Ashdown Forest Living April Edition

Ashdown Forest

Living Business Directory & Community Magazine serving the Residents of Ashdown Forest & nearby

Interview with

David Shepherd

Musing about Ashdown Forest

Gardening Tips

April 2011 | FREE

Covering: Nutley, Forest Row, Danehill, Chelwood Gate, Lindfield, Crowborough (West), Groombridge, Ashurst, Coleman’s Hatch, Fletching, Hartfield, Upper Hartfield, Frant, Sheffield Green, Hadlow Down, Wivlesfield, Maresfield and other places in & around the Ashdown Forest Area

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Dear Residents Welcome to the April Edition of the Ashdown Forest Living.

Thank you for all your fabulous feedback to the first part of the David Shepherd interview! As promised this month we bring you the second part.

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Contents Easter Competition

4

David Shepherd Interview

6,8

Musings about Ashdown Forest

12

Gardening Tips

14

What’s On

20

Index

30 This publication uses vegetable based inks on chlorine free paper

Borde Hill Garden opens up its Easter Bunny Trail for all 3-11 year-olds throughout the holidays.

For more information call: 01444 450326, visit: www.bordehill.co.uk The Ashdown Forest Living has one family ticket to give away for an enjoyable day out to one of the Great Gardens of Sussex, Borde Hill.

Competition question: In which county is Borde Hill?

Ashdown Forest Living Notice: Ashdown Forest Living prints various articles, features, and advertisements. Although these appear in Ashdown Forest Living, any opinions expressed are the opinion of the author, these are not necessarily the opinion of the publisher. © Copyright Ashdown Forest Living 2011. The contents of this publication are written specifically for our readers, no part may be reproduced elsewhere without express and prior permission.

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Children won’t want to wait until Easter to find the seasonal bunny, when they can start looking three weeks beforehand.

Email answers to: info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk, or write to: Borde Hill Gardens Competition, 33 Morton Road, East Recycle me Grinstead, W. Sussex, RH19 4AF. Closing date: 30th April’11.

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David Shepherd Interview

David gets a little bit frustrated for only being known as “the chap who has a print on the wall of Only Fools and Horses” (the much-loved iconic British sitcom). “When that programme started the BBC bought a print of mine called, Wise Old Elephant for the set. I’d sold the copyright years ago for £100.” Had he not sold the copyright it would have been a massive earner for him… “I have to tell people: ‘I do paint other things as well’”.

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started.

He admits to being useless at school. But as one of the legendary headmasters of Stowe, which he attended as a boy, told him: “It’s not what you know, it’s what you are”.

Growing up in the 1930s he had one ambition in life which was to be a game warden in Africa. “I’d never been abroad in my life, I had this arrogant idea I was god’s gift to the Kenyan National Park.” He flew out there only to be royally rejected.

“I came home at 21, my world in ruins. Having failed to be a game warden I had two choices to become a bus driver or artist. I decided to go to Slade School of Fine Art and they slung me out there too”.

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As promised, we continue our interview from last month of Hammerwood resident and world-renowned wildlife artist, David Shepherd. (For the first part of the interview visit our website to view the back issue online).

He was getting worried by this time. By sheer chance, fate or what have you David went to a cocktail party in Winchester (“I hate cocktail parties”, he said, “but I’m glad I went to this one”). There he met Robin Goodwin, a well-established professional artist who said, “I’m not going to teach you David, I don’t teach anybody. But bring me some of your work tomorrow, I’ll take a look”.

The next day he was so horrified at David’s work he told him, “Anybody who paints as badly as that,

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I’ve just got to teach”. In a true Henry-Higgins style project Robin Goodwin took on the teaching of David as a challenge. “He was brutal and taught me not only to be an artist but a business man”. Setting his work ethic out to David he told him, “you have to be up early on a Sunday morning, when it’s pitch black, even when it’s cold and raining, working ”.

Which is exactly what David does to this day, “I’ve little choice…with commissions to fulfil up to 18 months ahead!”

