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.
Pyecombe drainage works
Local high tech wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise
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
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.
Bramber hotel fire
There was a fire at The Castle Inn Hotel in Bramber in the early hours of Friday morning. It is reported that eighty per cent of the building was damaged by smoke, forty per cent by fire. There were no injuries and the owner managed to extinguish the fire himself before the fire brigade turned up. There’s a fuller report at the West Sussex County Times.