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VIVALEWES<br />
EDITORIAL<br />
There’s something, of course, quite down to earth about ‘Grape and<br />
Grain’. Literally. And that, in itself, can comfort. Something about<br />
being close to the ground. Getting back to the basics – which,<br />
facing the climate crisis, we may need to – of growing and providing,<br />
(Michael Blencowe, out with his Grandad…)<br />
These are things we may anyway return to when the modern world<br />
gets all too much. When this daily diet of bad news and social media<br />
and politicians and Brexit drives us totally NUTS. And what we really<br />
need is a bowl of Quill Soup (to soothe us, while remembering to share). Or<br />
maybe a Lentil Shepherd’s Pie at Zu Café, or an afternoon up the allotment.<br />
In her new book, Carolyn Trant paints some similar pictures – in sharing the lives of women<br />
artists past. And in this, our Grape and Grain issue, we also visit gin (and tonic!) distillers; John<br />
Henty enjoys a pint of Guinness, and Eleanor Knight explodes ginger beer. We chat with<br />
Robin Walden, the force behind the new organic food supermarket in the Cliffe, The Seasons.<br />
And find out what’s going on in the tenth, and (hopefully) ‘best yet’ <strong>October</strong>feast – including<br />
local wine tastings at Riverside.<br />
We also touch on coping with anxiety. Jason Rhodes has written a book for children on this.<br />
Alex Leith explores men and counselling. And Jason Mosseri explains why getting back to a<br />
simpler life may also, in the end, ease our troubled minds, as well as times.<br />
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THE GRAPE & GRAIN ISSUE<br />
CONTENTS<br />
Bits and bobs.<br />
8-23. Cover artist Liz Temperley on<br />
our lovely, leafy cover; Robin Walden’s<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>, he of The Seasons; Photo of<br />
the month x 3; Five minutes with Brian<br />
Schofield; the word is spread; call out for<br />
refugee tales; an exceptional war memoir;<br />
the Association of Carers – can you<br />
help?; Carlotta Luke on the allotment;<br />
Vino Craig.<br />
Columns.<br />
25-29. Eleanor Knight remembers Wales;<br />
John Henty remembers Ireland; David<br />
Jarman remembers Anita Brookner.<br />
On this month.<br />
31-43. Grease hits <strong>Lewes</strong>; treats at<br />
<strong>October</strong>feast; TOM, entertaining duo;<br />
Lizzie Lower reads Jess Phillips; Philip<br />
Ayckbourn’s ghost story; Susie Boyt looks<br />
slantwise; and Dexter Lee’s film round-up.<br />
Art.<br />
45-53. Carolyn Trant’s voyage round<br />
women artists; David Nash on the trees<br />
he loves; Art and about, from Earthly<br />
Blings to the East Sussex Guild of<br />
Weavers to a happy birthday to<br />
Mohamed Hamid, and others.<br />
Listings and Free time.<br />
55-71. Diary dates including Comedy<br />
at the Con, Movement 4 Movement in<br />
Calais, and Fleabag; Gig of the month<br />
is Andy Irvine; Classical round-up<br />
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pick is a piano recital in aid of refugees<br />
and asylum seekers; Free time dates,<br />
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THE GRAPE & GRAIN ISSUE<br />
including half term and Halloween,<br />
Quill Soup book review, and Jason<br />
Rhodes imagines eating lemons.<br />
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Food.<br />
73-79. Zu Café scrumptious food<br />
review; Chilli Pickle spicy recipe;<br />
Emma Chaplin on Flint Owl<br />
sourdough; and Alex Leith checks<br />
out the new <strong>Lewes</strong> FC café.<br />
The way we work.<br />
80-83. Visiting and photographing<br />
local gin and tonic makers.<br />
Photo by Torz Dallison<br />
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Features.<br />
85-100. <strong>Lewes</strong> WIs’ warm welcome;<br />
Hope Springs Chairs on the craft of<br />
making; Riverside hosts local wine<br />
tastings; Fiona Dennis harvests apples;<br />
Michael Blencowe recalls picking<br />
sloes; Alex Leith visits a counsellor;<br />
Football via video analysis platform;<br />
Herbert Scott has settled in Prezzo;<br />
and Business news walkabout.<br />
Inside left.<br />
114. 1933 and Whitbread beer.<br />
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THIS MONTH’S COVER ARTIST<br />
Liz Temperley’s studio space, in the Star Brewery,<br />
has a similar aesthetic to her watercolour<br />
illustrations. There is a lot of white space on the<br />
walls and furnishings, complemented by vivid<br />
splashes of colour in the teeming examples of<br />
her work, which is printed on greeting cards,<br />
gift wrap, notebooks, stationery, prints, pencil<br />
cases and more.<br />
In her illustrations, Liz aims to find humour in<br />
the everyday and to show the beauty in animals<br />
and nature, which she describes as her “joyful<br />
style”. The inspiration for this month’s cover<br />
came from a fortuitous visit to a friend’s exhibition<br />
at Breaky Bottom Vineyards. Rusty tones<br />
for the vine leaves were selected for an autumnal<br />
feel. “I like organic forms. So I thought we’ll<br />
go back to the literal interpretation of ‘grape<br />
and grain’, looking at the grape before it gets<br />
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LIZ TEMPERLEY<br />
made into wine.”<br />
Her love for nature extends to how she produces<br />
her stationery, which is all eco-friendly.<br />
“I have a range that is printed onto tree-free,<br />
annually renewable plant fibre paper (things<br />
like bamboo).” She works with soy-based inks<br />
and also makes a range of envelopes made from<br />
upcycled coffee cups.<br />
Liz’s arrival in <strong>Lewes</strong>, after studying textile<br />
design at Nottingham Trent University, seems<br />
almost providential. After graduating, she<br />
initially moved to London to work in fashion<br />
– but ultimately realised that it wasn’t for her.<br />
She then juggled a Design Manager job with<br />
freelance work, while selling illustrations in<br />
Brick Lane on the side.<br />
Liz wasn’t sure where to go after London, so<br />
she let her choice of studio space inform the<br />
location for her new home. After discovering<br />
the Star Brewery – and the beauty of East Sussex<br />
– she moved to the area in May 2016. The<br />
last three years have been busy: Liz has sold her<br />
work in Artwave and Artists Open Houses, and<br />
she took part in Patina’s geocache event, where<br />
children discovered various creatives in <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
via GPS (“hectic, but fun”). Liz was commissioned<br />
by Octopus Publishing to illustrate two<br />
books, and she was thrilled when I Love You<br />
Mum was reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, in<br />
May this year.<br />
Her business has flourished since moving to<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>: in busy periods she takes on some temporary<br />
staff to help with packing and posting.<br />
Her work – branded as Blank Inside – is sold<br />
worldwide, with distributors in Australia, New<br />
Zealand, Europe and a large number in the UK.<br />
Clients include Anthropologie, Liberty and<br />
Oliver Bonas. Joe Fuller<br />
The whole Blank Inside<br />
range is available to<br />
purchase at blankinsidedesign.co.uk<br />
– along with a<br />
selection of Liz’s original<br />
watercolours – or you can<br />
pop by the studio and buy<br />
direct from Liz. If you would<br />
like to discuss any illustration<br />
commissions, email<br />
liz@blankinsidedesign.co.uk
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MY LEWES: ROBIN WALDEN<br />
What brought you to <strong>Lewes</strong> and when? We<br />
arrived seven years ago. I grew up in Forest<br />
Row, a few doors down from The Seasons, and<br />
we moved here, with our two young daughters<br />
(they’re now seven and ten), from Haywards<br />
Heath. I’ve always liked the town, and we found<br />
a house we wanted to live in. Malling’s brilliant.<br />
Quiet and safe. I love the green out front. There<br />
are loads of kids, and they’re outdoors playing.<br />
My girls are at South Malling and it’s a great<br />
little school.<br />
So your father John bought The Seasons in<br />
Forest Row, after working there a long time,<br />
in 2012. A couple of years later you came in<br />
as director? Yes, it wasn’t something I’d ever<br />
planned to do, but I was already working in<br />
the field – as café manager and chef at Trading<br />
Boundaries in Sheffield Park. The Seasons<br />
started out as a charitable trust. This didn’t work<br />
out and my father rescued it. And once it became<br />
a family business… I’ve overseen a major<br />
refurbishment in Forest Row: combined two<br />
sites into one. And then moved on immediately<br />
to this renovation in <strong>Lewes</strong>!<br />
The Seasons <strong>Lewes</strong> will have just opened<br />
when this mag hits the streets: why here?<br />
Why now? It will – though of course the place is<br />
a building site today [when we did our interview,<br />
mid-August]. I’ve been thinking of opening a<br />
shop here for a couple of years. The town seems<br />
so right. When the (old) Bunces site came up,<br />
in Cliffe High Street, I mulled for a bit. Then<br />
went for it. We’ve just finished all the work in<br />
Forest Row a couple of months ago, so I’ve<br />
gone straight from that to this. (My wife Liza,<br />
who’s also our bookkeeper, is very grounded and<br />
patient.)<br />
The Seasons ethos is to offer ‘an<br />
extraordinary range’ of organic foods? Yes.<br />
It’s basically a mini supermarket – for organic,<br />
vegetarian foods. We sell everything: can be your<br />
one-stop grocery shop. Plus, have events every<br />
Friday. These are taster days, where we showcase<br />
a range of products, or particular brands. Of<br />
course, organic food has become much more<br />
mainstream; we’ve been committed to it for<br />
years, but now we’ve completely reinvigorated<br />
our shops, and breathed new life into the brand.<br />
Sales are up 80 per cent over the last five years.<br />
We always aim to offer competitive pricing and<br />
excellent service: our shops and staff are warm<br />
and inviting. I’m recruiting a whole new team to<br />
work in <strong>Lewes</strong>…<br />
And what do you, personally, do to relax<br />
in all that spare time you must have when<br />
you’re NOT working? I like an evening out<br />
at the Snowdrop, or eating at Bun + Bean in<br />
Mount Pleasant or Erawan Thai on Lansdown<br />
Place. We’re big time, long-term season ticket<br />
holders to the Pells. At home, I do most of<br />
the cooking. And then I disappear into my<br />
recording studio of an evening – at the bottom<br />
of the garden – where I record drum and bass<br />
electronic music… Interview by Charlotte Gann<br />
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PHOTOS OF THE MONTH<br />
WIND MILL<br />
Ben Hayes, from St Albans, was visiting friends in <strong>Lewes</strong> when – after enjoying a summer’s walk in<br />
August – they turned for home… ‘Dom and Dale took us on a walk from their home near Anne of Cleves<br />
House out onto the Downs’, Ben wrote. ‘We headed along Juggs Road in good weather and were soon<br />
enjoying fantastic views near Ashcombe Mill. Later, as we headed back into <strong>Lewes</strong>, the weather to the<br />
south had got even better, and we could see the beach at Seaford bathed in sun. Meanwhile, the weather<br />
to the north-east had got much worse, and we could see heavy rain. Directly to our north the sky seemed<br />
to reflect the clash of these two contrasting weather fronts… The top photo, especially, captures this.’<br />
Please send your pictures, taken in and around <strong>Lewes</strong>, to photos@vivamagazines.com, or tweet @<strong>Viva</strong><strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
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previously arranged, we reserve the right to use all pictures in future issues of <strong>Viva</strong> magazines or online.<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
FIVE MINUTES WITH...<br />
Brian Schofield<br />
grew up in<br />
Warwickshire,<br />
and has lived in<br />
Southover for 11<br />
years. He lives<br />
with his wife,<br />
Harriet, and two<br />
sons, TJ, 10, and<br />
Tommy, 8. Brian<br />
plays football for<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Vets, coaches for <strong>Lewes</strong> Juniors and<br />
is a member of Southover Bonfire Society<br />
and the <strong>Lewes</strong> Liberal Democrats. He is also<br />
Head of Politics at Hurstpierpoint College.<br />
WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY?<br />
Surfing. And my family and friends. But<br />
mostly surfing.<br />
WHAT IS YOUR TOP FILM/BOOK?<br />
I’m currently recommending American Carnage<br />
by Tim Alberta to all my students, and<br />
Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff to<br />
anyone who’ll listen<br />
Film: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<br />
WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE TV SHOW /<br />
RADIO SHOW / PODCAST?<br />
TV: Rick and Morty<br />
Radio: that’s easy – John Finnemore’s Souvenir<br />
Programme<br />
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TOP PLACES TO EAT IN LEWES?<br />
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TRIPS AND BOBS<br />
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‘Here l am with my<br />
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BITS AND BOBS<br />
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY: LOOKING FOR LOCAL STORIES<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Holocaust Memorial<br />
Group first formed in 2014,<br />
after its founding members<br />
got chatting at a party. Supported<br />
by both the Town and<br />
District Councils, today it’s<br />
going strong. “<strong>Lewes</strong> has become<br />
known as quite vibrant<br />
in its commemorations”, Gaby Weiner tells me.<br />
“More and more people come along in solidarity.”<br />
Those commemorations happen at the end of<br />
January – Holocaust Memorial Day marks the<br />
liberation of Auschwitz on 27th January 1945.<br />
That first January, 2015, was also of course the<br />
70th anniversary. “We had a performance in the<br />
Town Hall, which was an overwhelmingly beautiful<br />
evening,” says Gaby. “It lives on in memory.”<br />
In 2020 they plan a concert for 25th January in St<br />
John sub Castro; and possibly a candlelit walk as<br />
well. The group is calling for<br />
stories from people about any<br />
refugees with a connection to<br />
the town. These may be those<br />
who fled Nazi Germany, or<br />
anyone before or since fleeing<br />
persecution on religious,<br />
political or other grounds.<br />
“We want to hear from anyone with a story”, says<br />
Christine Cohen Park.<br />
So far, having put a call out in <strong>Lewes</strong> News, they’ve<br />
heard about families in Ringmer, Malling and the<br />
Nevill, who housed or helped Jewish children<br />
fleeing the Nazis, and an ex-Mayor’s wife, who<br />
also originally arrived via Kindertransport.<br />
Charlotte Gann<br />
If you have any information, however fragmentary,<br />
please email gaby.weiner@btinternet.com, or call<br />
01273 472328<br />
BOOK REVIEW: WE HAPPY FEW<br />
In 1940, Richard Wicker, a young<br />
RAF sergeant, was shot down over<br />
Germany. He survived but was<br />
captured, spending the next five years<br />
as a prisoner-of-war. He weighed just<br />
seven and a half stone by the time he<br />
was liberated. Richard never talked<br />
about his wartime experiences, and his<br />
story might have been lost were it not<br />
for a diary and his tenacious grandson,<br />
David.<br />
In later life Richard wrote daily in a diary that<br />
was stored away after his death. When David<br />
was given this last year he was intrigued, but<br />
wary of uncovering difficult truths about the<br />
grandfather he never knew.<br />
Overcoming his reticence, David discovered<br />
a gripping, beautifully written account of<br />
Richard’s early years in Sussex, his time flying in<br />
clapped-out planes with substandard<br />
equipment on terrifying<br />
missions, and a poignant account<br />
of his journey home. David has<br />
collected the diary passages into<br />
this fascinating book, using other<br />
sources to fill in the spaces that<br />
Richard was too traumatised to<br />
write about. His time as a prisoner<br />
is described at a remove through<br />
letters and logbook entries.<br />
The result is a compelling, unsentimental, moving<br />
story of how a quiet life was ruptured by<br />
war. Creating a vivid picture of friendship, love,<br />
fear and resilience, it’s a story that also resonates<br />
in our world of polarised politics and conflict.<br />
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We Happy Few by Richard Wicker (edited by<br />
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A substantial Edwardian five bedroom house located in a most popular location in the Wallands area of <strong>Lewes</strong>. The<br />
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Firle Road, Seaford £1,075,000<br />
