That’s your lot then, in a week in which April thought it was June, the supermarkets ran out of charcoal, and one pub in particular started doing a brisk turnover of Pimms. Also a week in which the United States suffered its worst ever mass shooting, and England crashed embarrassingly out of the World Cup after a massive defeat against South Africa.

This week we would like to thank the following people without whom the issue would not have been possible: Ben Ward, Ken Shipway, Clare Brown, Crispin Williams, Wendy Hitchmough, Penelope Parker, Mike Wells, Paul Myles, Geoff Smith, Robert Hutchinson, Nancy Makin, Bob Cairns, Alan Vaughan, Tom Reeves and Bruce Molsky.

This week’s contributors were: David Jarman, Emma Chaplin, Emma Robertson, Owen Postgate, Adrienne Campbell, Nick Williams, Scott Chowen, Dexter Lee, Antonia Gabassi, Katie Moorman and Alex Leith.

Next week’s highlights include:
Thursday 26th: Eccentric Dundee songster Michael Marra at the Oak
Friday 27th: Amen, a Costa-Gavros political thriller examining the Vatican’s role in the Holocaust
Friday 27th: ‘An Evening in Italy’ from Travel 2007
Monday 30th: The Monday Literary Club present Henry Hitchings, discussing his book on Johnson’s dictionary
Wednesday 2nd: Transition Town Lewes’ ‘Feeding Lewes past, present & future’