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Dear Residents, Whats inside this month Welcome to the September issue!
This month there is lots happening in the local area and we have a 'Spotlight' on all local events to watch out for. The Guinea Pig Club film is soon to be released and a book by the same name has been updated and reSpotlight On Local Events released to coincide with this, we feature an interesting Q&A with the author.
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Raspberry Tart, Pistachio and Raspberry Sorbet By Alex Floyd – Pastry Chef at Ashdown Park Hotel & Country Club
Sweet pastry • 90g butter • 65g caster sugar • 3 eggs • 200g plain flour
Method: 1. Cream together the sugar and butter, then add one egg at a time until incorporated. 2. Mix in the flour to form a dough, then tip onto a floured surface and knead until smooth. 3. Cover with cling film and let rest in fridge until chilled. Roll out the pasty and use to line 4 x 10cm tart cases and blind bake at 180ºc for ten minutes. Take out the oven and brush with egg yolk then set aside.
Raspberry sorbet • 600g raspberry puree (save 100g to put into the tart) • 60g caster sugar • 25ml water
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‘Every School Child in Sussex knew The Guinea Pig Club Story’ McIndoe in theatre, observed by trainee surgeons, orderlies and nurses As the years go by the accomplishments and story of the famous New Zealand native, who came to settle in this area continues to be further recognised on the world stage. And for that reason, an authoritative, investigative book, The Guinea Pig Club, by E R Mayhew has been revised and updated, with a forward by HRH Prince Harry now included, and re-released to tie into a major new film of the same name, starring Richard E Grant and Sam Neill. This much-lauded book tells of two of the most diametrically opposed yet COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY mutually supportive aspects of war: the ability to inflict living
As many of us know, East Grinstead’s Queen Vic has a proud and famous history. It is the place where maverick, pioneering surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe performed his life-saving, plastic surgery, on his Guinea Pigs: members of the RAF who had suffered severe burns during World War 2.
horrific injury and the ability to heal. The author, Dr Emily Mayhew is a military medical historian and the historian in residence in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial
College London. We were able to get a Q&A with her about her book and a special insight into the part our town East Grinstead had to play in this special story: Continues over the page.
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what do you think he accomplished that others couldn’t?
Bill Foxley (standing) in the second stage of his pedicle graft. This would become his new upper lip. With him is the Canadian patient Stu Duncan and Canadian nursing sister Mons Stapleford William
What inspired you to take a particular interest in McIndoe and his Guinea Pigs? My grandmother was a VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) nurse at the hospital and she worked with the Guinea Pig Club (GPC) all the way through the Second World War. She lived very close by and my mum remembers meeting the Guinea Pigs when they came around for tea. So I grew up knowing the story of McIndoe and the GPC - every schoolchild in Sussex knows the GPC story. My mum learned to ride her bike on College Lane up to East Court, and she remembers my grandmother telling her to run inside if she COMMUNITY DIRECTORY heard theBUSINESS bombers overhead. When I was deciding what
kind of historical research to do, I was surprised to find that no-one had looked at the official national archives for the QVH during World War Two and that there was a lot of important material there to be discovered - particularly in understanding how close was the relationship between McIndoe and the most senior levels of the RAF. Whenever he wrote to them, they replied immediately - and the post was much better then so the letters got there on the same day - almost as quick as email! I wanted to find out the history behind the legend, so that inspired me to do the work that became The Guinea Pig Club book.
What sets McIndoe apart from other war time doctors and
McIndoe had an incredible sense of what it takes to really heal a human being - not just surgery but rehabilitation and the restoration of psychological resilience. It isn’t just doctors in war time that need to understand this, it’s all doctors so he is a really excellent role model. We don’t really know why he thought as he did. He didn’t leave behind many personal papers and he didn’t keep a diary in the war because he was too busy working. Also, and I think people often forget this, he was a truly brilliant surgeon. Many of the medics who worked with him, say they never saw anyone with better technical skills than him. So it’s the perfect combination of technical brilliance and an understanding that recovery comes from the whole process of treatment. He did say this really important thing about what surgeons should think about their patients: “Real and lasting satisfaction is derived from what the patient does with what the surgeon achieves, rather than from the purely technical aspect of the repair.” Continues over the page.