Substantial & impressive detached house ideally located in Seaford.<br />
Spanning more than 3,000sqft this versatile & expansive home<br />
offers reception rooms, contemporary kitchen breakfast room & five<br />
bedrooms. The property enjoys stunning gardens and gated<br />
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Hill Road, <strong>Lewes</strong> £925,000<br />
Impressive detached home located in a sought after elevated<br />
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opening onto the garden. Outside is ample parking and a<br />
detached garage as well as gardens to the front and rear. EPC-67<br />
Mount Pleasant, <strong>Lewes</strong> £715,000<br />
A Grade II listed, three double bedroom town house in a central<br />
position, with the unusual benefit of a roof terrace and private,<br />
flint walled garden backing onto the historic Brack Mount. Good<br />
sized family accommodation, tastefully restored and very well<br />
presented retaining many original features throughout. EPC-N/A<br />
South Street, <strong>Lewes</strong> £499,000<br />
A well presented three bedroom mid terrace house located in a<br />
very popular location off Cliffe High Street, with many benefits<br />
including a through lounge/dining room opening onto the garden,<br />
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CARLOTTA LUKE<br />
FOCUS ON: KELLY HALL<br />
This is my friend, the artist and designer Kelly<br />
Hall. Kelly has an allotment in Firle where<br />
she paints what she grows, and grows what<br />
she paints. Fittingly for this month’s theme,<br />
she had a small crop of durum wheat (the kind<br />
used for making pasta) so I followed its process<br />
from harvest to kitchen, by way of a 1970s-era<br />
wooden mill from Germany. Pasta al pomodoro<br />
was soon to follow (the pomodoros grown<br />
by Kelly as well, of course). An illustrated<br />
cookbook is in the pipeline. I cannot wait!<br />
kellyhalldesigns.com / carlottaluke.com<br />
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CARTOON<br />
23
COLUMN<br />
Eleanor Knight<br />
Keyboard worrier<br />
Stand back, folks, I am about to mention nationalism.<br />
At the time of writing, ‘things’ have taken<br />
an alarming turn and I find myself reflecting that<br />
this is not the country I was born in.<br />
Causes are manifold, but for the purposes of this<br />
column I will keep it simple. I wasn’t born here.<br />
I was born in Scotland.<br />
Perhaps for this reason, and that my two brothers<br />
were born in England and Wales respectively,<br />
and that our Northern Irish granny started life,<br />
in 1909, just Irish, I’ve always felt it’s how, not<br />
where we live that makes us who we are.<br />
I grew up in a family of hobbyists. We played<br />
music, messed about with car engines and,<br />
according to one puzzling early school report<br />
‘knew an awful lot about leprosy.’ My parents,<br />
like many in the 1970s, were enthusiastic home<br />
brewers, and it is those early years that are for<br />
me, ever tinged with the comforting amber hue<br />
of have-a-go ale.<br />
Having turned down a job in Belfast, civilian<br />
deaths from The Troubles being at an all time<br />
high (and having been told in no uncertain<br />
terms he would be a target) Dad had picked up<br />
an alternative and moved us all from Essex to<br />
just north of Cardiff – a small, quiet village with<br />
a working blacksmith, a shop that sold powder<br />
for foot rot and where the only time we had red<br />
paint thrown over our garden for being ‘English’<br />
was quickly surpassed by the time we looked out<br />
to see a herd of cows grazing on it.<br />
So it was a surprise to be woken one night by a<br />
terrific explosion. A very loud bang, the sound of<br />
broken glass, and a lot of frantic activity down in<br />
the kitchen. Petrified, I lay with my arms pinned<br />
to my sides, imagining the worst. Then I heard<br />
my parents giggling.<br />
Because it wasn’t an attack. No. It was the<br />
spontaneous detonation of Mum’s ginger beer.<br />
A bottle had gone off like Krakatoa, showering<br />
shards of glass and sticky liquid all over the<br />
walls, ceiling and floor. Thankfully there were<br />
no human casualties. But Mum had made a<br />
dozen bottles, which left eleven, unexploded, in<br />
the crate.<br />
Dad went immediately into bomb-disposal<br />
mode. He banished the rest of us behind the<br />
kitchen door cordon, hastily half-filled a large<br />
black plastic dustbin with water, gingerly<br />
(sorry…) lifted the crate of threatening bottles,<br />
immersed it, with caution, and clamped the lid<br />
shut.<br />
Over the next two days we counted the explosions,<br />
cheering every time one of the muffled<br />
depth charges went off and squealing with<br />
glee when, once or twice, the blast was sufficient<br />
to dent the plastic from the inside.<br />
I count myself extremely<br />
fortunate to have<br />
had my childhood<br />
peace<br />
shattered only by<br />
a few over-primed<br />
pop bottles. Ginger<br />
beer can make<br />
a terrible mess of<br />
your kitchen, but<br />
there are far worse<br />
things out there<br />
ready to go off,<br />
and they take<br />
a lot more<br />
clearing<br />
up.<br />
Illustration by Hasia Curtis<br />
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COLUMN<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Out Loud<br />
Plenty more Henty<br />
My goodness, my appreciation of Guinness (to<br />
misquote a famous slogan for the smooth Irish<br />
stout) all stems from an <strong>October</strong> honeymoon<br />
which started in Dublin.<br />
Up until that time, I had been a ginger beer and<br />
bitter shandy man but on an evening visit to<br />
one of the splendid pubs close by our city centre<br />
hotel, I decided upon a pint of draught Guinness.<br />
To this day, I maintain there’s something special<br />
about the velvet brew when it’s actually made and<br />
consumed in Ireland. The shamrock created by<br />
the barmaid in the creamy head also impressed<br />
me that night, and for the rest of our touring<br />
holiday I was hooked.<br />
In Killarney we were joined by a coachload of<br />
American women who were given small glasses<br />
of the stout – most of which they left. In another<br />
pub, on the Ring of Kerry, while I ordered my<br />
pint, Sylvia asked to use the facilities and was<br />
surprised to be taken through a rear dining room,<br />
up some stairs and directed to a commode. Only<br />
in Ireland!<br />
One man who also enjoyed the famous brew<br />
was the son of artist Mabel Lucie Attwell,<br />
whose biography I wrote a few years back. Peter<br />
Earnshaw ended his days here in <strong>Lewes</strong> and was<br />
known in several local pubs for his piano playing<br />
and Guinness consumption.<br />
One of his favourite gigs was to entertain Sussex<br />
police at Christmas where, I’m told, bottles of<br />
the stuff were lined up along the top of Peter’s<br />
piano. Transport was provided to get him home<br />
fortunately.<br />
I encountered Peter in the Kings Head when we<br />
first moved to <strong>Lewes</strong> 32 years ago. Then there<br />
was a piano in the bar and pub food and furnishings<br />
were very basic.<br />
How things have changed. I certainly welcome<br />
the new owners and their modern approach. One<br />
match day Saturday recently, I noted a young<br />
wedding party enjoying tapas, and another large<br />
family seated along two sizeable tables. They<br />
had chosen a wide selection of meals and I asked<br />
manager, Felix, how many chefs were preparing<br />
the food? One, he told me smiling, but he’s<br />
special. Bravo Joseph!<br />
Improvements noted at the Dripping Pan this<br />
season as well, and the new bar area seems to<br />
be working. I commented on this to club man,<br />
David Arnold, an ever present at the Pan, along<br />
with wife, Barbara.<br />
David has compiled an excellent book that, as he<br />
puts it, recounts the sad yet stirring story behind<br />
the Priory School <strong>Lewes</strong> memorial chapel. The<br />
Fifty Five – A Story Set in Stone is published by<br />
Crown Publishing Limited.<br />
On a personal note, I have just produced a follow<br />
up to my Cheshire – The Cheese Loving Bear<br />
story in verse. It’s on a colourful CD featuring<br />
the remarkable Captain Sensible, lead guitarist<br />
with The Damned. Do look out for it locally<br />
please. All proceeds go to Chestnut Tree House –<br />
providing specialist palliative care to children in<br />
Sussex and South East Hampshire. John Henty<br />
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COLUMN<br />
David Jarman<br />
My back pages<br />
To Depot to see The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg’s<br />
much garlanded new film. The story is closely<br />
based on a troubling time in her life. Julie<br />
is a young film school student. She meets<br />
Anthony, early thirties, suave in a very<br />
charm-by-numbers sort of way. He claims<br />
to work for the Foreign Office, as evidenced<br />
by announcements such as “I’m going to<br />
be away in Paris for a few days.” Even when<br />
he starts borrowing money from Julie, says<br />
cringemaking things like: “How would<br />
you like to go to Venice?” buys her ooh-la-la<br />
lingerie (from gay paree, you understand) which<br />
she is as unable to carry off as is Anthony his<br />
preposterously coloured bow ties, alarm bells fail<br />
to ring. For Anthony has a dark secret. “Quelle<br />
surprise”, as they probably don’t say in Paris. Oh<br />
well, you know how this is going to end. It’s a film<br />
you’ve seen a hundred times before.<br />
The film’s title is taken from a Fragonard<br />
painting in The Wallace Collection that<br />
depicts a girl carving the letter ‘S’ on a tree<br />
trunk. Anthony, who claims to have studied at<br />
The Courtauld, takes Julie to see the painting.<br />
She thinks the girl looks ‘sad’. He thinks she<br />
looks ‘determined’. Like so much in the film,<br />
none of this has a lot of meaning.<br />
The choice of The Wallace Collection<br />
reminded me of other, literary, references to<br />
the museum. In Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The<br />
Sea the narrator pops in, and discovers that<br />
pretty well all the female characters that we<br />
have been introduced to in the book enjoy<br />
astonishing resemblances to portraits in<br />
The Wallace Collection. Apart that is from<br />
Hartley, the narrator’s long lost love, recently<br />
rediscovered living just up the road with her<br />
husband.<br />
Anita Brookner, who taught at The Courtauld,<br />
mentions visits to The Wallace Collection in A<br />
Family Romance, one of her fine, invigoratingly<br />
depressing novels. The ‘great Bouchers’<br />
on the central staircase are singled out for<br />
praise. I liked a passage in Brookner’s Times<br />
obituary: ‘She loved her parents “painfully”,<br />
she often said, but thought they should never<br />
have had children. She told a friend that she<br />
remembered feeling relief at the news of the<br />
outbreak of the Second World War. It was the<br />
first event that distressed her parents that she<br />
knew was not her fault.’ And then there’s a<br />
passage in her first novel, A Start in Life: ‘“Sea<br />
air will do her a power of good. You won’t<br />
know her when she comes back.” Ruth wished<br />
to believe it. She would indeed have welcomed<br />
back parents whom she did not know.’<br />
But the most famous literary reference to<br />
The Wallace Collection is surely<br />
Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the<br />
Music of Time, a title borrowed<br />
from Poussin’s painting in the<br />
Long Gallery. And I like to<br />
think that Powell also took<br />
the name of the Italian<br />
Soho restaurateur,<br />
Foppa, who appears<br />
in volume three of his<br />
roman fleuve, from that of<br />
the artist whose charming<br />
painting of the young Cicero<br />
reading is also in The Wallace<br />
Collection.<br />
Illustration by Charlotte Gann<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: MUSICAL<br />
Grease<br />
Sandy’s underlying feist<br />
Few musicals evoke as much joy, in so many,<br />
as Grease. Jacqui Freeman, Director of LOS<br />
Musical Theatre’s upcoming production is one<br />
such fan. “I was maybe eight when it came out,<br />
and I went to see it eight times. I think it was the<br />
only time I went to the cinema and didn’t eat<br />
my orange-flavoured Matchmakers. I got to the<br />
end and I hadn’t touched them because I was so<br />
enraptured. I mean, John Travolta, come on! And<br />
Olivia! There was so much going on.”<br />
Jacqui was originally approached to direct a Bugsy<br />
Malone production, after an LOS committee<br />
member was impressed with the nativity plays<br />
she had directed at a local school. An LOS production<br />
of Les Mis then followed, and some of<br />
the young cast that Jacqui directed then are now<br />
performing in Grease. “They are very supportive<br />
of each other as a cast. They’re young, they’ve<br />
got lots of energy. They all love the songs.<br />
“My big thing with any stage production is that<br />
everybody understands who they are. I’ve been<br />
to see lots of polished productions – amateur and<br />
professional – where the singing, acting, lighting,<br />
everything is great, but you don’t connect with<br />
the characters on stage. So we talk about the<br />
motivation a lot. Why is your character saying<br />
that, what are they feeling?”<br />
This production is an amalgamation of the original<br />
musical and film versions of Grease. “Two<br />
of the five songs from the original are fantastic,<br />
so you’ll hear them: Mooning and Those Magic<br />
Changes.” Mooning as in bum mooning? “The<br />
character that sings it is known as the mooning<br />
king of Rydell High. But he sings the song to<br />
Jan, who he quite likes. So he’s singing about<br />
mooning but really it becomes a fledgling love<br />
song, because he’s mooning over her.”<br />
Jacqui explains that Sandy’s character is more<br />
rounded in the musical than in the film. “There’s<br />
one scene for example where she punches one<br />
of the other characters... she’s got this underlying<br />
feist I think”. Jacqui suggests that Sandy’s<br />
decision to change into “Tell me about it, Stud”<br />
mode can then be interpreted as part of her own<br />
coming of age story, rather than as a gambit to<br />
win Danny over.<br />
I briefly chat to Choreographer Jo Thomas too,<br />
who started at LOS when she was around 11<br />
years old, (performing as Annie no less!) Jo tells<br />
me that Jacqui was impressed with her choreography<br />
on previous LOS productions Oliver! and<br />
Chess, admiring how it “helped tell a story rather<br />
than just ticking a box as a dance”.<br />
The dance numbers are longer than in the film,<br />
so Jo is working hard to keep the momentum up<br />
with vigorous routines. This focus on dynamism<br />
chimes with Jacqui’s mantra for her actors: “If<br />
in doubt, move about.” After seeing LOS’ “energetic,<br />
upbeat and nostalgic show”, she thinks<br />
that the audience too will leave with a bit of a<br />
spring in their step.<br />
Joe Fuller<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, 1st to 5th Oct,<br />
losmusicaltheatre.org.uk, 01273 480127<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: FESTIVAL<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> <strong>October</strong>feast<br />
Featuring the ‘Greedy Italian’<br />
As <strong>Lewes</strong> <strong>October</strong>feast celebrates its tenth<br />
anniversary, its new organisers are hoping the<br />
month-long foodie festival will be the best yet.<br />
One of those organisers is Elisa Furci, the<br />
founder of Caccia & Tails. And it seems the<br />
event is in safe hands, as Elisa’s credentials include<br />
a stint running the London Food Festival.<br />
“When I heard the previous organisers wanted<br />
to pass it on, I immediately said I was interested,”<br />
she says, “then I roped in Chloe from Seven<br />
Sisters’ Spice, Jacob from The Feature Kitchen,<br />
and Robin the Community Chef. Ronald Dam,<br />
who is a local <strong>Lewes</strong> resident, is helping too, so<br />
we’re a team of five. As we’re all very busy, it’s<br />
been quite a challenge, but we’ve managed to<br />
pull everything together.”<br />
One highlight of the festival is an evening with<br />
restaurateur and BBC chef Gennaro Contaldo.<br />
He will be ‘in conversation’ with Saturday<br />
Kitchen’s Olly Smith at the All Saints Centre on<br />
Saturday 19 <strong>October</strong>, after which the ‘Greedy<br />
Italian’ will be signing copies of his new book<br />
Pasta Perfecto. Food and drinks will be provided<br />
by Caccia & Tails.<br />
“We’re going to turn the All Saints Centre<br />
into an Italian Piazza with all the right lighting<br />
and everything,” explains Elisa, who is herself<br />
half-Italian, with roots in Genoa. “We’ll be<br />
transporting everyone to Italy at Aperitivo time,<br />
when everyone sits outside with a Campari or<br />
beer and eats plates of focaccia.”<br />
For those in search of something more cosy, the<br />
