I’ve just been catching up on some BNM posts from ages ago and Mat posted a link to a Mac Genius job opportunity in Churchill Square, Brighton
A bit of careful googling finds the following image, taken from the Apple Store (United Kingdom) page
I am going to have to hide Richard’s credit cards!!!
Two thumbs up to Robert Harding Computers. My MacBook battery was going all wrong and had started to swell, and I was getting nowhere with AppleCare. Robert Harding gave me the clues and phone numbers which has resulted in a new battery arriving 24 hours later. They’re goooooood.
When doing a recent check on all the blogs at Brighton Bloggers, I spotted this message at the Brighton and Hove councillors site. Amongst other things it says
“During the six week period prior to local and general elections, there is a ban in place on publicising the work of councillors to unfairly influence votes. Because of this, all of the pages and councillor blogs on this website are to be temporarily suspended until after the elections have finished.“
Since Jim broke his wrist, I haven’t been to the climbing wall, and I’ve missed it. A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across information that there is a boulder park in Hove Park, and so today we went for a cycle ride to take a look.
It is about 3 metres high and probably about 12 metres long with areas ranging from scramble, to slight overhangs. We spent half an hour there climbing, traversing and doing the odd scramble. I am really impressed to have something like this so close, and available for free. I’m hoping to start visiting on a weekly basis to have a play.
This evening we wanted some quick, but tasty food, and so decided to give Pompoko, a newly opened Japanese cafe in Church Street, a try. It has a counter service, and the food was delivered really quickly. Richard won on his choice of main course, having the Oyako Don (Soya poached egg with fried chicken) which was really lovely. I opted for the Pork Shouga Yaki Don (Pork marinated with honey, ginger and soya sauce) which was tasty and cooked to perfection, but just not as flavoursome as the Oyako Don. They do a takeaway menu as well, and I can see that this could become a bit of a regular “quick stop” for us.
We went to see Shiny Toy Guns at The Pressure Point this evening. Their track “Don’t Cry Out” was featured on the Follow Me Around snowboard dvd by Mack Dawg Productions and as we loved the sound of them, we trotted off to HMV and bought the album. After a bit more surfing we discovered that they were coming to Brighton as part of their hectic UK and European tour so we headed off, and had an excellent evening, first being rocked by Viva Machine and then being hugely entertained by Shiny Toy Guns. I can’t believe that it has taken me over 5 years living in Brighton to attend a gig at The Pressure Point!
These signs have been recently appearing around Brighton. Items 1, 2 and 4 sound reasonable, item 3 sounds a bit extreme.
The Cafe Sci this month was the most passionate I’ve been to yet. The topic was animal testing, with the presenter, Margaret Clotworthy (chaperoned by the Europeans for Medical Progress communications director), presenting a reasonable argument that alternatives should be evaluated to see how they compare against animal tests. Our co-host, The Exuberant Jenny, put her hands up from the start to say she held the opposite view. And so it kicked off…
I received the following email regarding some of the photos of the aftermath of the West Pier collapses and fire and the My West Pier project.
Dear Jane and Richard,
I saw your photos of the driftwood of the West Pier’s Concert Hall…
I am an architecture student at the Technical University of Berlin. Brighton’s West Pier is my diploma project.
My approach to the project is in short that if you want to rebuild the West Pier, it is necessary to collect the missing parts, the flotsam and jetsam, and reassemble them. Flotsam might not just be the driftwood at Brighton Beach, it may also be your stories and your visions of the pier.
I made two appeals in the newspaper ‘The Argus’:
“1. I want you, who took some flotsam of the collapsed and stranded Concert Hall, to take a photo of your part of the pier, where you have installed it now and send the photo via email to you@mywestpier.com!
2. If you took a part of the pier, you must offer a part of your home to build a new pier. Please look for the piece of furniture you would like to be part of a new pier, take a photo and send it to you@mywestpier.com!”
Maybe you can help me, because you have obviously been there!
Many thanks and regards from rainy Berlin,
Jannes
If anyone has any images to help Jannes, please send them on to him at the email address he mentions above.
