatment can work wonders on a very subtle level, bringing the whole system into greater harmony and transforming the way you feel.”

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Southern Legal urges Sussex homeowners to protect their homes Hove-based estate planning firm, Southern Legal Services, is keen to warn home owners that their property may be at risk if unexpected costs like inheritance tax or long term care fees arise unexpectedly.

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on the properties full value along ove-based estate planning firm, with any former jointly held assets, Southern Legal Services, is keen to warn home owners that their such as savings.”

Many people assume that estate property may be at risk if unexpected planning is just for the very wealthy costs like inheritance tax or long term and don’t realise that even modest care fees arise unexpectedly. amounts of savings and property equity According to Partner, Michael can be protected.

Doctors, more and more uK residents Michael cites a typical example: are taking advantage of strategic estate Mr & Mrs Jones own their home jointly, planning to protect their home and valued at £300,000 and have savings savings from taxation and care costs. of £40,000. They reside alone and have “You don’t need to be wealthy to two adult children and grandchildren want to ensure that your hard earned to whom they would like to leave assets such as the family home are their house after they have both passed on to your loved ones,” says passed away.

Michael. “unfortunately, were you to They have basic mirror wills, which require long term care, your family leave everything to each other. Mr may not necessarily receive all, or any Jones dies and the house and savings of the inheritance you had intended pass ‘absolutely’ to Mrs Jones. Two them to have. years later Mrs Jones needs care and When you go into care all your her assets in total are £340,000. As assets including your home, savings this one exceeds theenough, upper limit allowed and incomeGrieving are assessable for means over the loss of a loved is bad without (currently £23,250), Mrs Jones would testing. Youdiscovering are most at their risk ofWill losing isn’t watertight or tax efficient. be expected to fund the full cost of your home to care costs after owning A Family Trust can protect your estate against inheritance her care. your home jointly with a spouse, tax, care fees, re-marriage, divorce creditors… for have to be Mrs or Jones home would unmarried partner or civil partner and generations to come. sold to pay for this care and dependent they have passed away. The full value on family exactlyas how long Jones required of your home will have to you your Contact us passed and safeguard you hadMrs intended. care, a large part or possibly all of ‘absolutely’ and you will be assessed

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Many people assume that estate planning is just for the very wealthy and don’t realise that even modest amounts of savings and property equity can be protected. her assets could be lost effectively disinheriting the children. With some simple estate planning this could be avoided and the property and savings protected from care fees.

“By changing the way you and your spouse or partner currently own your home, to tenants in common, and by making use of new mirror wills and some simple trust planning, you can ensure that your property is protected and can be passed onto your loved ones as you had intended,” advises Michael.

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Foraging for Fungi

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y passion for wild mushrooms is a fairly recent thing and indeed even ordinary mushrooms are a bit of an acquired taste. The slimy texture, the earthy flavour – it’s kind of a grown-up thing. But my youthful aversion to the wild mushroom stems from prolonged exposure to all manner of festering fungi, collected and laid out in our garage for god only knows what purpose, by my parents. Both keen mycologists (mushroom-fanciers, fact fans), their weekends (and mine) from September to Christmas, were spent tramping around damp woods looking for wild mushrooms, heads down, knife in hand.

In retrospect, of course, it’s kind of cool and they were clearly way ahead of the current trend for foraged food, but at the time, it was just kind of embarrassing. Visiting friends would recoil in horror from the unsettling fungal displays on show and any supper involving mushrooms was a bit fraught. Me: “What is it, Mum?” Mum: “I think it’s either a really nice edible mushroom, or possibly a death cap. They look almost identical, you know.”

Still no-one ever died, so I guess they knew what they were talking about. After 10 years of attending evening classes on the subject, you’d hope so. My mum still gets twitchy as soon as the days draw in a bit and a rainy September has her dusting down her special mushrooming basket and knife and heading out to any number of secret Sussex locations.

In Europe, this would be perfectly normal behaviour where learning about and gathering wild mushrooms is part of the culture. But in the uK, with thousands of species growing wild in British woodland, and a fair few of them poisonous, amateur mushroom hunting isn’t a pastime to be undertaken lightly, at least not without a good bit of expertise and a local guide.

