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VIVALEWES<br />
Editorial<br />
Crash, bang, wallop, here we go again. We all know what <strong>November</strong><br />
means in <strong>Lewes</strong>, and it isn’t going to be quiet. Whatever measures the cops take<br />
there’ll be rookies going off left, right and centre, vying with the brass bands<br />
blaring, aerials screeching, “Burn the Pope” yelling, Sussex by the Sea singing,<br />
drum bashing, archbishop ranting, bagpipe wailing, and general mob-goesmad<br />
hubbub that vies for ear-space on the Fifth. And it’s not just the aurals: think of those<br />
smells (the whiff of cordite) sensations (the rumble of thunder) visuals (um… everything)<br />
and tastes (what’s your poison?) We can’t wait, as ever, but, having read through all the fine<br />
Bonfire Society programmes on sale this year, we’ve decided to have a ‘quiet’ one, leaving<br />
you to get the bulk of your news from those admirable ever-more-professional-looking<br />
fund-raising publications. Our main Fifth-related feature, in fact, focusses on a number of<br />
bonfires, from across the county, captured by JJ Waller BEFORE they are set alight. And,<br />
keeping on the ‘quiet’ theme, we’re sparing a thought for <strong>Lewes</strong>’ pet population, many of<br />
whom won’t be enjoying the celebrations: in fact we’ve got advice from a number of vets<br />
as to the best thing to do with your domestic animals the night <strong>Lewes</strong>’ human population<br />
goes completely mad. The theme this month, then, craftily refers to <strong>Lewes</strong>’ biggest annual<br />
celebration, and the animals who so fear it: ‘Creatures… of The Night’. Enjoy the issue…<br />
The Team<br />
.....................<br />
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the ‘creatures of the night’ issue<br />
Contents<br />
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Bits and bobs.<br />
10-33. Norman Baker’s political diaries,<br />
a zoomorphic vox pops, Ian Seccombe’s<br />
tawny owl, Rocket FM, Carlotta Luke<br />
and much more besides.<br />
Columns.<br />
35-39. Chloë King’s back at school,<br />
David Jarman’s on-platform poetry, and<br />
Mark Bridge is squashing snails.<br />
In Town this Month.<br />
41-42. Salt of the Earth: we hook up<br />
with Wim Wenders.<br />
45. Opera. New Sussex Opera perform<br />
Ambroise Thomas’ Mignon.<br />
47. Literature. Mr Loverman author<br />
Bernadine Evaristo interview.<br />
49. <strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre costume<br />
department prepares for The Circle.<br />
51. Art. Kettles’ Yard at the Jerwood.<br />
53. Focus on artist Chris Dawson, on at<br />
the Hop Gallery.<br />
55-57. Art and About.<br />
59. Paul Austin Kelly’s classical roundup,<br />
including the The Arcadia Quartet.<br />
61-66. Diary dates. What’s on, where<br />
and when.<br />
69-71. Gig Guide. Talk about… pop<br />
music. Shoobeedoobeedoowop!<br />
73-80. Free Time. Danger Mouse is<br />
back, a fab <strong>Lewes</strong>-made trading cards<br />
game is launching, we visit a llama park,<br />
and young photographer of the month.<br />
>>><br />
Photo by Rebecca King
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the ‘creatures of the night’ issue<br />
86<br />
95<br />
106<br />
Food and drink.<br />
82-93. Coffee in Ground, <strong>Lewes</strong>’<br />
new Persian cooking company,<br />
steak burger at the Pelham Arms,<br />
everything you need to know about<br />
potatoes, and Lancashire Bomb<br />
cheese.<br />
The Way We Burn.<br />
95-101. JJ Waller’s atmospheric<br />
collection of unlit bonfires.<br />
On-theme features.<br />
103-113. Bonfire shopping, advice<br />
from local vets, Russell Gates from<br />
Plumpton College, a day in the life<br />
of shepherd Alex Callf, Raystede<br />
pet rescue and Drusilla’s head zoo<br />
keeper.<br />
Regular features.<br />
115-121. John Henty’s <strong>Lewes</strong> Out<br />
Loud, Michael Blencowe’s wildlife<br />
page, and Timothy the Tortoise in<br />
Bricks and Mortar.<br />
Inside Left.<br />
138. There are going to be<br />
fireworks.<br />
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this month’s cover artist: sean sims<br />
We’ve broken one<br />
of our own rules this<br />
month, by asking a non-<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>ian to design our<br />
front cover. But when<br />
we saw Brighton-based<br />
Sean Sims’ illustration<br />
of the town, we thought<br />
it warranted an exception.<br />
The original design<br />
is Sean’s own representation of <strong>Lewes</strong>, in his<br />
signature style of clean shapes and solid colours.<br />
“I did it as an experiment really,” he says, “because<br />
I’d done a few Brighton ones, but I like <strong>Lewes</strong>, I<br />
like the way the buildings are all stacked up.” He’s<br />
used a bit of artistic licence with the composition,<br />
bringing in the castle, the station and, of course,<br />
Harveys. “I’m sure people from <strong>Lewes</strong> will notice<br />
the buildings I’ve missed!” Even though he<br />
doesn’t live here, Sean has always had ‘a soft spot’<br />
for the town, where he chose to get married four<br />
years ago. You might not have spotted the tiny<br />
heart in the window of the Town Hall.<br />
We asked him to design a bonfire version to illustrate<br />
this month’s theme, so he’s shifted the scene<br />
from day to night, with the addition of torches,<br />
the dark night sky and the fireworks. Although<br />
both versions of the print are colourful in themselves,<br />
they each use a slightly more muted palette<br />
than his usual bold, bright designs. “I tried<br />
to pick colours which represented <strong>Lewes</strong> - more<br />
adult colours,” he explains, opting for browns and<br />
neutrals which he’s seen around the town. “If I<br />
used bright colours, it wouldn’t work as well.”<br />
He enjoys simplifying objects right down to their<br />
basic shapes, just using simple geometry where<br />
possible. One of his prints, Electric Dreams, is a<br />
montage of classic 80s technology featuring a<br />
ghetto blaster, a Sinclair computer and an Atari<br />
console. Another uses old sound equipment, like<br />
a 70s hi-fi, a cassette tape and a reel-to-reel recorder.<br />
“Old technology is an illustrator’s dream,”<br />
he says, “because all of the shapes can be broken<br />
down into squares and circles.” Modern technology<br />
doesn’t hold quite the same appeal.<br />
Both the original print and the bonfire edition<br />
will be available to buy in A3-size, exclusively<br />
from Leadbetter and Good, as of the beginning<br />
of <strong>November</strong>. Find them at 33A Cliffe High St.<br />
To see more of Sean’s work, visit yellowhouseartlicensing.com<br />
and newdivision.co.uk.<br />
Interview by Rebecca Cunningham<br />
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Photos by Carlotta Luke<br />
Photos by Carlotta Luke
Photo bny Alex Leith<br />
my Downland<br />
Michael Blencowe, Sussex Wildlife Trust officer<br />
Are you local? I’ve lived round these parts for 25<br />
years, first in Friston Forest (in a house, not in a<br />
tree) then in Henfield. I’d like to live in <strong>Lewes</strong>,<br />
where I work, but I couldn’t afford a place there.<br />
Your ‘office’ is quite big… Sussex Wildlife Trust<br />
have two nature reserves next to <strong>Lewes</strong>, one on<br />
Malling Down and one in Southerham. Both are<br />
great examples of chalk grassland full of rare species.<br />
My job – as People and Wildlife Officer –<br />
is to encourage people to use those reserves and<br />
learn more about the wildlife that lives there, as<br />
well as to encourage more wildlife into <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
Every little bit helps: just little alterations to your<br />
garden can encourage wildlife to thrive there.<br />
It’s amazing how few people you meet up on<br />
the Downs… It’s true. Most people stay in the<br />
town with their Forfars pasties, even though within<br />
20 minutes they can be completely surrounded<br />
by great protected Downland. It’s worth adding<br />
that this land is beneficial to everyone, whether<br />
they go there or not: as well as providing a good<br />
chance for a bit of exercise, the hills provide good<br />
clean drinking water and a pollination service for<br />
local crops.<br />
What’s your favourite landmark? Oxteddle Bottom<br />
at Southerham. It’s half an hour’s walk away,<br />
between <strong>Lewes</strong>, and Glynde. You’re out of sight<br />
of any pylons and out of earshot of the A27. Plus<br />
there’s an ancient dew pond there we’ve restored.<br />
And a deer, which has bonded with our cows.<br />
What do you think of food foraging? Too many<br />
people who don’t put anything back into nature<br />
are doing it. You wouldn’t pick a rare orchid, so<br />
why pick a rare mushroom? I’ve got nothing<br />
against eating roadkill, though.<br />
Are you a fan of Bonfire? No! I went once and<br />
I’m not going to go again. I don’t like crowds and<br />
noise, so it’s not for me.<br />
It’s not a good time for hedgehogs. Some say<br />
that hedgehogs will die out within 20 years but it’s<br />
not because of bonfires, it’s because of the loss of<br />
their natural habitat. But if you do build a bonfire,<br />
move it on the day you’re going to light it, just in<br />
case one’s crawled in.<br />
Tell us about the nightlife in <strong>Lewes</strong>, wildlifewise.<br />
There are plenty of bats in town and an increasing<br />
number of tawny owls. A good number<br />
of moths. And glow-worms, in the summer. Foxes<br />
have recently been adapting to life in town and<br />
enjoying all our wasted food that’s on offer.<br />
Any animals to look out for in <strong>November</strong>? The<br />
water rail, my favourite bird. You’ll not see them,<br />
but you’ll hear them, among the reeds by the<br />
Ouse. They sound like a pig being slaughtered.<br />
If you didn’t live round here, where would you<br />
live? Asturias in Northern Spain. AL<br />
sussexwildlifetrust.co.uk<br />
michaelblencowe@sussexwt.org.uk<br />
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FERRY colourful<br />
Martin Sinnock, a ‘semi-retired music writer’, also knows which end of a camera is which, as you can<br />
see from this photograph taken – where else could it be? – in Newhaven. “There were two ferries in<br />
port, that day,” he says. “Usually there is only one here at any time, but the Seven Sisters ferry had<br />
broken down. She had to be berthed up against the metal scrap heap in order that the other ferry,<br />
Côte d’Albâtre, could berth at the roll-on roll-off quayside.” By chance, on the same day, Martin had<br />
special access to the scrapyard and snapped this picture, asking and gaining permission from the site<br />
manager to publish it. “I felt that was quite decent and kind of him,” continues Martin. “I convinced<br />
him that it was an example of how an industrial location can look strangely beautiful.” Martin went<br />
to work on the resulting image on Photoshop, in order to saturate the colours: “that’s what makes the<br />
picture exciting,” he says. “I was inspired by the colours of Jackson Pollock!” Martin shoots with a Fuji<br />
Compact System Camera. “I’ve had a number of normal digital SLRs, and I find this is just as good,<br />
and easy to use, just smaller and easier to carry around.”<br />
Please send your pictures, taken in and around <strong>Lewes</strong>, to photos@vivalewes.com. We’ll choose our favourite<br />
for this page, which wins the photographer £20. Unless otherwise arranged we reserve the right to use all<br />
pictures in future issues of <strong>Viva</strong> magazines and online.<br />
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its and bobs<br />
vox pop Eleri jones from sussex downs college asks:<br />
“if you were an animal what would you be?” (No lobsters!)<br />
“I think I would be a<br />
lion so I could be king<br />
of the jungle!”<br />
Allan Lofthouse<br />
“I would definitely be a<br />
rabbit because they are<br />
bouncy like my personality”<br />
Lucy Burns<br />
“I’d be a dog, because I’d<br />
love to have one as they are<br />
very affectionate”<br />
Angela Tennick<br />
“I’d like to be an elephant as<br />
they mourn their dead<br />
for two months”<br />
Rachel Oakes<br />
“I think I’d be a meerkat<br />
so I could have a good<br />
nose around!”<br />
Karen Muxworthy<br />
“I’d be an owl, safe<br />
from all predators”<br />
Jonathan Bailey<br />
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its and bobs<br />
ian seccombe’s point of view<br />
‘Creatures of the night: the Tawny Owl (Strix aluco), has long been associated with misfortune and<br />
death,’ writes Ian Seccombe, as ever on theme this month. ‘As Lady Macbeth remarks to herself while<br />
Macbeth is murdering King Duncan: “It was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman, Which gives the<br />
stern’st good-night” (Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2).’<br />
town plaques #8: Fitzroy House<br />
Only one building in the town has had a second plaque added - 10,<br />
High Street. <strong>Lewes</strong> MP Henry Fitzroy’s marriage to his wife Hannah<br />
was happy, but he was much affected by the death of his son Arthur,<br />
aged 15, and he died a year later, aged only 51. His widow, originally a<br />
Rothschild - which was then the richest family in the world - bought<br />
a small plot of land to build a lending and reference library as a fitting<br />
memorial for him. She employed the renowned architect Sir George<br />
Gilbert Scott, who also designed the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras<br />
Station and the Albert Memorial. A new town library was eventually<br />
opened and Fitzroy House would have mouldered away but for<br />
the intervention of the Franks family who undertook the extraordinary<br />
task of converting this derelict ruin into a private house. Marcus Taylor<br />
On 20th January a Friends of <strong>Lewes</strong> talk focuses on the impact of floods and the ‘great storm’ of 1987.<br />
If you have a story to share, please contact Marcus: enquiries@friends-of-lewes.org.uk/01273 473098<br />
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from New York, and there’s a great story around it. “Here’s a<br />
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nearly 300 of their dearest family and friends. We did a<br />
mercy dash to grab some hot-off-the-press September issues<br />
the night before flying out, and we got lots of attention<br />
carrying around our little bundle of <strong>Viva</strong>s at the wedding and lots of<br />
compliments (on the <strong>Viva</strong>s!) We’re hoping if we get our photo in we<br />
can send next month’s copy as a wedding souvenir!” Your wish is our<br />
command. Next up, we’re in Turkey. “As previously featured in <strong>Viva</strong><br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>!” writes Alan Hobden, referring to our feature in the spring<br />
on Gary Blount’s Gulet Barefoot Cruises. “We have just enjoyed an<br />
idyllic week’s sailing in the Aegean. Lady Sovereign II is a beautiful<br />
traditional Turkish tall-masted sailing ship (a ketch?) and we took<br />
advantage of a week’s cruise from Marmaris to Bozborun and back.<br />
We would recommend this to anyone.”<br />
ghost pubs: #13 The fox inn, southerham<br />
In line with this month’s theme of<br />
‘creatures of the night’, the ghost<br />
pub for this edition had to be the<br />
Fox Inn at Southerham. There had<br />
been a beershop at Southerham<br />
since the early 1800s, situated next<br />
to the toll house for the <strong>Lewes</strong> to<br />
Eastbourne turnpike, and convenient<br />
for the many workers at the<br />
nearby limekilns. However, the<br />
name ‘The Fox’ does not appear until<br />
the 1861 census. Percival George<br />
Burr and his wife Rose took over<br />
the pub in the 1920s, and ran it for<br />
25 years. Millie White remembers<br />
walking along the river bank to the<br />
Fox with her parents on Sunday evenings in the 1920s and 30s. Her parents would go in for a drink in the<br />
pub, while the children sat outside by the river with a lemonade. The Fox was finally closed in 1956, and the<br />
building demolished in 1976 to make way for the new bypass. This photo, featured in <strong>Lewes</strong> Then and Now<br />
Vol.2, by Bill Young and David Arscott, shows the Fox and the tollhouse. Mat Homewood<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> and surroundings are home to 32 species of nocturnal mammal, ranging<br />
in size from the fallow deer at 80kg to the pipistrelle bat at 5g. There are<br />
10 species of bat locally, and 4 species of owl known to breed in the area. The<br />
town has at least 4 churchyards where wildlife are actively encouraged, and a<br />
roe deer was caught on camera in one. But there have been 0 sightings of the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Wave Moth in the UK since 1961.<br />
Sarah Boughton ‘with help from Michael Blencowe’.<br />
Book Review: For the love of The Archers<br />
How many times did David Archer fail his mathematics A Level? Whose first<br />
wife was called Bobo? What was the name of Freda Fry’s favourite film? If you<br />
know the answers to all these questions, you should probably seek professional<br />
help. Otherwise, I recommend For the Love of The Archers, a positive cornucopia<br />
of Archers lore both serious and trivial, expertly compiled by <strong>Lewes</strong> novelist<br />
Beth Miller. The foreword is supplied by Charles Collingwood who plays Brian<br />
Aldridge (Happy Birthday on the 11th, Brian!) And there’s plentiful input from<br />
both ordinary listeners (all of whom exhibit those mixed emotions of affection<br />
and exasperation that one knows so well) and celebrity fans like Joanna Trollope,<br />
Wendy Cope and creator of Last Tango in Halifax etc, Sally Wainwright who<br />
nominates Eddie Grundy throwing up inside the piano at The Bull as her ‘most<br />
memorable Ambridge moment’. (£9.99 bethmiller.co.uk) David Jarman<br />
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its and bobs<br />
lewes worthy: david mc taggart<br />
David McTaggart was ‘perhaps<br />
the most self-contradictory<br />
