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Index: Support Local Business

Dear Residents, Welcome to our August issue.

Animal Care

Hopefully the Summer is proving to be memorable for you.

Antique Clock Repairs

If you’d like to enjoy the wonderful landscape in this area then try the ‘Tea Shop Walk’ on page 30.

We feature a piece of important local history, Kennedy’s visit to Birch Grove in the sixties. Plus local Forest Row author Clive Smith has offered a fascinating extract from his book, Lancaster Bale Out.

Catwick Cattery John Carpenter

V. Cottingham Landscaping & 11 7

Architects Cowan Architects

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David Fry

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Iain Miller Architects

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Blinds/Curtains/ Interiors

General Building

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Trencher/Mini digger

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Levade Systems

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Home Maintenance Services/Products Ground Based Guttering 35 SA Hancock Ltd.

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Allzones

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Hopefully you can find all the services you need for your home, garden and more. If you could mention to advertisers that you saw them in the Ashdown Forest Living, we would be most grateful.

Penumbra Blinds

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Local Carpenter/Joiner

Curtain Craft

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Leon Miller Electrical

Blinds & Curtains

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Services

Thank you for supporting local businesses and for all your feedback.

Chez Soi Interiors

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Amber Electrical

Car

If there is local community news, etc. that you would like to send through to us it is Keep all welcome.

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Care Live in Care

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Soundhand Studio

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Newly opened ‘Soundhand Creative Retreat’, brainchild of Rob Augier, is a home studio for recording music, set deep in the beautiful Ashdown forest. It’s Available for bands, artists, writers from beginner to experienced, an ideal creative setting with everything you will need.

Here is our ‘Q&A’ with Rob to find out more...

What brought you into ‘music making’? My

kick-start was guitar lessons between age 8 to 14. I also had piano lessons and having written a song at primary that won an interschool choir competition, I got the bug…

with my music influences, which have always inspired me.

What impact are you hoping to have locally? To offer affordable access to a self-contained, secluded space where anyone interested can write, program, play and record. To compliment music lessons, by writing and recording a song; a band that wants to develop material in a studio or record a demo; a writers / artists retreat; or just to get hands on with any aspect of making music, as it can be valuable carrying on learning outside of formal education and rewarding just being creative.

Describe how you’ve taken your vision to reality?

From music GSCE to music technology at university and throughout a 15-year professional career, I invested in home studios and making music. Working in an array of roles for leaders in communication and optimisation solutions, I acquired broad skills and knowledge in business and technology. Both personal and professional experiences gave me the confidence to set up Soundhand and invest time in developing music based business ideas I had been working on for some years. Finally having a perfect place to offer a Creative Retreat, I was able to build the studio and realise one of those ideas.

What are you hoping to accomplish/create with the new studio? A truly unique environment with

a quality set up and an inspiring approach to helping people make music, develop skills, increase confidence and realise ambitions - whatever age or experience.

Ultimately a place where you can escape and be totally absorbed in all aspects of expressing yourself!

Any Inspirations? Anything related to understanding

more about ourselves, as well as the universe/world we live in. Represented well by TED.com and the diverse set of talks given. Soundhand web site has some music quotes, along

Quote “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

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Quick Quiz

Summer

1: In which county was Jane Austen born and laid to rest?

By local resident, Mark Dury.

2: The Mona Lisa resides in which famous museum?

Heat haze and holidays, Time just to gently laze, Now we are free as the sun.

Sandcastles and beach balls and icecreams And hotdogs and masses of fun.

3: Jerusalem lies between which 2 bodies of water?

4: Ebay was founded in which American State?

5: Who authored, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’?

6: What does the Ashes Urn reputedly contain?

7: Which country was Hans Christian Anderson from?

Barefoot to run in the grass, Summer breeze in our hair, All we ever want to do.

Carpets of buttercups of gold As cornflower and poppy fields unfold And skylarks are hov’ring way up in the blue skies above us.

8: Geppetto was a character in which famous children’s story?

9: In which county is the highest peak in England?

10: In which Middle Eastern city was the prophet Muhammed born?

Answers on page 17

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The distance all shimmers, Horizon just glimmers, Tiny boats on the sea are far flung.

So let Summer continue forever, For now we are happy and young.

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Cool drinks and lemonade, Lie in an old tree’s shade, Hush, listen – bird songs may be sung.

So please to let Summer continue forever, For now we are happy and young.

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Sunhats and parasols, At last it’s Summer hols, There’s simply no more to be said.

It’s light when we wake in the morning It’s light when we go off to bed.

the Ashdown Win Alfie £10 Forest Aardvark Congratulations to last months winner.

Last month Alfie was hidden on pages: 12 16 24 34

The name of the game is to locate the 4 Alfie’s hidden on 4 pages in the magazine.

Ages 4 -13. Let us know the page numbers, enter online: www.ashdownforestliving.co.uk or email: info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk. Closing date: 19/08/13

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Specialist in the repair & restoration of antique clocks & barometers Over 25 Years Experience Turret/Public clocks serviced & overhauled John Carpenter C.M.B.H.I. Tel: 01342 458475 High Street, East Grinstead www.antiqueclockrestore.co.uk

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Car boot sale

Sunday 8 September, 10am–1pm £10 per car or £12 per small van Discount given to pre-bookings *No trade vehicles or unauthorised food and drink sellers

Set up starts from 8am** – Our café will be open for food and drinks **You must be set up and ready to go by 9.30am

Public admission: Free (donations welcome) National Cat Centre (on the A275), Chelwood Gate, Haywards Heath, RH17 7TT (for sat-nav, use post code RH17 7DE)

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Diary of a Poohologist

Founder of Pooh Corner, Mike Ridley recently passed away.

The famous shop & tea room he founded in Hartfield 35 years ago in honour of Ashdown Forest’s most famous ‘son’ attracts visitors from all over the world. It is now viewed as the gateway to ‘Pooh-country’.

