Friends

Five year old Flash Mob

Yesterday had strangest experience being in the middle of a flash mob of five year olds at Brighton Open Market. They appeared from nowhere and gathered round a Christmas tree. They were waiting to see Sleeping Beauty and her Prince turn on the Christmas tree lights. They all sung Silent Night, it was very sweet […]

Gato tenta acordar irmão dorminhoco!

By ParallelStills

Swallows and Amazon

Lift my hat to Norway

Trying to find out about the mountain peak collapse of Mount Mannen in Norway – heavy rain seems to be the cause. Old news, perhaps everyone but me already knew about it but (with a nod to my dad) – take imaginary hat off to Norway. If its true – perhaps we should all be […]

Echoes

Poverty Alliance

Thank you for passing by – Poverty Alliance It is very impressive to see how Cuba is reaching out – it doesn’t have to be about money, althou this helps, more about helping pull someone up when they are down

Whiskers – m.joy

Kids who are Different

From http://members.tripod.com/~patricia_f

Vitamin D – Could it stop modern diseases?

“An award-winning writer and scientist believes a deficiency of Vitamin D in pregnant women is behind the increase in conditions such as MS, diabetes, schizophrenia and asthma” Oliver Gillie – 2014/The Telegraph (to continue to read the article – you need to pay for a subscripton to the newspaper)

Rainbow Organic Chocolates – Brighton Open Market

Lhasa Apso and Born Free Piglet

This is ‘Fluffums’ – a Lhasa Apso Tibetan Terrier and ‘Born Free’ Pig. Met Fluffums at a market. Unfortunately as i’m learning, probably didn’t get the angle of his head right – he held it a little higher, especially around other dogs and perhaps his body should be just a little shorter. But reasonably pleased […]

Sushi Stall at Brighton Open Market

London Road Regeneration

The Open Market area in Brighton is part of London Road Regeneration…more and the original market was established by returning WW1 serviceman The market is run as a social enterprise and the 12 studio workshops include ‘Open Arts’ that provides therapeutic support and social enterprise opportunities to people with Asperger’s, Autism and Learning Disabilities through […]

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 […]

Nelson Mandela – July 18th 1918 – December 5th 2013

Nelson Mandela – “For to be free is not merely to cast of one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others”

Ura-Bon Festival

In Japan held in the middle of the seventh month – a time to pray for the peaceful rest of ancestors and is a time when deceased family members are believed to revisit the home to be reunited with their family. Little similar to Loi Krathong in Thailand and All Souls in November To guide […]

Fluf

Year ago yesterday, mid summer’s day – we lost our little Fluf. We also called him Boo boo. Funny thing the evening before on mid summer’s eve a badger ran though the garden and yesterday early outside watering and a deer ran past me through our garden. Sometimes wonder when im outside and the […]

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 […]

Pevensey Bay

On our way home, we were looking for the road that runs past Pevensey Castle and took a wrong turning and found our way down to the beach at Couden, very old fashioned seaside beach. We drove along very small single track road between the sea and Pevensey Levels on our way, many sheep […]