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A Snowy,Seedy Sunday for you?

The Seed Swap Scrum

1:15pm Friday 3rd February 2012

How will you keep warm on Sunday , if it’s a cold, snowy, seedy Sunday? Who will you keep warm with?

THE BRIGHTON BUG...

4:25pm Monday 30th January 2012

When I left the call-centre with my prize-winning bottle of white wine, little did I know that I'd never be back...and apropos my previous post and Christopher Hitchens, a thanks to 'anubis'.

Lottie and Stephen Hester

A bonus fit for 2800 people for 6 years

8:30am Sunday 29th January 2012

The bonus for Stephen Hester, RBS, on his basic –yes basic compensation of £1.2 million -is worth £963,000. Interestingly this bonus would fund the cost of allotment rentals for all 2,800 tenants for 6 years. It certainly is a rich man’s world.

Lord of the Rings: War in the North

Lord of the Rings: War in the North

1:30pm Monday 23rd January 2012

Games reviewer Dayvid Ryan takes a look at the computer game version of Lord of the Rings

Beyond the city limits

1:01pm Monday 23rd January 2012

Purdue University Carl Sommer shares his opinions on Stanmer Park, Falmer, London and Oxford as he explores beyond the Brighton city limits

£110 Lottie in a rich man's world

A typical allotment

9:11pm Sunday 22nd January 2012

Where are the green policies? Have the Greens knowingly agreed to allotment rentals increasing by 67% to £110?

The importance of language and terminology

9:59pm Saturday 21st January 2012

this below is by Dr Robert Harvey Cowe -- part of his Doctoral Thesis in Disability & Society: Vol. 27, No. 1

Hippies and the Pavilion

5:20pm Monday 16th January 2012

Purdue University student Carl Sommer is on a six-month exchange visit to University of Sussex. In his second week in Brighton, he discovers hippies and the non-godless

Why airlines and other companies should stop treating customers like naughty children

But where is the complementary sandwich?

11:35am Monday 16th January 2012

Customer service from airlines and other companies in the UK has taken a nosedive during the last few years. Jo Chipchase casts forth on why they should stop treating us like wallets to empty, naughty children and prize chumps.

In praise of giving up

2:35pm Friday 13th January 2012

I've been going through my Psychologies mag 2011 pocket life coach booklet, found while tidying up and not looked at until last week. Procrastinate? Me? There's a section on ridding yourself of mental clutter. Now, a lot of life coaching is about resurrecting old dreams and making them a reality if they are truly our heart's desire. Valid stuff. Also valid is "giving up on any burdensome aspirations - the vague ones that have been hanging over you for years - that aren't definite goals, and just serve to make you feel bad". Hurrah! What common sense.

American in Brighton – Starting out

4:13pm Wednesday 11th January 2012

Purdue University student Carl Sommer arrived in Brighton on January 4, 2012, and is studying at University of Sussex during his six-month exchange visit. Carl is sharing his experiences as he discovers Brighton


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Opinion, Satire and Whimsy

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Alison Thomson - Great Train Blogger

Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife

Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam

Lulu Devine - Devine Inspiration

Maggie Gordon-Walker's Pet Peeves

Mel Nowocin - Memories of 80s Brighton

Quentin Delahunty - Brighton. Liberal. Creative.

Eivind Nerberg - Walk a Pavement Once Again.

Health and Wellbeing

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Stevie Cooke - weightloss guineapig

Ron Sharratt - Blue Badger

Jody Raynsford - Desert runner

Karen Macmillan - More to Life

Women

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Sarah Sharp - Brighton Fashionista

Claire Banks - Contented Mummy

Amy Lavelle - No sex in the city

Film

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Popcorn Double Feature

Owain Paciuszko - Seat 13

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The Great Outdoors

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Alan Phillips - Life with Lottie

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Lisa Rodrigues - Pedal Power for Pakistan

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Julia Chanterey - small business advice

Melanie Farmer and Mike Herd - SINC

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Tim Hodges - Put Those Floodlights Out!

Jim Stewart - Eastbourne Borough

Kieran Ridley - Lewes FC

Colin Bowman - World Cup Fever

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