Ashdown Forest June Issue

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Author Ali Sparkes

June 2012

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Author, Liz Pichon

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The First Ever Children’s Book Festival

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Index: Support Local Business

Dear Residents,

Accountant/Book-Keeping Fishing June time again! Strawberries, Wimbledon and (fingers-crossed) Sunshine!

As you can see from our front cover the Hartfield Storyfest was fabulous - editor can attest to that.

To the kids out there: Want more pocket money?

Enter our 2 pocket-money-competitions (you can also enter online).

If there’s anyone out there who has a particular hobby you’d like to tell others about please get in drop us a line.

Please remember to SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESS as much as you can. This helps to boost the local economy to the benefit of all. You’ll be able to find lots of great local companies in these pages.

One more thing: you can now follow us on twitter if you like. We occasionally tweet with useful local information, etc. - but not every hour like some!

Have a good month.

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Contents Stone Ness Walled Garden 6 Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation 6 8 RSPB: Make Your Nature Count!

8 Hartfield’s Storyfest Ashdown Forest Centre - Pooh Walks 10,12 14 Pocket-money-competitions 14 Quiz, Sudoku BBC Young Musician of the Year 18 18 Rangers Report 20 Recipe 20 Hartfield Community Play 22,24 Local History Notes 26 Gardening Tips 28,30 What’s On 30 Miss Moneywise

Although this publication does not vet advertisers, a number of complaints will mean that businesses will be barred from further advertising.

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 2012. 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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Wallace & Gromit’s Children’s Foundation is a national charity which raises funds to improve the quality of life for children in hospitals and hospices throughout the UK. Created in 2003, it receives the backing of the treble Academy Award-winning characters Wallace & Gromit, created by Nick Park - also a trustee of the Children’s Foundation.

Stone Ness Walled Garden Offering social and therapeutic horticulture to members of the local community with learning difficulties and mental health issues.

This year Wallace & Gromit are urging the nation to join in the Olympic fun and support their favorite team and by donning their weirdest, wackiest legwear in their national colours and donate ÂŁ1 for the right to look wrong.

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Open Day Saturday June 30th The Stone Ness Walled Gardeners would like to invite EVERYONE to our 2012 Open Day on Saturday 30th June between 10am and 4pm.

This year our Open Day coincides with the Ashurst “St. Martin’s Day Weekend�, so we hope you will visit some of the lovely Ashurst and Stone Cross gardens AND call in to see us as well!

Many of our weekday gardeners are eagerly looking forward to meeting visitors and showing them how we have been growing in our walled garden. We will also have a few demonstrations of the various ongoing schemes, such as the wildlife diary, the Christmas tree project, and woodland maintenance courses.

There will be running an updated version of our much acclaimed slide show at regular intervals during the day. The show features some of the history of the garden, how we renovated it and lots of smiley faces.

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MAKE YOUR NATURE COUNT! Calling everyone in the Ashdown Forest area.

One hour, how many creatures? Take part in the RSPB’s summer survey and tell us what slithers, tweets, forages and snuffles about in your garden.

In 2009, RSPB created a new summer survey called Make Your Nature Count. Now in its fourth year, we have nearly 80,000 people taking part.

A Huge Success As you can see from our front cover, back in mid May hundreds of parents & children attended the first ever Hartfield children’s book festival, Storyfest. There were many top authors there including the award-winning Liz Pichon, Adam Stower and Ian Whybrow.

Knife and Packer, whose characters Fleabag Monkeyface have found fame as a CITV cartoon appeared to a sell out crowd and commented afterwards, “We can’t believe it’s your first festival! And the setting in Hartfield is really charming.”

Well-known children’s author and performance poet Brian Moses said of the festival, “It was a phenomenal success. It was a real pleasure to be here.”

Organizers have been delighted with the visitors reactions to the festival, with comments like: “Just mindblowing! I am quite speechless about Storyfest and cannot sum up our enjoyment this weekend.”

