Dorothy & Arnold |
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| WHAT WE ARE
READING Dorothy: Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not (Carcanet edition); Kathy Reichs, Spider Bones; Michael Dobbs, The Touch of Innocents Arnold: James Joyce, Ulysses and related critical books [preparing for Reading Ulysses]; John Lanchester, Capital |
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| WHAT WE ARE WATCHING - OR RECORDING - on TV THIS WEEK - Desperate Housewives; Scott and Bailey; The Good Wife | ||||||
REGULAR COMMITMENTS - meetings of which are not ordinarily
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| MAY 2012 | NOVEMBER 2011 (concluded) | |||||
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Sunday
13 May We go to the All Saints Arts Centre for Pirates: an Adventure with Scientists. |
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November We collect Oscar and drive to Brighton for pre-theatre dinner at Carluccio's. Tom joins us. We all go to see the revival of the 1992 Daldry NT production of An Inspector Calls. We discuss it on the trip home. |
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Saturday
12 May We go with Bertie to the Priory Gardens for the Southover Bonfire Society's May Fayre. Tom Jackie Oscar & Natalie come. (Katie stays home.) Arnold eats a Boathouse venison & cranberry burger. |
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Wednesday 5 May Arnold goes to The Volunteer pub for the monthly @LewesTweetUp. |
OCTOBER 2011 | |||||
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Saturday
5 May - Monday 7 May We drive to Portsmouth and take the ferry to the Isle of Wight - our first time ever on the IOW. We go first to Carisbrooke Castle and then to Robert Thompson's The Hambrough, Ventnor, where we have dinner (5 courses), quite extraordinary, and stay the night. On Sunday we drive to Dimbola Museum & Galleries in Freshwater Bay, to see the home and workplace of the Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron. Afterwards we visit the remains of Appledurham House. Then back to The Hamborough to rest up for another fine dinner. On Monday we visit The Garlic Farm and then Queen Victoria's home at Osborne House. On the way back to the ferry we stop at the Ventnor Botanical Artists' summer exhibition and purchase a watercolour of Victoria plums. Home by 5pm, relieving Julia Taylor from her duties guarding Bertie, Hughie and the house. |
Monday 31 October We have dinner at The Kings Head with Delia & John Venables. (@arnoldgoldman tweets his menu.) |
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Saturday 29 October We put Poppy & Evan on the 9.50am train for London (their parents are now home) Arnold goes to see Lewes FC play AFC Hornchurch. In the evening, we go to the Priory School to see Oscar act in the Synergy production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. |
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Friday 28 October TJKN join us (& P&E) for dinner - Arnold slow-cooks a leg of lamb with garlic & anchovies. (O is still performing in The Crucible.) |
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Friday
4 May We go to the private viewing of Tom Homewood's show at Flint. The shop is crowded out, many paintings and drawings of Lewes, Tom's dogs, old people often with pints, trees sold. (We own trees and a Lewes street scene.) |
Thursday 27 October Arnold chairs the Lewes U3A Annual General Meeting. After it, the Executive Committee re-elects him chairman, for 2011/12. Tom takes Evan & OKN to see Tin Tin. In the evening, Poppy & Evan go to see Arthur Miller's The Crucible at the Priory School. Their cousin Oscar has a part. Arnold and Dorothy visit Jill & Ted Pelling-Fulford on Grange Road, where they're joined by others of Jill & Ted's friends. |
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Tuesday 1 May We go to Anne & Geoff Yates's in Kingston for lunch. We've done this each month, at their house or ours, since 1997. |
Wednesday 26 October Arnold goes with Poppy to London where she meets Richard de Friend, the director of the College of Law in Bloomsbury. More about law. Afterwards they all have coffee together. Then Poppy & Arnold walk to the National Portrait Gallery and visit the more contemporary galleries, after which they walk back to Chinatown for dinner at Mr Kong. They end up walking all the way to Victoria Station for the Lewes train, as the Circle Line service is disrupted. |
