Ashdown Forest Living August Issue

August 2016

With thanks to Tom S B Lee for providing this photo of the uncommon "Silver Studded Blue" male butterfly which is found selectively in a few places in the Ashdown Forest.

Food for Fabulous Thought Summertime and Living is Easy What Comes Around

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Welcome to the August issue! I hope you’re all enjoying a wonderful summer in the beautiful area in which we live. This month we have a fabulous, funny article from a local blogger that is bound to give you a giggle - the first and last foreign holiday. If you need help with finding things for the kids to do this holiday, fear not as we have a couple of features that can help. A young school boy who lives in the area has reached and surpassed the top of motorbike racing in the UK and has moved on to winning against the best in Spain. See our article to find out all about it.

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What Goes Around By local author Julie Corbin

The two questions I’m most often asked as a writer is where do I get my ideas from and how long does it take me to write a novel. Well… ideas are all around us and it’s a case of catching hold of an interesting premise and shaping it into a satisfying story. And that process can take anything up to two years.

There are some serious issues affecting our world at the moment and fiction seems frivolous by comparison, doesn’t it? … Or does it? … Is fiction important at all? Writer and philosopher Albert Camus said, ‘Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth’. Fiction works in mysterious ways, often by stealth, because while entertaining us, it also helps to shape our core values and make sense of our place in the world. Stories are embedded in our DNA, from ancient epic poems to fairy tales, both heroic and cautionary, often spoken or performed rather than read. We are each of us the main player in the story of our own lives. We learn by our mistakes, and sometimes we learn by other people’s mistakes, and often we’re nudged into realisations by works of fiction.

Writers tend to circle recurring themes, in my case: family, secrets and betrayal. While most of us form relationships, often long-lasting ones, we make compromises, adapt our behaviours, hide thoughts maybe, scheme even? … We’re not bad people, it’s just that sometimes we make choices that come back to bite us. My fifth novel, What Goes Around, was published in ebook by Hodder and Stoughton in July this year. Psychological fiction keeps us turning the pages because it engages the brain – we are given clues and have plot points to wrestle with - but it also shows us what can go wrong when we don’t behave as carefully or as well as we should. It allows us to vicariously live another person’s life.

while Ellen is out for revenge. She wants her home back and she wants Leila to pay for breaking up her marriage. Her plan will make her do things she never thought herself capable of. One of the women will end up dead. But which one? And finally to the title – titles can be difficult because I want to intrigue the reader, to give him/ her a flavour of the theme. Fiction has a wonderful way of making consequences matter, and in this case, What Goes Around… Comes Around. For those of you interested in writing stories, I will be co-teaching a course with Mel Parks, beginning in September, for details please email hello@ honeyleafwriting.com. See page 38 for more details.

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Are you a Secretly Happy Person? August is the month for ‘The Secret Society of Happy People’ (SOHP), which is an organization that celebrates the expression of happiness. So now you have an excuse to show that hopefully not too elusive emotion, in case you felt you needed one!

happy — they actually seemed annoyed by it. (Gasp!) And most of the time they didn’t want to hear anything about it. “I started to notice lots of other happy people, like me, tended to keep a lot of our happiness to ourselves, or a secret. So one day I started to wonder where all of the happy people were.

Founded in August 1998 by Pamela Gail Johnson of Irving, Texas, the society encourages thousands of members from all around the globe to recognize their happy moments and think about happiness in their daily life... Maybe we could all do a bit of this; just as we share in global grief, so we should share in global happiness. The Secret Society of Happy People supports people who want to share their happiness despite the ones who don’t want to hear happy news.

“Then my imagination kicked in and I saw them standing around in a room chit-chatting about all things happy. Then I saw their banner: The Secret Society of Happy People. That was so the identities of the not-so-secretly happy people would remain a secret in case a parade-rainer crashed the party - because all happy gatherings are a party.” The idea is to stimulate people’s right to express their happiness “as loud as they want”, and refers to many people’s reluctance to speak out when they have something joyous to share as they fear grumpier people might rain on their parade by making fun of them or questioning their need to express happiness.

Their mottos include “Happiness Happens” and “Don’t Even Think of Raining on My Parade”. Founder Pamela states: “I’m easily amused so you could say I’m happy most of the time. Not a Pollyanna – I’m like most people, I get a little annoyed dealing with chronically cranky people or when my car is making a funny noise – but I get through most days with a smile.

