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Island Life - June/July 2010
Photos: Above: As a baby with mother Stella Best and elder sister Jane 1958 - Top right: Family Holiday in Bembridge 1965.
Father John Best, Susie, Andrew and Jane - Bottom right: At home at Lindeth, Surrey 1966. Brother and sisters Jane, Andrew
and Susie
is having less formal fun with friends.
The café/shop is on the site of the
look like ducks to me!”
“After the last Hunt Ball we were
old dairy, which closed when King’s
singing round the piano until nearly
Manor went organic. (Nobody would
with her various sporting concerns,
4am! Everything from Beatles, Bob
collect organic milk from the Island).
Susie invites schools to come to see a
Dylan, to Wagner.”
They began the organic conversion
farm in action, from five-year-olds to
As well as the Pony Club, Susie was,
As well as sharing the farm’s space
- a complete reversion to traditional
A Level biology students. “