personality in the ecology movement,’<br />
according to one Greenpeace<br />
historian. He’s been variously<br />
characterised as a shrewd<br />
business thinker and talented<br />
PR-man, a workaholic capable of<br />
great charm and charisma, and<br />
a foul-mouthed autocrat with a<br />
‘playboy attitude’. He was also,<br />
according to the Independent, ‘far more than<br />
anyone else… responsible for [Greenpeace’s]<br />
growth into a giant international organisation.’<br />
McTaggart was born in Vancouver in June 1932.<br />
In his pre-Greenpeace days, he’d been a national<br />
badminton champion, a construction industry<br />
millionaire, a bankrupt, and then, in the Sunday<br />
Times’ words, ‘a kind of upmarket ocean bum’.<br />
His early activism involved trying to disrupt<br />
French nuclear tests with his yacht,<br />
which got boarded by French sailors,<br />
who gave him a severe beating, earning<br />
Greenpeace widespread publicity.<br />
When Greenpeace International was<br />
formed in 1979, McTaggart became<br />
its chairman. Possibly because he lived<br />
nearby, in Rodmell, he set up the group’s<br />
headquarters in <strong>Lewes</strong>. They were based<br />
at Temple House, School Hill, for the<br />
next ten years. Andrew Stirling, who<br />
worked there in the mid-to-late 80s, recalls it<br />
as ‘an extremely close community’ of highly<br />
motivated and talented people, working out of<br />
open-plan offices with the ‘then state-of-the-art<br />
telex, many computers and world time clocks all<br />
down one wall.’ McTaggart moved to Italy in the<br />
early 90s and ran an olive farm. He died in a car<br />
accident in 2001. His will stipulated a $100 fine<br />
for anyone caught crying at his funeral. SR<br />
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We’re delighted that Carlotta Luke has agreed to<br />
be featured every month in this spot; the <strong>Lewes</strong>based<br />
photographer really gets herself around town<br />
and we’re going to ask her to look into a few nooks<br />
and crannies for us over the next few months. For<br />
this, her second mini-feature, though, we’ve asked<br />
her to delve into her Bonfire archive, and she’s<br />
found a few crackers. The bottom two are grist to<br />
the mill of those who think there’s a bit of Wicker<br />
Man in the Night’s proceedings; the top two pictures<br />
show more of the community side of affairs,<br />
and how magical an occasion it is for <strong>Lewes</strong> kids.<br />
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its and bobs<br />
Book Review: The Pubs of <strong>Lewes</strong>, David and Lynda Russell<br />
David Russell is a Hastings-based pub historian who, having written three<br />
books about the hostelries of our coastal neighbour, past and present,<br />
has turned his attention to the county town, assisted by his wife, Lynda.<br />
‘An old <strong>Lewes</strong> proverb reminds us that the town was once home to seven<br />
breweries, seven churches and 70 pubs’ he tells us, in his introduction, and,<br />
in the subsequent 313 pages, goes on to list all those establishments, and<br />
more, talking about their foundation and history, inserting location-relevant<br />
snippets from newspapers and photographs, turning the whole project into<br />
something of a social history of <strong>Lewes</strong>. The result is a fascinating reference<br />
book, with enormous pick-up-and-browse value, which will provide<br />
much conversation fodder in <strong>Lewes</strong>’ surviving hostelries. We’ll leave you<br />
with a season-relevant anecdote from the Pelham Arms entry: ‘One of the<br />
earliest reports of [Borough Bonfire Society] is in 1855 when a Bonfire Boy<br />
‘removed’ some wood for the bonfire from the Pelham Arms stables. He<br />
was observed by a local constable and charged with theft but in his defence described himself as the Bonfire<br />
Boys’ ‘Bishop’ and claimed ‘benefit of clergy’… With the support of the Pelham landlord he got off!’ AL<br />
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Book Review: against the grain<br />
Norman Baker has written a book, Against the Grain, about his 28 years as<br />
a Lib-Dem politician, from his election to the Ouse Valley Council (for the<br />
villages of Glynde, Firle, Beddingham, Tarring Nevill and South Heighton)<br />
to his shock General Election defeat in May of this year. The title, of<br />
course, refers to his abrasive MO, both as a councillor and an MP, which led<br />
to him being dubbed by David Cameron as ‘the most annoying man in Parliament’<br />
– while he was serving in Cameron’s cabinet. He doesn’t skimp on<br />
the early part of his career, and his battles with the Tories in County Hall,<br />
but the most absorbing accounts are those of his time spent as an MP for<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>: his surprise election in 1997 made him the first non-Tory representative<br />
of this constituency since 1874. The chapter on this election victory,<br />
in fact, is unputdownable: he tells of his canny courting of the tactical vote,<br />
reminds us of Paddy Ashdown’s arrival on Malling Rec in a helicopter to support him, and tells a hilarious<br />
anecdote about a rather desperate Tim Rathbone (his Tory rival) canvassing one of his Liberal colleagues<br />
in Telscombe Village, which happens to be in a different constituency. A tear nearly came to my eye when I<br />
read his account of walking up the High Street the day after his victory – it took him over an hour, so many<br />
people were congratulating him. Eighteen extremely eventful years later, of course – his candid description<br />
of which forms the meat of this very readable book - it was arguably the lack of tactical voting that put<br />
paid to his reign as an MP. As well, of course, as a national disenchantment with all things Lib Dem. Which<br />
leads to a question which he doesn’t raise: if he had left the party, and declared himself an Independent<br />
instead of becoming a Coalition government minister, would he still be an MP today? AL<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> Borough: ‘Death or Glory’<br />
Borough are this year hoping to get into the<br />
Guinness Book of Records with a 50-foot-high Guy<br />
Fawkes, potentially the biggest ever. Their firesite,<br />
as ever, is on Landport Bottom, off Nevill Road,<br />
tickets £5/£3. Almost as excitingly it’s come to our<br />
attention that Borough Bonfire Boys were briefly<br />
featured in the original 1977 video of the Sex<br />
Pistols’ God Save the Queen, which you can see on<br />
YouTube. The video was rarely seen in its day as<br />
the song was banned by the BBC.<br />
Cliffe: ‘Nulli Secundus’<br />
Cliffe are enormously proud of the newly opened<br />
premises which have replaced their collection of<br />
sheds and temporary buildings that they’ve used<br />
for the 30 years they’ve owned their own yard.<br />
This year’s programme editor has sneakily made<br />
the publication a two-in-one job: one half is all<br />
about Cliffe, the other half of their 96-page mag<br />
is taken up, in an upside-down back-to-front sort<br />
of way, by the more general-info Bonfire Night – A<br />
Users’ Guide. Their firesite will, as it has been for<br />
years now, be behind Ham Lane (access via Pinwell<br />
Lane, tickets only). Their chosen charities this year<br />
are St John’s Ambulance, The Sussex Heart Charity<br />
and Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance.<br />
Commercial Square: ‘For Independence’<br />
After successfully experimenting with their Third<br />
Procession route last year, Commercial Square will<br />
again march to the top of town via Prince Edward’s<br />
Road and Wallands. This is, in fact, their traditional<br />
march, as evidenced by the earliest programme<br />
they have on file, from 1873. Look out for the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Glynde and Beddingham Brass, as well as<br />
the Barhulo Samba Band. And, of course, the ghost<br />
of Edmund Godfrey. Their firesite is, as ever, on<br />
Landport Recreation Ground; entry is free.<br />
Southover: ‘Advance’<br />
Southover are celebrating their tenth year since reforming,<br />
and their eighth year with a firesite, which<br />
this year (and for the foreseeable future, thanks to a<br />
lot of hard negotiating) will be the Stanley Turner<br />
Ground. Back in 2005 they managed to muster 100<br />
marchers; now there are over 600 society members.<br />
Look out for guest musicians the British Imperial<br />
Marching Band and the Pentacle Drummers.<br />
South Street: ‘Faithful unto Death’<br />
This year South Street are collecting for three<br />
charities: the Railway Land Wildlife Trust, the<br />
Wildlife Rescue Ambulance Service and the Cystic<br />
Fibrosis Trust. The last is close to stalwarts’ hearts<br />
after the sad loss of young South Street member<br />
Freya Murphy to the condition earlier this year.<br />
South Street firesite is on the Railway Land, and as<br />
ever starts earlier than the others at approximately<br />
8.30pm. Tickets £5/£4.<br />
Waterloo: ‘True to Each Other’<br />
Waterloo bonfire boys are celebrating the 200th<br />
anniversary of the decisive battle after which the<br />
society is named. The two charities they are representing<br />
this year are the Rockinghorse Children’s<br />
Charity and St John’s Ambulance. Special guests in<br />
the processions this year include the High Society<br />
Military Marching Band and TS Swiftsure. Their<br />
firesite is at Malling Brooks, behind Tesco, and is<br />
the biggest of the night; entry costs £3.<br />
Photos by Carlotta Luke<br />
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David Jarman<br />
A Sussex Adlestrop<br />
This year marks<br />
the centenary of<br />
the composition of<br />
Adlestrop, probably<br />
Edward Thomas’<br />
best-known poem.<br />
All of his 142 poems<br />
were written<br />
between December<br />
1914 and January<br />
1917. On 9th April<br />
1917 he was killed<br />
as the Arras Easter<br />
offensive began.<br />
Adlestrop is dated<br />
8th January 1915, but as Edna Longley shows in<br />
her scholarly edition of the Collected Poems, with<br />
reference to Thomas’ field notebooks, the train<br />
journey evoked in the poem actually took place on<br />
24th June 1914. ‘Yes. I remember Adlestrop / The<br />
name, because one afternoon / of heat the expresstrain<br />
drew up there / Unwontedly. It was late<br />
June’. Adlestrop is just west of Chipping Norton<br />
on the main Great Western Railway line from<br />
London to Oxford, Worcester and Malvern. ‘The<br />
steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat / No<br />
one left and no one came / On the bare platform’.<br />
(No wonder, perhaps, that it was a casualty of Dr<br />
Beeching’s cuts, closing to passengers on 3rd January<br />
1966!) The relevant passage in the field notebook<br />
reads: ‘Then we stopped at Adlestrop… one<br />
thrush and no man seen, only a hiss of engine letting<br />
off steam’. In the poem the solitary thrush becomes<br />
a blackbird, and the man clearing his throat<br />
is recorded in Thomas’ notebook as happening at<br />
another unscheduled stop, outside Campden, as<br />
are the ‘willow herb & meadowsweet’ mentioned<br />
later in the poem.<br />
Train travel often crops up in Philip Larkin’s<br />
work. In I Remember, I Remember Larkin, ‘Coming<br />
up England by a different line for once’, leans out<br />
of the window of his train that has stopped and<br />
exclaims: ‘Why Coventry!...<br />
I was born<br />
here’. Journeying<br />
North from Oxford<br />
in Dockery & Son, the<br />
poet’s train pulls into<br />
Sheffield ‘where I<br />
changed / and ate an<br />
awful pie’. And then<br />
there’s The Whitsun<br />
Weddings. He’s on a<br />
train travelling from<br />
Hull to London –<br />
‘That Whitsun, I was<br />
late getting away /<br />
Not till about / one-twenty on the sunlit Saturday<br />
/ Did my three-quarters empty train pull out’.<br />
And then, ‘At first, I didn’t notice what a noise the<br />
weddings made / Each station that we stopped at’.<br />
As in Adlestrop, Larkin has altered the details of<br />
the actual journey which appears to have inspired<br />
the poem. The train from Hull in question was<br />
bound for London but Larkin needed to change<br />
again as he was in fact on his way to see his mother<br />
in Loughborough. On 3rd August 1955 he wrote<br />
to Monica Jones: ‘I went home on Saturday afternoon,<br />
1.30 to Grantham – a lovely run… and at<br />
every station, Goole, Doncaster, Retford, Newark,<br />
importunate wedding parties, gawky and vociferous,<br />
seeing off couples to London’. So, 30th July, I<br />
think. Not Whitsun at all! Not, of course, that it<br />
matters a jot.<br />
More recently, browsing through the magazines<br />
in Waitrose, I came across a poem by Connie<br />
Bensley in the issue of The Spectator dated 19th<br />
September <strong>2015</strong>. Entitled On the Way to Plumpton,<br />
it describes a meeting at Wivelsfield station between<br />
‘the one figure on the platform / a mature,<br />
buxom woman in pink’ and a ‘burly moustachioed<br />
man’ who alights from the poet’s carriage. Try<br />
and track it down. Not in the Thomas or Larkin<br />
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Ate days a week<br />
“Chloë!” It’s some students<br />
from Friday’s session, goading<br />
me from a table in the<br />
cafeteria.<br />
“Anything good to eat this<br />
weekend?”<br />
“Yes…” I’m being forced<br />
to think on my feet, again.<br />
Teaching is hard.<br />
“…Sunday night: gammon,<br />
mashed potatoes and peas.<br />
Amazing!”<br />
It seems that having a food<br />
blogger for a teacher is funny, and becoming a<br />
teacher is funny for a food blogger, so what better<br />
way to record my first two weeks than with a<br />
food diary?<br />
Day one: Channelling a wholesome and professional<br />
vibe with a breakfast of high-fruit muesli<br />
and a banana. Arrive 50 minutes early then<br />
get stuck in reception until five-to while the<br />
receptionist fails to locate my course leader.<br />
Nearly on! Neck two cups of strong black coffee<br />
to waylay nerves… Phew, that could have gone<br />
better. Celebrate with lunch of vegetable curry,<br />
poppadom and mango chutney in the student<br />
canteen.<br />
Day two: Breakfast of toast and coffee. Find out<br />
they sell Starbucks at school, forgo my boycott<br />
of several years and order an Americano: small,<br />
two-thirds full. Course leaders inform me my<br />
teaching will be observed next week, just to<br />
check ‘I’m not an axe murderer’. Digest the<br />
unsettling news over lunch of macaroni cheese<br />
with half a giant tomato.<br />
Day three: I did have breakfast today, followed<br />
by an Americano two-thirds full. The server<br />
queries my order, presuming I must like a lot of<br />
milk. We decide Starbucks needs to extend the<br />
available cup sizes. Lunch is vegetable lasagne.<br />
I receive a twenty seven-page assessment document<br />
by email about my forthcoming observation<br />
‘to check I’m not an axe<br />
murderer’.<br />
Day four: Short lesson this<br />
morning preceded by an<br />
Americano two-thirds full<br />
and highlighted by a packet<br />
of Maltesers. I must be<br />
getting the hang of the job<br />
because I managed to bring<br />
a packed lunch: chorizo<br />
sandwiches and an apple. I<br />
also drank tea out of a staff<br />
cup!<br />
Day five: Observation day, rain is lashing down<br />
heavily proving pathetic fallacy is actually a<br />
thing. Americano two-thirds full in preparation;<br />
run home without having lunch.<br />
Day six: In order of appearance: Maltesers,<br />
chicken tikka masala, samosa, poppadom, mango<br />
chutney. Americano two-thirds full.<br />
Day seven: Toast. Americano two-thirds full,<br />
stay late prepping for next week. Find a friend<br />
in the library, yes! Miss the canteen, no… See<br />
sandwich board for café open till 2.15pm, rush<br />
upstairs, through the doors, there’s a bar too!<br />
Breathless: ‘are you still open?’<br />
Smiling: ‘depends what for.’<br />
‘A sandwich?’<br />
The server goes to the fridge and pulls out a<br />
limp sandwich. ‘We have ham and cheese, but<br />
the toastie grill is off, sorry.’<br />
‘I’ll take it,’ I say gratefully.<br />
‘Cake?’<br />
‘Oh go on, I was looking at that cake.’ She gives<br />
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Later that eve: two glasses of natural wine and<br />
two-and-a-half pints of Harveys Best.<br />
Day eight: High-fruit muesli and a banana.<br />
Americano two-thirds full. Curriculum leader<br />
hands me my report, ‘you’re not an axe murderer<br />
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East of Earwig<br />
Walking home and squashing snails<br />
Photo by Mark Bridge<br />
I’m tiptoeing across our patio in the dark.<br />
Silhouetted in the moonlight, I cast a sinister<br />
shadow rather like a Scooby-Doo villain. An<br />
ominous rumble accompanies every step I take.<br />
It’s Sunday night and I’m moving our wheeled<br />
bin onto the driveway, ready for it to be emptied<br />
in the morning. However, my caution isn’t an<br />
attempt to keep quiet. It’s prompted by the<br />
large number of snails that inhabit our garden.<br />
You see, I have a particular fondness for snails,<br />
although I’m not quite sure why. Perhaps it’s<br />
the childhood trauma of having stood on one.<br />
Perhaps it’s the graphic description of snail farming<br />
that our French teacher gave us at secondary<br />
school. Either way, I don my outdoor slippers and<br />
tread very carefully whenever I’m in the garden at<br />
night. If I didn’t, there’d be a lot of crunching.<br />
Actually, I’m not sure if tiptoeing is a smart<br />
move. Although it reduces the size of my footprint,<br />
it increases the pressure if there is any unfortunate<br />
snail-related incident. Maybe I ought<br />
to wear bigger shoes to disperse the impact. I<br />
wonder what size of shoe I’d need to ensure<br />
the safety of the average snail? A quick internet<br />
search reveals that dancing en pointe in ballet<br />
shoes can double the pressures acting on a foot.<br />