Inglis Hall Secret Supper Club will be opening its<br />
doors on Fridays, Saturdays and one Sunday during<br />
the month. Places are restricted to ten people<br />
per evening, and hosts will include The Feature<br />
Kitchen, Seven Sisters’ Spice, One Supper Club,<br />
Merle’s Kitchen, Brighton restaurant Chilli Pepper,<br />
and Caccia & Tails.<br />
“Inglis Hall have a beautiful, fully functioning<br />
show kitchen and dining room at their premises<br />
at the Phoenix Works,” Elisa says. “It’s an amazing<br />
space, and there will be different people doing<br />
different things on different nights. Because<br />
numbers are limited, it will feel quite intimate,<br />
and people will be able to see the food being<br />
prepared and to chat to the chefs.”<br />
Some of the many other events on offer include<br />
free pop-up wine tastings at the Riverside every<br />
Saturday in <strong>October</strong> – see page 88 – and a Street<br />
Food Market on Saturday 12th in Harvey’s Yard.<br />
There’s also ‘And Everything Nice – Delightful<br />
Desserts and Nightcaps’, which takes place on the<br />
evenings of 11 and 12 <strong>October</strong>. “If you’ve been<br />
to an evening event without a dessert – or you<br />
want an extra one – you can go on to this,” Elisa<br />
enthuses. “It means you can combine it with an<br />
earlier event, or eat at home and then go out for<br />
dessert. In Italy, you often have dinner at home<br />
and then go out for ice cream. We should definitely<br />
adopt that custom over here!” Anita Hall<br />
lewesoctoberfeast.com<br />
Photo of Gennaro Contaldo by Simon Burt Photgraphy<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: MUSIC<br />
Two for the show<br />
A band called TOM<br />
Photo by Mia Waghorn<br />
Some musical groups are moulded from a<br />
Lynx-scented cauldron of hairstyles and tattoos.<br />
Others assemble themselves, often with the help<br />
of a well-placed classified ad. “Colin wanted a<br />
playmate”, Lance Maleski (pictured right) tells<br />
me. “My wife saw the advert and said ‘Why<br />
don’t you go along?’ And from that, it grew.”<br />
I’m in the pub with musical duo TOM, where<br />
founder member Colin Chapman is unable to<br />
explain the band’s name. “I wanted something<br />
that was short, familiar and possibly catchy.”<br />
Lance claims it’s an acronym for Two Old Men,<br />
which Colin quickly denies. “No! Somebody<br />
did say that – I think it was my grandchildren.<br />
There’s no sane explanation, I’m afraid.”<br />
With such an easy rapport between the pair, it’s<br />
difficult to believe they’d not met until a few<br />
years ago. In Colin’s words, “I went round to<br />
Lance’s place, and he said ‘I don’t really play<br />
very much’. I thought ‘Well, this isn’t going<br />
anywhere, is it?’ and then he said ‘I’ve got these<br />
songs, though.’ And he had thick folders of<br />
songs that he’d written over the years.” Despite<br />
not being comfortable with performing, Lance<br />
was a prolific songwriter. “I could always knock<br />
up a melody”, he says. “Colin has really encouraged<br />
me, to be honest. I’d never played live<br />
until I was over 60. Basically, I was going to take<br />
photographs after retirement. I bought a lovely<br />
Nikon camera. And I haven’t taken a single photograph<br />
because I’m always doing music.”<br />
It seems a well-balanced creative partnership<br />
with both men learning from each other. “I tend<br />
to move on a bit too early whereas Lance sticks<br />
at it”, Colin confesses. “He’ll write and write<br />
and write and get it perfect.” But Lance wasn’t<br />
always that way. “Because I was never good at<br />
performing, I’d write a song and it would have<br />
one verse because no-one else was going to hear<br />
it. Now I ask myself, is each line appropriate, is<br />
it good enough? That’s what I’ve learned from<br />
Colin.”<br />
The music of TOM has been compared to<br />
Bob Dylan and praised by Peggy Seeger but<br />
proves hard to categorise when I ask if there’s a<br />
convenient label. Lance speaks first. “I think it’s<br />
folk, Colin.” Instant disagreement. “I don’t think<br />
it’s folk.” Lance offers ‘folk-ish’ as a compromise,<br />
Colin suggests ‘singer/songwriter’ and<br />
then Lance proposes a chimera that’s part Ian<br />
Dury, part Chris de Burgh and part Paul Simon.<br />
What’s certain is that storytelling is an essential<br />
part of what they do. “We both write good<br />
melodies”, Lance explains. “Lyrically, Colin is<br />
incredibly strong and I try to aspire to that level.<br />
And I like to take on any challenge.”<br />
“Your speciality is also your comedy songs”, adds<br />
Colin. Lance’s face lights up. “Oh yes. ‘Sadie the<br />
Flatulent Horse’. True story.” Mark Bridge<br />
TOM play the Sunday Brunch Live session at<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Depot on 13th <strong>October</strong>, 11am-1pm.<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: TALK<br />
Jess Phillips<br />
Speaking truth to power<br />
I’m scheduled to speak with<br />
Jess Phillips MP about her<br />
new book Speaking Truth to<br />
Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on<br />
BS, but the phone hasn’t rung.<br />
I’m not surprised. It’s the<br />
morning after one of the most<br />
momentous days in British<br />
politics and Jess has given<br />
an excoriating speech in the<br />
House of Commons calling<br />
out the Prime Minister for<br />
playing a “bully boy game”<br />
over his plans for Brexit, declaring<br />
that there was “literally no distance” that<br />
she would trust him on anything and shaming<br />
the “cowardly” members left on the Conservative<br />
benches for sitting silently by as 21 of their<br />
colleagues were suspended for rebelling against<br />
the PM. Delivered with righteous rage, it was a<br />
masterclass in calling time on BS.<br />
Since taking office as MP for Birmingham Yardley<br />
in 2015, Jess Phillips has developed a reputation<br />
for calling it how she sees it. Her plainspeaking<br />
is a refreshing change in Parliament.<br />
(“Let’s just call it shutting down parliament. I<br />
literally hate the word prorogation” – another<br />
thing she’s bloody angry about.) But it’s won her<br />
plenty of enemies as well as supporters. In the<br />
book, she reveals that she sleeps with a panic<br />
button next to her bed, installed after her close<br />
friend and colleague Jo Cox was murdered by a<br />
far-right extremist. She is constantly threatened<br />
for speaking out and viciously trolled on social<br />
media with vile and hateful comments. I can’t<br />
help but wonder if the price of speaking up is<br />
too high?<br />
Of course, she admits, the<br />
backlash is distressing and the<br />
most difficult part of speaking<br />
truth to power. ‘Backlash<br />
usually means you have hit a<br />
nerve.’ she writes. ‘It can be<br />
terrifying and tiring and you<br />
should expect it and prepare for<br />
it, but it is also a force we can<br />
use for good if we learn what to<br />
amplify and what to ignore.’<br />
As well as how to channel the<br />
fear, the book is full of practical<br />
advice for getting your message<br />
across in the most effective way and with the<br />
maximum impact and – in case you’re thinking<br />
your voice is too small to make a difference<br />
– interviews with ordinary people who were<br />
compelled to speak out. People like Zelda Perkins<br />
who blew the whistle on Harvey Weinstein,<br />
Sarah Rowbotham who refused to be silenced<br />
having discovered the child exploitation scandal<br />
in Rochdale, and the families of Grenfell United<br />
campaigning for safer social housing.<br />
It’s an inspiring and emboldening read. A battle<br />
cry as well as a ‘how to’ manual. A reminder that,<br />
if you want to be heard, you’ve got to speak up.<br />
If you’re not ready to start a one-woman crusade<br />
just yet, Jess advises that we all start with not being<br />
a ‘bystander to bullshit’. As world politicians<br />
continue to behave in unspeakable ways, it falls<br />
to us to call them out. ‘If you don’t speak back to<br />
the bully, the bully always wins.’ Lizzie Lower<br />
Jess Phillips MP will be discussing her new book<br />
on Thursday 3rd <strong>October</strong> at the Brighthelm<br />
Centre, Brighton, 7.30pm. Visit city-books.co.uk/<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: THEATRE<br />
Psychic Connections<br />
The Ayckbourn legacy<br />
“When I was young<br />
and trying to find my<br />
own voice, it was quite<br />
a pressure,” says Philip<br />
Ayckbourn, the <strong>Lewes</strong>based<br />
playwright who<br />
is directing his own<br />
two-act ghost story,<br />
Psychic Connections, at the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre in<br />
<strong>October</strong>. “I had to step<br />
away from Dad’s shadow. And it’s quite a long<br />
shadow.”<br />
‘Dad’, of course, is Alan Ayckbourn, arguably the<br />
country’s most successful living playwright. “It<br />
helps open doors, and people give you a second<br />
look when otherwise they might not have, but I<br />
felt I had to escape that shadow. I spent twenty<br />
years running a touring theatre company in<br />
France, where I had relative anonymity. That’s<br />
where I cut my theatrical teeth.”<br />
Nowadays, long back in England, with a string of<br />
well-received plays behind him, Philip doesn’t so<br />
much avoid comparisons with his father, as invite<br />
them. He’s part of the scheduling committee at<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre, and suggested, this autumn,<br />
that there should be a double bill of ghost<br />
stories, to help celebrate the 80th birthday of<br />
both Ayckbourn Sr and the theatre itself. Psychic<br />
Connections follows his father’s Haunting Julia,<br />
which played in September.<br />
“Both plays were a reaction to The Woman in<br />
Black, which premiered in Scarborough Library<br />
Theatre in 1987,” he says. “That influenced Dad<br />
to write Haunting Julia, and, since seeing it, I<br />
always had it in mind to write a ghost story. I<br />
finally completed Psychic Connections three years<br />
ago. This is its premiere.”<br />
He gives me a brief<br />
description of the<br />
plot. A TV psychic<br />
takes two punters to a<br />
long-derelict Victorian<br />
school in Surrey,<br />
where she performs an<br />
on-screen seance. She<br />
discovers connections<br />
between them and their<br />
forebears, and starts<br />
unravelling the mystery of the death of a young<br />
girl, Alice, in the 1880s. Did she commit suicide,<br />
or was there foul play involved?<br />
“The action oscillates between two periods of<br />
time,” he continues, “and, as the title suggests,<br />
plays on the many connections between past and<br />
present. It’s a ghost story, but becomes a detective<br />
story, too, as the truth gradually unfolds. The<br />
key is the psychic medium, a quirky, mysterious<br />
woman, with a dark undercurrent.”<br />
Philip’s mother was a sometime attender of seances,<br />
and the playwright, who has read widely<br />
on the subject, believes there ‘must be something<br />
in it’. “I’ve heard too many stories to just dismiss<br />
the whole business,” he says. “I’m not expecting<br />
the same of my audience, but some suspension of<br />
disbelief comes into play.”<br />
I wonder if his father has read the script, and<br />
what he thinks of it. “We no longer read one another’s<br />
work,” he smiles. “We prefer to show one<br />
another the finished product, on the stage.” So is<br />
Alan coming to <strong>Lewes</strong> to see Psychic Connections?<br />
And does this make Philip nervous? “He is. I’m<br />
sure he’ll like it. Whatever the case, I’m proud<br />
of him, and what he’s done, and to be part of his<br />
legacy.” Alex Leith<br />
25th Oct-2nd Nov, lewestheatre.org<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: LITERATURE<br />
Susie Boyt<br />
Human landscape artist<br />
Susie Boyt is the author of six novels, but she’s<br />
best known for her palimpsestic 2008 memoirbiography<br />
My Life as Judy Garland, and you get<br />
the feeling, talking to her about the book, that<br />
its success has been something of a doubleedged<br />
sword.<br />
I wouldn’t have picked it up if I hadn’t been<br />
asked to interview her. While I quite like Judy<br />
Garland, I’m not a fan, in the way many people<br />
are, and I wouldn’t have felt qualified, somehow,<br />
to read it. But as I became absorbed in its pages,<br />
I realised that my preconceptions were flawed.<br />
Midway through my half-hour phone conversation<br />
with Boyt, she addresses the issue. “The<br />
difficult thing about it is that people who aren’t<br />
interested in Judy Garland really enjoy it, but<br />
no-one who isn’t interested in Judy Garland<br />
would consider reading it… that’s very me to put<br />
off half my readers without really meaning to.”<br />
It turns out the main theme of the book isn’t<br />
Garland, but Boyt’s emotional rawness, and it<br />
takes the reader a while to realise this. Or as<br />
she puts it: “it’s a book about loss, disguised as a<br />
book about me, disguised as a book about Judy<br />
Garland, with layers upon layers of things going<br />
on… I always write things that are very much on<br />
the slant, I don’t like looking at things head on.”<br />
I ask Boyt if the Garland theme was something<br />
of a disguise: had she ever considered writing<br />
a similar book about her relationship with her<br />
father, the late artist Lucian Freud? “I wouldn’t<br />
ever do that,” she says. “The only other person<br />
I could have done it about was Henry James…<br />
I’m constantly re-reading his work on a kind of<br />
loop, so that’s quite a powerful wallpaper in the<br />
background of my life.”<br />
Henry James and Judy Garland, I think: what<br />
an incongruous marriage of cultural heroes. So<br />
I ask her: if she hosted a dinner party, inviting<br />
just the two of them, how does she think they’d<br />
get on?<br />
There’s a long pause. Finally: “It wouldn’t be a<br />
very relaxed evening. Both of them, for a start,<br />
were very troubled about food. Henry James<br />
had utterly terrible digestion issues, and Judy<br />
Garland didn’t really like to eat, so me being<br />
a feeder, that’s going to be challenging, for a<br />
start.”<br />
Then: “I suppose Henry James’s whole literary<br />
force was to do with uncovering in its entirety<br />
the whole landscape of human consciousness.<br />
And I think she was interested in the whole<br />
landscape of human feeling. So those are two<br />
quite big things to share.”<br />
After we speak, I start reading her latest (2017)<br />
novel, Love & Fame, another story with<br />
bereavement as its driver. Again,<br />
I become absorbed in her<br />
words. And I realise that<br />
Henry James and Judy Garland<br />
are, after all, a formidable<br />
partnership of muses<br />
for a writer. Human<br />
consciousness, and<br />
human feeling: that’s<br />
quite a landscape to<br />
explore.<br />
Alex Leith<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Literary<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: FILM<br />
Maiden, The Leopard, Red Desert<br />
Film ’19<br />
Dexter Lee’s cinema round-up<br />
This month’s book-to-film offering (Oct 3rd)<br />
features a much-loved classic. To Kill a Mockingbird<br />
won a Pulitzer prize for author Harper Lee<br />
in 1950, and its screen adaptation won three<br />
awards in the 1962 Academy Awards, including<br />
best actor for Gregory Peck, and best adapted<br />
screenplay for Horton Foote.<br />
Luchino Visconti’s historical epic The Leopard<br />
(6th) didn’t win an Oscar, but did bag the Cannes<br />
Palme D’Or in 1963. Based on Giuseppe Tomasi<br />
di Lampedusa’s eponymous novel, it’s set during<br />
Garibaldi’s military campaign in Sicily in 1860.<br />
Burt Lancaster stars; the costumes are stunning.<br />
This is the first of an Italian 1960s mini-season<br />
at Depot. It’s accompanied by Michelangelo<br />
Antonioni’s existential 1964 masterpiece Red<br />
Desert, starring Monica Vitti and Richard Harris<br />
(16th, preceded by an Italian meal for those who<br />
choose), and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s metaphorical<br />
and thought-provoking masterpiece, Theorem<br />
(23rd), starring Terence Stamp as a young man<br />
who has a dramatic effect on the lives of a bourgeois<br />
Italian family he visits.<br />
From the sublimely ridiculous to the ridiculously<br />
sublime: <strong>October</strong>’s dementia-friendly<br />
offering is the Elvis Presley vehicle Blue Hawaii<br />
(8th), all surfboards, colourful shirts, and complicated<br />
love triangles.<br />
Depot is celebrating European Arthouse<br />
Cinema Day with a preview of the latest film<br />
by French ‘new New Wave’ director François<br />
Ozon. By the Grace of God (13th) examines the<br />
after effects of the Lyons Catholic Church<br />
sexual abuse scandal; the film gets a week’s run<br />
later in the month (from 25th).<br />
The oldest film of the month, and this month’s<br />
choice in the Michael Voigt Film Club, hasn’t<br />
lost any of its vibrancy. Howard Hawks’ 1940<br />
screwball comedy His Girl Friday (16th) stars<br />
