Lush Places: a love letter to our local
OUR PUB re-opens next week and we’re getting very excited. Oh how we’ve missed it. A couple of months ago, when it seemed all hope was lost, Lush Places penned its very own community poem, each person contributing one or two lines and egged on by that Wondermentalist, the performance poet Matt Harvey, as part [...]
Lush Places: who knows what tomorrow brings?
IN 2011, we lost our village shop. Our pub has been closed for the last three months. There are only rumours coming from the-brewery-with-no-apostrophe about what and when something might happen. We’ve coped, because in Lush Places that’s how we rock. But it can’t go on forever. With one in five properties here a holiday [...]
Lush Places: the community bar of earthly delights
IN THE village that time forgot, Lush Places becomes, for a few nights only, not a painting by Bruegel but more like a tryptich by Hieronymus Bosch. We are a place that has lost its permanent post office, shop and pub but we are adapting. And doing pretty well at it too. We may be [...]
Lush Places: the parish plan
WELL, the Lush Places parish plan questionnaires are being collected. An army of village elves is out and about, picking up our forms to find out what we want and when do we want it (now!). Busy little souls are already plotting to open Lush Places’ very own community shop. And several nights of drunken [...]
Lush Places: up in the air and down
FOR a little while, the Lush Places village square has been deathly quiet. The corner shop closed at the end of August and the pub called last orders on Thursday night. For the past fortnight, one of the roads through the village has been closed for resurfacing. And for two weeks, a young man in [...]
Lush Places: lighting up the skies for the Queen’s jubilee
AUTUMN in Lush Places and our thoughts turn to sunnier times as we plan a two-day bank holiday extravaganza to mark the diamond jubilee of the Queen (God bless her) at the beginning of June. Shall we have another street party or will we have to contend with gatecrashers from neighbouring villages eating all the [...]
Lush Places: closed for the winter
‘I’m sending you this because I hear your Village has closed.’