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Dear Residents, Whats inside this month Welcome to the February Edition.

This month we've got a very tasty treat of a recipe, just for two, especially for Valentines day with the added benefit of being super easy to make!

There's a fascinating awardwinning documentary, made by film-makers from Forest Row, which is being shown at different venues around the country Down to Earth. See our feature about it on page 16.

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Cromwell House is one of the oldest surviving houses in East Grinstead on the High Street, we bring you some of its fascinating history.

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We also bring you a featurette about Cupid for some Valentine's inspiration!

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Passionfruit & Dark Chocolate Fondue We asked the amazing chefs at Ashdown Park Hotel to come up with an easy-to-make ‘Love’ recipe for a, delicious Valentines dessert. This has chocolate and PASSIONfruit, what a combo…Thank you Chef!

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Shrove Tuesday What’s it all about?

“Shrove” is the past tense of “shrive” which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as “presenting oneself to a priest for confession, penance, and absolution”.

Shrove Tuesday is the day just before the start of the penitential season of Lent when traditionally Christians made a special point of ‘self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life or areas of spiritual growth they especially need to ask God’s help in dealing with.’

The tradition of marking the start of Lent has been documented for centuries; in around 1000 AD, for instance, Ecclesiastical institutions stated: “In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do (in the way of penance)”.

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By the late Middle Ages, it also became a kind of celebration in which many societies would eat pancakes or other foods made with rich foodstuff such as butter, eggs and fat that would have to be given up during the Lenten season. Thus ‘pancake day’ was born. The specific custom of British Christians eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday dates to the 15th century – trust people to

have made a celebratory gesture by emphasizing feasting on what was supposed to actually be a solemn day of remorse and repentance!

At one time Shrove Tuesday was known as a “halfholiday” which would start at eleven in the morning with the ringing of a church bell to encourage people to service. Pancake races are held in some villages and towns across the country.

Indeed, we had one in East Grinstead for a time. The tradition is said to have originated in 1445 when a housewife from Olney, Buckinghamshire, was so busy making pancakes that she forgot the time, until

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she heard the church bells ringing for the commencement of the Shrove service. She raced out of the house to church while still carrying her frying pan with pancake, tossing it to prevent it from burning. The historical Olney pancake race is still held to this day. It is a women and children's race and participants must have lived locally for at least 3 months; a 415-yard course is competed. The rules are strict: contestants must toss the pancake at the start and the finish, and wear a scarf and apron.

until it broke apart, releasing the (probably traumatized) cat. This was done to ward off evil spirits. Happily, the Scandinavians now just fill a barrel with candy like a piñata.

Children dress up and hit the barrel with bats until it cracks open and spills the sweets. The barrel often still has an image of a cat on it; the person who breaks open the barrel is the “Queen of the Cats,” while the person who breaks the bottom of the barrel is the “King of the Cats”.

Perhaps the joys of pancake day will always survive as a time to gorge prior to lent where we should try to give up some naughty food, cut down on the sugar and do a bit of fasting!

All good stuff especially needed in this day and age of sugar-rich-food.

Incidentally the Olney race has also become a transatlantic pancake race against the town of Liberal in Kansas, USA. 2019 marks the 70th year the two towns have run against each other – the winner of both races will have their winning time compared to decide which town wins.

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In Scandinavian countries instead of the one-day ‘pancake day’ feast, they have a child-centric holiday called ‘Fastelavn’ which is celebrated on the Sunday or Monday before Ash Wednesday. Taking place seven weeks prior to Easter, the main tradition associated with the holiday was the placing of a black cat in a barrel and beating the barrel with fastelavnsris (this can be anything from a stick or a club or a bunch of twigs)

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WHS&H Open Gardens & Arts Festival In late Spring, the West Hoathly, Sharpthorne & Highbrook Open Gardens & Arts Festival is taking shape and will give visitors the chance to see some new gardens and studios with the added interest of literary talks and a youth arts platform, giving the young people in the villages a chance to perform musically or exhibit their art/craftwork and local artists to sell their work. With the garden action taking place on Saturday 15th, there will be talks and events happening around the village starting on the Thursday evening of the 13th June.

The Festival organisers are excited to announce Rev Peter Owen Jones with launch the festival.

Maverick 21st century Vicar of Firle, author, ecological thinker and sometimes television presenter, Rev Peter will present a talk in St Margaret’s Church, West Hoathly entitled ‘What the camera didn’t see’. For those that don’t know him, his BBC appearances include

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He started searching for a different perspective and a key to renewal: Rolf was exposed to the leadership principles and the way-of-life of the Anishnabe (first Native Americans), and he and Renata felt they’d found that key. This way-of-being resonated so strongly, the couple left their successful cosmopolitan life and retreated for four years with their three young children into the woods of Upper Michigan in order to gain a deeper understanding of the wisdom and heritage of the Native Americans. Following this Rolf, decided to go with his family on a year-long journey around the world, in search other ‘Keepers’.