Get involved in the UK’s largest garden wildlife survey and help us find out how wildlife is doing this summer. We’d like you to record the birds you see in one hour (on one day between 2-10 June), and let us know what other creatures visit your garden. You’ll be joining thousands of other people as you step up for nature, helping us build up a picture of how summer wildlife is faring.

To take part, simply pick an hour on one day between 2-10 June, and submit your results at www.rspb.org.uk/naturecount. If you haven’t got a garden, don’t worry! Why not go for a picnic in your local park or green space with friends and family and count the wildlife you see there.

Remember, every survey undertaken is a step for nature.

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Storyfest was created by four women: Emma Stillwell, Buff Baughan, Sally Paynter and Tam Weaver who are passionate about encouraging children to read and enjoy stories in all forms. They aim for it to be an annual event and Storyfest 2013 is already in the planning stages.

I’m sure the most famous children’s author associated with the Ashdown Forest, A.A. Milne, would be exceedingly pleased that it’s all happening in Pooh Country!

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Wrens Warren Valley (Eeyore’s Sad and Gloomy Place)

Pooh Walks Two walks which take you to some of the sites of Pooh’s adventures

© Dave Brooker: mappingideas.co.uk

The shorter walk takes you to the Enchanted Place & Sandy Pit and is suitable for younger children. The longer walk descends to the North Pole and Eeyore’s Sad and Gloomy place.

With Grateful Thanks to the Ashdown Forest Centre and Conservators for allowing us to reproduce their walk leaflet (edited version below). There are other walk leaflets available at the Forest Centre, Wych Cross.

Short Pooh Walk – 0.6 mile/1 km Long Pooh Walk – 2 miles/3.25 km Ashdown Forest is the real place where Christopher Robin, a boy, Winnie-the-Pooh, the most famous bear in the world, and their friends grew up together.

These Pooh walks explore some of the places of their best-known exploits.

From Gills Lap car park walk north, away from the road junction, on the wide ride. Pass a bench and after about 250m you reach a clump of tall pine trees (Gills Lap) on your right - The Enchanted Place. The concrete, surveyor’s triangulation point is 669 feet/204m above sea level.

To continue, turn left and descend on a narrower path to reach the Heffalump Trap, a small hollow in which a Lone Pine grows.

Some say that the hollow was Pooh’s Cunning Trap to capture that rare beast, the Heffalump. Some will say that it was somewhere else.

Readers of the Pooh stories may remember that the Heffalump Trap was close to the Six Pine Trees, not a solitary pine.

Could it be that this Lone Pine is all that remains of the Six? In the stories Piglet digs the pit whilst Pooh went to get honey to bait the trap. Could Piglet, a very small animal, dig a pit big enough to fit a Heffalump? A carefully disguised Heffalump trap in the garden of 10 • June 2012 • Ashdown Forest Living

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Gills Lap, Galleons Lap in the Pooh stories, is the Enchanted Place on the very top of the Forest where they could sit down without worrying about prickly vegetation. From here their ‘expotition’ to discover the North Pole set off, but we make a diversion before following the footsteps of the explorers.

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because nobody had been able to count if there were sixty-three or sixty-four trees. It was also the only place on the Forest where they could sit down without worrying about prickly vegetation. From here

To continue, turn left the Heffalump Trap, a

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Backtrack about 10 metres, turn left and follow the ride for 250m to the Milne and Shepard Memorial in front of you.

The Memorial commemorates AA Milne, author of the Pooh stories, and EH Shepard, the illustrator. As Christopher Robin was to write in later life, this was where his father sat and where Pooh sat too; now we can see what they saw.

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On leaving the Memorial turn right and in 25m is Roo’s Sandy Pit, a disused quarry, on the left (not so sandy now).

Although Baby Roo played happily in his Sandy Pit, it was the supposed site of Pooh’s dark moment, the kidnapping of Roo to force Kanga and Roo, the newcomers to the Forest, to leave it forever. As in all the best stories it ended happily.

To complete the shorter walk return to Gills Lap car park by continuing ahead, passing the Enchanted Place again on your left.

searching for the North Pole.