The Society believes it’s always okay to share your happiness and they even identified 31 Types of Happiness! (A few are below.)

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The Summer holidays can be a tricky business when it comes to entertaining children at any age, so the team here at The Creative Hub, East Grinstead, has come up with a few tips on how to keep your child busy, happy and away from the TV and game consoles this Summer: It’s all about clay – we find children (and even adults) of all ages and capabilities love using clay to sculpture models, pots and trinkets. We like to use air drying clay which dries overnight and can be moulded and painted with pre-mixed paints; all materials can be purchased for a reasonable price on Amazon.

Daily Diary Sketchbook - record each day of the summer as an illustration. We stole this idea from a 7-year-old artist who recently visited our studio from France. It is a wonderful way for children to express themselves, you can follow their artistic progression, but it’s also exciting to see what they will illustrate – it could be factual or fantasy!

Be creative and tire the kids out! Sussex is full of stunning walks so why not take a picnic, pencils and a couple of drawing pads (you have to join in too!) and go for a walk. Forest Walk between East Grinstead and Forest Row is a great path we like to use as it’s not only close to our studio but it is safe, has lots of viewing points, often a horse or two can be found along the way and it has lovely stop off points where you can sit and draw the stunning scenery and have a picnic - a win/win.

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August Reminders for your Garden keep them looking fresh. If you have lavender, santolina or rosemary then you should clip these back once they’ve finished flowering. This keeps new growth at the bottom of the plant and prevents the woody appearance which can deter from the natural shape and beauty of the shrub. If you dry the lavender you can use it indoors for scent. Thuja, leylandii, beech and hornbeam can all be trimmed this month – if you use a power hedge trimmer, spare a thought for the neighbour’s barbeque! A great month for harvesting your fruit and vegetables. You can also prune your gooseberries, redcurrant and blackcurrant bushes once the fruit has finished. Tasty salads and delicious desserts are your reward for all your hard efforts - so most importantly this month, when there is fine weather make sure you sit and enjoy your garden.

I’m writing this article in the early evening on what has been the hottest day of the year so far. Sitting in the garden with a glass of chilled prosecco and a dish of olives admiring the garden – only the second time this year I’ve sat out early evening, not because I’ve been too busy but it’s either been very windy, pouring with rain or just dull! Interestingly though, the plants seem to have enjoyed the weather, growing prolifically with the wet, warm conditions and now a real burst of colour - thanks I’m sure to my regular feeding regime.

Bon appétit… Clare Parkinson Horticultural Manager and Garden Designer Imberhorne Lane Nursery

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NEWS: CROWBOROUGH & DISTRICT LIONS CLUB The pride is back: Crowborough Lion’s are at this years Crowborough Carnival and with a new president to start the lion year we are roaring to go with all our activities! Our fundraising is continuing by attending the fêtes in the area; we will be at the Hospital Annual Fête on August Bank Holiday with our bottle tombola and cut the card for food tins plus candy floss and pop corn machines. We will be around the local estates as always to see what we can collect for our stalls for the hospital fundraising. We entertained a hundred senior citizens to afternoon tea and

entertainment last month and helped a family for a request of a travelling bed for a young boy with a debilitating illness, and another young boy with PhelaMcDermid Syndrome. A girl guide was helped to a trip to India, plus St Johns Pre-School was given a notice board and more of course. If you know an individual or organisation that could benefit from Lion’s financial support please contact the club treasure at: treasururer@crowlions.org.uk. We are again holding our Diabetic Screening at the town hall on the 19th September following the success of last year, so do come along. We inducted a new lady member to Lions last month at our new

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Ashdown Forest Ranger’s Report One of the best things about my job is helping people enjoy the forest but there are only four rangers and it is park impossible forroad us (with to do this alone, From Linton’s Linton’s car car park cross crossthe theroad (withcare) care)into intoRidge Ridge wepark are (summer very busy which creates huge work car park (summer only). only). Walk Walk out outofofathe the rear rear past pastaload a seat seat onto onto staff and soininwe are50m heavily on volunteers. afor grass grass path path and and about about 50m turn turnreliant left leftonto onto aaride. ride. Remain Remain onon this gently gently descending descending ride, ride, ignoring another another that that bears bears offoff Some of these people areignoring at college gaining degrees right, right, for about about 400m. 400m.in countryside management and and for qualifications need work experience, many are retired and or have On both left and right are linear quarries, an interest in scrub the forest. They all work alongside now filled with and trees. Such traineddot stafftheand are part of ourand team who help run quarries Forest landscape provided stoneWe for are roads. Typicallooking heathlandfor volunteers so if the forest. always birds such as nightjar, stonechat, tree pipit you are interested in working on the forest and have and woodlark usually breed in this area and some spare intime you can always call us or drop in the ride edges particular are one of the to the Forest and get more information on best places on theCentre Forest (indeed in Sussex) tovolunteering. see, in May, the yellow flowers of the 1.75 miles/3km miles/3km

