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Plumpton & East Chiltington
News
January 2021Z. R. LANDSCAPES
Landscaping
Fencing
Hedge Cutting and Treework
Turf Laying DRIVER TRAINING
Driveways CAR, LGV, PCV, FLT, HIAB
Patios 40 East View Fields
And More Plumpton Green BN7 3EF
Zac Robins 07949 220721 Tel: 01273 890410
landscape@nsza.co.uk www.hillsofplumpton.co.uk
CONTACT FOR A FREE ESTIMATE
Eastwood Heating & Plumbing
Keep your energy bills low by making sure your boiler is serviced regularly. A well
serviced boiler keeps your energy consumption low and can Identify faults early,
avoiding expensive breakdown cost.
Plumpton Green based Heating Engineer
for all Oil and Gas appliances
please call James on 07876 294262 or 01273 890526
104339 528262
Plumpton Stores & Post Office R. A. Brooks & Son
Y
Your local village store is now open:
F D M M
5.45am to 7.30pm Monday to Friday P -P F P
35 Wivelsfield Road, Ravenoak,
7.00am to 7.30pm Saturday
Haywards Heath Allington Road,
Newick
7.00am to 1.00pm Sunday
01273 890229
email: info@brooksfunerals.co.uk
www.brooksfunerals.co.ukPLUMPTON & EAST CHILTINGTON NEWS
January 2021 Page Over 2020 I have been adding events to
the calendar and then removing them a
Plumpton Parish Council 2 month later when events get postponed
East Chiltington Parish Council 5 or cancelled. This month I am pleased to
County & District councils 6 say that we have a list of events for 2021
Maria Caufield 9 for the Horticultural Society, St. Peter &
DR’s Diary 10 St. James Hospice and The Plumpton
Christmas Walkby Market 12 Society.
Bird Watch 13 The only cancellation is, sadly,
Plumpton Society poem 15 PlumptonFest which was due to take
Church Services 16 place on 13th March. Hopefully it will be
Events Calendar 17 rearranged for later in the year.
Climate Change 18 The start of 2021 brings the first of a new
St. Peter & St. James Hospice 19 series of articles on Climate Change by
Rude Mechanicals 22 Carole and Paul Nicholson.
Plumpton & East Chiltington If a group you are involved with has plans
Wildlife 24 for 2021 do let us know.
Footpath Detective 27 If you would like to send in book, film,
Chailey Commons 28 music reviews or your favourite recipes
Citizens Advice 31 please do..
This is your magazine..
PECNcopy@gmail.com
1Plumpton Parish Council on improving the playing surfaces, we
need to protect the grass areas.
www.plumptonpc.co.uk
2020 was a difficult year for all of us,
Notes from the Parish Meeting 8th let’s hope for brighter days ahead.
December 2020 (remote meeting over
ZOOM). Next meeting is at 7:30pm on the 12th
January 2021. (Remote Meeting over
The Parish Council Village Green grass Zoom)
cutting maintenance contract is due for
renewal on 1st April 2021, this is a 3
year contract. Please contact the GOOD NEIGHBOURS
parish clerk
on anita.emery@plumptonpc.co.uk for
We need your help
a copy of the tender invitation terms.
The conditions application deadline is Our current Chairperson is
31st January 2021. leaving Plumpton for pastures
new so we are looking for a
There will be a minor reduction in train replacement & a new secretary
services in the new year with 1 up and to help run the committee.
1 down service being removed from the
timetable.
The positions won’t require a lot
The Village Hall online booking sytem is of your time and it is very
progressing well and should be fully rewarding to be a part of a great
operational in the New Year. team of people helping out in
your local community.
Improved security at both the Village
Hall and Pavilion has been implemented
wth Ring video door bells and security If you are interested in getting
alarms being installed at both locations. involved - please contact one of
The locks at the Pavilion have been our coordinators for a chat.
changed as it was clear that
unauthorised persons had access to
keys. 07786 152215 / 07478 524152
Improved verti-drainage and mole
draining have been successfully
installed along the length of the paying
field adjacent to the road/railway track.
Could users please note that vehicles
should, on no account, park on the
grass at any point before the
anticipated improved weather
conditions in the Spring. The
considerable level of rainfall has made
the grass areas extremely soft and, as
we have spent considerable amounts
2A clean carpet
FLORAL ART isn’t all we
guarantee……
Mobile Florist - Wide Delivery Service
NICHOLA MASSINGALE • Carpet Cleaning & Repairs,
retufting & reweaving
Phone: Plumpton (01273) 891301
• Upholstery Cleaning
Mobile: 07970 462337
. •Weddings • Funerals• • Rug Cleaning including Wool &
Silk
•Spec ial O cc as ions •
•C ontrac t • D ried• • Curtain Dry Cleaning on-site-at-
the-window
• Carpet Moth Treatment Service
Rupert Thacker • Fire & Flood Clean-Up Service
Furniture Restoration Services Now celebrating 24 years of providing 1st class
service
Including Furniture repairs, Polishing etc. of in Plumpton, Plumpton Green, East Chiltington,
Antique, Contemporary, and Reproduction
Furniture Lewes & Brighton.