In tribute to Mr. Ridley and his legacy we are re-publishing an article he wrote entitled ‘Diary of a Poohologist: “The adventures of Christopher Robin and the animals of The 100 Aker Wood. Yes!” Alan Milne thought to himself, “That might be a good name for a play, or perhaps a book!” Combining work with play he had written a whole book full of poems. Not everybody can write poetry but Alan didn’t have a problem, the ideas had tumbled into his head and his joy of parenthood spilled over into his world of literature. They were good poems and had subjects that grew from his own memories of childhood together with and

especially, his little boy’s nursery in Chelsea. The first collection was called, ‘When We Are Very Young’ and already some of the familiar toys from his son’s nursery can be seen scattered here and there amongst the words. Nanny can be found in the poems as well but when he wrote, ‘They’re Changing Guard at Buckingham Palace’ he changed her name from Olive to Alice to make it rhyme perfectly.

This was ‘poetic licence’. Across the road from Cotchford Lane, is a large forestry plantation called 500 Acre Wood. Alan was looking for a fictional home for the nursery.

Probably, 500 Acre Wood seemed a bit too big for them, a bit roomy - so it became 100, just about the right size! Nanny had moved with them from Chelsea and at first she missed the company of the other Nannies. But those days were over now and Alan’s second collection of poems, ‘Now We Are Six’ was soon to follow not long after the families move into the countryside.

But before it was ready to be published his son’s adventures began to grow as little Christopher Robin bravely explored his surroundings. First, the corners of their expansive garden and then into the Posingford Wood just beyond. These adventures were mostly shared and played with Nanny. Billy, as he was known by the family, had his own name for Nanny he called her ‘Nou’.

Together they played games in the nursery and around the large gardens at Cotchford Farm. Soon

their adventures started to reach even further afield. At the end of the day Nanny returned Billy to Cotchford in time for tea. When he was tucked up in bed and was falling asleep recalling where he had been and what he had done and how brave he had been.

Then she went to speak with his mother and report on everything that they had been up to. Mrs Milne might say, “Tell me what Billy has done today, what games did he play?” Nanny then recalled their adventures and when Alan returned at the end of the week from his work in London, Mrs Milne remembered them for him.

We know Alan is a creative writer and we know he could use ‘poetic licence’ - when he felt the need. I am sure that when Nanny told Mrs Milne and Mrs Milne told Mr Milne - the adventures of Christopher Robin became just a little bit elaborated, just a teensy weenie bit embroidered – but I might be wrong! Nevertheless, Alan Milne the writer, continued to get inspiration from his beloved son and he wrote the stories down. There are ten chapters in his first book and he called it, as we all know, ‘Winnie-thePooh’ – an obvious choice really. If it had been me I might have called it, ‘The Adventures of Christopher Robin,’ or maybe, ‘Tales of The 100 Aker Wood!’ But it wasn’t me and anyway I think, if I’m really sincere with you (and I think you will agree), ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ says it all – a perfect title.

Quotes “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

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“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.”

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Mahatma Gandhi

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CatwickCattery Catwick Cattery is a luxury cattery conveniently located in Coleman’s Hatch serving the whole of the Ashdown Forest area.

Open all year round, we offer the highest standard of cat care with generously appointed, centrally heated cat chalets, each with outside runs.

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If you no longer enjoy the hustle and bustle of the shops, you’ll love this Chicken & Vegetable Casserole with vegetables £2.95

At Wiltshire Farm Foods, we offer a choice of 250 tasty dishes, all frozen and delivered free by the local team, ready to store in your freezer and cook in minutes. Dishes start from as little as £2.95 and there’s no commitment.

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K e n n e dy at B i r c h G rov e

By Paul Elgood

50 years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the eyes of the world turned briefly to a quiet corner of the Sussex countryside.

On 29th June 1963, America’s youthful and charismatic 35th President, John F. Kennedy, paid a flying visit to the Sussex countryside to meet British Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, at his country house, Birch Grove in Ashdown Forest. The short stopover followed two of Kennedy’s most famous overseas visits as President - Berlin and Ireland. After just 24 hours Kennedy would leave England never to return, on his way to Italy and the final leg of his historic four-nation European tour.

The summer of 1963 saw some of the era’s most memorable events, including Martin Luther King’s ‘March on Washington’, the Great Train Robbery, the Moors Murders and even ‘Dr No’ arrived in cinemas.

Birch Grove acted as the stage for 24 hours of talks between the two men, with all the comings and goings of an international Cold War summit.

Although rural Sussex had not seen anything similar to a Presidential visit before, the weekend of 29th and 30th June 1963, unlike the unfolding historic events in Berlin or the crowd-stopping motorcades in Dublin and Rome has become a footnote in the history books; a short Presidential stopover, designed to keep the British as close allies and let Kennedy spend a night in the English countryside en route to Rome.

Macmillan in his diaries saw the ‘thrilling’ 24 hours as ‘fantastic, even romantic’ and although brief, this near-forgotten moment of Presidential history offers an enthralling insight into AngloAmerican relations during the raised tensions of the Cold War. It is also the story of America as superpower and Britain coming to terms with its international decline.

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attend the 8.30am mass at the Our Lady of the Forest church in Forest Row, driving through four miles of narrow country lanes. This presented the public with their only opportunity to view the President during his visit and crowds packed the narrow country lanes to try and glimpse him Owning Birch Grove since 1906, the Macmillan family rebuilt the old manor house on the site in 1926 in a Queen Anne style. The two-storey house was built of brown brick, with two bays and a tall French-style roof. During the war, Birch Grove housed evacuees and for a brief time even became a boarding school.

Macmillan eventually re-occupied the house after the war. The house had deep connections with the Macmillan family, with Macmillan’s mother overseeing both the rebuilding of the old manor house, the interior of the new house and the layout of the gardens. Responsibility for the estate passed to Harold, after her death.