Luckily, I’ve got my Mum and she’s itching to get out her special basket, so we head off to local National Trust woodland, Warren Hill, near Washington, for a crack at finding some early season fungi. We’re looking for Boletus Edulis, also known as Cepes or Porcini, and if we’re really lucky, a few parasol mushrooms.

It’s an ancient woodland with the kind of mix of deciduous trees, scrubby undergrowth and grassy areas that fungi seem to like and we spot something brown and mushroom-

like almost immediately. Mum confidently identifies it as an Amanita, characterised by a big sac at its base. It’s also poisonous. good-o. So that’s what the knife is for. Mum tells me never to just pick a mushroom by the stem, but to dig up the base too, where some of the most important characteristics can be found when it comes to identification.

A few steps away, there are some beautiful pink mushrooms. They look delicious, but no, they are Amanitas too, although they look completely different. Apparently, there are hundreds of varieties of this one species and dozens of different shapes and colours, which explains what my parents were doing for ten years. We spend a pleasant hour or so collecting Amanitas of different hues, but there’s nothing edible to be found. My two-year-old loves hunting for mushrooms with granny, so if nothing else, we’ve had a

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satisfying stroll through some lovely woodland.

But a pleasant stroll with nothing to show for it isn’t enough for a mushroom-obsessive. As soon as we’re back in the car, Mum starts muttering about “this little place I know” and “last year we found a stand of cepes at XXX location”.

That’s right, I’m not allowed to tell you. We head off to the mystery spot, but we can’t really find it, because there’s a big fence in the way and it looks like private land. I’m pretty sure Mum wouldn’t trespass for the sake of a mushroom or two, would she? No comment, and anyway, the junior member of the hunting party is crying a bit now, so we will never know just what lengths she’d go to for a nice bit of porcini.

Two weeks and six inches of rain later and we’re back at Warren Hill. It’s a gorgeous day, but the woods are damp and a bit boggy. Perfect. First into the basket, some pretty little purple Lacaria Amethystea, or Amethyst Deceiver - they’re edible! Mum spots the next edible fungus. growing out of a fallen tree, is something that looks just like a cauliflower.

It’s Sporassis Crispa, edible when young and fresh. It doesn’t look that young or fresh to me, but Mum is determined to eat it because she’s never found one before in 20 years’ of mushroom hunting.

And finally, I spot a couple of Boletus. They’re not Cepes, but they’re a close cousin, the Boletus Badius, widely reckoned to be just as delicious. We dig up it up and look at the underside of the cap. A porous yellow surface, rather than gills tells Mum she’s correctly identified it. If it did have gills, apparently, it could easily be an Amanita Phalloides or Death Cap, the most deadly fungus to be found in the British Isles, with no known antidote. And this is the trouble with wild mushrooms – there are so many varieties and the differences between delicious and deadly are really hard to spot unless you know just what you’re looking for.

I ring the Sussex Wildlife Trust to see if it’s a problem and spokesperson, Amanda Solomon confirms that it’s not a pastime they recommend to unaccompanied amateurs.

“We run a number of fungi courses at different locations throughout the year, where you can learn about different fungi species from an expert and enjoy a guided walk.”

Back at home, I slice up my wild mushrooms and serve them to my husband for breakfast. Nothing happens apart from him declaring them delicious. Well done, Mum. I’m off out to buy my own special basket and knife.

Find out more about Fungi and other Sussex Wildlife Trust courses at www.sussexwt.org.uk or call 01273 497561.

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At this time of year, now that the warm days of summer have been replaced with cooler, wetter weather, aches and pains can start to occur in the body. As we get older, these pains can become more insistent and develop into arthritic or rheumatic conditions.

Symptomatic pain relief may be obtained through the use of herbs such as Willow Bark, containing high levels of salicylates that act in the body as pain relieving anti-inflammatory compounds.

However, it must be borne in mind that such conditions are often accompanied by problems in the gut, especially constipation. When the body is functioning below par, the ability to remove waste & toxins can be very much impaired, especially if bowel function is sluggish. Over a period of time if untreated, toxic waste can build up in the connective tissue of the joints and sow the seeds for the development of arthritis and rheumatism in later life. For this reason, herbal treatment for arthritic conditions always focuses on improving bowel function and elimination.

