Village Living Issue 67 April 2015

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FREE l April 2015

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Steyning Bramber Beeding Ashington Washington Storrington Henfield Small Dole Shoreham-by-Sea

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Contents 3

A farewell from Spangels

4

Welcome to April plus Funk the Family Competition

6

Dates for your diary

8

Brighton Festival

9

Artisan Bakehouse

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11 Funk the Family!

17 Artisan Bakehouse Easter Recipe 19

16

Chris Jones

Parents of children past and present would like to thank the Spangels team for all their kind nurturing and hard work over the years, wishing you all every happiness for the future! x

SPANGELS NURSERY The Time has come to say ‘Goodbye to Spangels…

Rated by Ofsted as ‘An Outstanding Nursery in All Areas’.

Spangels Nursery is closing at Easter after 19 years and with over 500 children having passed through the doors.

We have been on site at St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School in Shoreham since 1996. Some of you may remember back to the days when we started in a small hutted classroom in the grounds of the school with just eight children!! – How times change.

Although we had planned to close the doors a the end of the summer term with a wonderful celebration and a party for all our past families, things have a habit of not going as one would have planned or wished for and this to us is our

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deepest regret along with the fact that we have as a result of circumstances been unable to secure places for all the many children on our waiting list.

We would like to thank each and every member of our loyal and dedicated staff both past and present who have been part of the journey and our success. We know from the continued contact we have with many of our families that Spangels will be remembered very fondly.

On a truly personal note when we think back over the last 19 years, we remember each day and every child as truly special. We have had the most amazing time and every day has been filled with laughter and memories that we will keep forever.

Nicky Stevens and Yvette Hart

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Opinions expressed in the magazine do not necessarily represent those of the editor or of Village Living magazine.

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ope that wherever you are the sun is shining and the weather is warming up, Spring is finally here! Yay!

This month we bring you up to date information on the Brighton Festival, Funk the Family Festival, don’t forget to enter our competititon to win a family ticket to the festival and Starlight rollerdisco, not to mention an introduction to the Artisan Bakehouse in Ashurst, who have also very kindly supplied us with a fabulous Hot Cross Bun Recipe! New customers this month to look out for are Cloudberry bags, Karen Burge, Peter Nutley, Power Electrical Services, and Taking the Lead.

We bring you hypnotherapy advice from Chris Jones, and a sad farewell to Spangels of Shoreham... Wishing you a lovely April

Copy deadline is April 10th for the May issue. Please mention Village Living when responding to an advert.

EMAIL ME: katie@village-living-magazine.co.uk Keep up with Village Living on Facebook – www.facebook.com/ VillageLivingMagazineUK Skype us on VillagelivingUK

and a very Happy Easter.

See you next month!

Katie & Michelle x

Image for front cover thanks to Dylan Evans – Beyond – Contemporary Circus

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by April 20th 2015. A winner will be picked at random and notified!

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6 • VILLAGE DIARY

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Village Diary is a great way to publicise an event in your village. Email katie@village-living-magazine.co.uk with your listings. Don’t forget to visit www.villagelivingmagazine.co.uk for more diary dates!

MARKETS Henfield Hall – Monday Market from January open every Monday except bank holidays from 9 a.m. to 12.30 p.m a variety of stalls, ample free parking Shoreham – 2nd Sat of each month. 9.00 – 13.00. East Street Shoreham has a market every Wednesday morning at The Shoreham Centre, Pond Road, Shoreham-by-Sea. 9 am – 12.15 pm Steyning – 1st Sat of each month. 9.00 – 13.00. High St car park Storrington – Village Market at Village Hall 9-10.45am every Friday, a variety of locally home grown and sourced plants, cheeses, meats, breads & crafts West Chiltington – 2nd Sat of month. 9.00 – 12.00. Village Hall

EVENTS TUESDAY 7TH APRIL 7.30PM Henfield Garden Club Henfield Hall. At the coming April meeting, Henfield Garden Club will welcome Graham Gough. Graham enjoys a reputation as one of the most entertaining speakers on many gardening subjects and will present “Marchants and its Plants.” He established his gardening business in Laughton in Sussex in 1998, from where he cultivates plants for sale and designs gardens. Graham also has a passion for cooking and is a keen photographer, who has travelled widely. Guests are welcome at our friendly club.

