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Birthday party

Yesterday I gave a birthday lunch for myself and 12 guests at the Hotel Du Vin Brighton. 13 is an unlucky number so one guest an actress bought her along her teddy to make it 14. Hosting any party involves stress: will the guests arrive on time, will  they get on, will the food and wine be [...]

March 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

Frustrations

Sometimes the things that bug us are weird and wonderful. My ancient father harbours a series of pet subjects that set him off down the cussing route – I suspect that everyone does, and that they change at various stages of our lives – and there is very little that can persuade him that his [...]

March 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

How the world works

Racial – or should I say ‘national’? – stereotypes may have become somewhat ‘non-politically correct’ in recent times, but that doesn’t mean that people refrain from either privately thinking them and/or uttering them publicly. You know the sort of thing I’m talking about, and you [...]

March 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

A corner of WW2 history

I’m spending a few days with my father on the south coast and yesterday – for want of anything better to do, desirous of getting some fresh hour after four hours in front of a computer screen in a quest to complete a substantial article – I suggested we visit the Tangmere Military Aviation [...]

March 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: the River Cafe

The River Cafe was founded by Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray in 1987 and is still going strong. Off the top of my head I cannot think of  any restaurant that has lasted so long under the same ownership. More surprisingly is that it has done so with an unpromising location in Rainville Road, SW6 between [...]

March 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

Getting on with it

Sometimes – thankfully – events conspire to remind us to park our self-absorption, reflect upon life and be thankful for small mercies. I hesitate to file this post under the heading ‘There’s always someone worse off than yourself’, but there’s an element of that in my theme today. [...]

March 18, 2015 // 0 Comments

All sweetness and light

A friend of mine’s daughter Katy runs a website called All Sweetness and Light  http://www.all-sweetness-and-life.com which broadly covers online dating.  Katy is a witty, sassy woman with a no holds barred, outrageous attitude to sex . It makes for fun reading but on a deeper level does [...]

March 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

And here’s another one …

Simply by living life we come across every aspect of it, from birth to death – and that includes all the joys, laughter, madness, frustrations, hurts, slights, triumphs, challenges and innumerable other things and situations (great and small) that affect us personally and/or cause us to reflect [...]

March 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

i360 – white elephant ?

Work has started on the 575 foot tower on the Brighton seafront opposite Regency Square and facing the defunct West Pier. Controversially the council approved a £36m loan to the architects Marks Barfield who constructed the London Eye. The repayment of the borrowing is to come from income [...]

March 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / 64 Degees: lost its compass?

We critics do have the fault of once we approve or disapprove a restaurant we do not visit it again. For sometime 64 Degrees has enjoyed a stellar reputation and I have visited the Brghton branch at least 10 times and the Pimlico the once. High standards were maintained. However I visited the [...]

March 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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