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July 2018

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We hope you’re enjoying the summer sun.

This month we have an article about our much beloved hedgehogs who need a bit of a helping hand - we hope you find it informative.

Local Olympian Richard Leman, who has done so much for hockey in this country, last month received a very special award. We have a Q&A with him exclusively for our readers.

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Walking Route: Gravetye Circular High Weald Landscape Trail, Historic Houses, News from Forest News Lakes, Vineyards & Woodland

Helping our Hogs

We also have news from Forest Row with an update about the Venue on the Green.

The fabulous Uckfield Festival is on this month, there is too much information to put in an article, but we’ve mentioned some events - more on the website!

Enjoy Forestry Commission enchanting woodland and streams.

Walk part of the scenic High Weald Landscape Trail.

Thank you for supporting our local businesses this summer, we hope you can find the services you need for your home/garden goals.

If you are a charity or community group that needs help, please drop us a line any time.

All the best for a lovely July!

Explore William Robinson land and take in the views of Gravetye Manor and Kingscote Estate. Victorian English garden author William Robinson previously owned 1000 acres of Kingscote Valley land. Gravetye Manor was built in 1598 and following William Robinson’s ownership, the gardens are of historical importance. The unique one and a half acre elliptical kitchen garden with 12ft sandstone walls is one of the largest in England.

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Distance: 6km (3.7 miles) with shorter 5km option Duration: 1.5 - 2 hours Terrain: includes steep paths Dog friendly: off lead except for when walking on lanes.

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COLOUR & TEXTURE ABOUNDS

This Year’s Soft Furnishing Trends

By Nikki Mitchell, Sofas & Stuff Well this year minimalism has been well and truly shoved out the way by maximalism! Chintz and clashing colours and patterns are all the rage and velvets don’t show any signs of being a passing phase.

This may well sound a bit daunting particularly when it comes to choosing large items like sofas that you want to keep and adapt to future colour schemes. Fortunately there are ways to achieve this look; you can’t go wrong by applying layers and layers of colour and texture.

Start with pastels (another hot trend) as a base, use soft sage, sand or very pale pink and then add oversize, squashy scatters in bold colours or prints.

You can do the same with walls, keep them pale but interesting and then add colourful blinds or even just trims to curtains. Pom-Pom fringing is making itself well and truly seen on accessories.

Botanical prints are very popular this year and work perfectly with colourful velvets, take a look at these gorgeous ones on the cushions and chairs we are doing in collaboration with The Pink House.

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THIS YEAR’S SOFT FURNISHING TRENDS

Fortunately, this look is possible to achieve and would still be practical as there are lots of stain resistant, hard wearing fabrics available that won’t break the bank!

Choosing a colour scheme can be a bit daunting if you are starting from scratch, so our advice is don’t stray too far away from what you already love. Take a look in your wardrobe and see what colours you choose to wear and build from there.

Add some throws in clashing patterns, some bold, bright accessories and a statement rug and you will be embracing the current ‘more-is-more’ approach to decorating.

If colour is not for you then focus on texture, start with warm greys and mix with natural earthy tones.

Contrast linen with woven scatters or velvet fabrics with chunky knitted monochrome throws.

Alternatively come in to see us at Sofas & Stuff in Eridge, near Tunbridge Wells with some photos of your home and we will happily help you.

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WAKEHURST’S THE WONDER PROJECT This summer Wakehurst is hosting a brand new interactive arts event in its stunning 500-acre grounds.

our sense of wonder can help protect our collective future – by listening to indigenous communities, searching for crop wild relatives to safeguard domesticated species, and banking billions of seeds, whose homelands are in decline.

Curated by Shrinking Space, The Wonder Project will deepen your connection to this historic landscape and challenge you to become more mindful of the intricate relationships within nature.

This unique evening will question our evolving and complex relationship with nature and invite you to wonder, to reshape assumptions.

To wonder is to be curious, to be inquisitive - to uncover the how and why; the scientist wonders, the artist wonders.

Unfolding along a two-mile journey towards sunset you will encounter new soundscapes, sculptures and art installations inspired by Wakehurst’s botanic plants and the scientific research carried out in the Millennium Seed Bank, and across Kew’s global network.

Leave your preconceptions at the door, venture off the beaten track and seek out the surprising in this awe-inspiring landscape from rare seeds to the tallest, enigmatic trees.

This quest for knowledge, and much of the research undertaken at Wakehurst is underpinned by an endeavor to keep humanity from the brink of ecological collapse. The Wonder Project will explore how

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Over the past 50 years, we’ve seen various declines in Britain’s plant and animal species and the hedgehog has not gotten off lightly.

