Village LIVING
FREE l August 2017
Lifestyle | Community | Business
Steyning Bramber Beeding Ashington Washington Storrington Henfield Small Dole Shoreham-by-Sea
See pages 6&7
Village LIVING
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FREE ● August 2017
Lifestyle | Community | Business
Steyning Bramber Beeding Ashington Washington Storrington Henfield Small Dole Shoreham-by-Sea
See pages 6&7
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Introducting our cover stars Architectural Plants based in Pulburough
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Health & Beauty
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Whats on near you...
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Hot off the press …. Steyning Safari Supper Trail!
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Gifts For Angels – new website launch
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Fun Day! At Buckingham Park in aid of Tommy’s Fund
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Lovely Gin inspired recipe from Belleau Kitchen
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Design at 32. Ready for Christmas? Now’s the time to book!
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Front cover – www.architecturalplants.com
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Welcome to August! Hello & welcome to our August issue! This month we are delighted to introduce Pulburough based company Architectural Plants, Established in 1990 by Angus White, Architectural Plants specialise in plants that are both shapely and exotic, they really are so very much more than a nursery, Please read and enjoy our interview with Guy Watts on p6 -7, visit their website and most definitely plan a visit! Jordan’s Cake and Bakehouse, are now our first port of call for homemade cakes and bakes! Based in Upper Beeding, with collection and delivery available, they bake fresh to order for every occasion and if you quote ‘Summer10’ you can receive a fantastic 10% off your first order! We have a small but perfectly suitable recipe from our darling Dominic at Belleau Kitchen – Jasmine Gin Fizz!
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On p17 we have details on the Tommy’s Fun Day. As some of you may remember, local lady and all round amazing business woman Jeannette Stanley tragically lost her son in an accident on a night out last year. Local businesses and Vivacious Events have helped to put the day together, it’s sure to be a great day all for a worthy cause. Chestnut Tree House have shared with us their route for the Steyning Safari Supper. It isn’t till September but it gives you time to book your seats early! With the Steyning food and drink festival upon us in September we will have lots of information on our Facebook and website to keep you updated! Rachel from Popsicle Interiors will be back next month, she is currently on the beach I believe in Cornwall for her birthday celebrations! Happy Birthday Rach! Hope that you are all enjoying this blissful weather and wish you all a lovely summer holiday season... see you in September!
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An interview with
Guy Watts from Architectural Plants
Tell us a bit about you and your company Architectural Plants was established in 1990 by Angus White and has been going strong for 27 years. We’re a specialist nursery with a strong enthusiasm for the sculptural qualities of plants. I am now Managing Director of Architectural Plants and Chairman of a charity, Streetscape, which I co-founded in 2011. I broke 2 world records as the first Pairs team crossing of the Indian Ocean. What is Architectural Plants, what do you specialise in? We specialise in plants that are both shapely and exotic. We’re based on the A29 between Billingshurst and Pulborough. We are open to both retail and trade customers. We provide garden design and planting services, from small town courtyard gardens to large country gardens needing full re-design. We also source and supply pots, garden sculpture and seating to complement our plants. We’re child and dog friendly too. Why should people visit Architectural Plants? We are much more than a plant nursery. We aim to be a destination of excellence in horticulture. We’ve recently launched a home & garden shop and cafe serving coffee, cakes, lunch and ice creams all sourced from within a 30 mile radius, which you can enjoy sitting amongst the plants or by our lake. What plans do you have for the future? It’s a very creative environment, we are always looking to challenge the way things are done. We love to support and work with local suppliers and we plan to celebrate them, starting on 16th September with our first Farmers & Makers Fair. We’re actually looking for exciting brands to join us with a stall on the day.