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What part would you say East Grinstead has played in this episode of World War history?
them throughout their lives. That’s how it’s done, no quick fix but a commitment to recovery where everyone understands and benefits from the support.
EG played a vital role. Every day the people of the town showed the Guinea Pig Club that they could go back to their lives and families and that it was possible to recover. Recovery is about really practical things like being able to go to the pub and have conversations and dance to a band. Without EG taking care of the personal, social things, McIndoe would never have been able to take care of the surgical things. I think we also forget how the town did this even though the war was raging right over their heads. It was a frightening time to live near London because of the bombing. We now know that the war ended in 1945 but no-one had a sense of how long it was going to go on for until the end of 1944 and it wasn’t certain that D-Day would result in victory. EG shows us the best of ourselves how a community can come together, for no reward except the knowledge that they have done the right thing, for years, not just for a long weekend, and really make a difference to other people’s lives.
What response have you had from the book so far and how does it tie in to the soon-to-be-released film the Guinea Pigs? The response to the book has been great, both when it was first published and now. Through events like the Invictus Games and the Paralympics, the public has a good understanding of what being a casualty means and everyone is very interested to know that there is a history of public engagement with wounded service personnel. Also, I think people understand that in the First World War, things were not properly done and casualties ended up disabled and destitute. It helps to know that things were better in the Second World War. Let’s hope that in our century things are even better! The book, ‘Guinea Pig Club, Archibald McIndoe and the RAF in World War II’ is published by Pen & Sword Books and can be found in good local book shops and Amazon.
What is the highlight of McIndoe’s story? What always stands out to readers? Readers are always fascinated by the role of the town in the recovery of the GPs. I think everyone always wants to be able to contribute to the recovery of military casualties and EG shows how this could be done in an incredibly important way. But now people also understand that this is a story about how best to treat our wounded service men and women - that when we think about how we should do that; history and the GPC has already shown us. That it isn’t necessarily very expensive or complicated, but it does require a commitment byCOMMUNITY doctorsBUSINESS andDIRECTORY the public to maintain support in recovery. East Grinstead didn’t just support the GPC during the war, it went on supporting
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THE ABBEY LOCAL HISTORY NOTES
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Just north of the A22 between Ashurst Wood and Forest Row, is an imposing building which cuts a white, stark but beautiful figure on the surrounding landscape: The Abbey. It was built on rising ground and its gleaming white facade can be seen for miles around. It is particularly obvious from vantage points on Ashdown Forest and so itself has amazing views of the forest. It began life in 1783, when it was named Pawleys, owned by Lord George Henry Cavendish, who was a distinguished Member
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The well-known author, Michael Morpurgo, was a pupil there for six years. Playing rugby was one of the few things he enjoyed in those few years. The football and Rugby pitches of the school were later gifted to the village of Ashurst Wood, by Molly Pears, as a recreation ground. Known as the John Pears Pavilion, the building on it was named in memory of the man who purchased the land upon which it stands. Unfortunately, the pavilion was burnt down in 2003 but rebuilt two years later; both land and pavilion are now a central part of Ashurst Wood village used for many functions and sporting events.
native Australia, he went on to become the head of Timbertops, an outpost of Geelong Grammar School, which Prince Charles, attended for a year. The War memorial from that school is now in the custody of the Imperial War Museum.
The building itself is now divided into several luxury apartments. The Abbey has stood for nearly two hundred and fifty years now. A landmark in the local area which has seen many changes in its long life. Maybe in another two hundred and fifty years it will still be observing changes in its surroundings and making its unique contribution to our history.
The building was later sold on, but remained a school and was renamed: The Abbey School. This school had started life in Beckenham, Kent, but moved out in part of the Second World War, to avoid the bombing of the London area. The school was described as being built on 3 floors: on the ground floor was a vestibule, entrance hall/lounge, a large dining hall, a library, a vast drawing room with French windows facing south out on to the valley and the owner’s private suite of rooms. Some parts were extensively panelled in wood and other rooms had elegant plasterwork and ornate fireplaces. Wide staircases led upstairs to twenty-four bedrooms. Kitchens, storerooms and domestic offices also occupied a lot of space on the ground floor and there were wine cellars and fuel stores below ground level. By all accounts, the African influence from Abe Bailey’s ownership remained as part of the building’s interior theme years later: Abbey school’s main rooms were still adorned COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY with hunting trophies and many other artefacts from Africa.