The house itself played an important and unique role in postwar British politics, becoming the stage for many of the dramas of Macmillan’s political life. During his rise to power, the house became an important venue for Macmillan to meet and entertain guests, something which was useful to his increasing political status. Relatively close to Churchill’s country house, Chartwell, and just 38 miles from

London, it was ideally located as a centre for post-war Conservative politics, and yet rural enough to be surrounded by the hunting gentry with whom Macmillan identified so strongly. Macmillan was more suited to pre-war England than the by-then swinging sixties.

During his premiership, Macmillan welcomed world leaders to the house including General De Gaulle, Eisenhower, Khrushchev and Nehru.

It gave the tiny East Sussex hamlet of Chelwood Gate an unusually high profile for a small rural community.

After the Birch Grove weekend, events took their course. Macmillan resigned soon after, and Kennedy was struck down by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas in November. Birch Grove would be his final visit to England. Harold Macmillan lived in retirement until his death in 1986, and whilst John F. Kennedy was buried in the spectacular surroundings of Arlington Cemetery, overlooking the Lincoln Monument and Washington DC; Macmillan is buried in a quiet plot at his local parish church, St Giles, just down the road from his beloved Birch Grove.

In the villages of rural Sussex, John F. Kennedy’s brief visit is still remembered to this day.

Extracted from the book ‘‘Kennedy at Birch Grove’ by Paul Elgood which is available on www.amazon.co.uk All rights reserved.

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Kicking prawn salad Serves: 4 adults Preparation time: 10 mins Cooking time: 0 mins

Hair &Beauty By

Sue Harrison The Finishing Touch Q. My hair is feeling thin and just hangs flat. What can I do to make it look thicker?

Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil 1 lime juice only 2 tsp green chilli deseeded and finely chopped 2 tbsp fresh coriander chopped 200g peeled cooked prawns 1 Romaine or Cos lettuce separated into leaves 480g new potatoes pre-cooked, quartered 320g cherry tomatoes halved 1 pinch ground black pepper

A. Check if your shampoo and conditioner are stating for fine hair or adding volume, if not then they should be, rich conditioners will weigh it down. Try a fabulous Brand like Moroccan Oil Light.

Apply a styling lotion or mousse before drying, turn your head upside down and blast it! The airflow against the natural fall of the hair will give added root lift and volume.

A styling Dusting Powder like Ion and a good hairspray will help fix your hair in place.

For a more professional finish, request a volumising blowdry at the salon and you will be surprised at how big your hairdresser can make your hair be!

General health can be reflected in condition of the hair and thinning hair or hair loss may be an indication of a medical condition or side effect from medication. If in any doubt please refer to your GP.

What to do:

Q. I am trying to grow my hair but I keep being told I should still have it cut regularly, is this true?

1. Make the dressing by mixing the ingredients together in a salad bowl.

A. Yes. Hair grows approximately 1cm a month, often more in summer than winter and usually faster on one side of the head.

Put those two reasons together and you will have a very untidy hairstyle! The ends naturally split through wear and tear, environmental damage or by those much loved straighteners. The damage will work its way up and cause it to snap. Regular trims are important for healthy hair, it won’t make it grow any faster but it will make it look and feel a lot better. Agree an amount to trim with your hairdresser, just enough to keep it in good condition.

2. Add the prawns, stir well, then cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. (No longer than a few hours.)

3. Arrange the lettuce leaves, potatoes and tomatoes onto 4 serving plates. Spoon the prawn mixture onto each salad and serve at once, seasoned with a little black pepper.

Tip 1: If you don’t like chilli, just leave it out.

Tip 2: Use parsley as an alternative to coriander.

Tip 3: Use large tomatoes, chopped, instead of cherry tomatoes.

This recipe has been taken from the Change4Life website

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Homecare Services We provide personal & dedicated homecare services of the highest standard.

Our mission is to look after our clients in the same way that we would care for a member of our own family.

The Finishing Touch Make a Statement, style isn’t expensive, it’s Priceless! complimentary consultations are available with our experienced team, simply pop in or call us to arrange your appointment

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Clients enjoy the quality of life they deserve, maintain their independence & dignity and most importantly can remain in their own home.

Our services include: • Care to the elderly / frail • Respite care • Care to the younger disabled

• Hospital to home care • Rehabilitation care • 24hrs Care

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Lancaster Bale Out Clive Smith lives in Forest Row and has been working on his book, Lancaster Bale Out, for the last 20 years, it will finally be published this Summer. Here he explains further: ‘My mother’s cousin, Sgt Jack Hougham was killed when his Lancaster Bomber was shot down 70 years ago. Growing up I was fascinated by his logbook old photos of him and letters but no one in my family seemed to know what had happened to him, so about 20 years ago I started to research. I had always assumed that all his crew had died with him but I was amazed to find out that one, Fred Smooker, had actually survived. After much searching through telephone directories I wrote off a tentative letter and a few weeks later received a response confirming I had found the right person!

Then came the awful doubt that surely no one else could have got out in time? Overhead, the continuous droning of Lancasters. Come and get me I prayed. Then reason returned. What could I do? I could help none of my comrades. Instructions came to the fore. Hide your parachute and get away from the plane before the Germans come to investigate.

I got to my feet again and this time stayed upright.

Thank God, my ankles can’t be broken, only sprained.

Hobbling about I bundled up my parachute into a ball, but where could I hide it? I was in a field so, pulling up some long grass, I laid the chute in a hollow and covered it over, not very well hidden, but I was going to have enough to do to walk, without lugging a parachute with me until I found a good hiding place. “Get away from the plane,” I thought. I turned my back on the blazing Lancaster and with great difficulty, hobbled away in my socks, gasping with pain as I went, until all was quiet. No burning Lancaster, no droning Lancasters overhead, only me in a field in the north of France at about 3:30 am. I continued to hobble across fields, skirting one in which frightened cattle were milling about, until it was breaking daylight. I climbed over a fence into

‘Fred agreed to write down the whole account of what happened to him and my cousin in his own words which forms the basis of my book. He was helped in France by numerous people and members of the resistance, but was ultimately betrayed and ended up as a POW. Following the war, however, he lived to the ripe old age of 91’.

