Every week we will be publishing readers’ (and staff) photos in this space. The best reader’s photo of the month will be published in the Viva Lewes Handbook, with a prize of £20. Please send your (hi res 300dpi or more) pics into info@vivalewes.com, with a short description of when and why you took them. Viva Lewes reserve the right to use pictures in future editions of this magazine, or any other Viva Magazines Ltd product, unless otherwise arranged.

For a change, we’ve been fairly underwhelmed with photographs this week, so here’s an appeal to our regular snappers (and anyone else who fancies having a go) to get out there and send us in your images of life in and around Lewes. However we’re very pleased with what we have received, particularly this stunning image from fourteen-year-old Joe Knight. “I went out early on Saturday and got this frosty image of wool on barbed wire,” he writes. “I love the way you can see the sheep's wool flying in the breeze.”

Rick Turner has sent us this image, which he calls ‘Clouds on the Horizon’. “It was taken last Sunday above Littlington,” he tells us.  “Big blue skies with clouds coming in from the sea below the line of the horizon.  A typical Sussex downland view which is so special as it mixes land and sea in a way you can't find anywhere else.”The clarity, we think, is amazing. It could be the backdrop for a brochure, called 'blue-sky thinking', or something of that ilk.

“It was nice of you to mention my e-mail to the Times congratulating our paperboys,” writes Peter Shears. “They chopped off the last bit of my message, perhaps because”. His e-mail, intriguingly, ended there. He added this image, perhaps to let the post office know that if the paperboys can get out there in the ice and snow, why did the post stop coming into Lewes homes for a week in early January?

Adrian Strate sent us this image, taken on Saturday. “I guess that’s why they call it the Winterbourne,” he guesses.

And here’s one from an anonymous reader, also taken on Saturday, on Juggs Way near Kingston. It appears to be a nun, enjoying a walk on the Downs.