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Monday 31 April We go to our neighbour Tom Homewood's to see the paintings and drawings he is preparing for his Lewes show. |
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Saturday 28 April Arnold goes to the last Lewes FC match of the season. Lewes wins (4-2) but just fails to gain a playoff place. |
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Sunday 22 April @mrmzholland (Matt) comes over in the afternoon for coffee and (actual live non-tweeting) conversation with @arnoldgoldman. Matt is the concierge of @lewestweetup. @arnoldgoldman is on a learning curve - he hopes. |
Tuesday 25 October, Dorothy takes Poppy to Langford Green near Tunbridge Wells to meet Sir George Newman (High Court judge), for her to learn more about the law. (She has done legal work experience twice.) Dorothy has coffee with Hilary Newman. Evan joins his cousins OKN on Grange Road. J takes OKN & Evan to Brighton to shop. In the evening, we go to Glyndebourne and join Ann & Geoff Yates to see the GTO production of Handel's Rinaldo. The Yateses provide a picnic meal. | |||||
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Saturday 14 April With other members of the Suss-Ex Club, we go to the Theatre Royal, Brighton, where we see a matinee performance of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van with Nicola Macauliffe as the near-eponymous lady. |
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Friday 13 April Arnold fronts the University of Sussex 50th Anniversary DVD "A Golden Opportunity" at a showing for members of the Suss-Ex Club. We go to Joan Holkar's birthday party at Pelham House, to celebrate with many of her family and her and Eddie's friends. Joan is Hon. Sec. of Lewes U3A, which Arnold chairs. |
Monday 24 October After his Lewes U3A jazz class - Prof. John Postgate on jazz pianists - Arnold collects Poppy & Evan off the train from London. (Sister Alice is in Oxford.) Their parents are off on a mystery trip to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. [We later learn it's to Iceland, presumably to see Northern Lights.] |
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Wednesday 9 April |
Sunday 23 October We have lunch at Utta & Michael Wrobel's in Wadhurst, with other of their friends. |
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Tuesday 9 April Arnold goes to Westgate Chapel to discuss Rev. Comfort Star (c. 1700) with Rev. Andie Camper (current incumbent). It is an assignment given to Arnold by Prof. Roy Macleod. |
Saturday 22 October Arnold and Tom watch @Lewes_cfc beat Cray Wanderers 2-1 at The Dripping Pan. Arnold is taking seriously his membership and ownership of one share in Lewes Football Club, a 75th birthday gift from Tom Jackie Oscar Katie & Natalie. |
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Monday
9 April Arnold goes to The Dripping Pan and sees Lewes FC beat Hastings United 2-1. Lewes are attempting to get into the promotion playoffs. |
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Saturday 7 April Tom Jackie Oscar Katie & Natalie come for dinner. Arnold has slow-cooked a lamb shoulder and roast potatoes. Dorothy cooks the veg. Dessert is a raspberry pavlova from Cook. |
Friday
21 October We have lunch at @LimetreeKitchen on Station Street, attend the private showing of Tom Homewood's paintings and sketches at Flint on the High Street in Lewes and then have drinks and a mixed meat and cheese platter at @Symposium_Wine on Lansdown Place. (Earlier in the week, Tom (our neighbour) showed us what would be exhibited: we purchased a Lewes (High) street scene, which will go near Tom's painting of two Southover Grange Gardens magnolia trees above our bed. (It's all twitter-ese now, those @s.) |
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Friday 6 April We drive to Tunbridge Wells and have hair cut etc at The Chapel. Not having booked a lunch, we return hom and eat out at the Kings Head in the evening. |
Thursday 20 October Arnold hears Jane Irons lecture at Lewes Town Hall Council Chamber on Gothic Follies: Strawberry Hill and Northanger Abbey, a public Lewes Lecture of Lewes U3A. Some 75 people are in the audience. (We visited Strawberry Hill House on 16 August.) |
