Archive For August, 2009
Just Write member Mike Shreeve tried out the Just Write format on a group of teachers a few weeks ago. Mike was leading a session for TEFL teachers at a summer school. And one of the participants was so blown … Continue reading →
Hello Hove, Brighton, the world. Just Write officially launches on the blogscape. We’re meeting up on bank holiday Monday for those writers who just can’t get enough writing exercises, prompts and sharing of inner madness. If you’re coming then text … Continue reading →
I’ve always felt that business cards are important, but it can be tricky to design something that’s as useful as it is memorable.
Jack Hooker, a local graphic designer, recently put Moo.com to good use and designed some rather lovely business cards:
Are these Brighton’s best business cards?
Can Jack ever compete with this man?
Down at the beach volleyball court on Sunday, it was like a bloody zoo. Some players were coiled cobras, ready to strike at any minute; others stalked the court like panthers on a night feed, while others were greedy baboons, grabbing at balls left, right and centre. And then there was the lone meerkat, permanently [...]
I came across this rather fine video on YouTube recently of a robot playing guitar. Not an android unfortunately, but a rather fine piece of music all the same. Guitarbot comes courtesy of the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, who also have a pretty dandy array of other musical machines on display at their website.
Last day of being 37, with a birthday coming up tomorrow. Edging ever closer to 40, and still alive!
It was splish, splash, splosh down at Pride last weekend. The parade was dry, thank God; oh, how we whooped it up for the emergency gays: the gay police, the gay ambulance peeps, the gay Dyno-Rodmen (made that one up). The ‘oldest gay in the village’ got a veritable roar while the Gay Conservatives only [...]
According to Brighton Pride‘s official website, the event goes back to 1992 – the year that I first returned to the city. The funny thing about coming back here to live again is that all these moments and crossovers from my past (in this case, just the date of 1992!) keep reappearing.
The event has grown to quite some scale these days and is probably much more of a family-oriented thing than it started out as. It was also the first one I’d been to, and in keeping with this year’s spirit of checking out plenty of the things going on in the city to make up for lost time.
There was stacks of joy and exuberance on display, along with some outrageous costumes and curious characters that went past on the parade. We tagged on to the end of it as it passed us and trooped towards the park. However, it started to rain once we arrived and there wasn’t a great deal else to keep a Japanese mother-in-law hanging around for, so we headed back home again.
All-in-all though, quite a day…