Here is a fabulous extract from Clives’s book: I didn’t count to ten - I just pulled the handle. I felt the plane pass over me, then I was whirling in space, cringing as if expecting a sudden violent shock which would jar the life out of me.

The sudden shock came - but I was still alive.

However, I had a burning pain in my groin. I was hanging beneath my parachute. I very gingerly reached up with both hands to grasp my shoulder straps and ease the weight off my groin. The chute gave a lurch and my heart almost stopped, then thud, I hit the ground. I lay on my back, and looking up I could see my parachute canopy slowly collapsing on the ground in front of me. I stood up, and immediately my legs gave way. My ankles were lifeless. “God,” I thought, “my ankles are broken.” Some 500 yards away I gazed in shocked disbelief at my blazing Lancaster in an adjoining field.

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a narrow country lane. Crossing the lane, I climbed another fence and was hobbling through a cornfield when I decided to lie down and rest in the corn. I immediately fell asleep.

When I awoke the sun was high in the sky and I had a raging thirst. The full course of events which had happened passed through my mind and I started to cry. My parents would maybe now have had a telegram to tell them I was missing. Were all my crew really dead? I didn’t know for sure. Surely Jim had managed to get to the door in the fuselage - and Jack and Bill? Rosner must have got out of the top escape hatch I thought. I was on my own here, in a cornfield in German occupied France.

It must have been raining while I was asleep, so to quench my thirst I sucked rain from the ears of corn.

We were issued with an escape kit for operations, containing various supposedly useful items of assistance. Horlicks tablets, maps of Europe, in the form of silk handkerchiefs, a small hacksaw blade and a rubber water container. I also had a small, sealed, can of orange juice on my person, but I could not open it because I had no tin opener or a knife, and I still had a raging thirst. I dared not stand up in case I was spotted, so I poked my head over the top of the corn, and found that it was only a square patch that had not yet been cut. About 100 yards away some

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women were gathering stalks of corn which had been left by the reaper. I thought of calling out to them to help me, but I decided against it in case they might give me away. Next to an area of corn in another direction I saw a patch of potatoes, and further on a water trough. I lay down and went back to sleep again.

When I next awoke it was dark. I tried to stand up, but I could not because my ankles were swollen to a terrible size. My flying trousers had elastic braces so I cut them off, with the hacksaw from my escape kit, and bound my ankles. I could still not stand and actually crawled on my hands and knees, out of the corn, and over the potato patch to the water trough. My thirst was terrific so I had a good drink from the trough. I filled my water bag, but it was useless - I could not carry it with me because it was just an open rubber bag, so I threw it away in disgust. Using the trough as a support I managed to get onto my feet. I realised I would not be able to walk on rough ground so I decided to get on to the country lane which was smoother. Walking on the lane was easier, so I had the idea that I could walk to Switzerland. I must have been delirious. After a while, maybe 15 minutes, I heard the clip-clop of horse’s hooves. It could be a mounted policeman I thought, or a German on horseback. We had been told that there was a curfew in France, everyone had to be indoors by 10pm. I didn’t know the time but I thought I had better get off the lane, so back into the fields I hobbled agonizingly. I don’t know how long I suffered but eventually while negotiating another cornfield I fell down, and said words to myself to the effect “sod this for a lark” and remained lying in the

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corn, where I went to sleep again.

Upon awakening again it was daylight, and under normal circumstances one would have thought what a beautiful summer morning it was. It was now Saturday, July 10th, and the only thing I could think of was, I needed a drink, I was extremely thirsty. I managed to stand and noticed, near a gate in the cornfield, there was a water tank on wheels with shafts for a horse to pull it. I hobbled out of the corn towards the gate and found this tank had a tap on the end where I again quenched my thirst.

I seemed now to have come to my senses. I could never walk to Switzerland, and I had to either give myself up, or get some help.

I went out of the gate and sat down on the bank of a country lane. After a while I heard voices - French - and soon two men on

bicycles came along. They passed me and then stopped in their tracks. They came back to me and I pointed to my chest and said “Angleterre.” I know little French, but they jabbered on together “avion, quatre moteurs, etc.” One of them offered me his bread, but I refused. I was not hungry only thirsty. As I said I know very little French but I understood when they said that they had to go to work. I was disappointed at first, but then one of them pointed across the fields and said “Petite ville, pas Allemands.”

I looked where he was pointing and could see a large square tank up on a high girder framework. I took this to be a water tower, and after they had wished me “bonne chance” they cycled off. I was on my painful way again, heading for this water tower. Eventually I arrived, and found myself at some gardens. I climbed the fence and

walked down someone’s garden path. I will not say hobbled again, it goes without saying.

To find out more or obtain a copy of the book you can contact Clive on 07930 900152 or email him at clive.smith@nats.co.uk

Gardening in August Article by Michael Dongray,

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Shrubs and Trees Keep Camellias, Rhododendrons and Azaleas well watered during dry weather otherwise the flower buds for next year may not develop properly. To improve growth feed with a liquid ericaceous fertiliser. Trim lavender bushes once the flowers have finished to encourage new growth. Summer blooming shrubs should be pruned for shape after they have finished flowering. Remove any dead or diseased branches.

Fruit and Vegetables Pinch out tomato side shoots. Continue to feed tomato plants each week with a liquid tomato feed.

Prune raspberries and gooseberries. Tie in new raspberry shoots and the main stems and side shoots of gooseberries should be shortened to five leaves.

Plant rooted strawberry runners now to ensure a good crop next year. Pick courgettes regularly. Pinch 22 • August 2013 • Ashdown Forest Living

out the tips of the climbing shoots of runner beans once they reach the tip of their supports. Sow lettuce, winter spinach, spring cabbage and Chinese cabbage out of doors.