Therefore, strapping a pillow to each foot might<br />
be enough – but my A-level physics fails me at<br />
this stage. I’m tired and it’s time for bed.<br />
Just a few minutes after my head hits the pillow<br />
I’m drifting off into a world where snails are<br />
telepathic. They’re trying to teach me something<br />
about Newton’s Second Law of Motion. Julia<br />
Bradbury is there, too. Perhaps she’s making a<br />
TV show about my pillow-shoe invention. She<br />
smiles at me and… hang on, Julia, I’m a married<br />
man. My wife…<br />
My wife’s phone wakes me with a beep. She<br />
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one day in the mid-1980s when he caught sight<br />
of some startling photographs in the window<br />
of a gallery. Intrigued, he entered and learned<br />
that the photographer was a Brazilian named<br />
Sebastião Salgado. He emerged soon after the<br />
owner of a pair of prints – one from Salgado’s<br />
Serra Pelada series of a gold mine in the Amazon,<br />
the other an incredible portrait from the<br />
Sahel in Africa – that continue to this day to<br />
hang over the director’s desk in his Berlin office.<br />
It was not until 2009, though, that the two men<br />
actually met, at Salgado’s studio in Paris. That<br />
led to Wenders accompanying the photographer<br />
on trips to remote corners of the globe, and now<br />
to the Oscar-nominated documentary The Salt<br />
of the Earth, jointly directed by Wenders and<br />
Salgado’s son Juliano Ribeiro, which is playing<br />
at the All Saints on <strong>November</strong> 6th.<br />
I manage to get an e-mail interview with Wenders,<br />
who is a photographer himself, and is also<br />
married to one. “I just wanted to know the<br />
man,” he writes, “because he had impressed me<br />
for so long. He seemed deserving of a portrait<br />
of his own.”<br />
Sebastião Salgado is perhaps the pre-eminent<br />
‘social photographer’ of our times, honoured<br />
by the Royal Photographic Society with its first<br />
centenary award for his ‘sustained, significant<br />
contribution to the art of photography’ and<br />
immersed in conflicts, famines, mass migrations<br />
and other man-made catastrophes. His recent<br />
large-scale, nature-oriented project called Genesis<br />
resulted in worldwide exhibitions and a 520-<br />
page book of photographs covering Antarctica,<br />
the Arctic and all points between.<br />
The Salt of the Earth presents the basic facts<br />
of Salgado’s life and his memories of them:<br />
his childhood in Brazil’s isolated interior; his<br />
years studying economics; exile in France with<br />
his wife and business partner, Lélia Wanick,<br />
after the Brazilian military imposed a dictatorial<br />
regime. But its main focus is on Salgado as<br />
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in town this month: CINEMA<br />
Salt of the Earth (cont.)<br />
an artist, and Wenders<br />
struggled for months<br />
to find the best way to<br />
capture the relationship<br />
between the man and his<br />
work before conceiving a<br />
highly effective solution:<br />
filming through the<br />
scrim of a teleprompter<br />
as Salgado looks at and<br />
talks about some of the<br />
most emblematic images<br />
he has shot during a<br />
career of more than 40<br />
years.<br />
“It was a way for<br />
Sebastião to talk from<br />
inside the photographs,<br />
so to speak”, Wenders<br />
says. “He had nothing<br />
in front of him on that<br />
screen except his own<br />
work. He couldn’t see<br />
the camera; he couldn’t<br />
see me. It was a pitchblack<br />
darkroom, so he<br />
could totally remain in a<br />
state of being completely<br />
lost in the memory.”<br />
For Salgado, now 71,<br />
that process was at times painful, as the film also<br />
examines the psychological crisis that all but<br />
crippled him in the mid-1990s after covering the<br />
genocidal wars in Rwanda and Bosnia, and the<br />
massive refugee crises in their wake. At a particularly<br />
poignant moment in the film, recalling the<br />
scenes he witnessed and photographed, Salgado<br />
admits to having completely despaired at any possible<br />
salvation for mankind.<br />
His son Juliano had already shot some footage for<br />
a family-focused project of his own when he and<br />
Wenders teamed up, and they continued to work<br />
largely separately as they filmed. As a result, when<br />
the two directors began<br />
working together, they<br />
had very different kinds<br />
of footage and had to<br />
confront a fundamental<br />
challenge: how to piece<br />
everything together into<br />
a coherent whole that<br />
would also do justice to<br />
each man’s efforts and<br />
vision.<br />
Both have described<br />
the editing process as<br />
extremely difficult and<br />
time-consuming, with<br />
false starts and dead<br />
ends. “After about a year,<br />
we were sort of desperate,<br />
because we hadn’t<br />
a clue how to do this”,<br />
Wenders recalls. “We<br />
both knew that we could<br />
make a film, each of us<br />
alone, and at some point<br />
that was a possibility.<br />
But we knew that if we<br />
managed to make one<br />
film, it would be a better<br />
film than our separate<br />
films could possibly be.”<br />
In the end, the film “tells the story of an entire<br />
cycle, of a living land that dies and is then reborn.<br />
That is also more or less the story of Sebastião, who<br />
reached a breaking point and had to reinvent himself,<br />
so it was a very powerful thing. And to tell the<br />
truth, we only realised that in the editing room.”<br />
The result is a truly captivating film, a journey<br />
of discovery for all involved, and a remarkable<br />
testimony to one man’s enduring empathy for the<br />
human condition, told with pathos, humility and<br />
cinematic precision. Yoram Allon<br />
Salt of the Earth, <strong>Lewes</strong> Film Club, All Saints, Fri<br />
Nov 6th, 8pm<br />
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in town this month: opera<br />
Mignon<br />
Another bold choice from the NSO<br />
The name ‘Breaky<br />
Bottom’ is usually associated<br />
with our fine<br />
local wines, but in 1975<br />
it was also the name<br />
of the opera company<br />
performing in a barn<br />
owned by vintner Peter<br />
Hall. Reborn in <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
as New Sussex Opera,<br />
it’s still going strong,<br />
under the leadership<br />
of General Director<br />
David James. No mere<br />
administrator, he sang<br />
in the first production,<br />
and in every production<br />
since.<br />
You won’t see the same<br />
old operas performed by NSO – they specialize<br />
in works that are a bit off the beaten trail. David<br />
James says, “With so much good stuff crying out<br />
for a performance, why do yet another performance<br />
of one of the top 20?” This year’s offering<br />
is Mignon by French composer Ambroise Thomas.<br />
Although Thomas wrote over 20 operas, only<br />
two are well known – Mignon (1866) and Hamlet<br />
(1868) – and these are performed infrequently at<br />
best. During its time, however, Mignon was one<br />
of the most successful operas in France’s history,<br />
having had over one thousand performances by<br />
1894 in Paris alone.<br />
With Goethe as the source – like Gounod’s Faust<br />
before and Massenet’s Werther after – the opera is<br />
set in Germany and Italy. For the premiere at the<br />
Opéra-Comique, it was expected to have a happy<br />
ending, but for Berlin, the Germans insisted on<br />
conforming to Goethe’s original tragic conclusion.<br />
According to New York Times music critic<br />
Donal Henahan, the plot is sentimental and<br />
improbable, a contest between two female characters<br />
representing opposite temperaments and<br />
human qualities.<br />
Philine, the unscrupulous<br />
temptress, has the<br />
most brilliant music to<br />
sing, her dazzling “Je<br />
suis Titania” capped<br />
off with its top E<br />
Flat. Against Philine’s<br />
pyrotechnics, Mignon<br />
offers gentleness and<br />
pathos, and the aria<br />
“Connais-tu le pays?” is<br />
the enchanting melody<br />
that stays long in the<br />
ear of the listener.<br />
Henahan says, “The<br />
score is quite fetching,<br />
disarmingly direct in its<br />
appeal to the ear and<br />
the operagoer’s tender heart. Many composers of<br />
more prestigious works would kill to have written<br />
half a dozen of the best numbers in Mignon.”<br />
This NSO production rests in the capable hands<br />
of conductor Nicholas Jenkins and director<br />
Harry Fehr. Both of them have extensive experience<br />
across the breadth of the operatic repertoire,<br />
both in the UK and abroad. Mezzo-soprano<br />
Victoria Simmonds plays the eponymous heroine;<br />
she describes the challenges of singing this part:<br />
“There are several different styles of singing<br />
within this role - some arias are reflective and low<br />
in the voice, and others are high and coloraturalike.<br />
Musically I think it throws up lots of gems<br />
that may surprise some people who think they<br />
know the genre. It’s also got a very special ending,<br />
which I won’t give away as I don’t want to<br />
spoil it for you!”<br />
She did let slip, however, that the opening night<br />
falls on her birthday. Wouldn’t it be a lovely<br />
surprise if the audience sang to her on her curtain<br />
call? Paul Austin-Kelly<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall, Wed 11th Nov, 7.30pm<br />
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in town this month: literature<br />
Bernadine Evaristo<br />
On literary experimentation and Mrs Brown’s Boys<br />
You might not guess it from<br />
her latest novel, a readable<br />
tragicomedy that’s been heartily<br />
endorsed by Dawn French,<br />
but Bernardine Evaristo is<br />
“very interested in form and<br />
being formally experimental<br />
with my work”, and has even<br />
written verse-novels. This<br />
month, she’ll be telling <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Literary Society about ‘subverting<br />
the mainstream, challenging<br />
boundaries and pushing<br />
back literary limits’.<br />
Is it difficult to be subversive<br />
nowadays? There don’t seem to<br />
be that many taboos anymore.<br />
Well, writing about a 74-year-old<br />
homosexual Caribbean man [in her<br />
latest novel, Mr Loverman]… is it<br />
a taboo? Yes. Is there a reason why<br />
black homosexual men and women<br />
do not appear in British fiction? Yes.<br />
And that’s quite complicated but<br />
the heart of it is that it’s a subject<br />
that people are afraid to tackle.<br />
So yes, when I say subverting the<br />
mainstream, basically the mainstream<br />
is the body of white, British<br />
literature written from that perspective, which is<br />
the majority of literature being published in this<br />
country. People always say: ‘But what about this<br />
person? What about that person?’ They might<br />
mention Zadie Smith or Andrea Levy or Malorie<br />
Blackman, and then they very quickly run out of<br />
names. There aren’t that many of us out there. So<br />
when you’re writing from an outsider’s perspective,<br />
if you like, writing stories that haven’t been<br />
told and are very different to the mainstream,<br />
then you’re subverting it.<br />
Is there a trade-off between artistically<br />
pushing boundaries and making your books<br />
Photo by Sharon Wallace<br />
accessible? That’s something<br />
I think about a lot. But, at the<br />
end of the day, I have to stay<br />
true to my creative instincts.<br />
When I start writing a novel,<br />
if it looks like it’s going to<br />
be quite experimental, which<br />
is what’s happening with my<br />
new novel, I have to go with<br />
it… Anyway, Mr Loverman is<br />
a very accessible book; I know<br />
that because of the reader<br />
response that I’ve had to it.<br />
When I write verse novels, or<br />
novels with verse, the form<br />
can actually be a barrier to people<br />
even wanting to read it, even<br />
though once they read a book like<br />
The Emperor’s Babe, they realise<br />
it’s not difficult; it’s accessible<br />
poetry, if you like.<br />
Apparently you like Mrs<br />
Brown’s Boys. Which is interesting,<br />
because you write these<br />
boundary-pushing novels and<br />
novels-in-verse, and then…<br />
Sometimes people think writers<br />
are sitting there reading the TLS<br />
all the time, or some deep, meaningful,<br />
erudite academic book. We’re human!<br />
My work has a lot of humour in it, actually. And<br />
I really do like popular culture, a lot. The whole<br />
myth about writers in an ivory tower, just kind of<br />
living in their imagination, doesn’t apply. Well,<br />
I don’t want to speak for other writers, but you<br />
need to be out there experiencing life as it’s experienced<br />
by everybody else. So yes, I absolutely<br />
love Mrs Brown’s Boys. It’s very 70s, very slapstick,<br />
it’s very bawdy and very crude, very knowing,<br />
very entertaining, very cheeky, very smutty. I love<br />
all those things. Steve Ramsey<br />
Nov 24th, All Saints, 8pm lewesliterarysociety.co.uk<br />
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in town this month: theatre<br />
The Circle<br />
Costume drama<br />
The second play of this season at <strong>Lewes</strong> Little<br />
Theatre is Somerset Maugham’s The Circle. It is<br />
a tale of marriage and duty, forbidden love and<br />
infatuation; a study of society and the human<br />
heart. Maugham wrote The Circle in 1921, the<br />
year in which the action of the play opens, and<br />
considered it to be his finest play. We met up with<br />
costumiers Alison Soudain and Gerry Cortese, to<br />
find out about the theatre’s wardrobe department<br />
and the process of dressing a period drama.<br />
How has the costume department changed<br />
since you started volunteering here? A: There<br />
was a much bigger team of people that volunteered<br />
here when I started about 30 years ago.<br />
There was quite a strong hiring element in the<br />
department back then, with at least five people<br />
dedicated specifically to hiring costumes out to<br />
school groups and other societies, a service which<br />
we can no longer offer due to time constraints<br />
and lack of volunteers. The number of costumes<br />
has definitely increased - we now have over 2,000<br />
pieces! There were far more costumes made from<br />
scratch when I started, and I would say now we<br />
have gained more original pieces.<br />
Talk me through the process of costuming a<br />
production. G: We start by reading the play and<br />
searching the script for clues. Then once the play<br />
has been cast, we assess the rough sizes of the<br />
actors, and begin to bring possible items out from<br />
the wardrobe that we think might be suitable.<br />
There are usually several options for each character.<br />
We then hold fittings, where final choices are<br />
made and necessary alterations are noted.<br />
What have you learnt about dressing a period<br />
production? A: The main thing I’ve discovered<br />
is that if you can get the material right, you’re<br />
actually halfway there. There’s no use trying to<br />
create a 1920s outfit out of an electric blue, shiny<br />
fabric - because even if the cut is right, the material<br />
will look too modern. But if you can get hold<br />
of a more toned-down, older-looking fabric and<br />
then accessorise it with, say, a cloche hat, then<br />
you’re more likely to end up with a believable<br />
twenties look.<br />
Photo by Cathryn Parker<br />
How would you like to see the costume<br />
department develop in years to come? G:<br />
We want to see new blood coming in! It would<br />
be great to know that the work we have done<br />
is going to be carried on in the future with the<br />
same love, enthusiasm and care. We need to build<br />
up a bigger team so that more time can be spent<br />
creating new pieces from scratch. I think perhaps<br />
people are slightly wary of volunteering because<br />
they think they need to have had prior experience,<br />
but they really don’t. We just need willing<br />
and enthusiastic people to come forward - you<br />
can learn the rest on the job.<br />
Isabella McCarthy Sommerville<br />
The Circle, directed by Graham Stapley. <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Little Theatre, Sat 28-Sat 5 Dec.<br />
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out of town this month: art<br />
Kettle’s Yard<br />
Cambridge comes to Hastings<br />
In the late 1950s, Jim Ede and his wife, Helen,<br />
acquired a row of four derelict seventeenthcentury<br />
cottages in the shadow of St Peter’s<br />
Church in Cambridge. These they converted<br />
into one, so as to accommodate the fine collection<br />
of modern art that Jim Ede had acquired,<br />
mostly in the 1920s and 1930s, when he was<br />
working as an assistant curator at the Tate<br />
Gallery. And so Kettle’s Yard was born, now one<br />
part of the University of Cambridge Museums.<br />
Early last year, the Jerwood Gallery in Hastings<br />
made a showcase for their own Alfred Wallis<br />
painting, Two Boats, by borrowing 17 Wallis<br />
seascapes from Kettle’s Yard. Now Kettle’s Yard<br />
is closed, the subject of an extensive building<br />
redevelopment project, and again the Jerwood<br />
is a happy beneficiary. No fewer than five<br />
rooms have been set aside for works on loan<br />
from Kettle’s Yard, complemented by examples<br />
of the featured artists from the Jerwood’s own<br />
holdings. The exhibition, entitled Horizons,<br />
runs until 3 January 2016.<br />
Elizabeth Fisher has described Kettle’s Yard as<br />
‘a place set slightly apart from the rest of the<br />
world, a place in which the pace and hubbub<br />
of modern life is drowned out by an immersive<br />
aesthetic experience’. (Certainly it was one of<br />
the places I spent far too much time in when,<br />
ostensibly studying in Cambridge, I should<br />
have been in the library). Obviously it would<br />
be impossible to recreate the unique Kettle’s<br />
Yard Gallery atmosphere at the Jerwood; foolish<br />
even to try. But the artistic gems that Ede<br />
assembled more than stand up for themselves.<br />
