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Graeme Wotherspoon
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Brighton, golden age detective books, short runs, theatre, all things art deco, houseplants (well just sansevieria tbh), Kate Bush, Doctor Who, ancient Egypt, star gazing and vegan cakes.
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Tuesday 9th December 7:30

Venue: Worthing Library Lecture Theatre Richmond Road Worthing BN11 1HD

Hosted by: Worthing Archaeological Society

Members free – non-members £4 donation (cash only)

For more info: worthingarchaeological.org/malthouse-fi... pic.x.com/cml5xur9Nx
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Friday 14 November - 7:30pm

Brighton & Hove Archaeological Society Lecture

‘Fall In, Ghosts’ - Archaeological Investigations at the site of a First World War Training Camp, Cooden, East Sussex

Venue: The Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton

Members free
Others £5 entrance charge- cash only
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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4 November 7:00pm

View from Above: Local Histories and Aerial Prospection

British Association for Local History

Free for members, £5.00 for non-members
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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We are appalled that the Marine Management Organisation has granted Brighton Marina’s Marine Licence to continue dumping dredged sludge on the sensitive chalk reefs and the other amazing marine habitats in Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone.

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May 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In honour of #EastEnders 40th anniversary, here’s its first gay kiss, which sparked tabloid outrage at the time.
Brace yourself, it’s a bit racy!
February 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 🐆🥣😳 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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💛WIN A BOLLARD💛

The most popular competition in the history of social media is back. It's the prize you've all been waiting for.

Repost and follow to be in with a chance of winning this gorgeous Monoscape Bridgeford Smooth Grey Concrete Bollard worth £252.42.
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January 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Always loved the classic Marple theme.
January 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The Frankfurt kitchen, one if the most interesting stories in design history: www.dw.com/en/how-the-f...
How the 'Frankfurt kitchen' triggered a domestic revolution – DW – 12/27/2024
Around a century ago, working in the kitchen was still cumbersome and inefficient. But then a Viennese architect had a groundbreaking idea that has endured to this day: the fitted kitchen.
www.dw.com
December 28, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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Glad to see the start of the end of annual bedding plants, bring in the salvias! #rhs www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Bedding plants to make way for more eco-friendly options in 2025, predicts RHS
Royal Horticultural Society anticipates low-maintenance edible perennials will become more popular in its new-year forecast
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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No big American budget can buy this level of celebrity.
December 20, 2024 at 12:48 PM
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Happy 78th anniversary to this diary entry from Evelyn Waugh, in which he drinks enough to hospitalise at least three of me:
Thursday 19 December 1946 I went to London by the early train. I have now reached an age when any disturbance of routine is disagreeable, and I sat misanthropic, smoking cigars, while the train lost more and more time until it halted for three-quarters of an hour in a snowstorm just outside the Paddington station. I had time to try on a suit which has taken six months to make and then went to luncheon at the Beefsteak where I talked to Harold Nicolson and Clive Bell and drank enough wine to fuddle me slightly. In that condition I went to Duckworth and signed sixteen copies of When the Going was Good for Christmas presents. Also to the travel agency who are sending me to Hollywood. At 5 o’clock there was the Beefsteak committee meeting. My candidates Maurice Bowra, Ran Antrim and Randolph Churchill all got in the latter after long discussion in which 1 Hugh Sherwood made a spirited defence and overbore two men who had come with the firm purpose of blackballing him. During the meeting I drank a lot of whisky and went rather drunk to a cocktail party given by John Murray’ where I got very drunk. Rose Macaulay attempted a serious conversation in which I did not shine. I spent most of the time with Hermione Ranfurly jeering at people who were introduced to me and ended by bearing off a diminutive man called Gibbings to White’s for champagne cocktails. From then my memory is vague but I went to bed early I think at the Hyde Park Hotel.
December 19, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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After a couple of years break, the countdown is back. The WowHaus top 30 most popular houses of 2024. The most-viewed and most-loved house finds from the WowHaus website over the past 12 months. And number one isn’t pictured here. bit.ly/4flPFrW
December 19, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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Merry Christmas, everyone 😁
December 15, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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It has been quite the year, so as a distraction from all that here are my WTF TV news moments from 2024 ✨
December 10, 2024 at 9:27 AM
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“Weymouth.” Vintage railway poster (cropped). Color lithograph, ca. 1931. Produced by the Southern Railway to promote train services to Weymouth, Dorset. Artwork: Henry George Gawthorn (British; 1879–1941).
March 25, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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Modernism in Coventry, 1937
November 16, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Putting up the christmas decorations.
A Lego Nativity scene, with an array of Daleks and K-9
December 8, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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Hopefully not snowed in...
November 19, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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... Tomorrow... Saturday, 4.10pm, on BBC2... and then on the iPlayer... it's the premiere of the beautiful new restored version of the film.

Perfect. That's your weekend sorted.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
BBC Two - I Know Where I'm Going!
A headstrong girl who intends to marry for money finds love in a Scottish coastal town.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2024 at 4:43 PM
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It was such a relief to see different people & to think of the possibility of reading novels & drinking wine again.
November 14, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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Autumn fungi everywhere
November 12, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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Greatly enjoying DVD boxset of Colditz, though the studio lighting of the castle courtyard could have been better. Chaps in uniform, top notch, inc. Peter Penry-Jones (father to Rupert).
Cover of colditz dvd
November 12, 2024 at 6:12 PM