Farmers & Makers Fair – Wednesday 16th September Our first Farmers and Makers Fair. Wander through a tempting array of stalls from growers, artists and craftspeople from across Sussex and beyond. Join us for a tipple of Gin, really good sausages, artisan cheeses, Dexter Beef, local honey, beautiful ceramics, unique children’s clothes and much more. Creative Maintenance Course – Wednesday 20th September Spend a full day learning some AP signatures and horticultural tricks of the trade including how to strip a Trachycarpus, raise Bamboo, clip Cupressus and how to use a blow torch to manicure Cordylines. We also cover pruning, including an overview of the art of niwaki pruning and tool sharpening.
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WHAT’S ON • 13
What’s On? MARKETS Henfield Hall – Monday Market from January open every Monday except bank holidays from 9am - 12.30 p.m a variety of stalls, ample free parking Shoreham – 2nd Sat of each month. 9am -13.00pm East Street. 4th Sat of each month. 9am - 13.00pm. East Street. Shoreham also has a market every Wednesday morning at The Shoreham Centre, Pond Road, Shoreham-by-Sea. 9am - 12.15pm Steyning – 1st Sat of each month. 9am - 13.00pm High St car park Storrington – Village Market at Village Hall 9am -10.45am every Friday, a variety of locally home grown and sourced plants, meats, eggs, preserves, fruit & veg, plus jewellery, crafts and health/beauty products. West Chiltington – 2nd Sat of month. 9am - 12.00pm. Village Hall
EVENTS LOCAL LIBRARIES HENFIELD First Tuesday of each month 2-4pm Knit and Natter, Rhyme time under 5’s Thursday 1015-1045 SHOREHAM Every 2nd Thursday of each month 130-3pm knit and natter Rhyme time under 5’s every Tuesday 1015-1045 and 113012pm Storytime Friday 210-140 under 5’sSTEYNING Knit and natter 2-4pm last Wednesday of each month, Rhyme time every Friday 215-145 under 5’s STORRINGTON Rhyme time Under 5s every Tuesday 1015-1115 AUGUST 5TH 10.30AM– 4PM The Shoreham Community Trust are proudly providing a free community event for which contributors are giving their time and performances for free. A day of celebrating traditional instruments and their music. Headlining The Rude Mechanicals who will give an insight to their instruments and a concert. Jose Leon will be providing a Flamenco Guitar Workshop (12 limited spaces and need some nylon stringed instrument experience, please email info@shorehamcentre. co.uk for you names to be put on the list). Dr James Westbrook will do a talk about the evolution of the guitar. Theresa Carey will be providing some history on the ukulele and a chords workshop.
LEGO BATMAN (U) Tuesday 8th August, 2.00pm, £3.50 There are big changes brewing in Gotham City and if he wants to save the city from The Joker’s hostile takeover, Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up. ‘Always be yourself…unless you can be Batman’. SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (PG) 97 mins Tuesday 15th August, 2.00pm, £3.50 Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons), role playing as two sets of enemy pirates. ‘Some summers you treasure forever’. THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS (PG) Tuesday 22nd August, 2.00pm, £3.50 A comedy about the life our pets lead after we leave them for the day. A beautifully animated, cheerfully undemanding family friendly diversion. ALADDIN (PG) Tuesday 29th August, 2.00pm, £3.50 ‘Dazzling, perilous and full of enticing entertainment’. ‘Aladdin is a film of wonders. It is delightful, the songs are wonderful, the acting is good. To see it is to be the smallest child open mouthed at the screen’s sense of magic as well as the most knowing adult’. Voiced by Robin Williams. Matinee A STREETCAT NAMED BOB (12A) Thursday 25th August, 2.00pm, £3.50 The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed by a stray ginger cat. Starring Luke Treadaway and Bob the Cat ‘Sometimes it takes nine lives to save one’.
2ND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH 7.30 - 9.30 PM (from September to May) Steyning History Society, The Steyning Centre. Contact: Pat Blackie (Secretary) 01903 812283 (Chairman) Ian Ivatt ianivatt.tax@btinternet.com Membership £10 per annum. Visitors £3 per meeting. Programme 2017: 13 September 2017 Mark Perry Nash, “Operation Sealion – the proposed invasion of Britain” 11 October 2017 Douglas Eaton “What the Vikings Did for us” 8 November 2017 Ian Pratt “The Arun Valley Postcard Trail” (Wey & Arun Canal Trust) 13 December 2017 Paul Green “History of the Evening Argus”.
