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The Jetty restaurant /Brighton Harbour Hotel

Brighton seafront is getting a makeover. On Thursday the 360 i tower with the highest viewing platform in the UK is unveiled at a cost of £32m. It’s a controversial project but one of its aims is to improve the area between the Pier and the Hove border line which has become run down. [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Malmaison revisited

I do pride myself when there is a new hotel or restaurant that I  ensure a follow up. I went to the Malmason f0r breakfast in the week .On arrival the manager had his back turned and was on the phone and noone attended to us. Bad mark. It took some time to supply a menu   . Another bad mark. [...]

July 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

A cock-up that led to a fun day

After a poor beginning my yesterday tuned out to be both fruitful and enjoyable. As arranged, at 10.00am my pal Patrick pitched up to collect and take me to a business meeting an hour later. We duly presented ourselves at the office reception and, after a wait until at least ten minutes beyond our [...]

July 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

A mid-afternoon incident

Here’s the latest in my occasional reports from the front line of recovering from a hip replacement operation. Yesterday I had nothing more planned than a ‘slow’ day at home – this after 48 hours of ‘not doing so well’ that involved a work-related outing requiring a couple of hours [...]

July 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

Drugs – it’s one way or the other

No apologies here for posting another round in the Rust‘s reporting of sports cheating via the use of performance-enhancing drugs and yes, it concerns Russia and the 2016 Rio Olympics which begin about a week from now. My subject today is not the fact that my old pal Vladimir Putin who [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Banking nightmare

Yesterday in the early afternoon when I normally take a nap I thought I would see what was in my current account after a cash withdrawal. I saw a payment to John Lewis on line which I could not recall. I thought it may have been a late reference to an  earlier payment as, like many on the Rust, I [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Time – and coming to terms with it

Yesterday the media was running a story about the results of a survey commissioned by housing finance specialist Homewise. Apart from a worrying general conclusion that over 10% of participant Over-60 retirees were dissatisfied with their lives, financial worries and/or ‘a sense of not having [...]

July 28, 2016 // 0 Comments

Southern Discomfort

Most readers, I suspect, know that the Southern railway service is chaotic, less that the Ministry of Transport effectively has taken over the service and plays Govia the franchise holder a management fee. The previous rail minister Claire Perry has resigned. No reason was given but a friend said [...]

July 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Three steps forward and then … er … one going nowhere

By Friday afternoon this week it will have been exactly a fortnight since I had my hip replacement operation and my post today is a report upon how things have been going. This is not going to be heavy stuff – I’m nothing special in the category of those who have had hip replacements and I very [...]

July 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Who are the stakeholders?

There was much coverage yesterday of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report that the cost of child care is putting some families below the minimum wage. This follows hard on the comments of Andrea Leadsom that because of her children she is more of a stakeholder in society than Theresa May. I found [...]

July 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

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