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THINK SUMMER IS OVER? FEAR NOT! “By all these lovely tokens September days are here With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” -unknown It’s sometime hard to remember that September has double the amount of summer days to June! So, although the kids are back to school, no need to feel the summer is over. In fact, temperatures average only a couple of degrees lower than August, so don’t put your shorts away just yet!
Why exactly we don’t know, something to do with the dark, cold days of January perhaps? September is also the beginning of harvest time… and this year’s Harvest Moon will fall on the 25th; it’s the full moon nearest the start of autumn or the autumnal equinox. Why is it called a Harvest moon? At this time of year, the moon rises very shortly after sunset without much of a delay, for several evenings. This results in an abundance of bright moonlight early in the evening. As if by a kind of miraculous co-incidence this is traditionally exactly what the farmers needed to harvest their crops – lots of light! Work had to be carried out at speed as no one wanted overripe, rotting produce, not least the farmers, so the extra light was a blessing indeed.
With a small amount of internet research I stumbled upon an interesting fact… which I hope is true as I’m sharing it with you… there are more people Forget-me-not, born in September than any other month. With September birth flower the short shrift research I can give to this fact, short of counting up all the birthdates across the world, it is true that the majority of my best friends over the years (the ones whose birthdays you always remember) were born in September…. so if that’s anything to go by, it may well be correct!
In Britain we have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times with a Harvest Festival which is traditionally held on the Sunday near or on the Harvest Moon and we celebrate by singing hymns, praying, and decorating churches with baskets of fruit and food, which often now involves donating said wares to local charities in need afterwards. In Mythical-lore, the September autumn equinox is the day of the year when the god of Continues over the page.
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and February were not yet ‘worthy’ of being named. And in 1752, September had only 19 days here in Britain; the 3rd-13th were omitted when we made the change from Julian to Gregorian calendar, because, in brief, things had become slightly ‘unaligned’ when leap years weren’t being calculated accurately. Before the Normans thrusted a latinised language upon the Anglo-Saxons, September was called Gerst Monath (Barley Month) or Haefest Monath (Harvest Month) celebrating the barley harvest. Finally, September is the only month with the same number of letters in its name as the number of the month i.e. it is the ninth month of the year and has nine letters. Well I never! This year we’ve been promised an Indian summer, so with that being the case (and even if it’s not) we’re wishing you a very enjoyable month.
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light is defeated by his twin and alter-ego, the god of darkness. It is the time of the year when night conquers day; it was apparently the only day of the whole year when Llew (light) was vulnerable and so it was possible to defeat him as the god of light stood ‘in the balance’ with one foot on the cauldron (Cancer, the summer solstice) and his other foot on the goat (Capricorn/winter solstice). It all sounds fascinating but one thing we can say is that the nights will definitely start to draw in, but again luckily for us it’s not too noticeable til the end of the month. September (from the Latin septem, seven) COMMUNITY BUSINESSthe DIRECTORY was of course seventh month of the old Roman calendar, in the days when January Living living
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What made you decide to run a lowcost gym membership for kids? We didn’t necessarily look to open a gym as such, our vision was to educate the community in health and fitness. I was new to the area having just moved here in November 2017 and I wanted to network. There was a local event at a restaurant one evening so I decided to go down there. By chance I got talking to a very nice man called Rex Whitaker who introduced himself and started to talk about what we both did. I spoke about Active Fit and he spoke about wellbeing in the community. Later I was to find out he was due to take over as Mayor of East Grinstead the following month. We agreed to meet up and discuss further, once he had started his new role. To cut a long story short he introduced me to some fantastic people who shared his vision. From
To whom is this membership open? Memberships are from 8 years plus and are looking to run some senior classes too. We will also offer family memberships. This will be a no frills but fantastically equipped gym with monthly memberships available for children from £5 per month (for information about other memberships, drop us a line.).
