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Dear Residents, Welcome to the September issue. We hope you’re having a lovely Summer so far... fingers crossed for an Indian Summer this year, we deserve it! The Bluebell Railway celebrates its 60th anniversary, see our feature with exciting news. The Llama park in Ashdown Forest has a wonderful story about a baby-boom happening this Summer. It is well worth supporting, so please do pay a visit if you can.
Bluebell Railway Bursts Back to Life
Anne Boleyn’s childhood home Hever Castle is just up the road from the forest - we have a short feature about her and Hever. Thank you for supporting our local businesses, I’m sure they appreciate it more than ever.
Anne Boleyn & Hever Castle
Please do send through any events, and if you are a local charity or community group please drop a line. All the best for September, Tally & Chris Ashdown Forest Living To advertise call 01342 300152 info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk www.ashdownforestliving.co.uk FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
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Baby Boom at The Llama Park
Last year in July we bought a male llama stud from an Emu farm, of all places, in Hereford. He was quite hairy and had a sort of ‘lions’ mane so we called him Leo.
He was quite small for a male llama and did not settle in very well and so we were quite disappointed as most of the ladies just ignored him and did not respond to his advances, or so we thought... .... until Sunday 19th July this year (a year to the day that we bought him) when late in the afternoon we discovered twin baby girl llamas, known as "crias", in a paddock with their mum Skye who is 9 years old. The birth of twins is exceptionally rare in 'camelids', 30,000 to 1 chance, so this was a major surprise to us and has made waves in the llama-world. One of the babies did not look well and so we got our lovely vet to have a look at her and some friends of ours who are local Alpaca breeders, Vicky and Chris Agar, provided us with some camelid plasma which was given to 'Spotty' and she has been doing very well ever since.
We called her sister 'Polo' and 'Spotty' has been renamed 'Beth' after one of our lovely livestock girls. Then to our great surprise on Tuesday 21st (just two days later) we had a third birth. The mother is 'Lulu' who is also 9 years old. This was another little girl 'cria' who we have named 'Farah' after a dear friend of ours. Well, we thought, that is amazing as we had not expected anything from Leo and had thought he was shooting blanks. But no, he was not! On Wednesday 22nd July Skye's daughter, Rain who is 3 years old, gave birth to a very strong and handsome little boy who has been named Willy after another of our livestock staff. By now Leo has become something of a famous stud so we determined to give him a
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1 0 BABY BOOM AT THE LLAMA PARK CONTINUED name change to 'Casanova' see him in one of the photos after having been to the hairdresser on July 28th and now he looks like what he is, a real stud. Now we had four baby llamas which we had not expected and Casanova is now worth a fortune... However, the story does not end there as on Saturday 1st August another one of our lady llamas, Rhea, who is 12 years old and the biggest of the female llamas (so no pushover for a small stud like Casanova) gave birth to yet another very pretty female cria who has yet to be named but has very nice 'white socks'. So, we all asked, is Rhea the last of Casanova's lady friends to give birth? No! And so we had number "Six" as she is now called, while we think of a better
name. Six is beautiful and so lively and just like the youngest sister in a family running around making trouble and really enjoying herself. She races about and all the other babies follow her annoying the mothers. We still have four females who have not (as yet anyway) fallen to the charms of Casanova so who knows what might happen next. At the park we have a very big marquee with socially distanced tables. We are using this as our restaurant for now. All the food and drinks are served in disposable containers. Llama walks are now being carried out and the playground and bouncy castle are available for all the little ones. The shop is also open by appointment and we have a good range of gifts and toys.
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Anyone remember a very loud, very huge, mystery BANG that happened in East Grinstead in 1957? It made the papers and had Greenwich observatory wondering if it was a meteorite and locals wondering if it was a plane crash or bomb… well, after all these years, Martin Horsfall reveals the cause:
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our house in Imberhorne Lane. So, under cover of darkness (I was only 2 so don't remember it) they let it off. It made a huge bang and all the front doors in the road simultaneously opened to see what on earth had happened. The two of them hid in a hedge for a couple of hours until it was safe to come out and were given a right suitable ticking off by their respective wives. The explosion was reported in the papers and gained much local attention…It’s been a wellkept family secret until now!’ Martin Horsfall
‘It was my grandad's doing. He had acquired some "ordnance" from his time in the Home Guard in Leeds, he said it was “blank" and just used for practice manoeuvres. Thinking it was time he got rid of it, he thought it would be a good wheeze to bring it down from Leeds in the back of his Jag and detonate it, with help from my dad, in the field opposite
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Chicken & banana korma recipe This mild chicken curry is packed full of flavour and it’s healthier than a standard takeaway korma.
