The ‘About Our Village’ menu in the left sidebar of this website has a new menu item: ‘COVID19 Support’. At present it just contains a two page PDF (‘Fulking COVID19 Action Plan’) drafted by the Parish Council. However, it is intended to include other relevant material as it becomes available.
Latest News of Local Interest
A malignant tumour
Click the map to read a detailed report of last week’s LAMBS meeting in Henfield Hall.
Community Skills Swap
If anyone wants to join the community skills swap whats app group they can through this link chat.whatsapp.com
It’s a group of people who are offering help or who would like help with anything, anything at all. You won’t have previous messages in the group but there are tools for loan, for instance.
South Downs News, March issue
There’s an item on page five that may interest Fulking riders.
Green Resolutions 2 [updated]
on Climate Change
I hope you are all well and have had a chance to follow upon some of the resolutions we came up with in January? Spring is almost here and we thought it would be a good time to reflect on our progress to date and make new resolutions for the next few months. Please let me know if you would like to offer a short report or demonstration of anything you have followed up on since the last meeting, at the start of this one, so that I can add it to the agenda. Myriam very kindly took on the car pooling and website initiative and has sent through an early draft for us all to look at:
Any ideas or questions please contact Samantha.
Live in chef and commis chef required at the Royal Oak
Bobservation No. 66: Warming to the Clerk in the End…
Parish Clerk
I have known several Parish Clerks in the time I have been in Fulking and they have varied in efficiency and goodwill considerably, in particular one I can think of was diabolical!. However I think it is generally agreed that the present Clerk, Trevor Parsons, has outshone all his predecessors . A parish council relies very heavily on the professionalism of its clerk and over the last twenty or so years the demands on the clerk have steadily increased; in particular with knowledge of the law as it needs to be enacted. I hope you will all join me in saying thanks to Trevor for the service he provides.
Global warming
The next meeting of the Resolutions group is at 7pm on Sunday March 8th in the village hall and I do encourage you to come and join us. Ably lead by Samantha we are in the throes of putting together Climate Change and ecological ideas for implementation in the villages of Fulking, Poynings and Newtimber.
Funereal matters
If you wish to save your next of kin a bob or two it is quite simple to donate your body to the London Anatomy Office (LAO) (0207 848 8042). Subject to certain circumstances the body will be donated to and used by the medical services involved (probably in Sussex) for research or teaching. This will obviate the need for a funeral which, these days, is quite expensive. The LAO are most helpful on the phone and will help you through the necessary forms. Just in case you are worried about missing the wake when I eventually go; well behaved villagers will be invited to a party instead (Any takers for Call my bluff?). Incidentally the oldest donated body yet was a gent of 107!
Green Resolutions 2
At 7:00pm in Fulking Village Hall on Sunday 8th March
Over pot-luck snacks, join the second inter-village consultation on what we can each do individually and together locally to make a practical difference towards reducing our impact on the environment. Bring pencil and paper and practical ideas.
Any ideas or questions please contact Samantha.
Minutes of the first meeting: Environmental Impact and Green Resolutions 11th January 2020 [PDF].
On the market
Seedling Sunday
Flower and vegetable seedlings; refreshments; conversation. Chris will grow flowers but other folk will need to contribute vegetable seedlings, and plant cuttings. Help also needed on the day itself: moving furniture, serving tea and coffee and, of course, baking cakes. We will also have a craft and local produce stall with artworks and also jams, chutneys, etc. for sale. Do plan on coming to this friendly village event.
Chris G (552)