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Rolf and Renata subsequently put together this newly released film of their experiences and Rolf continues his work with leaders around the world, now integrating the wisdom and insights gained.

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CUPID February is the month of love… And no one represents this better than the god Cupid, the icon of love, ready at any moment to strike an innocent bystander with a luurve-arrow. But who is Cupid? He went by two names with different origins: his Roman names is Cupido which means ‘desire’, his other Latin name is ‘Amor’ which means ‘true love’. The god Eros is his Greek counterpart, which means ‘passionate love’…

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare describes Cupid so:

Cupid is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus (Aphrodite) and the war god Mars (Ares) but in earlier Greek myths he is thought to be the fourth god to come into being and so one of the oldest – before gods even had parentgods!

‘Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind…

‘And therefore is love said to be a child Because in choice he is so oft beguiled’.

The Greeks portrayed him as a winged youth but as time went on, the Romans embraced the imagery that he was a chubby, young boy and so it was to be.

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As we get towards the springtime and the longer days we think of the outside and the countryside. A typical English romantic vision consists of cottage gardens, beach picnics in sun (and rain!), and Morris dancers. I can’t help you with the first two of these thoughts but I can help you with the last one.

Morris start?” The first written records are late 15th century when it was apparent that Morris was well known and well established.

The very first record is of a silver cup in 1480 with Morris dancers on it. Household accounts after this show purchase of fabric and bells for dancers as well as suppers.

Although costumes vary between sides there is often a local element to the colours.

Shalesbrook’s colours are those of the Ashdown Forest: brown, orange and yellow.

Shalesbrook Morris who are based in Forest Row have existed since 1977, when a young lady, Julie Marston, took it in to her head to learn about and to teach others about Morris traditions. One of the founding members, Sandy Derham, still dances with the side. We are a ladies side although we do have both male and female musicians.

There are several types of Morris but the dances which Shalesbrook perform are mainly in the Cotswold tradition which were usually performed between the sowing of the seed and the harvest. The main traditions danced are Adderbury, Bampton, Bledington and Fieldtown (now known as Leafield). All come COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY from well-known Cotswold villages.

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(Ashdown Morrismen include green socks in their kit). Incidentally the design for the “rumble” bells worn today originated 700 years ago.

Although practice happens all winter on Thursdays in the Peter Griffiths Hall in Forest Row the first dance out happens on St Georges Day, 23rd April.

The 1st of May—Garland Day – is celebrated at the AA Milne and E.H. Shepherd memorial at dawn. Shalesbrook, with their guests Ashdown Forest Morris, dance at sun up to welcome in the summer. This festivity was started in 1982 and has continued without a break since then, often with 100 people in the audience to help the side celebrate. We dance and sing and celebrate the May Tree. Before the calendar change (when September lost its 11 days) this May Day would have been later and therefore was warmer still. We often dance at festivals such as the Spring one at

Hever, and continue to perform at pubs, fairs and fetes throughout the summer.

If you think this sounds fun as well as being part of a traditional English pastime, why not come and meet us. We are not ballet dancers or gymnasts but we all love the history and the music.

There are times when everything clicks: the music, the dancing and the atmosphere and you too can experience and be part of the “Magic of the Morris” which lifts us all from our workaday lives.

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The Ashdown Forest has a history of human settlement dating back to the Bronze Age, when people scratched what living they could from the poor soils, and the woodlands had wild grazing animals as well as bears, wolves and wildcats.

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The Normans designated the area as a hunting forest for the king, and the commoners continued to hold the right to use it in their customary way, provided they didn’t hunt the deer. Although ownership of the forest changed hands many times, its landscape was hardly altered until the Second World War when much of it was used for military exercises.

Old Lodge is a wide-open landscape of heather and grassland, clumps of gorse which is dotted with birch and oak trees. There are still small plantations of Scots pine (much is now cleared as they are considered invasive) where coal tit and goldcrest whisper their thin, reedy calls, but there’s also a good chance of spotting a common crossbill – a rare and curious finch with a bill specially adapted for extracting the seeds from pine cones. In places, some of the pines have been felled to allow more heather to regenerate, which is just the spot to find the huge, bustling nests of red wood ants, constructed from millions of pine needles over which the ants toil constantly.

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the heart of its conservation. But heathland grasses, young gorse and birch seedlings all make for rather tough, unpalatable forage.

So as well as occasional rare breed cattle and even sheep, Exmoor ponies are brought in to graze - they are perfectly adapted to making the most of what’s on offer!

