SSW001.CookoutFeature.indd 22 20/07/2018 15:51 S S 1 5 : 5 1 SS 15:51 SLINGSHOT SOCIAL 022 SlingshotWorld 022 SlingshotWorld Y ou know, I studied rocks. I love fancy marble and spotting fossils of shells in slabs of it. I like volcanoes and massive natural events like huge storms, even if their disregard for human life is distressing. I can thus tell you, exactly how the place we go to for these cookouts and shoots was formed. For a ways into the South Downs of Sussex, you find a place where an ancient Cretaceous coastline took a curve. Now, the chalk has been eroded a bit and a large cove-shaped bite seems to be taken out of the cliff. Forming a space with impossible-to- climb steep crumbly walls reaching all The Wicca Bowl, Sussex Downs. Primrose Time. around, with just a very short open part. It is deliciously private. And as catapult nutters, venturing there to cook and enjoy some safe person-powered shooting, (As after all, what could make a better back stop than a mountain made of chalk?) it turned out that we were the least odd of visitors. For we have it on seriously good authority that the local coven of Wicca witchy-poo types like to cavort bare-nekkid there, in the firelight of a full moon’s eve… But catapultry is in event organiser Mick Wick’s blood and his lass, Nina (freshly wed by the time you read this.. aaah!) has shot in archery competitions at high level. Both are wicked shots with The Wicca Bowl, Sussex Downs. Primrose Time. Cookout Catapults: Patrick, sky-lining SSW001.CookoutFeature.indd 22 20/07/2018 15:51