In later life Christopher Robin was to write: “It is a real forest with giant beech trees, all dark and mysterious. You would need to be a brave explorer to venture into the Five Hundred Acre at night, and I never did”.

For the longer walk, turn left onto a path, pass through Quarry car park to the road. Cross with care onto a path opposite and in 30m turn left onto the ride.

Gently descend and bear right through light woodland before descending steeply on more open heath to reach the valley bottom, a bridge and the site of the North Pole.

The woodland on the far side of the valley appears as Five Hundred Acre Wood on the Ordnance Survey map but Pooh knew better: to him it was the Hundred Acre Wood where Owl lived. Pooh used the same route down into the valley that was, and is, used while

It was Christopher Robin who had the idea of an expedition to discover the North Pole. Nobody was quite sure what it was, including Christopher Robin who told Pooh that it was just a thing you discover.

© Dave Brooker: mappingideas.co.uk

Heffalump Trap and the Lone Pine Milne & Shepard Memorial

In Pooh’s hands (or paws) it became an ‘expotition’ and he spread the word. Led by Christopher Robin a long line started out. Pooh discovered the North Pole and they stuck the pole in the ground with a notice which read:

NorTH PoLE DICSovERED By PooH PooH FouND IT Cross the bridge and ascend the wide ride. Towards the top pass by pine woodland on the left. Turn right at the t-junction of rides.

Follow the ride as it skirts around the rim of the valley.

Eeyore’s Gloomy Place (“rather boggy and sad”) is somewhere in the valley below on the right - even the grown-up Christopher Robin was not sure where it was.

The Gloomy Place was where Eeyore lost his house.

Continue to the road and junction opposite Gills Lap car park. Cross with care.

If you enjoyed this ‘expotition’, there are many other places to explore on the Forest!

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Ranger’s Report Our Grazing Officer Caroline and her shepherds Jo, Dan and Anna have 1.75 miles/3km been busy lambing. She writes:

From Linton’s carthe park cross in the In April and May drought theroad (with c South continued withWalk day after car parkEast (summer only). out of the rear of drenching Despite the left onto a r aday grass path and inrain. about 50m turn on-going theride, Ashdown this gentlydownpour descending ignoring anothe Forestfor flock of Hebridean right, about 400m. sheep bought forth and multiplied in magnificent style; after all they are On both left and right are linear quarries, built for the Western Isles which now filled with scrub and trees. Such are also well known for continuous quarries dot the Forest landscape and “drought” conditions.

Laura van der Heijden, resident of Forest Row, last month won the highly coveted BBC’s Young Musician Award out of 453 applicants!

Her performance of the rarely-played Walton Cello Concerto mesmerised the judges.

Laura, a student of Sackville School, East Grinstead, started playing recorder when she was four, followed by the piano, and when she was six began learning the cello. Since late 2008 Laura has been taught the cello by Leonid Gorokhov.

Another thought that has emerged is that her victory will be a timely boost to the campaign to keep music alive in state schools.

We asked her some questions: Did you ever imagine that one day you would win such a prestigious competition?

No, definitely not What was the toughest part?

To stay focused for almost a year When did it dawn on you that you wanted to be a musician?

It was a gradual process, and recently (also in connection with the BBC Young Musician Competition) I have become a lot more serious about choosing music as a career.

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from many different influences, and have now become more self-driven.

How can you fit everything in around your schooling?

My schools have been very helpful, flexible and understanding when it came to music.

Where do you draw your inspiration from to play as you do? from my teacher Leonid Gorokhov and from cellists Zara Nelsova, Daniil Shafran and Alexander Rudin as well as violinist Jascha Heifetz Since then how has life changed?

It’s still changing… quite a few offers to play recitals

provided stone for roads. Typical heathland birds such as nightjar, pipit All the ewes lambed stonechat, un-assistedtree and outdoors andusually we had no rejected and woodlark breed in this area and lambs noin casualties all,one which is the rideand edges particularatare of the really something to be(indeed proud of.

