Bohemia Village Voice

By John Humphries Aug 2011. Our previous issue was a ‘stop gap’ as we struggled to fill the shoes of esteemed volunteer editrix Sarah Janes, who left in June to do much more interesting things elsewhere. She brought her boundless energy and unique style to the magazine, and was always bursting with new ideas – at least one a day. Her range of interests included public bathing & spas, recipes, social issues, children, the dog mess problem, arts and artists, music and musicians, live events, debating, puppetry & film-making, sci-fi and short stories. And she still found time to start the Bohemia Club and the Bohemia Brunch Club and edit four editions of the Voice [issues 76 to 78]. Thank you Sarah, you did brilliantly and are being sorely missed.
A few changes – we now distribute the magazine throughout Hastings, which means that the Village Directory listing is not so appropriate and has been dropped. There will of course be a continuation of local stories about Bohemia and its residents plus a look at the wider, unconventional (and unorthodox) side of life town-wide – admittedly an odd mix, quite bohemian in fact. Our picture puzzle is back by popular demand, as is the Panagram puzzle. And please don’t begrudge our advertisers their space – without their support (and our wonderful volunteer helpers) there simply wouldn’t be a magazine.
Following on from the national scandals facing the tabloid press, we felt it was time we too ‘fessed up: our attempt to get councillor Andrew Cartwright ‘in our pocket’ with a cup of tea and two sticky buns failed miserably. As did slipping across our slush fund (79p) in a brown envelope to street bobby Andy Hubbard. These men are incorruptible.

Sarah Janes

What’s that Sooty? – you’d like to be our acting editor? Until our nice readers can help us  find a new editor? Great idea, Sooty – Izzy wizzy, let’s get busy!

Sooty