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Wednesday 5 April Arnold goes to the Pelham Arms and joins some 30 other tweeters for an @LewesTweetUp meeting - well, drinking. He drinks lemonade, after overindulgence on 22 March. (Tom Goldman: surely a category error. At least, speak in max. 140-character bursts.) |
Sunday 16 October We go for drinks at Susan & Asa Briggs's at the foot of Keere Street and meet many of their friends. Very pleased to see Norman Mackenzie recovered from recent hospitalisation. In the afternoon Arnold and Bertie watch Lewes Ladies FC beat Luton 7-1 at The Pan. Their 9th consecutive win. |
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Tuesday 3 April Arnold and Katie take the train from Lewes to London Road (Brighton) and go to the Duke of York's to see The Woman in Black. Daniel Radcliffe. Scary. Much hand-holding. Very sweet. |
Saturday 15 October Tom Jackie Oscar Katie & Natalie come over for dinner, a takeaway from Beijing (the restaurant not the city). To celebrate Dorothy's birthday, as she had a cold on the day itself (10th). (Katie's at a party.) |
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| MARCH 2012 | ||||||
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Saturday
31 March and Sunday 1 April On Saturday, Arnold goes to The Dripping Pan and sees Lewes FC beat Hendon 3-1. On Sunday, he goes with Bertie - as @topdoglewes - to see Lewes Ladies FC beat Cambridge ladies 3-1. LLFC remain undefeated (only one tie) with a goal difference of 92. They are the league champions, promoted to the premier league, and after today's match they receive the champions' cup. |
Sunday 9 October Arnold and Tom watch the last half of a match as Lewes Ladies FC win 7-3 at The Dripping Pan. LLFC are unbeaten in 8 matches and have scored 58 goals to their opponents 6. |
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Tuesday 27 March Ann & Geoff Yates come for lunch. Geoff & Arnold walk Bertie. |
Saturday 8 October We go to a performance of Sweeney_Todd at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Linn & James Lee join us and afterwards we all meet at the vegetarian restaurant Terre a Terre in Brighton for dinner. |
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Thursday 22 March After Arnold and David Powell have a pint at the Kings Head, we have a fine wedding anniversary (49th) dinner at Pelham House Hotel (@pelhamlewes) with cocktails fore and aft by barman Sam Pryor (@ryeandagave). Sam is giving a master class in cocktail making on Thursday 19 April from 7pm. 01273 488600. |
Tuesday 4 October We have lunch at Ann & Geoff Yates's in Kingston. Boston butt is served, sort of in Arnold's honour (though it's pork shoulder, really). Arnold walks Bertie across the South Downs back to Lewes, Geoff accompanying him part of the way. Oldest grandchild Alice goes to university, Hertford College, Oxford.
We go to the opening of Featherbed Barn in Carter's Corner (Cowbeech), a craft+ enterprise founded by two of our friends, Debbie Haffenden and Heather Harper. Courses, stuff to buy: do look at link. |
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Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 March On Saturday, after the meeting of the Sussex Cancer Network Partnership Group (10am-2.30pm!), Arnold delivers the Lewes U3A Summer Term Programme & Newsletter and goes to The Dripping Pan to watch @Lewes_cfc v. Lowestoft. I looks like Lewes will win, but a mistake in the 93rd minute makes it a tied match, 2-2. On Sunday, Arnold (@arnoldgoldman) takes Bertie - in his guise as @TopDogLewes aka TD - to The Pan watch @LewesLadiesFC v. Enfield Town. 5-1 Lewes. Lewes Ladies have now won 17 and drawn 1 match. |
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Wednesday
14 March Arnold goes to hear Terry Hodgson give an excellent lecture on Fools in Shakespeare a Lewes U3A "Lewes Lecture" in the Town Hall. In the evening, as @arnoldgoldman, he joins other Lewes tweeters at the Lansdown for a pub quiz. His team of four comes second, and the winner is the other team of three tweeters (plus one non-twit). #tweetersrule |
Saturday
