The Laughing Fish

Eating out locally. I've never been to the Laughing Fish before. My loss, obviously.

Andy, our host. He recommended Olde Trip for a drink. Good choice.

Lamb burger (sorry about the camera wobble; was probably drinking from the Olde Trip while taking it. Ringmer has a stake in the Laughing Fish - the bread comes from Jack and Jill's bakers.

I had haddock, chips and mushy peas.

Proper chips, as far removed from fries as you can get.

There is currently an Artwave exhibition there.

 Loads of wood and litho cuts by two artists, Karen Potter and Adele Scantlebury.

The one on the right is Karen. (The one on the left is not Adele.)

There is a viewing at the Laughing Fish on Tuesday 27th August 2013 from 7 p.m. Well worth a look.

More artwork on the place setting.

Jiffy bags

I expect several people have had the kind of conversation I had recently:

He: Do we need all these jiffy bags
She: Yes
He: How often do we use one?
She: Well, you never know when you might need one
He: We have 95....
She: ......

There isn't an obvious way to see to jiffy bags being reused, and, although I agree it's useful to hang on to a few for the odd moment of need, we don't need to store all the jiffy bags we get in the post, and they take up a great deal of room. So I started thinking about setting up some sort of jiffy bag recycling point where people who don't need them can dump them, and people who do need them can pick them up. Google reveals that there is no need. The common solution to getting rid of jiffy bags you don't want is to freecycle them. Put them on Freecycle and they get snapped up in five minutes, apparently. I'm about to test that hypothesis.

Fracking in Ringmer?

This is quoted direct from Ringmer News Service:

"Information unearthed by the local Liberal Democrats has revealed that a site listed as ‘Ringmer 1’ is in the latest list of licences for oil and gas exploration that appears on a government website. In the light of the current controversy over fracking at Balcombe, this has the potential to become a big issue locally, though it’s important that its current status is understood.

"Various companies involved in oil and gas exploration apply for licences to explore, but they need planning permission from their local authority to carry out that exploration, and then if they find oil or gas, they need further permission – sometimes a special consent from the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) – to bring the oil or gas to the surface. As such, the Ringmer site is two steps away from actual drilling, whether such drilling is  
by the controversial hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) method or not, although the presence of the licence suggests an intention to explore. 

"The DECC website gives only grid references and applicants, from which it appears the Ringmer site is at Barcombe Mills, and the applicant is ‘Conoco’, believed to be the American oil giant Conoco Phillips. The information was obtained by Ringmer’s county councillor Rosalyn St Pierre, the councillor who persuaded East Sussex County Council to put all applications for fracking to a vote of the full council and not to delegate the power to officers. She is keeping tabs on the issue. The 9 August DECC list also includes two sites in Lewes, which from the grid references appear to be at Beddingham and Swanborough."

Somewhere in Ringmer...

... there is

a slowly...

disappearing ....

sign. Almost rescued here..

but gradually overgrown again.

Nature gets everywhere