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MIDDY
Letters
Most of the life in the paper resides
on its letters page. Mrs Bryan, in answer
to suggestions that, with one of the ladies
toilets in Burgess Hill out-of-action, she
should use "other facilities", says
that the other facilities should have been
condemned years ago. As a dog owner, I often
get people complaining about dog poo (don't
blame me, I clean mine up). Well, now to think
of it, I really hope the poo in Burgess Hill's
town centre really is dog poo, because the
alternative must be...
Chris Parker has received
his first parking ticket in Burgess Hill.
Where? In a car-park - his ticket had run
out. He, quite understandably, wonders why
the traffic wardens couldn't do something
about all the people parking illegally around
town. I wonder why the council can't do something
about making parking available. Mr Parker's
lucky Cyprus Road is still a car-park, because,
according to the Better Mid Sussex document,
there are suggestions that it should be made
into a coach station.
Mr Charman suggests doing
away with the regular council newsletter,
and having only an annual one with the council
tax demand. With West Sussex's below average
government grant increase, he asks what other
suggestions readers might have as to the council
saving money. Well, let's wait until next
year. And then we will see how "below
average" the councillors' expenses are
increased.
Health
Services
We are told that "Nicholas Soames has
forwarded a hard-hitting letter...to the health
secretary...expressing grave anxiety about
the provision of health services in this area."
Oh, a bit late for that,
Nick, isn't it? Now, that he's changed his
position on whether or not the Princess Royal
needs an A&E. It only occurred to me recently,
why he might be supporting the Royal Sussex
over the wishes of his constituents. Brighton
has got several marginal seats, which David
Cameron needs to take if he is to win the
next election. Whatever the Lib Dems say,
they won't wrestle this seat from Nick. He
knows that Mid Sussex would elect a Conservative
even if the candidate was a fool. Don't believe
me? Well, what about Tim Renton, then? Me,
cynical? How could you say that?
THE CITIZEN
Mid
Sussex Global-Peace Campaign have been
hanging round the Burgess Hill bandstand,
collecting signatures asking the government
to give more to hospitals and pensioners.
As if anyone would want different. These hippies
are pictured with what the leader describes
as "a model of a Trident nuclear missile."
Looks like a cardboard tube with TRIDENT written
on its side to me.
Puss
In Boots
After Mel Brooke's "The Producers"
and Willy Russell's "Blood Brothers",
we can now see, from the posters outside,
that Clair Hall is to premier, Lance Milton's
"Puss In Boots" in January. It came
as a great surprise to learn that my old Oakmedian
friend, Lance Milton, had written this tale.
I had always assumed it to be written by 17th
century Frenchman, Charles Perrault. How much
we learn each day!
Lance is the principal
of a weekend children's theatre school called
the Act Too Stage School, an offshoot of the
Act Too amdram group. On its website it says:
"In 2005, owing to popular demand, the
group put together a team of the areas finest
theatrical teachers to provide a fabulous
new opportunity for young people who want
to get into the performing arts."
But not perhaps
as much an opportunity as their parents might
think. For looking at the cast list of Puss
in Boots, the second on the bill is: "Sarah
Milton". Yes - Mrs Lance! But perhaps
this is all for the good of the aspiring starlets,
for they will soon learn that important lesson,
that it's not what you know but who you know.
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