1 October In the morning we walk to Lewes Farmers' Market, and in the afternoon Arnold and Tom walk to The Dripping Pan to watch Lewes FC ("The Rooks") win 1-0, on a penalty. Nasty ructions from Wealdstone FC supporters, kicking advertising boards. Wealdstone later reckons that it was Lewes's fault, for allowing its supporters access to drink. |
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| SEPTEMBER 2011 | ||||||
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Saturday
10 and Sunday 11 March |
Friday
23 September to Thursday 29 September We have a holiday in Norfolk (Swaffham), Suffolk (Lavenham) and Cambridgeshire (Litlington), leaving Bertie & Hughie (and 24 Eastport Lane) in Julia Taylor's capable hands. On Friday we drive to The Red House (National Trust) in Bexley Heath and after lunch on to Strattons in Swaffham, where we stay for three nights. Dinner each night in the hotel restaurant (GFG "3"). Siamese cat Fluffy in residence. On Saturday, we take in Swaffham Market, Castle Acre Priory (English Heritage) and Oxburgh Hall (NT). On Sunday, we visit Blickling Hall (NT) and Felbrigg Hall (NT). On Monday, we take in Ickworth Rotunda (NT) and drive to Lavenham, where we visit The Guildhall (NT) and check in at The Great House. In the evening we eat at Memsahib. On Tuesday, we visit Orford Quay (NT) and Castle (EH), Snape Maltings and Southwold. (Rather disappointed with Southwold.) Then we have a fine meal at The Great House (GFG "4"). On Wednesday we visit Gainsborough's House in Sudbury and Audley End (EH), after which we drive to Litlington to visit Nick Cathy Alice Poppy & Evan, all of whom are (for a wonder) there. In the evening we all eat at The King William IV in Heydon, which specialises in vegetarian dishes. (A. has "parmesan polenta stack with char-grilled Mediterranean vegetables marinated in pesto and served with a guacamole dressing"; D. has a rack of sticky ribs.) On Thursday, we drive home. All is well. |
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Friday 9 March We walk to the Priory School and see its production of We Will Rock You. Excellent. Oscar has a role and sings in the chorus. |
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Wednesday 7 March Arnold & Bertie - as Top Dog or TD - now @TopDogLewes - walk to The Dripping Pan to watch @lewesladiesfc play Enfield ladies in a cup semi-final. They sit among a group of Lewes tweeters, some of whom (not A.) tweet - state of play, general kibitzing - while the game is in progress, for the benefit of those "on the sofa" at home. 2-1 Lewes. On to final. (At the top of their league, @lewesladiesfc have a record of 16 wins, 1 draw and no losses.) Later in the week, they become champions in their league and are promoted to the top women's soccer league in the country! |
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Tuesday 6 March @arnoldgoldman goes to #lewestweetup at the Snowdrop Inn. Plays Toads. Sadly on losing side. Highlight of match is loss of a "toad" (large thick coin), meaning seven men on hands and knees for about 20 minutes. |
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Saturday
17 September We go with Kay Andrews & Nick Tucker to see the film of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy at The Picture House in Uckfield.
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| FEBRUARY 2012 | ||||||
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Wednesday 28
- Thursday 29 February Julia Taylor (Taylor's Pet Services) comes to look after Bertie & Hughie. We drive two cars (yes) to Tunbridge Wells to have hair cut, etc at The Chapel. Then we drive up to Hotel du Vin and have Big Lunch (read: dinner) and retire to hotel room to rest up. Then we walk to railway station and entrain for Waterloo East and walk to Royal Festival Hall, where we see/hear Randy Newman perform to sellout 2500+ audience of all ages 16+ (we the +++, but among many other +++s). Super. (Tickets were Xmas gift of Nick's & Tom's families.) We return to TW and hotel, sleep over. Next a.m., Dorothy drives off to Crowborough to teach - then later, Wadhurst; A drives home, relieves Julia. Pets have hardly noticed absence. |
Friday 16 September Arnold goes to the Headstrong Club (of which he's now a member) at the Elephant and Castle (Lewes pub) to hear journalist Nick Davies (@bynickdavies) describe his progressively disenchanted relationship with Julian Assange and Wikileaks. (Later tweet reference to Nik Cohen's piece on JA in Sunday's Observer; @headstrongclub and others retweet it. |