Ingredience • 2 tsp vegetable oil • 500g skinless, boneless uncooked chicken breasts, chopped • 1 large onion, chopped • 1 apple, cored and chopped • 2 cloves of garlic, crushed • 2 tbsp korma curry paste • 400ml vegetable or chicken stock • 25g sultanas or raisins • 25g chopped ready-to-eat apricots • 300g easy-cook long grain brown rice • 1 tbsp cornflour • 1 banana, sliced • 4 tbsp plain yoghurt • 1 tbsp fresh coriander, chopped (to garnish) • 1 pinch ground black pepper
Method Heat the vegetable oil in a large saucepan. Add the chicken, onion, apple and garlic, and cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring often. Add the curry paste and cook for a few seconds, stirring. Add the stock, raisins or sultanas and apricots. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer, partially covered, for 35 minutes. Add a little more stock or water, if necessary. Brown rice takes 30-35 minutes to cook, so put it in plenty of simmering water. Just before serving, blend the cornflour with 2 tbsp cold water and add to the curry, stirring until thickened. Slice in the banana, cooking gently for another few moments. Check the seasoning, adding pepper, if needed. Serve, topping each portion with 1 tbsp yoghurt and accompanied with the rice. Garnish with coriander, if using.
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One of the most famous historical figures in British history Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I, grew up at Hever Castle, not far from the Ashdown Forest. Then called Lancaster Great Park, the forest would have been known to the Boleyns as Henry VIII had a hunting lodge there. Hever is a double-moated castle and visitors are able to view Anne’s childhood bedroom and two prayer books owned and signed by her are also on display. The daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard, Anne was educated in the Netherlands and
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Hundreds of passengers have returned to the Bluebell Railway after it reopened and marked 60 years of operating as a heritage line. Last month the railway resumed running steam trains which coincided with its 60th birthday celebration. Part of the celebrations included e-greetings cards recorded by railway enthusiasts and transport organisations such as, TV presenter Sir Tony Robinson, TV presenter and Bluebell volunteer Nicholas Owen, toy manufacturer Hornby and the London Transport Museum. Bluebell Railway chairman Chris Hunford welcomed volunteers and visitors back to the Sheffield Park station. Founders who started running the steam trains again, all those years ago, were present.
In a ceremony to mark the reopening after a 20-week closure, Mr. Hunford said: “It was on this very spot 60 years ago – on 7th August 1960 – that the first passenger train left this station as the dream of railway enthusiasts to operate their own line came true. They were pioneers of the heritage railway movement, paving the way for groups across the country to open disused lines and run standard gauge preserved railways.” He added, “The Bluebell Railway has seen sixty years of progress – we’ve overcome obstacles, extended our track, reopened stations and been able to connect to the mainline at East Grinstead and developed into a major tourist attraction. This all came to a juddering halt in March, we had to close and look at our future and the uncertainty around it. But
thanks to the generosity of our members, volunteers, friends, supporters and the wider community, we were able to run a successful emergency appeal allowing us to generate the revenue needed to reopen in a safe and controlled manner.”
Young Bluebell enthusiast and guest of honour One train-mad youngster who gave all his saved-up pocket money to save the steam railway he loves had
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Elton John fans chance to recreate album cover It’s been a long time coming, but now you can tell everybody there is the chance to follow in the footsteps of Sir Elton John and be pictured in the same spot as one of his album covers.
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one afternoon I was locking up the museum when a young couple came along and declared, ‘It must be here’. I inquired as to what was ‘here’ and they told me the story of Elton John and the cover for his album Tumbleweed Connection. “They proceeded to take photos with the gentleman sat in the exact spot Elton sat. It’s exactly 50 years since the album was released and we are celebrating 60 years, so we thought it would be a good idea to encourage Elton’s fans to come and take their picture at the scene.” The museum team painstakingly reset the enamel signs that were outside the building in 1970 in the exact positions and cleaned them ready for the photo opportunity. These include signs for Sunlight soap, Rowntree’s chocolates, Mazawattee tea, Shelvey’s mineral waters and Rajah cigars. The Nestle’s milk chocolate bar dispensing machine had also been relocated to another station but it was “still standing” (oh yes!). It was carefully repainted and placed in its original position by volunteers. Visitors have now started recreating the album cover and the Bluebell is encouraging them to share their images on social media.
New this Autumn: SteamLights This festive steam train light show will be the first of its kind in the South East. Visitors will be treated to an amazing display along the way, with festive scenes among the clearings and a colourful light show orchestrated in time with music and narration. Steamlights will be a unique addition to any family’s calendar this Christmas: a steam train experience not to be missed. Tickets are sold per compartment to allow for social distancing measures. First class compartments seat up to six adults and third class up to eight adults. Passengers can also order Christmas hampers full of seasonal treats to enjoy during the journey. The Bluebell Railway has adapted its services and is running trains with separate compartments as well as special dining trains with prepared food. All tickets have to be pre-booked online. Further details at www.bluebell-railway.com. The emergency funding appeal is at uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fund/supportbluebell The Bluebell Railway will put on a major celebration for the 60-year anniversary in 2021.
Tumbleweed Connection was Elton John’s third studio album and it reached No. 2 in the UK album charts. Sir Elton is one of many singers who have visited or used the Bluebell’s period stations for promotional filming. Others include Cilla Black, Ringo Starr, Sheena Easton and the Pet Shop Boys.
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