Fletching, E Sussex, TN22 3TQ Call Paul or Liz on 01273 733339
Tel : 01825-713111 (Workshop) For a free no-obligation quotation
Mobile: 07950-035044 Or email paul@servicemasterbrighton.co.uk
Email: sales@rupert-thacker.com
Website: www.rupert-thacker.com See our website for special offers
www.servicemasterbrighton.co.uk
Robert Symes
The Hairdressers
TREE SURGEON Sarah And Mandy
East Chiltington
Tel: Plumpton South Road Wivelsfield Green
(01273) 890080 01444 471224
Free Es mates
3Starflower Arts & Massage
Creative Art Workshops
Collage, Felting, Papermaking etc.
Holistic Massage & Aromatherapy
Home Visits for Women
Sarah Holloway BA(Hons) PGCE MIPTI
E. Chiltington, 07751 986790
www.starflowerarts.weebly.com
www.starflowermassage.weebly.com
A club for unattached
Men and women, aged 50+ Plumpton Pilates
Eating out, quizzes, music, Morning and evening group classes
Walking, golf, theatre, in Plumpton Village Hall.
sport, Arts & holidays
Regular club meetings in Brighton & Hove,
1:1 Pilates at home also available.
Lewes, Mid-Sussex and Horsham
For further information visit our website: Please contact Charis 07881 825007
www.thegroup.org.uk charispilates@gmail.com
ALLEN UPTON PLUMBING & HEATING SERVICES
SERVICES
• Member of the Institute of Plumbing • Registered Plumber •
General Plumbing Installa on & Repairs
Free Es mates and Advice
Tel: Plumpton (01273) 890668 or 07711 712 477
Email: allenplumit@hotmail.com
4interest you, please contact
clerk@eastchiltington.net in the first
instance.
At present it is unclear when the next
Parish meeting will take place due to fast
Hopefully by the time of reading this changing government restrictions
many of our most vulnerable however as ever please contact the clerk
parishioners will have been offered if you have any queries.
and received the Covid 19
vaccination should they so wish. The Parish council would like to take this
Hopefully as this programme rolls out opportunity to wish all our parishioners a
we may be able to enjoy some happy and healthy 2021.
relaxation of the constraints upon
our movements and get back to PLUMPTON & EAST
some form of normality. CHILTINGTON GOOD
NEIGHBOURS
Yet another large deposit of fly
WE ARE HERE FOR YOU
tipped waste was left at various
points along Novington Lane,much of
it being paint and builder’s type Plumpton & East Chiltington Good
waste . The police were notified, and Neighbours have worked throughout
the road washed of some of the the village during lockdown and
paints which had been spilled thus beyond.
preventing a hazard to traffic. Our
We have been collecting prescriptions,
thanks go to councillor Durham who
shopping, posting letters and parcels,
gave his own time to clear a quantity
taking pets to the vets with their
of the remainder and take it to the
owner, turning mattresses etc.
recycling centre at Lewes.
Most importantly keeping someone
company in these trying times and
The Parish council has been
generating a friendship
approached by a resident of the
Westmeston ,Streat and East
Whatever you might like help with, we
Chiltington History group which
are here to help in any small way.
finally closed in 2014. The group had
throughout time gathered a great
We have a number of Volunteers
deal of informative archives which
willing to assist. Perhaps you would
have been digitalised and will be
like help with addressing your
offered to the Keep which has limited
Christmas cards or sewing on a
space and will not be able to take the
button.No job is too small for us.
entire collection. To avoid the
collection being split the resident has
“One of the greatest gifts we can give
asked if anyone locally has any is our time”
interest in re- establishing the group Please give one of our coordinators a
They would be happy to work with call on 07478524152 or 07786152215.
any interested parties to get things
up and running.
If this is something you feel might
5County Council and District concerns.