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Thursday 15 September We have lunch at the new Limetree Kitchen brasserie on Station Street. @arnoldgoldman describes mussels on Twitter as "succulent". Message retweeted by others: the news gets around. |
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Sunday 26 February We go for drinks to Judith & Ron Henderson's in Wadhurst and meet many of their friends and Dorothy's Wadhurst literature class. (Judith & Ron are students.) It turns out to be their 10th anniversary and Ron's birthday, both earlier kept secret. Catering is by Nicholas and Joanna Savy, soon to open a delicatessen in nearby Henderson premises. |
Sunday 11 September Dinner at Eastport Lane with Kay Andrews, Nick Tucker and Julia Bloomfield, recently moved to Lewes from California. |
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Tuesday 21 February Dorothy goes to lunch at Claire Aitken's near Frant to plan the 2012 women's group holiday week abroad. |
Saturday 10 September Arnold goes to events held to celebrate the University of Sussex's 50th. A number of former students introduce themselves. They enjoyed their time at the University and have had successful careers&lives. Perhaps the spookiest is when a woman recalls that he once interviewed her for a place at the University (he was) wearing a blue PVC waistcoat. When he tells her that many years later he gave the waistcoat to another former student, then a colleague at the University of Kent, Peter Brown, she says, "Peter is my ex-husband". |
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Thursday 16 February Arnold goes to a Lewes U3A open lecture in the Sherrif's Room at the White Hart Hotel by Prof. William Lamont (Willie), on the Diggers 1640-1660. |
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Monday 13 February It is Jackie's birthday, and we walk to Tom Jackie Oscar Katie & Natalie's for dinner, a takeaway from the Panda Garden. Katie has made the birthday cake. Bertie's fish & rice is brought from home and eaten, by him. |
Wednesday 7 September News arrives of the birth of Phoebe Samantha Goldman, daughter of Arnold's brother Bob's son Scott and his wife Felice.
But will Scott and Felice have given sufficient attention to their picks in this week's US professional football Family Pool? We'll see. |
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Sunday 12 February Judy & Colin Brent come for drinks and to show - and leave with us - their detailed research on the history of Eastport Lane. This more than just supplements what our neighbours have told us and goes back much further. |
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Wednesday 8 February Taking Bertie with him, Arnold aka @arnoldgoldman goes to the #LewesTweetUp at the Kings Head (our local). About thirty Lewes tweeters attend. He takes a birthday cake: 3 tweeters are celebrating. Bertie's twitter (and @Lewes_cfc) name is Top Dog, TD for short, but he doesn't (yet?) have a twitter account; @topdog is sadly taken. |
Sunday 4 September We walk to All Saints Centre and see Eileen Atkins's Vita and Virginia, a two-hander acted by Tamar Karpas and Valerie Dent of The Players Collective. Joyce Barlow & Richard Kemp are also there. |
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Friday
3 February Dorothy celebrates Jutta Wrobel's birthday at her house with dozens of Jutta's friends. |
Wednesday 31 August Anne & Geoff Yates come to lunch. Geoff and Arnold walk Bertie. |
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| JANUARY 2012 |
Monday 29 August We go to Le Marché at Heathfield, for smoked garlic, globe artichokes and goat sausages. Traders come over for the day from Forges-les-Eaux in Normandy, Heathfield's twin town. |
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Monday 30 January Prompted by tweeter @bohemiangirl, tweeter @arnoldgoldman goes to Pelham House to hear Edmund de Waal talk about his book The Hare with Amber Eyes. The event is sponsored by the Lewes Monday Literary Club. |
Sunday 28 August We go with Delia & John Venables to see One Man, Two Guvnors at the National Theatre.
