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Rich Jenkins - A moan for all occasions »
Brighton: offering a more literal, less enjoyable dirty weekender
Posted on 3:59pm Monday 21st May 2012
No wonder Brighton and Hove City Council failed to find anyone to advertise on its bins. Aside from the obvious branding problems of being the company everyone associates with dog-doings, masticated chewing gum and free newspapers (*shudder*), I doubt they’d get any exposure. Nobody is using the damned things!
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Why ‘Made in China’ could eventually be good for consumers and bad for corporates seeking cheap labour
Posted on 9:26am Saturday 19th May 2012
Some people consider Made in China to be a bad thing. But, really, it's not all bad! Jo Chipchase looks at how the tables could turn on big corporates, with consumers going directly to Chinese merchants to buy cheap items that are identical to the more expensive ones sold in UK stores.
Eivind Nerberg - Walk a Pavement Once Again »
Pleasures of the Zimmer Zone part two
Posted on 1:14pm Tuesday 15th May 2012
We needn’t have gone to Rye and Lamb House in the east, or Plumpton in the north, or for that matter, Chichester and Goodwood in the west. Nor was there probably any need to see the Steine or the Palace Pier, Preston Park or meander through the Lanes. No, because we had everything we required in the Zimmer Zone.
Eivind Nerberg - Walk a Pavement Once Again »
Cash and co
Posted on 3:04pm Monday 30th April 2012
I had five minutes of fame on Southern FM thanks to Dave Cash, although if truth be told, the person I should thank is Suzi.
Eivind Nerberg - Walk a Pavement Once Again »
'Sean' likes pasties
Posted on 12:08pm Wednesday 11th April 2012
As we scanned the menu-board we overheard from behind the counter an actor's name being uttered. It was music to my ears.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Pomp and plastic: why the upcoming Diamond Jubilee is not for me!
Posted on 8:57am Wednesday 11th April 2012
Never afraid to be 'irreverent', Jo Chipchase picks up her pet topics of the hype surrounding public events and how they attract tonnes of plastic tat made in China.
Author Unknown »
First the West Pier Saga and now “Billy Bunter’s Postal Order” – is Brighton and Hove a place for prevarication and to be stuck in your car?
Posted on 3:00pm Wednesday 28th March 2012
With the nine-years-in-the-pipeline proposed redevelopment of Black Rock in the news, Jo Chipchase can't help recollecting the West Pier scenario and how it literally fell apart. She poses the question: shouldn't Brighton resolve its traffic congestion and parking issues before attracting even more people to get stuck in their cars?
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
Ad agencies bear-bait my son
Posted on 2:47pm Wednesday 28th March 2012
My son, like most four year olds, has a big imagination. In his head he plans to visit many countries, can speak many different languages and has over 100 brothers and sisters. But he is also rooted in an unshakeable reality that whatever he sees has to exist or be happening somewhere and be accessible to him. Which makes watching adverts a bit of a problem…
Eivind Nerberg - Walk a Pavement Once Again »
Our 'Jubilee' year
Posted on 1:37pm Monday 19th March 2012
Everyone was asked, which novel begins: "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically"? Only I knew the answer!
Eivind Nerberg - Walk a Pavement Once Again »
SNOW IN WORTHING...
Posted on 1:08pm Tuesday 28th February 2012
Looking back at February 2006 reminds me that at the time Suzi and were increasingly looking forward - and not enjoying it one bit. We were entering the final trimester of our year in Sussex.
Alice Wright - Reluctant Housewife »
I don't believe in ghosts... but I used to live with one
Posted on 5:57pm Monday 6th February 2012
Last Halloween my husband and I went on a tour of the ‘Haunted’ Preston Manor, billed as a Ghost Tour we thought we’d certainly get to see or sense something spooky. But despite being conducted in the dark on the night of the year the veil between the living and the dead is supposedly at its thinnest the only scary thing that happened was the fact the pubs were already shut by the time it was over.
Eivind Nerberg - Walk a Pavement Once Again »
THE BRIGHTON BUG...
Posted on 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'.
Jo Chipchase - Letting off steam »
Why airlines and other companies should stop treating customers like naughty children
Posted on 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.
Eivind Nerberg - Walk a Pavement Once Again »
BEFORE I GET TO PLUMPTON...
Posted on 12:00pm Sunday 1st January 2012
What's sadder than the passing of a year is the passing of a life.
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