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Plumpton & East Chiltington News October 2021
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PLUMPTON & EAST CHILTINGTON NEWS October 2021 Page POPPY APPEAL 2021 Plumpton Parish Council 2 I have been given the go ahead from East Chiltington Parish Council 5 The Poppy Appeal that the House to District Councillor Rob Banks 6 House collections in the Community Country Councillor Sarah Osborne 6 will be able to take place this year. MP Maria Caufield 9 Collection time is from October 30th DR’s Diary 10 to November 13th.I trust my worthy Rev. Anne Dunlop 12 collectors will be up to the challenge All Saints Lych Gate Ceremony 14 again this year. Church Services & News 15 Train Timetable 16 Is there anyone in East Chiltington Events Calendar 18 who would be prepared to cover part Harvest Festival 19 of this area? Tennis Club 22 Jo Taylor Poppy Appeal Organiser The Group 22 01273 890450 Wildlife Photography Competition 22 Plumpton & East Chiltington Wildlife 24 Footpath Detective 27 Birds 28 Chailey Commons Society 31 Citizens Advice 32 Clubs & Societies 33 Plumpton Apple Day 34 Church Coffee Mornings Join us in the church annex on Harvest Festival Service Saturday 4th December 3rd October, 5pm 10.30 - 12.30 St. Michael’s Church There will be a Tombola to tempt Afterwards Harvest Supper at you!! Plumpton College Plumpton Short Mat Bowls Club Come and give short mat bowls a try. All ages Welcome Meet members and enjoy a cup of coffee/tea (and biscuits). Bowls etc provided. You just need flat shoes or slippers. Members will be only too pleased to show you the basic rules and let you have a go. We meet every Thursday evening at 7pm at Plumpton Village Hall. Mainly during the season September ‘til April for club nights, play friendly matches, club competitions, play in the league and have social events. For information contact Malcolm Beard 01273 890826 1
report and recommendations can be found Plumpton Parish on the PC web site. The Transport and www.plumptonpc.co.uk Environment committee with help from Rob Banks has recommended two of the options given in the study and are required now to The Parish Council did not meet before the consult with the community to take this copy deadline this month so please see the forward. We are therefore asking for September minutes for updates. comments on the following proposals: - Unfortunately, Councillor Peter Morgan has 1.To increase awareness of the pedestrian had to tender his resignation for family crossing activities around the junction reasons. We are very sorry to see Peter of Station Road/Southdowns, it is leave and thank him for his service over the recommended to upgrade the first set last few years. Peter was chair of the of the school warning sign at the Playing Field committee and has handed this southbound approach with a yellow responsibility over to Councillor Ron Jury. backing board and introduce “SLOW” Peter also served on the Transport and road markings with red surfacing next Environment committee and was our liaison to the schools warning signs. with the school. If any resident is interested 2. The existing dropped kerb at the south of in joining the council please contact the the Station Road/Southdowns junction Clerk, Anita Emery. is not completed and lines up with the car park entrance. It is recommended Planning – At the time of writing we have no to relocate the dropped kerb southward news of any decision regarding the and complete it with a dropped kerb on application for development on the Nolands the opposite footway. To protect Farm site. The council completed the work pedestrians at the crossing point, it is on the response to the Lewes District Local recommended to install a bollard at the Plan Issues and Options document. The final end of the layby and review the need of response can be found on the Parish Council parking restriction at the mouth of the web site. junction in preliminary design. The Parish Council commissioned a If residents would like to comment on any Feasibility Report from East Sussex Highways aspect of the feasibility study and/or the to improve road safety around the recommendations please contact the Clerk, Southdowns/Station Road junction Anita Emery, anita.emery@plumptonpc.co.uk specifically with the school in mind. The full East Chiltington Parish/Village Hall We are trying to find out more information about the old Parish Hall, or Village Hall, which was in Highbridge Lane, EC, near the Forge. We know it was an 'iron building' and was opened on December 30th 1909 'with a bar and entertainment' . We know it held many events, including dances, scouts, celebratory receptions, youth clubs and flower shows. It was even a hospital briefly during the war. It was closed sometime in the early 1950's and subsequently demolished. We have been very pleased to have some information from local sources but would love more photographs and actual memories from those who visited it! Paul and Cathy Lyth cathannlyth@hotmail.com / 07981161752 2
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upgrade some villages to service centres to allow more housing even though there have been no infrastructure changes and a member of the public was concerned that developers seem to renege on their promises once The parish council - met on August 25th and planning consent has been given, leaving the invited Leigh Palmer from LDC to join us. public with housing but without the promised There was a lively discussion on the council community benefits. response to the recent 'Issues and Options' The parish council agreed to send a full consultation. This consultation should inform response to LDC and this can be found on our the District Council of residents wishes for any website – www.eastchiltington.net future development in the district, outside of the National Park. Following correspondence Get together – Residents gathered on the with Maria Caulfield MP, the council raised the