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Dear Residents, Whats inside this month Welcome to the August issue.

Hopefully this month will bring you as much sunshine as last month did! We certainly deserve it.

We’re pleased to be able to bring you a Q&A with East Grinstead resident Tom Davis about his son’s Jamie’s incredible charge up to the highest levels of motorbike racing in the world.

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Wealden Interiors Who would believe that its been 3 1/2 years since Wealden Interiors moved from Crawley Down, to their new showroom & offices in Charlwoods Place East Grinstead.

We caught up with principal designer Roy Shepherd recently to find out what has been happening since the new showroom first opened in February 2013.

‘I can’t believe the response, we’ve just gone from strength-to-strength since making the move 3-years ago, the showroom is bigger & better than before, and we have plans to increase the area & number of displays further, later this year – to include bedrooms & a media centre’

Roy told me that it is a constantly evolving & growing business, and they have been supplying & installing kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms in the area since 1982. So I asked him what makes them so successful? ‘apart from the quality of the products we offer, at Wealden Interiors whether an enquiry starts with a visit to the showroom, a website enquiry, or from a telephone call, people will receive the same friendly & courteous service. Our aim is to help in any way we can, so we hope that they will consider Wealden Interiors for their next home improvement project. Much of our work comes from repeat customers & recommendations – that speaks volumes’.

It’s clear that they are understandably proud of what they have achieved thus far, but Roy explains that they can’t just rest on their laurels ‘we’re always looking ahead to the next project, the latest products, or new display etc’. So, better get along to see them soon if you want your kitchen or bathroom before xmas!

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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 COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY beautiful Ashdown Forest. All in all, a wonderful day out to be had by all the family.

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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!

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.

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.

“Then, sometime in 1997, I had an awakening. Some people not only didn’t care whether or not I was

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.

“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.

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Olympic Games Facts ;;The early Olympic Games were celebrated as an athletic/religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., at which time the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus!). Then in 1894, a French educator, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, laid out his vision for a revived Olympics, and thus the modern Olympics were born. ;;Quite rightly, the host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Olympics in 1896. ;; 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 modern Olympic Games are based on the Olympic Games of Ancient Greece. ;;In the Ancient Olympics competitors won the prize of an olive branch wreath! Well why not?

It was all about honour then. ;;Greece, Australia, France, Great Britain and Switzerland are the only countries to have had representatives at every Summer Olympic Games. ;;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.

;;Great Britain is the only country to have won at least 1 gold medal at every Summer Olympics.

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Quote of the month A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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• Let the kids make a camp either inside or outside using Through the long Summer chairs and even the sofa (if you’ll stretch that far!).Grab holidays the monotony of the some old sheets, blankets and cushions and give them days can be difficult especially with free reign - as much as you will allow. younger children when you have to • Get the kids to plan a couple of meals that they enjoy search for reasons to get out the house cooking for the family, that are easy and healthy to and for places to go. You might like to start a make (with your supervision of course) you can add the ‘meet up at the park club’, the difference with this ingredients into the weekly shop, but be sure to give is that the park meet up is actually scheduled in them plenty of reminders that once the ingredients are well in advance which helps to ensure it happens. bought, they have to follow through with making the And even if one person can’t make it, there are still meal :). plenty of others mummies there with their little’uns • Allow the children free reign of your wardrobes IF they to keep eachother company (and keep eachother are happy to put on a little play of some kind for the sane! ;) ). You could even include some games that family or some music performance, etc. Or if they don’t COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY all the kids can play together like Simon Says and want free reign of your wardrobe but just a good treat after the show, then let that be the reward.

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5: In which county of the UK is Bramber Castle?

6: Who painted The Water Lily Pool?

7: Which vitamin is also known as pantothenic acid?

8: A couple celebrating their crystal wedding anniversary have been married for how many years?

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10: Madame de Pompadour was the mistress of which French King?

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Summertime and the Living is Easy (and this can help make it even easier)

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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Mask Making – we have run a few workshops on mask making

as so many children of all ages love making masks! These can be simple and made of card or they can be more intricate and constructed of wood or paper mâché. Pinterest.com can be good for inspiration and instructions.

The Creative Hub’s Summer Art Camp still has some spaces available. See their website www.createcreatecreate.co.uk or call Cheryl on 07595 360 300.

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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

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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.

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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.

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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The First and Last Foreign Holiday A local who goes under 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:

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

while their siblings scream and/or laugh at them. Dealing with this will make you even later.

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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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Definitely pre-book a hire car if you need a 7-seater.

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If your daughter says she feels sick, don’t ignore her.

Remember that Google maps on your phone won’t necessarily tell you all you need to know about the one way systems in Playa Del Carmen. You may find that an image of your route would not be too dissimilar to the looping pattern made by the broken slinky you tried to untangle last week.

