Brighton Pierrots – Walter Sickert

Watched by accident a review of an english impressionist artist – Walter Sickert – who visiting Brighton after meeting Edgar Degas – also began painting a series of music hall scenes. Brighton perhaps because it is a seaside lady had many music halls and like you will find performing on the streets of Paris […]

Henry’s Demons

‘Togethor, Patrick and Henry’s stories create one of the most compelling, nuanced and courageous portraits ever written about surviving mental illness’ The most painful part is adjusting and when you have managed to do this, you reallize you are very lucky.

Shaloah Skincare and Mr Masey’s Emporium

Shaloah Skincare Mr Masey’s Emporium for the Beardy One Natural products that we have come across both rising local Sussex companies handmaking ranges of Natural Skincare and Beard products. Shaloah Skincare – Natural products without harmful chemicals Brilliant Beard Oil by Mr Masey’s Emporium contains Mandarin and Lime

La Vera – Brighton Fusion Jazz Band

Big appologies for terrible video :), background sounds and abrupt end .. but the music was amazing and this short video doesnt do them justice, especially the trumpet player and the person playing an instrument sounding like a balalika. Playing in the market today.

Rose Hill Tavern, Brighton Sussex

The Rose Hill has been a pub since the 1870’s but it was bought by developers who wanted to turn it into luxury flats. “We have until October 2nd to raise the money to buy the pub. Community Asset status only provides protection from development for a year before another planning application can be […]

Sam

Today the London to Brighton cycle ride flowed past the entrance to our small lane and managed to get across and drive along the edge of the Downs to Clayton but as we drove along saw a lovely old collie, alone on the road, who it turned out was running away from home – worried […]

Rainbow Organic Chocolates – Brighton Open Market

Open Market – Like Tea?

We dont sell at the Open Market any more but first time we had a stall there, impressed that this new market housed many permanent small businesses, open studios upstairs (there is a lift in the corner – looks a little like getting into a white tardis) and traders like us on the big floor […]

Brighton and Lewes Downs Unesco Biosphere

Brighton and Lewes Downs are now a UNESCO World Biosphere site (Ditchling is included) UNESCO have included the Brighton & Lewes Downs internationally recognised for: We are the first completely new World Biosphere site established in the UK for almost 40 years, the first ever in south-east England and one of only a handful worldwide […]

Ozymandias

…..the lone and level sands stretch far away

Fishy Town

Brighton, a seaside town with heart of Green has two Universities and an Art and Media College with much talent and all around, much Graffiti Art but – not everything is what it seems.