Lawns Mow the lawn before going on holiday.

Roses Stop feeding roses now. Rambler roses that have finished flowering can be pruned now. Cut the long old stems that flowered this year, but leave nonflowering shoots, as these should bloom next year.

Miscellaneous Water all containers on a regular basis and feed regularly. Take cuttings of shrubby herbs and tender perennials. Trim hedges. Plant Autumn Flowering Crocus this month.

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Kids Holiday Activity, only for the Brave & Bold Make your own Ant farm Place a small cardboard tube into a fishbowl or similar glass container. The purpose of the tube is to encourage the ants to tunnel on the outside of the bowl so you can see them. Otherwise, the ants will be likely to tunnel in the middle, where you won’t be able to see them. Face at least one end of the tube into the side of the bowl. Fill with mud around the tube.

Find an ant colony. You can go to the park or your garden and try and find them. Using a plastic spoon, gently dig enough ants and mud to fill up the bowl 2-3 inches from the top. Do not disturb the nest and avoid the entrance way, to avoid collapsing it.

Alternatively, you can put sugar water in a jar, leave it near the edge of a nest and the ants will come to you.

If possible Capture a queen ant. Queens have a much larger thorax and abdomen and usually colored black. They will be located around a lot of eggs. Your ants will soon die off without her! Catching a queen can be difficult; try checking under logs, stones and in shallower anthills. Take care - ants will defend their queen and try to bite you.

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of fruit and vegetables, sugar water, honey, small bread crumbs, bread dipped in sugar water, crackers/ bread crumbs.

Take care of the ants, they can go a little while without food but they definitely need water at all times. To water the ant farm, drop a cotton ball soaked in water into the jar. Your ant farm should be watered every day and kept in the shade.

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Let it Bee!

By Sussex Wildlife Trust Author Jess Price The number one question I get asked has to be ‘I’ve got bumblebees nesting in my garden, what should I do?’ Whether the nest is in a bird box, compost bin or simply a pile of grass cuttings, I always give the same answer: if you can, do nothing.

Bumblebees are not at all aggressive, they do not swarm and rarely sting. Unfortunately changes in agricultural practices along with urban expansion have not been kind to our bees, and many species are now very vulnerable. This makes it so important for people to help bees whenever they can and I would always recommend that bumblebee nests are left undisturbed.

Bumblebees have an annual life cycle with new nests being started each spring by queens. Colonies only last one summer and queens do not come back to the same location to nest each year. In this country most nests will have died out by September, often much earlier. This means bumblebee nests are only a very temporary issue that should not cause too many problems in gardens.

Male bumblebees are easy to identify with their dark orange-red tails and bright yellow face, the presence of males indicates that a colony’s life cycle is nearly over and pretty soon the nests of these bees will be empty. By letting them finish their life cycle, you can help to ensure there are enough new queens to keep the population going the next year.

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Now in its third year, the Jazz Festival has just gotten bigger...Springhill farm at Weirwood reservoir have offered to host this year’s all weekend festival that will have non-stop bands and solo performers back to back from Friday 30th August at 7pm right through to Sunday 1st September, finishing at around 7pm.

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Tea Shop Walk Here is an Ashdown Forest Tea Shop walk which encompasses Duddleswell Tea Rooms - a charming, traditional establishment set in the heart of the Forest - has been serving teas since the end of the 19th century. We can’t think of any thing better to do on a beautiful Summer’s day.

The view from the car park gives you a taster of the wonders in store. The backbone of Ashdown Forest is a sandstone ridge. Our route starts along this ridge where you can enjoy tremendous views. After a visit to a restored windmill, the route goes round off the ridge to a famous traditional teashop.

A short climb to a viewpoint, then an exhilarating walk along more of the ridge completes this fabulous walk.

DISTANCE: 5 MILES. MAP: OS Landranger 198 Brighton and Lewes or Explorer 135 Ashdown Forest.

STARTING POINT: Box car park (GR 460288).

ALTERNATIVE STARTING POINT: If you wish to visit the teashop at the beginning or end of your walk, start in the car park opposite the teashop in the hamlet of Duddleswell on the B2026. You will then start the walk at point 8.

3. At the bottom of a dip turn right, passing the remains of wooden horse barrier. Some 30 yards after the barrier, the path forks into three. Take the left branch to shortly join a path coming in from the right. Follow the path across an open area then fork left on a

smaller path back into woodland to shortly meet a more substantial cross path.

4. Turn right. You will soon notice a substantial track parallel with the path, which it eventually joins at a cross path. Carry on in the same direction along the track.

1. Go to the rear of the car park to find a wide grassy path that passes it and turn left, gently uphill, along this to Friends Clump on the right and another car park on the left.

Carry on ahead, now downhill.

2. Just after a hedge starts on the left, bear left at a fork to walk with the hedge on the left. Bear left again at another fork to go immediately through a gate onto a track between a cottage and Nutley Windmill and follow the track to a road. Continue on a signed path opposite. Cross a track leading past a modern house called Alma Cottage.

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There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

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5. Just before the track reaches a building, bear left along a track over a cattle grid. Some 20 yards before the track reaches Misbourne Farm, turn left on an unsigned path that soon meets a cross path.

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6. Turn right. Follow the path down into a valley and steeply up the other side, over a cross track and down into another valley where two streams meet. Ignore tracks to the right and left and carry on steeply out of the valley, ignoring a path on the right.

7. At the top of the hill on a cross path. (If you reach a track that leads to barns on the right, you have gone 80 yards too far.) Follow this to a surfaced track leading from a house on the left. Press on in the same direction.

When the track bends sharp right continue ahead on a path passing a house called Little Gassions. When this forks, bear right to walk with a wood on the left gently, uphill to a T-junction with a broad cross path. Turn left to a surfaced drive. Turn right to a road then left to the teashop on the right.