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Sunday
29 January We go to Janet & Peter Hammond's for drinks at Southover Cottage and meet their and many of our friends. People mention having been at the Shakespeare discussion which Arnold chaired on 15 January. In the evening, we have dinner at Tom Jackie Oscar Katie & Natalie's. Pork roast and all the fixings. |
Thursday
25 August We have lunch at Gravetye Manor
and afterwards visit Standen, a National Trust house, very William Morris-influenced (if not exteriorly)
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Saturday 28 January Arnold, as member/owner, goes - without Top Dog aka Bertie* - to the Dripping Pan for the second half of @Lewes_cfc v. Canvey Island. Sadly, Lewes 1-Canvey Island 2. Lewes is losing grip: new manager hasn't turned it round. Yet? *Bertie, though wearing his Lewes Rooks strip was turned away at the gate - Security: "Director" says no" - from the Lewes-Eastbourne match on Wednesday 25 January. Eastbourne won. Hasn't Lewes seen the implication? |
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Sunday
22 January We go to Sally & Jerry Noble's in Upper Dicker for lunch, joined by Kate & Michael Palmer. Jerry and Dorothy were trustees together in Wealden Citizens Advice (D still) and magistrates together in Eastbourne (J still), Kate their officer. |
Thursday
18 August Arnold takes Oscar Katie & Natalie on the train to London Road Brighton to see Arrietty at The Duke of York's Picturehouse at Preston Circus. (Arnold purchases and reads Mary Norton's The Borrowers beforehand.)
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Wednesday 18 January In the evening Arnold goes to a meeting of Skeptics in the Pub (@skepticsinthepub) at the Lewes Elly (Elephant & Castle) to hear a talk about cancer and quackery. |
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Tuesday 17 January We go to Nutley and have lunch at Anne & Greville Rumble's. Dorothy and Greville were formerly colleagues at the Open University. He took one of Arnold's WEA courses last autumn and is currently one of Dorothy's Crowborough students. |
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Monday 16 January We go to Anne & Geoff Yates's in Kingston for lunch. Geoff & Arnold walk Bertie on The Downs. We do this each month either at theirs or ours. |
Tuesday
16 August
(We'd previously cancelled two visits: the first time it snowed, the second we had flu.) Well worth visiting, especially during its reconstruction/renovation phase. |
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Sunday 15 January Arnold chairs a discussion of "Who Was Shakespeare" at the All Saints Arts Centre after the Lewes Cinema showing of the film Anonymous, in which the 17th Earl of Oxford writes Shakespeare's plays and poems. He has prevailed upon four professors (Hadfield, Healy, Lamont & Lerner) to comprise a panel. The panel makes initial statements and questions are fielded from the (large) audience. Lewes U3A is the event sponsor. Afterwards he joins Profs Hadfield & Healy at the Lansdown Arms. |
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Saturday 14 January Arnold goes to see the exhibition of Chris Drury's environmental art at the Railway Land Centre. Chris is our Eastport Lane neigbour. In the evening we go to Cowbeech to see "at the Cowbeech Coliseum" (the Merrie Harriers) What the Romans Nearly Did for Cowbeech (the annual pantomime). Many former neighbours and (still) friends take part in production/direction/music/prompting/acting.
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Monday 8 August Ann & Geoff Yates, invited by a member of the Glyndebourne orchestra, take Arnold to Glyndebourne for the dress rehearsal of Britten's Turn of the Screw. It's as though they are performing just for you. Very spooky performance (nothing new there then). Arnold thinks that Britten's Peter Quint is a rather W.B. Yeats-like unquiet spirit needing company to survive or to be succeeded - ethics, "evil", aside, that is. Miles might provide this but doesn't, thanks (!) to the Governess winning him over at the last ("Peter Quint, you devil"). Not necessarily a good thing, let alone that it kills Miles. See WBY, Purgatory. And, esp. re: Quint, see review by Richard Morrison in The Times (Saturday 13 August 2011). |