Entering the realm somewhat of ideologies David told me that he “can’t stand” the class system, that there’s still shreds of it around in the “stock-broker belt”. “Some of the finest friends I know are engine drivers I’ve met over the years. There are people ‘taking the train to Waterloo’, who wouldn’t dream of talking to people like that. It’s all wrong.”

I asked him about the rumoured German bomb buried in Hammerwood.

As a child during World War II David grew up in North London, “we had all our windows blown out by the Germans”. The children had great excitement at seeing Spitfires & Hurricanes, not really realising, of course, that people were dying.

“We used to swap bits of crashed aeroplanes at school”.

“I’m passionately interested in archaeological digs and it’s a fact that a German aircraft blew up over Hammerwood and left it’s trail of wreckage all the way along. And I’ve done a bit of research, it crashed opposite the church. Through one person and then another I got to know this chap who’s now in his 80s, he showed me exactly where it is. There’s a professional archaeologist who’s possibly interested in digging it up”. With allegedly 2 unexploded bombs still on board, excavation would not be for the faint-hearted!

We spoke again about conservation, “We are making such a mess of it (the

Self Portrait of David in his twenties

world).” David goes to schools for talks and asks children, “what’s the most dangerous animal in the world?” man being the answer. He believes conservation should be taught as a curriculum subject because it’s our future. “Children born today, when they are in their 80s, whatever is this planet going to be like?…” He admitted to almost being glad he won’t be around.

I can tell that education is a huge part of the David Shepherd Foundation’s philosophy.

David summarised, “I have a great debt of gratitude to wildlife so I must pay it back through my foundation. It’s wonderfully exciting to be able to put something back”.

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We are delighted to be able publish a piece about Ashdown Forest by author Winslow Eliot. Her novel Heaven Falls, has just won first place in the 2011 Reader Views Literary Awards, romance category.

The summer I turned eleven we moved to Oak Tree Cottage on the edge of Ashdown Forest, in East Sussex.

My parents chose this place to settle for several reasons, but for me the most important reason was that it was where A.A. Milne wrote Winnie the Pooh, and knowing that Christopher Robin (then about fifty years old) lived about five miles down the road.

tale countryside (I walked the mile to school, and weekends were spent mostly playing in the woods with friends or taking long solitary walks reciting poetry to myself), I felt more at home than I have ever felt before or since. All the familiar places you love in your favorite children’s story were there to be discovered and explored: Owl’s Tree, and the bridge where Pooh and Piglet played poohsticks, and Kanga’s sandy place, and the marshy place where Eeyore lived, which was carpeted with the most amazing bluebells in the spring. Best of all were the long walks to the Enchanted Place at the top of the forest, where we would picnic and lie on the pine needles and gaze at the sky.

I turned 18, when we sailed to the United States across the Atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth II. I left behind my friends, the boy I loved, the house of my dreams, and my childhood. Still I know this: wherever I go, and whatever happens to me on my way, “in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.”

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Ashdown Forest was also where W.B. Yeats honeymooned, and there was an unusual Waldorf school I attended through senior year, Michael Hall School, where I fell in love with writing and writers – most of them English.

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Gardening Tips for April Article by Michael Dongray, Imberhorne Lane Nursery Proprietor

Vegetables

Vegetable planting should now be well under way if ground conditions permit. Sow summer cabbage and Brussel sprouts. Sweet corn can be sown in pots or cells for planting out late May. Second early potatoes can be planted at the start of the month and maincrop ones at the end of the month. Many vegetable crops can be sown as seed this month – check the instructions on the packet. Broad beans, carrots, lettuces, spinach are just a few ideas. Plant shallots, garlic and onion sets as well as asparagus crowns in friable well-drained soil.