8. From the teashop take a track adjacent to the building for 60 yards then turn left on a grassy path leading to a track. Turn left for 15 yards then right on a narrow, unsigned path to a surfaced drive. Walk in front of a house then continue ahead on an unsigned path as far as the end of a fence on the right.

9. Go ahead for 35 yards, ignoring two immediate paths on the right opposite a field gate, to find a path on the right. Do not take this but continue for a further 15 yards to a way-marked path that forks right. Take this one, gently downhill. Cross a larger path after 90 yards and carry on down to a plank footbridge over a stream.

Press on up the other side. The path becomes rather obscure for a while as it twists through the trees. It leads to a small gate into a field. Through the gate, head slightly right to a stile onto a surfaced drive. Go straight over the drive to continue on the path. Cross a small stream after 25 yards then bear left uphill to a track.

10. This is the Weald Way. Turn left along the track for 100 yards then bear left on a waymarked path to rejoin the track after 80 yards, cutting off a corner. Continue along the track for a further 50 yards to a waymark post on the right.

11. Turn left to a stile marked with the WW waymark

and follow the path to a second stile onto a track. Turn right along the track to a house on the right and a pronounced right-hand bend in the track.

12. Immediately after the house turn left to continue on the Weald Way along a grassy path and follow this to a road.

The Weald Way cuts across the southeast corner of England from Gravesend to Eastbourne, a distance of 82 miles.

13. Turn left to a main road (there is a path starting over a stile on the left that allows you to cut out a few yards of road walking if you wish). Cross the main road to a small gate then follow the path uphill to Camp Hill, crowned with a clump of pines. There are several seats here to admire the magnificent view. Pass to the left of the clump, then turn left on a broad crossing track. Follow this gently downhill, passing between attractive ponds. Do not go into the car park ahead.

At the end of the pond on the right, bear round to the right and continue ahead to a second car park where this walk started.

Camp Hill gets its name from a huge army encampment set up here during the Napoleonic War in 1793.

Detachments of 12 regiments were stationed here.

A series of mounds north of Camp Hill long puzzled archaeologists who named them ‘Mystery Mounds’. It has now been established that they are nothing more exciting than the remains of the camp kitchens.

This walk comes courtesy of Sussex Teashop Walks, a book by Jean Patefield, see www.countrysidebooks.co.uk © Craig Williams

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Rudyard Kipling, Literary Giant of Sussex

By Alexandra Ayton, extracted from her book ‘Sussex Remembered’

Kipling lived in Burwash, East Sussex for many years.

As the village is a stone’s throw from the Ashdown Forest area we felt it fitting to include this article about his life, here is the second part (see July issue for first part): Over the years, the Kiplings had many influential friends for lunch and tea, others for overnight stays: A.P.Watt, Kipling’s literary agent for 40 years; Frank Doubleday, his publisher; Max Aitken who later became Lord Beaverbrook; and VIPs from the Empire and the dominions. Children, the very elderly and the Kiplings’ extended families all enjoyed their hospitality, if not their stiff, old-fashioned furniture and Spartan atmosphere.

Carrie kept at bay intrusive members of the press, the middle-aged whom they considered dull and the county set, earning her the dislike of many people.

Nevertheless, she was ever protective and totally loyal

towards her husband, acting as the buffer between him and the outside world. In the mornings, from his book-lined study, Kipling would ‘hatch’ his stories on his table littered with crumpled up blue sheets of paper and discarded drafts of work. Surrounded by souvenirs from the Far East, and covered in black inkstains from his hand-dipped Waverley pen, he would pace up and down humming to himself before retiring to his hard day-bed to ‘wait for my Daemon’ (his subconscious) to strike.

Lunch at one o’clock would follow, often with friends or relatives, his sister Trish, the Baldwins, the BurneJones, cousins, aunts and uncles, and Kipling’s much loved Aberdeen terriers very much in evidence. The Weald and Bateman’s inspired him to write many works on the Sussex countryside, using the books on the county in his library and the wonderful views all around him. Puck of Pook’s Hill, written primarily for his own children Elsie and John, appealed to readers around the world and Rewards and Fairies was another great success.

In 1907 Kipling was invited to Stockholm, where he became the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The prize money of seven thousand guineas was spent installing a shallow, rectangular water pond, a rose garden, a yew hedge with a circular wooden seat and a sundial facing south. In the visitors’ book Kipling entered the names of those who fell into the pond with FIP beside them – Fell into Pond! Others who outstayed their welcome found themselves standing in front of the sundial reading the inscription: ‘It is later than you think.’

From Bateman’s he continued motoring and touring Sussex, describing the car as a ‘time-machine on which one can slide from one century to another at no more than the pushing forward of a lever’. He also delighted in watching his Aberdeen terriers taking biscuits from the chairs around the room, including those of his stuffier guests. His Guernsey cows, kept for appearance rather than profit, were given names such as Bateman’s Blizzard and Bateman’s Baby, while Kipling pets were lovingly given their own graves at the bottom of the garden.

Despite the loss of Josephine some years earlier, Kipling had found happiness at Bateman’s, working hard and enjoying the company of Carrie, Elsie and

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posthumously in 1937.

At Bateman’s the flow of guests continued unabated. In 1933, 140 people came to lunch or tea, each name faithfully entered in the visitors’ book by Kipling himself, rather than his guests. Yet he remained modest and shy by nature, declining many honours, including a knighthood, the poet laureateship and the order of merit.

John, his farming interests and the stream of influential friends and visitors.

Sadly, this happiness was shattered when World War One broke out. All the young men were enlisting and Kipling, known as the Poet of the Empire and counting King George V and the Prime Minister amongst his circle, wanted his son to fight the ‘Hun’, as did John himself.

He was profoundly short-sighted like his father and was rejected by the army and navy as ‘a danger to himself and to his men’. Kipling ignored their views. Instead, he persuaded his friend Field Marshal Lord Roberts to arrange a commission for John in the Irish Guards in the summer of 1915. Newly commissioned, John returned to Bateman’s before leaving for France. On 17th August 1915, his mother recorded proudly in her diary: ‘He looks very straight and smart and young and brave as he turns at the top of the stairs to say, “Send my love to Daddo”.’