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Monday
9 January Liz & Peter Brooker come for drinks. They recently moved to Ringmer. The connection was made by Joyce & Len Berkman of Amherst, Massachusetts, our and their friends. |
Sunday 7 August We drive to Cowbeech for Dig for Victory, the annual village show and fete. We meet many former neighbours and (current) friends. Bertie enters - to be fair, is entered into - "the dog you'd most like to take home" competition. Doesn't win. We take him home. |
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Monday
2 January Arnold goes to the Dripping Pan to see @Lewes_cfc play Horsham (Lewes 1 - Horsham 1 on a last second of play goal by Horsham). Bertie is allowed in, wearing his Rooks strip - a Christmas gift, crocheted by Sally Wallis in Cowbeech. The attendance is tweeted as "1005 and 1 dog". |
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Friday 30 December We go to Pat & Robin Charlton's for drinks, meet their friends and some of ours. Their new home on Sun St. |
Friday 5 August Former Cowbeech neighbours Sue & James Pollard come to Lewes. We have lunch at the Real Food Company and coffee back at 24 Eastport Lane. |
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Sunday 25 - Thursday 29 December
On Wednesday, many go to Brighton for the ice skating. In the evening, we get a takeaway from Beijing (restaurant not city) and eat at No. 24. On Thursday, NCAPE return to Litlington. |
Thursday 4 August We join others from the Suss-Ex Club for a pre-theatre dinner at Carluccio's in Brighton and afterwards see Michael Frayn's Alarms and Excursions at the Theatre Royal. |
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Wednesday 27 July Dorothy has lunch with Sue Hanley & Linn Lee at The Huntsman and afterwards they repair to The Chapel in Tunbridge Wells for complimentary attention. |
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Saturday 24 December We go for drinks etc at noon to Delia & John Venables. We meet their neighbour Mary and her doctor son. In the evening we go to our neighbours Ann & Jonathan Thomas for drinks etc and meet a large number of their (and some our) friends. |
Monday 25 July Dorothy has lunch with Hilary Newman at Carluccio's in Tunbridge Wells. |
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Sunday 18 December 44 come to 24 Eastport Lane for drinks & nibbles. |
Saturday 23 July We go to the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark for a performance of Road Show.
While there we meet Stephen Banfield, who was Arnold's colleague when they were both at Keele University and who is now Professor of Music at Bristol University. Stephen is the author of Sondheim's Broadway Musicals. When Arnold recently taught Five Sondheim Musicals for Lewes U3A, he used Stephen's book and corresponded with him. |
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Friday 16 December We go to Tunbridge Wells to have hair cut at The Chapel and then to have lunch at Thackeray's. |
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Wednesday 14 December While Dorothy is out working - teaching her last classes in 2011 - Arnold goes to the Lewes U3A Christmas party. |
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Tuesday 13 December Arnold goes to the Suss-Ex Club Christmas party at the Meeting House, Sussex University, Falmer. In the evening we go to the Lewes Liberal Democrats Christmas party on Southdown Road in Lewes. Dorothy is the card-carrier. |
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Sunday 11 December We go to Featherbed Barn on Cowbeech Hill to see the Christmas sale of crafts. The Barn is run as a craft school by Heather Harper & Debbie Haffenden.
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Tuesday 19 July Arnold joins David Powell and John Tomlinson for drinks at The King's Head. When Dorothy arrives, we have (Arnold's birthday) dinner there. |
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Wednesday
7 December Arnold goes to the Hailsham Pavilion cinema to see Anonymous, the film about the Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford which inter alia shows him as the author of Shakespeare's plays and poems. He takes many notes, in case a Lewes U3A discussion of the film takes place in January at the All Saints Cinema.