Council Reports Along with over 2,000 other councillors
January 2021 across the country, Sarah Osborne and I
gave our support to a letter from Friends
Report from County Councillor of the Earth and countryside charity
CPRE expressing concern about the
Sussex residents urged to join impact Government proposals to change
COVID vaccine team our planning system could have on
A reminder that the NHS in Sussex is nature and our environment.
on the hunt for thousands of potential Reduction in rail services
vaccinators and volunteers to help I understand that Southern/GTR are
protect millions of people from COVID- planning the removal of two stopping
19 quickly when a safe and effective services at both Plumpton and
vaccine becomes available. Cooksbridge train stations. I wrote to
Anyone wanting to volunteer can do object and they have replied saying that
so here: www.sussexcommunity.nhs.u should passenger numbers recover then
k/work-with-us/covid19vaccine.htm the services could be re-instated saying
Track and Trace "the missing services can be re-instated
I have asked for data on what when the crew position allows and / or
percentage of contacts on the local passengers return in the future after
Track and Trace service now in coronavirus". It is sad to see a two hour
operation by ESCC and will share the gap in the timetable and I will continue
information when available on my Cllr to press for re-instatement. Please do
Facebook page Cllr-Sarah-Osborne, or what you can to support our local trains.
try https://tinyurl.com/ Want to add your complaint? Why not
y2q7s9vh email the Chief Executive
Cycling and Walking Consultation officer Patrick.Verwer@gtrailway.com
I have responded to the East Sussex Highways
Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure I continue to meet with the parish
Plan Public Consultation pointing out council on various matters, including
the lack of plans for safe cycling & recently to follow up on possible local
walking in villages like Plumpton. road safety measures.
Sarah Osborne Fly tipping
07986 776 105 Fly tipping incidents have more than
sarahosborne2000@yahoo.co.uk trebled across the District in the last
quarter. I am asking if our rural lanes are
Report from District Councillor affected more than others, it certainly
feels like it! I have reported yet more fly
Government changes to our
tipping locally to the District Council for
planning system
clearance. Don't forget, the District
Following requests from many people
Council can collect bulky waste (for a
across Plumpton and East Chiltington,
charge) - call 01273 471600 or you can
I spoke out against the proposed
take things to the tips at Lewes or
changes - including the proposed
Maresfield.
increase in housing numbers Lewes
District could be forced to accept - at a
Rob Banks
recent council meeting. The council
07986 755246
agreed to write formally to both MPs
robert.banks@lewes.gov.uk
who cover the District to highlight its
6TIME FOR YOU
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Fire Wood
Stump Grinding ● Strimming
Woodland Management Schemes
Experienced ● Insured £5m
Free Quotation
BSc (Enviro Mgt) ● LOLER Inspector
NPTC
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Office: 01825 724655
Mobile: 07888 838423
www.treewise.co.uk
Heath Farm
Holiday Cottages
South Road, Plumpton Green
Three 4 star cottages sleeping
two, four and six. Suitable disabled
Minimum 2 night stay
Regret no smoking or pets.
01273 890712
www.heath-farm.com
7P. M BUILDERS
5 School Cottages,
East Chiltington
For all your
building
needs
Tel: 01273- 890964
Mobile 07813 114470
YOUR LOCAL BUILDER
Painter
Decorative Paint Finishes,
Domestic, Business
& Building Trade
Michael Webber
michael.webber6@yahoo.co.uk
01273 890779
07880 558 556
2 School Cottage
07890 546417 East Chiltington
Lewes BN7 3AY
Servicing, Repairs and Deadly Serious
MOTs Pest Control
Campervans
Horseboxes James Otway
Trade vans
Cars 07702 208475
deadlyseriouspestcontrol@gmail.com
Call Martin on Odintune Cottage
East Chiltington, Lewes
01273 479777 East Sussex, BN7 3AN
www.rdhcommercials.co.ukMaria Caufield MP
I am really pleased that the Government has announced plans to end live animal
exports for slaughter. I have campaigned to end this cruel practice which we
couldn’t outlaw while we were members of the EU and it is the start of a renewed
push by government to strengthen the UK’s position as a world leader on animal
welfare.
These proposals form part of an eight-week consultation, launched on 3rd
December in England and Wales, seeking views on how to better protect animal
welfare during transport. Live animals commonly have to endure excessively long
journeys during exports, causing distress and injury and see us become the first
country in Europe to end this practice.
The government is also consulting on proposals to further improve animal welfare in
transport more generally, such as:
• reduced maximum journey times
• animals being given more space and headroom during transport
• stricter rules on transporting animals in extreme temperatures
• tighter rules for transporting live animals by sea.
This marks a major step forward in ending live exports for slaughter. Animal welfare
is one of the most frequent issues raised with me by constituents. For years I have
had to tell them that as long as we are in the EU we cannot ban the live export of
animals and that we would look to do so once we had left. I am pleased therefore
that we are now beginning the process of banning the cruel and distressing live
export of animals for slaughter now that we have left the EU and the transition
period is ending.
