Dorothy & Arnold |
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| WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY
READING, TEACHING or listening to (DG) on audio tape/CD Dorothy: Salley Vickery, Where Three Roads Meet; Evelyn Waugh, Scoop; Stieg Larssen, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Arnold: Ian McEwan, Saturday; Tom Bower, Fayed |
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| WHAT WE ARE WATCHING - OR RECORDING (see 6 October) - on TV THIS WEEK - NFL Live, True Blood, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Scrubs, Have I Got News for You, The Armstrong & Miller Show. | ||||||
REGULAR COMMITMENTS - meetings of which are ordinarily
mentioned in the daily diary
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| NOVEMBER 2009 | AUGUST 2009 (concluded) | |||||
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Friday 21 - Saturday 22 November We drive to Litlington and have dinner with Nick Cathy Poppy & Evan at the Fox in Willian. Bertie enjoys sleeping 1/3 with Dorothy, 1/3 with Arnold and 1/3 on his own bed. (Nick has recently been to a conference on mathematical biology in Rio de Janiero - we got a postcard - and Alice has been on a school trip to Washington, D.C.) On Saturday, Alice & Poppy accompany us to Cambridge via the park-and-drive and direct us to shops where we can buy Christmas presents for them, their parents and brother, which we do. We have lunch in the Lion Yard Pret à Manger. Bertie gets lots of walks including one by Evan.In the afternoon we wrap presents and then leave for Lewes. This was the first long journey for Dorothy's new car (delivered on Friday 13 November), a Mercedes A160. |
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7 - Sunday 9 August Ann Corbett comes to visit from Abingdon. (Ian is in Rio de Janeiro at a physics conference.) Ann and Dorothy were friends at the University of Manchester.
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Wednesday 5 August We have dinner with Rachel & David Powell at Rose Cottage (a pub) in Alciston. Bertie stays at home but the Powells' dachsund Trotsky accompanies us. |
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Thursday 19 November Arnold accompanies Jackie to the Lewes Area Music Centre Concert in Lewes Town Hall. Katie plays flute with the Flute Salad group. |
Tuesday
4 August Arnold spends the day at the University of Sussex Library, looking at the papers of Virginia Woolf. Opposite him sits the daughter of Stephen Murray, reading her father's correspondence with Arnold in 1973, about his research - for a BBC Radio 3 programme - on the Army Bureau of Affairs Drama Unit. Arnold gave the research materials to the University Library in 2000. Spooky. |
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Sunday 15 November We have lunch at Ann & Ian Menzies', joined by Caroline Mack and Sally & Jerry Noble. Ian, Caroline, Jerry and Dorothy comprise (well, not quite) Wealden Citizens Advice. |
Sunday 2 August We take Bertie with us and drive to Cowbeech, for the annual Dig for Victory fete. We meet lots of former neighbours |
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Saturday 14 November Arnold goes to Keele University, where he taught between 1975 and 1983, for the 40th anniversary lunch of the David Bruce Centre, the American Studies graduate centre. He meets current staff & graduates and former colleagues including David Adams, Ian Bell, Colin Bonwick, Martin Crawford, Robert Garson, Steve Mills and Mike Tappin. The University seems much changed since 1983, physically - the one we knew appears to be at the centre of a widely-expanded series of buildings - and, Arnold is told, academically; not, some assert, to the advantage of the practitioners of American Studies. |
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Thursday 30 July We collect Mary Westland, who was our neighbour in our first years in Cowbeech, from her home in Peacehaven and bring her to Eastport Lane for morning coffee and Dorothy's excellent carrot cake. We sit on the picnic bench in the garden. |
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Sunday 8
November Arnold joins Goff Bowles, former neighbour in Cowbeech, at Dean's Place Hotel in Alfriston, to hear the Chilingirian Quartet, with Simon Rowland-Jones (viola), play Haydn's String Quintet, Mendelssohn's String Quartet in F minor Op. 80 and Beethoven's String Quartet in B flat Op. 130 - with Beethoven's "replacement" last movement, not the Grosse Fuge. Rowland-Jones was the Quartet's founding violist in 1971. |
Saturday 25 July We and 60 others of Julia & Nick Levine's family and friends celebrate "their approaching maturity and 46th wedding anniversary" in their garden in Groombridge, Kent. Nick and Dorothy were Wealden CAB trustees and Nick became a student in Dorothy's Wadhurst class. |
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Wednesday 22 July We have lunch at Ann & Geoff Yates's in Kingston nr Lewes. |
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Saturday
7 November Arnold goes to St Saviour's Church, Eastbourne for the "Come Sing, Come Play" final rehearsal and the performance of Mozart's Requiem, prepared on one day by a scratch chorus and members of the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra. |
Tuesday 21 July We attend a memorial service for Jane Aiken Hodge, the novelist, who was our neighbour on Eastport Lane. See also http://tinyurl.com/kqfjmf.
