East Dean 2021-02 web (1)

SewSussex - NHS Appeal 2
Following our amazing village contribution
to the NHS scrubs
appeal during the
first lockdown, we
have been asked if
we can contribute
again to ‘Parcels of
love and wellbeing’
for nurses and care workers.
Sew Sussex is collecting hand cream, lip
balm and anything else cheerful, smelly and
pretty to parcel up and send to the NHS
staff to say thank you and keep going.
Parcels will be gift wrapped each with a
special card at Sew Sussex, 186 Seaside, and
distributed locally.
If you would like to sew, I can forward you
an email with instructions for ‘bling’ scrubs
hats.
If you would like to contribute any items for
the parcels of love, please deliver to 4 Mary
Ann Lane or email/phone and I will come to
collect from your doorstep (East Dean and
Friston residents) until the end of February,
then arrange for collection by Sew Sussex.
Donations by cheque are also welcome.
Please make cheques payable to ‘Sew
Sussex’.
Many thanks in advance for all your
contributions.
Karen Wintle 01323 423555
KMWintle@btinternet.com
OpenArt
Sadly, due to the ongoing
Covid 19 epidemic, and the
uncertainty of when we will
be free to mix and congregate
with other people, we have
decided to cancel our
OpenArt event this year. Hopefully, by the
autumn of 2022, we will all have been
vaccinated and been able to return to some
sort of normal. So, all you artists and
makers, keep producing the wonderful work
that you do and in 2022, we will have the
biggest and best OpenArt ever!
John Dann, Chairman of East Dean and
Friston OpenArt
Send those blues away with a
lockdown window display
Like many of you I have walked extensively
around the villages during these lockdown
days.
In winter it can seem a bit gloomy, and once
the Christmas decorations were removed a
lot less colourful!
So what can we do to raise a smile? How
about dedicating a window at the front of
your house to a colourful display?
Why not spend some of that lockdown time
in making an uplifting display. Be it crazy,
colourful, whimsical, one window or more.
Show your talent and get creative and in the
process hopefully raise a smile for those
passing by.
Lesley DUrso
Bingo update
Not surprisingly, the
Bingo planned for
March 20 th will not
take please. Fingers
crossed for the
planned August 7th
evening. We still
have the extended
Theatre Voucher for
whoever won the prize in Dec 2019. Please
contact us if that is you. If not, we shall use
this for a prize at the next Bingo evening.
Take care and stay safe.
Karen & Roger
WWI through postcards
May I ask residents who have postcards or
letters sent during WWI to get in touch
with me.
My second book on is it an advanced stage
and any local input would be much
appreciated. My first book on WWI is
"McGill’s War", which was well received.
John Wilton, tel. 423773.
Email. Johnpwilton@btinternet.com
What next?
Thank you, everyone who rallied to the
flag for our third on-line parish magazine.
I didn’t think last summer that we would
find ourselves needing to do this again; nor
did I think that we would actually have a
little material in hand for the next issue.
But we do still need more, please!
There is no telling yet whether we shall be
able to post a magazine through your door,
or once again produce something on the
village website. This would not be possible
without the help of Gill Carstens, Village
webmaster www.eastdeanvillage.org.uk
and Michael at NimaPrint, so to them and
everyone who helped in any way – thank
you.
Please print a copy for your neighbour if
they are not able to access the website.
APRIL DEADLINE
MARCH 15 th
Articles max. 300 words
eastdeanfristonmagazine@gmail.com
1 Michel Dene Close, East Dean
BN20 0JT
Tel. 01323 423311
Maybe online, maybe through
your door!
MAGAZINE DONATIONS
Thank you so much for your donations,
Hampton Electrical Contractors, Prowse
and Co; Mr P. Coulcher & Mrs Carol Wines,
Mr C. H. G. Green, Miss P. J. Hewitt, Mrs M.
Honey, Mr & Mrs J. Hugh, Mr & Mrs J.
Newman, Dr M. Norris, Mrs L. Page, Mr R.
Shotter, Mr & Mrs R. Trace and the Barn
Store box.
Donations can be made by cheque, payable
to East Dean & Friston Parish Magazine
and sent to Mrs B. Boucher, 6 The Link,
East Dean BN20 0LB.
East Dean
I wander round these remote roads
Near where the Seven Sisters rise
And hear in every voice that flows
Sounds of glee and happy sighs.
In every laugh of every Man,
In every Infant's cry of cheer,
In every voice, in every clan:
Mankind's natural bliss, I hear.
How the churchgoers jest,
Every ripening tree delight,
Every sparrow in its next
Twitters into the coming night.
But most thro' twilight hills I listen,
To the wise old owl that hoots,
And the rippling pond does glisten,
While nightingales do play their flutes.
Henry Branson, aged 12.
Written during Lockdown last spring and
inspired by William Blake’s ‘London’