Around 6,400 animals were transported from the UK directly to slaughter in
continental Europe in 2018, based on internal figures. This consultation takes into
account the responses to the 2018 Call for Evidence, as well as the report published
by the then Farm Animal Welfare Committee (now known as the Animal Welfare
Committee), which is made up of farming and veterinary experts, into the existing
welfare standards for animals during transport.
The consultation can be found at https://consult.defra.gov.uk/transforming-farm-
animal-health-and-welfare-team/improvements-to-animal-welfare-in-transport/ until
the 28th January 2021. Please do take part and have your say.
9DR’s Diary
Eat chocolate, save the This is when many of us are
considering making New Year
world ! resolutions. Maybe to give up
Well, not quite, but it did get your chocolate, go on a low carb diet or
attention! perhaps join a gym and get fit.
We all know someone who coughs up
A New Year brings new hope, this year mega bucks for a years’ membership at
more than ever. the gym, a few sessions down the line,
I can remember an old black and white its February, its cold outside and we/
film years ago, a man had trekked they succumb to the comfort of the
across the desert, his sweat sodden shirt sofa, a pizza, chocolates and the TV.
sticking to his tired body. In true One missed workout becomes, 2,3,4
Hollywood style, just as all seemed lost, and so on,…
he reached sanctuary. He was offered
the thing, that at that moment, he most Normally this would bring on a sense of
wanted in all the world. A glass of water lack of resolve. Our gluteus maximus
(they didn’t offer still or sparkling in are decidedly maximus and we have
those days). Even at my young age, it pizza / choccy stains on our gym wear.
struck me how something so mundane This year is different. Stop beating
as a glass of water assumed epic yourself up with remorse.
proportions if there was a huge shift in
circumstances. Your gym instructor can now purchase
lots of expensive gym kit, without you
Last year we were all denied things we to bother him, he has had time to build
normally took for granted. Hugging our those muscles so much that his old kit
grandchildren, visiting family & friends, no longer fits him. The pizza man has
the cinema, going to cheer your team on done so well he can now employ more
and not having to worry how many are staff and the chocolatier is increasing
around the dinner table. To pop into the production ready for next months’ busy
pub for a swift half on the way home Valentine's day.
from the office (that's if we're still going
to the office) or maybe to go to a gig. To exercise caution and an active
Along with our face masks, we can look imagination is enough of a 'workout'
forward to an end of all the restrictions for anyone.
that have been in place. However, it’s
not all been bad, I hope we can retain a DR
level of community spirit that has been
evident. To look out for our neighbour
and the realisation that in many ways
we rely on each other, both socially and
economically.
Charities have suffered massive losses
with fundraising, businesses have
suffered and jobs lost. If we are in a
position to, I feel we should do all we
can to help.
10Problems with computer HOME CHARLES CARS
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Craniosacral therapy and Tuesday 10am
Rolfing® Structural integration in Wednesday 7pm
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For more information see Saturday 9.30am
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• Muscle tension and stiffness
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We hold Have-A-Go sessions
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For more information contact: from April to August from 11 –
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11CHRISTMAS WALK BY MARKET
Plumpton Village Society put on a Christmas Walk by Market on 12 December to
bring some festive cheer to the Village.
Kindly sponsored by Plumpton Racecourse as a thank you to the Village for any
disruption due to the Covid testing station.
There were 8 Christmassy stalls, supported by Christmas Music to get into the
festive spirit. A vigorous risk assessment was done to ensure that all the
Government tier 2 guidelines were followed and as extra protection everyone wore
their masks and kept to 2 metre social distancing.
These things could not be put on without the full commitment of the 8 Committee
members, help from 15 volunteers from the Friends of Plumpton Village Society, the
8 stallholders and of course the 250 villagers who came to the market.
Thank you.
We hope this gave everyone’s spirit a bit of a lift, we were certainly lucky to have a
dry Plumpton December day.
12Bird Watch thought to be female Sparrows. True, last
summer I saw few Greenfinches and not many
Many of us have had more were reported breeding locally so perhaps
opportunity, during the some of these may be birds from the Continent
restrictions, to watch the garden as it is known that they partially migrate to
birds more closely. Though many are find reliable food sources.
common and perhaps mundane, being able to
study the details is always most enlightening. The sexes of Great Tits can be
A list of those species using the feeders and separated in the field. Males have a broad
the garden as a whole, is a good start. The black belly whereas the females only a thin
variety and number of species might be a black line. This detail always increases the
surprise. There will always be the regulars, interest even in familiar species. In other,
Blue and Great Tits, House Sparrows and Wrens, Dunnocks, Blue Tits and Robins for
Goldfinches but perhaps a Nuthatch or Great example the sexes look very much the same
Spotted Woodpecker arrives to give added and it is said that only a bird of that species
interest and close views so that detail of their can tell the difference. Their behaviour helps.