SAT 11TH APRIL 2.00 PM Beach Clean Friends of Shoreham Beach (FoSB www.fosbeach.com). Please meet at Shoreham Fort Nissan Hut (BN43 5HY) Wear gloves and suitable footwear. Bags and litter pickers will be provided. Tours of the Fort will be available led by guides from the Friends of Shoreham Fort. Refreshments available from the Food for Fort Cafe.

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Clear your diary for three weeks of spectacular events See the full line-up at brightonfestival.org April 2015 • Village Living

Open Tues, Wed & Fri 10.30 – 12.30 and 2.30 – 4.00; Saturday 10.30 – 4.00 and Sunday 2.30 – 4.00 Steyning Museum: Free Entrance. We are a Museum pack full of local history & interest. We also have a shop with gifts for sale along with books and greetings cards. We are. We are also always happy to help children and students with history homework and projects. Further information on our website: steyningmuseum.org.uk.

WED 8TH APRIL 7.30PM Storrington Film Nights A programme of films for Storrington, promoted and organised by The Rotary Club of Storrington & Pulborough District. The Imitation Game” The highly acclaimed and Oscar nominated film, about mathematician Alan Turing, as he seeks to break the Enigma code during WW2. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode WED 13TH APRIL 7.30PM Storrington Film Nights The Theory of Everything. Oscar nominated and winning film.

The story of the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.Starring Oscar winning best male actor, Eddie Redmayne, and Felicity Jones.There will be an interval when refreshments will be available.Tickets are £5, and will be available prior to each performance from ‘The Card Centre’ in Storrington.

Any unsold tickets will be available for purchase on the Door, Sullington Parish Hall, on the night. For further information please contact Ken Collins on 01903 740745, or Malcolm Bennett on 01798 812407.

FRIDAY 10TH APRIL 7.30PM Henfield Camera Club Evangelical Free Church Hall. We will be hosting an Interclub Competition with our friends and fellow photography enthusiasts from Steyning Camera Club. Visitors and new members are always very welcome.

For further details please contact club chairman, Alec Pelham. alec. pelham@btinternet.com.

FRIDAY 24TH APRIL 7.30PM Henfield Camera Club Evangelical Free Church Hall, The River Adur and its Valley. An interesting talk on a local subject presented by Dr Harry Montgomery in a slide presentation.Visitors and new members are always very welcome.

For further details please contact club chairman, Alec Pelham. alec. pelham@btinternet.com.

SATURDAY 25TH APRIL 10AM - 12NOON Henfield Garden Club Plant Sale & Coffee Morning will be held in the Garden Room at the Henfield Hall on. A wide range of good value plants will be offered for sale. Visitors may also enjoy a selection of delicious cakes with teas or coffee. Listings of future club events and details on becoming a member of this friendly Garden Club will be available throughout the morning. For membership enquires Contact Julia Simpson by e-mail jbs@backsettown.demon.co.uk or tel 01273493900.

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77 •• BACK BRIGHTON IN TIME FESTIVAL

BRIGHTON FESTIVAL

W

ith central themes at its heart – art and nature, the crossing points between art forms and liberty and freedom of expression, Brighton Festival 2015 is set to spread its wings and soar this year with award-winning author Ali Smith as its Guest Director.

The three week celebration of culture plays host to the finest in quality performance, art and debate, with all manner of events taking place across the city and beyond; so whether you fancy some theatre, dance and visual art, or possibly film, literature, circus, outdoor or family-friendly shows, there really is something for everyone.

Kicking things off in style and officially launching Brighton Festival is the annual – and hugely popular – Children’s Parade (2 May). With over 80 schools responding to this year’s theme of ‘taking flight’, expect to see everything from gliders to griffins make their way through the city streets, cheered on by thousands of spectators. The opening weekend fun continues as festival outdoor experts Without Walls present six very special free shows – including Stefano Di Renzo’s mesmerising tightrope walking performance Hold On and Gandini Juggling’s jaw-dropping theatrical ball skills in 8 Songs – outside of the city centre in Woodingdean Central Park (3 May) and Saltdean Oval (4 May).