And anyway, the Jerwood itself is an exquisite<br />
and quiet cultural oasis!<br />
Ben and Winifred Nicholson form the backbone<br />
of this exhibition. But, to my mind, the<br />
show’s star is their, and Ede’s, friend, Christopher<br />
Wood. Bisexual, opium-addicted, an<br />
acolyte of Jean Cocteau, Wood threw himself<br />
under a train at Salisbury Station in 1930. He<br />
was 29. And yet Ben Nicholson wrote to Jim<br />
Ede on Wood’s death: ‘I could have parted<br />
with almost anyone but him… he was the most<br />
beautiful creature’.<br />
When Jim Ede left Kettle’s Yard in 1973, he<br />
left 25 paintings by Wood, thus forming the<br />
largest public collection of the artist’s work. Six<br />
of these are on show at the Jerwood, alongside<br />
two from the Jerwood collection. There’s an<br />
enchanting Paris snow scene of 1926, an extraordinary<br />
self-portrait of 1927 and, best of all,<br />
a portrait of Jean Bourgoint. A dazzling epicene<br />
beauty who, together with his sister Jeanne<br />
(for a time, Wood’s lover) were the originals of<br />
Cocteau’s Les Enfants Terribles. David Jarman<br />
jerwoodgallery.org<br />
Alfred Wallis, Sailing ship and Orchard, circa 1935-37.<br />
Courtesy Kettle’s Yard Collection, University of Cambridge<br />
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art<br />
FOCUS ON: Chris Dawson<br />
‘Restless Arrangements’, Acrylic on board, 61x61cms, £750<br />
This looks like nine different paintings… In effect,<br />
it is. It’s been carefully designed so they can be<br />
moved around and the picture will still make sense.<br />
If you look closely at the pebbles, for example, they<br />
will all be aligned if you move the squares around, as<br />
will the seaweed strands. In this square shape you can<br />
get 36 different pictures. And there are many more<br />
combinations, as you could arrange the pictures in<br />
a rectangular shape, and other random shapes, too.<br />
It’s almost endless. The idea is that this is like the sea<br />
shore, where everything is moved by the waves, and<br />
repositioned after it passes.<br />
Clever! I was a product designer before I became<br />
a full-time artist, so I like everything I do to have a<br />
unique twist. I like playing with optical illusions, and<br />
creating three-dimensional effects.<br />
Which artists have influenced you? I’m a great<br />
admirer of Magritte, which I think you can see in<br />
some of my work. And Dürer. And Heath Robinson.<br />
And Hockney, who’s very creative, and never sits still.<br />
Also the twentieth century American artist Charles<br />
Sheeler, who painted industrial buildings in a very<br />
romantic, stylised way.<br />
Where do you work? I have a studio upstairs in<br />
my house. I like listening to talking books when I<br />
work. Somehow I can concentrate on both at the<br />
same time. At the moment I’m listening to Arthur C<br />
Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama.<br />
How do you get your ideas? I carry a notebook<br />
everywhere, and sketch them down when they pop<br />
into my head. Also ideas for my cartoons – which<br />
will also be on show in the gallery – which are often<br />
based on word plays.<br />
Which painting would you nail to your desert island<br />
palm tree? The Lady of Shalot, by John Waterhouse.<br />
It’s in my favourite gallery, Tate Britain. If you<br />
go up close to it you can see his brush strokes are so<br />
confident they almost look impressionistic. Ask most<br />
modern artists what their favourite painting is, and,<br />
if they’re being honest, they’ll usually say something<br />
traditional. Interview by Alex Leith<br />
Out of the Box ‘The Return’, an exhibition of cartoons<br />
and compositions by Chris Dawson, 11-22 <strong>November</strong>,<br />
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in town this month: ART<br />
art & about<br />
Julian Bell<br />
Kelly Hall<br />
Richard Heys<br />
Alinah Azadeh, creator of Burning the Books, has<br />
completed a short series of small works for sale<br />
based on 13 drawings made from her bedroom<br />
window in <strong>Lewes</strong> and further afield. Her<br />
workspace at Pop-Up Studios is under imminent<br />
threat of closure with the redevelopment of<br />
the Phoenix Industrial Estate, and so 25% of<br />
proceeds will go to support the work of <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Phoenix Rising. alinahazadeh.com<br />
Julian Bell’s Genesis paintings, first exhibited at St<br />
Anne’s Galleries in June, have been bound into a<br />
limited edition book which beautifully reproduces<br />
all 37 paintings, captioned with corresponding<br />
text from the King James Bible. Available from St<br />
Anne’s Galleries.<br />
In town this month<br />
Hop Gallery hosts Out of The Box ‘The Return’<br />
with cartoons and compositions by Chris<br />
Dawson from 11-22nd (see pg 53) and, from<br />
28th, Phil Duncan’s Sussex Arts Collective and<br />
Mohamed Hamid’s Star Pottery Group bring<br />
together a diverse range of artists and makers<br />
with creative gift ideas in their Baubles & Bells!<br />
show (until 20th December).<br />
From 21st, Keizer Frames hang their Christmas<br />
exhibition of works from Adrian Parnell, Jackie<br />
Fretton, Janine Shute, Bec Garland, Laura<br />
Wright and Simon Tozer, and until the 14th,<br />
Gallery 16 in Market Street have works in watercolour,<br />
pastel and acrylic by local artist Sheila Lea.<br />
Chalk Gallery features Richard Heys from 2nd,<br />
whose vibrant paintings use opaque and transparent<br />
layers to explore colour and form. Lynsey<br />
Smith follows him on 23rd with her quirky watercolours<br />
of familiar faces and places.<br />
From 13th at Pelham House, sisters Sarah Gregson<br />
and Judy Dewsbury have a joint exhibition<br />
Mr Gregson Went to Work. Sarah and Judy’s father,<br />
Sydney, worked in the building for 40 years while<br />
it was the Council’s headquarters and the show<br />
promises an evocative nod to family ties.<br />
Inspired by a love of vintage graphics, Kelly Hall<br />
exhibits her quintessentially British prints of iconic<br />
beauty spots from Sussex to Scotland at Caffè<br />
Lazzati, Southdown Sports Club, 8 Nov - 3 Jan.<br />
Bam Bam by Judy Dewsbury<br />
The second Pelham House Open Art Exhibition (Jan-March 2016) invites submissions from artists in <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
and nearby. Curated by hotel staff - from maintenance to management – the show raises funds for The Rocking<br />
Horse Appeal. pelhamhouse.com<br />
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out of town: art<br />
Just down the road<br />
Celebrating its 10th year MADE Brighton is at the<br />
Corn Exchange in Brighton from 19th-22nd. With<br />
jewellery, textiles, ceramics, glassware, furniture and<br />
much more from over 100 makers including <strong>Lewes</strong>’<br />
own Phoebe Jewellery and Lomax and Skinner.<br />
From 14th, the Royal Pavilion shows Exotic Creatures,<br />
an exhibition exploring animals and political<br />
beasts in the Royal Collection, menageries and early<br />
zoos from 1750 to 1850. Discover the fascinating story<br />
of the first living giraffe in the UK plus the history<br />
of travelling menageries performing in London and<br />
Brighton. brightonmuseums.org.uk<br />
Expressions celebrates 60 years of the Newhaven<br />
Art Club at the Crypt Gallery in Seaford from<br />
14th-19th followed by the Christmas Craft Fair from<br />
21st-29th.<br />
Sarah Bryant, Made<br />
Paula Kirkwood, Made John Dilnot, Made<br />
Further Afield...<br />
Royal Pavilion, Exotic Creatures exhibtion<br />
David Remfry, Oscar, 2008, watercolour and graphite, Pallant House Gallery <strong>2015</strong><br />
John Napier, Equus<br />
Towner Gallery<br />
presents Stages<br />
from 29th. The first<br />
major exhibition of<br />
the work of iconic<br />
theatre designer John<br />
Napier. The show<br />
encompasses costume<br />
designs, 3D pieces<br />
based on his theatre<br />
work in shows like<br />
Equus, Les Misérables<br />
and Starlight Express,<br />
and sculptures created<br />
in parallel with his theatre career.<br />
Horizons: Kettle’s Yard at Jerwood Gallery continues<br />
through the month, see page 51.<br />
Throughout <strong>November</strong> Pallant House hosts We<br />
Think the World of You, an exhibition of drawings<br />
by David Remfry RA, of people and their dogs. Better<br />
known for his urban scenes and night clubs, he’s<br />
had a fascination with the relationship that develops<br />
between dogs and their owners – both celebrity and<br />
humdrum.<br />
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Opéra-comique by AMBROISE THOMAS<br />
Staged, in costume and sung in English<br />
NSO Chorus, St Paul’s Sinfonia c Nicholas Jenkins<br />
d Harry Fehr des Eleanor Wdowski<br />
with Victoria Simmonds, Ruth Jenkins-Róbertsson,<br />
Adrian Powter, Ted Schmitz, Christopher Diffey<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> Town Hall<br />
Wednesday 11 <strong>November</strong> 7.30pm<br />
(and Devonshire Park, Eastbourne 22 Nov 3pm<br />
Cadogan Hall, London SW1 24 Nov 7pm)<br />
“A triumph at Cadogan Hall”<br />
Robert Thicknesse on Oberon (2014)<br />
www.NewSussexOpera.org<br />
New Sussex Opera is a registered charity no. 279800
in town this month: classical<br />
Classical Round-up<br />
Bach, Beethoven and Bartók<br />
Jambor Photography<br />
An antidote to the blues<br />
caused by our decreasing<br />
daylight hours can be found<br />
in the uplifting, mellifluous<br />
sound of flutes. Flutes and<br />
Friends concerts have been an<br />
annual event for the past 12<br />
years organized by flautist and<br />
teacher Anne Hodgson. The<br />
group, primarily comprised of<br />
Anne’s students, supplemented<br />
by other musicians, play everything<br />
from Bach to Gilbert<br />
& Sullivan and Jack Jordan.<br />
Concerts are always in aid of<br />
a charity and this one is for St<br />
Peter and St James Hospice.<br />
Sun 8, 3pm, St Mary’s Church,<br />
Ringmer, free<br />
New Sussex Opera presents<br />
another operatic rarity that<br />
deserves to be heard more<br />
often – Mignon by French<br />
composer Ambroise Thomas.<br />
Premiered in Paris in 1866,<br />
this score features beautiful<br />
melodies and challenging<br />
writing for its singers, especially<br />
the title character, sung<br />
by mezzo-soprano Victoria<br />
Simmonds. Also performing<br />
leading roles are Ruth<br />
Jenkins-Róbertsson, Ted<br />
Schmitz and Adrian Powter.<br />
Conducted by NSO’s music<br />
director Nicholas Jenkins,<br />
the production, sung in English,<br />
is directed by Harry Fehr.<br />
See page 45.<br />
Wed 11, 7:30pm, <strong>Lewes</strong> Town<br />
Hall, £36, £22, £20, students /<br />
children £12<br />
Bach’s brilliant Mass in B<br />
Minor will be the showpiece<br />
of the Esterhazy Chamber<br />
Choir and the Corelli<br />
Ensemble. Sandy Chenery<br />
will conduct the mass, with a<br />
quartet of professional soloists<br />
accompanying.<br />
Sun 15, 7:30pm, <strong>Lewes</strong> Town<br />
Hall, £15<br />
Hot on the heels of Halloween,<br />
Heber Opera are<br />
offering up Fairies, Phantoms<br />
and Fiends!, a mélange of<br />
operatic scenes and arias with<br />
supernatural themes. Included<br />
will be excerpts from Heinrich<br />
Marschner’s Der Vampyr,<br />
Verdi’s Macbeth, Gounod’s<br />
Faust, Puccini’s Turandot, Gilbert<br />
& Sullivan’s Ruddigore<br />
and others. Heber Opera’s<br />
musical director Michael<br />
Withers will narrate and<br />
guide you through this house<br />
of horrors.<br />
Sun 22, 6pm, Steyning Centre,<br />
Steyning, £12<br />
The Arcadia Quartet formed<br />
as recently as 2006, and have<br />
already won many prestigious<br />
awards, including the<br />
2012 Wigmore Hall London<br />
International String Quartet<br />
Competition. They are appearing<br />
in <strong>Lewes</strong> as part of<br />
the Nicholas Yonge Society’s<br />
concert series, performing<br />
Haydn’s Quartet No. 1 in B<br />
flat major, Beethoven’s String<br />
Quartet No. 3 in D major and<br />
Bartók’s String Quartet No.<br />
4, Sz. 91. The Financial Times<br />
have written that the quartet<br />
‘create a mood of edgy expressionism<br />
that, in its violent<br />
swings and chromatic stresses,<br />
is shockingly direct and<br />
dramatic, like an opera – or a<br />
nightmare.’ Chamber music<br />
fans: don’t miss this one.<br />
Fri 27, 7:45pm, Sussex Downs<br />
College, £15<br />
Paul Austin Kelly<br />
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TOM PALEY<br />
WITH BEN PALEY & THE NEW DEAL STRING BAND<br />
CURST SONS<br />
HILLBILLY BLUES<br />
THE GRAHAMS<br />
UNION MUSIC STORE PRESENTATION<br />
KING PORTER STOMP<br />
AFRO FUNK HORNS, DUB REGGAE RHYTHMS<br />
ZZ TAP<br />
FINEST ZZ TOP TRIBUTE<br />
HOTFOOT SPECIALS<br />
CAJUN BARN PRESENTATION<br />
ELLE OSBOURNE<br />
UNION MUSIC STORE ALBUM LAUNCH<br />
SEE WEBSITE FOR ENTRY AND DETAILS<br />
10 Week<br />
Playwriting<br />
Course<br />
with Philip Ayckbourn<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong><br />
January 2016<br />
Explore the fundamental elements of play<br />
construction such as character, motivation,<br />
conflict, subtext, theme and plot.<br />
This practical course will help you discover<br />
the tools needed to craft and shape a play.<br />
Open to writers of all abilities.<br />
Visit website for details and booking:<br />
www.philipayckbourn.com. See Writing Course.
NOVlistings<br />
Sun 1<br />
Film. Ghostbusters. (12A) Three unemployed<br />
parapsychology professors set up shop as a<br />
unique ghost removal service. All Saints, 5pm,<br />
£5.50-£6.50 or family tickets £15, with additional<br />
kids only £3 each. filmatallsaints.com<br />
Film. Mr Holmes. (PG) Ian McKellen plays<br />
an aged Detective Holmes, as he recalls fragments<br />
of an old case whilst struggling with his<br />
deteriorating mind. All Saints, 7.15pm, £5-£6.50.<br />
filmatallsaints.com<br />
Mon 2<br />
Drop-in. <strong>Lewes</strong> for a<br />
Living Wage. Meet local<br />
employers and councillors<br />
and learn more about<br />
the many benefits of the<br />
Living Wage for our community.<br />
Yarrow Room,<br />
Town Hall, 5pm, free. 01273 470940<br />
Tue 3<br />
Talk. A Broken Silence? Mass Observation, Armistice<br />
Day and Everyday Life in Britain 1937-<br />
1941. Dr Lucy Noakes draws on the archive to<br />
trace some of the diverse ways that remembrance<br />
was embodied in everyday life, practised, experienced,<br />
and understood by the British people as<br />
the nation moved once again from peace to war.<br />
The Keep, Falmer, 5.30pm, free. 01273 482349<br />
Market. Bric-a-brac, jewellery, books, toys, fresh<br />
produce, clothes and more. Town Hall, 9am-2pm.<br />
Talk. Anna Karenina steps through the Looking<br />
Glass. Dr Sonya Baksi explores to what<br />
extent Tolstoy’s fictional character reflects the<br />
real-life expectations of women in 19th-century<br />
Russia. Town Hall, 2.30pm, free with collection.<br />
u3asites.org.uk<br />
Wed 4<br />
Talk. Herbal Medicine. Julia Behrens, medical<br />
herbalist and garden designer, will be talking<br />
about herbs, healing, conservation and sustainability.<br />
Christ Church Hall, 7.45pm, £3. 01273<br />
474110<br />
Talk. The Isle of Wight rocket-testing facility.<br />
Richard Butchers speaks to the <strong>Lewes</strong> Astronomers.<br />
Town Hall, 7.30pm, £3.<br />
Thu 5<br />
Remember Remember… what was it again?<br />
Fri 6<br />
Film. The Salt of the Earth. (12) Brazilian<br />
photographer Sebastião Salgado’s life and work<br />
are revealed to us in this documentary directed<br />
by his son, Juliano, and Wim Wenders, himself<br />
a photographer. All Saints, 8pm, £5.50. lewesfilmclub.com<br />
Food market. Food and produce from local suppliers.<br />
Market Tower, weekly, 9am-1.30pm.<br />
Sat 7<br />
Farmers’ Market. Fresh,<br />
local produce and lots of<br />
interesting stalls. Cliffe<br />
Precinct, 9am-1pm. Also<br />
on Sat 21. commoncause.<br />
org.uk<br />
Dr Bike. Weekly bike repair workshop. Trade<br />
prices charged for parts. Nutty Wizard, 10.30am-<br />
1.30pm, free.<br />
Craft Market. Local artists and makers selling<br />
their wares. Market Tower, 10am-2pm, free entry.<br />
lewescraftmkt@gmail.com<br />
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Talk. Light and Space in Landscape Painting.<br />
Illustrated talk by <strong>Lewes</strong> artist Tom Benjamin.<br />
Paddock Art Studios, 3pm, £4. paddockartstudios.co.uk<br />
or 01273 487818<br />
Mon 9<br />
Talk. Future Perfect: HG Wells and Bolshevik<br />
Russia 1917-1934. Professor Roger<br />
Cockrell will focus on Wells’ view of the fledgling<br />
Soviet society and the Bolsheviks. Friends<br />
Meeting House, 7.15pm, £3.<br />
Thu 12<br />
Comedy at the Con!<br />
Bobby Mair, Mandy<br />
Muden and Jamali<br />
Maddix take to the<br />
stage, with MC David<br />
Mounfield. Con Club,<br />
8pm, £7.50-£11.<br />
Tickets from Union<br />
Music, 07582 408418,<br />
or wegottickets.com/ComedyAtTheCon<br />
Fri 13<br />
Pop Up Horror Cinema. Screening of What<br />
We Do in the Shadows (15) as well as a few<br />
short films made by <strong>Lewes</strong> Creative Media<br />
students. Themed night with costumes, decorations<br />
and food. All Saints, 6pm, free. mbattrum@<br />
gmail.com<br />
Talk. Old Walls, Wellies and Wasps. Simon<br />
Stevens will talk about recent archaeological<br />
work and finds at the Priory that throw light<br />
on the lives of medieval monks. King’s Church<br />
Building, 7.30pm, £3/£2. leweshistory.org.uk/<br />
meetings<br />
Tue 10<br />
Waitrose Birthday party. Celebrate 10 years<br />
of the store being open, with a glass of fizz and<br />
piece of cake. Waitrose, 10-11am.<br />
Wed 11<br />
Discussion group. Café of Reminiscence:<br />
to Absent Friends. Bring along a photo or<br />
memento and share your memories. Coffee and<br />
Cake available. Buttercup Café, 7-9pm, free<br />
(voluntary donations), drop-in. cafe@livingwelldyingwell.net<br />
or 01273 933115<br />
Sat 14<br />
Charity Book Sale. Nearly new books, recently<br />
published, at bargain prices. All proceeds go to<br />
Jonathan Lamb’s education fund in Rwanda,<br />