plumage can be appreciated from close range. Often the males are slightly larger and more
I have had a regular Magpie flapping about aggressive towards each other particularly
trying to get at the seed and less welcome, before the breeding season when they have to
because there have been no shoots to reduce impress the females and defend their territory
their numbers, up to seventeen Pheasants from other males. It is the males that sing the
plodding about, not only causing black full song and Song Thrushes, Robins and
flattened areas but eating much of my spinach Dunnock that nest early, will be singing before
Popeye style. the start of the year. This is a good time to
learn bird song as few yet sing before the
Differences in the colours in the tumult and confusion after the summer visitors
plumage may distinguish the sex of the bird. arrive.
Some of course are obvious. Blackbird females
are brown. Chaffinch males have a brick-red Earlier in the autumn I suggested we
breast whereas the females, greyish brown. look out for and record the last Swallow we
Some are more suttle. Both sexes of Great see. Over my garden, on 12th. November, a
Spotted Woodpeckers have the bright red juvenile circled over several times. I was very
under-tail patch but only the males have a red pleased with this late sighting. However, while
line at the back of their head. The juveniles taking my exercise along Streat Lane, a local
had a red cap on fledging but by this time of family pulled up in a car, to tell me that they
year that will have grown out with the first had seen one three days later. So good to get
moult and now are in full feather and ready to feedback and to know the interest that wildlife
breed, though they can be distinguished from is giving during these difficult times.
the adults as the underparts are dull R.J.L.
compared to the white colour of the older
birds . Their drumming on the trees early in
the year is one of the first signs of spring
denoting where they are claiming territory.
Though it is said that Greenfinches are
less common than previously, I am regularly
getting a dozen or more on the sunflower
hearts. These are birds that differ greatly
according to age and to sex. The mature
males are bright greenish yellow with a strong
yellow outer wing. Some of the first-year
females are yet to show much yellow on the
wings and at first glance could easily be
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14Here’s a review of 2020, the strangest of years; let’s
keep going into 2021 and a happier New year.
In the lead up to Christmas and all through the town
People wore masks that covered their frown
The frown had begun way back in the Spring,
When a global pandemic changed everything,
They called it Corona, but unlike the beer,
It didn’t bring good times, it didn’t bring cheer,
Airplanes were grounded, travel was banned,
Borders were closed across air, sea, and land,
As the world entered lockdown, to flatten the curve,
The economy halted, and folks lost their nerve,
From March to July, we rode the first wave,
People stayed home, they tried to behave,
When Summer emerged, the lockdown was lifted,
But away from the caution, many folks drifted,
Then came November and cases were spiking,
Wave two had arrived much to our disliking,
It’s true that the year had sadness a plenty,
We will never forget the year 2020,
Christmas was not cancelled, and neither was hope,
If we lean on each other, I know we can cope.
Plumpton Village Society
15Church Services for January
Sunday 3rd January Christmas 2
All Saints 10.30am Family Communion
Sunday 10th January Epiphany 1 or Plough Sunday
All Saints 10.30am Family Communion
Sunday 17th January Epiphany 2
All Saints 10.30am Family Communion
Sunday 24th January Epiphany 3
All Saints 10.30am Family Communion
Sunday 31st January Epiphany 4
All Saints 10.30am Family Communion
Sunday 7th February 2 Before Lent
All Saints 10.30am Family Communion
During the interregnum please contact the churchwardens for any information about church
related matters.
David Dawson (01273 890134)
Amanda Inglis (07941 241148)
Howard Wood (07794484373)
Season of Epiphany, Come and meet the new Bishop of Lewes
During the interregnum or period of time in the parish when we have no dedicated priest, it is
the responsibility of the churchwardens to invite mainly retired priests to lead our worship.
Recently I had a phone call from the new Bishop of Lewes, Bishop Will who expressed a wish to
visit the Parish. I am delighted to say that Bishop Will is going to come and lead our worship at
All Saints church on Sunday 31st January 2021. Even if you are not a current church goer or
perhaps you have just arrived in the village, we will offer you a warm welcome and the
opportunity to give your views about the way forward in our parish as we seek the right person
to lead us into the future. We have worked hard to secure a live in priest in Plumpton and East
Chiltington and now seek the support of our parishioners.
The Archdeacon of Brighton and Lewes, the Rev Canon Martin Lloyd Williams will lead our
worship on Sunday 10th January 2021. This particular Sunday, Epiphany 1, celebrates the
Baptism of Christ. We will be working closely with him to secure a new priest for our parish.