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Sunday 17 July On Sunday family (12) are joined at the Pelham House Hotel for Arnold's 75th birthday lunch by Ann & Ian Corbett and Ann & Geoff Yates. There are charades, with many successful quick solutions. All leave for respective homes. Friday 15 July - Saturday 16 July We collect Alice off the 2055 from London, she having left Paris (and her au pair work) that afternoon. Later in the evening, Nick Cathy Poppy & Evan arrive from Litlington (we're already asleep). On Saturday morning, Arnold goes to the Lewes Societies Fair at the Town Hall, to be part of the Lewes U3A stall Dorothy goes to the Brighton Marina with Cathy Poppy Evan Jackie Oscar Katie & Natalie for the morning showing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2. (Poppy: "it's the end of my childhood!") After a late lunch, Evan and Arnold walk Bertie. In the evening we go to Grange Road where Tom has cooked (inter alia) boeuf bourgignon for 12. Our contribution is 2ltr of A&W Root Beer; Cathy's is (home-baked) chocolate bread & butter pudding. There are games including tableaux vivants and call my bluff. |
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Tuesday 6 December Ann & Geoff Yeats come for lunch. Geoff & Arnold walk Bertie. |
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Friday
2 December After Arnold's Four 21st Century American Novels class, he, Greville Rumble (who attends it) and Dorothy go to @LimetreeKitchen on Station St for lunch. Greville and Dorothy were Open University colleagues in the 1990s. |
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| NOVEMBER 2011 | ||||||
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Wednesday 30 November Caught in the rain, Arnold has lunch at @Symposium_Wine in Lansdown Place. Dorothy goes to Christmas dinner with other Wealden Citizens Advice trustees and officers at Marco Pierre White's Wheelers of St James's in The Chequers in Maresfield. Mouthful: repeat fast three times. |
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July We go to the 5th Cowbeech Revels, an event we helped to start seven years ago. At the Revels, Cowbeech residents picnic and entertain each other.
We meet many of our former neighbours. |
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Monday 28 November Arnold has morning coffee and freshly baked blueberry muffins at @SeanMMaddon and @Mufidah Kassalias's flat on the High Street. They are free-lance adult teachers and tweeters. Check them out. |
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Sunday 27 November Arnold & Bertie take in the last 45mins of Lewes Ladies' Football. COYLR! They lose 1-2 to Enfield, first loss in about 19 matches!! Retain 70+ goal difference over opponents. |
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Friday 25 November We have v. good BBQ ribs at The World's End in Brighton with Jennifer Platt & Charles Goldie. We'd read about this BBQ in a review by Jay Rayner in The Observer. |
Thursday 7
July Arnold goes to Lewes Town Hall for the first "consultative event" regarding what to do - if only for an "interim" period - with the derelict former St Anne's special needs school off Rotten Row and the grounds until recently occupied by the St Anne's Diggers. Tetchy. |
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Saturday 19 November Nick Tucker & Kay Andrews drive us to Seaford where we have dinner at Doreen & Les Massey's. |
Monday 4
July We have lunch outdoors at Ann & Geoff Yates's in Kingston (near Lewes). Arnold walks Bertie from home to the Yateses and from there (after lunch) back home, Geoff accompanying them part-way back. |
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Saturday 12 November We go with Jackie Tom & Natalie to a crafts exhibition in Lewes Town Hall. Arnold watches the last half of Lewes FC v. Bury (1-1) at the Dripping Pan. With Kay Andrews & Nick Tucker we drive to the Uckfield Picture House and see George Clooney's The Ides of March. Afterwards we all have supper at Eastport Lane. |
Saturday 2 July We go to Chichester Festival Theatre and see the revival of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls. Mary Ann & Dave Gordon from Cowbeech are there, too. Afterwards we stop in Brighton and eat at Terre a Terre. |
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Friday 11 November After a meeting of the Suss-Ex Club steering group, Arnold hears Kay Andrews talk about the work of English Heritage, after which those there have a buffet supper. |
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Thursday
2 November Along with Ann Yates, we drive to Benenden School in Kent to prepare pupils for being interviewed for university places. Also on Monday 7 November (just DG & AG). |
Thursday 30 June Dorothy has lunch with friends at Jutta Wrobel's in Wadhurst. |
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Wednesday
2 November We have lunch with Judith & David Jupp at Thackeray's in Tunbridge Wells. J&D are en route from Beynac (Dordogne) to Wales. Less of a journey for us. In the evening Arnold goes to the Pelham Arms for the monthly meeting (read drinks) #LewesTweetUp. (Get with it!) Meets interesting tweeters, becomes their Follower, they his. (Get with it!) |
Tuesday 28 June Paul Myles has morning coffee at 24 Eastport Lane. |
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Monday
27 June Dorothy has lunch with Greville Rumble at the Coach & Horses in Danehill. They were colleagues in the Open University in the 1990s. |
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