Shrubs and Flowers

After a wet spell mulch around camellias, rhododendrons and azaleas to help conserve moisture to ensure good flowering next year. Tie in new shoots on clematis, jasmine and climbing and rambling roses. Rose shoots should be kept as level as possible to promote growth of side shoots . Sow sweet pea seeds outside or plant out those you have grown over winter. Put the climbing structure, either a wigwam of frame with netting, in place. Put two seeds or plants to each cane. If you have a light soil you can start making sowings of hardy annuals. Sow into straight seed drills as this makes it easier to take out any weeds that will grow. Once the flowers are in bloom you will not be able to see the rows. Put in supports for perennials to grow through before they become too large. Use frames sold for this purpose and once the plants mature they will be hidden by the foliage. The more tender plants that had their stems left on to protect the crowns such as fuchsias and penstemons can now be pruned taking care not to cut out any new growth. Keep dead heading daffodils and tulips taking off only the flower and seed head.

Fruit

Plant strawberry plants in planters or hanging baskets for a pretty and delicious crop this summer. Protect fruit trees and gooseberries with netting. The blossom of peach, nectarine and apricot trees should be protected from frost with a cover of fleece. Remove it in the daytime to allow insects to pollinate.

Bulbs

Protect new spring shoots from frosts and slugs.... Split clumps of fertiliser on beds and borders and erect supports for herbaceous plants such as peonies, delphiniums and oriental poppies that would otherwise flop. Carry on lifting and dividing overgrown clumps of perennials and split polyanthus plants once they have finished flowering. Sprinkle general purpose and unsprouted dahlia tubers Sow sweet peas outdoors (soak the seeds overnight to improve germination) and plant out those raised under cover.

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What’s On 6th April

– April 2011

Forest Row Community Pre-school are holding a Style Evening with a Colour me Beautiful Style Consultant at Hambro Hall. 8pm start. Tickets £5.

Tickets available from pre-school 01342 825625.

Saturday 9th April

Rotary Club of Crowborough. Stroke Awareness Day. FREE blood pressure tests carried out by qualified medical staff. At Morrisons supermarket in Crowborough (this is a quick procedure).

Every year an estimated 150,000 people in the UK have a stroke - 1 person every 5 minutes. High blood pressure is one of the major risk factors which many people are unaware of as it usually has no obvious symptoms.

Until 9th April

Art at Cafe Baskerville Customers and those who appreciate art are enjoying the latest display of work by the Baskerville Artists on the walls at Cafe Baskerville on The Broadway, Crowborough.

Tuesday 12th – Saturday 16th April

Forest Players present “The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband” by Debbie Isitt at Forest Row Village Hall. 7.45pm. Phone 01342 323640 Friday, 15 April 2011

FILM: Living Without Money “Living Without Money” is a portrait of Heidemarie Schwermer, a German woman who has been living without money for 14 years. Through her story we can consider money’s influence on our way of thinking. 8- 10pm. Location: Brambletye Inn, Forest Row Contact: Mike Grenville 01342 825169 Saturday 16th & Sunday& 17th April

Crowborough Art Group is having it’s Spring Exhibition at St Mary’s RC School, Chapel Green, Crowborough on from 10am to 4 pm. Entry is free.

Enquiries to 01892 653556 Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th April

The Easter Forest Row Arts and Crafts Fair will not only be the largest and most varied arts fair in the village and surrounding area to date, it’ll also give all visitors the chance to make their mark in the art world in the Big Doodle! The Village Hall, Forest Row, 10am to 5pm. Contact: Alex Florschutz – alex@florschutz.com .

Sunday 17th April

Hartfield Fun Run, Town Croft, Hartfield, TN7 4AD. New Improved Route. 6 miles, 3.5 miles & 1.2 miles.

Walkers from 11:10am. All proceeds to the Hartfield Sports Pavillion Renovation Fund. Facilities: Car parking, toilets, showers, bag drop, refreshments, April 2011 • Ashdown Forest Living

barbecue, bar. For entry information see: www. hartfieldonline.com.