Once the body begins to offload waste products more effectively, pain and inflammation will reduce, and you can happily carry on gardening all through the winter! use some roman technology to relieve your aching joints! roman legionaries knew that by beating their limbs with nettles they would stir up the circulation and bring relief to aching joints.

Herbal pain relief Try making your own nettle oil by: Adding 500g nettle leaves to 1L Virgin Olive Oil. Leave for 2 weeks before straining. Apply to joints as needed.

For a consultation, contact Andrea Murphy at Willow Herbal on 01903 816426 (Upper Beeding) www.willowherbal.co.uk Andrea Murphy BA (Hons) BSc (Hons) MNIMH MCPP

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Remembering Steyning Melissa Love visits Steyning Museum

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he hurriedly jotted poem from the pen of a young teacher on the eve of battle during the Firstly World War, is just one of the exhibits at Steyning Museum which gives an insight into life during the war years in Steyning and the surrounding area.

John Stanley Purvis, a housemaster at Cranleigh School in Surrey, pays tribute to the countryside surrounding Steyning, in particular Mouse Lane, recalling carefree times on the South Downs and contrasting them with life in the trenches. Sent to a newspaper by a friend and subsequently published, the original poem was donated to Steyning Museum after being found in a private collection in Scotland.

In contrast, the museum archives also document, in astonishing detail, the difficulties of daily life for those left at home. Of particular interest is the correspondence between a young girl, Hattie Bristow, working at Wykham Farm in Steyning from 1915 to 1917 and her friend, Vera Butler. Her diaries note the arduous physical nature of life on the farm and how the workload increases as fewer and fewer local men are left to help at home.

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Chance Memory or “The Mouse Lane Poem” (by John Stanley Purvis) I can’t forget the lane that goes from Steyning to the Ring In summer time, and on the Down how larks and linnets sing.

High in the sun, the wind comes off the sea and Oh the air!

I never knew till now that life in old days was so fair.

But now I know it in this filthy rat-infested ditch When every shell may spare or kill – and God alone knows which And I am made a beast of prey, and this trench is my lair My God! I never knew till now that those days were so fair.

So we assault in half an hour, and – it’s a silly thing – I can’t forget the narrow lane to Chanctonbury Ring. disgusting if we have to work with them.

3rd February: “This week we had a meat queue at Cherrimans. Harry shot three duck and they have permission to kill one of their own pigs so they will be alright.

7th June: “Apparently Mr Holt has been overdoing it a lot... on Tuesday after working all morning with the german prisoners, showing them what to do, he came in, sat down, became unconscious and died in a few hours...all the brothers will be together this week to decide what is to be done.”

11th August: “We are trying for german prisoners to do the harvest

shocking but I don’t know if we shall manage to get them.”

Another local farmer’s daughter, Diana Blackstone, who went on to be a Land girl in Southwick, paints a grim picture of war work. “Farmers were contacted to see if they would train land girls and recruitment posters were issued showing an entirely erroneous picture of laughing Land Girls harvesting in the sun. Little did they know what was ahead of them.”

The Second World War brought with it the threat of falling bombs, an influx of Canadian soldiers and over 200 children evacuated from Peckham in London, many of whom remember their

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time in Steyning fondly, where food was relatively plentiful compared to wartime London. However Steyning did not survive the war unscathed. The ‘Church Street bomb’ which fell on Chantry green in 1943, killed two people and injured dozens more. A letter from Steyning residents, ‘george and Kate’, notes the random nature of the strike.

“It was awful but all over in a few seconds and nine people’s houses

destroyed and many more injured.

It has quite upset george and he can’t forget the plane and the noise of the bomb, he says. Witley Burt went back for a second drink in the pub and that saved him.” The threat of imminent danger was keenly felt. Another resident notes in 1940 that “It is not uncommon to see upwards of 300 planes passing overhead every night on their way to France.”

Other recall the more Dads’ Armystyle incident in 1944, during the run up to D-Day, when a battalion practicing on the South Downs inadvertently shelled Steyning for several hours until a message could be passed to them that they were overshooting their target. reading through the archives, perhaps more than any single thing, a clear picture emerges of a close-knit, caring community with the means to feed itself and give shelter to others during difficult wartime years.