Hollycroft field on September 4th to meet and question of how changes planned by the enjoy a relaxed evening with music and government might affect the Lewes Plan, since barbecues. Thanks go out to everyone who a review of the housing figures and removal of helped to make this a success by erecting the the need for a 5 year land supply might marquee, providing salads and manning the significantly reduce the number of houses barbecues. Lewes need to plan for. Unfortunately, Lewes has to deal with finding space for the numbers Footpaths - The parish council are very presently assessed (602 per year), although grateful to the Monday group of rights of way that may reduce at a later stage. volunteers for all the work they have carried Council expressed concerns that LDC would out in the parish clearing paths and installing only rule out a site if it was small scale and new waymarker posts. These hardy considered to be remote from services or if volunteers keep our paths and stiles in tip top there were specific concerns such as flooding condition and are busier than ever at this time or highway issues. Since no sites were of year. specified in the consultation, these issues can only be addressed once the public receive A sad loss - The council was saddened to details of the sites put forward. Consultation hear of the sudden passing of long time on actual sites and their suitability will likely resident John Anderson. John was chair of the come forward in early October. LDC has a set parish council for a number of years and will method for assessing sites but in the case of a be missed by a great many people. Council large new settlement such as the North Barnes will look for a suitable site to plant a tree in site they would likely assess that against a new his memory. set of parameters. ECPC was concerned that parameters should be decided upon prior to Finally, - “Our South Downs” is a South any large sites being considered in order for Downs National Park Authority (SDNPA) the process to be impartial. initiative to build a community of like-minded Council asked if ESCC had been consulted micro and small businesses, who share the regarding the problems in Lewes District with a same values around sustainability, into a local lack of road capacity but were told that due to network group. ESCC having to deal with several authorities it A new online platform will give access to was unlikely that they would be able to business support, discussion forums, a smart respond by October, so some sites may need directory and much more, all targeted to help to drop out at a later stage. Cllr.Funnell asked your business reach its sustainable aspirations if LDC had other consultees such as schools, and thrive at an extremely challenging time. health, water and sewerage but was told LDC “Our South Downs” will be available to all have to produce their plan by 2023 so there is businesses in and around the SDNP not likely to be enough time for all consultees Best of all, membership is FREE for you and to respond. your business for the first year. If you have There was concern from ECPC about talk of any questions or queries, please ask at LDC changing the settlement hierarchy to enterprise@southdowns.gov.uk 5
Rob Banks, District Councillor Lewes District Local Plan I understand that over 2,500 replies were received by the District Council to the first stage of consultation over the "Issues and Options" stage of its Local Plan. I also submitted a reply, opposing the "single settlement in the low weald" option (this stage of the consultation didn't name any site although my opposition to the proposed Eton new town site continues!). I also said that full use should be made of brownfield sites, existing permissions and empty properties as a priority, and that the Local Plan should recognise the importance of our countryside both outside and inside the Park. I also urged the Council to challenge the government's 782 housing figure for Lewes District, saying it should aim for a lower figure that reflects our actual need. But government rules demand councils have to go through the lengthy Local Plan process first and the council will have to argue the case with the government inspector. Thank You to all who replied in support of our rural area. New dual use recycling/litter bin I am seeing if LDC can install another "dual use" bin like they have outside the village shop - the pavilion car park has been suggested - and will let you know if any progress. Bus services consultation I replied to the recent County Council bus service survey, calling for an improvement to our limited bus services and suggested in addition to our existing routes an "on demand" service should be investigated for our area. New parliamentary seat Alongside East Chiltington and Plumpton parish councils, I wrote opposing the planned boundaries for the proposed East Grinstead and Uckfield seat. The existing proposal would remove our villages from the Lewes constituency but we have close ties with Lewes as this is the main centre for shopping, leisure, surgeries and services including the 6th form college. Areas like Plumpton and East Chiltington have very little involvement with East Grinstead and as small settlements to the very south of the newly proposed seat, would I fear not get the same level of attention as East Grinstead. We expect to hear further plans from the Boundary Commission in the new year. robert.banks@lewes.gov.uk 07986 755246 Sarah Osborne, County report September 2021 20MPH in residential areas In 2019, according to police records in East Sussex there were 934 casualties on 30mph roads, at a total cost of £63m. Given that reducing speeds to 20mph is recognised as one of the most significant moves we can make to save lives I proposed the following at the July meeting of Full Council; “East Sussex County Council agrees to request the Cabinet to set an authority-wide default 20mph speed limit for urban and village roads and a costed plan for implementation, that would enable immediate action as and when funds or opportunities to apply for funds become available”. This does not mean ‘every road’, but that 20mph speed limits should be the norm and higher limits should be exceptions only where there is evidence that such a higher limit will be safe for pedestrians and cyclists. This is as recommended by the World Health Organisation and was recently committed to by UK government in the 2020 Stockholm Declaration signed by the UK and 129 other global road safety ministers. Using the cost calculator on the 20’s Plenty website, implementing 20mph on most 30mph roads in East Sussex for a one-off cost of £2.2m could have saved 149 casualties and £10.1m each year. Unfortunately, all the Conservative councillors voted against this motion and so it was lost. Cont. on page 9 6
