Cuckfield

JoJo shop opens new space in Cuckfield

JoJo Boutique opens new store in Cuckfield

After an official opening last month, Jo Dennis is celebrating her new shop being up and running at 45 High Street, after the move from number 2 after more than nine years.

The premises is considerably bigger and offers a different space layout. Jo can now showcase more than 80 styles of shoes as well as knitting together the Web Shop and boutique showroom. “We are really pleased with our new contemporary look which is spacious and light, giving customers the opportunity to explore the boutique which has a modern and urban feel to it,” Jo explains.

“It has been a terrific team effort from all of the staff (Sarah, Rachel, Geraldine, Mary and Gemma). We have had an army of others who have made it happen. So I personally would like to thank Rachel and Ian for their artistic interpretation and support, Tom, Lee (Small Building Works), John Berterelli and the team from Helme & Hallett, and Phil, who flew in from Singapore to lay the floor!”

Customers have described the boutique as ‘elegant’ and ‘giving space for the clothes and shoes to be seen’. The staff have had so many positive comments saying how much they prefer it.

Jo and the team look forward to being able to host preview evenings and other events at the shop in the future. JoJo Boutique is one of the main stockists for Oui, InWear, PartTwo, PaulGreen shoes and YaYa in Sussex, with collections arriving every week, and is available online or in store, which is open six days a week and welcomes dogs and children in tow.

Cuckoo Choir on tour in Budapest

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By Candy Hood

We are the Cuckoo Choir, an over-60s mixed choir, run by our delightful choir mistress Jane Haughton, with the administrative side run by Sarah Cheesemur. We meet every Friday afternoon in term time at the Holy Trinity Church Hall in Cuckfield.

We repair to the Talbot pub after singing, to quench our thirst and it was at one of those sessions more than a year ago that Peter Cheesemur asked Marta Lindop (one of our singers who is Hungarian and who arranges small choirs and musicians to sing and play in her native Budapest): “When are you going to take the Cuckoo Choir to Budapest?”

And Marta said: “Whenever you’re up for it!” 

So, at the beginning of December 2017, around 30 of us, including our 91-year-old piano accompanist, Fiona Fawcett, packed our thermals and boarded a plane to Budapest for a long weekend.

We sang in the Roman Catholic Church of Fot, with their choir, singing carols in Hungarian and English.

We visited the wonderful Christmas Market and the Thermal Baths at the famous Gellart Hotel, where some of us brave souls swam in the outdoor thermal pool, watching the sun go down and the sparkly Christmas lights come up.

Marta arranged sightseeing trips, including one to an amazing marzipan exhibition that had many extraordinary models and statues all made from almond paste.

The last night included a typical Hungarian meal in a beautifully decorated dining room with local musicians entertaining us, and us them, with our singing.

A really fun time which we hope to repeat and to invite the Fot choir to a return visit and hospitality with us in Cuckfield.

What's On in Cuckfield & Bolnore - Jan/Feb 2018

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January 2018

27th Jan Bolnore Quiz Night – 8pm - Woodside

February

3rd Feb - Race Night Fundraiser for Holy Trinity School – Time TBC - Queen's Hall

10th Feb - Mid Sussex Scottish Dancing Group Annual Dance – time TBC - Queen's Hall

23rd & 24th February  - February Frolics – time TBC - Dinner theatre event with comedy sketches and a short farce (Details and tickets from www.cdsweb.co.uk) at Queen's Hall, Cuckfield

24th Feb - Bolnore Quiz Night at Woodside - 8pm

March

2nd March - NSPCC Quiz Night - 7.30pm - Queen's Hall - Tables of six can be booked now, including cold platter and puds – tickets (£12) from Wealden Stores

SAVE THE DATE: Comedy Night at Bolnore's Woodside
Saturday 17th March