If we best places on the Forest in Sussex) notinhave earyellow tag, record births todid see, May,tothe flowers of the and castrate malepetty lambs we really small spiny shrub, whin. could have left them to it which I’m sure they would have preferred.

The ride bears left, then right through a break in and descending for 400m As itcontinues was, we had a great effort fromto a metall the volunteers andleft staff, Lane) . On the is covering a bowling green and shifts and weekends to provide cricket pitch and pavilion of Coleman’s Hatc room service, topenned up ewes and lambs, in rain, mud and under flapping tarpaulins.

We are now held up by the deluge, but as soon as we are able to drive on the Forest the sheep will be back out in the electric fenced enclosures.

Please be considerate of their welfare and put your dog on a lead when you approach them, last year dogs were in the enclosures at least eight times, sheep were chased on every occasion and one was badly mauled.

Please look on the Ashdown Forest Website to see where the sheep will be and for news of six charming Highland steers who will be joining the workforce soon.

Best wishes to all our readers and thanks for the feedback Mike Yates Ashdown Forest ranger

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A COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER On Monday, June 25th, the curtain will rise on Parallel Lives, a brand-new community play.

Except there won’t be a curtain. Instead, St Mary’s Church Hartfield, is going to be transformed into a very special place, where members of the cast, exquisitely dressed in vintage costumes, will be milling amongst the audience. It will be a promenade play which tells the story of the village and surrounding area from 1913 to the Great Storm of 1987. For those that have seen a Community Play by Claque before in East Grinstead, Withyham or Tunbridge Wells, you will know what a great spectacle is in store for you.

In the meantime, there is a hive of activity going on in the village. Acclaimed playwright and director Jon Oram is working alongside a team of professional designers and musicians, and....us, Hartfield residents. Old and young, experienced or not are learning lines, rehearsing scenes, sewing, painting, making puppets and learning music. Most of all, we are gaining new skills and forging links in the community that will remain long after the show.

The highly acclaimed children’s book festival, ‘StoryFest’, was held in Hartfield in May. This project was directly related to the whole ‘community play’ movement in the village. This shows us what can be done when the community gets together.

The play will run from Monday 25th June to Saturday 7th July. The audience for this intimate theatre experience will be small, so book your tickets by calling: 07714 249 232 or visiting: www.claquetheatre.com/productions.

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Local History Notes Dame Margery Corbett Ashby

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On the 99th anniversary of the militant suffragette, Emily Davidson, being fatally injured by the king’s horse at the Epsom Derby, it seems fitting that tribute is paid to our local suffragist, Dame Margery Corbett Ashby.

Margery Irene Corbett was born on May 15th 1882 in Danehil just to the South of Ashdown Forest. Her parents, Charles and Marie Corbett, were both strong Liberals and supporters of women’s rights. They often travelled to East Grinstead (the main political town of the area) where they made speeches on the subject. The town was then staunchly Conservative and their audiences were frequently hostile. Margery was to say later in her life that “my parents, as Liberals, were at that period, as hated and distrusted by the gentry as Communists are today.”

Coming from this background it is unsurprising that Margery and her younger sister, Cicely, also became involved. Together with friends they formed the Young Suffragists. Suffragists were a less aggressive, but equally determined to enfranchise women, as the more militant Suffragettes, who made more headlines. Educated at home, Margery was accepted for Newnham College, Cambridge, where she joined the 22 • June 2012 • Ashdown Forest Living

National Union of Women Suffrage Societies. After leaving university she took a place at a teacher training College but never taught, as her time was increasingly taken up by the suffrage movement.

She became secretary of many groups and societies with this aim.

She married Brian Ashby in 1910. He was a barrister and was a great supporter of her work.

The next year she and Cicely formed the East Grinstead branch of the Suffrage Society. A survey in the same year showed that less than 20% of the women in the town supported votes for women!

At a public meeting in the Queens Hall in July 1922, the Countess de la Warr was elected President of the society and Margery and her sister, now Cicely Corbett Fisher, were on the committee. The common desire of these siblings to retain their own identity through the continued use of their maiden names, (albeit, in conjunction with their husband’s surnames) is unusual at this period.