On 27th September 1915, in pouring rain, Second Lieutenant John Kipling was killed in the Battle of Loos on the first day of action.

He was just 18.

Grieving and filled with guilt, Kipling refused to accept that John had died, desperately hoping that he was just ‘missing’. He made every effort to find out what had become of him, calling on influential friends including the Prince of

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Wales to obtain news, but to no avail. Not surprisingly, he became introspective, developing duodenal ulcers that were treated without success by his doctor.

Afterwards he wrote bitterly: ‘If any question why we died/ Tell them, because our fathers lied.’

He also wrote the haunting poem ‘My Boy Jack’, famous for the line: ‘Have you news of my boy Jack?’

When the war ended, Kipling became an active commissioner for Sir Fabian Ware’s Imperial War Graves Commission, the group responsible for creating British war graves in Europe and other locations around the world. He also supported the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Westminster Abbey.

Tireless in his support of the families who had lost loved ones, he visited military cemeteries on the former Western Front, accompanied by Carrie and King George V. At home, he attended the unveiling of the white dome of the Chattri on the Sussex Downs in 1921, and two years later, his two-volume history of the Irish Guards – his son’s regiment – was published.

In January 1936, three days before his King, Kipling died of peritonitis when the gastric ulcer that had plagued him since 1915 haemorrhaged whilst on a visit to London with Carrie. He was just 70.

After a secret cremation at Golders Green, his ashes were interred at Poet’s Corner in Westminster on 23rd January 1936. Carrie battled on at Bateman’s until her death three years later, when her ashes were placed under a tree in the walled garden. With no grandchildren, Carrie left Bateman’s and its contents to the National Trust as a memorial to her husband’s long and extraordinary career.

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What’s On: August

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Until 7th August

live music, drinks and refreshments and are £25 per person. Costume or evening dress (Masks can be bought on the door). Extra activities include: Professional photographs in front of a painted view of Venice taken as a keepsake and facepinting for adults! To book your tickets, call 07799 201 417, Group bookings are available also. E-mail: comm@ arts-festival.org.

Ashdown Forest & Beyond - The pastel paintings of Juliet Murray. Original local landscape paintings, prints and cards will be displayed for sale in the large cafeteria area and adjoining room. Come & have a cup of coffee and a browse. For further information call Juliet on 01825 712565, Crowborough Centre, Pine Grove TN6 1FE, weekdays only 10am - 4pm. www.cogcraft.co.uk.

Thursday 8th August to Thursday 29th August.

Dave Brooker Photography Exhibition: The pictures will be predominantly landscapes of Ashdown Forest but will also include other areas of East Sussex, Scotland, Dubai and Canada among other subjects. Crowborough Community Centre, Pine Grove, Crowborough, TN6 1FE. 9am to 8pm Monday to Friday, 10am to 2pm Saturdays. Tel: 01892 653823.

Friday 9th, Thursday 15th and Friday 16th August Ashdown Forest Holiday Club - fun activities lead by our super Forest teachers Lisa and Rachel for children aged 6 to 11 years! The children will take part in creative and practical activities. There will be games, stories, survival skills with discovery and learning about Ashdown Forest. Each day will run from 10am until 3.30pm at the Ashdown Forest Centre at Wych Cross.

Places cost £20 per child and there will be a maximum of 15 children per day. To book a space call 01342 823583.

Saturday 10th August Sussex Family History Group. Talk: David Goldsmith – Lewes Avalanche. Starts at 10am. (Meetings normally held on 2nd Monday of each month at 7:15 for 7:30pm start). Refreshments available. Luxford Day Centre, Library Way, Uckfield.

Saturday 10th August Masked Ball Brings Taste of Ancient Venice this Summer! If you love glamour and music, then you will love this masked ball. A touch of ancient Venice is coming to East Grinstead’s grand Saint Hill Great Hall function room at 7.30pm. Ticket prices include 36 • August 2013 • Ashdown Forest Living

Sunday 11th August Nymans Summer open-air theatre: Sherlock Holmes. Bring a picnic and enjoy a laugh at our outdoor theatre. Gates open 6pm, 7-9pm. Tel: 01444 405250. Handcross, near Haywards Heath, RH17 6EB. Sunday 11th August Chiddingly Horse Show, Gymkhana and Fun Dog Show. A family day out in the countryside at Hale Farm, Chiddingly BN8 6HQ. Riding, jumping, carriage driving; Fun Dog Show with Pedigree and Novelty Classes and more - enter at Ringside. Plus a display by the Coakham Bloodhounds. Stalls, refreshments, Grand Raffle. 9am - 6pm.

Sunday 18th August Ashdown Forest Craft Fair. Two Hoots Events proudly present the brand new regular Art and Craft Fair showcasing the best handmade gifts. Ashdown Forest Llama Park, RH18 5JN. Café onsite. 10am - 4pm.

Friday 30th August The Heavenly Divas Opera Evening at Buxted Park. Enjoy a glass of bubbly and a superb three-course dinner with some fantastic entertainment. £79 per person. Buxted Park Hotel, TN22 4AY. Tel: 01825 733 333.

Until 1st September Barton’s Dangerous Summer for Boys (and Girls!) at Standen House. Adventurous activities for intrepid young explorers. Pick up explorer trails from the Apple Store and head off on adventures in the gardens and woodland, find the den building area put on a play in the base camp theatre and get lost in the higgledy piggledy fence. You can explore the house too, by following the ‘Day in the Life’ trail, available from the porch. 11 am -4pm. For More Information: 01342 323029, standen@nationaltrust.org.uk.

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What’s On: August Until 2nd September Nymans Explorer Trail: Wind in the Willows. After some holiday fun this summer? Come take our Wind in the Willows themed trail through the garden and enjoy a visit to our exhibition of illustrations by E H Shephard. Explorers on the trail will receive a map to help them hunt down and join in the adventures of Badger, Ratty, Toad and Mole. Tel: 01444 405250.

