Ever wondered what your home is worth – not to sell, but to rent for short periods? Running an Airbnb business is said to be the most lucrative second income most people can get involved in. And the team at … Continue reading Find out how much your home could earn on Airbnb
Gladiators battle it out on Friday evening, August 25 in the Museum of London’s Guildhall Yard, the site of London’s only Roman amphitheatre. This blood curdling (but not blood spilling) hour long reconstruction of the gladiator-style games once held in … Continue reading Let the Gladiator Games Begin!
Mid August may not be the ideal time to think about buying garden furniture, but I fell in love with a lump of concrete and I just had to share it with you. But what a lump…Yes, every quirky, well-worn … Continue reading Three amazing sofas for the garden – and they all have tons of wow! factor
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“… when you’re talking about the music of a country, you’re talking more or less about the soundtrack of a country, the soundtrack by which people’s lives are lived,” Tyehimba Jess American poet and… Continue reading What do you call songwriters? Poets with music in their pen
The Loxwood Joust in West Sussex is billed as a Festival of Mediaeval Mayhem, but I know from my visit last Sunday that it is an extremely well-organised celebration of the 1450s with jousts and jesters, battle re-enactments and contemporary … Continue reading Take a trip to the 15th Century next weekend
Once a year Brighton erupts in an extravanance of colour and glorious good feeling. Pride is vibrant and noisy and over the top in the best possible way. Shops compete with one another in their displays – the Co-Op funeral parlour always puts on a good show – and this year Brighton & Hove buses are celebrating Pride in an original way. They have commissioned artists Art+Believe – famous for bringing to life communal spaces – to work their magic on the Old Steine bus shelter directly in front of Brighton’s inconic Pavilion. Graphic artist Daniel Doherty of Art+Believe said: … Continue reading Brighton Buzzes this weekend with Pride
This sounds so much better than a pub crawl (and I quite like pub crawls). Maggie’s Culture Crawl is a fundraising event on September 29th to raise funds for the Maggie’s cancer care centre on the grounds of Gartnavel Hospital … Continue reading Discover Glasgow as the sun sets on a Culture Crawl that raises funds for Cancer Care
It’s often said that ebooks give you the freedom to take an entire library away on holiday, but, despite the ovbious benefits, recent research reveals that British holidaymakers prefer lugging paperbacks with them rather than read off a screen. When … Continue reading Do you pack paperbacks or an ereader? Three quarters of British holidaymakers have a very strong preference
A few months ago I was sent a review copy of The Little Book of Tidying and this post has been on my To-Do for quite some time. That’s a sure sign I need to take the advice it contains … Continue reading Book Review: Tidying as a route to creativity – I’m almost a convert
When I posted information about a nationwide scheme to collect unwanted paint and give it away free, there was some raised eyebrows from Brighton readers when they discovered the city wasn’t on the list of 75 projects. Why … Continue reading BRIGHTON free paint
