Parish Cake Autumn 2017

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local legend LINDA PAGE Cranbrook In Bloom champion and much more WHERE WERE YOU BORN AND BRED? Bexleyheath, then we moved a couple of times before living in Iden Green. We then went to Apple Pie Farm in Benenden where my husband-to-be Fred worked. We met when I was 15 and waiting for a bus to Cranbrook. When I got to the town he was waiting for me and asked me out. Three years later we were married! WHERE DID YOU GO TO SCHOOL? Benenden Primary and then to the Tonbridge Tech which is now the Weald of Kent Grammar School. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST JOB? I went into the police as a cadet for a year but Fred did not want me to carry on with that so I worked in an insurance company in Maidstone. We married when I was 18 and we had three children, Chris, Simon and Teresa. WHICH THREE WORDS DESCRIBE YOU? Enthusiastic, positive, cheerful. I am a half glass full person! WHAT’S THE HISTORY OF PAGES? We took over 21 High Street, Cranbrook, which was a sweet shop and newsagents but it soon became too small so we moved into what was Dykes’ newsagents when the owner retired. Our son Chris is now working in the shop. WHAT MAKES YOU TICK? I like seeing results. I get a lot of pleasure out of organising things in the town. One of my four sisters says I am the one who lights the touch paper and goes away! YOU ARE VERY INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY. WHAT ARE YOUR HIGHLIGHTS? I am very proud of being chairman of Cranbrook in Bloom which was set up in 1994 but really got going in 2000. I am so lucky to have so many people in the group who work so hard. We have won gold twice in the South and South East in Bloom competition. On the strength of that we were one of only five small towns to be invited to take part in Britain in Bloom and won silver gilt in 2014 and 2015. WHAT MAKES CRANBROOK SUCH A SPECIAL PLACE TO WORK? I am a people person. I just like to be able to see people every day and see what is going on. It is such a friendly town. I step outside the door and look up and down the High Street and say to myself “aren’t we lucky?” WHAT IS YOUR CURRENT `MUST WATCH’ TV PROGRAMME? I don’t do soaps, I don’t do the news! I read a paper instead. I did like Broadchurch and Silent Witness. YOUR PET PREFERENCES – CATS OR DOGS? Neither! I don’t like cats and Fred is allergic to animals. FAVOURITE CAKE? Cream is more important than the cake! I do like a Pavlova and I have cream on my porridge! WHAT DO YOU DO TO UNWIND? I do like to read novels. I like Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet set in medieval times. I also like a gin and tonic! WHAT DAILY PAPER DO YOU READ? I read the I Daily newspaper. I used to be a Mail reader but there is too much drivel in it now. The I is very concise and only 50p! 42 Parish Cake • Autumn 2017
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