Meanwhile, over in Brighton’s Queen’s Park, strange things are afoot! Gobbledegook Theatre have detected a rich seam of music flowing beneath the ground itself and, armed with over-sized listening devices including gramophone horns and traffic cones, they’ll be giving audiences the chance to listen in on these secret sonics at Ear Trumpet (16 & 17 May). There’s

more mischief to be had as theatre company Third Party ask you to step back in time to revisit one of children TV’s most adventurous of cult characters in The Sagas of Noggin the Nog (23 & 24 May); a stage adaptation of Viking proportions! Expect to meet Noggin himself, alongside the great green bird Graculus and the fearsome Ice Dragon – but will he be able to defeat his treacherous uncle Nogbad the Bad? If jaw-dropping acts of physical strength and spine-tingling moments of acrobatic beauty are more your thing, look no further than Circa’s Beyond (2 & 3 May) – whose blending of circus skill with cheeky humour will have you both astounded and entertained at the same time – or The Forgotten / L’Oublié(e) (19 & 20 May); a cutting-edge exploration of large-scale contemporary French circus which features truly stunning aerial work alongside elements of theatre and dance.

Amongst the many exciting performances taking place throughout Brighton Festival, there are also a number of opportunities for audiences to get involved themselves. In Gauge (2 – 24 May) explores our relationship with the weather and water by turning Circus Street Market into an interactive, sonically manipulated playground of investigation for all ages complete with a ‘water piano’ and daily weather report, whilst And Now – a group of artists who specialise in large scale outdoor performance – will be calling on the public to take part in Fleeting (24 May); a very special Brighton seafront murmuration at the West Pier and an apt finale to a festival full of surprises.

For more information and full listings, visit brightonfestival.org

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Rhubarb Café has now been open for 3 months and we have been overwhelmed by the positive response from the locals and vistors to our café. We are all about quality fresh food, great service (thanks to all our staff) and wonderful atmosphere.

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9 • THE ARTISAN BAKEHOUSE

The Artisan Bakehouse

Photo: Pia Johnson

The Tea Barn and lovely gardens offer delicious home-made lunches and afternoon teas, fresh hand-made Artisan baked breads (which Les gets up very early to make!) and some of the best local foods that Sussex produces including fruit and vegetables from their own cottage garden.

The bread making workshops are very informative and lots of fun too. All the bread is baked in a traditional wood fired oven so delegates get the chance to use a baker’s peel and bake their Turning their backs on successful careers in banking and HR own loaves. Course numbers are limited to 6 bakers to ensure Louise and Les Nicholson decided on a change of direction a great hands on experience and Les can hold private baking 15yrs ago. After working in various parts of France and the workshops for groups of friends or family by arrangement. It’s United States they then settled on a move to the Poitou a great way to spend a day making focaccias, baguettes and Charentes region of France, renovated a derelict farmhouse traditional artisan loaves, followed by a delicious two course and turned it into a successful hospitality business & AGA lunch in the Tea Barn. cookery school. After eight fantastic years abroad, born and The Tea Barn, Bakehouse and gardens are also available bred Sussex man Les missed his home county too much and so they returned home to Sussex to start afresh. “The French for private hire for functions for birthdays, anniversaries, christenings, hen parties & other celebrations. experience was invaluable” says Louise, as that is where The Artisan Bakehouse is located in Ashurst, West Sussex, on Les learnt his bread making skills and they learned to live a the B2135 just a couple of minutes’ drive from Steyning. It’s a different lifestyle, growing their own fruit and vegetables perfect place for a holiday, a weekend break, to learn to make and using them to cook for their holiday guests and the bread or to enjoy lunch or afternoon tea either in the tea barn local villagers too. Louise also worked in a local Salon de Thé or soaking up the sun in the beautifully secluded gardens. It is where she learned all about tea, how to make it, serve it open all year round for private hire & bread making workshops properly and savour it!