As Ashdown Forest is higher than other Sussex heaths, its climate is cooler and damper too. This gives the heath more of an upland feel, closer to the northern moors and the invertebrate assemblage reflects that too: there are fewer warmth loving species but many species more commonly found in the northwest, such as the striking ground beetle Carabus arvensis. The site is rich in spiders with the luminous green spider being found in the summer among the similarly green leaves of purple-moor grass. Ashdown Forest is named after the sand that occurs there, the individual grains are very small and greyish so appear

like ash. This means they pack very tightly together and almost look like clay which can be harder for mining invertebrates to dig into, consequently those kind of invertebrates are not well represented on the site.

The bog holds some interesting plants scarce in other parts of the county such as marsh St. John’s-wort, bog asphodel and carnation sedge as well as many different species of Sphagnum moss. On the drier heath the delicate flowers of petty whin can also be spotted.

Nearly 250 species of fungi have been recorded including the unusual bog beacon and the rare nail fungus that grows out of horse dung.

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Many of those born after WWII will have only thought of the Home Guard in terms of the popular comedy programme, “Dad’s Army”. The pompous Captain Mainwaring, the Spiv, Walker and Mummy’s boy, Pike, were characterised as inept and ineffectual. The reality was very different. During the war, all men who were able were in the forces. Only those who were over age, or medically unfit or in reserved occupations were still at home. As is well known, their jobs were taken by women and the men who fell into those categories, which ruled them out of active service. Less well known is that, given a German invasion of this country was likely, the defence of the country against such an attack, was, largely undertaken by the Home Guard. It was made up of those willing to give up their time and expertise to COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY this enterprise. In the words of a well-known song at the time,

“Mr Brown went off to town on the 8.31, He returned each evening and was ready with his gun.”

The volunteers received training in the use of weapons, intelligence and communications.

They met in village halls and other public buildings throughout the country, with most units concentrated in the South East where the initial landings were to take place.

East Grinstead, being half-way between the South Coast and the capital, was in a very dangerous position... In East Grinstead, the commanding officer of the local unit was Lt General MacMunn. He was the veteran of many campaigns and was Warden of Sackville College and he used the West Room as his headquarters. His distinctive tin helmet, Continues over the page.

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LT. GENERAL SIR GEORGE MACMUNN CONTINUED

new museum received were a very elaborate pair of fringed epaulettes from the uniform of a Turkish officer.

painted with the Royal Sussex Regimental badge is on display at the college.

George Fletcher MacMunn was born in Chelsea on August 14 1869, the son of Dr John Alexander and Charlotte Edith MacMunn.

He entered the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich in 1888 and had risen to the rank of Major General in 1917, just before the outbreak of the First World War. He served in many campaigns including the Dardanelles, where he was mentioned in dispatches.

It was during this period that he sustained an injury to his leg that would leave him with a stiff leg all his life. After his retirement from active service, he served as colonel commander of the Royal Artillery until 1939. He was also appointed as Warden of Sackville College in 1929 and remained so until his death in 1952. During the Second World War he used his military knowledge to command the local home guard. One of the members of his platoon COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY was AA Milne, the author of many plays and books. The best living

remembered of these today are the Winnie the Pooh stories and poems written for his son Christopher Robin.

MacMunn was also a prolific writer, mainly of military themes but he also had a passion for Rudyard Kipling and his works and was an active member of the Kipling Society for many years.

The small museum that was set up in St Swithuns Church tower many years ago by the, then vicar, the Rev Golding Golding Bird (yes, Golding Golding) is believed to have been given several artefacts of interest by MacMunn from his extensive travels abroad.

Those objects of interest had no connection to East Grinstead but were merely fascinating in their own right.

When this museum came into being in 1976, it inherited artefacts and other material from three main sources; items which had been donated to the Town Council, or the East Grinstead Society and the former museum in the church. Many of those from the latter source were foreign; among the items, the

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On a personal note, I have been writing these articles for several years now and it is becoming increasingly difficult to find new subjects about which to write. I do try to keep them of local interest but there are times when inspiration runs out, so I do stray from this policy from time to time but try to keep to themes that are historical but national or even international.

A case in point was my last month’s subject, which was the winter solstice, which afforded me the opportunity to quote a carol other than “Good King Wenceslas”!

The choice of Lt Gen MacMunn was suggested to me by Olive Coombe, one of our long-serving and knowledgeable volunteers.

Olive is also a guide at Sackville College. I am very grateful to her for this suggestion and also others in the past. If readers have any other ideas for subjects on which you think would be interesting, I would be very pleased to hear from you.

A Happy New Year to you all, from the East Grinstead Museum.

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Definitely an adult night out raising funds for Forest Row Primary School PTA. Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 8pm. Cash bar. Forest Row Primary School, Secret Cellar, Hillside, Java & Jazz, Foresta Travel, £13.50 entrance.