team so welcome Josh and Dan and we are currently advertising for a Deer Officer who will be managing the deer herd on the forest. Our education team lead by Lisa picked up an environmental achievement award and judging by the number of school children I encounter on the North Chase they have worked hard to earn it! They are running a regular Mother and Toddler Group and a Summer Holiday Play scheme 22-24th August. In October there is a week long Ashdown Forest Festival. Please phone the office on 01342 823583 and speak to Charlie if you are interested.

Meanwhile rangers are adopting a new method of controlling bracken which should improve the small spiny shrub, petty whin. heathland. We are waiting for the delivery of new The Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex will be visiting machinery and we are employing a contractor who The bears then right through a break the quarries theride forest to left, make the Queens Award forinVoluntary will collect all the bracken we cut and take it off the and continues descending for 400m to a metalled drive (Sandy Services. This will be celebrated by the drinking of Lane) On thecake left is green and ahead are the heath. A considerable task. tea and. eating ataa bowling secret location somewhere cricket pitch and pavilion of Coleman’s Hatch Cricket Club. in Sussex! Mike Yates We have two new shepherds joining our grazing

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• Quite rightly, the host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympics in 1896.

• Greece, Australia, France, Great Britain and Switzerland are the only countries to have had representatives at every Summer Olympic Games.

• The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colours, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green and red.

• The USA has won more Gold (976), more Silver (758), more Bronze (666) and more total medals (2400) than any other nation at the Summer games.

• Until this year, three continents – Africa, South America, and Antarctica – have never hosted an Olympics.

• The United States has hosted the Summer Olympics more times than any other nation, four in total: St Louis 1904, Los Angeles 1932 & 1984, and Atlanta 1996.

• Larisa Latynina, a gymnast from the former Soviet Union, finished her Summer Olympic Games career with 18 total medals - the most in history.

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Our Very Own Local Champion entered Jamie into the British championship (FAB Racing). This series covers the whole of the UK. It is also the series where the likes of Scott Redding, Danny Kent and Danny Webb started, and all 3 of these riders are at the prestigious level of Moto GP.

Local East Grinstead schoolboy Jamie Davis has conquered the world of motorbike racing for his age in the UK and is now one of the favourites in the Spanish Junior Moto4 Championship. His dedicated parents Tom & Katrina have assisted him every step of the way from the tender age of 3. We’re pleased to be able to bring you a Q&A with Jamie’s dad Tom about his relentless ascent in the motorbike racing world:

In fact, Danny Webb is a personal friend of mine and has been Jamie’s coach since he was 6 years old. At the age of 8 Jamie became British champion, the youngest to date.

How did Jamie get into motorcycling racing initially? Jamie started out racing karts at 3 years old at the Rye House junior training centre which is near Stanstead Airport; we used to have to take him every Sunday morning and be there for 7.30am. After about 6/7 months he was already showing clear talent but unfortunately there were other parents who made it quite obvious that they didn’t like a 3-year-old doing well up against their 7-year-olds. So we had to take the decision to stop karting. How did he progress from there?

Then at 9 years old Jamie became 3 times the British champion on the Mini Moto, Junior Production and Metrakit 50cc Gear Box all in the same year, so you can imagine how busy we were going around the country to each race meeting! We then took the alternative approach of 2 wheels training on a GRC RR Italian Race Mini Moto, down at the Angmering raceway, every single weekend for over 1 year, after which we

At the age of 10 Jamie was selected to race in the more challenging Junior Spanish Championship, RFME CEV series. This level is incredible and very competitive, with all the best kids from all over the world. He is now racing in Spain. What’s the set-up out there and costs/time involved for you? Currently, now at age 11, he’s been selected to race for Hector Faubel’s team (FAU55). Hector raced at Moto GP for many years but retired to set up his team. Jamie is 3rd in the championship with only 2 rounds left to go and only 6 points behind 2nd and 12 points behind 1st, so all very close. The annual series costs approximately 50K. This includes travel and hotels etc, so not cheap...