Good Friday, 22nd April

The Hartfield Singers’ concert is at Holy Trinity Church, Coleman’s Hatch at 7.30 pm. We shall be singing a programme of Spirituals and movements from Gounod’s Messe Solennelle conducted by Christopher Harris. Enquiries to Robert Jackson on 01342 823081 or see our website www.hartfieldsingers.co.uk.

Saturday 23rd April

Whodunnit? Celebrate St George’s day with a murder mystery evening and three course dinner at the Kent & Surrey Golf Club at 7 pm. For tickets call: 01732 868102. Eden Valley Museum, TN8 5AR. Until 4th May

New exhibition at the Ashdown Gallery Gavin Roweth, Mette Udsholt. Simplicity / Mood / Sensory. www.ashdowngallery.co.uk 7th May, Saturday

Concert by East Grinstead Sinfonia The East Grinstead Sinfonia are presenting a concert on behalf of the Forest Row Branch of the RNLI: Elgar, Strauss, Haydn, Brahms. 7.30 – 9:30pm at War Memorial Hall Nutley. Tickets £7.50 tel: 01342 327587 or 01825 712562. Licensed bar and raffle Easter Activity Days

Learning on the Land Do your children like being outdoors? Then Learning on the Land could be just for them. Each day brings exciting activities; the children get to cook their own lunch, learn about where food comes from and experience a range of crafts and plenty of play in the fields and woods nearby.

Dates 19th, 20th and 21st April 10-4pm daily Ages 6-11 £25 per day.

For more details visit www.lotl.org.uk or phone 01342-823627 Crowborough Photographers!

The Town postcard needs updating and the Council is asking all local photographers to submit photographs of the town and the surrounding area. The winning entry will then be printed on all new Crowborough postcards.

Please send your photographs, name, address, email address to: Crowborough Town Council.

Photographic Competition. The Town Hall. The Broadway. Crowborough.TN6 1DA.or email: caroline@crowboroughtowncouncil.gov.uk Submissions by 30th June ’11

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Ashdown Forest

Ranger’s

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staff team of six plus volunteer rangers will take two weeks to cover the forest.

Then it will be car park maintenance and hopefully the rides will be dry enough to get some drainage and repairs done. There is a high risk of forest fires this month in spite of the pring is here at last, the sap is rising ground being wet the deer grass and braken in the birch trees and it is nice to drive are very dry and fire can spread rapidly in 1.75 miles/3km home in the light. We have been busy the brisk early Spring winds. This is why there as usual. You may have seen Rangers out areinto bye-laws on From the forest roads felling Linton’s carrecently, park cross the roadside road (with care) Ridge about not lighting barbecues on the forest. We are seeing more people on trees. So if you got held up in a queue car park (summer only). Walk out of the rear past a seat onto the forest now which means spring must be of traffic by someone with a hi viz jacket a grass path and in about 50m turn left onto a ride.

Remain on here! and a chainsaw helmet on, thank you for this gently descending ride, ignoring another that bears off your patience. We were cutting down any Mike Yates, Ashdown Forest Ranger right, for about roadside tree that400m. may be a risk to passing traffic, so I hope that explains the delays.

TheOn operation is costly necessary and both left and right but are linear quarries, thanks to the expertise of our tractor drivers now filled with scrub and trees. Such Colin and Mike delays and risks are kept to quarries dot the Forest landscape and a minimum. This year we were using a new provided stone for roads. Typical heathland tractor mounted chipper which was bought For adults and children birdsFriends such asof nightjar, stonechat, tree pipit with native, experienced, by the Ashdown Forest, this made usually breed in this area and friendly tutor. All levels. theand jobwoodlark much easier. The Friends have for Conversation, business, the years ride edges in particular are one trucks of the that many supplied the rangers’ exams, etc. youbest seeplaces driving on Forest the forest. The next job is on the (indeed in Sussex) litter grass andflowers bracken topicking. The see, in May, the yellow of have the not Call Christine started so itpetty is a whin. good time to clear smallgrowing spiny shrub, on 07957 418008 all the verges of litter that has accumulated CRB Checked over the winter and there is loads of it. A full

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