Author: jane

Well the non event

Well, the non-event of the Festival so far was The Glow Project. This sounded like a cool, very Brighton event so on Saturday evening we collected a couple of friends and wandered down Kensington Place. And found nothing, absolutely no art of any kind. Lots of people were milling around, but there was nothing to be seen.

So today I emailed them to find out what happened and got this reply
Due to unforseen circumstances I had to return to France and postpone the Glow Event until October 2003. Life can be unpredictable! Sorry for the inconvenience, the Glow Project will be back if the sky doesn’t fall on my head this time. Check the local press and hope to see you there.
So at least we know what happened to it.

was cycling down Preston

I was cycling down Preston Street this morning, when this huge blue American truck started driving towards me. Now, I only know of one person who drives a truck like this in Brighton, Chris Eubank. And it was him. No time for a photo, I was too busy getting out of the way!

Food blog

On Friday evening we decided to treat ourselves to a meal out, and so after a quick look through the Juicy Guide we decided to give Fruit de Mer a try. So we called and booked a table and headed off in the rain. Unfortunately they forgot to tell us that they’d changed their name to “Niche”. Still, we found them eventually, and sat for a G&T in their very relaxing bar area (which you can now visit just for drinks) before going upstairs to our table, or any table, we were the only people there. All in all the experience was a good one, and we’ll be going back, both for food and just to use their bar area.

In comparison, yesterday we went to Curve for lunch and were really dissapointed. The food was good, but the service was appaling, really poor indeed.

But it got better, and last night we headed to El Mexicano for a snack, well, actually we went there because we’d walked passed earlier and seen someone drinking Margaritas which left us with a Margarita craving :-). And the Margaritas were very good indeed, and our snack of Sopes was really good too. I think we’ll be heading back next time our Margarita cravings get too much for us.

Yesterday morning at 20am

Yesterday morning, at 4.20am I stumbled out of bed to try and catch a glimpse of the Lunar Eclipse. I got dressed, grabbed my camera and headed off out of the house to the bottom of the street, and saw nothing except a road sweeper out doing an early sweep of Brighton’s streets. And whilst I was out doing this, Richard was sleeping. If I’d headed off down to the seafront, my chances of seeing something would probably have been higher, but it was too early in the morning for me to go on any such adventures… or even thing straight.

Someone who did manage to see it created a time lapsed image of it here. (mind you, he’s in Arizona and so it was a far more reasonable hour over there).

As part of the

As part of the Streets of Brighton section of the Festival, we went to 2 of the free events last Thursday evening. The first was The Constant Soldier, and the second was Sister Sister.

Constant Soldier

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The Constant Soldier was a bit beyond us, as we didn’t know the original Andersen story but it seemed to be quite well thought out, although I thought that the turn out was a bit poor.

Sister Sister

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Sister Sister was really well put together, and very enjoyable (although very hard to take photos of as they didn’t stand still very often). It was a mixture of trapeze, video installation and anarchic circus and a decent crowd turned up to support them.

As part of the

Pillinger and Squires

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As part of the festival, last Wednesday evening we went to hear a talk by Colin Pillinger and Steve Squires about Mars, and the Beagle 2 and Mars rover missions to send rockets there later this year. They talked very well, and in an “everyday” kind of way, so we weren’t baffled by technology (which I thought was quite an achievement).

They talked for about an hour, and then the floor was opened for questions. One of the questions was “How much are the missions costing?”. Colin refused to answer, and only told us what his original budget was (£25m), and not what the current costs where. Steve told us that the Rover project was running at around $800m. So, quite a difference then!