East Grinstead Living December Issue

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Christmas Cookie Recipe John Mason Neale

Christmas Trivia & Quiz

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Dear Residents Welcome to Christmas Edition of the East Grinstead Living.

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Jam packed with interesting stuff and lots of local businesses promoting themselves. Here to service you.

Welcome

We’ve written a feature about the famous Sackville College Warden, John Mason Neale and his lasting legacy, most notably the Christmas carol, Good King Wenceslas.

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Contents Community Person Interview

6

Charity Page

8

Dutch Christmas Tree Cookies

10

Christmas Trivia

14,16

East Grinstead Art Society

18

Christmas Quiz

22

John Mason Neale

26

What’s on

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Index

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The Peop le in Our Community

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Lynn Skinner

Community Fundraiser for St. Catherine’s Hospice What do you like most about what you do?

Working and meeting different people What is the hardest part of your community role?

Trying to get people to understand what the hospice can do and also what services St Catherines can offer to people and their families.

Why did you decide to volunteer in this area?

My husband died 18 years ago at the hospice.

They were so kind so i wanted to help them as much as they helped me.

What’s the best thing about living in the East Grinstead area?

I was born here and therefore know so many people What has been the highlight of the year so far?

Other than a great holiday in Europe, I would say fundraising for the hospice as people are so generous in East Grinstead

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What’s your favourite song?

You are my sunshine What’s your favourite film?

The Eagle has landed What’s your favourite one-liner?

Every penny counts Who or what is the biggest inspiration to what you do?

My biggest inspiration is to try and raise as much money as possible by volunteering for St Catherines hospice. This has also allowed me to go out into the community and meet so many people. I hope with the fund raising that we do through the year it will help so many people and their families.

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• Charity

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Here’s a great opportunity to support St Catherine’s Hospice, your local provider of end of life care, this Christmas. We urgently need volunteers to help out at our Santa Run event at East Court in East Grinstead, 8.30am – 1pm on Sunday 12th December.

You’ll be helping us keep the event running smoothly, marshalling the route, registering participants, assisting with parking directions, serving refreshments and helping to set up and pack away.

This is a fun family event, open to everyone and all those taking part will be dressed in their Santa suits, helping raise vital funds for St Catherine’s. As a volunteer you’ll receive refreshments and a set of reindeer antlers to help you get in the festive spirit!

You’ll be 18 years old or over, have good communication, teamwork and people skills and be willing to help with varied tasks on the day with a positive, friendly attitude

and approachable nature.

A basic level of fitness will be required as you may need to walk between points on the 1K route at times.

For more information please contact Jen Wickham on 01293 447364 or jenwickham@stch.org.uk St Catherine’s Hospice is a local, independent charity that provides end of life care and support for patients and their loved

ones across Mid Sussex and East Surrey. Every year, it relies on the generosity of people across the area to help raise £4.7 million in voluntary income needed to ensure people are cared for across the area.

If you or your family would like to take part in this year’s Santa Run, sponsored by Southern Railway, visit our special festive website at www.stch.org.uk/ christmas

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10 • Recipe

Dutch Christmas Tree Cookies Great recipe for keeping the kids occupied in the Christmas holidays - suitable for adults too!

Method 1: Sift the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt into a mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar and grated lemon rind.

2: Cut up the butter and add to the flour then rub into a breadcrumb consistency and knead into a soft dough, add a little milk if needed. Shape into a ball and put in a cool place for at least 1 hour before rolling out 3: Turn the dough on to a floured board and roll out to 3 mm or an 1/8 inch thick.

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250 g plain flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon pinch of salt 165 g caster sugar 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon rind 165 g unsalted butter approx. 1 tablespoon milk To decorate: Icing Sugar, cake decorations, chocolate, etc. (to taste)

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7: Decorate to taste using icing sugar and decorations.

8: When the cookie are set, thread a narrow red or green ribbon or a tinsel cord through the hole in each cookie and hang on the Christmas tree or wherever you like.