Melissa Love was in conversation with Museum Curator, Chris Tod. Extracts taken from ‘Food for Thought’, by Ian J.V. Ivatt and ‘Steyning at War’ by the Steyning Museum Trust. For further information and visiting hours, call 01903 813333 or visit www.steyningmuseum.org.uk.

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en McKellar, chef-owner of the Gingerman group of restaurants and pubs, doesn’t know it, but he’s responsible for one of my greatest obsessions. Nothing weird, I promise you, but nearly two years ago, I sat down to lunch at The Ginger Pig in Hove and tasted a dish which was so delicious that it sparked a two-year quest to try to recreate it in my own home.

What was it? Well, embarrassingly I can’t remember exactly what was in it, because I ate it in some kind of flavourinduced dream state, but gnocchi was certainly involved and butternut squash and a some kind of velvety sauce, fresh pea shoots (genius!) and possibly there was some kind of blue cheese (in the gnocchi? on the gnocchi?). I have spent many frustrating hours since making gnocchi out of squash - too wet, too lumpy - trying to conjure up glossy sauces and I once drove all the way over to Chichester just to buy some fresh pea shoots.

And now here I am with the great man himself and his equally lovely, wife Pamela. A product of Brighton’s City College, Ben and Pamela McKellar have build up a much-loved and much-emulated group of fine dining restaurants and cosy but smart gastropubs across the city, plus the more local Ginger Fox at Albourne.

Formerly Shave’s Thatch, the site was somewhat of a poisoned chalice, with the pub changing hands several times in recent years, before they took over.

Wasn’t that a concern?

“Almost every single site we’ve ever taken on has been a previously bankrupt or closed business,” say Pamela, “so it was nothing new. Mind you, after spending a lot of money on the refurbishment (the thatch alone

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cost £25,000), we suddenly realised that we’d bought a village pub, with no village attached!” Albourne village is certainly a more than a stroll away and nearly all customers end up coming by car.

“In the end it didn’t matter”, Pamela explains, “because actually people who live in country towns and villages are used to driving and a few miles either way doesn’t seem to put people off.”

She’s too modest to say that The Ginger Fox is always worth the drive.

Over the years, I’ve eaten a lot of Ben’s food and whilst I love the experience of the original Gingerman in Hove, Ben’s gastropub cooking seems even more assured than his fine dining offer.

And according to Ben, it’s the future.

“Not only is the financial climate about more affordable dining, this style of cooking allows the ingredients to shine.

I like the freedom it gives you too. You can put liver on toast right up there next to foie gras parfait and it doesn’t look out of place.”

Still, moving from fine dining to food pub wasn’t without its teething problems. At first, The Ginger Pig didn’t take bookings but after a little fist-shaking from local fans desperate to get a table, the pub now takes bookings as does The Ginger Fox. At least being too popular is a nice problem to have.

And the food? Agonisingly, myself and my lunch companion had colds, so

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we opted for a selection of starters rather than the fullblown slap-up lunch we’d been planning. As with all the ginger restaurants, it’s my kind of eating. Seasonal daily specials on the board, a ridiculously well-priced £10-for-2courses menu and an a la carte menu, with main course prices ranging from £10.50 to £17.50 for a Char grilled Sirloin Steak with Braised Oxtail, Dripping Chips & red Wine Sauce. I could eat from this menu every day and never get bored.

For a poorly pair, we did well, managing a Balsamic roast Beetroot and goat’s Cheese Tart and a stunning Asian Spiced Crab Cake to start, then a perfectly cooked portion of rare roast Beef with Dripping Toast and the aforementioned Foie gras Parfait with Toasted Brioche. Happily, we were also well enough to sneak in a portion of hand-cut dripping chips.

You just would, wouldn’t you?

Defeated by puds, we made a final heroic ‘just one more wafer-thin-mint-style’ effort and managed to scoff a couple of handmade chocolate truffles with coffee. As ever, it was utterly gorgeous, and boy, was it busy for a Monday lunchtime in October, with a full restaurant and plenty of diners in the garden taking advantage of a bit of autumn sunshine. Do book but do go as soon as you can. We need more ginger in the world!

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23 • SuSSEX IN SEASON

Not pretty, but perfect Nick Hempleman Owner of The Sussex Produce Company, award winning produce store in Steyning, West Sussex.

