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Pumpkin Pie Recipe 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

Contents

Welcome to the October Edition of the Ashdown Forest Living.

TLC Nurses

6

Pumpkin Pie Recipe

8

Starting a Charity at home

10

Bordering the Ashdown Forest, The Natural Bee Keeping Trust is a beacon of light in a sea of worries as regards the plight of bees in this country, See their article on page 12.

Natural Bee Keeping Trust

12

Mathjogs

14

Secondly a Hadlow Down couple, so compelled by the need to do something for the orphans of Romania, have actually started their own charity, Open Hands. See their article on page 10.

Gardening Tips

16

Cats Protection

18

Whats On

20

Memories of Nutley

21

Index

22

Seemingly in answer to our request for charities to get in touch with us we stumbled upon two important, close-tohome causes:

As it’s the season of the pumpkin (see our front cover!) we have been provided a mouth-watering recipe from Forest Row based, Stuff2Eat. With so many pumpkins readily available it’s well worth a go.

Try our “Quick Quiz” on page 22 and see what you score!

Once again please forward all your charity, community & events to us so we can assist you with promotion.

This publication uses vegetable based inks on chlorine free paper

All the best for a good month & Happy Halloween.

Tally & Chris The Ashdown Forest Living Team

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• recipe

Pumpkin Pie

It’s that wonderful time of year, as the evenings start to draw in, the air becomes crisper and the smell of bonfires catch us thinking about autumn. It’s time to celebrate the great harvests around us – we are surrounded by fantastic farms, all of whom grow amazing vegetables and fruits, and now is the time of the squash and pumpkin.

This is a simple, but amazing tasting pie to set off a great roast dinner.

Method

Ingredients »

1 Pumpkin or butternut squash (at least 1lb of flesh)

Shortcrust pastry: » » »

250g flour 125 butter 25g fine caster sugar

Filling: » » » » » »

3 eggs 100g muscovado sugar 2 tablespoons plain flour ½ tsp of grated nutmeg ½ tsp ground ginger ½ tsp ground cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C or 350 farenheit. Peel, de-seed and cut up the pumpkin and/or butternut squash and weigh out 1lb of the flesh. If you prefer you can roast the flesh as this caramalises the sugars and adds extra flavour to the pie. Pop it in for 20 – 30 minutes, take out and puree in blender.

Sweet shortcrust pastry:You can buy it or quickly put it together with half fat to flour i.e. 250g flour, 125g butter, 25g fine caster sugar and 9 tablespoons of water. Put flour and butter in bowl and mix with your hands until it is like breadcrumbs, add the sugar and slowly add the water until it is the right consistency, roll it into a ball and cover with clingfilm and put it in the fridge – you will need approx 400 - 450g of chilled pastry The filling:Mix 3 eggs, 100g muscovado sugar, 2 tablespoons of plain flour, half teaspoon of grated nutmeg, ground ginger and ground cinnamon. Put the puree into the bowl and gently mix together and then slowly add the milk. Put aside.

Roll the pastry out large enough to fill a greased 23cm x 2.5cm dish. Gently lower the pastry into the dish, making sure it covers it well, then cut around the dish with a knife or pinch together with your fingers to give the pie a good finish.

Pour in the into the pie, brush the pastry with some milk, this will give it a lovely brown colour.

Pop it into the preheated oven 190 degrees C (375 farenheit) for 40-45 minutes, check half way through, if necessary put foil around the pastry edges (very hot use oven gloves). You are looking for the filling to set.

Fabulous with cream and a dusting of icing sugar.

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Starting a charity at home

A couple from Hadlow Down, a small village which borders the Ashdown Forest, have been so moved by the plight of Romanians shunned by society that they decided to take the initiative and start their own charity. Stephen & Rebekka Maughan have already funded a new playround for Romanian Orphans. Please support their far-reaching yet home-grown charity as you can, to help those far less fortunate than ourselves.

Here is the background story: Two years ago my wife volunteered for a charity based in Oradea, Romania to work with abandoned and neglected children at the local hospital, and also in a Roma village. She came back, transformed and heartbroken from what she saw. Last year, our two young children (aged 3 and 1) joined her on a trip to Brasov, doing similar work for another charity. As a journalist, I had written a number of articles about childcare and corruption in Romania, but once you meet a under-nourished and uneducated Roma child living in a tiny shack with no roof, or a baby left at a under-staffed October 2010 • Ashdown Forest Living

hospital it changes your life.