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Maria Caulfield MP I am pleased to see that East Sussex County Council are currently running a consultation on their Bus Service Improvement Plan as part of the Government’s £3 billion ‘Bus Back Better’ scheme which launched in March 2021. The National Bus Strategy aims to get more people travelling by bus, making these buses a practical and attractive alternative to private cars. We know locally that being in such a rural part of the country that often bus routes are not commercially viable and need significant subsidies to survive. It’s why we are so dependent on community bus routes provided by groups such as Cuckmere Buses and CTLA. The Governments’ Bus Back Better strategy wants bus services to be faster, more reliable, and more frequent and recognises that to make bus routes viable they have to address the needs of the community but also may need subsidies to succeed. With the East Sussex County Council consultation, it is imperative that the public’s views are heard regarding the proposals. Increasing bus travel may also play an important part in the Covid-19 recovery as bus travel has held up more strongly than rail services. Bus services are also central to the Government’s ‘levelling up’ plan, which I know will bring benefits to people across the Country. In addition, I welcome this Improvement Plan as it will play an integral part in achieving the Government’s ambitious net zero target by 2050. The introduction of 4000 battery or hydrogen powered zero-emission buses, provided by £120 million in government funding, will play a key role in the road to the decarbonisation of transport. Each zero-emission bus saves around 46 tonnes of CO2 and can take 75 cars off the road, making a clear contribution towards tackling climate change. Efforts are already underway locally to build an environmentally friendly transport network, with a hydrogen hub planned in Newhaven being funded by the Government through the Town Deal Fund. Work is ongoing with Brighton & Hove buses which has created an innovative and green fleet that has led to the highest bus use per head in England outside of London. I am keen that we improve our bus services locally to connect up our towns and villages and that a more reliable service will be possible. Sarah Osborne cont. from page 6 Climate Change At the meeting of the County Council on the 15th October 2019, East Sussex County Council declared a Climate Emergency and set a target to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.However Lib Dem councillors at the recent council meeting proposed that in light of increased evidence of the impact of global warming and the urgency required in order to address this, East Sussex County Council should revise that target to 2030 and with immediate effect establish a plan of actions in order to deliver on this target. Unfortunately, all the Conservative councillors rejected our proposal and so our motion was defeated. ‘PITIFUL’ FUNDING FOR EAST SUSSEX ROADS ESCC only received £250,000 extra in funding recently announced for East Sussex roads. Whilst any money at the moment is welcomed, this works out at around £1.25p per mile of roads. Just doing half the Newhaven ring road cost a lot more than £250,000. It is frankly pitiful and will do nothing to repair the decade’s worth of neglect and potholes that we all have to put up with. Sarah 07986 776 105 9
DR’s Diary sculptures, water features, art works, etc..), swap tips and may have plants A Piece of Cake! for sale. In extreme heat, the plants After last years lockdown, I think its may wilt, but its unlikely you'll see a fair to say many of us are making the gardener getting hot under the collar. most of it as restrictions have eased. If you're lucky, you may even come A trip to a (quiet) beach is always away with the recipe for that delicious good. We strolled from Climping to cake you've just demolished! Littlehampton, had a picnic en route and remembered just how invigorating a paddle and a bit of sea air can be. We took a look at Littlehampton Happy Circle Christmas Redoubt (aka: Littlehampton Fort ), built in 1854 to protect the entrance to Party the river Arun from the threat of a will be held on 18th December French attack. It never came, instead (Thursday) Napoleon III opted to take on Bismarck's Prussian army. Sadly for the 2- 4pm French, they only came away from the Our Ukelelle band and the Franco-Prussian War with a 'silver' and Plumpton School; children will sing Napoleon was left to rue on what might have been in exile in leafy We have missed you and all look Chislehurst , Kent. Ironically, his son forward to seeing you soon died in the Boer War as a soldier in the Cherie, The Happy Circle British Army. The fort is looking very sad and sand 01273 891592 has filled the moat. Hopefully, some funds will be forthcoming to restore this important building. Another thing we've been able to do is to visit open gardens as part of The National Garden Scheme . This raises much needed funds for lots of worthy charities. LITE BITES The pandemic has highlighted just LITE BITES will be starting up again how important open spaces are for our on Tuesday 12th October 2021 at 12 mental health and general wellbeing. for 12:30 in the Church Annex. Then Having said that, the NGS booklet on the second Tuesday in the month. should maybe include a Government health warning , ' Visiting our gardens Please join us for a chat and a bite to may not only increase your well being eat. but also your waistline!' Looking forward to seeing you. Some of the best cake I've tasted has been on a garden visit. There's Enquiries to Cherie on 01273 891592 something quintessentially English or Jean on 01273 890547 about 'doing' open gardens. The hosts are usually only too pleased to discuss their garden ( this may include; 10
