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Senses

As Amána told me her story, what stood out was how we can study for our perfect career, but if we don’t find the right environment or continue to evolve, that career can become just a job.

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Friendship Partnership

Friendship Partnership - Let’s meet Francesca Rowan-Plowden & Amy Eastall from Ferry Road Stores in Rye.

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Sound

We spoke with Jens Knoop, founder of Knoops, just before the 10th anniversary of the opening of their first hot chocolate store in Rye back in April 2013.

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Look

We meet Lindsey and Rik on the sofa next to the fire in the Looking Glass Lodge.

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Produce with Provenance

The idea to set up a food market came about by accident as much as by intention. I’d been thinking about ways of supporting small local growers for a while, wondering how to bring their delicious produce to the community on a very human level. A food market seemed the obvious route, but creating the conditions for it to succeed in a country where markets are not part of the DNA would be tricky. And then, as a regular to the walled garden of Water Lane, perhaps here the conditions were just right. Introducing the idea to them went a little something like this…

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Tactile

Kelly Jessiman makes things from clay. We meet Kelly at her home in St Leonards, at the table where she makes her pottery, surrounded by work in progress.