I remember walking in the Ashdown forest one morning, and despite the beauty of the forest I couldn’t get the images of abandoned children I had seen out of my head.

Like many I had assumed the problems of Romania had ended once and for all when it joined the EU back in 2007. At the time one of the conditions of joining was that Romania would close all it’s notorious large state orphanages. Yet, behind the scenes children continue to suffer. The Romanian Head of Social Inspection recently stated that 92.5% of the children in state care don’t have any toys, and 65% have no toiletry and hygiene supplies. A joint UNICEF and World Bank study last year suggested that Romania’s state services “are either insufficient or lacking the necessary quality to effectively protect the most in need children.”

Starting our own charity, Open Hands, seemed the natural response to all this.

With local support we raised funds to build a playground this year for a children’s home (run

by Fara charity). We visited the home last month,and it

was moving to see the children enjoying their new playground, and how easy it can be to make a difference to their lives.

We support a group of orphan girls in their mid twenties, all from the Ceausescu era who have suffered unimaginable abuse. Mentally scared, and in desperate need of care and love, these girls live together in a little flat with 24 hour care.

We also work with impoverished Roma people and have just arranged a sight-saving eye operation for a young Roma boy.

Open Hands latest project is to work again with Fara to start a daycare centre for children with autism in Suceava, Northern Romania.

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Saving our Honeybees

In recent years there have been worrying colony losses worldwide and the health of the honeybees has been compromised due to a variety of different factors, environmental and otherwise. We asked the Natural Beekeeping Trust based at Plawhatch Farm, which borders the Ashdown Forest, to provide more information: The Natural Beekeeping Trust (Patron Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate).

The Trust’s aim is to promote awareness of ways of beekeeping which take as their starting point the nature and needs of the bees, rather than maximising honey yields.

Home to the Natural Beekeeping Trust, Plaw Hatch Farm is a co-operative biodynamic farm near Sharpthorne, on the edge of the Ashdown Forest.

The keeping of bees on farms makes good common sense, and Plaw Hatch has long upheld this tradition. We hear in the USA of colonies being shipped from one end of the country to the other in their thousands.

We have also seen the heart rending photographs of trucks overturned and the air thick with clouds of disorientated and distressed bees, many of which have to be destroyed…

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pollinated, and as long as there is a surplus, we can share in the bounty of delicious honey and pure beeswax.

In this context the word ‘surplus’ is all important. There is no true honey surplus if we have taken the bees’ winter stores and replaced them with sugar. The fact that bees can, and have, survived on sugar feeding is no reason to suppose that it does them no harm in the long term. If we also consider the myriad manipulations which are regularly visited on bees by many beekeepers, a picture of something akin to factory farming arises. One unfortunate result of such practices has been the devaluation of honey into a sort of cheap flavoured sugar paste, rather than the precious life sustaining substance it should be. The biodynamic method of beekeeping differs markedly from that of conventional and commercial beekeeping. Some of the principles are given below: • The bees build natural honeycomb without the use prefabricated wax.

• The body of the hive is constructed of natural material.

• The queen is not confined to the brood box by a mesh panel, but is allowed to roam throughout the hive. Her wings are not clipped and neither is she replaced systematically by the beekeeper. Thus, the unique relationship between

the queen, the workers and the drones is honoured.

• Enough stores of the bees’ own honey and pollen are left in the hive for their use, and only in an absolute emergency is any sugar fed.

• The bees use their own pollen and are not stimulated into early colony growth by artificial pollen feeds, which, curiously, are usually made of soya and yeast • The beekeeper takes all possible steps to maintain the vitality of the colony, using only biodynamically approved control measures against disease, and guarding against causing unnecessary stress.

The Natural Beekeeping Trust is devoted to the well being of the honey bee, and supporting methods of husbandry which are bee friendly and sustainable.

We feel that this is the only way to ensure the recovery and long term health of the honey bee.

The Trust also gives beekeeping courses and talks as well as representing natural beekeeping at various events (see website). To become a friend of the Natural Beekeeping Trust go to www. naturalbeekeepingtrust.org.

On Friday 8th October 2010 there will be a talk organ sed by the Trust entitled ‘A Better World for Bees – what can we do?’

8pm at the Village Hall, Forest Row. Beekeepers and non beekeepers are welcome.

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MathJogs is part of the MathRiders programme.

MathRiders, for ages 11 to 18, should be available later in the year.

The Method In the UK MathJogs is new, however it is one of the methodologies created by the Helen Doron Educational Group that is a trusted household name in over 30 countries. HDEG has been established for 25 years and has taught over one million children worldwide.