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no doubt have thought his Liberal views were now being espoused by the voters of the area, all male, of course. The truth was that there was universal disquiet with the Education Act of 1902 which made the teaching of the Anglican religion mandatory in all schools, not just those run by the Church of England. This was very unpopular in the East Grinstead area, which had a strong non-conformist tradition.

Corbett promised it would be repealed if the Liberals formed the government. It is the only occasion when East Grinstead has not returned a Conservative Member to Westminster. Once there, Charles Corbett also spoke strongly for women’s rights. In 1913 he, together with the Reverend G. Riddell and the Reverend R.Strong, formed the East Grinstead branch of the Men’s League for Women’s Rights. This was disbanded at the start of the war.

In 1914 Margery’s only child, a son, Michael George Ashby, was born. Co-inciding with the outbreak of World War I, Margery’s energies were temporarily concentrated on her child and the war effort. She worked in hospitals as a volunteer, for the four years of it’s duration. The end of the war saw the Qualification of Women Act, which gave women over thirty the right to vote. This was a step in the right direction and led to the election in 1919, of the first woman to the Houses of Parliament, Lady Astor. 1928 saw the suffrage extended to all women over twenty-one.

Full political equality with men was however, the next goal. Margery, herself, stood at every election from then until 1935 and again at by-elections in 1937 and 1934. She was unsuccessful in all of them but her real aim was 24 • June 2012 • Ashdown Forest Living

to encourage other women to come forward as candidates rather than to become an MP herself.

Her interests had always been wider than just women’s emancipation. A friend wrote of her saying, “...she also fought for civil liberties, free trade, international goodwill and democracy.”

She went as a delegate to The Versailles Peace Conference of the International Alliance of Women. She was elected President of the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance in 1923 and stayed in that position until she retired in 1946. In 1932 she travelled to Geneva as the British delegate for Disarmament. She was a signatory on a letter asserting that war could be averted if the League of Nations took more positive action. War was inevitable at this point, however, and she quietly worked throughout the duration in many voluntary roles. After the war she became politically active again and was awarded the DBE by the Queen for her services to women in 1967. Dame Margery went on her last demonstration, in London in 1980, at the age of 98. She died the following year, just a month after her 99th birthday.

During her long and active life she used her gift of being a rousing and passionate speaker to draw others to her many causes. Her strong religious belief and her family heritage made her one of the best-known women of her generation in this area. From sharing a platform with the Pankhursts at the turn of the twentieth century she went on to work for many different causes.

As she said in one of her inspirational speeches: “Let us awake and determine women shall enter the machine to direct it for the defence of democracy.”

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Gardening Tips for June Article by Michael Dongray,

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Remove fading and dead flowers on your annuals and herbaceous perennial plants.

Removing the finished flowers will promote a longer flowering season. Perennial and biennial plants can be started from seed sown directly into the garden. Continue to plant container grown perennials. Always take time to properly prepare the soil by mixing generous quantities of soil improver compost or well composted manure with your existing soil. Spring flowering perennials can be divided and transplanted. Be sure to do this during the coolest part of the day and water the plants thoroughly after transplanting.

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On hot summer days ventilate as much as possible and damp down twice a day greenhouse floors and benches to prevent the air from becoming dry.

Shade plants from the midday sun and water as often as necessary.

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Remove any dead or diseased branches.

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Grasses go dormant in times of drought, but will quickly return to life with the autumn rains so a brown lawn is not necessarily a dead lawn !! If a lush green lawn is important to you, and you don’t mind mowing, water it regularly, and deeply. If a water shortage is expected, or you hate tending to grass, you may choose to just let your lawn go dormant, and water it as seldom as once a month. Raise the cutting height of the mower. Taller grass cools the roots and helps to keep the moisture in the soil longer.