Jane's father was the American poet Conrad Aiken. Arnold, researching Elliot Paul, once interviewed Jane's stepmother, the artist Mary Hoover Aiken. |
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Thursday 5
November Bonfire Night: we nip to the end of Eastport Lane to watch the Southover Bonfire Society going & coming & going & coming. V. spirited & not uncomplex drumming. |
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Tuesday 3 November After a meal at Carluccio's in Brighton, we see the adaptation of Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana at the Theatre Royal Brighton. The Guardian liked it (review), The Times didn't (review); we did. |
Sunday 19 July Hilary & George Newman and Rachel & David Powell come to lunch at Eastport Lane. |
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Sunday 1 November We give a buffet lunch to welcome new next-door neighbours Sarah & William. Seven other near neighbours come: Ann & Jonathan, Moya, Anna & Nick, Ali & Norman. Dorothy serves lasagna, salad and rice pudding/chocolate & peanut cheesecake. |
Saturday 18 July Arnold takes a circular walk around Rodmell with a group from the Virginia Woolf Society, then joins the group for lunch at Rodmell Village Hall. When not in London (Bloomsbury), Virginia & Leonard Woolf lived in Monks House, Rodmell, now a |
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| OCTOBER 2009 | ||||||
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Saturday 31 October We go to Glyndebourne for the touring production of Verdi's Falstaff. We drive the loaner we have while waiting for the delivery of the Mercedes A160 which we've bought to replace Dorothy's Lexus, just too big a car for narrow Eastport Lane/our garage/Lewes. |
Thursday 16 July We go to Down House, Downe, Kent, where Charles Darwin lived from 1842 and where he wrote his books. After which, we have lunch at the nearby Chapter One in Farnborough Common, Locksbottom. This does duty for Arnold's birthday treat on the 19th. |
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Thursday 29 October After the Lewes U3A AGM, and a U3A class on Twentieth Century Chamber Music, Arnold goes to Sussex University to hear Professor Peter Burke give a visiting lecture on the rise and fall of the polymath. In the audience are some whom Arnold had not met since 1975. |
Sunday 12 July We look in on the Grange Road street party and watch Oscar in the slow bike "race". Later in the afternoon we drive to Cowbeech for the 4th Cowbeech Revels, which we started with a few other "local" couples in 2005. "Villagers" picnic and entertain one another - we guess there are about 100 people present. It's held in Moira & Goff Bowles's garden. |
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Wednesday 28 October Arnold is elected a director & trustee of 3VA, which replaces EAVS and South Downs CVS as the umbrella organisation for voluntary and charitable groups in Eastbourne Borough, Lewes District and Wealden District. |
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Tuesday 27 October We have flu shots, the regular kind not the new H1N51 ("swine flu") vaccination, not yet available in Lewes. |
Saturday 11 July We go to the Southover School Picnic. Tom & Jackie run the tombola. We win nothing. They win a hamper in the raffle. |
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Sunday 25 October We go to Patricia & Tim Arnold's in Priory Crescent for a drinks party. Meet new people. Eat terrific canapés. Jackie & Tom have us to Grange Road for dinner. |
Thursday 9 July We go to Tunbridge Wells to The Chapel and then to Thackerays for lunch. Nothing new there then. |
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Saturday 24 October We go to Glyndebourne for the touring production of Janacek's Jenufa. |
Saturday 4 July Arnold attends the initial event of the Tom Paine & Lewes Festival.