When it is permitted he has offered to come and hear the views of anyone in Plumpton and East
Chiltington at a meeting in the village hall about what qualities we would like to see in a new
priest. It is very likely that such a priest would be in charge of the United Benefices of Plumpton,
East Chiltington, Hamsey and Offham.
We are indebted to both Rev David James and Rev David Biggs who have led our worship and
shared some sage advice since the middle of August. We are delighted to be able to hold live
services again. Long may that last!
HW
16VILLAGE EVENTS CALENDAR
VH = Village Hall HQ = Scout HQ TC = Tennis Club
StM = St Michael’s ANX = Church Annex PAV = Pavilion
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27th March - St. Peter & St. James Quiz Night
10th April- Horticultural Society Spring show VH
11th April - Lychgate dedication ALC
25th April - St. P & St. J Hospice gardens walk
5th June - Doughty’s Fabric Sale VH
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30th June - Rude Mechanicals VH
10th July - St. P & St. J Jumble Sale 2pm VH
18th July - St. P & St. J - Mill House Open Garden
7th August - Horticultural Society Summer show VH
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17Reasons to be Cheerful about Climate Change?
Surely not, you cry?
The Covid-19 crisis has challenged everyone around the world in unprecedented
ways, never before faced in our lifetimes. What has been noticeable though is how
every Government has had to engage and respond. The consequences, of course,
will be with us for many years to come, even after the vaccination programme is
delivered.
What is clear, is that the world can come together and rise up to a challenge. Whilst
the focus of attention has been diverted elsewhere, the threat of climate change has
continued its insidious path in an inconspicuous way but actually with grave effect.
The impact of rising CO2 emissions and global warming will be far worse than Covid-
19. "Our planet is broken," the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio
Guterres, warned early in December 2020. He went on to say “Humanity is waging a
suicidal war on the natural world. Nature always strikes back, and is doing so with
gathering force and fury."
So why is there any reason to be cheerful about Climate Change?
Because, at last, world leaders are waking up to the urgent need to DO SOMETHING
rather than just talk about it and make grand statements of intentions. 2021 might
just be a pivotal year of proper action at last. Some examples:
Mr Guterres wants to put tackling climate change at the heart of the UN's global
mission. In a speech entitled State of the Planet, he announced that its "central
objective" next year (2021) will be to build a global coalition around the need to
reduce emissions to net zero. He has demanded, amongst a long list, that
nations of the world i) put a price on carbon; ii) phase out fossil fuels; and iii)
that nations of the world must bring ambitious commitments to cut emissions to
the international climate conference (the so-called COP26) which the UK and
Italy are jointly hosting in Glasgow in November 2021.
President Xi Jinping has announced that China would “aim to achieve carbon
neutrality before 2060”. (China accounts for 25% of the world’s carbon
emissions).
The US President-Elect, Joe Biden, wants the US to achieve a 100% clean energy
economy and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. He has also
confirmed that the US will rejoin the the 2015 Paris Agreement, which set out a
global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming
to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C.
And the UK Government set the UK’s net emissions target of greenhouse
gases to the 1990 levels by 2050
…..and other countries around the world are following suit
Perhaps it was a good thing that the international climate conference (COP26) was
18delayed from 2020 due to Covid-19. Now that these declarations are in place, in
November 2021 world leaders can come together to discuss not just ambitions, but
also firm plans for tackling and mitigating the effects of climate change.
So what does all this mean for people in Plumpton or East Chiltington? Closer to
home:
The South Downs National Park Authority is to become a ‘Net-Zero’ Organisation by
2030 and is working towards the whole of the South Downs National Park area
becoming ‘Net-Zero with Nature’ by 2040; and
Lewes District Council aims to get the whole district to net zero carbon by
2030. This needs individuals and businesses to cut carbon emissions by 10 to
20% on average every year.
Can we come together as a community to see how each of us can help
achieve these targets? Join us next month for further news on this front.
Carole and Paul Nicholson
The Plumpton Support Group for St Peter & St James would like to thank everyone
who supported the Grand Raffle by either buying tickets or making a prize donation or
both.
We are very pleased to announce that the raffle raised an amazing £3,287.25, this
was made up of £1,523.50 from ticket sales plus the Big Give £1,411 and Gift Aid
£352.75. This was a fantastic result given the circumstances we found ourselves in
this year.
The Group hope to hold their usual events next year and here are the dates:
Quiz Night - Saturday 27 March
Walk with Reg in the Hospice Gardens Sunday 25 April
Mill House, Open Garden - Sunday 18 July
Jumble Sale Saturday 10 July
Festive Fair 27 November
Please make a note in your diaries and we thank you for your continued support.