enabling children to be supported through<br />
primary and secondary education. Cliffe Hall,<br />
9.30am-1.30pm, free entry. jamesdenton778@<br />
btinternet.com or 07765 403182<br />
Vintage Christmas Home and Lifestyle Market.<br />
Vintage stalls, food, drink and live music.<br />
Town Hall, 10am-3.30pm, £1, children free.<br />
popupvintagesussex@gmail.com<br />
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Christmas Preview<br />
Friday 27th <strong>November</strong><br />
Enjoy a glass of Champagne, whilst browsing<br />
through our beautiful new ranges of<br />
Jewellery and Watches.<br />
On this day only, we are delighted to offer a<br />
very special 15% discount.*<br />
For full details visit<br />
www.weclarkandson.co.uk<br />
*excludes pre-owned Rolex<br />
watches and Services.<br />
224 High Street, <strong>Lewes</strong>, BN7 2AF - 01273 487816
LEWES FARMERS’ MARKET<br />
Cliffe Precinct<br />
SATURDAY 9am - 1pm<br />
7th & 21st NOVEMBER<br />
5th & 19th DECEMBER<br />
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COURAGEOUS, CHALLENGING AND ENGAGING…<br />
Join Marina Cantacuzino and Dr Imad Karam for…<br />
A CONVERSATION<br />
about FORGIVENESS<br />
Questions and reflections on forgiveness,<br />
healing, reconciliation and peace in today’s<br />
world.<br />
NOVEMBER 24, <strong>2015</strong><br />
7.00 – 9.00 PM<br />
THE CHAMBER ROOM, PELHAM HOUSE<br />
Tickets: £10.00, including refreshments<br />
See www.ghfp.org.uk/events for more details and to book
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Sun 22<br />
Film. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (12A) Espionage<br />
action thriller about a CIA agent and a<br />
KGB operative who are sent on a secret mission<br />
to track down a criminal organisation developing<br />
an advanced nuclear weapons programme.<br />
All Saints, 5.30pm, £5-£6.50. filmatallsaints.com<br />
Sat 14 & Sun 15<br />
Film. Max. (12A) A military working dog, that<br />
helped US Marines in Afghanistan, returns to<br />
America and is adopted by his handler’s family<br />
after suffering a traumatic experience. All Saints,<br />
Sat 8pm, Sun 4.30pm, £5-£6.50. filmatallsaints.<br />
com<br />
Sun 15<br />
Jumble Sale. Good quality adult and children’s<br />
clothes, children’s toys and equipment. All proceeds<br />
to Kingston Pre-School. Kingston Village<br />
Hall, 2-5pm, 50p, children free.<br />
Fri 20<br />
Film. Like Father<br />
like Son. (12)<br />
Ryota, a successful<br />
businessman, learns<br />
that his biological<br />
son was switched<br />
with another child<br />
after birth. Mr Sakai, the other father, is a wellpractised<br />
loafer, but his children start squeaking<br />
with joy when he so much as enters the room. A<br />
heart-warming and tender story. All Saints, 8pm,<br />
£5.50. lewes-filmclub.com<br />
Film. Japanese Animation and the Famous<br />
Studio Ghibli. A short introduction to the work<br />
of Studio Ghibli, Japan’s most lauded animation<br />
studio, and to one of its most sombre productions,<br />
Grave of the Fireflies. All Saints, 2pm,<br />
free to members and ticket holders of the film.<br />
lewes-filmclub.com<br />
Film. Grave of the Fireflies. (U) Japanese<br />
animated film telling the story of two children<br />
from the port city of Kobe, made homeless by<br />
the bombs towards the end of WW2. All Saints,<br />
4pm, £5.50. lewes-filmclub.com<br />
Tue 24<br />
Talk. A Conversation about Forgiveness.<br />
Internationally renowned speakers Marina Cantacuzino<br />
and Dr Imad Karam explore and reflect<br />
on forgiveness, healing, reconciliation and peace<br />
in today’s world. All proceeds go to speakers’<br />
respective charities. Pelham House, 7pm, £10,<br />
including refreshments. Book on 07791 075249<br />
or ghfp.org.uk/events<br />
Talk. Positive Investment. Jamie Hartzell from<br />
Ethex will talk about how to put your money<br />
directly into businesses whose mission and<br />
impacts you support, that also offer a financial<br />
return. Elly, 7.30pm, £5 suggested donation.<br />
01273 477870<br />
Talk. <strong>Lewes</strong> Literary<br />
Society presents Bernardine<br />
Evaristo. The award-winning<br />
novelist, author of The<br />
Emperor’s Babe and Mr Loverman,<br />
discusses subverting<br />
the mainstream, challenging<br />
boundaries and pushing back literary limits. All<br />
Saints, 8pm, £10. lewesliterarysociety.co.uk<br />
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Wed 25<br />
Talk. Edwardian Picture Postcards. Dr Annebella<br />
Pollen will explore how the postcard was<br />
used as a flirtatious means of communication<br />
that often incited romance. The Keep, Falmer,<br />
5.30pm, free. thekeep.info/events or 01273<br />
843249<br />
Thu 26<br />
Talk. Tom Paine. Paul<br />
Myles will talk about Tom<br />
Paine’s time in <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
and the town’s influence<br />
on his subsequent work.<br />
Questions and discussion<br />
will follow. Elly, 8pm, £3.<br />
annabinger@btinternet.<br />
com<br />
Talk. Fifty Shades of Green: the Role of the<br />
Trees and Landscape Officer. Daniel Wynn<br />
from <strong>Lewes</strong> District Council describes his work<br />
and its implications for our town. Town Hall,<br />
7.45pm, £3. 01273 473098<br />
Film. Girlhood. (15) A girl with few real<br />
prospects joins a gang, reinventing herself and<br />
gaining a sense of self confidence in the process.<br />
However, she soon discovers this new life does<br />
not necessarily make her any happier. French<br />
with English subtitles. All Saints, 8pm, £5-£6.50.<br />
filmatallsaints.com<br />
Sat 28<br />
Live Literature. Roll over Atlantic. Satirical<br />
revisiting of the voyages of Christopher Columbus.<br />
The first one-man show by poet and<br />
performer John Agard. All Saints, 8pm, £12<br />
door/£10 advance. leweslivelit.co.uk<br />
Collectors and Antiques Fair. In aid of Action<br />
Medical Research for Children. Town Hall,<br />
10am-4pm, free entry. 01273 400352<br />
Sat 28 & Sun 29<br />
Fri 27<br />
Talk. The Wealden Iron Industry from Prehistory<br />
to 19th century, by Jeremy Hodgkinson.<br />
Town Hall, 7.30pm, £4/£3, under 18s free.<br />
lewesarchaeology.org.uk<br />
Film. Southpaw. (15) US drama about a<br />
successful boxer whose world falls apart after<br />
a tragedy and his fight to get his life back. All<br />
Saints, 5.30pm, £5-£6.50. filmatallsaints.com<br />
Vintage Christmas.<br />
Gifts, produce, antique<br />
interiors, swing jazz and<br />
dancing, mulled wine,<br />
kids’ entertainment and<br />
more. Middle Farm,<br />
9.30am-4.30pm, £5,<br />
under 5s free. firleandcountry.co.uk<br />
Sat 28-Sat 5<br />
Theatre. The Circle, by Somerset Maugham.<br />
A period drawing room comedy dealing with<br />
the difficulties of love within marriage, with the<br />
pressures of society and the triumph of character<br />
over circumstance. <strong>Lewes</strong> Little Theatre, all<br />
shows 7.45pm, apart from additional 2.45pm<br />
matinee on Sat 5, and no show on Sun 29.<br />
£10/£8. lewestheatre.org
gig of the month<br />
It’s a truth universally acknowledged<br />
that nobody hates swing music (that’s<br />
why it’s always played at weddings),<br />
but Flash Mob Jazz will make you<br />
love it. The young Brighton-based<br />
band have racked up over one million<br />
views on YouTube with their slick<br />
performances of swing standards and<br />
jazzy re-workings of modern pop<br />
songs – think Daft Punk, Lorde and<br />
John Legend – but if there ever was a<br />
band to come and jive live to, this is it.<br />
Fri 6, Con Club, 8pm, £7.50<br />
(members free).<br />
november listings<br />
sun 1<br />
English tunes session. Traditional folk – bring<br />
instruments. Lamb, 12pm, free<br />
Swing Time. Swing dancing. Lamb, 5pm, free<br />
Open mic. All welcome. Elephant & Castle,<br />
7.30pm, free<br />
MON 2<br />
Lawrence Jones with Malcolm Mortimore &<br />
Terry Seabrook. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
TUE 3<br />
English tunes session. Traditional folk – bring<br />
instruments. John Harvey, 8pm, free<br />
Ceilidh Crew session. Folk. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
FRI 6<br />
The Staves. Acoustic folk rock trio. De La Warr<br />
Pavilion, Bexhill, 7pm, £16<br />
Funke & the Two Tone Baby. Blues Americana.<br />
Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
SAT 7<br />
Tom Paley. Legendary American folk singer,<br />
joined by his son Ben of the New Deal String<br />
Band. Con Club, 7.30pm, £5 (members free)<br />
Tim Laycock. Traditional English folk. Elephant<br />
& Castle, 8pm, £8<br />
Wakin’ Snakes. Cajun and old time. Lamb,<br />
8.30pm, free<br />
SUN 8<br />
Two Step Duo. Acoustic. Con Club, 3pm, free<br />
Everything Everything. Manchester art-rock<br />
band. De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 7pm, £17.50<br />
MON 9<br />
Terry Seabrook with Paul Whitten & Alex<br />
Eberhard. Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
TUE 10<br />
Goodtimes Music Open Mic. All welcome.<br />
Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
WED 11<br />
Old Time session. Appalachian roots. Lamb,<br />
8.30pm, free<br />
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gig guide (cont)<br />
FRI 13<br />
Sonpikkante. Cumbia salsa. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
Curst Sons. Hillbilly blues. Con Club, 8pm, free<br />
SAT 14<br />
Hannah Peel. Electronic multi-instrumentalist.<br />
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 7.30pm, £9.50<br />
The Grahams. Americana. Plus support. Con<br />
Club, 8pm. £10 advance, £12 OTD (members: £8<br />
advance, £10 OTD)<br />
Sarah Grey & Kieron Means. Traditional<br />
American folk. Elephant & Castle, 8pm, £8<br />
Super8. Funk/soul. Roebuck Inn, Laughton,<br />
9pm, free<br />
Dirty Vertebrae. Alternative rap rock. Lamb,<br />
8.30pm, free<br />
SUN 15<br />
The Koans. Acoustic. Con Club, 3pm, free<br />
Curst Sons, photo by JJ Waller<br />
MON 16<br />
The Waterboys. Freewheeling rock and roll. De<br />
La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 7pm, £26.50-£28<br />
Ashley Slater + the Terry Seabrook Trio. Jazz.<br />
Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
TUE 17<br />
Ceilidh Crew session. Folk. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
FRI 20<br />
King Porter Stomp. Ska, funk, afrobeat and hip<br />
hop. Con Club, 8pm, free<br />
AYU. Funk. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
SAT 21<br />
Mark Morriss. Frontman of The Bluetones.<br />
With support from The Standard Lamps, Linus<br />
& Lucy and Jason Loughran. All Saints, 7.30pm,<br />
£15/£10<br />
Graeme Knights & Jim Mageean. Sea songs<br />
and shanties. Elephant & Castle, 8pm, £7<br />
ZZ Tap. Tribute band. Con Club, 8pm, £5<br />
(members free)<br />
Fabulous Red Diesel. Festi-funk. Lamb,<br />
8.30pm, free<br />
SUN 22<br />
Cotillion + Mike Nicholson + The Barnfield<br />
Band. Folk. Westgate Chapel, 2.30pm, £5<br />
Hotfoot Specials. Cajun. Con Club, 7pm, £10<br />
MON 23<br />
Andy Williams & Terry Seabrook. Jazz. Snowdrop,<br />
8pm, free<br />
WED 25<br />
Goodtimes Music. open mic. All welcome.<br />
Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
THU 26<br />
Cellardoor. Lamb, 7.30pm, free<br />
FRI 27<br />
Elle Osborne. Alt-folk musician, launching her<br />
new album ‘It’s Not Your Gold Shall Me Entice’.<br />
Con Club, 7.30pm, £10 (members £8)<br />
Tatsmiths. Gypsy folk fusion. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
SAT 28<br />
Alistair Anderson. Traditional Northumbrian<br />
folk. Elephant & Castle, 8pm, £8<br />
Jacquemo. Ska funk pop. Lamb, 8.30pm, free<br />
MON 30<br />
Quentin Collins + the Terry Seabrook Trio.<br />
Jazz. Snowdrop, 8pm, free<br />
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FreeTIME<br />
What’s on<br />
sun 1<br />
Film. Corpse Bride (PG). Animated feature<br />
by Tim Burton. Victor is whisked away<br />
to the underworld and wed to a mysterious<br />
Corpse Bride, while his real bride waits<br />
bereft in the land of the living. Fancy-dress<br />
screening with a chance to win a prize. All<br />
Saints, 3pm, £5-£6.50. filmatallsaints.com<br />
Sat 7<br />
Bonfire<br />
Night. Family<br />
night out with<br />
1960s theme.<br />
Fireworks,<br />
bonfire, BBQ,<br />
Harveys Bar,<br />
raffle and more. Iford & Kingston School,<br />
doors 5pm, quiet fireworks 6pm, bonfire<br />
lighting 6.30pm, main show 7pm, £3-£8,<br />
family tickets available. Tickets from school<br />
office and Juggs pub.<br />
Sat 14<br />
Christmas Grotto. Chance to visit Santa in<br />
his grotto, take a gift home and have tea with<br />
him. Wyevale Garden Centre. Tickets, dates<br />
and prices at wyevalegardencentres.co.uk<br />
Sun 15<br />
Film. Minions (U).<br />
Animated comedy<br />
spin-off from<br />
Despicable Me<br />
in which minions<br />
set out to find a<br />
despicable master<br />
to follow. Minions<br />
Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlett<br />
Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside<br />
her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to<br />
take over the world. All Saints, 2.30pm, £5-<br />
£6.50. filmatallsaints.com<br />
Sat 21<br />
Sussex Santa Experience. Cheer Santa on<br />
as he makes his grand entrance and then<br />
meet him and his elves in the Winter Wonderland.<br />
Spring Barn Farm, 10am, early arrival<br />
recommended. Tickets, dates and prices<br />
at springbarnfarm.com<br />
Sat 28<br />
Winter Fair. Storytelling, crafts, games and<br />
winter warmers. <strong>Lewes</strong> New School, 12-4pm.<br />
lewesnewschool.co.uk<br />
Sun 8<br />
Comedy Magic Show. SESKA - The<br />
Magic Beard. Energetic and fun-packed<br />
family show. With sword swallowing,<br />
strange appearances and disappearances.<br />
Make a bogey cake and saw a mum in<br />
half. Nominated for best family show at<br />
Brighton Fringe. All Saints, 4pm, £5.<br />
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School Open Days<br />
Wed 11, <strong>Lewes</strong> New School<br />
Fri 13 & Sat 14, St Andrew’s Prep, Eastbourne<br />
Fri 20, Mayfield School, Mayfield<br />
Sat 21, Michael Hall Steiner Waldorf<br />
School, Forest Row<br />
(A day in the classroom for adults)<br />
Wed 25, Barcombe School (reception)<br />
Thu 26, Singing Tree Steiner Kindergarten
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interview êêêê<br />
Danger Mouse<br />
He’s back…<br />
Ben Ward – head writer on the new Danger<br />
Mouse series answers questions from Japhy<br />
Shephard (12) and Alexander Holford (13) of<br />
Talbot Terrace, <strong>Lewes</strong>.<br />
Did you watch Danger Mouse back when you<br />
were a kid? Yes. It’s why I was so keen to do<br />
it, and also why I was so nervous. It was such a<br />
great series, I think we were all a bit worried that<br />
people wouldn’t like what we did with it. Luckily,<br />
the response has been amazingly positive.<br />
Back in the old series Penfold had catchphrases<br />
like “oh crumbs”; does he have a<br />
new catchphrase? Penfold still says “Crumbs”<br />
as well as “Carrots!” and “Crikey!” Some things<br />
never change.<br />
What is your favourite moment in the first<br />
series? There are a few but I always enjoy Colonel<br />
K not knowing who Penfold is. Penfold: “if<br />
you fire Danger Mouse I will resign!” Colonel<br />
K: “That’s a shame, where do you work?” Penfold:<br />
“Um… here?” That always makes me smile.<br />
Who is your favourite character and why?<br />
There’s a villain called the Snowman, played by<br />
Richard Ayoade, who is very funny. He thinks<br />
he’s a big scary villain, but whenever he causes<br />
trouble someone just turns the heating on and<br />
he melts.<br />
How old were you when Danger Mouse<br />
came out? I think I was 12. It’s one of the big<br />
shows of my childhood. I’d love to re-invent<br />
Rentaghost and Potty Time too. Look them up.<br />
They were great.<br />
Tell us about the new baddies? There are so<br />
many. I think we have at least 30 and I love them<br />
all. Look out especially for Miranda Richardson<br />
as the Queen of Weevils and John Oliver<br />
as Crumhorn. And I love Isambard Kingkong<br />
Brunel. He’s a time travelling gentlechimp who<br />
pretends he’s taller by wearing a very tall hat.<br />
Also the World Wide Spider, who is played by…<br />
Ben Ward. It’s one of a few parts I got to play in<br />
the show.<br />
Will custard take over London? It hasn’t yet,<br />
but who knows. London does get taken over by<br />
garbage at one point.<br />
Does the new theme tune sound like the<br />
old one? I’ve been told it’s a lot faster and I’ve<br />
been told it’s a lot slower. I’ve been told it’s a lot<br />
rockier and a lot softer. So I guess yes, it must be<br />
pretty much the same as the old one.<br />
CBBC is launching a new game, do you like<br />
it? I do, I was lucky enough to help out while<br />
they were making it.<br />
Is there going to be any love interest? There<br />
is a bit of a spark when Danger Mouse is working<br />
with Jeopardy Mouse, his US counterpart,<br />
but it’s very early days. They are constantly arguing,<br />
but often that can mean people like each<br />
other deep down. It can also mean they don’t.<br />
Only time and 52 episodes will tell.<br />
Photo by Piers Allardyce. © FremantleMedia<br />
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under 16<br />
êêêê<br />
Hugs from Hoodies<br />
Priory School - Acts of Kindness Weekend<br />
Friday 20th <strong>November</strong> is Takeover Day - a day where<br />
organisations all across the country invite children<br />
and young people to ‘takeover’, ie be involved in<br />
decision making and have a say in matters that affect<br />
them. Wisely, the student leaders at Priory School<br />
are using the opportunity to spread a message of<br />
community spirit and mutual support. Look out<br />
for Priory students who’ll be out and about in their<br />
communities over the weekend sharing the school’s<br />
values and offering random acts of kindness. Their<br />
mission is to encourage us all to be more thoughtful<br />
and supportive to each other and hope that recipients<br />
will be inspired to pay it forward. That seems like an<br />
idea worth sharing.