Hedgehog numbers have fallen by 30 percent in just over 10 years to about 1 million.

Breeding During the breeding season amorous hedgehogs can be found circling each other with snorts and grunts. Their young are usually born from May onwards in litters of up to five and leave the nest after four weeks. Baby hedgehogs (or hoglets) are born with their spines sheathed beneath their skin which then emerge a few hours after birth.

The plight of the prickly creatures in rural areas is particularly bad, as hedgerows and field margins have been lost to intensive farming with large-scale pesticide use greatly reducing food sources – they are disappearing from our countryside as fast as tigers are worldwide.

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But! A glimmer of hope with populations in urban areas starting to recover as people take proactive steps to reverse the trend.

We are hoping some of our readers in the Ashdown Forest area, whether rural, semirural or suburban can give them a small (or big) helping hand, even a single simple action could assist.

Incredibly hedgehogs travel between 1-2km per night over homes with gardens as big as 10-20 hectares; they range over entire housing estates and neighbourhoods. Gardens, hedgerows, parks and cemeteries are all important habitats.

They are famous for eating slugs and snails, but eat many other invertebrates: beetles,

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Plus: Check bonfires before lighting; keep your gardens green – paving and decking over gardens reduces hedgehog habitat; keep plant netting, tennis nets and household rubbish above ground level to prevent entanglement; and help hedgehogs out by putting out small amounts of wet cat and dog food. Keep an eye out for people doing work on their gardens, or using fencing contractors - this is a prime time to get a hedgehog hole put in and influence connectivity.

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While many animals have adapted to cope with the harsh conditions of winter, hedgehogs are one of only a handful of UK mammals to truly hibernate, along with bats and dormice, feeding intensively beforehand.

How can you help?

Avoid the use of pesticides: please ditch the slug pellets and avoid pesticides, let hedgehogs do pest control for you.

Leave a ‘wild corner’ in the garden: Create nesting opportunities by creating log and/or leaf piles. Hogs love apple and cherry leaves, and hawthorn and honeysuckle prunings make good structural supports. So please don’t clear all of these away!

and a wide range of plant types. Particularly those that help our insects… Don’t be afraid to let your grass grow a little wild in areas and leave some leaf litter.

Small hedgehog holes can be cut into fences to allow them to pass through gardens during their necessary nightly journeys.

Make water safe: hedgehogs are great swimmers but can sometimes struggle to climb out of steep-sided ponds

We hope our readers can do a little something to help these lovely creatures out.

For more information see: hedgehogstreet.org. We would like to thank the RHS for providing information to put this article together.

Make a simple hedgehog house

Grow a wide variety of plants: Attract plenty of hedgehog food by keeping a wide variety of creature habitats e.g. ponds, log, piles, hedges,

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A Village with no Children….Until it Snows

At a recent meeting in the village hall, a man stood up and took issue with me over the number of children in Forest Row.

club for those who can make it to the Community Centre and a delivery service for those who can’t. A Community Transport group take and return elderly people to clinic and hospital appointments and there is a wide range of clubs, churches & societies of all types for adults.

I could see his point of view. If you don’t go out until after the school bus and you’re not home until early evening, you’re unlikely to see many children. Until it snows.

Until now there has been no place for the children to play.

Forest Row village is thought by many to be largely middle aged, middle income and middle class. Indeed, the talented Julian Johnson who gave us the stunning mural on the charity shop said much the same thing. He saw the village as the three ‘M’s. He was right on one point. The mean age of the population here is 42yrs*.

There’s a growing groundswell of opinion that as our youth are welded to screens and social media, this isn’t healthy.

This is why Venue on The Green was set up six years ago to provide them with a safe, social space in the heart of the village.

A newcomer to the village, it wasn’t until he took his morning walk one snowy winter’s morn. As he rounded the bend he was astonished to see, on the banks of the 17th, hundreds of young people hurtling down the white stuff on flash sledges, tin trays; even pieces of cardboard.

You may know by now that we have fully funded this project. The Venue Implementation Group are working on the nuts and bolts of the proposed youth centre and there will be spades in the ground this summer. To complete our dream, the MUGA will be installed, the Green Gym and the Skatepark refreshed and what little space is left will be landscaped to welcome families into this much needed facility for everybody to use.

At the top of the ridge, their parents, most of whom couldn’t get to work, stood muffled up, with mugs of coffee and snacks. One enterprising soul even brought street food. A party was in progress.

A management committee will oversee the running of it all and at last it won’t have to snow before we see the next generation enjoying themselves in our lovely village.

The fact is that the young here comprise 25%*.

