People
Tragedy gives music to life
Music therapy can be a lifeline for vulnerable children and adults - and a recent tragedy has led to a musical result
Game for food and music shortly
If you bump into a man wearing a blueish, but cuddleish, wild boar's head with white wobbly tusks in your local, do not let your dogs panic. It's only Ollie publicising Wild Boar Week coming up later this month
Fair weather for the plants
Why did nurserymen and women come from all over Europe, to join with local specialist nurseries for a long weekend at a famous house with beautiful gardens of its own, and end up attracting over 2,000 people. Gillian Roder gets her fingers green to tell the story
‘Snippets of my history’
David T Procter is a man with a past, as the lists of past mayors in Rye's Town Hall shows and he dips into that past - to write a historical novel and a very modern detective tale. . . .and how much has really changed between the 1770s and the 2010s?
It all starts with ‘Yes’!
For the National Citizen Service social action, a team of Studio School students organised donations for a Charity Fashion Auction. Read on about NCS (and the Auction, of course) - and who donated
Bonding with the diners
Bond was back in town at the Queens Head as the Rye Bay Crew served, cooked and sang for their supper at a special theme night...... and will be back at the Kino shortly in "Spectre"
Joys and dangers of foraging
Our local fields and woods (and all the photos show "finds" within six miles of Rye) can contain a feast or lingering death... John Howlett both encourages, but warns.....
When we were the front line
Soon there will be a parade to the Town Hall and St Mary's for the Remembrance Service - but how much do we know about, or remember at all, when Rye was in the front line and in the centre of two crucial aerial battles?
Horse crowned Comedy King
A horse called Wally has just been crowned "Comedy King" by a charity. Don't ask what he does or you will get hoarse from laughing so much. Just beware - because he lives somewhere around here
Putting frogs in throats
Do you want to heat up your dinner party ? Tickle your friends' fancy - or rather their throats? Then spice up their lives with a trip to Harbour Road
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
The latest in David Russell's Beer and Skittles series looks at the Jolly Sailor in Watchbell Street. It sounds like a lot of fun!