Opinion

The Crawley Town saying of Town, Team, Together, has never felt more appropriate.

I am so pleased the Environment Agency is to accelerate a flood defence scheme in Arundel and include repairs to the collapsed wall at River Road.

There aren’t too many things that I excel at in life. As a scrawny pre-teen I could not only produce a dolphin-esque screech from the bottom of my throat but I was able to name every European capital city.

The work of Sussex Community Foundation has never been more important than today.

This week I am in the company of Toovey’s director and Asian art specialist, Tom Rowsell, who has just finished preparations for the sale of an important London single - owner collection of Asian Art.

That’s it. I’ve found it. The next address I want to move to. Avenue de Champagne, Epernay, France.

“The nights are drawing in,” utters Devoted Doctor, as indeed he has done most evenings now since mid-September.

It’s the latest Instagram trend to only semi-ice a cake – but with this moist blueberry and elderflower layer, less is definitely more.

A rare late 18th century tortoiseshell and gilt-metal bracket clock with a processional automaton by the celebrated British entrepreneur and goldsmith James Cox (1723-1800) has been discovered by Toovey’s specialist, Tom Rowsell, in a London collection.

On Saturday I attended an event hosted by Nyetimber to celebrate 30 years of the winery.

A few years ago, the emblematic sparkling wine from Spain’s Catalonia region seemed to be on everybody’s shopping list.

I always thought the most terrifying driving experience of my life was behind me; having had to negotiate Shepherd’s Bush roundabout in busy West London, on my second ever driving lesson.

Part of the natural world’s rhythm at this time of year is gathering in the harvest. Living in this part of the world and driving around the countryside we see the harvest in action. Fields with machines going up and down, spraying, fertilising, ploughing, sowing and harvesting. It demonstrates how much work goes in to producing our food.

Plans for Sussex’s first IKEA were confirmed this week – so what happens next?

I believe that concerns about immigration were a key driver behind the referendum vote to leave the European Union.

Significant Figures: remembrance through making is an intimate and poignant exhibition which seeks to articulate remembrance through the making of art is currently on show at the Oxmarket Gallery in Chichester.

OK, not wizards perhaps, but some of the wines now coming out of Australia from forward-thinking wine-makers, seems a bit like wizardry.

As I write this column (in September), the sun is shining, it’s 24 degrees and it feels like summer, the longest summer ever.