You know it’s going to be a good day at the office when you get an email that starts: “Hey, I’ve got a secret about Brighton you might…
Before lockdown, Brighton hosted a dazzling exhibition on David Bowie called Rock n Roll with Me. It features rarely seen behind-the-scenes photographs of Bowie and crew on the road…
It seems there’s a dark side to every occasion, even Valentine’s Day. Today I spent the morning looking at vintage valentine’s cards and ended up discovering a twisted world…
I just discovered a website called the Vintage Valentines Museum which has every type of card you could imagine. Here are a few of my favourite quirky ones I…
Making Dali famous is quite a big deal. For Edward James, ‘The English Surrealist’, this wasn’t his only achievement. You could say he brought surrealism to the…
Rifling through a suitcase of old postcards in a Brighton thrift shop recently I discovered this colourised one I was immediately drawn to. The beautiful building, the flowers,…
So many questions spring to mind when I look at this photo of an African lady sporting full Victorian-style dress in the hot desert heat. Some more frivolous…
If you thought today’s Apple stores, those vast sleekly designed spaces used as shrines to the iPad, iPhone, are the first Apple stores in history, it’s time to…
A couple of weekends ago, I visited a friend across town (near this hidden gem) and I spotted a blue plaque which read: ‘Violet and Daisy Hilton nee…