REVIEW: Little Elephant
When you’re away from home seeking a refuel at lunchtime, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to avoid ‘smashed avocado’. This culinary totem of Britain of the 2020s possibly started when people realised that the chances of getting neat slices out of a slightly over-ripe avocado were slim to zero. And it sounds better than ‘oops, I-mushed-it-to-bits-by-mistake’ […]
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REVIEW: Where the grass is always greener
There is one modest oasis of green among the baked yellow-brown lawns which lie dormant under the relentless sun. The grass at Motcombe Gardens is still the correct English summer green. It is a startling sight to drought-weary visitors as a hosepipe ban comes into force. I only noticed this verdant phenomenon, pictured below, when looking […]
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REVIEW: Old Town Recreation Ground, Eastbourne
‘The Rec’ means, as we all know, a recreation ground. And ‘the Rec’ also often means a rectangle of bare ground, tufts of grass, maybe a climbing frame, possibly some crooked goal posts, often a weed-spattered stretch of tarmac which may be meant for ball games. It frequently connotes an urban spot, populated with imbibers […]
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REVIEW: The Sovereign Centre, Eastbourne
A large part of Eastbourne’s charm is that it doesn’t trouble itself with any more of the 21st century that it absolutely has to. So there is an airy new extension to the shopping centre and pale-brick pavement and road combo, but still plenty of very English cafes serving stuff with beans and B&Bs which […]
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REVIEW: Top deck of the 12X bus from Eastbourne to Brighton
By Rebecca Maer There are three main reasons to travel by bus to Brighton rather than drive: 1. The ability to gaze lingeringly at rolling downland, a coastal panorama and the skyscape without a head-on collision 2. The voyeuristic frisson from the top deck with a grandstand view of other people’s gardens and, if you’re […]
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