Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 08:37 AM

Perhaps there could be a Trug song session as well:

Little Brown Trug how I love thee,
Come all you gallant Truggers,
Trug of Punch etc.

Come on Vectis, Terry, Steph, Jenny et al - we don't don't want Trugs to become extinct !

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 08:24 AM

Dave Bryant
Now you're talking.
Thanks for the trug descriptions. In Worcestershire they call such things chips or skips - mostly for the selling of fruit such as (egg?) plums. But not all in one basket I presume.
Spaw - thanks for sharing that bit of fuzzy logic with us.

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 03:33 AM

Perhaps we could organise a Trug-making workshop.

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: vectis
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 05:49 PM

Penny Pete Marden at the Sussex Trug Maker in Herstmonceaux is about the last trug maker in the country. It is about 4 miles up the road from Upper Dicker. You could combine a festival visit and a trug shopping spree :-)

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: catspaw49
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 12:14 PM

There is a church in Dicker where the bishp wished to place a new minister named Lawrence T Fuzz. The bishop was fired by the cardinal when he in the course of the conversation regarding the placement sai, "I want to get Pastor Fuzz 'n Dicker."

Spaw

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: Penny S.
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 12:06 PM

Here's some more information. I was wrong about the wood - the edges are made from chestnut.

How to make a trug

Penny

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: Penny S.
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 11:59 AM

Trug - the word derives from the same root as trough - They are made from split strakes of wood (I'm not sure which one) curved into a sort of rectangular container, a bit like a longish coracle. The strakes are held in place with split hazel wands with the bark on. The handle is another split wand which wraps round the base as well as forming the handle. Some trug have wooden stands on the base. The ladylike ones, for carrying on the arm with a delicate spray of flowers in, don't. My mother, the daughter of a gardener used hers (two) for keeping gardening gloves, secateurs, twine, trowel, fork etc, as well as weeds on the way to the compost heap, and vegetables on the way to the kitchen. They were working trugs. I scorn the ladylike accessory use. Also the plastic things which describe themselves as trugs. Latest sighting was a builders' deep plastic floppy buckety thing described as one. The advantage of the trug is that you can see everything, and don't have to fish in a deep container for cutting edges or thorny things. They are properly a green byproduct of woodland management, and a local folky item.

Penny (no lady) (Can anyone give me an address for a trug maker? I need one to stop me losing secateurs)

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 04:27 PM

Its almost as funny as some prat going round calling himself Mr Red

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: vectis
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 04:14 PM

Trugs are a flattish basket much favoured by genteel gardeners for placing freshly cut flowers in.

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 05:47 PM

I like treacle too. Not sure what trugs are or if they taste nice. Please advise.

Subject: RE: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: Penny S.
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 05:13 PM

How dare you knock people's perfectly respectable place-names? There's a long straight road there called The Dicker, too - may be associated with digging. It's a place where you can buy good Sussex trugs, I believe. Possibly for carrying local treacle.

Penny

Subject: Upper Dicker, UK, Festival, Sussex
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 01:43 PM

I was asked to add these details see here to my website and couldn't but help stiffle a laugh (OK not much stiffling) at the name of the Village.
There is a Lower counterpart to the village too.

July 4/5/6 that's when.