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.

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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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.

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No matter how brilliant your 2-bed apartment is upon arrival, you may find some creative solutions need to be employed to ensure happiness and fairness among the 5 children. These solutions may result in you sharing a single mattress on the lounge floor with your partner.

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Perhaps discuss what your joint ‘new family’ emergency strategies might look like before you need to put them into play.

Finding out that one of you needs super quiet and calm while the other needs to whizz around taking immediate action isn’t always conducive to the most harmonious results in a car full of sandy wet children in an unknown location.

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Remind your son that although his own family love him unconditionally, they will now kill him if they have to listen to a request to go go-karting.

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Where have all the offices gone, long time passing?

Gone to flats, every one For years East Grinstead has had numerous office blocks standing empty or part occupied but with the Government’s recent initiative on Permitted Development, which bypasses normal planning regulations, all that has changed. Landlords are now rushing to convert offices into more lucrative flats, particularly one and two bedroom properties. In many ways this is excellent news as it generates much needed affordable accommodation in the town.

However like many well intentioned Government initiatives there is an unforeseen, unwelcome downside. Flats are more lucrative to landlords than offices so now even well occupied office blocks are being stripped of business tenants so that they can be converted. The result is that here in East Grinstead there is very little medium to large sized office space available and the rents for what is left are set to soar by about 30%. Businesses are now

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Our very own East Grinstead Champion on a GRC RR Italian Race Mini Moto, down at the Angmering raceway, every single weekend for over 1 year, after which we 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 boy and Felbridge Primary School pupil 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:

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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.

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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…

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AUGUST 3RD, 6TH, 17TH & 20TH Historic High Street Guided Walks. Tours last approximately 1 hour and will start at 12 noon.

Meeting place: Sackville College, with Simon Kerr.

Tickets in advance from the tourist desk in the library. Adults £5, child £3. Tel: 01342 410121, email: tourism@eastgrinstead.gov.uk.

FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST The Friends of St. Peter’s Church, Chailey, present The Joutseno Gospel Choir on tour from Finland.

Tickets £5 (accompanied children free) available on the door or from Janet Barnes Tel: 01825 722574 (email: janet.barnes42@btinternet.com) 6pm7.30pm, St Peter’s Church Chailey BN8 4DA. SUNDAY 7TH AUGUST East Grinstead Town Council present East Grinstead Rocks. Euphoria, Mr. Bonx & Local Rock Bands and InChoir. At East Court, 1 - 5pm. Call: 01342 310121. www.eastcourtlive.co.uk.

WEDNESDAY 10TH AUGUST East Grinstead Art Society - August picnic. During the summer months we hold two outdoor events.

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At 12:30, Roley Terrace, behind Eastcourt Mansion, Eastcourt, East Grinstead.

SATURDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER Car Boot Sale with Table Top inside. Free entrance.

Bargains galore! Refreshments available including hot bacon rolls from 8.30am. Sellers may arrive from 7.30am. At 8.30am until 12.30pm, St Mary’s Church Hall, Windmill Lane, East Grinstead, RH19 2DS. SATURDAY 3RD SEPTEMBER Hartfield Fete Horticultural & Dog Show. A truly fantastic day out for all the family. Entry by programme, children free. Professional children’s entertainment, games, races and traditional sideshows. BBQ, beer, teas & cakes, 20 commercial stalls, local produce and crafts. Evening event with local rock, pop & blues bands. Entry £8. Call: 07745 348933 or abiburnett@yahoo.co.uk or Pauline 01892 770088, pjburnettdick@yahoo.co.uk. Or visit www. facebook.com/hartfieldfete/ timeliner. At 12 noon, the Town Croft, Hartfield.

SUMMER ART CAMP AT THE CREATIVE HUB for ages 5 years and up. Our 2 hour art sessions available to book throughout August at 9:30am until 11:30am or 1pm until 3pm, £12 per session per child. Each session is packed full of fun arts and crafts. For more details visit www.createcreatecreate. co.uk or call Cheryl on 07595 360 300.

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Bullfrog Summer School presents Disney Jrs Sleeping Beauty. This classic fairy tale told DisneyMid Sussex Play Day. Free fun activities for everyone style has many well-known characters from King at King George’s Park, East Grinstead. 11am - 3pm.

Stefan and Queen Stefanie’s Loyal Subjects to Rio comes to Mid Sussex! Carnival fancy dress for Maleficent’s slimy Goons. Everyone will want to sing under 11s; Learn tosamba; sports event; climbing and dance along to the classic Once Upon a Dream wall; rain forest theatre; art workshops. For and fun new numbers like Goon Conga and Let’s further information contact: communityservices@ Have Some Magic Now. This is a youth production.

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