Cary Grant as an unscrupulous journalist<br />
trying to stop his former colleague – and lover<br />
– Rosalind Russell from getting married, by<br />
trying to involve her in an unfolding scoop.<br />
And the month should end with a few more: exact<br />
details weren’t released as we went to press,<br />
but expect at least one horror movie at Depot<br />
on Halloween (31st, obvs).<br />
There are two films at the <strong>Lewes</strong> Film Club,<br />
in the All Saints, and both feature powerful<br />
female leads. Benedikt Erlingsson’s 2018<br />
offering Woman at War (11th) sees Halldóra<br />
Geirharðsdóttir portray a mild-mannered<br />
Reykjavik choir instructor leading a double life:<br />
by night she is a hardened eco-terrorist. Can<br />
she pull off one-last manoeuvre before fulfilling<br />
her life dream and adopting a child? Alex<br />
Holmes’ Maiden, meanwhile (22nd) is a moving<br />
and illuminating documentary examining how<br />
Tracy Edwards turned from ship’s cook to yacht<br />
skipper in order to lead the first-ever all-female<br />
crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race<br />
in 1989, confronting chauvinistic ridicule from<br />
the yachting fraternity, and biblical weather<br />
conditions, along the way.<br />
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ART: BOOK<br />
Voyaging Out<br />
So many lives…<br />
Sylvia Pankhurst,<br />
daughter of Emmeline,<br />
was a political activist<br />
and campaigner for<br />
women’s rights. She was<br />
also an artist. ‘Her art’,<br />
writes Carolyn Trant<br />
in her new Thames &<br />
Hudson book, Voyaging<br />
Out, ‘became her way of<br />
bearing witness, showing the monotony of the<br />
repetitive work done by women, from packing<br />
fish to stooking corn; enduring the heat of the<br />
mills or cold in the fields.’<br />
The book’s packed with fascinating life stories<br />
of British women artists over the last 150 years:<br />
how they did and didn’t manage to work, how<br />
they organised their lives, who they lived with,<br />
who they worked with; and how that work was<br />
then received – or not – by the establishment of<br />
the day.<br />
The effect of this “narrative non-fiction” is<br />
compelling, and cumulative: all these lives<br />
lived, and lost – and the extraordinary art that<br />
emerged. The pictures dotted throughout are<br />
an education. And Carolyn is herself, of course,<br />
an artist, not historian: the emphasis stays firmly<br />
with the work.<br />
The idea for the book came, Carolyn tells me<br />
when I visit her in <strong>Lewes</strong>, after she wrote and<br />
published her 2004 life of Peggy Angus. Peggy,<br />
born to a mining family, one of 13 children, was<br />
always an outsider when it came to the art establishment,<br />
and deliberately so. “She was being<br />
an outsider definitively, so she could say what<br />
she thought”, says Carolyn. “This could seem<br />
intimidating, but she was totally fearless.”<br />
Carolyn knew Peggy well – from the age of<br />
11, when Peggy was her art<br />
teacher at her school in North<br />
London. They remained<br />
close until Peggy’s death in<br />
2004. “And there were so<br />
many other women artists<br />
I encountered through her.<br />
I wanted to write about her<br />
wider group of friends. That<br />
was the seed. This book grew<br />
from there. At one stage it was three times the<br />
size! And of course it was a joy writing it because<br />
I know a lot of the next generation: they’ve been<br />
so generous.”<br />
She was also politically motivated. “I’d been<br />
part of a group called Women In Print. Of<br />
course, I’ve cared about how women have been<br />
overlooked for simply being women. And the<br />
relevance today is important. We’re at a period<br />
where we’re rethinking what art is. Grayson<br />
Perry – who I think is brilliant – is Peggy Angus<br />
today. It’s to do with looking at art as something<br />
you do as part of life – nothing to do with galleries<br />
etc.”<br />
Throughout this account, of course, women<br />
juggle their art with other roles and constraints:<br />
financial, class, marriage, security, children, the<br />
kitchen sink. Their courage and determination<br />
shine through these potted histories. And<br />
Carolyn also thinks that, politically and socially,<br />
we have things to (re)learn. “Now is so like the<br />
1930s – with the rise of fascism. These women<br />
were so inspiring, had such integrity.<br />
“Perhaps they didn’t have so much to lose”, she<br />
says. “But they lived by their beliefs, and they<br />
stood up for things. Today, we could do with<br />
remembering this.”<br />
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ON THIS MONTH: ART<br />
David Nash<br />
Wizard of wood<br />
You get the feeling, when you talk to David<br />
Nash, the internationally respected Anglo-Welsh<br />
sculptor and land artist, that he really loves his<br />
primary material, wood.<br />
In <strong>October</strong> the Towner in Eastbourne is showing<br />
a retrospective of his career, 200 Seasons at<br />
Capel Rhiw, an indoor forest of his raw abstract<br />
sculptures, in all their charred, chipped and<br />
chain-sawed glory. The exhibition celebrates<br />
the artist’s long relationship with Wales, where<br />
he has been working in his studio – a converted<br />
chapel in Blaenau Ffestiniog – for 50 years. He<br />
also has strong connections with East Sussex,<br />
where he sources much of his wood.<br />
“Every species speaks a different dialect of the<br />
language of wood,” he tells me, over a glass of elderflower<br />
cordial, on a hot July afternoon. “Each<br />
has its different qualities. Oak has longevity,<br />
birch has a short life. Holly is so dense and white<br />
they use it to make piano keys. Elm doesn’t split,<br />
but it can smell funny. In fact, it can smell like<br />
dog shit. I had to remove a sculpture from an<br />
exhibition once, because everyone was looking at<br />
the soles of their shoes.”<br />
Another sculpture that had to be taken away, for<br />
a different reason, was Big Bud, a four-metrehigh,<br />
6-ton oaken carving that was briefly on<br />
show, in Grange Gardens, as part of his 2007<br />
With the Grain exhibition, in <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall.<br />
“It was vandalised,” he says, “and we had to put<br />
a fence round it, and a guard, with a dog. It<br />
became too much bother, so we removed it. My<br />
wife didn’t like it anyway.”<br />
Nash has utmost respect for his materials. He<br />
would never kill a healthy tree, to make a sculpture.<br />
“I only work from dying, or dead trees,<br />
or ones that have fallen, or become dangerous.<br />
After a storm, people ring me up about a fallen<br />
tree; if they’re any good I go and quarry them.”<br />
Wooden Boulder was a case in point. In 1977 he<br />
was alerted to the fact that an oak had fallen<br />
on a hillside of the Ffestiniog Valley, in North<br />
Wales. He hewed out a huge, asymmetrical,<br />
half-ton lump, and attempted to work it down<br />
a stream, so he could take it in his truck to his<br />
studio/home at Capel Rhiw. It got lodged in a<br />
waterfall, and he chose to leave it there, visiting<br />
it regularly to see how it changed, through the<br />
seasons. Over the next 25 years, rainstorms<br />
moved it down the stream to the estuary below<br />
and it disappeared, presumably washed out into<br />
the Irish sea.<br />
“I never thought I’d see it again,” he smiles.<br />
“Then, ten years later, in 2013, it mysteriously<br />
reappeared, in the same estuary. It was like a<br />
lap of honour.” Two years later, it disappeared<br />
anew. “I doubt I shall ever see it again,” he says,<br />
“but it’s still somewhere, it’s just out of sight. No<br />
energy dissipates.” Alex Leith<br />
28 Sep-2nd Feb 2020, free entry<br />
townereastbourne.org.uk<br />
Branch Frame, David Nash, 1996<br />
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Sundays until 27th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the<br />
Sussex home and garden of the Surrealists Lee<br />
Miller & Roland Penrose. 50 minute guided house<br />
tour tickets available online or in the gallery<br />
on arrival.<br />
Muddles Green, Chiddingly<br />
East Sussex, BN8 6HW<br />
www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk<br />
@ FarleysHG<br />
exhibition <strong>2019</strong><br />
1st november - 8th december<br />
© Roger Dean, 1974<br />
concerts & events throughout the exhibition<br />
including steve hackett & focus<br />
trading boundaries-01825 790200-www.tradingboundaries.com
ART<br />
ART & ABOUT<br />
In town this month<br />
Jane Bridger<br />
Patrick Altes<br />
From the 14th, Chalk<br />
Gallery start their<br />
Autumn season with<br />
Earthly Blings, an<br />
exhibition of works<br />
by ceramicist Jane<br />
Bridger. This collection<br />
– inspired by<br />
ancient Persia, the Far East and the world<br />
around us – encapsulates her 30 years of<br />
experimentation and experience with decorative<br />
techniques and glazes. You’re invited<br />
to ‘Meet the Artist’ on Saturday 19th <strong>October</strong><br />
2pm to 4pm.<br />
From the 28th of<br />
September until<br />
the 19th of <strong>October</strong>,<br />
Depot host<br />
In the Moment,<br />
presented by<br />
Drawing Life – a<br />
charity that offers<br />
artist-led life<br />
drawing classes<br />
to people living<br />
with dementia. Visual artists Oska Lappin,<br />
Matthew Radford and Patrick Altes<br />
present works inspired by their time leading<br />
the group, accompanied by a soundtrack<br />
created by DJ Danny Rampling and Aidan<br />
Lavelle. [drawinglife.org]<br />
Captivating Colour<br />
– an exhibition<br />
by the East<br />
Sussex Guild of<br />
Weavers, Spinners<br />
and Dyers<br />
– will be at the<br />
Town Hall on the 25th and 26th. Showcasing<br />
items made by the members, as well as<br />
second-hand equipment for sale, trade stalls,<br />
demonstrations of weaving and spinning<br />
techniques. Children are particularly welcome<br />
to join in. (Adults £4, accompanying<br />
children and students free.)<br />
Our congratulations<br />
to Mohamed Hamid<br />
whose Star Pottery<br />
recently celebrated<br />
its 30th anniversary<br />
in the Star Brewery.<br />
Mohamed’s distinctive<br />
brush-decorated<br />
stoneware pottery has<br />
become synonymous with the town, with<br />
his number plaques adorning so many local<br />
doorways, and his bespoke plates and mugs<br />
commemorating countless births, marriages<br />
and retirements. He also teaches around<br />
50 students each week, of all ages, tutoring<br />
hundreds of budding makers over the course<br />
of his career. Long may he continue.<br />
Out of town<br />
This month Sussex Art Fairs bring together<br />
more than 125 artists, galleries and collectives at<br />
Brighton Racecourse from the 11th-13th. Visitors<br />
will be able to chat to the artists and gallery<br />
owners, whilst browsing thousands of affordable<br />
artworks. (Preview 6-9pm Friday 11th, £12 entry. General admission 10am-6pm Sat 12th & Sun<br />
13th, £6 entry. Free for children under 12. See pg 46 for reader offer. sussexartfairs.co.uk)<br />
Single Use Planet I Lexi Laine<br />
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FiFteen years oF BriGHton art Fair, tHis year cominG to<br />
LeWes toWn HaLL FisHer street LeWes Bn7 2Qs<br />
earLy Bird tickets avaiLaBLe onLine £5 or on tHe door £7.50<br />
www.brightonartfair.co.uk
ART<br />
Studio+<br />
Gallery<br />
AUTUMN EXHIBITION<br />
THE UNEXPECTED<br />
OPENING ON OCTOBER 3rd<br />
Out of town (cont)<br />
NEW PAINTINGS BY<br />
PETER MESSER<br />
STUDIO+GALLERY<br />
21 Church Street<br />
Seaford, BN25 1HD<br />
07511 817366<br />
www.studioplusgallery.com<br />
OCTOBER 3RD TO NOVEMBER 3RD <strong>2019</strong><br />
every Thursday to Sunday 11.00 to 17.00<br />
Post-Impressionist Living:<br />
The Omega Workshops<br />
is at the galleries<br />
at Charleston.<br />
Established by the<br />
painter and art critic<br />
Roger Fry in 1913,<br />
with Vanessa Bell and<br />
Duncan Grant as codirectors,<br />
the Omega Workshops<br />
were inspired by the new, vital spirit of<br />
Post-Impressionism, producing bold, playful<br />
and inventive items for the home.<br />
Tickets include entry to Coming Home: Virginia<br />
Woolf by Vanessa Bell, part of a major National<br />
Portrait Gallery project that sees portraits<br />
of iconic individuals from the national collection<br />
travelling to the towns and cities most<br />
closely associated with their subjects. Vanessa<br />
Bell’s portrait of her sister, Virginia Woolf, was<br />
painted at nearby Asheham, Virginia’s Sussex<br />
home in 1912, and is displayed at Charleston<br />
for the first time.<br />
Plate with overglaze painted sailing boat design, Duncan Grant, 1913-14.<br />
© The Estate of Duncan Grant. All rights reserved. DACS <strong>2019</strong> / The<br />
Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London.<br />
Peter Messer<br />
From 3rd <strong>October</strong>,<br />
Studio+ Gallery<br />
in Seaford present<br />
The Unexpected – an<br />
exhibition of new<br />
paintings by Peter<br />
Messer, many on<br />
display for the first<br />
time. His intense<br />
and watchful tempera<br />
paintings explore unseen elements of a<br />
world ignored by many of us until he, deftly<br />
and persuasively, reminds us of it. (21 Church<br />
St, Seaford. Continues until 3rd Nov.) Just<br />
next door, the Crypt Gallery has a full month<br />
of events with a group exhibition, a guitar<br />
recital and an interactive sound and vision<br />
installation inspired by the Sussex Downs.<br />
Visit thecryptgallery.com for details.<br />
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DEPOT CINEMA LEWES<br />
In the MoMent<br />
AN EXHIBITION<br />
INSPIRED BY PEOPLE LIVING<br />
WITH DEMENTIA<br />
28th SEPTEMBER-19th OCTOBER<br />
IN THE MOMENT is a show<br />
presented by Drawing Life and<br />
curated by visual artists Oska Lappin,<br />
Matthew Radford, Patrick Altes and<br />
DJ Danny Rampling.<br />
For more information visit<br />
www.lewesdepot.org<br />
Sponsored by Arts Council England,<br />
Sussex Community Foundation, Hastings Borough Council<br />
O C T O B E R :<br />
Tuesday 1st - Sunday 6th<br />
Take Five with Roger Scott, David Mills,<br />
Peter Stafford, John Deller and Liz Scott<br />
Saturday <strong>October</strong> 12th 7.30- 9 pm<br />
Guitar duo Ashworth and Rattenbury<br />
Saturday 19th - 26th<br />
Solace an interactive sound and vision<br />
installation with Karen Tilley and Kevin Grist<br />
www.sparkedecho.org/solace<br />
Crypt Gallery, 23 Church Street, Seaford, BN25 1HD | www.thecryptgallery.com
ART<br />
Out of town (cont)<br />
Floating Worlds – an exhibition of Japanese woodcuts from the Edo period<br />
(1615-1868) – continues at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. The style<br />
of prints on display is known as Ukiyo-e, which means ‘pictures of the<br />
floating world’, capturing the sights of 19th century Edo (modern day Tokyo).<br />
The exhibition offers a calm space to relax and a series of events including<br />
yoga, Tai Chi, meditation and haiku poetry have been programmed<br />
to promote mindfulness and wellbeing. Across the gardens at the Royal<br />
Pavilion, upwards of 120 splendid objects are now on display in their original settings. On<br />
loan from the Royal Collection Trust, visitors will be able to see porcelain pagodas and extraordinary<br />
clocks originally acquired by the Prince Regent for his exotic Brighton palace and<br />
moved to London by Queen Victoria in 1847.<br />
Image courtesy of Royal Collection Trust © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II <strong>2019</strong><br />
Oska Bright, the world’s biggest learning disability film<br />
festival, returns to The Old Market in Hove from the<br />
23rd-26th. Challenging perceptions of who can create and<br />
star in films, this year’s festival offers dozens of animations,<br />
documentaries, dramas, film surgeries and a new ‘After<br />
Dark’ slot where ‘the most unexplained, unexpected and<br />
experimental films’ will be screened. A glittering awards<br />
night takes place on Friday 25th, with the winners screened on the 26th. (oskabright.org)<br />
Towner Art Gallery<br />
David Nash 200 Seasons<br />
29 September <strong>2019</strong> – 2 February 2020<br />
Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, BN21 4JJ<br />
www.townereastbourne.org.uk @townergallery<br />
#200Seasons #EastbourneAlive<br />
David Nash, Nature to Nature, 1985. © Jonty Wilde, courtesy David Nash. Tate Collection
With your<br />
heart and<br />
soles, conquer<br />
the coals!<br />
30TH OCTOBER <strong>2019</strong> AT 6PM<br />
MID SUSSEX GOLF CLUB, BN6 8XJ<br />
Enjoy an interactive seminar before facing your fears and<br />
taking a daring dash across burning coals. Bring friends<br />
and family for an evening filled with fun, fire and inspiration.<br />
Entry is just £25 per person with a promise<br />
to raise £100+ or £125 with no fundraising<br />
commitment.<br />
Find out more and register at<br />
www.stpjhospice.org or call 01444 470208.<br />
Registered charity number 1056114.
