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St Lawrence ViLLage Fair eVentS run is a friendly scenic run around the foothills of the Cuckoo In The Nest - 22nd June until 4th July . Our South Downs including an ascent (and decent) of High Street Shop Window Competition is back again . The circular course takes in local for another year. Pick up your entry form from Mishon Danny House, beautiful woodlands and bridleways in Mackay and wander around the High Street to look for and around Hurstpierpoint, finishing at the St the item that you don’t think would normally appear in Lawrence Fair in front of hundreds of spectators. The their shop window. start is a lap of the main arena to the applause of the Pet & Dog Show - Sunday 30th June , from 12.30 pm crowd. Enter as a family for the short run. You can reg - at the Scout Hut. Bring your small pets and dogs to our ister online at runbritain.com, or download an entry Pet Show. Small pets 12.30 pm start and dogs 1.30 pm form www.stlawrencefair.org.uk . You will also be start. able to register on the day, however, please be aware Teddy Bear’s Picnic - Friday 5th July , 12.30 – 2.30 that as soon as we reach our maximum limit of 200 run - pm. Bring your teddy and a picnic along to South ners, entries will close. Avenue Recreational Ground. Admission for each child Fair Day opens on South Avenue Rec at 12 pm with will include a fairground ride, a magic show, do a craft stalls, street food market and Harris’s Fun Fair. activity and get an ice lolly! Procession starts from Marchants Road at 1 pm and Children’s Disco - Friday 5th July , 6 – 7.30 pm. arrives at the Rec at 2 pm. Various events will take Come along to South Avenue Recreation Ground for a place in the main arena and fair closes at 5 pm. boogie at the Children’s Disco. Tickets available on the door, and it includes refreshments and snacks. Age 4+. BOwLing On St Lawrence Fair DaY Have Family BBQ - Friday 5th July , 6 – 10.30 pm. Come a go at bowling on Saturday 6th July . Hurstpierpoint along to South Avenue Recreation Ground for hot dogs bowling club will be open on St Lawrence Fair day for & burgers and the famous Hurstbarpoint, and listen to visitors to try bowling with some club members. All are some fantastic bands playing throughout the evening. welcome, including children for whom we have some Fun Run Saturday 6th July , 2.45 pm. Come join the St small prizes. Hope to see you there. Just turn up! Lawrence Fair Fun Run! Steeped in history, our fun Anne Clifford

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We Instead of our summer Picnic this year we will be hav - regularly arrange in house entertainment and outings ing a Ploughmans Lunch held at the centre for our too. members on Thursday 18th July , with entertainment Our Charity Shop is open every day and also Saturday by Margaret Watson the Harpist. Please do book in the mornings too - do pop in and have a look, refreshments office. and cake available to buy! We are looking for more Wellbalanced Community Falls Prevention Service, in Volunteer Escorts to help assist our members on and off partnership with Mid Sussex Wellbeing and Active our mini bus safely, this could be just to help with our House Solutions are holding Balance classes here every rotas to cover holidays or a regular weekly or fort - Wednesday afternoon. Please call 01444 477191 to nightly slot when available – do contact me for more book your place. information. Kirsty Hunnisett ‘THANKS FOR THE MEMORY ’ is the title of the communicate with family members. A personal ‘Alive forthcoming concert in which Hurst, Hassocks and Inside Headset’ delivers high quality music combined Ditchling U3a Singers are looking forward to perform - with safety features such as no external wiring. ing items from their repertoire. The concert will also include solo Organ and Piano This group of about 30 U3a members was formed 3 items by the singer’s founder and director Marcus years ago and meet fortnightly to rehearse a varied pro - Martin and takes place on Friday 5th July at 7.30 pm gramme representing many diverse musical styles at St Cosmas and St Damian Church, Keymer by kind ranging from Mozart to Mamma Mia! As we are permission of the