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Friday 23 October In the afternoon (after Arnold's WEA class), we go to The Chapel in Tunbridge Wells to have our hair cut. In the evening we go to Kate & Michael Palmer's where we're joined by their friend Tracy Anderson. (Kate works with Dorothy at the Magistrates' Court in Eastbourne.) |
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Thursday 15 October - Tuesday 20 October:
holiday in France On Thursday, we leave Bertie & Hughie at home in Julia's capable hands, drive 20mins to the Transmanche Ferries in Newhaven and cross to Dieppe (4hrs 30mins). Arriving at 1430 we're able to leave almost immediately and arrive in Chartres just after 1700. We stay at le Parvis hotel just across from Chartres Cathedral in a wildly decorated room (in the "modern" style, circular bed). As usual, Dorothy unpacks and rests while Arnold does a prowl of the streets. Dinner at la Vielle Maison: pretty good confit of duck. We are getting used to 1 Euro = £1. On Friday morning after breakfast we spend time in the Cathedral. It's a dull morning, which doesn't do viewing the stained glass much of a favour. We stroll about the streets and purchase the Gault Millau restaurant guide. We leave about noon for Loches, a medieval town in the Loire valley which we hadn't visited on a previous holiday in the area. After refreshments in the tea rooms we drive to the Hotel Chateau de la Clos de la Ribaudiere in Chasseneuil du Poitou, where we meet Joan & Wil Hastings. (Wil and Arnold friends since the 7th grade; they have been on holiday for 3-4 weeks in France and Spain.) We have our reunion dinner in the hotel. On Saturday, we all drive to nearby Poitiers, where we go to the Samedi marché, visit Notre Dame, have lunch at the Cafe de la Paix (croque monsieur et frites), visit St Hilaire-le-Grande and return to the Ribaudiere. Wil feeling a little under par, we have dinner again in the hotel. On Sunday we circle Poitiers to the south and finish in St Benoit where we have a sparkling lunch at Passions & Gourmandises. That does Sunday. For supper, we have cheese and wine in Wil & Joan's room. On Monday we drive east and visit Chauvigny, St Sauvin and Angles-sur-Anglin, before having our farewell dinner at le Poitevin in Poitiers. We say goodbye to Joan & Wil.
Early Tuesday, we drive to Rouen by motorway (400km in 4 hrs), and have lunch at the splendid Restaurant Gill (roget and some actual vegetables, albeit in nouvelle cuisine quantity), after which we shop at the Auchan in Dieppe and then board the ferry for home, arriving before 10pm to find Bertie, Hughie and Julia in good shape. |
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Saturday 10 October We celebrate Dorothy's [??th] birthday with dinner at The Jolly Sportsman in East Chiltington. Our first visit there in 6 months: alas no more 2-for-the-price-of-1 meals. See, for example, 8 April. (And they are all but packed out.) |
Friday 3 July Brett Goldman leaves for his flight home to Houston, at the end of his first trip to Europe: Madrid, Paris, Rome, London and Lewes. [He arrives safely.] Arnold participates in the internal validation of the Lung Cancer Tumour Group of the Sussex Cancer Network. ("Validation": just like the old days with CNAA.) |
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Tuesday 6 October After our six months' - and finally successful - negotiation with Lewes District Planning Authority, a&s ltd install a satellite dish and connect it to a Humax FOXSAT - and connect it to our new Samsung HD LED TV and Philips DVD. With Freesat HD, we're now back to where we were in reception when we left Cowbeech in April 2008: many channels instead of just four. Mind you, many of them are trying to sell us something - but I suppose in a way all are. |
Thursday 2 July Brett having gone to and returned from Paris, where he took in a pop concert, we have dinner at the Real Eating Company in Lewes. |
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Sunday 4 October Arnold wins Week 4 of the "family" bet-on-who-will-win the weekend's American football games pool. Eat your hearts out brother Bob, nephews Peter, Scott, Brett and 4 others - and you so much closer to "the action". |
JUNE 2009 | |||||
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Saturday 3 October Moira & Goff Bowles from Cowbeech join us for supper,
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Monday 29 June Brett returns from Litlington, having spent Saturday in London and Sunday with Nick & Co. in Cambridge, where he saw colleges and went punting. In the evening we take him to dinner at the Spice Merchant (Indian restaurant) in Lewes. Afterwards, he leave for a pop concert in Paris. |
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| SEPTEMBER 2009 |
Sunday 28 June We go to the annual WEA Lewes drinks party that the Committee give for the tutors. |
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Wednesday 30 September Arnold attends the AGM of Age Concern East Sussex. |
Saturday
27 June We have dinner at Joyce Barlow & Richard Kemp's, who live around two corners from us. They were educational development colleagues of Arnold's in time past. |
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Sunday 27 September We walk to Linda & Willie Lamont's for drinks and things. We're joined by Ann Yates, Nat & Larry Lerner and Robin & Pat Charlton. It it's a sunny, warm summer day. |
Friday 26 June After breakfast, Nick, Cathy & Evan leave for the Sussex v. Australia cricket "tour match" in "Hove, actually" (i.e., not Brighton). The weather is fine - rain had been predicted. Arnold teaches his last U3A class on Major American Documents - on the inaugural addresses of Roosevelt (1933), Kennedy (1961) and Obama (2009) - after which...