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Rev. Anne Dunlop September seems to have come around so quickly, this year seems to have sped past. Perhaps it seems this way because we were always looking forward, anticipating getting back to a ‘normal’ and out of restrictions. But here we are and there is an Autumnal feel in the air. The last few weeks have given us some gloriously sunny days and some happy events. Last weekend was the Beechwood Picnic at Cooksbridge, and St Peter Church Offham were ‘on the teas and cakes’. Looking at the two tables laden with cakes of every kind, I wondered if we would ever dispose of so many. But as the afternoon wore on, they gradually disappeared leaving only a few ends and crumbs to go in the bin. It was a happy afternoon with families and friends meeting up, children running about and at one point there seemed to be a dog everywhere you looked. The day before I had taken a wedding at East Chiltington, a charming country church decorated with flowers in jam jars and milk bottles carefully arranged and looking just right. A highlight was a solo by a friend of the couple who came to the front and sang the English folk song, Linden Lee. It was one of those moments where everything seems to come together and you want to capture it, hold and store in your memory. A quintessential English country wedding, simple, gentle, and full of love. A moment of happiness or rather joy, for they are different. Psychologists tell us that we have to deliberately choose to hold onto positive thoughts so that they can “imprint.” You must savour it consciously for at least fifteen seconds before it can fix and store itself in your “implicit memory;” otherwise it doesn’t stick. Neuroscience can demonstrate that the brain has a negative bias; it prefers to cluster around fearful, negative, or problematic situations. Our negative and critical thoughts are like Velcro, they stick and hold; whereas our positive and joyful thoughts are like Teflon, they slide away. Consciously choosing to not let them slide away can help us significantly change our regular attitudes and moods. The scripture tells us that a key to this is thankfulness. Thankfulness is like a medicine, so much negative ‘Velcro’ can be brushed away with a good dose of thankfulness. It is not easy to do, for we hold tenaciously to the ‘Velcro’ bits and can rehearse them for hours. But we cannot be angry, frustrated, frightened, or sorrowful - and thankful at the same time. Thankfulness will displace the negative. St Ignatius of Loyola taught his followers to use a practice he called Examen. The Examen is an ancient practice; it’s a technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day that can help us see God’s hand at work in our whole experience. This is a version of the five-step Daily Examen that St. Ignatius practiced. 1. Become aware of God’s presence. 2. Review the day with thankfulness. 3. Pay attention to your emotions. 4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it. 5. Look toward tomorrow. https://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/the-examen/ 12
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All Saints Lych-gate Ceremony 9 September 2021 The Lych-gate was restored for it’s centenary over the Winter of 2019/2020 and due to Covid 19 restrictions, only two individuals were able to be at the rededication by Revd Godfrey Broster in March 2020. The Lych-gate was built in 1920 in memory of local nurseryman Richard J Blackman by his wife Elizabeth Blackman. Descendants of Richard Blackman visited Plumpton on Thursday 9 September and this opportunity was taken to have a small gathering of some of those who had donated monies towards the restoration and to have a ceremony of thanksgiving. Representatives of the Parochial Church Council, the Parish Council, together with Richard Wells who had researched the history of the Lych-gate and Lee Stevens who secured a grant for the restoration work from Historic England through the War Memorials Trust, also attended. A detailed book of the history of the Lych-gate and restoration pictures will be placed in the Church for anyone to read and a commemorative brass plaque will be put up in the Church porch. Revd Anne Dunlop blessed the structure which is also a Peace Memorial from WW1, and she kindly provided afternoon tea in the church Annexe afterwards. 14
Church Services for October Sunday 3rd October Trinity 18 Animal Welfare Grandparents’ Day All Saints 11.00am Family Communion St Michael’s 5.00pm Harvest Festival* Sunday 10th October Trinity 19 Safeguarding All Saints 11.00am Family Communion/Harvest Festival th Sunday 17 October Trinity 20 Healthcare Sunday All Saints 11.00am Family Communion th Sunday 24 October Trinity 21 Bible Sunday, United Nations Day East Chiltington 11.00am Family Communion Sunday 31st October 4 Before Advent All Saints 11.00am Family Communion th Sunday 7 November Third Sunday before Advent All Saints 11.00am Family Communion Please note that beginning in September we have resumed services at East Chiltington church on the Fourth Sunday of each month at 11.00am. St Michael’s church will continue to be used on special occasions such as for Harvest festival (see above) There will be a Carol service at St Michael’s church on Wednesday 15th December at 6pm followed also by refreshments in the college. For general church matters please contact one of the Churchwardens East Chiltington - Amanda Inglis 07941 241148 Plumpton - Howard Wood 07794484373 David Dawson 01273 890134 Volunteers requested for churchyard clear up Now the wild flowers have set their seed in All Saints churchyard we will be mowing and raking up in accordance with our management plan on Saturday 16th October. If you are able to bring along a strimmer, rake, builders bag, bow saw, secateurs or just yourself then you will be made very welcome. We will meet by the annex at All Saints at 10.00am with a lunch at 1pm and teas and coffees provided. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday 16th October. Howard Wood 15