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14 • Christmas Trivia

about I didn’t know that

Christmas

In Britain, eating mince pies at Chris tmas dates back to the 16th century. It is still believed that to eat a mince pie on each of the Twelve Days of Chris tmas will bring 12 happy months in the year to follow – so now you have a good excuse! d Festivities were banned by Puritan leader, Oliver Cromwell, who considere immoral. The feasting and revelry, on what was supposed to be a holy day, to be lifted only only celebration was by a sermon and a prayer service.The ban was when the Puritans lost power in 1660.

The Yule log custo m was handed do wn from the Druid (ancient pagan s priests). During the ancient 12-day Ch celebration, the ristmas log burned was ca lled the “Yule log Sometimes a pie .” ce of the Yule log would be kept to the fire the follow kindle ing winter, to ensur e that the good carried on from luck year to year.

In Switzerland during the Refor mation, all instrumental and choral music was banned from churches. In Germany, disappro val of carols resulted in some being converte d into hymns.

Day - the 6 December is St Nicholas’s ecially esp s, day g givin first of the gift don’t tell in Holland and Belgium. (But they might the English children or else ards! onw Dec 6th from gifts expect  ket) poc nts pare the – not easy on

The poem commonly referred to as “The Night Before Christmas” was originally titled “A Visit From Saint Nicholas.” This poem was written by Clement Moore for his children and some guests, one of whom anonymously sent the poem to a New York newspaper for publication.

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In Britain, the Holy Days and Fasting Days Act of 155 1, which has not yet been repeal ed, states that every citizen must attend a Christian chu rch service on Christmas Da y, and must not use any kind of vehicle to get to the serv ice

s The custom of singing Christma carols is very old - the earliest d English collection was publishe in 1521.

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Father Christmas has 31 Due to the time zones uld his means that he wo s? T gift r ive del to hours second! h eac es hom 832 have to visit a “kiss Long before it was used as istmas encourager” during the Chr been long had e leto mist son, sea powers by considered to have magic . It was Celtic and Teutonic peoples l wounds said to have the ability to hea hung s Celt lity. ferti e eas incr and order to mistletoe in their homes in and ward bring themselves good luck off evil spirits.

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Frankincense is a sweet smelling gum resin derived from certain Boswellia trees which , at the time of Christ, grew in Arabia, India, and Ethiopia. Tradition says that it was presented to the Christ Child by Balthasar, the black king from Ethiopia or Saba. The frankincense trade was at its height during the days of the Roman Empire .

At that time this resin was considered as valua ble as gems or precious metals. The Romans burne d frankincense on their altars and at cremations.

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East Grinstead Art Society welcomes new members.

Some members of the East Grinstead Arts Society

The society was founded by a group of enthusiastic amateur painters in 1983. Their aim was to promote art in East Grinstead by bringing artists of various standards together for mutual benefit.

We are a friendly group who meet at St. Swithun’s Church Hall twice a month on Wednesdays from 2.00 until 4.30 pm approx.

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Some Ideas to keep the kids occupied in the holidays!

Home made paper chains is always a winner. You need nothing more than paper, scissors and glue (decorations like glitter to add to the paper as you like) Hand-made Christmas cards for all the members of their family (or others)

Looking after a “bird table” (anything flat and raised will do) and make them responsible for looking after the birds by topping it up regularly with bread crusts etc.

Home-made Christmas Tree Decorations (see our cookie recipe, for instance) A “Christmas Race” in the garden. This will get them outside for fresh air and warm them up! Make it the best out of 10/20 (enough to keep them going a while). Younger siblings get a head start.

Give them some big card-board boxes and old sheets and suggest they make a fabulous camp in their bedroom. They’ll love it.

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CHRISTMAS TRIVIA QUIZ FOR ALL THE FAMILY! 1: What is the most popular Christmas tree topper?

2: Which Christmas Carol demands figgy pudding?