Alfriston, "High & Over" on the South Downs, the coast at
Seaford, and home via Newhaven. Brett takes photos. |
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Saturday 26 September Tom, Oscar and Arnold go to The Dripping Pan to watch Lewes F.C. play Leatherhead in the FA Cup. Final score: 1-1. Lewes can't even beat a club two leagues lower than its. Sigh. |
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Thursday 24 September Arnold has lunch with Gerry Bonnick before he attends the ESDW PCT AGM. |
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Wednesday 23 September We drive to Benenden School - girls, boarding - near Cranbrook, Kent, where we train pupils in how to present themselves at interview, should they be fortunate enought to be invited for one at Oxford or Cambridge. |
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Friday 18 September - Sunday 20 September OK&N appear again after school, Julia (house/pet sitter arrives), Jackie collects her children and we leave for the Solent Hotel near Farnham in Hampshire where we have dinner in the Terrace restaurant. On Saturday, after breakfast, we drive through Botley to Northington Grange (English Heritage) - where we are the only people viewing.
We drive to Winchester for window shopping
and eat M&S sushi and smoothies on the Cathedral lawn.
We return to the Solent Hotel via Bishops
Waltham.
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Thursday 25 June Brett Goldman arrives from Madrid, where he's been studying. Arnold shows Brett Lewes, takes him to the King's Head, our "local". Natalie joins us for dinner and Jackie, Oscar & Katie come on after Katie's appearance in the school play of Robin Hood - Katie: a villager. We cross the road to the Southover Grange Gardens to watch the Rotary Club skittles competition. Nick, Cathy & Evan join us and also stay over - see tomorrow. (Tom is held up in London, slaving over the White Paper which his Government department - Children, Schools and Families - will issue on 30 June.) |
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Wednesday 24 June Ann & Geoff Yates come for lunch. Arnold and Geoff walk Bertie through the Priory Gardens and Convent Fields. |
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Sunday 14 June Jackie joins us to visit various Southover open gardens, an event organised by the Southover Bonfire Society. In the evening Arnold goes to the Summer Concert of the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra. |
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Saturday 13 June Arnold is on duty at the Lewes District Seniors' Forum stand at the Rotary Club of Lewes Castle's Lewes Carnival. |
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Sunday 7 June 50 come to drinks&nibbles at Eastport Lane. Oscar acts as doorman, Katie & Natalie serve nibbles, Tom serves drinks, washes up. (Jackie's confined to barracks supervising the tiler.) |
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Friday 5 June We go to Tunbridge Wells to The Chapel and then to Thackerays for lunch. |
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| MAY 2009 | ||||||
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Thursday 17 September We drive to Tunbridge Wells, have hair cut et al. at The Chapel and have lunch at Wagamama. Returning to Lewes, we look after Oscar, Katie & Natalie until their parents return from work. (Their Czech au pair Annie is in Russia) |
Sunday 31 May We go to Paul Lucas's in Eastbourne to hear Faronel in a concert of medieval and renaissance music for the Friends of the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra. |
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Wednesday 16 September We drive to The Grove in Chandler's Cross, Hertfordshire to meet Arnold's brother Bob, who'd flown in the day before from Houston for two days of meetings. We have dinner in Colette's, which deserves at least its Good Food Guide rating. (Arnold recommended a "6".) |
Friday 29 May We have drinks at neighbour Moya Weatherstone's, in her amazing "secret garden". |
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Saturday 12 September Arnold goes to an alumni reunion at Sussex University for students who attended the university in the early 1970s, when he taught there. He meets, inter alia, Dave Feintuck - who reminds him of Baldry v Feintuck and others (the famous student union "ultra vires" case), Helen Zarod and Jane Samsworth neé Brodie, to whom he taught American literature in 1972. |
Thursday 28 May Arnold takes Oscar Katie & Natalie (on half-term) to see Coraline, in Brighton, in 3D. It's Arnold's first 3D film since House of Wax. |
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Thursday 10 September Dorothy has lunch chez Claire Aitken with the usual suspects (less Hilary Newman), being Dorothy Carpenter, Sue Hanley, Linn Lee and Jutta Wrobel. |
Sunday 24 May We have drinks in the garden at Rachel & David Powell's. Rachel's attending Dorothy's Lewes U3A course and David, Arnold's - Arnold having attended his lectures on Thomas Paine. David wrote Tom Paine, the Greatest Exile. |
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Sunday 6