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SPOTLIGHT ON LOCAL EVENTS East Grinstead Junior Colour Run Sunday 23rd September This fantastic event is great fun for all the family! Warm up will be with the amazing team from HardFitness. A 1k family run, or a 2k for ages 5-16. Receive a bag of colour, water and a medal. Join the paint party by emailing colour.runeg@ gmail.com to get an application form. £8 per participant, entry fee to the Friends of Halsford Park School. Applications and payments must be received by Friday 7th September 2018.
Crawley Down Village Fayre. Saturday 8th September Join us on the village green as the CDRA hosts the 43rd Crawley Down Village Fayre! This year we have bouncy castles, trampolines, a helter skelter, a high striker, donkey rides 2 event arenas and a selection of stalls. 1-5pm. See www. crawleydownresidentsassociation.org.uk for more details. Hosted by the Crawley Down residents association.
Bluebell Railway: Sussex Belle Wednesday 19th Sept Why not book a trip aboard ‘The Sussex Belle’ during the Bluebell season? On September 19th, this brand new service will depart Sheffield Park Station at 12:30pm and offers a two course meal aboard a First Class dining car. The journey through the beautiful Sussex countryside will last for 1 ¾ hours and the cost of £50pp includes your fare and a set two course meal. To book call 01825 720800. 12:30pm – 2:15pm.
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Ashdown Forest Centre: The Big Draw Sunday October 7th Come draw, doodle, scribble or sketch on the Ashdown Forest. It could be a landscape, leaf, bird or shadow, a footprint, view, tree or twig, a memory or something else that catches your eye. Open to all ages, all abilities and in all weathers. The Pop Up Café will be open for refreshments during the day. This event is part of the national Big Draw Festival 2018. Bring along your own paper (A5 or smaller) and pencil/pen/charcoal/crayon. Some drawing materials will be available from the Education Barn. If you would like, your work will become part of the community exhibition that will be on display from 7th October until 28th October - If you can’t make it, you can still contribute an artworks of the forest by bringing it along to add to the exhibition any time between 7th – 28th October. For more information email education@ashdownforest.org (see the website for centre opening times).
Dragon Boat Festival Sunday September 9th The festival that supports St Catherine’s Hospice is back with a splash! Taking place in Tilgate Park this free, family fun day is set to be the biggest yet! As one of our most exhilarating fundraisers, this year’s event has something for everyone with traditional stalls, inflatables, facepainting, live music from local artists, delicious food, a licensed bar and of course, the exciting boat races themselves! Come and cheer on over 40 teams, made up of local businesses, as they take to the lake and race head-to-head to become the 2018 Dragon Boat champions. There will also be the chance to win an COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY amazing holiday to Florida for a family of four, courtesy of British Airways! Living living
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Tia McGraff, hosted by The Bookshop Thursday September 27th Tia McGraff is an internationally renowned and award-winning singer-songwriter from Port Dover, ON, Canada. With Scottish and Transylvanian roots running through her songwriting and voice, Tia’s talent has been described as “haunting and soul-gripping.” With seven album releases, four videos on CMT Canada, various film/television placements, and numerous awards have earned Tia has earned a global fanbase. Tommy, who moved to Nashville in 1998 with a staff songwriter deal in hand was introduced to Tia by his publisher and they began writing together, broke their rule of “never date a co-writer,” and in 2006 the couple were married. Their love and passion for their music and fans continues to grow, win hearts, and make them one of Americana music’s favourite sweethearts. The pair return to the UK for a tour this September 2018. For tickets go to: www.wegottickets.com. 7:30pm – 9pm at the Bookshop, High Street.
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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY Last month CARE in East Grinstead & Lingfield celebrated its 30th birthday with an afternoon tea party at Trinity Methodist Church with the Town Mayor, Cllr Rex Whittaker, as guest of honour. CARE was formed in 1988 by a local group of churches as part of an outreach to the community by giving help to elderly and infirm people who, for various reasons, have no-one else available to assist them. Most of the help given is in driving clients to medical appointments but they also do shopping and minor errands or help with gardening and small DIY jobs. Clients phone a central number a few days in advance and a volunteer is found to help. CARE has been chosen as one of the mayor’s three special charities in his year of office and he has shown his commitment to their work by joining up as a volunteer driver.