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VILLAGE EVENTS CALENDAR VH = Village Hall HQ = Scout HQ TC = Tennis Club StM = St Michael’s ANX = Church Annex PAV = Pavilion ECC = East Chiltington Church Sch = Plumpton School ALC= All Saints Church 2021 2nd October - Plumpton Apple Pressing VH 10th October - Harvest Festival Buffet Lunch ANX 12th October - Lite Bites 12pm ANX 16th October - PlumptonFest VH 20th October - Flower Club AGM, 7.30pm VH 27th October - Sussex Bonsai Group 7.30 to 10pm VH 17th November - Flower Club, 7.30pm VH 26th November - Horticultural Society AGM VH 27th November - St. P & St. J Festive Fair VH 27th November to 3rd December - Christmas tree festival ALC 4th December - Church coffee morning 10.30 - 12.30 ANX 4th December - Scouts Over 60’s Christmas Party 2.15pm - 6pm VH 18th December - Happy Circle Christmas Lunch 2 - 4pm ANX BOOKINGS Village Hall & Pavilion: Jane Donovan 07747 050903 or 01273 891036 Church Annex Howard Wood 07794484373 COPY DEADLINES 17th October for November 15th November for December Copy to The Poplars, Station Road or email: pecncopy@gmail.com or Telephone: 01273 891 427 18
HARVEST FESTIVAL – WHAT WAS IT ALL ABOUT? As summer draws to a close and the fields are cleared of crops, we turn our thoughts to the many ways that the harvest season has traditionally been marked across the country. Many harvest customs are connected with bringing in corn or other cereal crops. The final handful of corn stalks might then have been woven into a ‘corn dolly’. This represented the spirit of the corn and was kept until the following spring to ensure a good harvest next year. Harvest time involves a whole array of other crops too, including apples, cherries, hops and potatoes. For families living in polluted parts of London in the early half of the 20th century, an annual September trip to the hop fields of Kent provided a breath of fresh air. This was hardly Butlins; these were working holidays, and accommodation was cramped and unhygienic. But for many children, it was a rare chance to see the countryside, encountering their first cows and running free around the woods and fields. Apples are picked a little later in the year, usually October. Over 2,500 varieties of these popular fruits were developed in the UK but nowadays it’s hard to find more than a couple of types in supermarkets that have been grown here. Naturally, a celebration of the harvesting of food often involves special feasts or dishes. Bread often featured. A loaf might be baked into the shape of a wheatsheaf, and on Lammas Day, the first of August, bread baked with freshly picked corn was taken into the local church to be blessed. Harvest suppers, were traditionally hosted by the farmer. They brought together the community of people who’d helped bring in the crops as a way of saying thank you and celebrating a successful growing year. As a species, have we lost touch with the seasons? Has globalisation meant that we can eat whatever we want, whenever we want? Have we lost the link with growing local, sustainable, flavoursome food? The Covid-19 pandemic has perhaps taught us that community and our local environment are important and that the traditional ways are worth remembering. Let’s come together and celebrate the 2021 Harvest. PLUMPTON & EAST CHILTINGTON GOOD NEIGHBOURS The Good Neighbours have worked throughout the villages during the lockdowns and continue to operate to help improve people’s lives. We have been transporting people to hospitals, doctors, opticians, dentists, vaccination appointments, collecting and delivering prescriptions, shopping, posting letters and parcels, taking pets to the vets with their owner, making regular telephone calls offering reassurance and friendship and visiting people. We have a number of dedicated volunteers willing to assist in many ways. If we can help, please call one of our Coordinators on 07478524152 or 07786152215 19
HARVEST FESTIVAL IN 2021 Date for your diary: Harvest Festival Buffet Lunch 12.30 to 2.30pm Sunday 10th October Church Annex Let’s bring tradition back to Plumpton & East Chiltington. The corn is in. The apples have been picked. The excess fruits and vegetables have been bottled or frozen. Join Rev Anne at All Saints Church on Sunday 10th October at 11am for a Harvest Festival service which will celebrate our local produce and give thanks for the food that will sustain us all through winter. It will be a truly joyous occasion. _________________________ Everyone is invited to a Harvest Festival Buffet Lunch in the Church Annex at 12.30 on Sunday 10th October. (You don’t have to have been to the church service) Come to lunch, if possible ‘bring and share’ food you have made, using produce from your own garden or from local sources. If you are planning to come to the lunch, it would help if you could let us know so we can make sure we have enough food and drink for everyone. Jean Eagle 01273 890547 n.eagle@btopenworld.com Carole Nicholson 01273 891722 carolenicholson3@outlook.com Howard Wood 07794 484373 hawood167@hotmail.com OPEN TO ALL We hope to see you there! Plumptonfest 2021 Saturday, 16 October, Plumpton Village Hall A celebration of local musical talent Box office now open! Get your wristbands from the village shop or contact Eamonn, as below Individual: £7 each Family ticket: £20 (2 adults, plus up to 2 under 16’s) It’s BYO: Bring your own drinks, glasses and snacks. There is no bar Last few slots still available for performers. To take part, please contact: Eamonn Murphy plumptonmusic@gmail.com 01273 890150 07946 518420 20