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The Rude Mechanical Theatre Co were not able to run their new production of ‘Little
Lily Harley’ in 2020. Plans are now underway to bring this to us in 2021 and their
Summer Tour has now been provisionally set. ‘Rudes’ will be coming to Plumpton
on Wednesday 30 June.
More detail about this production which is based on the life of Charlie Chaplin nearer
the time. In the meantime, please mark the date in your new 2021 calendars and
before we know it, we will be sitting on the Village Green having a picnic and being
entertained once more.
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23Plumpton & East occupation, we needed a licensed dormouse
handler (Kim Dawson) to attend with us and
Chiltington Wildlife this has not been possible under current
restrictions.
12th AGM report
Covid-19 restrictions meant we were unable Monitoring of badger sets and bat roosts are
to enjoy our usual AGM… in a room with ongoing projects, coordinated by Tony
other people. A big thanks to all who braved through the group.
Zoom technology to remotely join us. The
business part was brief as there was no The TECT field has been surveyed this
change of elected members. James Otway summer and autumn for plant species on
remains Chair, Ben Drummond Vice-Chair, behalf of East Chiltington Parish Council and
David Phillips Secretary and Jean Stewart TECT Committee by Jacqui and Kate. The
Treasurer. The rest of the Committee TECT field, once farmed more intensively, is
members are Lynn Baxter, Marie Bullough, undergoing a partial re-wilding. Survey data
Kate Gold, Jacqui Hutson, Tony Hutson and will hopefully prove valuable as we watch the
Carole Nicholson. Our Chair, James Otway, species recover and return. A large oak has
then reported on PECWHG activities during been monolithed after losing the majority of
the last 12 months: its crown in high winds and we have advised
Chair’s Report Monday 9th November that the timber is left to provide habitat. One
2020 hollow limb was already occupied by honey
bees.
Welcome to our Annual General Meeting.
We proposed a management plan for both
I would like thank all the members of the East Chiltington and All Saints churchyards
Wildlife Committee for keeping the show on which has been adopted by the PCC. The
the road. I must say a particularly thanks to electronic swift caller screeched its way
our past Chairs, Jacqui and Tony Hutson. throughout the spring and early summer in
They continue to provide meticulous and the All Saints bell tower but appeared to have
encyclopaedic knowledge of flora and fauna lured only a swarm of honey bees.
to the group.
In October, 20 of us were able to go ahead
You don’t need me to remind you of the with a visit to Knepp Estate to bear witness to
unusual year we have all experienced. Most the extensive re-wilding project. Many thanks
plans and events have been cancelled due to to Carole Nicholson for organising.
government restrictions, unthinkable this
time last year. During this lockdown, we are blessed to be
living in the most beautiful countryside in the
We have however managed to continue parishes of Plumpton and East Chiltington. My
some wildlife and botanical survey work. highlight was the 6 weeks during April and
During January we planted 13 disease May when the sunshine was unbroken and
resistant elms in East Chiltington TECT field there were no planes, trains or automobiles.
and 2 in Plumpton on Hackmans Farm. Not the silent spring Rachel Carson so
Thanks to Antonia Price and Robert Thomas presciently forecast but, briefly, silent of man
for their permission. and machines. Magic! Clear blue skies, bird
song and emboldened wildlife. The PECWHG
In early May, 40 reconditioned dormouse Facebook page continues to receive dozens of
tubes were sited along the parish boundary pictures from the gardens and surrounding
from Odintune Place to Coppershaw. countryside, plus frequent requests for
Returning in autumn we discovered live identification. It is a great pleasure to see the
dormice and nests. We fully expect to community taking an interest in the natural
expand the survey next spring. Due to wonders that surrounds us.
COVID we have been unable to arrange
inspection of our other dormice monitoring Continued on page 28.
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Footpath to King Stephen.
Detective’s We continued along side the river and passed
the playing fields of Winchester College until
Diary: our path met College Walk. From here we
turned left along College Street and then right
A Footpath Detective’s Diary to pass through The Close to the cathedral. It
January 2021 is one of the largest cathedrals in Europe and
Wandering to Winchester much of the limestone used to construct it
came from the Isle of Wight. Its construction
It was just two weeks until Christmas Eve began in 1079, however a cathedral was
and we were still restricted to meeting founded in Winchester in 642 on a site
outside and so the chance to walk with a immediately to the north of the present one.
friend in a place roughly halfway between us This building became known as the Old
both provided the basis of this walk. We met Minster. It became part of a monastic
at Garnier Road car park accessed from Bull settlement in 971. St Swithun was buried near
Drove by Tun Bridge on the east side of the the Old Minster and then in it, before being
city and set off along the Itchen Way to head moved to the new Norman cathedral. The Old
south. There is a surfaced path created from Minster was demolished in 1093, immediately
a disused railway line and this made for easy after the consecration of its successor.
walking on a damp winter day.