Oct listings<br />
THROUGHOUT OCTOBER<br />
<strong>October</strong>Feast. Events throughout the town,<br />
see page 33 & lewesoctoberfeast.com.<br />
TUESDAY 1<br />
NT Live: One Man, Two Guvnors. Encore<br />
screening of the play featuring James Corden,<br />
to celebrate the 10th birthday of National<br />
Theatre Live. Depot, 1pm, £20.<br />
TUESDAY 1 – SATURDAY 5<br />
Grease. LOS Musical Theatre’s production<br />
of the popular hit musical. <strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall,<br />
7.30pm (Saturday 2pm & 7pm), £10-£17, see<br />
page 31.<br />
THURSDAY 3<br />
Comedy at the Con. With<br />
Markus Birdman, Omid<br />
Singh, Alex Kealy and special<br />
guest MC Sally-Anne Hayward.<br />
Con Club, 7.30pm,<br />
£8-£12.<br />
Movement 4 Movement in Calais and Beyond.<br />
A group of students from London’s Trinity<br />
Laban Contemporary Dance present their<br />
recent experience of taking music and dance to<br />
refugee camps in Calais and neighbouring sites.<br />
Tea, coffee and soft drinks available afterwards,<br />
followed by the AGM of LOSRAS (<strong>Lewes</strong> Organisation<br />
in Support of Refugees and Asylum<br />
Seekers). Christ Church Main Hall, Prince<br />
Edward’s Road, 7.30pm, free.<br />
FRIDAY 4<br />
Henges & Hand Grenades: New Discoveries<br />
from Salisbury Plain. <strong>Lewes</strong> Archaeological<br />
Group talk with Martin Brown. <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Town Hall Lecture Room (Fisher Street entrance),<br />
7.30pm, £4/£3 (free for under 25s).<br />
SATURDAY 5<br />
NT Live Encore: Fleabag. Encore screening<br />
of the award-winning, one-woman show<br />
that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag.<br />
Depot, 2.30pm, £20.<br />
A Girdle Round the Earth – Music of Longing<br />
and Belonging. East Sussex Freedom from<br />
Torture supporters group present their second<br />
recital with award-winning musicians. Refreshments<br />
and a raffle to follow. St Anne’s Church,<br />
6pm, £15.<br />
Beyond the Water’s Edge – Transformative<br />
Tales from the Sea. Local<br />
storyteller presents sea tales of sea<br />
goddesses, shape shifters, loss, belonging,<br />
death, nature, gender, love and<br />
suffering. Family-friendly but parental guidance<br />
advised. Westgate Chapel, 7pm, £10/£8.<br />
Chiddingly Festival Disco. Party to end the<br />
festival with local DJs spinning disco, funk and<br />
house all night long. Chiddingly Village Hall,<br />
7pm till late, £5.<br />
SUNDAY 6<br />
TUESDAY 8<br />
Fun Dog Show. In honour<br />
of World Animal Day, raising<br />
funds for Raystede Centre<br />
for Animal Welfare. Seaford<br />
beach, see raystede.org<br />
Susie Boyt at <strong>Lewes</strong> Literary Society. All<br />
Saints, 8pm, £10 (£5 for under 25s), see p41.<br />
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Riverside & <strong>October</strong>feast<br />
A series of Wine Tastings of Sussex Wines in our Pop up Space upstairs at Riverside<br />
Breaky Bottom<br />
Saturday 5 th <strong>October</strong><br />
11am to 4pm<br />
Bluebell Vineyard Estates<br />
Saturday 12 th <strong>October</strong><br />
11am to 4pm<br />
Vineyards of the<br />
Sussex Weald<br />
Saturday 19 th <strong>October</strong><br />
11am to 4pm<br />
Plumpton Estate Wines<br />
Saturday 26 th <strong>October</strong><br />
11am to 4pm<br />
Each Saturday in <strong>October</strong> Riverside will be hosting a<br />
series of wine tasting pop ups giving you an opportunity<br />
to taste, compare and buy local Sussex wine from a<br />
cluster of passionate growers and winemakers. Riverside<br />
brings you Breaky Bottom, Bluebell Vineyard, Plumpton<br />
Estate Wines and the Vineyards of the Sussex Weald<br />
including Beacon Down, Fox & Fox, Hidden Spring, Off<br />
The Line and Tickerage who will all be showcasing their<br />
range of wines in our unique pop up venue.<br />
Find us upstairs at Riverside <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Cliffe High Street, <strong>Lewes</strong>, BN7 2RE<br />
FESTIVALS<br />
DIGITAL<br />
FILM<br />
MUSIC<br />
PERFORMANCE<br />
University of Sussex, Gardner Centre Road, Brighton BN1 9RA<br />
01273 678 822<br />
attenboroughcentre.com
Oct listings (cont.)<br />
WEDNESDAY 9<br />
Flexible Minds Flexible Bodies: how the<br />
Feldenkrais Method supports mental health.<br />
An event in partnership with East Sussex<br />
Libraries to mark World Mental Health Day.<br />
Meet local practitioners, hear a talk about<br />
Moshe Feldenkrais and his work (6pm), and<br />
a presentation of a new collection of books<br />
about him and the Method. <strong>Lewes</strong> Library,<br />
Friars Walk, 5.30pm-7pm, free.<br />
The Changing Landscape of Sussex Place<br />
Names. In this, the third in a series of lectures<br />
in memory of Pam Combes, Professor Richard<br />
Coates will explore the place names of Sussex<br />
with reference to Mawer and Stenton’s seminal<br />
work, 90 years after its initial publication.<br />
He will share his special interest in the area<br />
where linguistics, history and geography meet,<br />
as well as his expertise on the traditional dialects<br />
of Sussex. The Keep, 6.30pm, £10 (free to<br />
FoTKA members).<br />
THURSDAY 10<br />
Needlewriters. Featuring readings from Robert<br />
Hamberger, Martin Nathan, Anna Reckin<br />
and Clare Best. John Harvey Tavern, 7pm for<br />
7.45pm, £5/£3.<br />
John Every’s Phoenix Ironworks, <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
Talk by John Blackwell, Chairman of Sussex<br />
Industrial Archaeology Society. Priory School<br />
Hall, 7.30pm, £2 for Members of the <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
National Trust Centre/£5 for non-members.<br />
The Case for a Real Living Wage.<br />
Headstrong Club talk with Sonya Baksi who<br />
worked over a 40 period in the NHS and was a<br />
consultant community paediatrician. Elephant<br />
& Castle, 8pm, £3.<br />
FRIDAY 11 – SUNDAY 13<br />
Giants of<br />
Steam Autumn<br />
Gala.<br />
Special weekend<br />
with<br />
guest trains<br />
‘Duchess of<br />
Sutherland’<br />
and ‘Britannia’, and a chance to ride the footplate.<br />
See bluebell-railway.com.<br />
SATURDAY 12<br />
Self-Help Menopause. A friendly and supportive<br />
one-day session specifically for the<br />
general public. It will be a small group with<br />
the aim of giving everyone the chance to find<br />
out what they need to know about menopause,<br />
and the opportunity to create their own<br />
positive self-help strategies. St Mary’s Church<br />
Hall, see chantryhealth.com.<br />
SATURDAY 12 & SUNDAY 13<br />
FRIDAY 11<br />
Film: Woman at War (12A). Icelandic dramedy<br />
about Halla, who is leading a secret double<br />
life as an environmental activist. All Saints,<br />
8pm, £5/£2.50.<br />
Wakehurst’s Bountiful Botanics. A weekend<br />
celebrating nature’s bounty, with a programme<br />
of tours, talks and family activities, plus handson<br />
workshops, tree-climbing and demonstrations.<br />
See kew.org/Wakehurst.<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle &<br />
Anne of Cleves House<br />
Anne of Cleves House<br />
Beginners Weaving Workshop<br />
Fri 18 th Oct, booking required<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle<br />
Morning Explorer - Herbs &<br />
Spices<br />
Mon 28 th Oct,10.00-11.00am<br />
For families with additional needs to<br />
explore the site & collections. Hands<br />
on activities, stories & guiding.<br />
For more details call: 01273 405734<br />
Anne of Cleves House<br />
Autumn Colours<br />
Tues 29 th Oct, 1.00-4.00pm<br />
Explore Tudor plants, dyes & paints.<br />
All ages. Included in admission.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle*<br />
Heros & Dragons<br />
Thurs 31 st Oct,10.30 -12pm<br />
Listen, discover & make.<br />
Ages 4-8. Tickets £5.<br />
*Booking required for<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Castle activities<br />
www.sussexpast.co.uk<br />
SPITTING IMAGE MEETS NOT THE NINE O’CLOCK NEWS VIA HIGNFY<br />
THE TREASON SHOW<br />
halloween<br />
brexit Special<br />
The con clUb 139 high St lewes BN7 1XS<br />
Thursday 31st <strong>October</strong> - 8pm<br />
Tickets £15 & £12.50 members (or£16 on door)<br />
Book online www.treasonshow.co.uk
Oct listings (cont.)<br />
Max Cristafi Photography<br />
SUNDAY 13<br />
Back Room Romp. Afternoon swing dance<br />
with DJs playing swing jazz, rhythm ‘n’ blues,<br />
doo wop and blues from the 30s to the early<br />
60s. The Lamb, 4pm-7pm, free.<br />
MONDAY 14<br />
The Godlees of Bear Yard: An Intimate<br />
Family Portrait. <strong>Lewes</strong> History Group lecture<br />
by Joanna Hodgkin giving a unique, behindthe-scenes<br />
account of the unusual and colourful<br />
Godlees family of Bear Yard, Cliffe based on a<br />
wealth of previously unseen archival documents.<br />
King’s Church, 7pm, £1/£3.<br />
TUESDAY 15<br />
Labyrinth. Physical theatre<br />
meets live literature<br />
in this fierce feminist<br />
monologue from Portugal,<br />
performed by Marta<br />
Carvalho. All Saints,<br />
7.45pm, £10/£12.<br />
THURSDAY 17 & SUNDAY 20<br />
NT Live: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.<br />
Shakespeare’s romantic comedy screened live<br />
from the Bridge Theatre in London. Starring<br />
Gwendoline Christie, Oliver Chris, David<br />
Moorst and Hammed Animashaun. Depot,<br />
7pm (17th) & 1pm (20th), £20.<br />
SATURDAY 19<br />
Repair Café. Take<br />
along damaged<br />
clothes, broken electrical<br />
appliances, bicycles,<br />
china, jewellery<br />
and more. Tea, coffee<br />
and cake available.<br />
Landport Community<br />
Hub, 2pm-5pm, no<br />
charge is made but donations are welcome.<br />
TUESDAY 22<br />
Film: Maiden (12A). The story of how Tracy<br />
Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats,<br />
became the skipper of the first ever all-female<br />
crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World<br />
Race in 1989. All Saints, 8pm, £5/£2.50.<br />
FRIDAY 25<br />
Black Cat Firewalk. With live band, bar and<br />
hot food, fundraising for Cats Protection. National<br />
Cat Adoption Centre, Chelwood Gate,<br />
see cats.org.uk/blackcatfirewalk.<br />
FRI 25 – SAT 2 NOVEMBER<br />
Psychic Connections. Written and directed<br />
by Philip Ayckbourn. <strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre, see<br />
lewestheatre.org for times and prices & p39.<br />
SUNDAY 27<br />
Pells last swim of the season. See pellspool.<br />
org.uk for more info.<br />
WEDNESDAY 30<br />
Commonwealth War Graves. Talk about the<br />
work of the War Graves Commission with a<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> connection, as well as looking at, and<br />
learning about, the Russian memorial erected<br />
in 1877 in the St John sub Castro graveyard.<br />
For age 50+. The Trinity Centre, St John Sub<br />
Castro, 2.30-4.30pm, free.<br />
Fire Walk. Fundraising<br />
for St Peter &<br />
St James Hospice.<br />
Seminar before a dash<br />
across the coals, followed<br />
by an evening of fun, fire and inspiration.<br />
Mid Sussex Golf Club, see stpjhospice.org.<br />
Works in Progress. Rehearsed readings of<br />
new and emerging works by local playwrights,<br />
including Louise Monaghan, Josie Melia and<br />
Mark C. Hewitt. All Saints, 7.45pm, £8/£10.<br />
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Autumn Concert<br />
Wagner<br />
Overture<br />
The Flying Dutchman<br />
Richard Strauss<br />
Horn Concerto No. 1<br />
Soloist Brendan Connellan<br />
Tchaikovsky<br />
Symphony No. 1<br />
‘Winter Daydreams’<br />
Friday 11th <strong>October</strong> 7.30pm<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Info tickets and prices visit<br />
www.lewesconcertorchestra.org<br />
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GIG GUIDE // OCTOBER<br />
GIG OF THE MONTH:<br />
ANDY IRVINE<br />
PICK<br />
OF THE<br />
MONTH<br />
‘Often copied, never equalled’, Andy Irvine is a one-man spectacular of<br />
singing, song writing and musicianship. Over his 50-year career Andy<br />
has been at the helm of legendary bands like Sweeney’s Men in the<br />
mid-60s, Planxty in the 70s, and then Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD<br />
and recently Usher’s Island. His repertoire consists of Irish traditional<br />
songs, dexterous Balkan dance tunes and a compelling canon of his<br />
own self-penned songs, all as he plays the bouzouki, mandolin, guitar,<br />
harmonica and hurdy gurdy. Saturday 26, Elephant & Castle, 8pm, £12<br />
Photo by Béla Kása<br />
FRIDAY 4<br />
Dead Reds and The Hidden. Blues. Lansdown,<br />
8pm, free<br />
Dende. Afro Latin. Con Club, 8pm, £5<br />
Supernatural Things. Soul. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 5<br />
King Mob DJ. 1980 and beyond. Lamb, from<br />
7.30pm, free<br />
Open night: Songs of the sea. Folk, English<br />
trad, Elephant & Castle, 8pm, £3<br />
The Wild Pansies. Bluegrass, klezmer & English<br />
tunes. Lansdown, 8pm, free<br />
FRIDAY 11<br />
Planningtorock. Electronic. Part of Brighton<br />
Digital Festival. Attenborough Centre, 8pm, £12<br />
Total Stone Roses. Con Club, 8pm, £15<br />
Market Street Band. Warm and soulful, featuring<br />
the voice of Kate Turvey. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 12<br />
Rory McLeod. One-man soul band, poet and<br />
storyteller. Con Club, 7.30pm, £14<br />
Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer. Folk. Elephant &<br />
Castle, 8pm, £8<br />
100 Monkeys. Covers. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
SUNDAY 6<br />
A Complete History of Soul Music. Performed<br />
by Steve ‘Snips’ Parsons, The Chain<br />
Gang & The Paddock Singers under the direction<br />
of Ruth Kerr. Con Club, 2pm, £6/£7<br />
MONDAY 7<br />
Kjell Berglund, Javier Forrero, Terry Seabrook,<br />
Nigel Thomas. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
THURSDAY 10<br />
Funke & the Two Tone Baby. One-man sonic<br />
explosion. Con Club, 7.30pm, £8<br />
MONDAY 14<br />
Graeme Flowers, Nigel Thomas, Darren<br />
Beckett, Terry Seabrook. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
TUESDAY 15<br />
Tim Hecker presents Anoyo / Sugai Ken.<br />
Part of Brighton Digital Festival. Attenborough<br />
Centre, 8pm, £14<br />
WEDNESDAY 16<br />
Amanda Palmer. Indie/alternative/folk explosion.<br />
De La Warr, 6.45pm, £23.50<br />
Rozi Plain. Con Club, 7.30pm, £10<br />
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GIG GUIDE // OCTOBER<br />
THURSDAY 17<br />
Holly Herndon presents PROTO. Part of<br />
Brighton Digital Festival. Attenborough Centre,<br />
8pm, £15<br />
FRIDAY 18<br />
Lazy Susan Special. Vinyl only DJ Night. Con<br />
Club, 8pm, free<br />
Mangoweejee. Boogie-woogie-hoodoo. Lamb,<br />
8.30pm, free<br />
SATURDAY 19<br />
Femme Brûlée. DJ party night. Lamb, from<br />
7.30pm, free<br />
Sunscreen. Electronic. Con Club, 7.30pm, £10<br />
James Clifford & Ruth Cooke. Folk, two<br />
entertaining songwriters. Sheriff’s Room, White<br />
Hart, 8pm, £4<br />
Fruitful Sound System ‘Too Much Pressure’.<br />
Two-tone, ska & reggae. Royal Oak, 9pm, £5<br />
SUNDAY 20<br />
Lewkulele Orchestra. Chill down Sunday.<br />
Lamb, free<br />
The Polecats. Rockabilly. Con Club, 7.30pm, £18<br />
MONDAY 21<br />
Safehouse Improvised Music Session. Noise<br />
makers, performers and musicians all welcome.<br />
The <strong>Lewes</strong> Arms, 7.30pm, £2<br />
Benn Clatworthy, Darren Beckett, Jon Donaldson,<br />
Simon Thorpe. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
WEDNESDAY 23<br />
TOM. Acoustic duo. Depot, 11am, free, see<br />
page 35.<br />
THURSDAY 24TH<br />
Worry Dolls (pictured above). Female folk duo.<br />
Con Club, 7.30pm, £12<br />
Worry Dolls<br />
FRIDAY 25<br />
Famous Monsters of Funk. Lost organ unit &<br />
specialist DJ. Lamb, from 7.30pm, free<br />
The Feelgood Band. High energy rhythm &<br />
blues. Con Club, 8.30pm, £5<br />
SATURDAY 26<br />
Andy Irvine. See Gig of the Month<br />
Loose Caboose. DJ night playing a mix of 60s<br />
soul, Northern soul, rhythm ‘n’ blues, Latin,<br />
Jazz. Con Club, 7.30pm, £6<br />
The Manatees and IBEX. Double bill of local<br />
bands. Lansdown, 8pm, free<br />
Sweet Onions & The Muzztones. Royal Oak,<br />
8pm, free<br />
The Contenders. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
SUNDAY 27<br />
The Contenders. Con Club, 3.30pm, free<br />
Edenwood. Chill down Sunday. Lamb, free<br />
MONDAY 28<br />
Andy Williams, Javier Forrero, Terry Seabrook.<br />
Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
THURSDAY 31<br />
A Night of Horror at the Lamb. Two live<br />
bands & DJ Nightmare. Lamb, from 7.30pm,<br />
free<br />
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MUSIC<br />
Classical round-up<br />
SATURDAY 19, 3PM<br />
Far From the Home I Love<br />
Hamsey resident and internationally acclaimed<br />
pianist, Margaret Fingerhut set herself the goal this<br />
year of raising £88,000 (£1,000 for each of the 88<br />
keys on a piano) to help support refugees, through<br />
a recital series that she’s taking around the country.<br />
This month she’s at Alfriston Church, playing a<br />
programme that includes works by Chopin, Grieg,<br />
Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, as well as a newly<br />
commissioned piece by Kurdish Syrian composer Moutaz Arian. So many composers have over<br />
the years had to leave their homes because of war, political upheaval or fear of persecution. Far<br />
From the Home I Love, in aid of <strong>Lewes</strong> Organisation in Support of Refugees and Asylum Seekers<br />
(LOSRAS) tells the stories of some of those composers through their music.<br />
St Andrew’s Church, Alfriston. Tickets £12 from Eventbrite or on the door<br />
margaretfingerhut.co.uk/alfriston<br />
PICK<br />
OF THE<br />
MONTH<br />
Photo by Andy Tyler<br />
SUNDAY 6, 3PM<br />
St Michael’s Recitals Trio. Rebecca Leggett,<br />
Mezzo-Soprano. Programme to include songs<br />
and arias by Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Britten and<br />
Dvorák. Accompanied by Joe Howson.<br />
St Michael’s, free with retiring collection,<br />
stmichaelinlewes.org.uk<br />
FRIDAY 11, 7.30PM<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Concert Orchestra. The LCO presents<br />
Wagner The Flying Dutchman Overture, Richard<br />
Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 featuring young Sussex<br />
soloist Brendan Connellan and Tchaikovsky<br />
Symphony No. 1 Winter Daydreams. <strong>Lewes</strong> Town<br />
Hall, £10 in advance, £12 on the door, students £5,<br />
lewesconcertorchestra.org<br />
FRI 11 OCT – SAT 2 NOV<br />
Glyndebourne Tour. The <strong>2019</strong> Tour opens on<br />
<strong>October</strong> 11 with Verdi Rigoletto which continues<br />
until 2 November. Donizetti L’elisir d’amore plays<br />
from 13-31 <strong>October</strong> and Handel Rinaldo begins<br />
26 <strong>October</strong> and runs until 1 November.<br />
Glyndebourne Opera House, £10-£72,<br />
glyndebourne.com<br />
SUNDAY 20, 3PM<br />
Seaford Music Society. Divertimenti Ensemble<br />
Includes Mendelssohn Octet in E Flat Major, Opus<br />
20 and new work by Sally Beamish.<br />
St Leonard’s Church, Seaford, £15, under 26s free.<br />
Season membership £60, seafordmusicsociety.com<br />
FRIDAY 25, 7.45PM<br />
Nicholas Yonge Society. Esmé String Quartet<br />
The season begins with these Wigmore Hall International<br />
String Quartet competition winners.<br />
Music by Webern, Schumann and Schubert.<br />
East Sussex College, Mountfield Road, Season<br />
membership £65 (for 5 concerts), single concerts<br />
£15. Free for 8-25 year olds. nyslewes.org.uk<br />
SUNDAY 27, 4PM<br />
Corelli Ensemble. 30th Anniversary Concert<br />
Celebrating 30 years of the Corelli Ensemble,<br />
with special guests Dame Felicity Lott and Paul<br />
Austin Kelly. We’re promised a glorious selection.<br />
Seaford Baptist Church, Belgrave Road, Seaford,<br />
Tickets £12 in advance, £14 on the door. Children<br />
free. corelliensemble.co.uk<br />
Robin Houghton<br />
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Giants of Steam<br />
11th - 13th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Special Guests<br />
‘Duchess of Sutherland’ and ‘Britannia’<br />
join a line-up of home fleet locomotives for the Autumn Gala<br />
Footplate Experience Britannia<br />
A unique opportunity to fire and drive the Giant<br />
Dine Behind Britannia<br />
5 course silver service gala dinner as you<br />
journey through Sussex Countryside<br />
©John Whitehouse<br />
Monday 14th <strong>October</strong> <strong>2019</strong>- see website for details<br />
26th <strong>October</strong> -<br />
3rd November <strong>2019</strong><br />
Calling all Witches and Wizards<br />
For a gathering at Horsted Keynes Station this <strong>October</strong> half term<br />
A week of Halloween fun and games.<br />
Fancy dress competitions, crafty fun and much more.<br />
Lost your broom?<br />
Catch the train from Sheffield Park or East Grinstead Stations.<br />
www.bluebell-railway.com<br />
01825 720800<br />
Special offer applies on 26-30 Oct & 1-3 Nov. Discount available on advance bookings<br />
Adult, Child and Family Rover tickets only. Offer may not be used in conjunction with<br />
any other offer. Full terms and conditions available on our website.
