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Model Railways Plus & Bus Running Sunday – 5th & 6th August 2023
Here is the official poster for the independent, small budget British made film which includes scenes shot in the New Inn Haflow Down with upcoming and seasoned actresses & actors, amazing local crew, artistic & incredibly hardworking MUA’s, Kent & Sussex locations, the best vintage car owners, many volunteers and supporting a much needed local charity – Family Matters. We are so proud to have reached this point. Follow us for trailers & information on the Premiere.
Click on the link to watch trailer https://fb.watch/lnPnDSj6hi/
This month we have been reading The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (2022). Recommended by BBC2’s ‘Between the Covers’, we found it to somewhat of a ‘Marmite’ book.
It is set during the real-life dancing mania of 1518 in Strasbourg when hundreds of women joined in a dance, without stopping despite hunger and bleeding feet, part of a mania that occurred in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It is narrated through the eyes of Lisbet, a farmer’s wife heavily with her thirteenth child, having lost the previous twelve. The whole region is suffering from famine due to the drought and the blistering hot summer. It is also suffering from the oppression of a tyrannical Authority controlled by a corrupt and powerful Church. Lisbet is in a loveless marriage and desperate to bear this baby successfully. She is a lonely figure surrounded by mysteries – what sin was her sister-in-law Agnethe guilty of that she was sent away to a monastery for seven years and has now returned emaciated and with a scarred shaven head? Why is Ida, Lisbet’s best friend behaving so oddly? Why is Sophe her mother-in-law so grim? Continue reading “Hadlow Down Book Club Review – July”
Summer is here! And our successful Pop-up suppers return to the Pavilion at the Playing Field.
We hope you will join us for a 3-course meal in good company and raise funds for the Playing Field at the same time.
Bring your own drinks – everything else is provided.
When the weather is fine, tables are set out on the veranda.
If you have any special dietary requirement, please let us know when booking. To book please call Glenys on 01825 830857.
Three courses for £20.
Dates are:
Peter was born and raised in Tooting, South London and had a long and successful career as a bank manager before moving to Hadlow Down after taking early retirement, later moving to Buxted.
Along with others residing in the village he was a founder member of the Sussex Egyptology Society being a keen Egyptologist he visited Egypt on archaeological trips fourteen times. Continue reading “Noble, Peter (29th. September 1939 – 23rd May 2023)”
It is with sadness we have to report the passing of Peter Noble.
Peter who was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease died peacefully in Horsham on Tuesday 23rd. May after his health had deteriorated.
He will be remembered fondly as a long time member of the Horticultural Society being a committee member and treasurer and in later years joined the TN22 Club.
His funeral is taking place on 16th June, at Wealden Crematorium, Horam, at 12 o’clock.
West (2018)
‘The dizzying weight of the earth and everything in it and beyond it’
In contrast to our last read, the long novel Middlesex, this month we read the novella West, the first novel by an award winning short story writer and poet, Carys Davies. Although slim, the book deals with big, some say, mythic themes., exploring our relationship with the environment. Continue reading “Hadlow Down Book Club Review”
Hadlow Down Online is happy to promote this show on the Village Web Site as it is in support of The Kit Wilson Trust.