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Macey, do high level gymnastics for which they train 3/4 hours every night after school. The racing does take up all my time now as we spend much time in Spain training, doing PR for the team and testing the bike with different engines and set ups. What do you envision for his future in this sport?

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The First and Last Foreign Holiday A local who writes by the name of Alice Wilde has launched a new blog with an honest account of life and parenthood (with no slick veneers!). The blog is specifically for people who feel that life has gone possibly a little off kilter, a little far from their original ideals... It’s a touch of solidarity and with a dose of good humour to help oil life’s cogs: As we approach the holiday season and we all get excited about the joys of jetting off to places where you don’t need the central heating and a 13.5 tog duvet in July, I thought I would share a couple of snippets of wisdom gleaned from my recent family holiday to Lanzarote with my partner and our combined 5 children. I shall pass on the lessons garnered on this first, and probably last, important foreign holiday together:

Do not rely on your partner to wake up at the right time for your cheap early flight. Not unless you have specifically talked about it.

tropical island off Africa’s West Coast when an off-peak return train ticket from East Grinstead to Newcastle is £222.50.

They may be relying on you to wake up at the right time.

And it’s not only due to the time you’ve chosen to fly.

Because neither of you have specifically talked about it.

You have not paid for any bags. None. Not even the two massive ones you have just hauled onto the weighy belt thing.

Do not pay to park at Gatwick’s ‘Purple Parking’ if you live in Forest Row. It’s roughly the same distance from the departure hall as Forest Row is.

If you are in a new relationship you may have a different surname to your children. Your children will have a different surname to your partner. He may have a different surname to his own children. You will have a different surname to him.

You will now have to fill in a proper paper form with a real pen and pay £60.

This can be confusing to check-in people before 7am.

When reaching security, people generally don’t mind if you are desperate and you say you are going to miss your flight and you lift up the tape and queue jump ahead of them. Unless there’s 7 of you. Then they get a bit angry. Especially when you drop your glass bottle of Rescue Remedy and it smashes right next to their Italian suede loafers.

When you have the peace and quiet to focus – at the point of booking the seven return flights - no matter what unearthly time that may be, just take a moment to read the actual information rather than totally high-fiving yourself over the price.

“Oh God, you’ve dropped your Rescue Remedy!” And they are taking the 120ml of Mac foundation that costs £26 away from you. And your partner has only seen you, thus far, in darkness without it.

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No matter how busy you are with your actual normal life in the evening before the holiday flights, do not succumb to the temptation to allow your children to pack their own hand luggage. You may find that your son has packed his small collection of antique brass bullets in your handbag. The scanning people don’t like this.

They also dislike the image of 5 glue-sticks in a row tucked into a small bag. Apparently they look like Semtex. My daughter thought we all might like to do some cutting and sticking. You will have to wait to talk to the floor manager. She doesn’t like light-hearted jokes loosely based on how you’re not actually a terrorist.

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Remind your son that although his own family love him unconditionally, other people find it hard to listen to requests to go go-karting more than once every ten minutes.

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Throughout the flight remind your son that although his own family love him unconditionally, other people find it hard to listen to requests to go go-karting more than once every ten minutes.

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Also, when booking a cheap flight be aware that the cheap flights often depart from a gate with a number so high that your youngest child may only ever have seen it written down when she found out what age Albus Dumbledore was.

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Other children will refuse to sit on the seat which has been vomited on. Even if you had the wet wipes to deal with it. The refusals will last the full week.

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Remind your son that although his own family love him unconditionally, even they are finding it hard to listen to requests to go go-karting more than once every ten minutes.

This gate is situated through all the exciting, distracting, shiny shops and then over a bridge which seems only to have the Great Wall of China as a rival in length. You must be good at running and have no pelvic floor weakness.

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AUGUST by Dorothy Hatswell of the East Grinstead Museum

victories, notably the conquest of Egypt. The Julian Calendar, by then over one thousand years old, had become progressively out of step with the true date by planetary reckoning.