FreeTIME êêêê under 16<br />
SAT 26 – SUN 3 NOVEMBER<br />
<strong>October</strong> half-term fun at Wakehurst. A<br />
range of activities including art, games and a<br />
trail. See kew.org/Wakehurst.<br />
Halloween Shriek Week at Drusillas. See<br />
drusillas.co.uk for more info.<br />
Calling all witches and wizards… Halloween<br />
at Bluebell Railway. A spooky gathering for<br />
<strong>October</strong> half term with Halloween fun and<br />
games, including a fancy-dress competition,<br />
crafty fun, and more. Visitors on Halloween<br />
(31st <strong>October</strong>) will also enjoy<br />
extra spooky fun, including<br />
pumpkin lighting,<br />
a disco for small<br />
children, and an additional<br />
evening train. Horsted Keynes<br />
Station, see bluebell-railway.com. £1<br />
off when you quote code ‘HALVL19’.<br />
Halloween at the Borde Hill Academy of<br />
Witches & Wizards. Help Sapphire, the<br />
witch’s cat regain her magical powers on a<br />
bewitching garden trail full of spells, potions<br />
and mystery. With crafts, pumpkin carving,<br />
stories, wand making, magic shows and more.<br />
See bordehill.co.uk/events.<br />
SATURDAY 26 & SUNDAY 27<br />
Halloween<br />
Weekend.<br />
Traditional<br />
entertainment with<br />
Punch & Judy, crafts,<br />
trails and heaps of<br />
scary Halloween<br />
fun with Crazee<br />
Hazee. Michelham Priory, 10.30am-4pm, see<br />
sussexpast.co.uk.<br />
MONDAY 28<br />
Morning Explorer: Herbs and Spices.<br />
Morning Explorer is a special time for families<br />
with additional needs, open between 10am<br />
and 11am exclusively for them. The morning<br />
includes a story, with special tactile objects to<br />
feel and scents to inhale, plus audio-described<br />
tours. <strong>Lewes</strong> Castle, 10am, see sussexpast.co.uk.<br />
TUESDAY 29<br />
Autumn Colours.<br />
Drop in to the house<br />
for hands-on activities<br />
based around autumn.<br />
Embroider a flower or<br />
make a herb bag, explore<br />
paints and plant dyes and do some drawing<br />
in the garden (weather permitting). Anne of<br />
Cleves, 1pm-4pm, price included in admission.<br />
MON 28 – FRI 1 NOVEMBER<br />
Roman Army Week. Get an army ‘tattoo’,<br />
try your hand at spear practice and see if you<br />
can earn your keep as a new recruit. Sign up<br />
with the recruitment officer and learn to write<br />
your name in Latin before completing a range<br />
of tasks to ‘earn’ a day’s pay. Other activities<br />
include archery, sword practice and dressingup<br />
Roman-style. Fishbourne Roman Palace,<br />
10am-3pm, see sussexpast.co.uk.<br />
THURSDAY 31<br />
Heroes & Dragons. Listen to the Old<br />
English story of Beowulf, create a dragon<br />
in clay or make a scary mask, discover<br />
Anglo-Saxon beads and brooches.<br />
Holiday workshop for children<br />
aged four to eight. <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Castle, 10.30am-12pm, £5.
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Quill Soup<br />
by Alan Durant<br />
BOOK REVIEW<br />
Quill Soup is an African version of the traditional<br />
tale many of us will know as Stone Soup.<br />
In this version, Noko the porcupine has been<br />
travelling for a long time and is tired and hungry.<br />
He finds a small village where he thinks<br />
he’ll be able to find food and shelter. However,<br />
the animals who live there are frightened of<br />
strangers and don’t want to share their food.<br />
Luckily Noko has a plan to encourage the villagers<br />
to change their minds!<br />
Quill Soup is a wonderful book for encouraging<br />
thought and discussion around concepts<br />
of sharing, generosity and compassion. It<br />
highlights the initial selfishness and ignorance of the village animals and shows the impact that an<br />
act of kindness can have on the whole community.<br />
Alan Durant’s lovely retelling is accompanied by wonderfully vibrant illustrations by South African<br />
illustrator Dale Blankenaar. Recommended. Anna, Bags of Books<br />
Find Quill Soup with 20% off throughout <strong>October</strong> at Bags of Books.<br />
Open Morning<br />
With its excellent and imaginative approach, the<br />
Steiner Waldorf curriculum has gained ever-widening<br />
recognition as a creative and compassionate<br />
alternative to traditional avenues of education.<br />
But just how does it feel to be a child in this<br />
environment, soaking up this stimulating and<br />
rewarding teaching?<br />
www.michaelhall.co.uk/school-open-days<br />
Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row. East Sussex, RH18 5JA<br />
Tel: 01342 822275 - Registered Charity Number 307006<br />
Open<br />
Morning<br />
Wednesday 9th <strong>October</strong><br />
from 08:30 - 13:00<br />
Alternatively, book in for a Private Tour<br />
email: contact@michaelhall.co.uk
Steyne Road, Seaford, BN25 1QG<br />
01323 872723—applicationss6h@seafordhead.org<br />
OPEN EVENING<br />
Thursday 10th <strong>October</strong> 6.00pm-8.30pm<br />
6pm- Formal Presentation: Steyne Site Main Hall<br />
6.45pm-8.30pm- Department Fair: Sixth Form<br />
OPEN MORNING<br />
Saturday 12th <strong>October</strong> 10.00am-12.00pm<br />
Sixth Form Site<br />
Application Deadline Monday 2nd December <strong>2019</strong>
INTERVIEW<br />
Imagine Eating Lemons<br />
Helping children with anxiety<br />
‘Your thoughts are very<br />
powerful, they change the<br />
way you feel. / Imagine eating<br />
lemons and your mouth will<br />
think it’s real.’<br />
This is what Chester Chestnut<br />
learns in Jason Rhodes’<br />
excellent children’s book<br />
Imagine Eating Lemons. It’s a<br />
long way from being preachy.<br />
Instead, it uses rhyme and<br />
wonderful illustrations by<br />
Richard Dearing, to take us<br />
inside Chester’s experiences of<br />
rising anxiety – ‘Today he starts<br />
his lessons, / he’s the only one<br />
that’s new. // “What if I’m too<br />
shy to play, / I don’t know what<br />
I’ll do!” – and the steps he’s<br />
learnt (through mindfulness) to<br />
lower it.<br />
I imagine it would be a lovely<br />
book to read in a group,<br />
everyone joining in the<br />
refrain… I like the repeating<br />
pattern too: you don’t solve<br />
anxiety once and for all;<br />
you need to keep taking the<br />
steps. (Those sneaky slippery<br />
thoughts.)<br />
I met up with Jason to chat<br />
through how the book had<br />
come about and what his<br />
intentions were in writing it.<br />
“For me, extreme anxiety came<br />
on when I was about 25”, he<br />
tells me. “My world got smaller<br />
and smaller. My anxiety at times<br />
would make me physically sick.”<br />
So he tried, he says, “to find<br />
tools” to help. “I tried CBT,<br />
hypnotherapy, I read all these<br />
books. And then I stumbled on<br />
mindfulness, and things just<br />
clicked into place. It was one<br />
realisation that did it: someone<br />
said, the body can’t tell the<br />
difference between a real threat<br />
and an imagined one, and the<br />
penny just dropped. I realised<br />
that, whenever I struggled the<br />
most, I was focussing solely<br />
on worst case scenarios. Now<br />
I really want to pass on what<br />
I have found, especially to<br />
children.”<br />
He believes if children learn<br />
these things early it could,<br />
potentially, save them a lot of<br />
grief later.<br />
So why the rhymes, I ask him.<br />
He laughs. “The rhyme was<br />
not intentional; nor indeed<br />
was writing a book! Someone<br />
suggested it, and then the<br />
ideas just started to come. The<br />
chorus came first. And the<br />
character. And yes, rhymes do<br />
help; it’s like song,” he says. “It<br />
makes it easier to remember.”<br />
The lemon at the centre “comes<br />
directly from an exercise,”<br />
Jason tells me. “If you really<br />
imagine eating a zesty tangy<br />
lemon, your mouth starts to<br />
salivate. It proves the body and<br />
our thoughts are connected! All<br />
your mind’s trying to do is keep<br />
you alive. It’s on your side. Just<br />
sometimes, its methods cause<br />
problems.<br />
“Mindfulness is about<br />
recognising which thoughts<br />
you’re giving your attention<br />
to. We’re not comfortable with<br />
discomfort; we think we can’t<br />
tolerate it. In fact, staying with<br />
it long enough to separate the<br />
negative thoughts from the<br />
sensation can stop it escalating.<br />
We can grow much stronger<br />
and more resourceful just by<br />
being present.” Charlotte Gann<br />
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FOOD REVIEW<br />
Zu Café<br />
Food as medicine<br />
Zu Café is open and going strong in the bus<br />
station – and what a lovely environment they’re<br />
creating. We popped down there for lunch one<br />
Wednesday, in the light, bright upstairs room.<br />
The room’s been redecorated with lovely blue<br />
walls, and large vases of fresh flowers standing<br />
on every table.<br />
The upstairs lunchtime format is that you<br />
choose from two mains or soup. There are also<br />
always four salads on offer. One main with three<br />
salads – a very generous plate – for £9. And the<br />
food is delicious. The menu’s always changing –<br />
depending on the seasonal local vegetables. It’s a<br />
lovely formula, and you get a real sense of being<br />
nurtured and looked after.<br />
This is no coincidence. The mantra that runs<br />
behind the scenes is food as medicine. Look<br />
after your guts, and you will look after yourself.<br />
We tried the Lentil Shepherd’s Pie, which was<br />
absolutely wonderful – so flavoursome, and<br />
interesting, while also being deeply comforting<br />
and traditional. All complemented beautifully by<br />
accompanying salads, and tahini dressing.<br />
Our other main was Roasted Patty Pan – squash<br />
filled with quinoa (in place of couscous: the<br />
whole place is gluten free), sage and walnut<br />
stuffing. Very spicy and nutty; again, a feast.<br />
Pete especially loved the roasted beetroot salad<br />
– “spicy, crisp, nicely rounded” – and I enjoyed<br />
the crunch of apple with sprouted mung bean.<br />
All the salads were excellent: we both liked the<br />
Broccoli and Pumpkin Seed; and Pete his Zu<br />
Green Leaf Salad dressed in ginger.<br />
All the salads – indeed everything on our plates<br />
– blended an extraordinary but complementary<br />
variety of flavours and textures. Between the different<br />
elements there were so many ingredients<br />
– and here perhaps was the key. Few choices but<br />
each one packed with nutrition. Not food we<br />
would make at home – because cooking it we<br />
would find so complicated. A joy to be fed.<br />
Zu Café has a lovely, warm atmosphere, with<br />
lots of young people visibly helping in the<br />
kitchen. Chatting with owner Samira, and<br />
chef Nikita, I learnt more about the Zu Café<br />
community. That any soup that’s left over from<br />
lunch they’ll sell through the downstairs hatch<br />
that evening for £1 a go. That they also plan a<br />
freezer lunchbox scheme: people will be able to<br />
sign up for regular lunch boxes. That they plan<br />
to work with local refugees – creating a real<br />
community.<br />
Oh, and they have a specialist fermenter, who<br />
creates many of the special ingredients and healthgiving<br />
elements: the sauerkraut and kimchi.<br />
It will be fascinating to see how it all develops…<br />
and the food is heaven.<br />
Currently, upstairs is open every lunch time, as<br />
is the crêperie downstairs. And the evening bar<br />
is open on Thursday to Saturday nights. CG<br />
Zu Café, bus station, zucafe.co.uk<br />
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RECIPE<br />
Four-onion pakora<br />
Alun Sperring, from Chilli Pickle,<br />
on an Indian street-food staple<br />
I had wanderlust as a young man and worked<br />
my way around the world, learning my trade in<br />
eight countries over five different continents,<br />
under a variety of brilliant chefs.<br />
I particularly developed a passion for Indian<br />
cuisine, and when my wife Dawn and I had<br />
our first child – in Dubai, twelve years ago –<br />
we decided to set up our own restaurant in<br />
England. The idea was to produce amazing<br />
Indian food, inspired by all the regions of the<br />
country, espousing authenticity of style and<br />
method, tweaked a little to suit our own style<br />
of cooking.<br />
I was brought up in Brighton, and it seemed<br />
the obvious choice of venue, a city that is<br />
open-minded enough to embrace something a<br />
little different. We started in a little 40-cover<br />
space in the Lanes, and moved to our current<br />
building, in Jubilee Street, nine years ago. It’s<br />
all about teamwork: Dawn is front-of-house,<br />
I’m head chef, and we make sure everyone who<br />
works at Chilli Pickle does so with enormous<br />
passion, both in the kitchen and the restaurant.<br />
We see ourselves as being in the entertainment<br />
business: we’ve made the restaurant reflect the<br />
vibrant colours of India, and there’s always a<br />
wow factor when the food arrives on the table.<br />
But the most important thing is the taste,<br />
which involves, of course, sourcing fresh produce.<br />
So all our meat and vegetables are locally<br />
produced, while we import the best quality<br />
spices from India (you can use Taj!)<br />
Onion pakora are eaten throughout India,<br />
as a street food or starter, and are always on<br />
our menu. They are easy to make at home,<br />
especially if you have a deep-fat fryer (though a<br />
chip pan will do fine). And, of course, they are<br />
absolutely delicious.<br />
Method (makes 24 pakora).<br />