Since leaving France and returning to Sussex, Louise and Les but has limited special public openings for the Tea barn. have set up The Artisan Bakehouse; A fantastic retreat with two beautiful 16th Century Sussex Farmhouse holiday cottages, a 2015 SPECIAL TEABARN OPENINGS Bread Making School and tea room all set in 5 acres of pretty The Bakehouse & Tea Barn will be specially opening secluded gardens and woodland, surrounded by some of the to the public on the following days: most beautiful unspoilt rolling countryside just on the edge of Every Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 12-5pm from the South Downs National Park. “We started off by renovating 21st April until 14th May and then again 16th June through the holiday cottages and once they were up and running we until 9th July and then 8th Sept – 1st October 2015. then created the artisan baking school and tea barn” recalls The wood oven will be burning and they will be serving Louise. “We thought that there would be a demand for the their freshly baked bread with delicious lunches, scrumptious Bread Making workshops but the response from locals has handmade ice-creams, cakes & scones and a selection of been incredible”. Since opening the tea barn for the Steyning quality loose leaf teas.

Food & Drink Festival 18 months ago the pop up tea rooms has gone from strength to strength too. “The first year we just tested NOW TAKING BOOKINGS the water with the tea rooms for the Steyning Food Festival, booking advisable as numbers will be limited then as a result of the positive response from our customers we Telephone 01903 810410 or opened three times last year and this year we’ve extended it to Email info@theartisanbakehouse.com four openings. We’ve set our dates for 2015 and we’ve already www.theartisanbakehouse.com www.facebook.com/theartisanbakehouse got bookings for the June/July opening!” www.villagelivingmagazine.co.uk | tel: 0785 2231512

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11 • BACK IN TIME 11 • FUNK THE FAMILY

Funk the Family Saturday 30th May 2015 Hove Park, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex

Funk The Family Festival transform new site Hove Park into a musical wonderland for families.

Following 2014’s debut, sell-out festival, Funk The Family are back with a bigger, better location and fatter line-up.

“Testing the waters” by launching at Hove Lagoon in 2014, FTF’s organisers were “utterly chuffed” by the runaway success of their inaugural event.

With tickets selling out months in advance, Funk The Family entertained 1000 people for eight hours. 2015 sees the organisers relocate to Brighton and Hove’s beautiful, centrally located Hove Park; allowing thousands more families much more space.

Taking place during England’s largest arts festival, Brighton Fringe, Funk The Family’s ethos is simple: high quality music and entertainment for all the family.

“Funk The Family Festival has succeeded in filling a huge gap within an abundant, untapped market,” Funk The Family’s founder and director, Lucy ‘Elle J’ Small enthuses. “There are thousands of adults, like me, that love music, have done the festival circuit, and now have kids. We want to enjoy that festival vibe with our families, but not necessarily go camping with them!”

Keeping things funky, the main stage’s line-up this year includes Britain’s Godfather of soul, Omar Lye-Fook (with full band), rising dub/hip hop 12-piece, Nubiyan Twist, high-energy Brighton afrobeat band, Kalakuta Millionaires and Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer (clue’s in the name!).

The brilliant Circus Project are back, offering trapeze workshops for the whole family. Inside the Kool Kids Big Top you can watch shows from Circus Pzaz plus acro-balance, tumbling, uni-cycling and lots more.

Meanwhile FTF’s Elle J Small takes to the wheels of steal in the Club Tropicana DJ Bar alongside Jazz Room’s Russ Dewbury, King Tarfari Love Soundsystem, Lynda Phoenix, Donna Dee and many more...

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17 • THE ARTISAN BAKEHOUSE RECIPE

Hot Cross Buns

Recipe

FROM LES NICHOLSON – THE ARTISAN BAKEHOUSE

Method: Put the flour, salt, sugar, spices, fruit, zest and yeast into a bowl and give a quick mix. In a mixing jug add the milk, eggs, melted butter and water and mix well. Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients in the bowl and using a dough scraper or wooden spoon, bring all the ingredients together to form a rough dough incorporating all of the flour mix.