Rector, Fr. Alex Baxter. No tickets increasingly reminded, singing promotes both health are required and there is no charge for admission and mental alertness and rather than aspire to be a con - although donations in aid of the project will be most ventional choir this group’s aim is to learn and sing welcome. Marcus Martin music that’s both fun for the members and hopefully fun to listen to! HURSTPIERPOINT HORTICULTURAL SOCI - The Singers give an annual concert, and this year was ETY SUMMER SHOW at 2.15 pm on Saturday 29th inspired by an appeal from Sheddingdean Baptist June in Hurstpierpoint Village Centre. Church in Burgess Hill for funds to advance the Music Summer flowers, fruit and vegetables. Cookery, hand - for Memories Mid-Sussex project. Evidence shows icraft, photography and children’s section. Exhibiting that music can help people with Dementia to feel and is free and open to all. live better and this scheme attempts to reconnect those Tea and home-made cake. Raffle and auction at end of experiencing memory loss with their memories, and show. 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NEWS FROM STONEYWISH The first summer flow - means rewiring the whole of the rest of the planet, many ers are appearing in the hedgerows. As May blossoms are now saying, ‘so be it.’ Am I alone in experiencing a fade, they are replaced by a froth of elder flowers, hon - sinking feeling? I recently came across a joke which eysuckle, and briar roses, which fill the evening air with seems more interesting each time I think about it. their fragrance. The lambs are growing; the high tseet Question: “What is the time?” Answer: ‘Eternity’; an all- tseet of fledglings resounds from tree to tree. Two days embracing concept which puts us back at the heart of any ago I heard the first scream of a swift hunting high above global issue. In other words, everything is both particu - the Black Pond. One might be tempted to think of this lar in the here and now, and yet universal. As humans, we idyllic world as something eternal and vouchsafed to us are so powerful it is hard for us to turn around and feel by the millions of years of its evolution. But today the overwhelmed by something bigger. Yet this might be the talk is not of continuity but of cataclysmic change. There most helpful thing we can do. Man is the largest soil- are silences in the score of our hereditary soundscape: no mover on the planet. The statistics are staggering. We chatter of swallows today; no whirr of snipe wings; no only have to look around us to see it in action. Man lit - peewit cries. Within the past twenty years, these birds erally moves mountains and at a stroke dismantles the have abandoned their traditional haunts. The once insis - slow and intricate architecture of the web of life. tent call of the cuckoo is now a rarity. It is tempting to Wherever homo disruptor is busy digging things up, blame the exodus on global issues – things belonging to local populations are extinguished and with every minor the realm of international politics and science, to which extinction, a cascade of loss ripples through the wider we turn, seeking a ‘fix’ for every ill. The best of us are environment. And it’s not just industrial schemes which trying to save the planet. We monitor, measure and are to blame. In our own backyards we are forever manipulate everything around us so as to maintain our paving, clearing, rooting things out. With every hedge own fixed purposes, as though we alone have outgrown goes a family of sparrows. And what use is a nest-box on the vital process of evolution. Is a species threatened a wall if there are no trees nearby for fledglings to hide with extinction? Someone must preserve and rescue it. Is and forage in? What use is a butterfly garden, if the the weather out of control? Mankind can cure it. We will caterpillars have no weeds to eat? Such connections are do whatever it takes to ensure our immunity from harm minute but critical. At Stoneywish there are pockets of and secure the boundless supplies of energy and food we land which have been ‘rewilding’ for 25 years. And to go need to maintain our chosen way of life. And if this into these areas now is to see the connections at work.