Total village population is 5,278*. You do the maths. And if you can’t be bothered, that’s 1,319 children under 19 years of age.

Monica Brown. Chair, Forest Row Youth & Community Company Ltd

There are 15 places here where you can get a cup of coffee. There are clubs for the elderly; a lunch

*Sussex in Figures

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EXPLORE OUR NEARBY COUNTRYSIDE IN STYLE The ‘Boris Bikes’ of London are coming to the countryside with a new countrybike hire scheme. The idea is to encourage people to get into cycling whilst supporting rural tourism and local rural business. There will be small amounts of bikes, but in many places.

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If you can’t get your bikes on the back of your car, this can be a perfect alternative!

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In order to use the bikes, you simply download the ‘Linka Go’ app. It is £8 for the first hour and then £2 each ½ hour after.

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Richard Leman LOCAL HOCKEY LEGEND

Last month, East Grinstead Olympian Richard Leman, one of the local hockey club’s longest serving players was awarded Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's 2018 Birthday Honours List, receiving the honour for "Services to Hockey".

Richard was a member of ‘that’ gold medal winning team in the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games - when golds for Great Britain were not quite as lucrative as they are in this day and age! They beat Australia in a thrilling semifinal and went on to beat West Germany in the final, during which the famous Olympic quip was voiced

by BBC commentator Barry Davies: ‘Where were the Germans — but frankly, who cares?’.

Richard went on to Captain Great Britain and England from 1988 to 1990, finishing in the Pakistan World Cup in

5th place. Having amassed 228 International Caps, at that time he was the most capped England and Great Britain player ever.

In tandem with his international career, Richard was pivotal in his local hockey club’s emergence as a solid home-grown club, winning the National Cup with them in 1983, the National League in 1985, plus being a member of EG’s first National Indoor title team in 1986. The club has gone on to win the title 11 times for the men's side and recently for the first time with the women.

Richard’s dedication to his

Richard’s involvement in Hockey is nothing short of immense and spans decades: Richard went to his first Olympics in 1984, securing bronze alongside fellow East Grinstead team-mate Ian Taylor, beating Netherlands in a thrilling match for which he was awarded ‘Player of the Year in 1984’. Two years later, he won silver with the England squad at the 1986 Hockey World Cup in London, narrowly losing to Australia in the final.

Richard with the gold winning Olympic hockey team in Seoul

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local club was no less committed off the field, than on; he took the chairmanship of the hockey club for 5 years in the 1990's, subsequently forming EG Sport's Club's Charity which owns the land and infrastructure across a multi-sport site at Saint Hill - including cricket, lacrosse, netball, squash and of course, hockey. Richard subsequently served as Chairman of the EG Sports Club in the noughties from 2003 until 2010, a driving force behind its scaling and modernisation.

Notwithstanding his local involvement, Richard has also served as President of Great Britain Hockey for 10 years until 2017, including through the London 2012 Olympic Games. At the same time representing hockey at the National Olympic Committee.

Richard’s selfless, volunteering-spirit, willingness to guide the helm and enjoy the successes of all teams he is involved in is nothing short of immense.

A most deserving award to a local hero!

We are very pleased to bring you a Q&A with Richard, exclusively for our readers:

What was your reaction to receiving the award and why do you think it was bestowed particularly now?

Running through East Grinstead with the Olympic torch in 2012 for the London Olympics It was a feeling of great surprise and gratitude to England Hockey for putting me forward. I recently concluded my ten year term as President of Great Britain Hockey which was perhaps why the award was bestowed at this point.

Whilst it is a personal recognition for me as someone who particularly enjoys giving time back to sport in general, it really is an acknowledgement to all those people who do what I do and volunteer their time for the benefit of others. I have been lucky to work with some amazing people.

Having dedicated so much time and effort to the local Hockey Club, what do you feel the

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future holds for the club and why is it so dear to you?

East Grinstead Hockey Club has very close family connections for me and it has been an amazing place to play top quality hockey as well as enjoying the sociable aspect of taking part in team sport. My father was involved in buying the land where the hockey club is now and when he played there were always people who made the sandwiches, cut the grass and built the pavilion all for the love of it. I think that spirit is as strong now as it ever was. I sincerely hope this continues long into the future.

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chance of success on the international stage.

As President of Great Britain Hockey I was in Rio when the women won gold and even managed to smuggle myself onto the team bus back from the pitch after they won which was an amazing experience. My claim to fame is I was also on the gold medal winning bus in 1988!