How MathJogs differs from other forms of maths tutoring MathJogs lessons are fun and interactive. Each well planned lesson lasts 50 to 60 minutes and uses several elements to make the lesson fun, creative and enjoyable. These activities include brain jogs, musical activities, stories, songs, hands -on props and workbooks.

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the lessons,it reinforced the basics and logic of maths. It showed how much fun it can be. There is no doubt that the grounding

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

Vegetables

By mid October pick all tomatoes weather they are ripe or not.

Towards the end of the month cut back Asparagus to the ground.

Mulch to a depth of about 4 inches. Begin preparation of vegetable beds for the spring.

Bulbs

Fruit

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Lawns

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Lift and store Begonias, Dahlia and Gladiolus.

Continue planting Crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and other spring flowering bulbs.

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It’s A Cat’s Life at Cats Protection

By Krystyna O’Brien

The National Cats Protection Centre (NCAC) in Chelwood Gate is much more than just a cats’ home. Tania Marsh, Deputy Manager, gave me a tour.

about 120 cats enter the home each month and the same number re-homed, with a cat’s average length of stay in the Centre being 3-4 months.

I was immediately surprised by the size, cleanliness and modernity of the Centre, which is tucked away just off the A275 Lewes Road.

All cats get fed two or three times a day, and the kittens up to four times a day. Some kittens have to be hand-reared (these on occasion are taken home by staff who feed them every two hours, including through the night).

The reception is bright, spacious and welcoming, and includes a children’s play area. Its atmosphere is loving and caring. Those cats that need re-homing the most, are allowed to wander free in reception meeting and greeting the visitors. As Tania said, this gets them re-homed faster.

Cats Protection is a charity and receives no government funding.

Instead it relies on regular donations, bequeathments and events to bring in much-needed funds.

It has an on-site vet, who works Monday – Friday, and two full-time veterinary nurses.

Tania actively encourages all owners to get their pets micro-chipped. One such cat had been missing for three years. Its owners were both shocked and thrilled when they received the phone call from the NCAC saying that their cat had turned up.

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All cats over 4 months old are neutered before leaving the centre.

Once a cat has been chosen, the new owners have a home visit, whereby risks are assessed and the suitability of the environment is ascertained.

If all goes well at this stage, the cat can be re-homed.

There are around 250 branches of Cats Protection around the country and most of these are volunteerled.

Chelwood Gate is lucky in that it has a full-time staff and many dedicated volunteers, who cuddle the cats and do home visits.

Cats Protection is only able to survive because of its volunteers.

For more information, make a donation or to become a volunteer, contact NCAC on 01825 741330 or visit their website at www.ncac. cats.org.uk info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk • tel: 01342 300152

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NHS Dental Care

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Patients have found this to be an invaluable tool which helps them understand the condition of their teeth.

“Clients have commented on Just a short trip to Forest Row

Dr Harunani oversees several

the time the dentist spends with

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successful Dental Centres across

them explaining the different

recently opened Riverview Dental

the South East, the Riverview

treatment options in a transparent

centre offering NHS Dental care.

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an NHS Dentist, can offer clients

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& surrounding towns & villages.

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service consistently.”

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of the latest equipment & a

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What’s On – October 2010

Friday 8th October 2010 A Better World for Bees. After some short presentations about the situation of the honeybee today, we will propose practical ways in which everyone can help.

8-10pm.Village Hall, Forest Row, RH18 5ES Saturday 9th October Mansion Market, Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row11.00 - 4pm. Free admission and parking. In and around the beautiful 18th century mansion set in the heart of the Ashdown Forest over 70 stallholders will be offering products from organic bakery to jewellery and much more besides. There will be an all-day cafe and the chance for children to see a llama and a delightful puppet show.

Saturday 9th October 2010 Choral concert in aid of St. Peter & St. James Hospice.

Conductor Levon Parikian. Programme - Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Mozart - Linz Symphony, Handel ‘Let thy hand be strengthened’, Vivaldi - Gloria.

St.Margaret the Queen Church, Buxted Park, Buxted, TN22 4AY 7:30pm. Tickets £12 from St. Peter & St. James Shop, 94 High Street, Uckfield and Five Ash Down Post Office.

Saturday 9th October Crowborough Miniature Railway Diesel Gala. Train will run between 2:30pm & 5:00pm. Goldsmiths Leisure centre, Eridge Road, Crowborough.