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The soil is laced with fungal strands which break down important to themselves, a shared intelligence which spent vegetation, releasing nutrients for new growth. modern man hardly recognises, but which alone sustains Communities of plants, sharing common ground, sustain the mantle of life on earth. When we humans act as dis - a humming wealth of insect life. There is good hunting ruptors, dismantlers, we damage an essential part of our - for birds; damp cover for amphibians. The air is differ - selves. But when we remember our wider existence, ent. But Nature does not require a whole nature reserve. cherish here as everywhere, and work within systems A patch of brambles will do, or any forgotten corner. An which permit a sense of connectedness we can find our - anthill is a world spacious enough to sustain its own selves blissfully participating in a global ‘joie de vivre’. unique ecology. When global issues seem overwhelming Here endeth... perhaps it could help to rephrase the eternity joke and This month’s History Talk takes place on Friday, 28th say in reply to the question. “Where are we?” Simply: June , and is entitled: ‘Edwardian Lewes Through the “Everywhere.” A grassroots revolution might then Camera Lens.’ Collector and local historian, Bob Cairns, replace the urge to ‘move mountains’ with something shares over 100 views of Lewes from his photographic gentler, something truly radical; a kind of graciousness – archive, with tales to bring the Edwardian era to life. holding back, moving up a little, simply to make room Photography provided a popular and affordable way to for others, and by the same token, making room for a record moments in time and picture postcards soon new humanity in ourselves. Given half a chance, Nature became the ‘emails’ of the day. Some images will be heals itself; and watching what happens, rather than con - familiar, while others, the gems of Bob’s 40 years of col - triving what happens brings the spectator a delightful lecting, show hidden corners of the town and will have sense of enlargement. “No man is an island, entire of you puzzling... Talks are held at the Stoneywish Visitor itself,” wrote John Donne almost 400 years ago, speak - Centre and begin at 10.30 a.m. As ever, there will be cof - ing of the community of man. Today the words carry a fee and fresh-baked cake to follow, all included in the new relevance. In the community of Life the loneliness ticket price and an exhibition of pictures from Michaels of a depopulating world need not be ours. Extinctions do local history archive. Further details on www.stoney - not know that they are global. Each, wherever it occurs, wish.com . Please phone 01273 843498 to reserve a seat. is uniquely intimate and provincial. This is perhaps the Now for breakfast. Hunger certainly makes the moment pity. Creatures do not ask to be spared because they are seem eternal and this early bird is in need of a worm. useful or beautiful to us, but because they carry secrets Rosemary

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HASSOCKS WI is 10 years old! Members turned out PYECOMBE FAYRE AND FLOWER FESTIVAL in all their finery for a fantastic evening of celebration. 6th and 7th July . Pyecombe Village puts on its ever- Stella and her wonderful team had prepared a delicious popular annual celebration. meal of Lasagne, which was served with wine, and with The theme of the floral displays this year is “Love is..” salads provided by our members. This was followed by and you can be sure of a feast of stunning displays! an impressive array of desserts, also supplied by mem - The church will be open from 11 am to 4 pm. bers. We welcomed visitors from surrounding WIs and Teas and cakes will be served in the tea tent and a also West Sussex Federation Adviser Yvonne Bee. licensed bar will be selling drinks. You can also enjoy a After eating more than any of us thought possible, we ploughman’s lunch with a glass of wine in the delight - were entertained by Marco the Magician, who amazed ful setting of our beautiful South Downs village. us with his sleight of hand. No matter how hard we We will be repeating last year’s popular Scarecrow tried, and how close we were, we couldn’t work out Competition in which people try their hand at making how he did it! Yvonne then cut our beautiful cake, made their own scarecrows. These will be exhibited along the by Lorraine and decorated by Barbara. As you would church wall and prizes given to the smartest, the crazi - expect from a WI cake, it tasted absolutely superb. est and the scariest! Altogether it was a wonderful night, celebrating in real The fancy dress dog competition is another major draw style. from previous years so will definitely be repeated. For our meeting on 15th July we will be getting into Bring your pooch and join in with the fun. 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This fantas - the programme is full to bursting and the website and tic community, family event is now in its ninth year brochure will launch at the beginning of July. Early and will be held on Sunday 30th June and includes booking opens for Friends on 8th July – for everyone a choice of local cycle rides and free bike health else its 22nd July – it’s not too late to become a Friend checks. The rides will be followed by a barbecue and – just visit www.hurstfestival.org. entertainment at The Hassocks pub. This year our theme is ‘Love Local’. Much of the tal - This is a fun event for the whole community, regard - ent and skills of Hurst Festival is found locally. Local less of age or cycling ability, giving the opportunity to food, drink, acts, services, venues, suppliers etc which makes our footprint small and sustainable. 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