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Where on earth are we going ?
Posted on 8:24am Wednesday 16th May 2012
Last Sunday I went to the Killing Fields, on Monday it was to Antarctica and on afterwards to the Earth and Stars. On Sunday it will be back to Preston Park
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Landing Celebrities
Posted on 10:24am Tuesday 8th May 2012
Those who market Brighton Festival seem sometimes to be obsessed with the cult of image and the number of celebrities, rather than concentrating on depth and substance in the talks.
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Sods Law and a Hen Party
Posted on 6:50am Saturday 28th April 2012
Laying down the law with a hose pipe ban was an excellent move by Southern Water.
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Seedy Bankers
Posted on 10:00am Friday 30th March 2012
This time I have found a seedy banker in a country estate in Sussex sharing beds with the National Trust!
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Values
Posted on 7:44pm Saturday 17th March 2012
Knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing is not confined to bankers.
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Inbreeding on the Council
Posted on 8:37am Friday 24th February 2012
What were you doing when the Council tax was frozen? Is this the question, your grandchildren will be asking you in 50 years time. Were you sowing your seeds after Seedy Sunday or watching the eyewatering webcast?
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A Snowy,Seedy Sunday for you?
Posted on 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?
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Lottie and Stephen Hester
Posted on 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.
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£110 Lottie in a rich man's world
Posted on 9:11pm Sunday 22nd January 2012
Where are the green policies? Have the Greens knowingly agreed to allotment rentals increasing by 67% to £110?
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Mourning in Moulsecoomb
Posted on 6:55am Sunday 13th November 2011
Moulsecoomb Forests Garden has grabbed headline news this week for all the wrong reasons. Its amazing shed-a focus of the community project- has been burnt down.
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The return of the Roedale Terminator
Posted on 7:00am Wednesday 21st September 2011
If you are old, cannot saw down trees, are too handicapped to repair sheds or need to spend time with a dying relative, take care, take great care …..the terminator is coming. No one is safe, even hiding in Brighton’s beautiful Roedale Valley.
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Allotment week or “Much ado about nothing”.
Posted on 7:00am Tuesday 9th August 2011
Is there much point calling this week “Allotment week”? Surely we should have a “Waiting for Lottie” decade”?
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Monet's light summer touches.
Posted on 7:30am Monday 15th August 2011
August is the time to be with nature and let your soul catch up with your body.
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Seedy Sunday in a rich man’s world
Posted on 10:39pm Tuesday 26th July 2011
On those hot basking sunny days of August there is time to have seedy thoughts while lying back, listening to the birds and the bees, watching the wind ripple through the grass.
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