With its excellent and imaginative<br />
approach, the Steiner Waldorf<br />
curriculum has gained everwidening<br />
recognition as a creative<br />
and compassionate alternative to<br />
traditional avenues of education.<br />
But just how does it feel to be a child<br />
in the classroom, soaking up this<br />
stimulating and rewarding teaching?<br />
Find out for yourself...<br />
A Day in the Classroom<br />
Saturday 21st <strong>November</strong> <strong>2015</strong> - 08:15<br />
Open Day<br />
Thursday 28th January - 08:30<br />
Please call for more information or to<br />
book a place: Julie Ruse 01342 827918<br />
www.michaelhall.co.uk<br />
Kidbrooke Park, Priory Road, Forest Row. East Sussex, RH18 5JA<br />
Registered Charity Number 307006<br />
under 16<br />
êêêê<br />
matotu<br />
Machines are taking over the Universe, and if you have a<br />
7-11-year-old child, they can help save it. MATOTU, an<br />
interactive trading card game/cartoon strip/computer game<br />
like no other before it, is the brainchild of <strong>Lewes</strong>-based illustrator<br />
Malcolm Trollope-Davis, and he has spent the last 15<br />
years developing it. We were given a run-down of the game in<br />
his Star Brewery base, and it’s amazing that such a small team<br />
(he’s been joined by a gaming expert and a business guru) has<br />
produced a concept – including a patented finger-swapping<br />
mechanism, and computerised strips on each card – that looks<br />
more complex and engaging than anything the multi-million<br />
big boys (think Disney, think Mind Candy) have produced. It’s<br />
being soft-launched this autumn, with a number of <strong>Lewes</strong> kids<br />
involved, so expect to see some MATOTU action in a playground<br />
near you soon. More on this phenomenon in a future<br />
issue. Cards available at Si’s Sounds and Mary’s.<br />
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WINTER FAIR<br />
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Saturday 28th <strong>November</strong> 12-4pm<br />
Talbot Terrace, <strong>Lewes</strong>, BN7 2DS<br />
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under 16<br />
êêêê<br />
young Photo<br />
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This photo was taken by<br />
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month. She says, “the flames<br />
looked like they were dancing,<br />
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photo!” Lottie wins a £10 book<br />
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under 16<br />
êêêê<br />
shoes on now: The Llama Park<br />
My toddler wasn’t sure if llamas actually existed, like unicorns, or<br />
gnomes. Thus on Sunday we set out to prove to him that far from<br />
being apocryphal, these animals, with their short stumpy bodies<br />
and long necks, are just as real as the pigs and cows with which he is<br />
more familiar.<br />
Lying half an hour outside <strong>Lewes</strong> on the A22, the Llama Park<br />
consists of 33 acres of rolling countryside. And despite its name,<br />
the park is home not just to llamas but to several other animals as<br />
well, including alpacas, pigs, goats, donkeys, hens and even some<br />
peacocks. We were surprised at how sociable all of the animals seemed to be. The llamas in particular<br />
seemed eager to interact with us, following the children around and even graciously allowing their<br />
necks to be stroked and their heads to be patted. If you book in advance you can even take a llama for a<br />
walk, which surely has to be up there on the National Trust’s ‘things to do before you are 11¾’ list.<br />
Ambling further around the park we were able to get very close to the goats and even the donkeys,<br />
notorious for a rather unyielding temperament, consented to a brief pat and a photo or two.<br />
The park also contains an outdoor play area - including a bouncy castle - where parents can sit at conveniently<br />
placed picnic benches and sup a coffee whilst their offspring cavort around. Jacky Adams<br />
Wych Cross, Forest Row, East Sussex, RH18 5JN. llamapark.co.uk<br />
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Zereshk Polo<br />
ba Morgh<br />
Persian food to your own table<br />
A busy pre-deadline Friday lunchtime isn’t the<br />
most conventional time to have a Persian feast, but<br />
I’ve promised four hungry <strong>Viva</strong> mouths that they<br />
can participate in this review, so I wander up to St<br />
Peter’s Place, and am greeted at the door by Azar,<br />
the chef in the mother-daughter partnership that<br />
runs The Persian Food Company.<br />
She’s been making some chicken and saffron<br />
stew, and some barberry rice, which she delicately<br />
transfers into different-sized Tupperware dishes<br />
for me to carry back down the hill. The chicken<br />
looks great, but it’s the rice that’s the most visually<br />
arresting: she’s soaked a little bowlful in the saffron<br />
stew, and laid it in a yellow stripe over the rest, then<br />
sprinkled this colourful pile with barberries, which<br />
look like mini blueberries. A third dish is filled with<br />
‘borani’, a yoghurt and spinach combination.<br />
This is a just-for-us version of the PFC’s new<br />
catering service in which they bring ‘feasts’ to your<br />
house, served in beautiful Persian dishes, which<br />
they collect again the next day. They also on occasion<br />
magic up pop-up restaurant nights in their<br />
family house.<br />
Persian food is known for its subtle, mild, delicately<br />
balanced flavours, and the combination we try<br />
today is a fine example of this. If you’re expecting<br />
big-hitting piquancy, think again: the chicken is as<br />
delicate as it’s tender: the rice is perfectly cooked so<br />
each grain falls away easily from its mates, and the<br />
faint taste of saffron is interestingly complemented<br />
by the acidic tang of the berries, which lingers on<br />
the palate. Alex Leith<br />
thepersianfoodcompany.com/01273 479987<br />
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food<br />
Pelham Arms<br />
Steak burger... and a brandy chaser<br />
Photo by Alex Leith<br />
The last time I ate at the Pelham Arms, one<br />
midweek lunchtime about eighteen months ago,<br />
I was surprised to see that they had bouillabaisse<br />
on the menu, and I mused as I was eating<br />
a well-prepared bowl of that wonderful dish how<br />
this reflected the changing face of the town.<br />
Five years before, in exactly the same spot, I<br />
would have been sinking pool balls rather than<br />
supping French soup. The Pelham Arms was<br />
never really a rough pub, but it did have a kind<br />
of rough-around-the-edginess. That’s all in the<br />
past now.<br />
This time I visit at 7.30 on a Sunday evening,<br />
having worked all afternoon on the magazine<br />
with sub-editor David Jarman. David does an<br />
awful lot for this publication for very little in<br />
return, and so it seemed appropriate for him<br />
to be my guest. That and the fact that I knew<br />
that a couple of hours in his company would<br />
provide me with a steady stream of drily amusing<br />
anecdote and gossip. We sit at the big table<br />
overlooking the garden/car park.<br />
David is a great lover of fine wine, so it seemed<br />
sensible to let him choose what we’re drinking,<br />
which he does before looking at the food<br />
menu. “What would you say to the Argentinian<br />
Malbec?” he muses, and I concur, glad that he<br />
hasn’t done that thing of choosing the second<br />
cheapest red on offer, in this case an American<br />
Merlot. I haven’t drunk American Merlot since<br />
watching Sideways.<br />
It’s Sunday, so the menu is limited to roasty<br />
style things, which is a pity because I don’t<br />
really fancy a roast. Then I spot ‘Steak burger<br />
7oz, ground in-house, Tremains Organic Sussex<br />
cheddar, baconnaise, Flint Owl bun, house<br />
chips & slaw £12’ and become a happy man.<br />
David goes for the roast beef.<br />
The burger comes on a platter, held together<br />
with a pointy skewer; the chips and slaw each<br />
have their own ceramic container. I can tell<br />
from the look of the thing it’s going to be one<br />
tasty burger, and I’m right. The meat, it’s written<br />
on the menu, is from Holmansbridge Farm<br />
– their policy is to buy local whenever possible<br />
– and it has a really beefy flavour, which you<br />
can’t say of most burger beef. Every bite is given<br />
extra tang by the ‘baconnaise’, a sauce I assume<br />
to be made by putting bacon and mayonnaise<br />
together in a blender. Yum.<br />
My only problem with my choice is trying to<br />
make it last, as it takes a good deal longer to get<br />
through a roast meal than it does to polish off<br />
a burger and chips, even if it does come with a<br />
ramekin of slaw. David tells me that the beef is<br />
every bit as good as he expected, which I take to<br />
be a compliment, trying to contain a brief attack<br />
of Yorkshire pudding envy. Afterwards, we both<br />
decline the offer of dessert, and opt instead for a<br />
glass of Remy Martin, which seems a sophisticated<br />
enough way of finishing off a thoroughly<br />
pleasant evening. Alex Leith<br />
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Photo by Lizzie Lower
food<br />
Brighton Blue cheesy mash<br />
and Falmer sausages<br />
Top spud tips from Park Farm Shop’s Pete Lenihan, and his son Mat<br />
Pete Lenihan knows his spuds. He’s been growing<br />
them all his life. As has his son Mat, who’s recently<br />
taken over running the family business, Park Farm<br />
Shop in Falmer. They sell several varieties, by the<br />
single spud, or in up-to-25-kilo sacks, and can talk<br />
you through the relative merits of each. So, as the<br />
season of baked potatoes and comfort food is upon<br />
us, I’ve come to talk tatties with Pete and to try one<br />
of Mat’s favourite recipes.<br />
Pete tells me; “Everybody should try two or three<br />
different varieties a year as they’ll cook differently<br />
across the growing season. Having said that, there<br />
are new ones that are good for everything. Like the<br />
Picasso, a pure white flesh potato, nicely shaped<br />
with a red eye like a King Edwards. They bake<br />
brilliantly and roast well too… but nothing beats a<br />
Maris Piper for roasting. They go lovely and floury<br />
white on the inside whilst crisping up nicely on the<br />
skin. That makes them great for frying too and a<br />
favourite with the chippies. They easily fall apart<br />
when you boil them though so, if you look away for<br />
a minute, you can end up with a pan of potato soup.<br />
Agria are a newer variety, a waxier white potato with<br />
yellow flesh, that holds together when boiled and<br />
makes for great chips and mash.<br />
We also stock some older varieties as customers still<br />
ask for them. Like Wilja, a mosaic-skinned white<br />
potato and red-skinned Desiree, when we can get<br />
them. Both are great for dauphinoise. My favourite<br />
is still Maris Bard as I’ve always looked forward to<br />
the first British new potatoes of the season. They<br />
appear around June, or May if you’re lucky. I also<br />
appreciate when a chip’s done well, but god knows<br />
what the secret is. Ask a chippy. I grow the bloody<br />
things and you can’t have everything but I do know<br />
that South Street Fish Bar in <strong>Lewes</strong> and Osborne’s<br />
in Seaford know how to do a good one.”<br />
Mat Lenihan’s Brighton Blue cheesy mash and<br />
Falmer sausages with onion gravy.<br />
For 4 people:<br />
2 large Agria potatoes<br />
1 sweet potato<br />
120 grams of High Weald Brighton Blue cheese -<br />
rind removed<br />
12 Falmer sausages - made with thyme and honey<br />
especially for Park Farm by Pete ‘the meat’ Richards<br />
of <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Onion<br />
Gravy granules<br />
Salt & pepper<br />
Peel and chop the Agria and sweet potatoes and<br />
bring to the boil together in the same pan. Meanwhile,<br />
prick and oven-roast the sausages until<br />
golden brown. For the onion gravy, chop and<br />
gently fry one large onion and, when soft, add a<br />
little water and allow to stew whilst the potatoes<br />
cook. Drain the potatoes when they fall apart when<br />
poked with a knife, then crumble in the Brighton<br />
Blue. Mash until smooth, adding butter and milk if<br />
necessary but the cheese is so creamy you don’t really<br />
need to. Add gravy granules to the stewed onion<br />
and stir well. Season with some freshly ground<br />
black pepper and pile it all on a plate. It’s so good<br />
I can eat it three times a week, although sometimes<br />
I’ll vary the sausages. Maybe I’ll have <strong>Lewes</strong> Castle,<br />
flavoured with Harveys Castle Brown Ale, or<br />
spicy lamb-and-pork Merguez, but always made<br />
by Richards.<br />
As told to Lizzie Lower<br />
Park Farm Shop, Monday to Saturday 9am - 5pm,<br />
Sunday 9am - 12.30pm. Park St, Falmer, BN1 9PG<br />
01273 671002<br />
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drink<br />
Ground<br />
<strong>Viva</strong> la revolucion<br />
Photo by William Leith<br />
The first thing<br />
I notice about<br />
Ground, the<br />
new café on<br />
Lansdown Place<br />
I visit one rainy<br />
Wednesday<br />
morning in<br />
October, is the<br />
smell. Or maybe<br />
‘aroma’ would<br />
be a better word.<br />
It’s a tiny place<br />
where they<br />
freshly grind their freshly roasted coffee beans, and<br />
it’s a pleasure just going through the door.<br />
Ground have played a part in the coffee revolution<br />
that’s hit Brighton in recent years, having opened a<br />
café in Kemptown in 2009, a place where you can be<br />
sure of getting ethically sourced coffee, and a full<br />
explanation of where it’s from, how it’s processed,<br />
and how to describe the taste (a difficult art; I’ve yet<br />
to learn the vocabulary to be able to do this myself).<br />
On hand to explain all is John, who works there<br />
four days a week, moonlighting on the other three<br />
as a trumpeter in the ska/hip-hop band King Porter<br />
Stomp. First he serves me a Costa Rican, naturally<br />
processed (ie roasted with pulp on) filter coffee<br />
which I drink milk-less and black. I venture that it’s<br />
‘pleasantly acidic’: he points out that I’m referring<br />
to the ‘funky, boozy, tropical fruit flavours’.<br />
Next up I try a Brazilian/Columbian fully washed<br />
(ie no pulp) flat white, prepared in an espresso<br />
machine, a fuller bodied number that would have<br />
suited me just right earlier in the morning. He talks<br />
about its ‘well-rounded’ nature, and the stronger<br />
‘mouth feel’.<br />
You live and learn: the best news is that the smallbatch<br />
(note lower case) locally-roast coffee scene<br />
now has an outlet in the county town. Smitten at<br />
first sniff, I’ll be a regular customer.<br />
Alex Leith<br />
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food<br />
Edible Updates<br />
Coming to a table near you soon<br />
As the air turns colder and the leaves turn from green<br />
to gold, our cottage industrialists are gearing up for<br />
the seasonal rush. Pleasant Stores have extended<br />
their opening hours to Thursday and Friday evenings<br />
from 6.30 to 10.30pm. Owner Sara Grisewood has<br />
put together a tidy list of natural organic wines,<br />
gluten-free beers, and a light menu featuring ‘<strong>Lewes</strong>ian<br />
membrillo’ served with High Weald Dairy<br />
Sister Sarah, and other lusciousness.<br />
At the Friday Food Market you’ll find handmade<br />
cheese from Plumpton College, and forager Jane<br />
Fairman selling her “spicy, smoky, hot and fruity”<br />
Bonfire Sauce. Flavoured with plums, wild berries,<br />
wild garlic, smoked paprika, chilli, seaweed and nettles:<br />
the perfect accompaniment to a Harveys banger.<br />
Chloe Edwards of Seven Sisters Spices is teaming<br />
up with VRAC and the creators of <strong>Lewes</strong> Map to<br />
offer a seasonal hamper, and will also be teaching<br />
Christmas Baking classes at <strong>Lewes</strong> Community<br />
Kitchen on 16th<br />
and 22nd Nov,<br />
see sevensistersspices.com.<br />
Also at <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
Community<br />
Kitchen, on 12th Dec, Petra Lovelock will share<br />
some Scandi-inspired skills at her Make & Bake<br />
Christmas workshop, see nordickitchen.me.uk.<br />
Anyone experiencing a coffee-scented void left<br />
by the transformation of Bar & Coffeehouse into<br />
Fisher St Studios, or Baltica’s decision to focus on<br />
their sought-after pottery, may need to discover<br />
Ground. The award-winning Kemptown coffee<br />
merchants opened a pop-up on Lansdown Place in<br />
Sept, and Rick and Tash say they are also planning<br />
a retail micro-roastery, for customers to sit and<br />
drink “whilst watching the beans turning from<br />
green to gold.” Chloë King<br />
Illustration by Chloë King<br />
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cheese<br />
Lancashire Bomb<br />
Explosive afters<br />
I’ve been cooked dinner and asked to bring dessert,<br />
and all through the duck in cranberry sauce<br />
with spinach purée and fried potatoes, which is<br />
really delicious, I’ve been looking forward to the<br />
big reveal.<br />
“Ta-da!” I exclaim, pulling a Lancashire Bomb,<br />
bought a few days before from Cheese Please and<br />
since hidden in my fridge, out of my rucksack.<br />
My host makes the appropriate response. The<br />
Lancashire Bomb looks like an old-style grenade<br />
– one of the ones that you light the fuse of – and<br />
when you bring it out, the wow factor is high.<br />
I’ve also brought some Cheese Please Peter’s<br />
Yard Swedish knäckebröd (crispbread) discs; said<br />
host provides chutney and fruit, and a pot of the<br />
cranberry sauce, and we dig in – kind of literally.<br />
The MO with an LB is to cut off the top of the<br />
wax casing, and attack the cheese inside – not<br />
a soft cheese, but easily scoopable - with a teaspoon.<br />
It’s creamy and mature and eaten straight<br />
from the spoon it’s a little rich, but when added<br />
with the extras it’s sensational.<br />
Shorrocks have been making this type of cheese<br />
since 1923, but it wasn’t until 25 years ago that<br />