3: The traditional Santa Claus clothing was created as part of an advertising campaign in the 1930’s for which world famous drink?

4: Which Christmas song was originally titled, “One Horse Open Sleigh”?

5: What did Rudolph never get to join in?

6: What happens under the mistletoe at Christmas?

7: From which country does the Christmas Carol, “Silent Night” originate?

8: Which European country was the first to introduce the idea of giving gifts at Christmas in the 1300’s?

9: Which Christmas Carol is known as the counting game?

10: How does Father Christmas get into people’s houses to drop off presents?

11: How does Scrooge improve Crachit’s life the day after Christmas?

12: What are the two most popular Christmas colours?

13: Which country gives Britain a yearly Christmas gift of a huge Christmas tree that is always placed in Trafalgar Square?

14: Which day in January is the last official day of Christmas?

15: Which famous pop singer sung the popular Christmas song, “Last Christmas”?

16: In most European Countries on which day do children open their Christmas presents?

17: Which singer was dreaming of a “White Christmas”?

18: Which gifts did the 3 wise men give to baby Jesus?

19: Boxing Day (Dec 26th) is the holy day of which Saint?

20: Most of the Christmas Carols sung today were composed in which 2 centuries?

21: What is the biggest selling Christmas single of all time?

22: Which carol contains the line, “O Tidings of comfort and Joy”?

23: In which historical East Grinstead Building was “Good King Wenceslas” written?

24: Which British leader “banned” Christmas Festivities in the 17th Century.

25: Which famous King was crowned on Christmas Day? December 2010 • East Grinstead Living

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John Mason Neale

Warden Sackville College (1846 – 1866) He was born in London and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.

At Cambridge Neale was affected by the Oxford Movement, the members of which argued for the reinstatement of lost Christian traditions that are most often associated with Roman Catholicism.

He helped found the Cambridge Camden Society which promoted a return to the “medieval or Gothic church architecture”. It is well known that the gothic style was in fashion during the Victorian times.

Though he took orders in 1841, ill health prevented his settling in England until 1846, when he became warden of Sackville College, which is, as many of us know, an almshouse (home for the poor). As the most famous past warden of Sackville College he held this appointment till his death.

In 1854 Neale co-founded the Society of Saint Margaret, an order of women in the Anglican Church dedicated to nursing the sick. As their numbers increased, they moved into their first convent, Saint Margaret’s in East Grinstead.

Many of us know this as the “Old Convent” most of which has now been converted into houses.

Many Anglicans in his day, however, were very suspicious of anything suggestive of Roman Catholicism. Only nine years earlier, the recently beautified, John Henry Newman had encouraged Catholic practices in the Anglican Church, and had ended up joining the Roman Catholic Church himself. This encouraged the suspicion that anyone like Neale was an agent of the Vatican, assigned to destroy the Anglican Church by subverting it from within.

Once Neale was attacked and mauled at a funeral of one of the Sisters. From time to time unruly crowds threatened to stone him or to burn his house. He received no honour in England, and his doctorate was bestowed by Trinity College (Connecticut).

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confidence of many who had fiercely opposed him, and the Sisterhood of St. Margaret survived and prospered. The sisterhood still survive to this day both locally and abroad.

Neale is best known as a hymn writer and, especially, translator; with many ancient and medieval hymns translated from Latin and Greek.

We have chosen Christmas time to publish this brief article about his life because his most enduring and widely known work is his contribution to the Christmas repertoire, most notably, “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” and his original now legendary Boxing Day carol, “Good King Wenceslas”.

So when you next look at Sackville College remember carols which were “born within” have since been disseminated across the country and more widely the world.

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What’s On

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Saturday 27th November 2010

take place at Small Parish Hall, De La Warr Rd.