Sunday 10th October The 1st Forest Row Scout Group is celebrating their centenary this year. We will be holding a “Fun Run and Walk” from Forester’s Green, Hartfield Road in Forest Row. Registration is from 9.30am, with the 10km event starting at 10.30am and the 5km event at 10.45am.

Any queries, please contact Nicky Marrable (nicky. marrable@btinternet.com or 01342 825956) Tuesday 12th October 2010 In aid of Elizabeth Finn Care and Turn2us. Over 55 stalls, plus ‘The Beauty Box’ and café. Fee: £4, including raffle ticket 10am to 4pm. South of England Showground, Selsfield Road, Ardingly, RH17 6TL. Tel: 01342 850474 Saturday 16th October Hadlow Down Winterfest, The Playing field, School Lane. Great fireworks, children’s entertainer, BBQ, bar,cakes and sweets. Torchlight procession from the school at 6.15pm.Fireworks from 7.30pm. Admission one very large firework per family. Contact Brenda Johnsonon on 01825830400 or email brendaboj@ hotmail.co.uk Sunday, 17th October Come and discover the art of looking for signs of wildlife within suburban Sussex. Search for the tracks, and other clues that animals leave behind in ancient woodland and meadows. Blunts Wood Crescent car park, Haywards Heath. Sorry no dogs. Contact on the day 07793 658694. Donations appreciated. Booking essential please ring Philip Haskell on 01444 414381 (evenings) October 2010 • Ashdown Forest Living

Thursday 21st October Come and celebrate Trafalgar Day with adventure on the high seas at Forest Row Library. Sussex author Roger Paine will give a humorous talk about his 28 years service in the Royal Navy. To book your ticket phone 0845 60 80 195 and ask for Forest Row Library.,2.30pm to 4pm, Fee £1.

Saturday 23 Oct 2010 to Sunday 31 Oct A Spooktakular! week of ghastly ghouls and wicked witches. Borde Hill Gardens, Balcombe Road, RH16 1XP Tel: 01444-450326 Saturday October 23rd Fletching Bonfire Society. Big procession comprising most of the Sussex Bonfire Societies and marching bands.

Bonfire, fireworks & the famous Fletching flame balls. Starts 7pm. Village closed to traffic from 6pm.

Wednesday 27 October Fungi Identification Day. Why not have a fun forage on the Forest and bring your findings to the Forest Centre for identification! 11am – 4pm, The Ashdown Forest Centre, Wych Cross, Forest Row, RH18 5JP Friday 5th November Lindfield Bonfire Society. 6.30pm Start Approx. Torchlit Processions with Visiting Societies, Marching Bands, Bonfire and Firework Display.

Crowborough Firework Display, Goldsmiths Recreation Ground. Beacon lit at 7.15pm , Firework display at 7.30pm.

Saturday 13th– Monday 15th November Art Exhibition/Open Weekend. See the latest pastel landscape paintings, prints and cards by Ashdown artist, Juliet Murray. Ashdown Christmas cards / antique& decorative prints. Special exhibition offers . Further details 01825 712565/www.cogcraft.co.uk.

Cogcraft, Clockhouse Lane, Nutley, Sat.& Sun. 11.15am – 5.30pm/Mon.9.30am – 5pm. Note: Please park in the village at peak times.

Forest Row Film Society presents Growing food locally - Thurs 7th Oct, 8pm. Growing Food Locally is a new 30 minute documentary produced by Transition Forest Row. The film looks at local food production around Forest Row and reflects on how other communities can learn from what is happening here. Essential viewing!

Willian Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet - Fri 5th Oct, 8pm: Baz Luhrmann’s hip, modern setting. 12 120 min 1996. £5/£4, with introductory talk at 7pm in Peter Griffits Hall.

Milk - Fri 22nd Oct, 8pm: Gus van Sant’s acclaimed film about story of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn), the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California. 15 127 min 2009. £5/£4 Dirt - 29th Oct, 8pm: Film about soil, the most fundamental of nature’s resources. 80 min 2010.

All showings at Forest Row Village Hall

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Memories of Nutley…

Cogcraft Concepts

Forest Bank Farm, Clockhouse Lane, Nutley TN22 3NZ 01825 712565 Ashdown Forest and Sussex original paintings, prints & cards by pastel artist, Juliet Murray

The Rev’d Canon S I Pulford as a young boy with his family.

