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Strimming at St. Andrew’s

Churchyard attendants urgently required: two people with petrol strimmers to join us in May by helping to trim the grass round the graves. This work usually takes place once a month on a Saturday morning from 9:00am to 12:00pm during the summer months, weather permitting. If you are able to help, please contact Tony Brooks on 200 for more details.

Buy fresh fish in Poynings

Every Friday, 10:00am–3:00pm in Rushfields car park.

First nightingale

Newtimber Place Gardens

The gardens at Newtimber Place will be open as part of the NGS (National Gardens Scheme) on Sunday 19th April between 2pm and 5.30pm. The gardens are lovely at this time of year with stunning daffodils and beautiful fritillaries. Beautiful Grade I listed C16/C17 moated house (not open). Gardens and woods full of bulbs and wild flowers in spring. Herbaceous border and lawns. Moat flanked by water plants. Mature trees. Wild garden, ducks, chickens and fish. Tea and home made cakesin aid of the church. There are ducks, chickens and guinea fowl wandering around so dogs need to be kept on a lead. Admission £4.00, children free.

Botolphs guided walk

Tuesday 7th April from 11:00am to 1:30pm. Assemble at the Botolphs Layby on the A283 Shoreham Road. Bring your own refreshment.

Lambing Open Days: 5th, 6th, 11th & 12th April

Preloved budgie for sale

Lovely one and a half year old (roughly) blue and white male budgie for sale. Sad sale as wanted to buy a bigger cage to house more budgies so he’s not lonely but can’t find the space or time. Want him to go to a house with lots of other budgies! (or at least a couple others!) comes with a pretty white medium sized cage with the toys and food etc. Really, really sad sale but it’s for the best. Home more important than price!

Megan Holman

Egg rolling

Bring your own hand decorated hard boiled egg and try your luck at this Easter custom — the egg that gets furthest down the Dyke Valley wins. There will also be a contest for best decorated egg. Meet near the stone seat, Devil’s Dyke car park, Monday, 6th April from 10:45am–12:00pm, all tickets £1.

Five years

The South Downs National Park came into legal existence on April 1st 2010.

Badgerwood House

Badgerwood House, Clappers Lane, Fulking

Aerial view of the house and grounds in 2007Badgerwood House was originally a bungalow, built by Captain Lawrence Clayton, [the architect] Charles Clayton’s son. Captain Clayton was also an architect and took over his father’s business when he died. In a 1934 auction, Dr. Beresford, a surgeon at Brighton Hospital, then purchased the house and grounds, which at the time included Furzefield to the north, along with fields on the west side of Clappers Lane, up to what is today Badger Brook. This combined holding was then called Badgerwood Farm. The bungalow was enlarged to become a house and subsequent owners added extensions to this. During the Second World War, Henry Harris farmed all the land (except what is now the bluebell wood at Furzefield) under the Government War Cultivation programme, to produce food. After the war a large pig farm was established on the site and this was later converted to stabling. The pig farm was later divided up and sold off as smaller parcels of land. Graham and Rosemary French purchased Badgerwood House, but sold off the parcel of land known as Furzefield in the early 1990s. The house has since been altered and extended and a recent owner has also added several features. At one time, a droveway through the grounds of the property provided access from Clappers Lane to Holmbush Lane.

Badgerwood House, Clappers Lane, Fulking

Tony Brooks