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Rural Idyll and the Towner Art Gallery
“On Foot on the East Sussex Downs: 18 Short, Medium and Long Walks Near Brighton, Eastbourne and Lewes” (Ben Perkins) The train sped on and we lost this rural retreat as we met the shabby sprawl that has become eastbourne and walked tot eh Towner art Gallery. A Gallery that has lost much of its charm, as it somehow seems both out of place and unfinished, unclear and undirected, with its tiny shop (compare it to the one in Brighton Library, never mind the one in Brighton Museum and Gallery) and wanting us to pay to go to an exhibition that it was hard to know might be worthwhile to see. … There art of the General collection is good and as a start for children it is worth the trip, but there was more art in those first flat fields of sheep as we left Lewes, but then perhaps there always is and Mount Caburn could never lost its soul.
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Wood Burning, fires, logs, paper log makers and other eco guilt gadgets
I would like the small open fire in my sitting room to be a wood burning stove, but the cost is prohibitive as I must get the chimney lined and for a small wood burner and the lining I would pay around £1300. … Most carbon neutral policies displace increases in combustion of carbon fuels but that merely slows the increase of atmospheric carbon -which is not “neutral”-. ( permatopia.com ) I remember once having one of those gadgets that compress wet paper and make paper bricks you can burn, much like the one below.
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Bespoke suit from Raja Fashions – Don’t do it
So I am getting married in a couple of weeks, just a small family get together with a few friends. I have been married before so this is a UK
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Choosing a steam iron
Unfortunately you can’t get black and decker irons in the UK, at least not the good ones. So I bought the tefal ultraglide 60 (not the 50 or the 70…which
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Its OK, I dont like Cats either!
I really dont like cats for a long time I thought it was because one had bitten and scratched me when i was younger. However i relaised it was because
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