I’ve got Poland in our work sweepstake, Richard has Costa Rica in his. This means that the match on 20th June at 3pm will be interesting in our household.
Author: jane
The Sand Sculpture Festival
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The Sand Sculpture Festival last year must have been a success, as work is underway on another one. This years theme is the Roman Empire and it opens on the 1st June, lasting until the 10th September.
We had few beers
We had a few beers at the Windmill with friends on Friday evening. Whilst there Kirsty and I both had massages from Urban Chill. I’d never heard of these people, or seen them before, but looking on their website it seems that they visit quite a few bars (mostly in London). There is no fixed price for a massage, you just pay what you think it was worth. A nice service, and a great treat for a Friday evening.
Glad to read on
Glad to read on BBC News that Peter Taylor isn’t going to join Charlton. Hurrah!
Filey
Whilst staying with my parents over the weekend we visited Filey, a place I hadn’t been to for many years. It was a pretty cold, blustery day but we managed a walk along the sea front and spotted this water feature based on a maritime compass which is part of Filey’s art and craft scene and which I primarily noticed because of Richard’s obsession with the shipping forecast.
No cream teas to review, but I can say that the Rainbow cafe does good bacon sandwiches.
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After catching the second
After catching the second half of last year’s The Apprentice, we started watching this series from the beginning and have enjoyed watching the comings and goings. I’m pretty impressed that an ex-pupil of the senior school I went to, Michelle, went on to win it and is now Alan Sugar‘s Apprentice. An excellent programme.
Afternoon tea and teashops
I feel that this could be the year of the teashop, or maybe just afternoon tea in general. So far we’ve visited 3 this season.
The first was when we were in Haworth with my Mum and Dad over Easter. We stopped off at the Apothecary Tea Rooms which is a pleasant place with a great view over the Worth Valley. Richard and I had sandwiches, but Mum and Dad had scones, and so it counts as afternoon tea rather than lunch 🙂
The second was Tallulah’s Tea Rooms, here in Brighton, in fact just around the corner from our house. We’ve eaten breakfast there (excellent), and we’ve had sunday lunches there (tasty and fresh), but up until yesterday we hadn’t managed afternoon tea. Richard and Nikki were still in Brighton after my birthday party on Saturday and so we met up with them for fresh, warm scones. As with all the rest of the food we’ve had there, excellent.
Then today we decided we were peckish after our visit to the British Wildlife Centre and so stopped off at the Duddleswell Tea Rooms in the Ashdown Forest. I drive past these tea rooms quite often on my way home from work and so it was good to try them out. It’s a busy place, so we sat outside and watched the world go by. They seemed to have run out of scones, so whilst my Old English Tea of crumpets and jam turned up really quickly, Richard’s Ashdown Forest Tea (2 scones with butter and jam) took 5 or so minutes longer to arrive. The crumpets were excellent, and the scones were pretty tasty too. Be prepared for a wait though as this is a popular place.
I’ve borrowed Sussex teashop walks from a friend at work so that should give us some inspiration for other tea rooms to try in the next few months 🙂
picked up copy of
I picked up a copy of the “Brighton Festival of Artists Open Houses” booklet at the weekend. When browsing through it I spotted that Jules has got some work being exhibited – at Holland Street and Art Organic.
We had bit of
We had a bit of a country pub crawl on Saturday night. We started off for dinner at The Ram Inn, Firle which was really good – a nice pub, with a lovely atmosphere, good beer and an impressive menu (small, but carefully prepared). We headed off through Glynde, nearly lost a wing mirror to a 4 wheel drive full of paragliders who were too adrenalin filled to drive sensibly on narrow country lanes before arriving at The Cock Inn, Ringmer for a half of Old Ale. We then headed off to the Half Moon at Plumpton for a half of Old Cocky before finishing off at the White Horse in Ditchling. A great evening.