Life Observed

To appreciate architecture, you must first learn to look up. To capture some forgotten nook or cranny you need to keep your camera with you. So if you spend your time looking down at your smartphone and staying connected, you may actually be missing a lot of the world, actually.

Lord and Lady Ordure faced a rebellion when they sacked Old Seth the under gardener. The remaining staff downed tools and went on strike.

T he morning after Bill and Ben's* coming out party. *You need to be a certain age...

Lord and Lady Goat-Botherer were devastated when Seth the much put upon gardener finally had enough and left without warning. His parting comments written to his employers on the old wheelbarrow full of manure were not, however, repeatable.

This is Hove.  Not Brighton. I am told that the proper name for this town is Hove-Actually. "So you live in Brighton?"  "No, Hove actually"

The bandstand on Brighton sea front attracts attention almost all day long.  People get married there in the morning. People take selfies at sunset. And after dark, it lights up. Good value for money, all in all.