We had a little wander of the city’s streets to
The River Itchen is a beautifully clear chalk admire the Christmas decorations but it was
stream that rises to the south of New not possible to visit all the historic sites due to
Alresford and flows 26 miles to meet the covid restrictions. We made our way down
Southampton Water. The Itchen Market Lane towards the Great Hall and then
Navigation was constructed in the late 17th onto the path beside the canal and Wharf
and early 18th centuries to enable barges to Bridge. A man in waders was stood in the river
reach Winchest from Southampton Docks, using a bucket with a Perspex bottom to view
however it ceased to operate in the mid-19th some creatures that he was stirring up from
century and is largely abandoned today. Our the gravel . Clearly he was catching them but I
path was next to the navigation system until couldn’t see what it was.
we almost met the M3.
Our path continued by the gardens and water
We took a right turn onto a straight bridle meadows back to Tun Bridge. We took a
path that led us across St Cross Bridge. The footway under the old railway line to access
view of the river from the low bridge was the path up St Catherine’s Hill. We climbed
lovely. A swan glided along in the clear water around as well as up and were greeted by nice
and a water mill made the setting very white cattle with black noses on the path. They
picturesque. As our path became a small lane were very docile and caused us no bother. The
we turned right again onto a footpath ring of ramparts of the Iron Age hill fort are
through a few small fields. clear to see and at the top is a copse of Beech
We approached the Hospital of St Cross and trees and the chapel of St Catherine. We found
Alms Houses of Noble Poverty. The very the mizmaze and I imagined myself as a
Norman looking chapel has a square central cannon ball as I traced the wiggly route out
tower and is stone vaulted. The walls are from the centre.
thick and built from stone from Caen, Dorset, The hill provides a wonderful view of the city
and the Isle of Wight as well as local flint. and its surrounds even on a dull grey
Construction began in 1135. The alms houses December day. We negotiated the steep
form a quadrangle. In medieval times descent to the café on the old railway line
provision of food was made to the thirteen where we enjoyed a takeaway coffee and
resident poor men plus another 100 cinnamon bun on the terrace. Of course there
attending at the gate. The founder was Henry are many refreshment opportunities and many
of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, grandson more places of interest to see in Winchester.
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27Chailey Commons w ww .cha ile yc ommo ns.o rg.u k
Winter has taken hold and the days are short and the nights long. The Pandemic continues to
affect all of us in some way or other and the Society is still unable to meet as normal.
During the autumn we adapted our activities and meetings to enable us to still get together by
virtual means which have proved possible and meant that there have been some online
meetings and a couple of outdoor meetings with limited numbers and social distancing.
Two small groups of six each were able to do a late autumn walk on Romany Ridge Common
and see the heathland in its dormant state. The bracken had collapsed which meant better
views and access to various corners and some sightings of the trenches.
We enjoyed two virtual meetings using Zoom which enabled us to hear about Peter Lovett’s
garden to nature reserve conversion and a talk on ancient trees of Sussex by Bob Epsom. Thank
you to our speakers who embraced the technology and gave us interesting talks.
A special opening of the windmill enabled a small group to explore this historic building now set
out as a rural museum. Hand gel, masks and spacing kept the visitors bearing in mind the
government advice.
All meetings have been and will be subject to current guidelines and we continue to maintain
social distancing.
We are still considering what we can do under the continuing situation and we will post events
by adverts, emails to members, the website, and posters as appropriate.
Thank you to our members for their support and understanding.
Time to wish everyone a safer and better New Year for 2021.
For further information, visit our website – www.chaileycommons.org.uk or our Facebook page
www.facebook.com/chaileycommons/
William Coleman
01444 831098
Plumpton Wildlife cont.
The majority of the landscape around us is in some way managed by farmers and there are big
changes on the horizon with regard to the environmental subsidies they will receive and how
they manage water and air on their estates. As a group, one of our main objectives is to
promote the understanding, appreciation and conservation of the fauna and flora of the two
parishes. We are therefore keen to engage with Plumpton College, the largest land manager in
the two parishes, to better understand how these new environmental initiatives will benefit
wildlife and people alike. We are looking forward to meeting with the college in the not too
distant future when lockdown restrictions finally allow.
Finally, thanks to James Honess for judging the photographic competition and congratulations
to this year’s winner, Carole Nicholson
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