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Songs of the Dawn

Edward Lear enthusing about the song of the Yellowhammer
Edward Lear enthusing about the song of the Yellowhammer
Join Andrew Armitage and experience the awakening countryside between 7:00–9:00am on Wednesday 28th May or Saturday 31st May. Listen for the Nightingale, the rattle of the Whitethroat and the nasal song of the Yellowhammer. Watch out for deer and other early morning wildlife, followed by a cooked al fresco breakfast. Two miles, wear stout footwear. No dogs. Meet up at the grass bank by Mouse Cottage, just off Mouse Lane in Steyning [Map Ref: TQ173,114].
Must book: The Steyning Bookshop, tel: 01903 812062, cost: £7.50.

Fulking Parish Council – Budget 2014-2015

Fulking Parish Council set a budget of £7,303 for the current financial year at its meeting on 10th October 2013.

Parish Council budget covers items such as the grass cutting & maintenance of the playground at NTF, street lighting and repairs, public liability insurance, website hosting, cost of audits, subscriptions to local societies, as well as additional training for Councillors & Clerk and the Clerk’s salary.

The budget has remained the same as last year.

A full copy of the budget is available here.

Andrea Dickson
Clerk to Fulking Parish Council
andreadicksonfpc@gmail.com

Finding, Identify & Surveying Invertebrates

Finding, Identify & Surveying Invertebrates
Two day course to be taught by Graeme Lyons at Woods Mill on 29th & 30th May. Attendees will learn different ways to survey invertebrates from field craft such as beating, sweep-netting, sieving and netting to sampling techniques such as light-trapping, pitfall-trapping and water-trapping. Inevitably some identification will be taught too but the emphasis will be on surveying and field craft.

Local high tech wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise

Delta Media Server Queen's Award for Enterprise Innovation
The West Sussex County Times reports:

Sussex creative technology business 7thSense Design in Upper Beeding has been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation ten years after being founded. ..

7thSense is renowned for its Delta® Media Server product – a state-of-the-art video server and pixel management technology designed to take the highest quality films and content and plays back onto any giant screen or projected surface ..

Ploughing the Downs in 1940

Ploughing the Downs in 1940
British Pathé have recently released a large number of film clips from their news archives. One from 1940 shows sixty seven seconds of a farmer checking his fields on the Downs and his men ploughing them with heavy horses and early tractors. Click the still above to watch the clip on YouTube and read Geoffrey Harris’s Farmers in Fulking for his recollections of Downs farming in the 1930s and 1940s.