Finely slice 400g of white English onion, 100g<br />
red onion, 50g shallots and 50g spring onion,<br />
and mix well in a bowl with 20g fresh chopped<br />
coriander, 30 torn-up curry leaves, a finely<br />
sliced green chilli, 15g freshly roasted coriander<br />
seed, 15g freshly roasted cumin seed, 10g<br />
fennel seed, 5g asafoetida, 35g Masoor red dal,<br />
5g turmeric, 8g salt, 4g baking powder, 250g<br />
chickpea flour, 150g of rice flour. Add 225ml<br />
of cold water, and mix with your hands, being<br />
careful not to squeeze too much, otherwise<br />
excess water will release.<br />
Heat 1 litre of vegetable oil to 165c (you can<br />
use a thermometer). Create small pakora<br />
shapes with the tips of your fingers and your<br />
thumb, carefully dropping into the oil pan. Add<br />
eight or nine at a time: cook until light golden<br />
colour, turning a few times so the colour is<br />
even. Drain onto a paper towel, and repeat,<br />
until all the pakora mixture is cooked. When<br />
you’re ready to serve, heat the oil to 175c, and<br />
fry the pakora patties a second time – again in<br />
batches – until they are crispy. Serve with the<br />
best mango chutney you can get your hands<br />
on: we source a wonderful Alphonso mango<br />
chutney direct from India. Enjoy!<br />
As told to Alex Leith<br />
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has a bit of a similarly filmic quality, I always think – well, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
does in general, and it fits right in. It looks effortlessly cool. Nothing<br />
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racks of bread, that you know will empty. There’s the display of<br />
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FOOD & DRINK<br />
The Rook Inn<br />
Beer and pies<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> are playing Crystal Palace in the Women’s<br />
Football Championship, and I’m part of the<br />
‘ultras’ choir, encouraging the female Rooks with<br />
chants and songs, to the accompaniment of a brass<br />
band and a group of drummers.<br />
We’re all members of <strong>Lewes</strong> FC’s over-35, mixedgender<br />
‘vets’. And our voices are lubricated with<br />
pints of beer from The Rook Inn, the pitch-side<br />
bar, which has recently been taken over by Steve<br />
Keegan, the mastermind behind Holler Brewery.<br />
Steve – also a ‘vet’ footballer – has instilled a<br />
rotating beer menu, refurbished the bar area<br />
and employed professional bar staff to make the<br />
purchasing process as efficient as possible. No<br />
more big, disgruntled queues, then: you can even<br />
pay by card.<br />
Before the game starts, I opt for an Abyss<br />
Superfuzz Hazy IPA (5.6%, £4.50). It’s a hoppy<br />
headrush of a pint, and I see no reason to change<br />
to anything different on subsequent visits to the<br />
bar (though two Gun Brewery ales are tempting). I<br />
also buy a pie-mash-and-mushy-peas combo from<br />
the hatch next door, for soaking up purposes.<br />
The attendance is 705, more than the average for<br />
men’s games last season, and the atmosphere is<br />
electric. We sing our hearts out, and go mental<br />
when <strong>Lewes</strong>’ equalising goal goes in, courtesy of<br />
Jess King’s right boot. Then, of course, we retire to<br />
the bar again, for an in-depth post-mortem. The<br />
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‘A Sussex G&T’
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Adam Cowley, Harley House Distillery<br />
‘A quality bourbon whiskey, which could explain the smoothness of our gins’
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FEATURE: WI<br />
Not all jam<br />
and Jerusalem<br />
The WIs of <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Image courtesy of gunsnposies.co.uk<br />
“I moved here four<br />
years ago, from<br />
Kent, and didn’t<br />
know a soul,”<br />
Gill Norman,<br />
Secretary of<br />
Westgate WI, tells<br />
me. “I walked through<br />
the door and… problem<br />
solved. All anyone needs is to find<br />
the courage to cross that threshold.<br />
There’s real friendship waiting in the WI.”<br />
President Julia Blake, meanwhile, has lived in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> “for 52 years”; and Treasurer and Advisor,<br />
Shirley Kirby, “a mere 31!” We’re sitting<br />
round a table in Fuego Lounge, drinking coffee.<br />
A hundred years on from the first WI market<br />
opening in <strong>Lewes</strong>, Gill wrote to <strong>Viva</strong> asking if<br />
we might meet and chat: ‘The Women’s Institute<br />
isn’t all jam and Jerusalem’, she’d said. Now,<br />
I ask what she meant?<br />
“We welcome all women of all backgrounds and<br />
all ages”, she says; “anyone who identifies as a<br />
woman.” “We’re non-religious and non-political”,<br />
adds Shirley. The WI strapline is ‘INSPIR-<br />
ING WOMEN’ – which can be read, of course,<br />
and rather neatly, two different ways: that its<br />
members are inspiring, and it’s there to inspire.<br />
“Yes, we’re all about inspiring people to do<br />
something with their time,” says Julia. “To be<br />
with others, and to learn new things.”<br />
It’s not all crafts, I’m assured; though there are<br />
craft meetings. Each WI has monthly meetings,<br />
where they have visiting speakers, for example<br />
from charities, a local expert on healthy eating,<br />
people speaking about their travels. Members<br />
get together outside of meetings too, for lunch,<br />
walks and general<br />
socialising.<br />
“Every group runs<br />
their meetings<br />
differently,”<br />
stresses Gill. “If<br />
you go along to<br />
one, and feel it’s not for<br />
you, don’t be put off. Try<br />
another.”<br />
There are currently two WIs in<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> – Westgate, which has morning<br />
meetings, and <strong>Lewes</strong> Neville (with an e!),<br />
which meets in the evening – plus ones in<br />
Uckfield, Ringmer, Firle, Kingston, in fact all<br />
over East Sussex.<br />
So, WHAT, I have to ask (this being our Grape<br />
and Grain issue) about their CAKES!<br />
“Some of us do make very good cakes”, laughs<br />
Gill. “We’re famous for them.” “We make all<br />
varieties, for all dietary needs”, adds Julia. “And<br />
a lot of us don’t make cakes, we just enjoy eating<br />
them”, grins Shirley.<br />
This is also another way they support charities.<br />
“Neville sell cakes for Artwave at Castle House,”<br />
Gill says. “And we’re running our next fair in<br />
St Thomas’s on November 9th,” says Julia.<br />
“Do pop in and buy a cake! We’re supporting<br />
a project to install a community defibrillator in<br />
the Cliffe…”<br />
Charlotte Gann<br />
Westgate WI meet every second Wednesday<br />
morning, from 10am, in St Thomas’s Church Hall.<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Neville meet every third Wednesday from<br />
7pm, in St Mary’s Hall, Highdown, Nevill. Anyone<br />
welcome to try two free taster sessions. See esfwi.<br />
org.uk for details of all the groups in East Sussex.<br />
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Hopesprings Chairs<br />
Green wood and shave horses<br />
Chairmaker Jason Mosseri is nonchalant<br />
about building his workshops and storeroom<br />
in his garden, on The Nevill. Did he have<br />
any experience building buildings before?<br />
“Not really. I’ve just got a mind that can<br />
figure stuff out. I’ve got some great books<br />
about building. It’s really very simple, much<br />
easier than making a chair. It’s right angles,<br />
and cladding, you find out how to stop water<br />
coming in and heat getting out.”<br />
Jason makes Windsor chairs as part of his<br />
business, Hopesprings Chairs, in a larger<br />
workshop and a smaller outdoor space, which<br />
includes a shave horse (pictured) and a pole<br />
lathe to make chair legs (a process known<br />
as bodging). The main workshop – made<br />
partly using “stuff out of skips” such as the<br />
glazing and doors – was built in around<br />
three months, with help from a friend to<br />
dig the foundations. The chairs are made<br />
using ‘green wood’: “fresh wood as opposed<br />
to dried wood. Rather than air dried or kiln<br />
dried, you’re using the wood freshly cut. It’s<br />
wetter, so you can use a hand tool on it.”<br />
Jason was a tattoo artist for twenty years,<br />
until he felt like he’d “done it properly<br />
and wanted to do something different”.<br />
Possessing a “bit of a chair fetish”, he<br />
chanced upon a chairmaking course run by<br />
Paul Hayden at Westonbirt Arboretum. He<br />
now puts on his own six day chairmaking<br />
course in the woods of Cuckfield. “It’s a way<br />
for me to share my enthusiasm for the similar<br />
courses that I’ve been on. I’ve really loved<br />
them, particularly the ones that are out in the<br />
woods. Real no electricity kind of attitude.<br />
That’s what I wanted to recreate.<br />
“You make a really nice Windsor chair. You<br />
start with a log and end with the chair. We<br />
look at the tree that the log’s come from, and<br />
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MY SPACE<br />
why you select particular bits of timber.<br />
We talk about how we then take that<br />
massive log and split it up and make it into<br />
parts. Everyone leaves with their chair: a<br />
really usable, durable, comfortable, stylish<br />
chair.”<br />
After interviewing Jason while sat on two<br />
of his chairs, and discovering the tools of<br />
the trade in the workshops, I can certainly<br />
see the appeal of the craft. Jason enjoys the<br />
positive feedback he gets from his courses,<br />
and is developing a theory that this comes<br />
from a latent predisposition to make things<br />
ourselves.<br />
“A couple of hundred years ago, our<br />
communities would have made everything<br />
that we needed. It’s only recently that<br />
we’ve stopped, and we’ve started a kind<br />
of different culture. I think it’s there<br />
underneath the surface for most people.<br />
People really like it [making]. It’s the same<br />
if you grow your own vegetables, they<br />
taste so much better and you don’t want<br />
to waste any part of them. It’s the same<br />
with anything you make. Not only have<br />
you invested energy in it, but you know<br />
so much about it. It’s that much more<br />
meaningful.” Joe Fuller<br />
hopespringschairs.com,<br />
Insta @hopespringschairs, 07795114982<br />
Anti-clockwise from top left: travisher, scorp, brace, draw knife, adze<br />
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Wine tastings<br />
Join a pop up Saturday<br />
Riverside, in the Cliffe, are running a series of free, drop-in tastings of Sussex wines<br />
this month. Four consecutive Saturdays through <strong>October</strong>, and as part of <strong>October</strong>feast,<br />
they’ll be hosting different local vineyards in their pop up space.<br />
“Come along to sample and buy local Sussex wines from a cluster of passionate<br />
growers and wine makers”, says Riverside Director Margaux Allfrey.<br />
“Riverside focuses on local producers, and bringing in Sussex wines is an ideal complement.<br />
Why not try some wine in our pop up space upstairs, then wander down<br />
and buy your local meat from Mays’ Farm Cart or fish from Bickerstaff?” she says.<br />
“Or just enjoy a bite to eat at the Café and Brasserie while you ponder which wine<br />
to take home…” Mmm, sounds rather lovely.<br />
The “fun, informal” pop up sessions are free to drop into, and will run from 11am to<br />
4pm every Saturday in <strong>October</strong>. Here’s the programme.<br />
Finally, listen out for Wine Happy Hour on Rocket FM this year. Dominic Buckwell<br />
– who helped organise the Riverside pop ups – and Galia Pike will be hosting a<br />
weekly radio show featuring each of the <strong>October</strong>feast vineyards. CG<br />
5 TH OCTOBER<br />
BREAKY BOTTOM<br />
Photo by Emma Croman<br />
Originally planted in 1974, Breaky Bottom,<br />
in Rodmell, is run by Peter and Chris Hall.<br />
It’s now entirely given over to making vintage<br />
sparkling wine from the grape varieties Seyval<br />
Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Meunier.<br />
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WINE<br />
12 TH OCTOBER<br />
BLUEBELL VINEYARD<br />
Bluebell is a 100-acre award-winning estate known for<br />
its Hindleap range of traditional method sparkling wines.<br />
July <strong>2019</strong> saw the launch of their first ever still range –<br />
Ashdown. This includes three white wines and a rosé.<br />
19 TH OCTOBER<br />
VINEYARDS OF THE<br />
SUSSEX WEALD<br />
A group of five Wealden producers – Paul and<br />
Alice Pippard’s Beacon Down, Hidden Spring,<br />
Off the Line, near Horam – which exclusively<br />
produces still rosé wines – Tickeridge, at Blackboys,<br />
and Fox & Fox of Mayfield. Come and<br />
meet some near neighbours…<br />
26 TH OCTOBER<br />
PLUMPTON<br />
ESTATE WINES<br />
Wines made by the college, Sarah<br />
Midgely is Plumpton’s Chief Winemaker,<br />
and Chris Foss outgoing<br />
Head of Wine. They’ll be showing a<br />
range of cuvées.<br />
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Daniel Bell Gardens<br />
Daniel has over 30 years’ experience creating and renovating gardens of all sizes, from<br />
private courtyards to large country gardens and estates. He is an expert in the use of<br />
hardy plants and the care of seasonal plants. Daniel and his family have recently moved<br />
back to Sussex after 13 years in Sweden. He is looking forward to meeting new potential<br />
clients and discussing new projects.