Conchord Big Band Charity Dinner Dance at Ashurst Wood Village Centre, Maypole Road, Ashurst Wood,7.30pm til late. To raise money for Breast Cancer Care & The British Heart Foundation. Tickets £15 per person to include hot meal & dessert. For tickets contact 01342 712618, 07950 400 144 or email katecharitynight@aol.com

Wednesday 15th December 2010 East Grinstead Carers Drop in Support Group. This support group is a place for all people who are caring for someone with any illness or disability to meet others. Glen Vue, Railway Approach, East Grinstead, RH19 1BS. 10am to 12pm every 3rd Wednesday of the month. For more info: 01342 318082

Monday Nov 29th – Saturday Dec 11th

Friday 17th December 2010

Matters of Chance, East Grinstead Community Play. Sackville School. Tickets available from Town Museum, Bullfrog Music 15 Ship Street & Wickendens, 11 High Street. Card bookings: 01342 302000

East Grinstead Society. SOUNDS AND SONGS OF WORLD WAR TWO 7:30 pm – 9:30pm. With words and music, by DON LAY At the Main Hall, East Court. www.eastgrinsteadsociety.org

Saturday 4th December 2010

Sunday 19th December 2010

Rotary Christmas Tree Switching On, Historic High Street. The Sackville Junior Choir, the Sackville Community Choir and the East Grinstead Concert Band join together in this traditional occasion. 3-4pm.

The High Street’s return with their traditional take on Christmas with their very own “Twas the Sunday Before Christmas”. When the High Street traders open their shops and stores for the day with a Victorian themed event. 10am – 4:15pm.

Sunday 5th December 2010 CHRISTMAS FAMILY FESTIVAL: The Town’s biggest and busiest event on our Christmas Calendar when London Road is closed to traffic and the streets are filled with stalls and attractions for all the family. The famous French Market, carols, Santa’s Grotto, etc.

The event runs from 10am to 4pm ‘Christmas Fun and Crafts’ Children’s activity at East Grinstead Museum. Suitable for 5 year olds and upwards. Cost £1 per child. No need to book, just drop in.10:30am- 3pm. www.eastgrinsteadmuseum.org.uk Tuesday 7th December 2010 ‘ Music for McIndoe’, in aid of East Grinstead Museum. Enjoy a meal at CJ’s coffee shop whilst being serenaded by a pianist and singer, from 7.30 – 10:30 pm. Tickets £15, available from the museum.

Sunday 12th December 2010 Santa Run in aid of St Catherines’ Hospice. Get in the mood for Christmas by joining Santas of all shapes, sizes and ages in our fun and festive Santa Run at East Court in East Grinstead. Medal and refreshments when you finish. At both venues, Santas will run three laps of about 1k each and the emphasis on this run is very much on having fun! To find out more and to register online visit www.stch.org.uk/christmas or contact: 01293 447364. 10:30-12pm.

Monday 13th December 2010 Carols at Sackville College, 7:30 – 8:45pm. Tickets in advance call 01342 323414 £3 adults. Children free.

East Grinstead Natural History Society Christmas Social Evening. Members and Visitors Welcome, 7:459pm. East Grinstead Natural History Society. Meetings December 2010 • East Grinstead Living

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15 Blinds & Curtains Elizabeth Designs 20 Café/Function Venue/ Restaurant/Bar The Swan, Mountain Range Restaurant 8,9 Casablanca

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Family Chiropractic Clinic 13 Hire Fitness

15 Footcare FootLady

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10 JH Vartan

23 MGC

23 Pete Payne

23 Atrium

23 Glass & Doors GB Home

29 Sussex Doors/Horsham Glass 29 Hair Care Roots Hair Studio 13 Home Maintenance Services & Products Kindling N Things 21 Mid Sussex Timber 2 Quinn Electrical Services 24 AI Plumbing

27 James Lowe Plumbing 24 Beeches Builders Ltd. 16 Allzones Roofing & Building 32 John Bloom Plumbing & Heating

27 Gary Spurle Bathroom & Heating

27 MM Roofing Contractor 31 MRM Plastering

20 AS Tiling

16 MDH Painters & Decorators 24 MM Walker Home Maintenance

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