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DID YOU SEE THAT!? As we put pen to paper, or fingers to keyboard, for this month’s tennis club update the tennis world is marvelling at the tremendous achievements of Emma Raducanu. What a talent and an inspiration! Congratulations to Emma. Congratulations as well to our head coach Ian Lilly who raised over £12656 by running the Brighton marathon. Intended to be a half marathon for Ian, some administrative mayhem beyond his control meant he ended up running a full marathon instead with only a days’ notice! Another great achievement If Emma and Ian have inspired you to pick up a racquet please get in touch with us. Unseasonal though it might seem, tennis can be your chosen sport and route to fitness for the autumn and winter with floodlit courts and opportunities to play continuing right through the year….and part year membership discounts now kicking in! If you want to find out more, get involved or even come down to the club for a try out, then contact Lesley Satchell on 07590 354420, e-mail info@plumptontc.org.uk or go to www.plumptontc.org.uk ….and remember, if you aspire to play like Emma or just play at all, we have a full range of coaching available for all age groups and abilities to help you step onto the court. We hope to see you soon. Plumpton Tennis Club Play | Enjoy | Improve The Group There are plenty of things to do in Sussex. It’s just a matter of knowing where to find them – so says the founder of a Sussex club for unattached people. The Group was started in 2006 and has welcomed single people, aged 50 plus, ever since. Well, until Covid changed everything. In March 2020, like many clubs, The Group stopped meeting. But now that regulations have been relaxed, The Group’s social diary is already filling up. And in October it opens its doors again to new members. Tricia Bentley explains how The Group operates. “We have venues in five Sussex towns; Worthing, Burgess Hill, Brighton, Horsham and Lewes, and each of those venues hosts a club night every month”. There are hundreds of events every year, each one arranged by The Group’s own members. “That way we get loads of variety in the things we do. We have three holidays coming up, restaurant meals, theatre and walks but an event can be as simple as making new friends by meeting in a coffee shop. It’s all about getting out, being with people, and having fun. We are definitely not a dating organisation. Some members have got together of course, and some have married, but our target is just to help people kickstart their social lives”. The Group has a website, www.thegroup.org.uk, and there’s loads of information there. Annual Photography competition Have you taken any photos of birds, butterflies, bluebells, bugs or other wildlife that you are particularly proud of? We’d also love to see images of the different wildlife habitats – woodlands, hedgerows, unimproved calcareous grassland, marshy grassland, semi-improved grassland, ponds and streams - found in our parishes. You may enter up to three images. Photos must have been taken in Plumpton or East Chiltington parishes. The winning entry will be announced at our AGM on Nov 8th. Email your photos to plumptonwildlifephotos@gmail.com by 31st October 2021. Browse previous year’s entries here: https://plumptonwildlifegroup.weebly.com/annual-photo- competition.html 22
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current numbers are much lower than the “thousands of plants” recorded in the 1950s. Plumpton & East Without grazing, Purple Moor-grass (Molinia Chiltington Wildlife caerulea) tends to take over, crowding out the Gentians. The last extensive survey, in 2000, Blue Gems: in search of Marsh recorded around 700 flowering spikes across 13 locations in the Forest. Gentians The Sussex Botanical Recording Society has set up a small project to ascertain the current “Found one!” I shouted to status of Marsh Gentian in Sussex, as a the small team of baseline for long-term monitoring and volunteer botanists observing the impact of management scouting the Airman’s changes. Grave area of Ashdown Teams of volunteer botanists, including Jacqui Forest. We were looking Hutson and myself, will survey all the sites for the vivid blue flowers where Marsh Gentians have been recorded of Marsh Gentian since 1992. At each site, we will record (Gentiana pneumonanthe) whether we find any gentians, the number of and I had just spotted the plants and the extent of the area they occupy, first one of the day. We habitat details, particularly the presence of carefully recorded the areas of bare open ground where seedlings exact location, how many might establish, and associated species. flowers were on the stem Next year, we hope to revisit sites where they and looked around for were found prior to 1992. Even if we don’t other plants nearby. That find any Marsh Gentians at these historical first plant was a lonesome outlier but we soon sites, we may find some clues as to why they found a small clump some 100m away, and were lost from locations where they previously then several more. We crossed a wide, open thrived. ride and found a few more plants, typically tucked away in small open areas between Conservation Bracken, Gorse and Cross-leaved Heath. Across their distribution range, Marsh Gentian They’d be impossible to spot were it not for populations are threatened by habitat the unmistakable bright blue flowers. The destruction (e.g. by ploughing, drainage or flowers close overnight and in cold and cloudy afforestation) and by the reduction of grazing