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Hog News
Fulking does not score well on the UK recorded hog sightings map. Like Small Dole, Edburton, Poynings, Saddlescombe, Pyecombe, and Clayton, no hedgehogs are recorded, dead or alive. They are reputed to prefer suburban areas to the countryside and the map does indeed record their presence in Hassocks, Henfield, Upper Beeding, and areas immediately south of the A27.
If, on November 5th, you plan to celebrate the first attempt to shutter the House of Lords, make sure that you do not incinerate Fulking’s only hedgehog.
Mycology on Wolstonbury Hill
Friday 26th October 2018 from 9:30 to 15:00. The order of the day: 9:30am meet at Saddlescombe; 10:00am go out hunting for fungi in Wolstonbury woods and across open downland; 12:00 noon lunch, with glorious views across Sussex; 2:00pm return to Saddlescombe Farm for a cup of tea and cake in the new heated barn; 2:15pm go through our finds with expert mycologist Martin Allison and look at some of the more interesting species under the microscope; 3:00pm finish. Booking essential.
Ordinary Parish Meeting – 11th October 2018
There will be a meeting of Fulking Parish Council on Thursday 11th October 2018 at 7.30pm at The Village Hall, Fulking
AGENDA
1. Apologies.
2. Declaration of Members’ Interests.
3. Approvsl of previous minutes.
4. Reports from District and County Councillors.
5. Matters Arising – Operation Watershed
6. Planning Matters:
SDNP/18/04735/HOUS. Thatchly The Street Fulking Henfield West Sussex BN5 9LU.
Erection of a 2 storey rear extension.
7. Parking in Clappers Lane.
8. Dark Night Skies.
9. Elections 2019.
10. Market Garden.
11. Village Hall Lease.
12. Fulking Spring, Ram Pump System
13. Unoccupied cottages in Stammers Hill (nos: 2 & 4)
14. Reports from Outside Bodies. – Inter Parish Meeting – Cllr Healy
15. Information Items.
16. Correspondence.
17. Financial Matters:
Date of the next Ordinary Meeting: Thursday 10th January 2019 to be held at Fulking Village Hall at 7.30pm.
Trevor Parsons, Parish Clerk
17 Ockley Way, Hassocks, West Sussex BN6 8NE
07767 422733
parishclerk@fulking.net
Harvest Festival & Picnic
October 21st — a traditional Harvest Festival Service at 11.00am will be followed by our ever popular harvest picnic lunch (which must be ordered in advance). The picnic will take place inside St. Andrew’s, or outside if the weather permits.
We welcome all parishioners to this event. To order picnics (£6.50), phone Jane Warne on 07812-465-559 or email standrewsedburton@yahoo.co.uk.
Hurst Village Cinema
Nomad cleaner needed
Preston Nomads Cricket Club are currently looking for a cleaner for the 2019 season. To arrange a viewing at the Club to discuss the job in detail please call Jan Smith on 07887790172 or email smithad@aol.com.
Alternatively, the Devil’s Dyke Hotel currently has vacancies for waiting staff.
Games Evenings
Table Tennis: Fridays 12th and 26th October at 7:30pm in Fulking Village Hall (then S&D).
All welcome Jen Green (552)
Subterranean Sussex
A talk by Stewart Angell (author of Tottington Manor: Sussex WWII Auxiliary Units HQ and The Secret Sussex Resistance) to Beeding & Bramber Local History Society at 7:45pm on Wednesday 3rd October in the Village Hall, Upper Beeding. There is a hard-to-detect car park immediately opposite.
Bobservation No. 48 – Changing Times
We live in an age where changes are occurring more rapidly than ever before.
Driving into Henfield from Fulking the other day I found myself being disappointed with the number of new fences that have been put up on the roadside of properties as well as a cultivated look to the grass verges. It seems such a short time ago that all along that particular road was wild but tidy vegetation which seemed the natural way and in my opinion the correct one, preserving the country look of the area.
Maybe I am wrong and in general residents prefer a tidier look both to the hedging and the land in front of it. Having been in Fulking for 26 years and having reached an advanced age I am probably guilty of living in the past. I am appalled by Trump, Brexit, Global Warming, Plastic waste and the lack of social cohesion in the world.
Having said that the very good folk who give up their valuable spare time to get involved with the Parish Council, the Parochial Church Council, the Social Committee, the Village Fair, the Village Hall Action Group to mention a few of the ongoing groups are to be greatly appreciated and bring about a very stable base for the village to exist with as many old fashioned values as possible.
Please put these dates in your diaries:
- Saturday 8th December – Village Christmas party in the village hall 6 till 8pm.
- Saturday 9th February 2019 – Wine Quiz in the village hall 7 for 7.30pm
- Sunday 28th July 2019 – Annual Village Fair 12 till 5pm