Tip the mixture out onto a very lightly floured work surface and knead for 5 -10 minutes until the stickiness gives way to a more cohesive supple dough. Resist the temptation to add more flour. Place your ball of dough into an oiled bowl or container and cover with Clingfilm or a wet tea towel. Leave in a room with an ambient temperature of about 20-23c for at least 1½ hours or until the dough has doubled in size.

Ingredients: 500g Strong white bread flour 10g salt, 75g caster sugar 10g fast active yeast 40g melted unsalted butter 2 medium eggs (beaten) 120ml warm milk (not skimmed) 120ml water at room temperature 150g of sultanas or raisins 80g mixed peel, finely grated zest of 2 oranges 1tsp of ground cinnamon 1tsp of ground mixed spice For the crosses: 75g plain flour and 75ml of water

Turn out the dough and knead for a couple of minutes.

Weigh the dough then roll the dough into a sausage shape and divide into 12 equally weighted pieces. Roll each one into a ball, place them fairly close together in neat rows on 1 or 2 baking sheets lined with baking parchment. Cover with lightly oiled Clingfilm and leave for a further 30/45 minutes until doubled in size. In the meantime heat your oven to 220c or 200c fan assisted (Gas mark 7).

To make the crosses, combine the flour and water into a paste and put into a piping bag. Use a fairly fine nozzle and immediately before putting in the oven, pipe a cross on each one. It’s easier if your buns are in rows as you can sweep across them all, firstly horizontally and then vertically. Place the trays in your oven and bake for 20 minutes or until they are a golden brown colour.

Once the buns are out of the oven, dilute the jam with a little water and brush over the hot buns to glaze. Then place them on a wire cooling rack and resist the temptation to eat them until they’ve cooled (about 30 minutes if you can!!).

For the glaze: 75g of apricot jam and a little water

You’ll never buy shop hot cross buns again, ever!

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t the time of writing this article, I had only seen previews of the above game show; shown on Saturday nights on ITV, from mid March.

It already appears to have caused a lot of controversy; not least of all within the hypnotherapy profession, because of the potential damage to its image and the perceived threat to so-called vulnerable contestants. Personally, I am fairly relaxed about it all, but can see how people might react to the show.

Firstly, like me, there will be those who see the show for what it is, harmless entertainment, assuming that moral and legal requirements regarding hypnosis are followed. Conversely, there will be those that think that hypnosis is fake and that the whole thing is a con and a set-up.

What does concern me is those individuals that have a psychological problem that needs attention, but who are shy away from treatment, because of a belief, based on what they see on the shows, that they will not be in control, when in hypnosis.

Let me explain a few points.

Contestants are auditioned prior to selection for participation in the

show. This is to establish the degree to which each individual is susceptible to suggestion. Approximately 10% of the population are what we call somnambulists, i.e. those prone to deep levels of trance and suggestion, which is what is required for the concept to work. At the other end of the scale, there is about an equal percentage of those who can’t, or won’t, enter trance and/or reject suggestions.

Stage hypnotists test for the former and only use participants at this end of the spectrum.

All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. The hypnotist simply acts as a conduit to facilitate this process. Nobody can be forced to do anything against their will. People do not participate in this kind of stage show, unless they are prepared to make fools of themselves, in front of Jo public and so accept the consequences of their actions.

Stage hypnosis is all about entertainment, whereas Hypnotherapy is about helping to sort out psychological issues and improve the quality of life. Professional Hypnotherapists are bound by a code of conduct, by nationally-registered bodies,

such as the National Council for Hypnotherapy, that precludes any behaviour that might embarrass the client.

It is important to recognize how similar techniques can be used for different purposes. You might recall an article I wrote some time ago about trance phenomena. One of these is sensory distortion. So I might use it with a client to change the experience of pain, whereas a stage hypnotist might use it to make a contestant think that his trousers are uncomfortably tight.

As a prelude to my sessions, I talk this all through with clients and invite them to demonstrate to themselves, when we get to the use of hypnosis, that they are in control at all times.

Therapy will not work if trust is not established with the therapist.

If you would like more information about this, please contact me for a no-commitment discussion.

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