Andrew Shorrock devised its casing for a friend<br />
who was emigrating to America. It’s a brilliant<br />
invention, and makes for a fine Christmas present,<br />
or Bonfire feast offering, too. The beauty is,<br />
when you’ve had your fill (and there’s plenty left,<br />
seeing as each bomb weighs 500g) you can simply<br />
put the lid back on, and put it back in the fridge:<br />
it keeps for up to a month. AL<br />
KITCHEN.ROOMS.BAR.EVENTS<br />
- Hot chocolate by the fire in our Kitchen<br />
- Family style Sunday roasts in our Friston Room<br />
- Supper Club dinners in our Garden Room<br />
013 2 3 8 7 0 218 www.saltmarshfarmhouse.co.uk<br />
Seven Sisters Country Park, Exceat BN25 4AD<br />
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the way we burn<br />
The photographer JJ Waller is most famous for his pictures of people. JJ used to be a<br />
street performer, and later in life found those thinking-on-his-feet skills he’d learnt were<br />
applicable to a new career as a street photographer. He grew adept at capturing people<br />
at Cartier-Bresson’s ‘decisive moment’ in and around Brighton and other UK coastal<br />
cities. This project, however, is completely different from his normal MO: last year<br />
he travelled round Sussex during Bonfire season, photographing bonfires before they<br />
were ignited, in the daytime. There’s a quiet beauty to the series, and a strange sense of<br />
poignancy, too, as we know the fate of these elegant piles. We have deliberately left the<br />
bonfires ‘anonymous’: do you recognise yours?<br />
jjwaller.com
the way we burn
the way we burn
the way we burn
the way we burn
the way we burn
All part of Riverside’s rich<br />
Is there a better view from your<br />
table than upstairs at the<br />
Riverside Brasserie?<br />
Or better farm produce than<br />
the home-reared meat at<br />
Mays Farm Cart?<br />
Or a better selection<br />
of sewing materials and<br />
haberdashery than at<br />
The-Stitchery?<br />
We don’t<br />
think so.<br />
tapestry!<br />
By Cliffe Bridge, <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
www.riverside-lewes.co.uk<br />
RIVERSIDE
shopping<br />
Bonfire<br />
Essential accoutrements for the Fifth<br />
Whether you’re celebrating at home or<br />
out in the town on the Fifth (or thereabouts),<br />
it’s going to be chilly. Keep warm<br />
in these recycled cashmere wrist warmers<br />
from Popsicle at the Needlemakers.<br />
They’re made from the sleeves of an old<br />
jumper, so every pair has a different colour<br />
and design. £24<br />
Matches are always useful, but extra-long<br />
matches in a limited edition, hand-printed,<br />
bonfire-themed matchbox are absolutely<br />
essential. Pick up a box at the Tom<br />
Paine Printing Press this <strong>November</strong>,<br />
and be prepared. £5<br />
Form your own First Pioneer group with<br />
a custom-made medieval gown from<br />
Dornbluth. All costumes are designed<br />
and hand-made, to measure, in their<br />
workshop, and are available in a huge<br />
range of styles and colours. £155 (pictured),<br />
dornbluth.co.uk<br />
Put on your own miniature display in the<br />
living room, with a box of Indoor Fireworks<br />
from Mary’s at the Needlemakers.<br />
Each box contains a selection of tabletopsized<br />
explosives, as well as bonfire party<br />
favourites, sparklers! £10, maryfellows.<br />
co.uk<br />
If you’re holding your own outdoor party<br />
this year, these Kadai Fire Bowls are the<br />
perfect way to create the warmth and<br />
crackling cosiness of bonfire, even in a<br />
smaller garden. Originally used over an<br />
open fire to cook food at ceremonies,<br />
each one is unique and hand-crafted in<br />
India. From £164, kadai.co.uk<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> Mobile Communications<br />
Wishing all of our<br />
customers a fantastic<br />
Bonfire Night!<br />
<strong>2015</strong><br />
52 High Street, <strong>Lewes</strong>, East Sussex BN7 1XE<br />
01273 473400
PET CARE ROUND-UP<br />
Animal magic<br />
Let your pets enjoy Bonfire, too<br />
Photos from Coastway Vets<br />
Cliffe Veterinary Group has been a part of the<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> community for over 150 years, with a practice<br />
based in the centre of town and branch surgeries<br />
in Woodingdean and Ringmer. Practice Manager<br />
Karen Walker advises dog owners preparing<br />
for the fireworks season to “talk to your vet about<br />
pheromone diffusers, which disperse calming chemicals<br />
into the room. In some cases your vet may even<br />
prescribe medication.” 21 Cliffe High St, BN7 2AH.<br />
cliffevets.co.uk, 01273 473 232<br />
Coastway Vets have 41 years of veterinary knowledge<br />
and offer free puppy checks and Weight<br />
Watchers sessions for overweight pets. Their outof-hours<br />
24/7 emergency surgery is located 15 minutes’<br />
drive away in Brighton. They recommend using<br />
desensitising CDs like Sounds Scary – which play<br />
firework noises – during the weeks before fireworks<br />
season. Play them quietly at first, then increasingly<br />
loudly. 137-139 Malling Street, BN7 2RB. coastwayvets.co.uk,<br />
01273 478 100<br />
Sara Miller at Mount Pleasant Pet Services provides<br />
pet care and boarding across <strong>Lewes</strong>, Saltdean,<br />
Ringmer and everywhere in between. Their Doggy<br />
Day Care service from 8am to 6pm includes two<br />
walks and Sara says she has found some beautiful<br />
new routes across the South Downs. She suggests<br />
playing with pets during the fireworks so they don’t<br />
try to hide, and rewarding them for being calm. 4<br />
Howey Close, Mount Pleasant, Newhaven, BN9 0NX.<br />
mountpleasantpetservices.com, 07908 238 480<br />
The Pet Store in Ringmer is offering 10% off all<br />
preventative anxiety treatments such as Adaptil,<br />
and Thundershirts, for pets who struggle with the<br />
stress of Bonfire Night and the ongoing fireworks<br />
displays. “It’s important to start using these products<br />
long before dark and ideally days in advance<br />
of Bonfire Night,” explains co-owner Gregg Leon,<br />
“as it’s much easier to keep your pet from becoming<br />
stressed than it is to calm them down.” 86 Springett<br />
Avenue, Ringmer, BN8 5QX. thepetstore-ringmer.<br />
co.uk, 01273 812 732<br />
Fifty Sheep specialise in high quality pet foods,<br />
sourcing natural and nutritional alternatives to the<br />
mainstream brands. Owner Kerrie Elliott explains,<br />
“It’s quite surprising the amount of salt and sugar<br />
that you find in pet foods, and in the long term these<br />
things can be detrimental to the animal’s health.”<br />
They stock a range of natural stress-relieving products<br />
including Pet Remedy, which comes in a spray<br />
or a plug-in diffuser. “It works on all animals and<br />
birds, and even humans too!” 41 Cliffe High Street,<br />
BN7 2AN. 50sheep.co.uk, 01273 473 283<br />
Isabel Warren at Barker and Yapp provides an alternative<br />
grooming service for dogs. Isabel trained<br />
at Sussex Canine Centre and specialises in working<br />
with nervous dogs – for especially anxious or elderly<br />
pets she also does home visits. “Bonfire season<br />
is difficult; the best thing you can do is to be<br />
calm yourself. If you’re stressed because they’re getting<br />
stressed then they’ll get more stressed because<br />
you’re stressed!” 2 St Swithun’s Terrace, BN7 1UJ.<br />
07967 244282 or 01273 480324<br />
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Russell Gates<br />
Instructor of Animal Care at Plumpton<br />
I always wanted to work with animals, so I love<br />
working here. I teach all aspects of looking after<br />
them. From correct handling of different species,<br />
to diet, hygiene and anatomy. We also teach the<br />
practicalities of keeping animals – their housing and<br />
necessary equipment as well as health and safety and<br />
legislation covering the keeping of them, too.<br />
We run all sorts of Animal Care courses here,<br />
from day release for schools, right up to Foundation<br />
Degrees in Animal Science. Most jobs involving animal<br />
care will expect applicants to have some qualification<br />
and experience and our courses offer both<br />
the technical knowledge and the practical handling.<br />
Many of our students go on to work in veterinary<br />
nursing, animal shelters and sanctuaries, zoos and<br />
pet shops. I was a student here myself seven or eight<br />
years ago. Then I became a technician, worked for<br />
a while on a farm and then came back as an<br />
instructor. The college has grown hugely in<br />
popularity since I was a student. Now we have<br />
around 600 students on animal care courses.<br />
We have so many individual animals here;<br />
there are too many to count. The variety of<br />
species is amazing and makes it a real pleasure to<br />
come to work. From rabbits and guinea pigs to<br />
tortoises, corn snakes, degus, sugar gliders, uromastyx,<br />
wallabies, owls, puffer fish, poison-dart<br />
frogs and birds like the white-cheeked turacos;<br />
they all have their own personalities. Every room<br />
you go into you can interact with another animal<br />
and many of them are incredibly sociable. The<br />
rarest animal we’ve got at the moment is probably<br />
Hugo the skunk. A few years ago it looked<br />
like there was going to be a craze for keeping<br />
skunks as pets but luckily it didn’t take off.<br />
My favourite is probably Reggae. He’s a<br />
green-cheeked Amazon parrot. When I was a<br />
technician, I had a great relationship with him as<br />
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my space<br />
Photos by Lizzie Lower<br />
they really like to bond with one person. Now I’m<br />
an instructor, I have less time to hang out with him<br />
but he still likes to chat.<br />
I’m not sure exactly what our food bill is but<br />
I know it’s huge. Common pets are easy to buy<br />
for but we often have to make up the diet for the<br />
more specialist animals, including all the necessary<br />
supplements. We also buy in live food every couple<br />
of weeks in the form of insects like crickets and<br />
it’s important that they have a happy, healthy life<br />
whilst they’re with us too. It’s one of the things the<br />
students find hardest – handling live food.<br />
I’d like to be the next David Attenborough. To<br />
be a naturalist, travelling the world, seeing all the<br />
different species whilst educating people at the<br />
same time. How fantastic would that be? LL<br />
If you’d like to find out more about animal care<br />
and other courses at Plumpton College, their<br />
next open information morning is on Saturday<br />
7 <strong>November</strong>, from 9am to 12.30pm. 01273<br />
890454 plumpton.ac.uk<br />
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shepherding<br />
Alex Callf stands with his back to me, making a series<br />
of undecipherable, half-human exclamations.<br />
Suddenly the far edge of the field we’re in is fringed<br />
with fast-moving sheep. They turn, as one, and<br />
start thundering down the hill towards me, and I<br />
spot two dancing dogs, directing the flock towards<br />
us. The sheep charge, as one, into a pen, made of<br />
portable steel units, and abruptly stop, as they have<br />
nowhere else to go. It seems to have been a flawless,<br />
beautiful manoeuvre, but as Alex turns round<br />
towards me, his face shows a hint of dissatisfaction.<br />
“We’ve missed a couple,” he says, and sends the<br />
dogs back up the hill.<br />
Half an hour before, Alex has picked me up in his<br />
4x4 truck in <strong>Lewes</strong>, and driven me to this field in<br />
Vixen Grove Farm, in Chailey, talking sheep. He’s a<br />
laid-back guy, with a ready smile, and, he says, he’s<br />
not really wanted to do anything else but look after<br />
sheep since he was 12, when he got his first experience<br />
of helping a farmer out. The guy took him on<br />
as an apprentice, of sorts, and he worked there in<br />
his spare time, for several years, until he went to<br />
study agriculture in Somerset, then Plumpton Agricultural<br />
College.<br />
Alex is now a contract shepherd, working for several<br />
different farmers in East Sussex, aided by his<br />
partner Taz. At peak times in the year, like when<br />
it’s time for lambing and shearing, he hires other<br />
A Sussex shepherd<br />
‘To work with sheep, you have to think like a sheep’<br />
sheep-hands to help. He’s currently tending around<br />
3,000 head, for several different farmers. “I dream<br />
of owning my own flock of 2,000, one day,” he says.<br />
I learn a lot about sheep over the next two hours,<br />
as Alex and today’s colleague Tommy ‘enzovax’ the<br />
sheep to guard against miscarriage, inject them with<br />
small doses of foot-rot bacteria, so they can build<br />
resistance against it, and drive them through a formaldehyde<br />
foot bath. For example: this year Alex<br />
has lost nine sheep after they’ve been attacked by<br />
dogs, some through stress; indeed the biggest killer<br />
of sheep is stress; all these sheep will eventually<br />
be culled, and turned into mutton, when they’ve<br />
grown too long in the tooth; the ewes, primarily<br />
reared for breeding, are multipurpose animals - as<br />
well as ending up on our plates, they produce wool<br />
(just a sideline) and act as ‘glorified lawnmowers’,<br />
preventing grass from going to seed and losing its<br />
nutritional value.<br />
My favourite bit is trying to get the sheep through<br />
the foot bath. “They don’t like going through water,”<br />
says Alex, and shows me how lifting the tail up<br />
acts as a ‘go pedal’, then, best of all, how walking<br />
in the opposite direction to them creates an optical<br />
illusion, and makes them move faster. This leads to<br />
Alex’s best quote of the day: “to work with sheep,<br />
you have to learn to think like a sheep.”<br />
Alex Leith<br />
Photo by Alex Leith<br />
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Day in the life...<br />
Val Suleski<br />
Kennels Manager at Raystede<br />
My working day starts at 8.30am but I normally<br />
get in about 7.30am - I can’t keep away!<br />
That’s my favourite part of the day, first thing in<br />
the morning when the dogs are all cosy in their<br />
beds and they do that wake up stretch and wag<br />
their tails. That’s the moment when you hope that<br />
today is going to be their lucky day.<br />
The first job is giving them each a quick ‘hello’<br />
and checking that they haven’t been poorly<br />
during the night. After that it’s time for cleaning<br />
out. Each dog goes out into the play run so they<br />
can stretch their legs and go to the toilet while we<br />
clean out their kennel. Then they can have their<br />
breakfast. There’s a mixture of dry food and meat;<br />
all of our food is donated so they can have what<br />
they like. Scrambled eggs and sausages left over<br />
from the café are a favourite.<br />
Then the day is divided up: staff take it in turns<br />
dealing with rehoming enquiries, face-to-face or<br />
over the phone, and following up with new owners<br />
who have adopted animals from here. When we’re<br />
not doing that, we’re spending quality time with<br />
the dogs, giving them the training they need,<br />
grooming them and playing with them.<br />
We can have anything up to ten new<br />
dogs a week arriving at the centre and<br />
each one needs to have a full behavioural<br />
assessment. We need to assess their<br />
character and personality, what requirements they<br />
have training-wise and what they need from us to<br />
make them happy. We put all of this together for<br />
prospective owners so they can choose a suitable<br />
canine companion.<br />
We’ve been described as a ‘dating service for<br />
dogs’. We can see by the body language and the<br />
way people interact with the dogs whether it’s<br />
going to be a match. Each dog is individual. I’ve<br />
worked with so many dogs over so many years and<br />
there’s something loveable about each and every<br />
one of them, they’ve all got a little quirk.<br />
They have their dinner at about 4.30pm, and<br />
we check they’ve got fresh water and bedding.<br />
Every night we give each of them a bedtime biscuit<br />
and a ‘night-night’ and tell them that they’re<br />
loved. It’s important to let them know it’s the end<br />
of the day and their activities are finished.<br />
We normally leave at about 5 o’clock, unless<br />
there’s a reason for someone to stay, like an animal<br />
needing medication or if one of the dogs is having<br />
puppies – I’ve stayed here all night before. The<br />
dogs have had a busy day and plenty of exercise so<br />
are ready for bed! As told to Rebecca Cunningham<br />
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Photo by Emma Chaplin<br />
How long have you been a zoo keeper? Twentythree<br />
years, since I was 15. I knew I was born to do<br />
this. I wasn’t great at school. I’d bunk off and go<br />
bird watching.<br />
Are you from an animal-loving family? My sister<br />
is a veterinary nurse, my dad was a police dog<br />
handler. My wife and I met here. My mum works at<br />
Drusillas, so does my son. I was hand-rearing a black<br />
and white ruffed lemur at home when he was born.<br />
He’s grown up with animals.<br />
Do you know many other zoo keepers? Oh yes.<br />
All my friends are keepers. The guy who was my<br />
Best Man is curator of Cotswold Zoo. We’re all on<br />
the phone to each other all the time, talking about<br />
any problems that come up, supporting each other.<br />
We’re a bit competitive too.<br />
Talk us through your day. I get here about 7.30am<br />
and my first job is a head count of the animals,<br />
checking for any births or if any have been taken<br />
poorly. There are ten keepers on duty every day<br />
who call me if they have any concerns. I also manage<br />
the nutrition of all the animals in the park.<br />
What qualities do you need to do your job? Excellent<br />
observation skills, a caring nature and lots of<br />
patience. It’s a hard job emotionally and physically<br />
and you must be prepared to go out in all weathers.<br />
What do you most enjoy? Being with the animals<br />
and taking the best possible care of them – it’s the<br />