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Now is the time to start your autumn and winter vegetables. Sow seeds of onions, carrots, beets, lettuce, spinach, radishes, and winter cauliflower directly into the garden early in the month. Do not spray any fruit with insecticide if still flowering as this may harm pollinating insects leading to a poor fruit yield. Keep all fruit well watered during dry periods. New raspberry shoots can be tied in this month.

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What’s On: June 2012

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Until Sunday 17th June

of the gardens, take in the perfume of the roses and watch the black swans on the lake. Enjoy champagne and canapés. Entertainment: Medway Band. Gardens open 6:30pm; champagne/canapés served from 7pm.

Tickets £25. Call: 01892 865982

South East Arts Open Studio at Cogcraft. Clockhouse Lane, Nutley. Come & view the pastel landscapes of renowned Ashdown Forest artist, Juliet Murray. See work in progress. Materials & techniques explained.

Originals, prints & cards for sale. Complimentary tea/coffee. All welcome. Daily 10am - 5pm. Note: Closed 5th/8th/11th & 12th June. 01825 712565 www.cogcraft.co.uk Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th June

Hartfield Open Gardens Weekend, 2pm - 6pm. Teas will be available at two of the gardens and plants on sale in one garden. Tickets £4 which covers access to 10 private gardens, available from a stall on the corner of Church Street on the weekend, in advance from Joan McCarthy: 01892 770397 or from the village shop. In aid of Hartfield Horticultural Society.

Monday June 11th

Sussex Family History Group Uckfield Branch. ‘Traditional Sussex Singers of Yesteryear’ by Mak Norman.

Refreshments available. Meet 7pm for 7.30 start at Luxford Day Centre, Library Way, High St, Uckfield.

Friday 22nd June

Nightjar Walk 8.45pm – 10pm approx. Join us on the Forest with one of our volunteer Rangers (an enthusiastic birder) to hear and, hopefully see, the elusive Nightjar. Wear sturdy shoes. Torches are essential. Free. Pre-booking essential. No dogs.

Contact Forest Centre: 01342 823583 Saturday 23rd June

Crowborough Choral Society will be performing ‘Sounds of the Seventies’ at 7.30 pm at All Saints’ Chapel Green Hall, Crowborough TN6 1ED. There is access for all and there will be an interval with a licensed bar. Tickets available from Cro Jewellers, High Street, Crowborough or on the door. Also call 01892 527002 Saturday 23rd June

Crowborough Arts presents : The ensemble Crowborough Baroque in a colourful concert of early music featuring Baroque instruments together with harpsichord played by Christopher Harris at 7.30pm. Limited seating is available, please book on: 01892 664534. A glass of wine or soft drink comes free with every ticket.

Latchetts Garden at Freshfield Road Danehill, RH17 7HQ will welcome Sandie Lloyd, RHS Judge, to officially open the garden. Also available for question and answer sessions, 2-5pm. Adults £5, children free, dogs welcome on leads. Acres of delightful ornamental gardens, vegetable garden and childrens activities, plant stall, craft stall, teas and more…. Proceeds to Family Support Work. See www. familysupportwork.org.uk.

Saturday 16th June

Saturday 23rd June

Hadlow Down Summer Fayre. Over 50 stalls; games; Punch and Judy show; dog show; circus workshop; beer tent; Pimms; refreshments. 1pm to 5 pm.

Hadlow Down Playing Field, School Lane Hadlow Down. Call 01825 830400.

Nearly New Sale - 10am till 11.30am. A very popular sale held at St Marys School Hall, Queens Road, Crowborough. TN6 2LB. Entry £1. If you are interested in having a table to sell your nearly news items please email: nearly.new.sale@hotmail.co.uk for a sellers pack. Money raised in aid of St Mary’s Nursery School.

Friday 15th June

Wednesday 20th June

Friendship coffee morning. St. Dunstan’s Church Hall, Ashurst Wood, 11:30am – 12:30pm. There is no charge and everyone is welcome. Call: 01342 313322 Wednesday 20th June

Burrswood Charity evening at Pashley Manor. Enjoy a champagne summer evening of music at “one of the finest gardens in England”. Stroll through the peace 28 • June 2012 • Ashdown Forest Living

Wednesday 27th June

Travelling Trends Fashion Show Evening at 7.30pm.