GARDENING<br />
Not bees but apples<br />
Autumn treats<br />
First, to share a disappointment. It was my<br />
ambition to restore bee hives to Charleston’s<br />
garden. A bee hive was one of the items that<br />
David Garnett brought to the house when<br />
the small group of Bloomsburyites arrived<br />
in September 1916. How appropriate for a<br />
garden that was destined to provide so much<br />
sustenance to all who spent time there.<br />
Local bee keepers are always helpful: Jonathan<br />
Coote, of the Eastbourne Beekeepers<br />
Association, offered to assist me in the set-up.<br />
However, finding a suitable site is not an easy<br />
matter. The space required around a hive to<br />
minimise any conflict is around three metres.<br />
Apparently, bees are not what they once were<br />
– understandably, they have become more<br />
aggressive in response to modern environmental<br />
pressures. The only potential site we<br />
could identify was at the end of the car park.<br />
However, as Jonathan pointed out, “should<br />
a driver leave the engine running alongside<br />
the enclosure, the CO2 in the exhaust is a<br />
warning sign to bees of the arrival in their<br />
midst of a big predator and they react accordingly.”<br />
Too great a risk, we realised, when you<br />
consider three per cent of people may suffer<br />
anaphylactic shock if they are stung by a<br />
bee… Sadly, then, bees are off the agenda.<br />
Apples are very much on, on the other hand:<br />
this year we planted ten apple trees. Peter<br />
May, the regional expert on Sussex apple<br />
varieties, advised us on our selection. Peter<br />
and the Brighton Permaculture Trust have<br />
spent 15 years planting community and<br />
schools’ orchards across the county as well as<br />
establishing a National Collection of Sussex<br />
apple varieties at Stanmer Park.<br />
The names of these varieties are wonderful:<br />
Sussex Mother, Tinsley Quince, Forge,<br />
Crawley Beauty, Nanny, Eastbourne Pippin.<br />
“There are 30 varieties of apple tree which<br />
are closely linked to the county of Sussex,”<br />
Peter told me. “They vary in colour, size<br />
and in the month in which they ripen with<br />
Ashdown Seedling ready to be picked in<br />
mid-August to Saltcote Pippin in <strong>October</strong>.”<br />
And yes, the names do link them to particular<br />
places. Hawkridge comes from Hawkridge<br />
Farm near Hellingly, while Wadhurst Pippin<br />
grows in the heavy clay soils in the north of<br />
the county. Alfriston, however is not from that<br />
village but was raised during the late 1700s<br />
in Uckfield and called Shepherd’s Pippin. I<br />
rather prefer that name.<br />
We shall be juicing our current apple harvest<br />
to serve to our garden visitors this autumn.<br />
Do come and sample!<br />
Fiona Dennis, Head Gardener at Charleston<br />
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“I told my vet, that Queenie<br />
my cat was very anxious in the<br />
surgery. Now she’s given plenty of<br />
time to investigate the room and<br />
settle before they examine her.”<br />
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WILDLIFE<br />
Illustration by Mark Greco<br />
Blackthorn<br />
Sloe times with Betsy<br />
From up there it felt like I could see the whole<br />
world: the Oak trees adorned in summer’s fading<br />
leaves, the fields at harvest, the city far in the<br />
distance. Each <strong>October</strong> my Grandad would load<br />
me and a bucket into Betsy, his faithful 1963 Ford<br />
Anglia. Together we’d cruise the county’s back<br />
roads. Every few miles he would ease Betsy to a<br />
halt and inspect the landscape until finally declaring<br />
“this is the place”. My bucket and me would be<br />
hoisted high up on his shoulders and from there<br />
I’d get my Grandad-stand view of the world. More<br />
importantly though, it’d put me within reach of<br />
the treasure. The jewels we sought on our expeditions<br />
were sloes, the round purple-black berries<br />
that bedecked the Blackthorn bushes. My Grandad<br />
was convinced that the finest fruits were located<br />
high on the hedge. And the best sloes made the<br />
best sloe gin.<br />
Each spring the Blackthorn hedges bloom, their<br />
brilliant white flowers blanket the countryside<br />
temporarily creating snow-white drifts against<br />
the woodlands and along our roadsides. These<br />
ephemeral petals soon fall and the Blackthorn<br />
becomes cloaked with small, oval leaves capturing<br />
the energy which powers production of the sloes.<br />
A Blackthorn bush is a prickly character and as approachable<br />
as an enraged porcupine. Each twig is<br />
armed with spikes which deter cattle and Grandads<br />
from helping themselves to its leaves and berries.<br />
This spiny spinney fortress also safeguards a<br />
wealth of wildlife. Nightingales, Turtle Doves and<br />
other birds nest under its protection and the elusive<br />
Brown Hairstreak butterfly lays its miniature<br />
sea urchin-like eggs on the bush’s black bark.<br />
Many years after my Grandad and Betsy had<br />
departed, I decided to honour them both and<br />
concoct my own sloe gin. I found an online recipe<br />
and, in what was and still remains one of the biggest<br />
disappoints of my adult life, I discovered that<br />
the main ingredient in sloe gin… was gin. After<br />
watching my Grandad making his moonshine I<br />
had genuinely believed that by submerging a load<br />
of sloes in a bottle you would magically turn water<br />
into gin. It seems my Grandad couldn’t perform<br />
miracles, indeed looking back our hedgerow pillaging<br />
raids could easily be dismissed as forced child<br />
labour. Was he exploiting me and my tiny hands<br />
to bypass those thorns and reach the best berries?<br />
A few decades earlier he’d probably have sent me<br />
down a mine or up a chimney. But my Grandad<br />
wasn’t some Fagin-like character. Now I think of it<br />
I never once saw him actually drinking any of his<br />
sloe gin. Perhaps just being out in the countryside<br />
in the autumn sunshine on an adventure with<br />
Betsy and his grandson was the truly intoxicating<br />
ingredient.<br />
Michael Blencowe, Senior Learning & Engagement<br />
Officer, Sussex Wildlife Trust<br />
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Boys don’t cry<br />
Counselling for men<br />
I’m sitting in a<br />
comfortable chair in<br />
a summerhouse in a<br />
garden in Prince Edward’s<br />
Road. There’s a<br />
small table with a jug<br />
of water, two glasses,<br />
and a box of tissues,<br />
the top one half out,<br />
for easy access. Opposite<br />
me, on an identical<br />
chair, sits Alex Francis.<br />
Alex is a psychotherapeutic counsellor.<br />
Alex, it should be pointed out, is a man, and one<br />
reason I’ve come is to find out why he thinks that<br />
men are significantly more reluctant than women<br />
to undergo psychotherapy or counselling, despite<br />
the fact they appear to have just as many mental<br />
health problems. “Three quarters of successful<br />
suicide attempts are male,” he tells me. “Men<br />
are three times more likely than women to have<br />
substance issues. Men score significantly lower in<br />
the National Wellbeing Survey.”<br />
I’m not about to undergo a full therapy consultation,<br />
but Alex has offered to give me a taster, by<br />
assisting in a 20-minute ‘introductory’ session,<br />
in which I’m invited to tell him something that’s<br />
on my mind. After reassurances that it’ll go no<br />
further than this space, I unload a complex and<br />
troublesome issue, which he reacts to with nods,<br />
short responses, other sympathetic verbal cues,<br />
and, at one appropriate moment, a ‘that’s shocking’<br />
lifting of both eyebrows. It’s a very liberating<br />
experience.<br />
Afterwards, in effect, we swap roles; it’s my turn<br />
to glean information from him. It’s a curious<br />
sensation interviewing a counsellor: Alex has a<br />
way of turning my questions around, so I become<br />
part of the answering process. We talk about all<br />
sorts. How a lot of our<br />
problems come from us<br />
suppressing one or more<br />
of the four emotions –<br />
happiness, sadness, fear<br />
and anger – and what<br />
problems this can cause.<br />
How some of the behavioural<br />
traits we learnt<br />
during disturbing periods<br />
of our childhood can be<br />
inappropriately repeated<br />
in our adult lives, and how understanding what’s<br />
going on can help us. How different clients he<br />
talks to respond best to different approaches –<br />
which means he has to be sensitively adaptable.<br />
“In an ideal world, therapy would be available to<br />
everybody, on demand, on the NHS,” he tells me.<br />
So, I ask him, other than cost, what is stopping<br />
more people from benefitting from it? And why,<br />
countrywide, are there two female clients seeking<br />
therapy, for every male one?<br />
Taboo is the key. Some people still believe<br />
counselling is only for ‘crazy’ people, rather than<br />
anyone looking to understand themselves better.<br />
“When it comes to men, there can also be a desire<br />
to appear strong. For many men, counselling<br />
equals talking about your feelings; talking about<br />
your feelings might involve crying; and ‘boys<br />
don’t cry’. I’d love to see more men challenge that<br />
belief. We evolved to experience emotions. Like<br />
hunger and thirst, they give us crucial information<br />
about what we need or want. Experiencing<br />
feelings, including sadness, isn’t a sign of weakness,<br />
it’s simply a sign of being human.”Alex Leith<br />
Alex Francis, downsviewcounselling@gmail.com,<br />
07588 786060, or his colleague, Eileen Kemp,<br />
summerhousecounselling@yahoo.com,<br />
07754 630149<br />
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FOOTBALL<br />
Collecting vital data<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> FC’s video analysis platform<br />
When Ross Standen, <strong>Lewes</strong> FC’s 6 foot 4 assistant<br />
manager, used to keep goal for the club, around<br />
the turn of the millennium, it was a rather different<br />
institution. Ross, now 45, made his debut for the<br />
club’s reserves when he was just 14, and played in<br />
the 2000/2001 team that famously, and historically,<br />
reached the First Round of the FA Cup.<br />
Back then <strong>Lewes</strong> used to play in front of 50-orso<br />
diehard fans. There were no fancy stands or<br />
terraces, no beach huts, no 3G training pitch.<br />
And they certainly didn’t use the services of an<br />
American video analysis platform to hone their<br />
tactics and help improve performance.<br />
Video analysis platform? “It was all down to a<br />
generous donation by an anonymous fan,” smiles<br />
Ross, sitting in the home dug-out of a splendidlooking<br />
Dripping Pan, a few days after <strong>Lewes</strong>’<br />
belated first win of the season, at Leatherhead.<br />
“Whoever it was gave the club a large pot of<br />
money, specifically to help improve the analysis<br />
of our performances. The women’s team opted<br />
to spend it on GPS tracker vests; I suggested<br />
that we invested in Hudl, which I’d heard great<br />
things about from a friend of mine, Danny<br />
Cowley. Danny is manager of Lincoln City, and<br />
he told me that Hudl was an excellent way of<br />
collecting vital data to help improve individual<br />
and team performance, to reduce injury, and to<br />
analyse opposing teams. Last season, using Hudl,<br />
Lincoln won promotion to Division One of the<br />
Football League.”<br />
He goes into the intricacies of the system, which<br />
takes some time. <strong>Lewes</strong> FC employ a cameraman<br />
(from the group Your Instant Replay) who<br />
films the team’s matches, home and away. The<br />
footage is sent to Hudl’s lab, and automated<br />
statistical reports are instantly generated. “At<br />
the click of a button, we can analyse an amazing<br />
amount of data,” says Ross. “We can look at<br />
possession statistics, examine goals scored and<br />
conceded, look at how successful crosses from<br />
different areas are, look at our shooting accuracy,<br />
track individual players throughout the match,<br />
and a whole lot of other things. All the players<br />
have access to the app so they can look at their<br />
individual performances, what they have done<br />
well, and what they have done badly. We also<br />
have video debrief sessions – Monday Night<br />
Football style – before training sessions.”<br />
Hudl, it must be said, wasn’t able to save <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
from a rather disastrous start to the season,<br />
which Ross puts down to the unexpected injuries<br />
of several key players, all of whom are battling<br />
their way back to fitness. “But I can see it<br />
making a huge difference to our preparation for<br />
games as the season progresses, and players get<br />
used to it,” says Ross. “I’d like to use this opportunity<br />
to say a big thank you to the anonymous<br />
donor who gave us this opportunity to have the<br />
edge over teams that don’t use such technology.<br />
And that’s just about all of the other teams that<br />
we play.” Alex Leith<br />
Photo by Alex Leith<br />
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BRICKS AND MORTAR<br />
Prezzo no longer<br />
173 High Street<br />
“Just before we arrived, of course it was Prezzo”,<br />
Kevin Scott of Herbert Scott grins. “When we<br />
took on the new lease, we transformed the space<br />
in six weeks: three weeks ripping everything out<br />
that was left behind – built-in freezers, the pizza<br />
oven. There was a lot of mess – for instance,<br />
an enormous extractor fan coated in grease. It<br />
was a big clearing-up job. They even left their<br />
long-handled pizza shovel. Upstairs, on our roof<br />
terrace, we have kept the giant Prezzo umbrellas.”<br />
So what of the building? Downstairs, in its brand<br />
new incarnation, is a lovely open-plan office seating<br />
around twenty, and two meeting rooms. The<br />
air conditioning greets me. Upstairs is an even<br />
more open space – “laid out café style” – and the<br />
roof terrace, with a great view of the castle.<br />
“Back in the early 80s I used to work for National<br />
Westminster, and was in this building when it<br />
snowed and I couldn’t travel. It had oak-panelled<br />
walls then.” Kevin smiles as we both glance round<br />
at the new, light and airy, open-plan offices.<br />
The Nat West premises were, according to a recent<br />
survey, a 1927 replacement for an earlier historic<br />
building on the site. But the distinctive front<br />
of the building dates from its time as a bank: with<br />
the moulded stone plinth, and ‘semi-ornamental<br />
undersized bricks’ that give it its charming and<br />
rather commanding face onto the High Street.<br />
Kevin says the old building that stood on the site<br />
originally probably dates from the 17th Century.<br />
(The excellent Reeves photo, Tom Reeves tells<br />
me, is from soon after the 1920s renovation –<br />
when it was ‘National Provincial Bank’. ‘The<br />
manager was Mr Palmer’, Tom writes…)<br />
So, why the move here for Herbert Scott? “For<br />
the 23 years we’ve been in business, we’ve never<br />
had our own front door. We spent three years in<br />
Station Street, ten years on the second floor of<br />
Temple House – where Seasalt is – and nine years<br />
upstairs in St Anne’s House, on St Anne’s Hill.<br />
Now, at last, we can look after a client’s experience<br />
from start to finish of a visit. We’re having a<br />
moving-in party in <strong>October</strong>. And then we want to<br />
start sharing the space with the wider community:<br />
hosting public seminars in our upstairs room on<br />
all sorts of personal finance topics – estate planning,<br />
setting up a trust for grandchildren etc.”<br />
Herbert Scott was founded in 1996 by Kevin<br />
Scott and David Herbert. “People often assume<br />
Herbert Scott was a person – although probably<br />
from a few generations back...” So, has he called<br />
his son Herbert, maybe? No! “He’s named after<br />
something else,” laughs Kevin. “I’m always surprised<br />
there aren’t more Harveys in <strong>Lewes</strong>…”<br />
Charlotte Gann<br />
herbertscott.co.uk<br />
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BUSINESS NEWS<br />
Hold onto your hats, the town is buzzing with<br />
new enterprises this month. For a start – talking<br />
hats – top-notch milliner Lucy Barlow is setting<br />
up a studio and shop in the Needlemakers, next<br />
to the Backyard Café. Since 1990 Lucy, formerly<br />
based on the Portobello Road, has been making<br />
hats for collections such as Saks Fifth Avenue<br />
and Harvey Nichols. Her Rasta hats are to die<br />
for, but also expect a broad range of largely male<br />
headwear ‘from Panamas to Peaky Blinders’, both<br />
of her own design and from different labels.<br />
That’s not all, on the haute-couture front. The<br />
uber-trendy dress-maker Susie Cave, wife of Bad<br />
Seed singer-songwriter Nick, has announced on<br />
her Instagram account that she’s moving the HQ<br />
of her business, The Vampire’s Wife, to <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
Susie’s dresses commonly adorn A-List celebrities<br />
such as Kylie Minogue, Keira Knightley and<br />
Dakota Johnson, names which you wouldn’t generally<br />
find in this humble column. It looks like the<br />
HQ will be in the building behind the Riverside<br />
Centre, originally the Tabernacle Sunday School.<br />
Another welcome addition to the Cliffe area is<br />
The Seasons, the organic wholefood business,<br />
established in Forest Row in 1971, bringing<br />
‘zero-waste shopping, organic & biodynamic fruit<br />
& veg, organic skincare, artisan breads, local produce,<br />
vegan and gluten-free products’ to the space<br />
formerly inhabited by Bunce’s. (See ‘My <strong>Lewes</strong>’,<br />
page 11.) It’s worth mentioning that every Friday,<br />
from 11am-4pm, they will invite the public in for<br />
free ‘taster days’, starting with gut-healing snacks<br />
from Organenergy on the 4th Oct, and Spirit of<br />
Hemp on the 11th. <strong>Lewes</strong> Friday Market, meanwhile,<br />
are joining in the zero-waste campaign,<br />
with a bring-your-own-container ‘Friday Market<br />
Cupboard’.<br />
I’d really recommend popping into the Unity<br />
Centre, in the old Turkish Baths on Friars Walk,<br />
a veritable Tardis of a building with two spacious<br />
studios, two treatment rooms, an infra-red sauna<br />
and a flotation tank. Plus a lovely little café, Soul<br />
Soup, where Maya makes healthy snacks and<br />
meals from ‘rescued’ food, that would otherwise<br />
go to waste. Friars Walk has become a go-to area<br />
for health and fitness with the opening of Body<br />
Happy at nos. 40-42, offering gym and bespoke<br />
training packages. It opened late in September,<br />
and is offering the first three months of any<br />
membership for half price.<br />
From Victoria, the elegant interiors store in the<br />
Needlemakers, is moving to the High Street, in<br />
the space where David Smith sold his jewellery<br />
for so many years, ‘by the end of <strong>October</strong>’.<br />
Victoria, accompanied by cocker spaniel puppy<br />
Frankie, will sell furniture and furnishings downstairs,<br />
with the upstairs level offering houseplants<br />
and ‘lifestyle’ wares. The Needlemakers store will<br />
remain open until the move, selling off much of<br />
its stock at up to 50% off.<br />
Finally, great news from the <strong>Lewes</strong> Traders<br />
Association, the organisation chaired by Tom<br />
Reeves looking after the interests of 88-andcounting<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> shop-holders, The LTA has<br />
secured an annual £2,000 grant from the Town<br />
Council, which will be used to close the High<br />
Street to traffic on Late Night Shopping Night,<br />
in December. More on that next month. AL<br />
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INSIDE LEFT<br />
RETURNING EMPTIES<br />
It’s 1933, and this young man appears to be<br />
delivering Whitbread beer round <strong>Lewes</strong>, from<br />
the Westgate Wine Stores on the High Street.<br />
You’d think that the photograph depicts him<br />
knocking on a customer’s door to alert them<br />
that their weekly supply has arrived. Until,<br />
that is, you work out that the picture was taken<br />
outside the back door of the store in question<br />
(now the chippy on the bottleneck).<br />
We don’t know the lad’s identity (anyone out<br />
there?) but we do know that his boss – Thomas<br />
Watson – was quite a character. Watson, then<br />
68, had moved down from London to run the<br />
business in 1918. Before that he had been a sergeant<br />
major in the Northumberland Fusiliers,<br />
serving in India.<br />
Not the sort of man you’d steal from, you’d<br />
imagine, but the Sussex Agricultural Express<br />
reports that in March of 1933, one Charles Gill<br />
had targeted the off-licence on a wide-ranging<br />
nicking spree across Uckfield and <strong>Lewes</strong>. Gill<br />
was caught in Uckfield High Street in the act<br />
of stealing several rolls of Kodak film, and<br />
after being arrested, ‘further charges regarding<br />
property found on his person were taken<br />
into consideration’. This included a fountain<br />
pen from WE Baxter, a box of chocolates from<br />
Avery’s, two ties from Hugh Rae and two<br />
bottles of wine from Westgate Wine Store. It<br />
turns out that Mr Gill was about to get married,<br />
and one might deduce that the items were<br />
on a shopping list for the occasion. He was<br />
given four months hard labour, by the judge,<br />
who commented that if his future wife ‘was<br />
worth anything’ she would still be there for<br />
him when he came out.<br />
Back to the young man in the picture. It appears<br />
that rather than delivering beer – which<br />
was no doubt part of his job – he is returning<br />
empties he has collected from customers. Perhaps<br />
– just perhaps – the former sergeant major<br />
is about to appear at the door, leaving the shop<br />
momentarily unattended…<br />
Alex Leith<br />
Reeves, 159 High St, 01273 473274. Visit to see<br />
more old photos on sale as cards or prints.<br />
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