reason any of us get into this kind of work.<br />
Anything you’re less keen on? The admin, and<br />
there is a lot of that with a zoo. Lab reports, veterinary<br />
involvement. Every animal is microchipped<br />
and has a record that stays with them throughout<br />
their life.<br />
What are the fruit bats like to work with? Amazing.<br />
They’re really intelligent, fluffy flying mammals.<br />
They have a hierarchy.<br />
What are you proudest of? Pandas are very secretive,<br />
especially with their babies, but after our red<br />
panda gave birth to twins, she brought them out for<br />
me to see.<br />
What’s the most popular animal? Meerkats and<br />
penguins, but we try to educate people about lesserknown<br />
creatures as well, such as our binturong (a<br />
‘bear-cat’), which smells of popcorn.<br />
Do fireworks cause distress? No, we don’t get<br />
many around here. All the animals have indoor accommodation<br />
and are with companions.<br />
What’s your favourite time of year at the park?<br />
The spring, with so much new growth horticulturally<br />
and new life with the animals, as we get ready<br />
for a busy summer.<br />
Is there anything you always get asked? Can we<br />
touch the animals? Can we feed the animals? (No!)<br />
What’s your favourite animal? That’s like asking<br />
‘who is your favourite child?’ I have a soft spot for<br />
primates because I’ve worked so much with them.<br />
And two-toed sloths. Emma Chaplin drusillas.co.uk<br />
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<strong>Lewes</strong> Out Loud<br />
Plenty more Henty<br />
In my new approach<br />
to this page, the<br />
editor will no doubt<br />
be pleased to learn<br />
that I do not intend<br />
to introduce politics<br />
into the mix – even<br />
though my portrait<br />
by Leslie Norah Hills<br />
has recently been<br />
spotted alongside<br />
Boris Johnson in the<br />
Cancer Research<br />
shop window.<br />
It’s tempting, though,<br />
especially when I read<br />
in the Daily Telegraph this description by sketch<br />
writer, Michael Deacon, of the new Labour<br />
Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn: ‘His trousers<br />
were a different shade than his jacket. The top<br />
button of his shirt was undone. From his pocket<br />
poked the lid of a pen. He looked like a lecturer<br />
who’d woken late, got dressed in the dark, then<br />
loosened his collar to recover from the mad,<br />
panting dash to the bus stop.’<br />
‘How cruel’, I thought to myself, and anyway,<br />
surely Jeremy cycles everywhere, doesn’t he?<br />
Even more reason to suggest that he’d make a<br />
very typical resident of this tweedy town. Men<br />
with beards, glasses and no fashion sense are<br />
not only tolerated in <strong>Lewes</strong>, they are positively<br />
encouraged… and I should know!<br />
Former MP Norman Baker was hardly a dedicated<br />
follower of fashion, as he walked through<br />
the High Street, but we forgave him. Not least<br />
because he was actually seen walking in the<br />
town he represented for 18 years. Congratulations<br />
on the book, Norman.<br />
My promise last month to share more than<br />
a polite ‘Good Morning’ with people in the<br />
High Street got off<br />
to a rather wobbly<br />
start. Walking down<br />
School Hill, I spotted<br />
a couple on the other<br />
side of the road who I<br />
thought I recognised.<br />
We waved at each<br />
other. I crossed over,<br />
explained that my<br />
wife was at home, to<br />
which a bemused,<br />
but smiling, Philip<br />
responded “I don’t<br />
think we actually<br />
know each other!”<br />
Well, we do now! Karen and Philip told me<br />
that they live on a hill overlooking the town,<br />
and meeting people in this casual way is one of<br />
the pleasures of their life in <strong>Lewes</strong> today.<br />
One of mine, of course, is supporting, when I<br />
can, <strong>Lewes</strong> FC, and as a badge-wearing owner,<br />
I was delighted to obtain a couple of tickets for<br />
the Squeeze gig at the town hall recently. The<br />
club is great when it comes to posters, publicity,<br />
pints and pies but not so hot on the presentation<br />
front. We all know who the Squeeze are<br />
but I do think someone should have given a<br />
decent build-up to the talented Lola Britten-<br />
Hepper who represented the Starfish Youth<br />
Music Project. Lola is 12 and had to introduce<br />
her excellent three-song set herself. A pity.<br />
Inevitably, Squeeze ended their powerful participation<br />
with Cool For Cats. which reminded<br />
me of this month’s bonfire theme, and the need<br />
to keep all animals securely inside on the night.<br />
As you can see from my dramatic photograph,<br />
our neighbourhood cat, De Niro, enjoys being<br />
a creature of the night… but not on <strong>November</strong><br />
5th! John Henty<br />
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football<br />
Louis Erangey<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong> FC’s teenage kit man<br />
As anyone who’s seen Patrick Marber’s play about<br />
non-league football will know, the kit man is a<br />
pivotal member of the dressing room. Confidant,<br />
organiser and, literally, the person who sweeps up<br />
the mess left by others, the kit man is the unsung<br />
hero of every club.<br />
Normally he’s a wearied, fifty-something former<br />
player who can’t stay away from the banter and the<br />
reek of Deep Heat. At <strong>Lewes</strong> FC, however, the kit<br />
man is Louis Erangey, who only just qualifies for<br />
the term “man” at all at only 18 years of age, and<br />
who is almost certainly the youngest kit man in<br />
the entire Ryman Premier League.<br />
Louis has only been kit man at the club since the<br />
beginning of last season, yet has already worked<br />
under three different managers. Each of them<br />
have talked warmly of the unassuming, lofty<br />
teenager, who quietly goes about his work and refuses<br />
to divulge what goes on behind the battered<br />
dressing room doors. “Everything I hear, nothing<br />
leaves the changing room,” says Louis, who sits in<br />
on team-talks, half-time rollickings and whatever<br />
else transpires when 20 adrenaline-saturated men<br />
are jammed in a space no bigger than a garage.<br />
“There’s 100% confidentiality,” he confirms, rebuffing<br />
our correspondent’s attempt to tease out a<br />
little dressing room gossip. “I’ve had that with all<br />
the managers I’ve worked with. They know they<br />
can trust me.”<br />
It’s not only the managers who know they can<br />
place their faith in Erangey. Sometimes players<br />
will drag him aside after games and seek his feedback<br />
on their performance. “There’s a certain few<br />
that do that,” said Erangey, once again refusing<br />
to divulge names. “They want to discuss how the<br />
game was and how did it look from the sidelines.<br />
Some ask how I think they performed and I try to<br />
be honest with them.”<br />
Louis, who was recently promoted to Assistant<br />
Operations Manager at the club, doesn’t only<br />
look after the first team’s kit. He’s now responsible<br />
for managing the kit for all six of the men’s<br />
and women’s sides, as well as the club’s Academy.<br />
A band of volunteers help with the unenviable task<br />
of loading seven loads of sweat-soaked shirts into<br />
the club’s washing machines, but it still requires<br />
a feat of organisation to ensure that seven teams<br />
have the correct colours, tape and bench gear for<br />
up to a dozen games per week.<br />
He now also bears responsibility for maintaining<br />
the club’s new 3G training pitch and ensuring<br />
everything is locked up at the Dripping Pan when<br />
everyone’s finished for the night. Indeed, when<br />
we spoke on a Sunday morning, he hadn’t left the<br />
club until 10pm the night before, getting everything<br />
ready for the Ladies match after getting<br />
back from an away trip with the men. Unsung<br />
hero? He fits the stereotype perfectly.<br />
Interview and photo by Barry Collins<br />
Forthcoming home fixtures. Sat 31st Oct 3pm:<br />
Hampton, Wed 11th 7.45pm: Enfield, Sat 14th 3pm:<br />
Leiston (or FA Trophy), Sat 21st 3pm: Kinstonian<br />
Photo by Barry Collins<br />
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HIKING
feature: wildlife<br />
Death’s-head hawkmoth.<br />
Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name.<br />
In August I was sent a photo of a giant caterpillar<br />
seen in an Iford garden. The colourful caterpillar;<br />
garish yellow with flamboyant blue chevrons and<br />
spots, was shuffling along on its stumpy legs like a<br />
miniature conga-line in search of a party. The caterpillar<br />
would have buried itself in some soft Sussex<br />
soil and, within its cocoon, would have undertaken<br />
an amazing transformation. Around <strong>November</strong>, a<br />
completely different beast will be emerging from<br />
the Iford earth and into the night skies; a moth.<br />
But, with a 12cm wingspan and ornate patterned<br />
wings, this is no ordinary moth. Its beauty should<br />
be admired and respected if it wasn’t for one small<br />
thing. Stamped on its thorax is the spectral image<br />
of an eyeless human skull, an eerie façade that has<br />
given it its name; the Death’s-head hawkmoth.<br />
The moth’s baleful birthmark has, for centuries,<br />
struck fear into the hearts of us superstitious<br />
humans who have seen it as a messenger of the<br />
Devil. And, just like the big man himself in The<br />
Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil, this rare moth<br />
seems to have put in regular appearances throughout<br />
history. Even learned naturalists once claimed<br />
that the moth was a “foretelling of war, pestilence,<br />
hunger, and death to man and beast.”<br />
Legend has it that the appearance of a number of<br />
Death’s-head hawkmoths signalled the start of the<br />
French Revolution in 1789. The moth appeared<br />
in the bedchamber of King George III; a visitation<br />
that allegedly tormented the crazed monarch<br />
and sped him to his demise in 1820.<br />
The Death’s-head’s notoriety has continued to<br />
seep through the centuries in art and literature. It<br />
appeared prophesying doom in Thomas Hardy’s<br />
Return of the Native (1878) and was an instrument<br />
of evil in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). In the<br />
surrealist film Un Chien Andalou (1929) it gave life<br />
to Salvador Dali’s nightmares. In 1968’s English<br />
horror The Blood Beast Terror Peter Cushing was<br />
on the trail of a monster that was half-woman<br />
and half-hawkmoth. In 1991 the moth was seen<br />
perching on the lips of Jodie Foster on posters<br />
advertising The Silence of the Lambs. In the film its<br />
cocoons were placed inside Buffalo Bill’s victims<br />
as a grizzly calling card (the hawkmoths that<br />
actually appeared in the movie were a different<br />
species to the ones that appeared in the script;<br />
only a minor point but it did ruin the movie for<br />
me somewhat).<br />
Like all moths the Death’s-head hawkmoth is<br />
harmless. It is a largely African species which<br />
some years undertakes an amazing migration<br />
north, arriving on extremely rare occasions in<br />
Sussex. Of course its links to death and destruction<br />
are just superstitious claptrap. But with a<br />
Death’s-head on the loose in <strong>Lewes</strong> this Autumn<br />
I’d keep your windows closed, just in case.<br />
Michael Blencowe, Sussex Wildlife Trust<br />
sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk<br />
Illustration by Mark Greco<br />
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icks and mortar<br />
Shelling out<br />
Ringmer’s renowned reptile<br />
We’re taking a look around a celebrity home for<br />
this month’s Bricks and Mortar feature. Now, who<br />
would live in a place like this? It’s custom-made<br />
for a single resident and was built by the original<br />
occupant. Yet despite its bespoke nature, this isn’t<br />
a luxury property. Instead, it’s a tiny, environmentally<br />
sensitive place that’s constructed from natural<br />
materials. What’s that, you’d like a clue? Okay,<br />
our celebrity used to live in Ringmer. No, not former<br />
Prime Minister James Callaghan. Not singer<br />
Wendy James. It’s 18th century icon Timothy the<br />
Tortoise.<br />
Timothy’s early life is something of a mystery.<br />
In fact, it was only after the tortoise’s death that<br />
anyone realised ‘he’ was actually ‘she’. It’s thought<br />
Timothy was a Greek spur-thighed tortoise (Testudo<br />
graeca) bought from a sailor in Chichester in<br />
1740 by Henry Snooke. Mr Snooke – “one of the<br />
most rabid Tories in Sussex”, historian Jeffrey Scott<br />
Chamberlain tells us – paid half a crown (12½p)<br />
and took Timothy back to his home in Delves<br />
House, next to the church in Ringmer. There he<br />
quickly lost interest, with wife Rebecca caring for<br />
the creature.<br />
The life of this tortoise would have gone unreported<br />
were it not for naturalist Gilbert White,<br />
Rebecca’s nephew. He was fascinated by his aunt’s<br />
pet and wrote reports about Timothy whenever he<br />
visited, creating what’s probably the first natural<br />
history study of a tortoise. Timothy feasted on kidney<br />
beans and cucumbers, survived flood and frost,<br />
and buried herself in the garden to hibernate each<br />
winter. When Mrs Snooke died in 1780 (apparently<br />
she’s interred below Ringmer’s parish church in the<br />
same grave as her husband), Gilbert White became<br />
Timothy’s new owner. He dug Timothy out of the<br />
hollow she was hibernating in – ‘it resented the insult<br />
by hissing’, he notes – and took her in a horsedrawn<br />
carriage to his home in Selborne. There he<br />
continued to observe Timothy, whose later years<br />
are documented in detail as part of White’s renowned<br />
book The Natural History and Antiquities of<br />
Selborne. Indeed, Timothy is such a major character<br />
that novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner later compiled<br />
all the tortoise-related mentions and published<br />
them in a short book entitled The Portrait of a<br />
Tortoise. More recently, Verlyn Klinkenborg turned<br />
these into a fictionalised tortoise-eye view that’s<br />
published as Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile.<br />
Gilbert White died in 1793. Timothy died a year<br />
later in the spring of 1794; her age was probably<br />
around 60, based on White’s notes. But this isn’t<br />
the end of the story. Not only does Timothy live<br />
on in print, her shell was presented to the Natural<br />
History Museum by Gilbert White’s great-niece<br />
in April 1853. Meanwhile, Timothy’s importance<br />
is immortalised locally in Ringmer’s village sign<br />
and also on the badge for the local primary school.<br />
That’s an impressive legacy for a 12½p pet.<br />
Mark Bridge<br />
Photo by Mark Bridge<br />
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usiness news<br />
Celebrations this month for the Waitrose <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
store, who’ve been in town for ten years, and Avant<br />
Garde, the <strong>Lewes</strong> High Street hairdressers who<br />
are opening a new salon in Haywards Heath. The<br />
Pine Chest, previously on Market Street (for 36<br />
years!) and now in Ringmer, is having a clearance<br />
sale of pine and oak furniture and much more<br />
besides and Baltica at the top of town, are expanding<br />
their distinctive Bolesławiec pottery showroom<br />
(and closing down their café) . Also at the bottleneck,<br />
Bears and Bygones has closed. After 40 years<br />
of having a shop Sue is taking her business online<br />
where she’ll still be ensuring old bears find safe<br />
homes. It’s also farewell to Langfields hairdressers<br />
who have closed their doors after 12 years in Cliffe.<br />
The Chamber of Commerce are busy planning the<br />
<strong>2015</strong> late night shopping event. On 3rd December<br />
the town centre will be closed to traffic from<br />
6-8.30 pm and there’ll be entertainments up and<br />
down the High Street raising funds for this year’s<br />
nominated charity, The Bevern Trust. Of course,<br />
you’re invited to take part too and if your business<br />
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own entertainments planned or would like to make<br />
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rocketing prices<br />
Normally we use this slot to show an old photograph of <strong>Lewes</strong>, but having been sent this wonderful<br />
drawing, and <strong>November</strong> being <strong>November</strong>, we decided to make an exception this time. The picture was<br />
sent by former <strong>Lewes</strong> resident Nick Eustance, with this note: ‘One <strong>November</strong> in the 1960s – I was about<br />
11 at the time - I decided to draw the fireworks my parents had bought for our home display.’ A close<br />
look at the picture shows that the fireworks were made by three different manufacturers, Brocks, Wessex<br />
and Standard; and prices ranged from 2d (for example the Twinkler and the Silver Tree) to a whopping<br />
6d (The Spaceship and the Polar Whirlwind).<br />
‘We were living in <strong>Lewes</strong> for the latter part of last year,’ he continues, ‘and over Bonfire I was reminded<br />
of this modest documentation, in biro and felt pen. As I am the sort of person who discards things only<br />
under duress, I still have it - despite having moved to Australia in the meantime.’ The eagle-eyed among<br />
you might notice that some amendments have been made to the details underneath the drawings, as<br />
the young Nick was a stickler for keeping his records up to date: ‘It includes the prices (old money of<br />
course) for each specimen, subsequently updated in a later year.’ All three firework brands are still going<br />
strong fifty years later, as you would imagine, since the three companies have been competing for well<br />
over a century, give or take the odd merger: Brocks was founded back in 1698, Pains (later Pains-Wessex)<br />
started up in 1850, while Standard was established in 1891.<br />
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