Come watch the catwalk show and buy this seasons fashions at up to 70% off retail price. £5 a ticket including a free glass of wine. St Marys School Hall, Queens Road, Crowborough. TN6 2LB. For tickets contact travelling_trends@hotmail.co.uk. Money raised in aid of St Mary’s Nursery School.

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Saturday 30th June

Until 31 July 2012

Village Open Gardens. St. Augustine’s Church, Scaynes Hill, Annexe Appeal. Four gardens open by kind invitation of owners – Heather Place, Lewes Road; Old Scaynes Hill House, Clearwater Lane; Downsview, Nash Lane; Pinefield, Church Road. 2pm - 5pm. Adults £3, Children Free. Teas at the church.

Gardens will be signposted on the day.

Julia Rowlands, a Sussex based artist, is currently displaying her vibrant and colourful paintings and pastels at the Forest Centre. Open every weekend, 11am – 5pm and every weekday, 2pm – 5pm.

Wednesday 30th June

Nutley Village Fete - 1pm on Fords Green alongside the A22 in Nutley. Free entry. Fun for all the family including Maypole Dancing, Punch and Judy, Fun Dog Show, Vintage Vehicles, Blacksmith, Craft stalls and BBQ. Uckfield FM will be there.

See: www.nutleyvillageday.org.uk

Ashurst and Blackham Sports Association. The Ashurst and Blackham Stoolball Team commence their first competitive season in the Kent League shortly and we wish them every success. Please do come down to the ground and give them your support. The Ashurst and Blackham Fishing Club is now accepting memberships for our supurb 1,000 yard stretch of the Medway. Please contact Keiron on 01892 740138 for full information.

Saturday July 7th

Forest Row Orchestra Summer Concert at 11am.

Conductor: Roland Millar, Soloist: Paul Riley.Bizet: L’Arlesiénne Suite. Weber: Clarinet Concertino. Arriaga: Symphony in D major. Herold: Clog Dance from ‘La Fille mal Gardée’. Tickets £5, £1 children, at the door. Moat Road United Reform Church, East Grinstead.

Sunday 8th July

Annual Service of Remembrance will be observed at Canada Green, Church Road at 3pm in memory of the nine Canadian soldiers of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment of Ontario who lost their lives by enemy action on Crowborough Common on the 5th July 1944. All enquiries: 01892 660235, secretary.rblcrow@btinternet.com

1. Clean behind radiators: hang a large damp cloth behind it and use a blow drier (on it’s highest, coolest setting) to blow dust onto the cloth.

2. Brighten up glass dishware by adding a teaspoon of bleach to your soapy water as you’re washing. Be sure to rinse well after.

Saturday July 14

Fairwarp Village Fete, 2 - 5.30 pm. The afternoon will be packed with things to see and do. The Electric Hoedown Band & children from Nutley School will perform Maypole, Scottish and Country dancing. Arts, Crafts and Produce tent, bouncy castle and a Barrow Of Booze. Dog show (weather permitting). Magical entertainer. Competitions will include Best Olympic Scarecrow, plus races for children. Plus Grand Draw!

3. Rid your hands of food odours by wetting and rubbing with 2 teaspoons of bicarb of soda instead of soap.

4. Make a ‘slug-pub’ trap for slugs or snails in the garden. These creatures love beer, bury a container (such as empty margarine tub) where you’ve seen them. Fill bottom with leftover beer and leave it overnight.

Sunday 15th July

The Wealden village of High Hurstwood is delighted to host their first OPEN GARDEN TRAIL in aid of Help for Heroes. 11 interesting and enchanting private gardens participating with many offering delicious home-made fayre. 10.30am – 5pm. Begin at Old Mill Farm, Chillies Lane, High Hurstwood where parking is available, and from here, you may visit as many of the gardens as you wish. Advance tickets £5.00 via alysongs@yahoo.co.uk or £6.00 on the day.

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