That’s your lot, then, for a week which saw the first crocuses sprout in front gardens, and we felt the warmth of the sun on our faces for the first time, and worried about it. Also a week in which the police hovering around No. 10 Downing Street were not just there to gorilla the doorstep, and a government watchdog called for an ‘obesity tsar’ to try and sort out the escalating average weight of our children. Strange times.

We’d like to thank the following people, without whom this issue would have been impossible to put together:
Suzie Fox, Vic Smith, Jamie Oliver, Tom ‘Hurricane’ Walker, Sophie Woolley, Mark Hewitt, Marina Pepper, Neale Hopper, Julian Le Bas, Sara O’Kane, Phil Mills, Jerry Rothwell, Mohamed Hamid, the splendidly named Vincent Pompe Van Meerdervoort, Mike Piggott, Anne Thomas, John Parry and Tom Reeves.

Contributors this week are: William Leith, Emma Chaplin, Emma Robertson, Dexter Lee, Antonia Gabassi, Andrea Mindel, Steve King, Adrienne Campbell, Jonathan Howell, Scott Chowen, Katie Moorman, Nick Williams and Alex Leith.

Next week’s highlights include:
Thursday 8th: Youthful folk from Full of Strings at the Oak
Friday 9th: Sean Hughes at the Gardner Arts Centre
Starting Saturday 10th: SOUNDWAVE Festival, with music in venues throughout town (and Newhaven)
Saturday 10th: Ricky Gervais in Night at the Museum, at the All Saints
Sunday 12th: Tony Scott’s Déja vu, at the Gardner Arts Centre