Handcross, near Haywards Heath, RH17 6EB. Saturday 7th September Hartfield Fete and Flower & Dog Show - 12 Noon Town Croft Hartfield. Free entry to the Croft and Flower Tent but schedules lucky programmes and raffle tickets sold in advance. Come and join us for a fun-packed day with all the fun of the fair with many stalls, side shows and attractions for adults with professional entertainment and races laid on for children. The dog show and famous doggy dash are always popular. Scrumptious teas served with the usual Hartfield hospitality. In the evening a Family Barn Dance begins at 7.30pm with food served from 6.30pm. Tickets including food available from the Anchor Pub, Hartfield Stores and Perryhill Orchard.

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Sunday 8th September Cats Protection Car Boot Sale, 10am - 1pm. Set up starts from 8am. Our cafe will be open for food and drinks, cost: £10 per car or £12 per small van.

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Ashdown Forest Morris Dancers Wednesday 7th August The Sloop, Scaynes Hill (TQ385243) with Chanctonbury Ring Morris Men, 8pm.

Wednesday 14th August at The Forester’s Arms, Fairwarp, 8pm.

Wednesday 21st August at The Coopers’ Arms, St. John’s Gate, Crowborough(TQ507316), 8pm.

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A Sustainable Transport Scheme for visitors to Ashdown Forest has been launched.

A bus network has been set up by the Wealden Bus Alliance connecting visitors from local mainline railway stations to the heart forest.

Transport Minister Norman Baker, who launched the scheme, said: “Ashdown Forest is a wonderful area of open countryside for walking, picnics and wildlife, but its rare heathland habitat is under threat from increasing nitrogen deposits caused by a number of sources including the motor car.

“The Forest Explorer bus network allows visitors to enjoy the Forest while keeping harmful pollution to a minimum.”

For more details go to wealdenbus.org.uk/ forestexplorer

Message from Caroline FitzGerald, Grazing Officer Ashdown forest: The Conservators of Ashdown Forest have recently purchased five Exmoor ponies for conservation grazing on the SSSI heathland. In the first instance the ponies will be confined to just north of Chestnut Farm, (Nutley) and will be behind live electric fences. Later on in the year we will be moving them into a larger winter grazing enclosure. We are asking the public not to approach or attempt to feed the ponies because we do not want them to learn to harass people for treats and food. The electric fences will be live so please take care so that you, and your dogs, do not get a shock.

The ponies are pedigree Exmoors from the Sweetcombe herd in Devon. Their breeder grew up near Crowborough and knows the Forest well, she is delighted that some of her herd are coming home to Ashdown Forest and says that it is perfect for them.

If anybody would like to help to take care of the animals we are keen to have volunteers, please just phone the Forest Centre on 01342 823583 or email caroline@ashdownforest.org

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What if you could GET RID of

BACK PAIN, WHIPLASH, NECK PAIN, MIGRAINES, DIZZINESS, TMJ etc…?

AtlasPROfilax®

NEW REVOLUTIONARY TREATMENT

Did you know that the Atlas bone is misaligned in most humans?

Do you suffer with recurring back pain, migraines and headaches, stiff neck, frozen shoulders, pain in the hips or knees, repetitive strain injury, trapped nerves, difference in legs length, sinuses problems, TMJ (misaligned jaw), dizziness, whiplash?

A strategic and non-chiropractic massage is applied to the short musculature of the neck. In only one application, safely and permanently, the Atlas bone returns to its correct position. Old patterns clear and the entire system begins to function to its fullest potential.

“Nothing I have experienced nor performed has given the benefits and results that this one time treatment has. The experience to date with the AtlasPROfilax® treatment is that my atlas has maintained proper alignment and function. I have GREAT! The chronic pain at the base of my skull is gone.

I am more balanced and empowered in my life” Dr. Robert A Pope, Chiropractic Physician “In no more than 25 minutes, nearly all my tensions in my back went. The feeling of relaxation was intense. Now I can watch TV in my bed without any pain in my nect.”

R.B. West Sussex “I feel like an owl and can now see virtually 360 degrees…”

M.H. Forest Row “After his adjustment he looked alive, now walking taller, upright and straight” C.H. East Grinstead “Vertigo has disappeared… my hearing has drastically improved…I can now move my heard normally… I used to zigzag and struggled walking straight. I now have a perfect balance and I can walk straight” P.C, East Grinstead “I’ve had no back pain or migraine, this is phenomenal” C.H., 41yrs Old “I have had whiplash, lot of pain in my neck (loud ‘cracking’ noise) plus that I always had pain in my left wrist and left elbow… Today, I have no pain in the neck, no pain in my wrist and in my elbow anymore…”

M. H. Denmark

For more details contact: Marie-Agnes Casalini Mob: 07828 954 304 Tel: 01342 303279 Email: marie.atlas@yahoo.co.uk

“Immediately my intestines started working better and are now functioning very well…I generally feel balanced, physically, emotionally and spiritually…In the past I have done a lot of self-improvement and process work and is it just so much easier now” J.D. Exeter

For more happy clients and chiropractor’s feedback see: www.marieatlas.co.uk

“I feel very blessed to have received the Atlas adjustment, my body has been much stronger since then and feel much more optimistic” D.R.W London “The treatment was quick and almost immediately my sciatica, constant headaches, lower back pain faded away. I was able to bend down and almost touch my toes, which I hadn’t been able to do since I was sixteen…”

Mark, Scotland “…I have found that my eyesight has improved as well…”

L.P. 45yrs old “…I feel an overwhelming calming peace within me, my mind and my spirit… it is amazing, overall my memory seems more wide-awake, my nervous system has remarkably improved…I move steadily on my feet, not wobbling as usual or supporting myself on shop windows or doors…”

S.B., 85 yrs old