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Hockey is a very different sport to the one I played in the 80s. My first full cap was on the outfield at Lord’s Cricket Ground in 1980 but now all matches are played on all weather pitches and the game is much faster and more skilful as a consequence. It is more exciting with more goals and less interference from the umpires which is much better for the spectators. The players are now genuine athletes and full time, whereas we were all working during the week and then went off to train at the weekends.

What would you like to see local people do to support their famed local hockey club?

Hockey is a team sport and we are lucky to have a very large junior section at the EG Hockey Club. I would like to encourage anyone, young or old, to give hockey a go, the club is open to all. Like all the other community clubs in the town it needs financial and volunteer support from local businesses and supporters, so help is always welcome. Come and watch a game if you don’t fancy actually playing, there are matches most weekends including both our Men’s and Women’s 1st XIs who both play in the top leagues in the country.

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Ingredients • 1 x 650-750g whole sea bream, scaled, filleted and pin-boned • ½ bulb of fennel • 10 asparagus spears • 180g new potatoes, peeled • 1 teaspoon chopped parsley • 1 medium carrot • 20g grated parmesan • 100ml white wine vinegar • 65g caster sugar • 4 cracked coriander seeds • Salt and pepper • Olive oil

Method: 1. Finely slice the fennel bulb, place in ice cold water and chill in the fridge.

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strawberries and cream, book stall, bric-abrac stall, tug of war and much more. 2pm, Fairwarp Village Green.

Twelfth Night. Groombridge outdoor theatre present Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the beautiful grounds of Birchden, Groombridge from 5th-7th and 12th14th July. Gardens open for picnics from 6pm. Bar available Tickets £10 (£7 cons) available on door. Further details from www. groombridgetheatre.co.uk. At 7:45pm, Birchden, Eridge Road, TN3 9NH.

SUNDAY 15TH JULY Taste of Harmony. If you like singing, come and have fun with the Hartfield singers at our ‘Songs of the Sixties’ workshop. All are welcome. £10 for the day to include lunch and refreshments. Call 01892 611414 or see www. hartfieldsingers.co.uk to reserve a place.11am to 4pm, Hartfield Village Hall, Hartfield, TN7 4AA.

THURSDAY 5TH JULY Crowborough Flower Club meet on the first Thursday of each month in the Crowborough Community Centre. Most months they have a demonstration by a qualified demonstrator, with a raffle at the end, for the wonderful designs created; other months the club have speakers who talk on different subjects, usually related to our love of flowers. At other times they run workshops, organize flower-arranging classes and arrange visits to interesting gardens in the vicinity with perhaps light lunch or afternoon tea included.

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MONDAY 16TH JULY UNTIL SUNDAY 27TH AUGUST Nutley Artist Friends Art Exhibition. We are a newly formed group of six artists who all live in Nutley. There will be original art work, prints and cards for sale all at very reasonable prices. We hope many people will visit and perhaps even buy some of our work. Entry is free at Ashdown Forest Centre, check website or call for opening times.

THURSDAY 19TH JULY Uckfield Music Club. Concert in association with the Uckfield Festival. Dinara Klinton piano playing: Beethoven, Chopin, Medtner and Liszt. At 7:30pm, St Margaret’s Church, Buxted Park www.uckfieldmusicclub.

THURSDAY 12TH JULY The Arts Society Ashdown Forest.

“Magnificent Mosaics: window into the colourful Roman world”. In the last meeting of this season, Christopher Bradley, brings us his lavishly illustrated lecture which uses only mosaics to illustrate the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the eyes of the Romans themselves. Refreshments.

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Uckfield Singers’ Summer Concert. We will be singing a variety of music old and new from musicals, pop classics to folk and choral.

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charity, which offers rehabilitation and support services for people with acquired brain injuries, their families and carers. Tickets £8 from Gale & Woolgar Jewellers, High St, Uckfield. At 7:30 pm, Uckfield Civic Centre TN22 1AE.

SATURDAY 28TH JULY Community Café. The poetry group and Groombridge history group will be hosting this month’s cafe and serving teas and coffees and a selection of delicious home-made cakes and goodies. All profits to charity. 10 am to 12 Noon, Groombridge Village Hall.

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It’s a Knockout. Join the Kent Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance at East Sussex National, for a fun-filled day. It’s a knock out is an action-packed team game where anything goes! Inspired by the classic BBC TV show, teams go head to head, competing against one another in a number of out of the ordinary games - think giant penguin suits, slippery inflatable summits and a bucket load of foam! If you are not in hysterics competing, you will be certainly be in stitches watching your team! The day will start with a group warm up before you and your team prepare to take on the madness that waits. Teams of up to 12 adults then battle it out - in true slapstick style - to be crowned champions.

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