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It is never going to win any beauty

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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recently named it as his favourite vegetable and now the nights are drawing in and the temperature is dipping, it is coming into its own.

Celeriac is a distant relative of wild celery but is usually grown for its swollen root. It has a delicate celery flavour and the French make a wonderful coleslaw out of it called remoulade, simply finely sliced raw celeriac, mayonnaise, mustard and vinegar or lemon juice. At this time of the year it is at its best when used in a host of winter dishes. It can be par-boiled and then roasted; thinly sliced and deep fried for game chips or mashed 50:50 with potatoes – it is low in starch so a pure celeriac mash

is a bit thick. I have also had fantastic gratins and soups with celeriac. It is one of those vegetables that looks so wholesome and healthy but has a hidden affinity for cream. Jackie Hobbs’ recipe for Celeriac & Stilton Soup looks fantastic and is just the thing to come home to after a long walk on the Downs.

The secret to cooking with celeriac is to buy slightly more than you think you need (it’s uneven surface means that quite a lot goes to waste when you’re peeling it), and secondly, if you prepare it in advance, keep it in a bowl of water to which you have added some lemon juice, as like apples, it does go brown quite quickly if you’re not going to cook it there and then. Celeriac may not be the prettiest vegetable but it is certainly one of the tastiest.

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The Big Brew Off: THE RESULTS!

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he results of the BeerMatt versus BeerMel Home Brew Challenge were officially announced at last week’s Burgess Hill Beer Festival, but as with most democratic elections, the counting went on until the wee small hours and I just couldn’t stay the distance.

The lead-up to the big day was pretty intense. Matt and I traded beer-related insults by text as we supervised our bubbling barrels of beer. The making of it was easy (can of malty, hoppy gunge plus 40 litres of hot water) but tactics are all. If you asked me if I had deliberately chosen two beer kits which tasted completely different and kept the award-winning beer kit for myself, I’d completely deny it. Or if I had started to brew a week earlier than Matt before dropping the brew kit off, to give my beer more time to settle? Again, just a rumour.

But experience will out. I took my beer to the festival venue on the day, thus undoing all of my good work and producing a distinctly cloudy-looking product, whilst Matt’s crystal clear beer had been smugly settling for the past 48 hours. Still, we weren’t asking festival-goers to decide on looks – it’s the flavour that counts and I thought I was in with a pretty good chance.

Before the doors were even open, I was taking samples to the beer fest staff and making them cast their vote

for me...err, I mean letting them choose which beer they preferred and the results were overwhelming. It was in the bag for BeerMel. We just had time for a quick game of ‘match the beer’ and found that my St Peter’s ruby red Ale was nearly identical to festival favourite, WJ King’s Harvest Ale. And Matt’s Woodford Wherry Norfolk Ale was a dead ringer for the WJ King Best Bitter.

With the fest set to continue until late, and a win for me looking like a dead cert, I left the vote counting in Matt’s capable hands. I couldn’t wait to answer his call the next morning to hear that I’d won. Except I hadn’t. Somehow my early lead had evaporated and Matt had romped home the clear winner.

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Making the Cut

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eople don’t usually think of November as a time for new planting, but it’s one of the best times in the growing cycle to plant, prune and prepare for the coming winter, and beyond that, spring.

Before any hard frosts come, the soil is still relatively warm, top growth has stopped but the roots of plants are still active, making it fairly easy for plants to establish themselves without stress or trying to grow too much. It’s far better to get most plants and shrubs in now rather than leaving it until spring, which more and more people are tending to do.

Don’t plant hardy exotics like bananas and palms, of course. Let us look after them for the winter, where they’ll be nice and warm.

After planting out, take a good hard look at your garden and dig out anything you don’t think will survive the winter or you are planning to get rid of anyway. There’s no point letting dead

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Bigger shrubs and trees should all be pruned before it gets too cold, allowing them to grow a scab before any biting frosts. Just like people, plants with open wounds are susceptible to frostbite.

Many people are intimidated by pruning, but if you follow these two simple rules, you won’t do too much damage. Think about the shape first, imagining a vase shape, which leaves the branches relatively uncrowded to allow air and movement. At the very least, remove any branches which are likely to rub against another.

