Will the Germans target Edburton?

Defibrillator drone from The Local, 23 August 2013
The Local reports:

German inventors unveiled a drone carrying a defibrillator on Friday which they hope will be able to save the lives of heart attack patients. .. [They] hope that a drone will be able to deliver a defibrillator to revive the patient quicker than an ambulance. .. It has been designed to reach patients in remote areas and is activated by the emergency services or members of the public through a mobile phone app .. which when activated would start the drone and bring the defibrillator to the GPS coordinates of the patient. The downside is that the drone relies on someone being with the heart attack victim and having the app downloaded on their phone. .. The drone on display on Friday had eight rotor blades, a diameter of one metre and a flying distance of 15 kilometres. With the defibrillator it weighs 4.7 kg and costs €20,000.

Fulking book benefits Church

Anthony Brooks 2008 The Changing Times of Fulking & EdburtonTony Brooks writes:

I would like to update all those who sponsored or purchased my book [Anthony R. Brooks (2008) The Changing Times of Fulking & Edburton. Chichester: RPM Print & Design] how the proceeds of £3,800 have been spent by the Church.

Originally it was earmarked for a new door to be added to the church entrance. After much thought the PCC decided that as the Church is used during the winter months twice a month for a maximum of two hours, money spent on a new door would not be cost effective. So a compromise was agreed:

  1. A warm air unit would be fitted over the church door inside.
  2. The entrance path to the church has been reshaped to include a patio to give more standing area.

I am pleased to say both projects are now complete.

[from Pigeon Post, August 2013]

Woodmancote Place — still available

Woodmancote Place
Country Life does the history:

Set in 149 acres of lakeside gardens and grounds, pasture, deer park and woodland, the house, first mentioned in records of 1339 and 1434, has evolved over time around the core of a late-medieval stone building, of which only one storey survives, with an early-17th-century, timber-framed first floor above it.

According to its listing, the south parlour was rebuilt in the early 1700s as part of a new five-bay range running eastwards, and the entire house was refaced in about 1920, and extended to the east, west and north, in the revived Sussex Vernacular style, par timber-framed and part tile-hung. The park, restocked with deer by the current owners, who bought Woodmancote Place in 2002, was established in the late 19th century; the gardens around the house were laid out by Cheals of Crawley in 1923. As the chief manor house of the village, Woodmancote Place has had its share of famous-and infamous-owners.

In 1530, Woodmancote passed to Catherine, wife of Sir Edward Seymour, later Earl of Hertford and 1st Duke of Somerset, who was executed for treason in 1552. In 1531, Seymour sold the manor to Richard Bellingham, whose widow married George Goring, described as lord of the manor in 1560. For 200 years from 1693, the estate was owned by the industrious Dennett family, who extended the house and increased the farmland to 402 acres by 1840.

Indian tabla workshop

Steve Morley tabla workshop in Fulking
Steve Morley
Steve Morley invites all those interested in learning classical tabla drumming or being part of a regular percussion and music-making group for Fulking and Poynings, to come along for an informal get-together in Fulking Village Hall at 2:30pm on Sunday 15th September. You’ll be able to try some basic tabla, World percussion instruments and effects. No experience whatsoever is required.

Steve first studied tabla with Pt. Chotelal Misra in Varanasi, India in the 1980s, and was also under the tutelage of the late Pt. Sharda Sahai of the Benares tradition. He has been teaching classical tabla and working in education for 20 years.