weather. Ideal Marsh Gentian spotting or of other physical disturbance. Uncontrolled conditions are sunny days in late August and and excessive burning is also a threat. September. Marsh Gentian plants are long-lived perennials, The native range of Marsh Gentians includes with a mean life expectancy of about 20 years, much of Europe, from southern Scandinavia but individual plants may not flower every year, to the mountains of Spain, Italy and the with plants in more open areas flowering more Balkans, and extends eastwards into central regularly than those that are shaded. Similarly, Asia. In the UK it is Nationally Scarce, with seedling establishment is poor in dense good populations only in the New Forest. vegetation. Previous observations have shown Marsh Gentians grow in damp acid grassland that plant numbers increase in sites where and heathland, now an extremely scarce associated vegetation is low and non-shading, habitat. The plants don’t like very wet places, and where there is bare ground for seedling but they need damp locations. They were first establishment. The ideal management for recorded in West Sussex in 1791 in St. conservation of Marsh Gentians is thus thought Leonard’s forest, but are now locally extinct in to be a combination of light grazing, to reduce West Sussex and found only on Ashdown competition from vigorous plants such as Forest and Chailey Common in East Sussex. purple moor-grass, and small-scale turf-cutting or controlled winter burning, to remove the The survey and monitoring project surface vegetation around the plants and Marsh Gentians have been known on provide sites for germination. Ashdown Forest since at least 1835, but Kate Gold 24
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distance to that destination. This is very useful Footpath on open moorland where to the stranger there Detective’s is little discernable difference. I hadn’t taken a map but I was reasonably familiar with the Diary: moor and had in sight a couple of features like a distinctive cow house and a dry stone stock A Footpath Detective’s Diary enclosure that I knew to head for or turn by. October 2021 As I crossed between Boos Moor and Morning Glory Threshfield Moor I kept north using a footpath I’ll not make excuse for writing about a to link me to another clear bridleway. I was Yorkshire route again, there are just so many making my way across High Moss on a lovely and the weather has been so good up there path of close nibbled grass. Ahead I could see this year and I have been so lucky to have the cow house I had my eye on as an ideal bolt had another week there, this time camping hole just for me to escape to, such are my just west of Threshfield in Wharfedale. dreams. Just by my dream hideaway is a My starting point for this early crossing of paths that involves a descent to a morning trot was Wood Nook. As I barn and a bit of a wiggle through some gates descended Wood Lane the morning before ascending ahead still heading north. On September sunlight glinted through the trees both left and right are rock outcrops where onto large brown cows enjoying lush pasture. once were ancient settlements and on the hills At the first cross roads (tracks) I went are clear field system marks that stand out in straight ahead onto Grysedale Lane passing a the low sunlight. few dwellings and then began to ascend to I crossed Malham Moor Lane and meet the junction with Moor Track. A right continued north towards Kilnsey and Green turn took me onto one of the many green Haw Hill. I could see Kilnsey Crag, possibly the lanes. most spectacular limestone cliff in Wharfedale. As the path ascended, first between It is 40m high and its overhang projects about the dry stone walls and then on open moor 10m making it a favourite challenge for the sun was behind me and the contours of experienced rock climbers. It is a creation of the land and its vegetation stood out so the glacial action of the Wharfedale glacier that clear. Heathers in bloom, grouse making an formed this wonderful dale. My view of the appearance, lovely Swaledale sheep turning crag from the moor was side on and with the to stare and I alone with no other humans in less often viewed scar of the quarry behind. sight able to run free and enjoy wherever my My destination was not Kilnsey and feet chose to wander. before reaching Green Haw Hill I spotted the My ascent continued between dry stone stock enclosure that I needed to turn Dolmire Hill and Hamerton Hill along right by onto the thin path rising between two Backstone Edge and onto Boss Moor. A look hills with stone cairns. Over the rise and back (always worth doing) revealed a picking my way along the thin path I arrived at fantastic view to Grassington and the hills the now decommissioned Threshfield Quarry. above. I crossed Hamerton Hill Syke, one of This is a big quarry site that has been the tiny moorland streams whose water will thoughtfully decommissioned to enable nature tumble into the main dale in due course. to reclaim it and people to walk among it. Then another rise to reveal a wonderful view There are clear footpath signs through it and of Flasby Fell, where I walked last around its top. Bunds of stone have been laid September, and below me the glinting waters to trap rain water making ponds. Jackdaws and of Winterburn Reservoir. I stood on the edge Martens are nesting on the stone ledges and in of a small old disused quarry site to take in crevasses. Plants are beginning to take hold. the wonders of the 360 degree view before There are even three ponds set aside for changing direction to head north on a clear native crayfish. It is a wonderful site and I track across the moor. enjoyed taking the high view path around it The signage in this area is good with before traversing a field of sheep back to paths marked with either FP for footpath or Wood Lane. BW for bridleway and then usually where they are pointed to and often the EJH 27