September We drive to Penshurst in Kent for lunch at Linn & James Lee's, where we also meet Pippa Cross & Graham Lee (our friends from Cowbeech - no relation to our hosts), Juliet & John Lee (daugher-in-law and son of the house) and Marjorie & Paul Sellers. Paul created - inter alia - Dingbats. |
Saturday 23 May We go to the Charleston Festival to hear Jenny Uglow and Richard Holmes. We moved to Lewes one year ago today. To remind ourselves of how we ate a year ago, we get shashlik kebab takeaways for dinner. |
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Saturday 5
September Arnold and Oscar go to see Lewes Rooks play at The Dripping Pan. Lewes 0 - Basingstoke 0. |
Friday 22 May Arnold goes to the Charleston Festival for Doris Kearns Goodwin's lecture on Abraham Lincoln. He asks question; gets good response. |
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Friday 4 September We drive to Langton Green in Kent for lunch with Hilary & George Newman. We bring the lunch, as Hilary is just back from hospital with a new hip. She walks, stickless. |
Wednesday 20 May
We go to the Charleston Festival to hear Lynne Truss, Kate Atkinson and Jeanette Winterson read from Midsummer Nights, which the latter edited for the 75th anniversary of nearby Glyndebourne. |
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Wednesday 2 September Greener Homes pump Rockwool into the cavity walls of the extensions at 24 Eastport Lane. At no cost - government scheme for the over 70s, like Arnold. A warm and cozy winter, then. (We had been attempting to get this in place since we moved. A previous company took a look at the house and left; Greener Homes, v. efficient, has replaced it. No wonder.
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| AUGUST 2009 |
Sunday 17 May Maureen & Horst Kollrepp come down (with difficulty) from London for lunch - blame Railtrack - or whatever it's called. Their first visit to us in Lewes. A rainy day but we renew the friendship made on a canal barge in Dijon in 2001 and manage a walk in the Southover Grange Gardens. |
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Monday 31 August We drive with Bertie to Heathfield for le Marché - Heathfield is twinned with Forges-les-Eaux. We buy 1kg ail fumé - which will perfume the utility room for months - figues et miel de Provence. And in UK food: smoked mussels, goat sausages and apricot sausages. We note that living in Lewes gives us easier access to much of what is available at this market than we had when in Cowbeech. On leaving, we buy a new steam iron and a new Dyson carpet cleaner at Kensington Appliances (where we bought most of our Lewes kitchen equipment). |
Saturday 16 May Arnold and Tom go to the Charleston Festival and hear Vince Cable, Robert Skidelsky and Will Hutton discuss John Maynard Keynes and the contemporary economic situation. |
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Sunday 30 August We go to Paul Lucas's home in Eastbourne for a piano recital by Robert Milnes of Chopin and Liszt - including St Francis preaching to the birds. Paul is president of the Eastbourne Symphony Orchestra, whose webmaster Arnold is. |
Thursday 14 May We go to the "Mayor-making" event in Lewes Town Hall and rub shoulders with the (other) movers and shakers in the town. (Believe it.) |
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Friday 28 August We go to Hankham for drinks on the occasion of the retirement of two of Dorothy's magistrate colleagues on the East Sussex Bench. |
Sunday 10 May We see the new Star Trek movie at the Uckfield Picture House. We always thought that Sylar was good in Heroes - and so he is here, as the young (and conflicted) Spock. |
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Thursday 27 August In the evening we go to Joy Preston's for drinks where we meet her friends including Norman Mackenzie, whom we've not seen for almost 35 years. Norman and Arnold were colleagues at Sussex University and Dorothy worked on particular projects for Norman. |
Saturday 9 May Nick Cathy & Evan arrive from Litlington in the afternoon. (Alice is on a mystery tour with her boyfriend Ollie.) After a walk in the Priory Gardens and Southover Grange Gardens, we all go to Tom & Jackie's for dinner. NCE & Poppy return to Litlington, Poppy's fortnight work experience being completed. (On Thursday, she watched Dorothy chairing a Magistrate's Court and there was a debriefing afterwards (over lunch at Bibendum). |
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Wednesday 26 August With Evan and Bertie we drive to Normans Bay, collect Alice & Ollie from the camping site and drive to Litlington, where we have lunch with Nick, Cathy & Poppy. Afterwards, we return to Lewes. |
Monday 4 May (Bank Holiday) On a poor day for weather, we go with Poppy to Wellingham Herb Garden outside Lewes, but it soon drizzles and we come home with nothing but a chocolate cake. |
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Tuesday 25 August Dorothy and Evan visit Lewes Castle. In the afternoon, Arnold and Evan walk on the South Downs with Geoff Yates. |
Sunday 3 May In the morning, after the usual Waitrose and boot sale shopping, we're joined by Tom Jackie Katie & Natalie. (Oscar's in scout camp.) We take the train from Lewes to Glynde and walk back (2 1/2mi) over the South Downs. But first, Katie throws a wobbly and Jackie takes her back to Lewes by train.
