Author: richard

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If you were the driver of this car, please do get in touch and let us know how you managed to park it on the railings outside the library in Brighton.

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We were in London last night attending an ecademy event. The event wasn’t great, but it was good to meet up with some friends. On the way home we noticed the above sign for a play: The Madness of George Dubya. You can’t quite make it out, but on the far left it says “re-written daily”. No idea what the show’s like, but nice title.

Perfect day for a fire: a week or more of dry, warm, weather and a good breeze to fan the fames. The West (“other”, “old”) pier caught fire just before 10am this morning. We stood around and watched as the blaze grew and bits of the pier fell in on itself. These are the photos taken with my phone.

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In that last photo I was suprised by a helicopter landing on the beach. The photo is actually of it taking off again, but they are big things and make quite an impressive noise up close.

I’m guessing the West Pier web cam is going to be a popular link today. The local news is reporting things like “strong suspicions this was the work of an arsonist” and also that the “West Pier rebuild ‘will go ahead'”.

Black box recorder (warning: site auto-plays music. duh) have a new album out, which is ever-so good. My copy came from cdwow.

Alas, we couldn’t get to see them when they came to Brighton (warning: annoying popups. bah) earlier this month.

We’ve also been listening to The Electric Soft Parade, and recently found out they’re local after watching “Brighton Beats” (6 parts series on ITV, Thursdays 23:30).

Mandy and Chris visited us over the weekend and took us out of town to the Yew Tree Inn (“Nr Polegate, Sussex, 01323 870590”). It’s a pub that serves top food… too much top food, but I couldn’t stop myself eating it. Aside from food they also serve my current favourite beer. The tables are maybe a bit too close together, but apart from that, it gets both (yes, both) thumbs up.

Of course, we’ll never find it again as it’s in the middle of nowhere.

The house is currently under siege. Seems there was a cat trapped in the bin cupboard (trash or refuse area) outside the house. And now it’s out and it’s pretty angry, or maybe distressed. No-one really wants to get too close to it to find out for sure.

What are you supposed to do in these situations? The RSPCA web site isn’t terribly helpful, so I gave them a call and they more-or-less said “forget it, but call us if you think it’s really really hurt”. So, my plan is to forget about it.

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The sun is shining, Brighton is busy. I think winter is over.

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I have a new picture ”
phone so expect to see random photos appearing on this blog.

Today I learned what a kotatsu is. Admit it, it sounds good, doesn’t it? I think it’s a word I didn’t recognize in a book called Asleep.

Part of the weekend was handed over to painting wood and messing with lighting in the house. There’s something quite special when you unscrew a ceiling lighting fixture expecting to find three wires only to discover ten. Mmm.. I just love our British wiring standards.

Anyway, today I was in our local shopping centre looking for a few bits a pieces and there was a lovely dog running around – friendly thing, dashing up to people and sniffing and being all curious the way dogs are. Then I found this sign: “POLICE – DRUG DOG TRAINING”. And I thought s/he was being friendly, not frisking me. Still, they’d probably make great pets when they retire.