Bird Watch they were sound asleep remaining still for ringing and measuring. One of the older We duly completed our young had already fledged and left the breeding bird surveys last nest while the other two were fully month. A total of twenty-one House feathered, as large as an adult and would martins was confirmed on the college, soon go. markedly down on previous years but in The fallen box I referred to last line with many national figures. Several month, will be, I hope replaced by the pairs were still busily feeding young well time you read this. It is important that, into September. If each pair managed to when putting large boxes on to trees no rear two broods of an average four damage occurs. For this reason, the Barn young, a healthy number should leave Owl Trust provides tough nylon screws. our shores for Africa and so long as This ensures no metal spoils the wintering food supplies and next spring’s commercial value of the tree if it is later return migration conditions are in their taken for timber or no damage is done to favour, let’s hope for an increased machinery or injury to the person cutting number next year. It has been calculated through wood. that the annual mortality, to keep the population stable, is fifty percent in As the light was failing one adults and seven out of eight juveniles. It evening last month, a sharp-eyed young needs only a small variation one way or friend noticed a Blue tit fly under a the other to make a marked difference. hanging tile on a nearby building to roost The few Swallows that have bred locally safely for the night. Once having seen have also had more than one brood, but this it became clear, by the droppings whereas in previous years in late summer beneath, that this was its regular place of they would have been plentiful, this year safety even though we could see its tail it has been an occasion to remark upon protrude. Roosting is a part of bird study when one is seen. One theory for their that is overlooked but so important for poor numbers this year was the result of survival. Well-known are the large unusually heavy storms across the murmurations of Starlings as they gather Mediterranean at spring migration time communally to find shelter and the large when many perished and were seen numbers of Jackdaws each night going to washed up on the seashore. local woods but with most birds, as night falls, they are just not there. Returning to the last Barn owl nest box to check progress was very Just confirming the importance of successful. This box is in a low open- keeping records for future comparison, I fronted horse shelter and previously recently received a message from the contained five chicks. Two of them were British Trust for Ornithology asking me to too small to ring at the time so we check on details of a 2001 visit during the delayed in doing so, half expecting that Constant Effort Study I used to do in they would not have survived competing Brock’s Wood. The were studying trends for food with their older siblings or of the Nightingale population and at that indeed becoming food for them if prey time, twenty years ago, there were was scarce. Happily, they had both several pairs breeding there. We didn’t grown on well with the wing feathers consider that by now they would no already showing the comb-like leading longer do so even though the habitat is edge that will enable them to fly silently just as good, if not better than it was while hunting. As it was early evening, then. R.J.L. 28
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Chailey Commons Thank you if you have been walking Society your dog and picking up any droppings to the bins provided. This does mean w ww .cha ile yc ommo ns.o rg.u k that the commons are a more pleasant and cleaner place to walk. We have As Summer turned to Autumn it brought been regularly cleaning the drinking with it the brown and gold hues that troughs as well and ask that they are lovers of Autumn look forward to. The keep clean for the animals only to bracken has collapsed again, and the drink from. spaces and tracks have opened once more. The cattle which had started Our activities continue in October with grazing on Red House Common have an indoor meeting on Thursday been spreading themselves across the October 14th at 7.30.p.m. in the three lower commons and the four Chailey Village Hall near the Five Bells Exmoor ponies have Red House Common pub with a Talk on Butterflies of to themselves again. Grazing is an Sussex by Ian Seccombe. Those of you important part of the management of the who have seen Ian’s pictures of these heathland and natural trimming of the amazing creatures will know that we birch and bramble for example can are in for a treat. We shall still be effectively control their spreading. observing any current regulations for space and cleaning requirements, but During the summer, the Society held it will be great to meet in person once some events for younger people, and again. these included a ‘Young Ecologist’ session and our popular Bug Hunt. For details visit our website – Despite the cooler and showery weather www.chaileycommons.org.uk or our at the time, we recorded a good range of Facebook page www.facebook.com/ insects and butterflies such as the Small chaileycommons/ White, Meadow Brown, Gate Keeper, William Coleman Small Copper, Small and Large Skipper, 01444 831098 Brimstone and Ringlet. The most popular insects seemed to be the Grasshoppers and Crickets that the young eyes keenly spotted together with several other smaller species. Our Late Summer Walk was well attended, and we all enjoyed the lovely display of the widespread pale heather, Calluna vulgaris, known as Ling and the darker Erica cinerea, the bell heather. The third heather Erica tetralix, the Cross leaved heath, flowers earlier in the wetter areas of the heathland. JoJo Way introduced us to surveys and quadrats and included a practical session looking at the plants and flying insects. 31
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