With the 70 year anniversary of the declaration of war recently passing the Rev’d Canon S. I. Pulford recounts: Memories of Nutley: The Day War Broke Out I was sitting in church with my sister Lois and our mother. I can’t remember the first hymn, but if it was a sunny September morning it could have been “When morning gilds the skies” (one of my father’s favourites!). As it was 300 yards from Nutley Vicarage to the church we would have had to hurry a bit as the five-minute bell was ringing.

There was a tense feeling in the air, as there were evidence all around of “being prepared” for what not of. Negotiations, rumours, announcements….

Father had his ear glued to the wireless to hear the latest news. Lots of khaki clad soldiers added to a heightening of unease. So it seemed very unusual when the church door opened and Mr Ryall the headmaster hurried up the aisle to speak to my father who then made the announcement which we had all been anticipating, that War had been declared.

For us children, I was fourteen years old and in the middle of my schooling, it brought a sense of excitement, but our parents remembered all too clearly all they had gone through only twenty years before as they had both been very involved in the traumas of the Great War (World War I).

Also antique & decorative prints Huge amount to see – come & browse

Annual Exhibition/Open Weekend 13th – 15th November – see What’s On page Info/online gallery:www.cogcraft.co.uk Other times: please phone for appointment Visa/Mastercard accepted

WASPS • RATS • MICE • BEES • FLEAS ANTS • COCKROACHES • DEER • FOXES SQUIRRELS • RABBITS • MOLES ETC

Of course, school came to a sudden halt. Panic and evacuation changed everyone’s lives.

Harrow High School was moved out of London and filled what had been a hotel in Nether Lane, Nutley. I was found a place there, but it was short lived as the powers that decided that the furtherance of my education was not conducive to National Security. At much the same time, (it was all of seventy years ago!) my father felt it wiser to accept a living in the far west of Cornwall, which was the saddest part of my whole life, saying farewell to that lovely old Vicarage, dear Nutley, where in the attic I had my first and only electric train set up – “0” gauge Horby GWR….

Rev’d Canon S I Pulford info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk • tel: 01342 300152

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Useful Contacts

- Support Local Business Food

15 stuff2eat 8 Beauty Wiltshire Farm Food 13 Diana Beauty 7 Garden Services/Centres Penumbra Blinds Blinds & Curtains

Café/Function Venue/ Restaurant/Bar

Imberhorne Lane Nursery 17 JH Vartan 11 Pete Payne

Hair

Yew Lodge 5

Choir & Singing Workshop HeartSong

Cleaning The Clean Machine

Computer Services Ashdown IT Support

Dental Riverview Dental Centre

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14

Fitness/Health/Wellbeing TLC Nurses Lotte Berk Fitness Studio Family Chiropractic Clinic MJ Reflexology AtlasPROfilax

Finishing Touch 5

Home Maintenance Services

15 Ron, Handyman Allzones Roofing & Conversions 23 Mid Sussex Timber MRM Plastering 11 Storaheat

Family/Children’s Activities Education Mathjogs

16 15 15

6 9 23 9 9

Kitchens Bespoke Kitchens

Phone – enquiries: 0345 60 80 196 Uckfield Library Phone – renewals: 0345 60 80 195 Phone – enquiries: 0345 60 80 196 Citezens Advice Bureaux Crowborough: 01892 655303 Uckfield: 01825 764940 East Grinstead: 0844 477117 Sussex Police (non-emergencies) 0845 607999 Crowborough Police

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Uckfield Police Station:

Station: 01323 414098

APM

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Phone – renewals: 0345 60 80 195

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SUDOKU

Quick Quiz 1:

Fawlty Towers was supposedly set in which seaside town?

2:

In ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, what substance made the hound look ghostly?

3:

“The Lord of the Rings” was written as a sequel to which book?

4:

What is the world’s largest island?

5:

“Marty McFly” the famous movie character was played by which actor?

6:

Which famous spy novelist wrote the children’s story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

7:

If Liverpool won in 2006, and Chelsea won in 2007, who won in 2008?

8:

Who is the only Oscar winning actress to have played a Bond girl in an official James Bond film?

9:

In which film is it first revealed that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker’s father?

Can you score 10/10?

10: Who did Rocky fight for the title in the original film?

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Forest Row Library

Answers to Quick Quiz

Portsmouth (FA Cup) Halle Berry The Empire Strikes Back Apollo Creed

Blinds

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1:

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1: 2:

Astrology

Crowborough Library

3:

Cogcrafts Concepts

Michael Wall 7 21 Natural face rejuvenation 7

Torquay Phosphorous The Hobbit Greenland Michael J Fox Ian Fleming

Art

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