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Monday 24 August We take Evan to Drusilla's Zoo Park (where we first took his dad in the 1960s) and afterwards to The Ram Inn in Firle for lunch. |
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Sunday 23 August After pancake breakfast, Arnold and Nick take Alice and Ollie to Normans Bay where they're camping. Lunch for A&D, NCPE and TJOKN in Southover Grange Gardens across the lane. Nick Cathy & Poppy return to Litlington, leaving Evan with us.
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Saturday 2 May In the morning, Arnold is on duty at the Lewes District Seniors' Forum stall at Lewes Farmers' Market; Dorothy, Poppy & Bertie have coffee (well, not Bertie) at Bill's.
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Saturday 22 August Poppy arrives from Mahon via Gatwick. Tom Jackie Oscar Katie & Natalie join us for lunch. Ann & Geoff Yates drop by. Nick Cathy Alice Evan and Alice's boyfriend Ollie arrive. Dorothy serves moussaka for eight. Arnold Nick Cathy Jackie & Tom go to The Swan on Southover High Street. |
Thursday
30 April We have hair seen to at The Chapel in Tunbridge Wells. In the evening we have dinner (with Poppy) at Spice Merchants in Lewes. |
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Sunday 16 August We have dinner at 35 Grange Road with Tom Jackie Oscar Katie & Natalie. Afterwards, Dorothy watches one TV while Arnold Jackie & Oscar watch Ms Ennis win the heptathalon and Usain Bolt set another world record for the 100ms. |
Sunday 26 April Nick and Poppy arrive. Poppy's staying with us for two weeks while she's on work experience at Lewes Crown Court and Eastbourne Magistrate's Court. After dinner, Nick returns to Litlington. |
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Friday 14 August We look after Oscar Katie & Natalie while their parents are at work and their au pair, Annie, just engaged, is scouting for a wedding venue. Arnold, Oscar and Natalie walk Bertie to Posh Paws for his fur-cut. Dorothy makes macaroni cheese for lunch, after which Arnold and children go to the Picture House in Uckfield to see G-Force. |
Sunday 19 April We go to the Picture House in Uckfield and see In the Loop. |
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Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 August We leave the pets with Julia, our new house&pet sitter, drive to Arundel in West Sussex, then Slindon (for Mr Upton's courgettes, squashes, etc), then Lavant, where we have lunch at the Earl of March. After this, we drive around uselessly looking for the Goodwood Farm Shop, then return to Rooks Hill B&B. After resting, we drive to the Chichester Festival Theatre to see Oklahoma! - then return to the B&B. In the morning, we shop in Chichester, Arnold visits the Scottie Wilson exhibition at the Pallant Gallery and we return to the CTF for ENRON. We return to a contented Bertie & Hughie.
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Saturday 18 April Arnold goes to the Mayor of Lewes's high tea for older people in the Town Hall, while Dorothy visits Ann Yates, home from hospital. |
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Friday 17 April Moira & Goff Bowles come from Cowbeech for lunch. |
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Tuesday 11 August We have lunch at Wagamama in Tunbridge Wells, followed by having our hair cut, et al. at The Chapel. |
Saturday 11 April In the afternoon, we drive to Brighton. Dorothy visits Ann Yates in hospital (suspected pneumonia) and Arnold walks Bertie on the front. In the evening, we walk to the Royal Oak for a recital of Weill & Brecht songs by Adrienne Thomas. We're joined by our friends Joyce Barlow & Richard Kemp. |
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