Now for the chop. Always prune above a dormant bud, where the leaf has been. If you’re smart, you can usually see which way the leaf will grow, allowing you to control the eventual shape of the plant. Take your time, look carefully and you’ll find it’s much easier than you think. Be brave!

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Mind & Body Chris Jones Cognitive Therapist and Mind Coach, Southdowns Hypnotherapy

Your behaviour in mind

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atching both Strictly Come Dancing and X-factor recently, I have been struck by how many potentially good performers have been knocked out in the early stages, mainly as a result of nerves crippling their performances.

For many, there are underlying issues, which we call limiting self beliefs; such as: ‘I am not good enough’… or ‘not deserving’. Perfectionism and low self esteem can also create levels of anxiety that adversely affect a contestants’ ability to perform to their best abilities.

Hypnotherapy could have helped these individuals to perform to much higher levels, by identifying the psychological reasons involved and creating changes of mindset, so that those reasons no longer affect the performers in the way they previously had. The F-(Fear) Factor can be managed down to acceptable levels.

Having cleared the negative mindgarbage that hold contestants back, it is then possible to use various techniques to help them to maximize how they perform.

Techniques, such as visualisation i.e. repeated mental rehearsal of a successful performance, would help to

Hypnotherapy could have helped these individuals to perform to much higher levels, by identifying the psychological reasons involved and creating changes of mindset.

create self-belief, as the mind cannot easily distinguish between what was real and what was imagined. revisiting times when the contestant had performed well and mapping the associated feelings of confidence across to the present performances can also be an effective technique, along with a myriad of others that can be employed where appropriate.

Hypnotherapy can help to make the difference between elimination and reaching the final. It can be effective in any area where competition is involved.

Just think how it could help our athletes in 2012.

For more information about Hypnotherapy and Performance, please contact: Chris Jones Hypnotherapist, NLP MasterPractitioner & Sportsmind Coach www.chrisjones.uk.com 01903 745606/07740 085101 Chris is a Cognitive Hypnotherapist, NLP Master Practitioner and Sports Performance Mind Coach.

He became involved with mind techniques while practicing martial arts in his younger days.

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Talk Money Claire Cook

from independent mortgage and financial advisers Talk Money, gives essential advice...

What do you know – about mortgages?

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recent survey by First direct shows that 92% of people planning to take a mortgage in the course of the next year don’t understand the difference between the different types of deal on offer. Only 8% are confident in their knowledge, and 11% say they know nothing about mortgages at all.

This lack of knowledge also fed across to people who already have mortgages, only 26% said they understood the difference between fixed, variable and tracker deals. On average, only 22% completely grasped the difference.

Although I wouldn’t expect people to know all about mortgages, this does seem to indicate that people are taking mortgages without really understanding how they work and how a change in the Bank base rate would affect

their monthly mortgage repayments.

A mortgage is probably the biggest financial commitment people make in their lifetimes, and, whilst people will shop around for the best deals on their cars, household goods and other items, it seems that people are not doing the same with their mortgages. Whether this comes from lack of understanding, or laziness I am unsure. Perhaps people are so happy when a lender says yes, expecially in this market, common sense goes out of the window.

What this does highlight is the importance of getting the correct advice, from an experienced professional. It is OK trawling through the internet for your mortgage, but how do you know you are getting the best deal? Do you really know what pitfalls there are? Are you getting the right deal for your circumstances?

Even with the most efficient mortgage system, you need knowledge to find the right mortgage deal. Our system has thousands of rates on it, and these are updated daily. With this many rates, you really have to know what to look for and be able to see which deals are the best overall. Some rates look fantastic, lenders can tempt you with a really low initial pay rate, but once you add fees into the

equation, you may find that another deal works out much better.

Not only is the rate important, but the also the lender’s lending policy.

Criteria is much tighter than it used to be and lenders all differ in how they will view your circumstances. Many people find themselves a lost when a lender keeps coming back asking for further and further information. This can be time consuming and stressful.

An independent adviser will know the quirks of each lender and what paperwork they will require upfront.

They will deal with the lender on your behalf and any problems which occur.

All of this should speed up the process and ensure that the lender you apply to is the right one for you.

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I would be very happy to help.

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