FEBRUARY 16TH & 17TH Exhibition: History archive of hundreds of photographs, maps, documents, artefacts, parish registers, recorded reminiscences & a special exhibit on Wickenden. Come and browse. Delve into family history. Teas and cakes, raffle. 10am – 5pm. West Hoathly Village Hall. Contact John Ralph 01342 810458 or johneralph@gmail.com.

SATURDAY 9TH FEBRUARY Forest Way Storytellers. Drop in to East Grinstead Library anytime between 12pm to 2pm to hear stories from around the world. There will be tales about monkeys, crabs, hidden treasures and much more in an eclectic mix of new and old stories. Join us for a journey into the wonderful world of the imagination and see what you will find. Stories are between 5 and 15 minutes and are suitable for all ages, from child to adult. This event is FREE and there is no need to book – just drop in! The Forest Way Storytellers are Maria Zourari and Christopher Adriaanse. They share a love of language and story.

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MONDAY 18TH FEBRUARY East Grinstead Natural History Society. 85th Annual General Meeting. At 7:45 – 9:15pm, St. Barnabas Church Hall, Dunnings Road, RH19 4AT. WEDNESDAY 20TH FEBRUARY Collectors Fair. Established mid-week event with 15 dealers selling (and buying) stamps, postcards and coins. 10am – 3pm, Chequer Mead Arts Centre, RH19 3BS. SUNDAY 24TH FEBRUARY

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East Grinstead Town Action Group: Litter Pick.

Help us make EG a cleaner and greener town. Meet at St. Luke’s Meeting Room, Quarry Rise. If you have them, please bring Hi Viz jackets and litter pickers. At 2:15pm followed by tea and cake at 3:30pm. Contact Julie on 01342 325552 or 07813 691360.

Charity Concert presented by the Town Mayor, Cllr Rex Whittaker and his deputy, Cllr Danny Favor, 2pm to 5pm with tickets at £10 from the box office 01342 302000 or tickets@chequermead.co.uk.

An entertaining afternoon showcasing a variety of performers raising funds for Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance, East Park Riding for the disabled and Care UK. At Chequer Mead.

THURSDAY 28TH FEBRUARY, FRIDAY 1ST MARCH AND SATURDAY 2ND MARCH Fairtrade Stall at EG library. 10-4pm. Tradecraft food, goodies and a selection of fairly traded crafts available.

WEDNESDAY 13TH FEBRUARY East Grinstead Horticultural Society. 'Think Before You Throw, Waste, Re-cycling and Composting' by Rachel Carruthers. New members and visitors always welcome. For more information call 01342 326894 or come along. At 7:30pm (Doors open at 7), The Old Court House, East Court.

FRIDAY 1ST MARCH Friends of East Grinstead Museum Speaker Night.

Melanie Gibson-Barton will be speaking of Murder, Mystery and Mayhem, the Belgian Royal Family. East Grinstead Museum, Cantelupe Road, RH19 3BJ.

WEDNESDAY 13TH FEBRUARY East Grinstead Art Society. Adrienne Parker mixed media demo, 27 Feb Workshop with own work. Entry Fee, annual membership £20, non-members £3 per session. 2-4pm, East Court, RH19 3LT.

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FEBRUARY HALF TERM: FAIRIES AND FANTASTICAL CREATURES TRAIL AT STANDEN Welcome to the fantastical, mysterious world of Standen. Explore the grounds and gardens this half term and delve deep into the enchanted world of fairies and fantastical creatures that live there.

Inspired by Arthur Rackham illustrations, this trail is great fun for both little ones and big kids. £2 per child with small prize. Normal admission applies. The trail is around the grounds so please bring wellies.

Standen is a hillside garden which means that it is necessary to climb steps to complete the trail. For more information see the website.

Fairtrade EG is organising its Fairtrade Teddy stall throughout the town during Fairtrade Fortnight (25th Feb – 10th March). Booking forms available from schools and EG Library. Spot the teddies and make a word. Prizes & for further details call Sue Joy: 01342 835190 or www.fairtrade-eg.co.uk.

WHAT’S ON AT CHEQUER MEAD WEDNESDAY 6TH FEBRUARY AT 7PM NT Live presents Antony & Cleopatra: Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. Tickets: £14.50, cons: £13, Premium club: £11.

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THURSDAY 14TH FEBRUARY AT 2PM Afternoon Tea at the Movies- Shirley Valentine: Willy Russell’s 1989 feel-good home-grown film Shirley Valentine, tells the story of a housewife from Liverpool, trapped in a world of domesticity and drudgery. Join us for a delicious afternoon tea option after the film. Film only: £5, afternoon tea package (inc. film ticket): £19.50.

THURSDAY 14TH FEBRUARY AT 7PM NT Live presents I’m Not Running: An explosive new play by award-winning playwright David Hare.

Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision. Tickets: £14.50, cons: £13, premium club: £11.

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