CARE Chairman John Monks said, “Today we have around about 350 clients on our books and are doing over 1000 jobs a year, 95% of which involve driving people to local surgeries and hospitals or clinics throughout Sussex, Kent and Surrey.”
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Sunday 16th September East Grinstead Town Litter Pick! Not glamourous but lots of satisfaction to be had making our town look lovely and sparkly in a group effort, PLUS it ends with tea and cake in the Baptist church in West Street. Meet there at 2:30pm – 4pm.
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Choir Taster Evening. East Grinstead Choral Society welcomes enthusiastic singers to join them for a free taster evening as they start their new season. No auditions! 7:30pm – 9:45pm, Jubilee Community Centre, Charlwoods Road, RH19 2HL, www.egcs.co.uk.
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RSPCA South Godstone Car Boot Sale. Buyers: 50p admission charge. sellers: All vehicles £10. Trailers additional £3. Pay on entry. No need to book your pitch! Open for set up from 9am. Gates open to buyers at 10am – 2pm. Free parking with disabled parking area. RSPCA South Godstone Animal Centre, Eastbourne Road/A22, RH9 8JB WEDNESDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER East Grinstead Horticultural Society. Our autumn show, vegetables, fowers, cookery and more. Followed by an audio-visual presentation by Dave Booker. At 7.30pm, The Old Court House, East Court. WEDNESDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER Meridian Probus Club of East Grinstead is a club for retired professional/business gentlemen, we meet on the 2nd Wednesday of the month for coffee, a talk by a professional speaker, followed by lunch in the Dorset arms. We have outings to various locations & also some holidays. If you are interested in joining, please contact Brian Simmons on 01342 323098. An annual fee of £45 applies. At 10:15am. SATURDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER Concert for Prison Fellowship & Street Pastors. Collection at end. Contact 01342 302862. At 7pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Lingfield Rd, East Grinstead, RH19 2HA. SATURDAY 15TH – 29TH SEPTEMBER Oil&Water Contemporary Art: Autumn Exhibition at the Ashdown Gallery, Forest Row. Brilliant opportunity to view an unrivalled and varied collection of fine art, sculpture and ceramics. Internationally acclaimed artists including Henrietta Stewart, Marcelo Vergara Martinez and Gerard Mortier; aspiring young local artists including Jamie Vaulkhard (Venice Biennale), Eleanor Watson (shortlisted for The Young Masters COMMUNITY BUSINESS DIRECTORY Art Prize), Jenna Gearing (National Portrait Gallery) and Alisha Gent (Young Craftsman of the Year, SoE Living
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Talk on Geopathic Stress by Richard Creightmore. Talk on Geopathic Stress and how it affects our health and animals too. To book a place see the ad in this magazine. 10am to 1pm, Forest Lodge Vets, Station Rd, Forest Row. Collectors Fair. The fair returns with dealers selling (and buying) coins, stamps, postcards and other paper collectables. 10am - 3pm, Chequer Mead. FRIDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER East Grinstead Society. The history and current activities of the South of England Society, a talk by Ian Nichol CEO of the South of England Agricultural Society and director of the South of England event centre. At 7:30pm, members £1, non-members welcome £3, Main Hall, East Court Mansion, RH19 3LT. MONDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER You are invited to a charity fundraising dinner in aid of the East Grinstead branch of the MS Society, supporting people in our local community who have MS. At 7pm at ‘The Gurkha - Taste from the Himalayas’, The Woodcock Inn, Woodcock Hill, Felbridge. tickets cost £20 and include appetiser, starter & main course with a donation of £10 to the MS Society (East Grinstead branch). To book your table please call 01342 325325. FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER Antiques Talk at The Priest House, West Hoathly. Interested in Antiques? How do you put a value on them? Come along to the Priest House Museum at 6:30pm when you will have an opportunity to do just that. Antique expert Tony Creasey will talk about and invite you to handle and inspect a collection of unusual old artefacts before conducting a mock auction. Tickets £10 to include a glass of wine. Please purchase tickets in advance as seating is limited. 01342 810479. At 6:30pm, the Priest House Museum, West Hoathly, RH19 4PP. MONDAY 1ST OCTOBER Pizza Express: 3 course meal for 2 local charities - East Grinstead Museum and MacMillan Cancer support (local project). 7pm for 7.30pm start, £20 cash per person, £8 split between 2 charities - raffle money all to charities. Tel Pizza Express to book on 01342 313343.
