Community Infrastructure Levy Report 2021-22
Draft Annual Accounts 2021/22
HS Spring Supper Talk
The Spring Supper Talkis next Wednesday 13th. April 6.30 pm for 7.00pm
‘From City Courtyard to Seaside Sanctuary’
Speaker: Geoff Stonebanks
Tickets are limited to 40 but there are still some left. Please contact Kathy Cracknell by email or phone 01825 830616 ASAP if you wish to enjoy this village evening of an excellent meal, glass of wine and an extremely interesting illustrated talk on a very special Sussex garden.
£8 each members only.
Telephone Box Book Exchange
The Parish Council has agreed that our village ex telephone box at the top of Hut Lane can be used as a book and magazine exchange – the firstdonations are now on the shelves so please go and take a look.
All bookworms are welcome to use the new BOOK EXCHANGE that is open 24/7!
Please just take the book of your choice and and leave behind another, in good condition, if possible.
If just passing through and have no book to replace one taken then still just help yourself.
Please just take the book of your choice and and leave behind another, in good condition, if possible.
If just passing through and have no book to replace one taken then still just help yourself.
Just enjoy reading!!!
Please do not leave donated books on the floor if the shelves are full.
Hadlow Down Book Club Review – April
‘A lot of women are really strong, even though they are slaves.’
Celestial Bodies iby Jonka Alharti
Some months ago we read Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger, a detailed factual account of his travels and relationships with the Bedouin tribesmen across the desert and is entirely about the men. Our February book was one that redressed the balance being about three generations of Omani women in a period of transition from patriarchy to living in an oil-rich Gulf state. Celestial Bodies is by Jonka Alharti, published in 2010 and winner of the Man Booker International prize in 2019, the first Omani writer to be translated into English.
A267 & B2102 Safer Junction Petition
Although not actually part of the village many Hadlow Down residents travel through this junction every day and lots more less often.
I’m sure everyone is aware of the high number of accidents that have been reported over the last few years involving traffic entering or exiting the Blackboys Road as well as those involving entering or exiting the petrol station.
Following the death of a pedestrian on Tuesday 22nd March a petition to ESCC via 38 Degrees has been started and you may wish to follow the link and sign if you feel the junction should be made safer.
Minutes, Agenda & Councillor updates for HD PC meeting 5th April 2022
Members Turn Out for Horticultural Society AGM
There was a good turnout of members for this year’s Horticultural Society AGM held in the Village Hall this morning (29/3/22)
The chair was taken by Kathy Cracknell in the absence of Heather Mines due to illness. Thanks were proposed to retiring members of the committee, Peter Noble, who has done an excellent job over the past few years as treasurer and Penny Eliot who has managed the Annual Show for many years. Kathy has taken on the task of managing this year’s show. as well as continuing in her role as Membership Secretary.
An interesting programme has been drawn up for this year including the traditional two supper talks, the first being on Wednesday13th. April. The illustrated talk will be ‘From City Courtyard to Seaside Sanctuary’ by Geoff Stonebanks to whose wonderfully interesting garden ‘Driftwood’ a group car visit has been arranged for members on Thursday 16th. June. 
The Autumn Supper talk will be ‘The Importance of Wildlife Ponds in Our Environment’ by ‘Pete the Pond’.
As well as the group car visit to ‘Driftwood’ there will be another to Merriments Garden in July.
This years annual Show will take place on Saturday 6th. August.
Full details of the show Categories, Rules and Entry Forms will be available to see and download here, on the Hort.Soc’s village web page shortly.
Future activity programmes will be compiled by the collective committee.
More contact details can be found on the HS Village web page:
http://www.hadlowdown.com/category/village-life/clubs-and-societies/horticultural-society/
or Contact Kathy for membership details etc on 01825 830616
kathy.cracknell48 @gmail.com
ST MARK’S CHURCH NEWS -April 2022
In the ecclesiastical year we are now into Lent, for Christians a time of abstinence and contemplation. We remember Christ’s temptation in the wilderness, His death on the Cross and then His glorious resurrection on Easter Day. Continue reading “ST MARK’S CHURCH NEWS -April 2022”