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Gifts for Angels, set up by our deputy editor Michelle, is a online shop that sells unique graveside/Garden ornaments as well as a range of sympathy gifts. This site was set up in memory of Michelle’s daughter Lola, who sadly passed away from a Brain Tumour when she was just 2 years 8 months old. They support the charity Brain Tumour Research. The new and improved website was designed by Annie Murray whose company is AM Site design based in Steyning W. Sussex. Annie worked closely with Michelle to give her a professional, affordable,mobile friendly Website, which looks fabulous!
into soft ground at a person’s grave side or a special place in their garden. ‘I wanted something that was bright and fun Just like Lola was, everything available was so dark and depressing’ says Michelle. They also stock a range of sympathy gifts to include a Keepsake Boxs, engraved jewellery as well as some very unique sympathy cards. This gives others a chance to give a thoughtful gift at a time when all words fail... To view their website please go to: www.giftsforangels.co.uk or contact Michelle at michelle@giftsforangels.co.uk
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TOMMY’S FUN DAY • 17
SATURDAY 19TH AUGUST 2017 11AM-4PM BUCKINGHAM PARK, SHOREHAM BY SEA, WEST SUSSEX
IN AID OF TOMMY’S FUND
Tommy’s Charity Family Fun Day is on the 19th August at Buckingham Park Shoreham, West Sussex it’s a traditional fun day with a fun dog show, tug of war, cake competition, Craft Stalls, Food Stalls, Pimms & Beer Bar, entertainment, side shows and rides. Tommy’s Fund was set up by Jeanette Compton after her son Tommy Ramshaw was tragically killed on the way home from a night out in February 2016.
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Tommy’s Fund aims to support families that lose an older child aged 18 to 30 suddenly. Tommy’s Fund is there to help parents with some of the funeral costs and / or practical financial help after the funeral, we can help with rent, paying bills or even a weekend away to recoup.
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information on Tommy’s Fun day and Fund please see the website http://www.tommysfund.org.uk/
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Jasmine Gin Fizz
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A FORTNUM & MASON TEATAIL
I find it both a delight and a pain when brands send me cocktail ingredients. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE a cocktail, it’s just I’m one of those really lazy people who like to have a cocktail made for me, preferably by a handsome barman whilst I lay in a hammock around a pool somewhere tropical. I actually quite like making cocktails but they can be a bit of a faff and I don’t know if it’s just me but I always make an un-holy mess too. It’s all very well when you’re in a bar and you can throw the equipment into a sink and someone else washes up but at home you have to be quite dedicated to the art to want to be bartender for the night… and that’s what I love about this cocktail, it can be served in individual glasses but can also be more of a punch cocktail and served in a large bowl or teapot as I’ve done here. As well as championing the Fortnum & Mason Cocktail I’m also here to shout about a bit of a local phenomena, the Lincolnshire Gin. The good people at Pin Gin have created a very decent gin indeed and are proudly shouting about their local heritage… which of course makes me very happy.
• 2 measures Jasmine Gin • 1 measure fresh lemon juice • 2 teaspoons honey mixed with 2 teaspoons warm water • 1 large egg white • Ice • 1 measure chilled soda To make your Jasmine Gin, soak a tablespoon of Jasmine Pearl Tea in 200ml of gin for at least 12 hours, then strain and set aside. In a cocktail shaker, combine the 2 ounces of Jasmine Gin with the lemon juice, honey syrup and egg white and shake well. Add ice and shake again. Pour through a fine strainer into a chilled glass or china cup, stir in the soda and garnish with jasmine flowers or lemon wedges. F&M have many tea-based cocktails on their blog, so do check it out for inspiration!
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