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Ardingly October Charity Fair in aid of the Bevern Trust to be held at the Ardingly South of England Showground, from 9:30am until 3:30pm. Over 50 stalls with gifts, food clothes and much more. Entrance £5.
SATURDAY 6TH OCTOBER Local author, Stephen Willis will be doing an all-day book signing in town on at the Bookshop, High Street. For two newly released books in his Christopher Daring Adventures series: ‘Spirits of the Dead’ and ‘The Forest of Riddles’. The book has already pre-launched on Amazon. Find out more about these exciting tales
WHAT’S ON AT CHEQUER MEAD THURSDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER AT 7PM NT Live presents JULIE. Based on August Strinberg’s classic play Miss Julie, this modern date adaptation, set in contemporary London still remains shocking and fiercely relevant today. Tickets: £14.50, cons: £13, premium club: £11.
SATURDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER AT 3PM & 6:30PM The Greatest Showman – Sing-a-long. An original musical that celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Tickets: £5.50, cons: £5, premium club: £4.
SATURDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER AT 7:30PM Purple Zeppelin - The Ultimate Rock Tribute Show! Comprising of 4 talented and versatile musicians with decades of experience between them, Purple Zeppelin is a full-on Rock show. Tickets: £18, cons: £17.
THURSDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER AT 7PM NT Live presents King Lear, by William Shakespeare. Broadcast live from London’s West End for a limited season, Ian McKellen’s extraordinarily moving portrayal of King Lear received five-star review at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Tickets: £14.50, cons: £13, premium club: £11.
WEDNESDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER AT 7PM Royal Shakespeare Company presents The Merry Wives of Windsor. For a fat Englishman, a Welshman and a Frenchman, the only way is Windsor… Down on his luck John Falstaff plans to hustle his way to a comfortable retirement by seducing the wives of two wealthy men. Unknown to him, it’s the women of Windsor who really pull the strings. Broadcast live from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon. Tickets: £14.50, cons: £13, premium club: £11.
FRIDAY 28TH SEPTEMBER AT 2PM Julie & Julia. Based on a true story, this comedydrama film stars Meryl Street as Julia Child, a professional chef who decades later inspires young New Yorker, Julie Powell (Amy Adams) to cook all 524 recipes in Child’s cookbook in 365 days. Tickets: £5, premium club: £4.
THURSDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER AT 7:30PM CinemaLive presents La Bohème. Experience the romance of the original bohemian love story at the magnificent Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour. Puccini’s beloved opera classic, La Bohème – the original bohemian love story - captures the heart, with its blend of passion, comedy and tragedy. Tickets: £16.50, Concessions: £15.50, Premium Club members: £13.50
SATURDAY 29TH SEPTEMBER AT 7:30PM East Grinstead’s Autumn Comedy Gala. Headliner, Reginald Hunter, is known for his piercingly honest comedy and has appeared on practically every panel show going including; Have I Got News For You, QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats and Would I Lie to You. Character comedian, Alex Lowe’s alter-ego Clinton Baptiste will be bringing his ‘clairvoyant’ routine- that made him a firm favourite on Peter Kay’s award-winning Phoenix Nights. Joining them is Grimsby comedian, former choirboy and aspiring goalkeeper, Lloyd Griffith who has recently been seen on Drunk History for comedy central and Sweat the Small Stuff for BBC3. Tickets: £15 in advance, £17 on the door.
WEDNESDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER AT 2PM Afternoon Tea at the Movies: Funny Face. Start the afternoon off with a screening of the 1957 romantic musical comedy, Funny Face, starring Fred Astaire as New York fashion photographer Dick Avery and BUSINESS Audrey Hepburn, as the shy bookstore COMMUNITY DIRECTORY employee who is photographed by accident! Tickets: Film only: £5, afternoon tea package Living
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