Augustus Caesar

August is a month that appears in first the Julian Calendar and, since 1752, the Gregorian one. It originally was called “Sixtus”, as it was the sixth month of the Roman Calendar in use at the time. Designed in 753 BC by Romulus, one of that famous duo, Romulus and Remus, the year was divided into ten months, starting in March. By 700 BC two more months had been added to the beginning of the year, becoming what we now call January and February. The Roman calendar was overhauled by Julius Caesar in 45 BC, naming the seventh month, July, after himself. About the turn of the Millennium, Sixtus was renamed in honour of Augustus Caesar. He supposedly chose that particular month, as it was during August that he had his greatest

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decided that something needed to be done about it, as church festivals were occurring at the wrong time. His advisors calculated that the length of the year, the time it takes for the earth to complete its orbit around the sun, was reduced from 365 days and 6 hours to 365 days and 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds. In order to keep the correction in the future the leap years, which had been every four years, were reduced to every year divisible by 4 except if it

was divisible by 100. This made an over-correction and so, if the centuries were divisible by 400, it was a leap year also. Strangely the extra day was inserted into the middle of February, it being the shortest month, by having two February 24ths. It is now, of course, tacked onto the end and becomes February 29th. Most of the Catholic countries adopted the new calendar almost immediately, but Protestant nations, such as England, did not. They feared it was part of a Catholic plot. It was only a few years since the reign of Elizabeth I had returned England to the Protestant faith after her older sister, Mary Tudor or Bloody Mary, had tried to reverse Henry VIII’s rejection of the Pope as head of the Church in England. It was not until 1752 that England adopted the Gregorian Calendar. It necessitated “losing” eleven days from the calendar, so Wednesday, September 2nd was followed immediately by Thursday, September 14th 1752. No days were lost, of course, only dates. The stories of people rioting in the streets are apocryphal. The myth seems to have arisen by Hogarth printing a scene where banners bearing the slogan, “Give us back our eleven days”, appear. There is no historical evidence of any riots. We were not the last to accept the Gregorian Calendar; Russia did not change to it until 1918

Pope Gregory XIII

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and Greece was the last to succumb, in 1923. By that time they had to lose 13 dates, rather than 11.

corruption of loaf-mass. The first wheat to be cut was made into a loaf which was then blessed in church. In the days before mechanisation, everybody was expected to help get the harvest in. People relied on the harvest to carry them through the lean months of winter and early spring. This is the historical reason for the long summer holidays from school, because even quite young children were needed to help in some way. Once the last sheaf was “safely gathered in, ere the winter storms begin,” it was taken in procession to the farmhouse and all joined in the harvest supper, which was a celebration and a thanksgiving.

The changes led to several inconsistencies. The traditional beginning of the year had been, until 1582, Lady Day or March 25th. This now fell on April 5th and so this is now the beginning of our financial year for tax and other fiscal purposes. Similarly, May Day, May 1st, was really May 14th, when the weather was warmer and clouts could be cast. However, the date rather than the day was chosen in this case and we still celebrate May Day on the first of the month.

August, therefore, plays a pivotal role in our agricultural year. It is the end of the summer in meteorological terms and its last day heralds the beginning of autumn, which marks the winding down towards winter.

August is the traditional month for harvesting cereal crops. Lammas Day, August 1st, is the day that haymaking finished and harvesting cereals began. The word “Lammas” is a

Squirrels and hedgehogs begin preparations for their period of hibernation, the leaves of deciduous trees and shrubs start turning to gold and red, and schools look forward to their next academic year. Perhaps we should count September 1st as New Year’s Day!

Reigning Cats & Donkeys New Additions to the National Cat Adoption Centre in Chelwood Gate: Donkeys Star, Hollie and Twinkle. Through our partnership with The Donkey Sanctuary, we now have 3 of their delightful female donkeys living on the site and being cared for by the NCAC team. Please come up and visit them, they are available for a stroke, and are very friendly. We're very proud to have them here, they have settled into their new environment very well indeed. After a very long journey down, they seem pleased with their new living arrangements and are causing quite a stir! Please feel free to ask the team any questions on them, and The Donkey Sanctuary, we will be happy to help. Whilst you are here please visit the cats too, all looking for a new loving home, there is a café and shop on site too and the flock of Hebridean sheep and of course our beautiful nature trail, all set on the edge of the outstandingly beautiful Ashdown Forest. All in all, a wonderful day out to be had by all the family.

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the Joutseno Gospel Choir on tour from Finland.

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Hartfield Fete Horticultural & Dog Show. Fantastic

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