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Mrs Cottager is planning a fun day out tomorrow along the Old Shoreham Road, shopping for bathroom tiles and possibly sofas. I'm expected to be in attendance. We always used to go to the tile shop on New England Street on the site now occupied by the yuppie tower block. Any recommendations for...

Has anyone else's power just gone off?

In case you're planning any jaunts northwards next weekend, the M25 Junction 10-11 & vice versa is closed from 9pm Friday night to 6am Monday morning for bridge demolition works. A laughable diversion is in place. Be warned.

This looks interesting. BBC News - Newhaven Parker Pen project will celebrate working class heritage https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-68350200 An incredibly important part of Newhaven's and the UK's heritage. I've inherited my dad's special Parker pen and I got it renovated so I...

There are engineering works this weekend and trains to London are going via Shittlehampton / LA (or buses from Lewes) adding an hour to the journey (may affect any of you going to Sheffield). Does anyone have any recommendations for places near to 3 Bridges to park, please? Ta.

..on at the Concorde 2 tonight. Worth seeing? I've heard the Ramonas are good.

My car doesn't have a spare wheel - full size or space saver. I used one of the cans of filler when I got a flat but didn't feel comfortable driving with it and would like a spare wheel. Any recommendations for local places to get them please, cheaper than the £192 from Kwikfit? Ta.

I'll be fully togged up in waterproofs.

Buses replace trains between Three Bridges and Brighton (& Lewes) on Sunday. Direct trains going via Littlehampton.

Turning to NSC for advice on accompanying your offspring to University Open Days. We're going up to MASSIVE Leeds today. I'm pretty much going to follow this advice and ask about accommodation options not just in the first year as I know this is a massive problem in some places. Also any...

I'm off to Palace this afternoon and wondering if anyone can recommend any prematch culinary / pub / cultural highlights in the vicinity. On my last visit, I went to a home pub called The Albion (!) and it was rubbish (& hot as I had to keep my jacket zipped up over my Fulham top). Sensible...

He was a divisive character: - the first foreign owner of a football club - 'sharp' in business (shafted Lonrho for Harrods) - pissed off the Royal Family mightily (& never got a UK passport as a result) - wanted to make Fulham the 'Man Utd of the south') - was a mate of Micheal Jackson and...

I'm going to be visiting Stonehenge next week for the first time in 5 decades. I understand you can't go right up to the stones now but has anyone on here been recently and got any tips? I'm going with my 17yo daughter (who is into history). Also thinking of going into Salisbury. Cheers.

While browsing the Fulham equivalent of NSC, I came across a link to this thread about the cheapest way to get an Annual Gold Card that gives discounted rail travel all the way up to Birmingham. I'm unsure what advantages a Gold Card has over a Network or Senior (or other) railcards but it may...

I was revisiting the excellent Roger Bamber photography exhibition at the Brighton Museum yesterday and noticed there's this free event you may be interested in on 16th September: https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/event/celebrating-brighton-hove-albion-football-club/

We're supposed to be going to London on Saturday on the train - a RMT Strike day. The National Rail planner is still showing lots of trains running. Does anyone have any experience of what it was like yesterday? (Edit: I know there are rail workers who post on here) How many trains cancelled...

I want to take a mate who used to be a keen golfer until alcohol and an achilles injury intervened to a seafront crazy golf course. I can think of 3: King Alfred dinosaurs, Palace Pier Pirates and the Peter Pan one. Has anyone played these courses and can they recommend one or the other? Thank...

The Hastings campus, Willingdon playing fields have been sold, Eastbourne campus about to be, Virgin Active in Falmer repurchased, lecturers have been on strike and taking other industrial action for months over pay, casualisation and now possibility of compulsory redundancies and the threat /...

Anyone else go? The Dome was packed to hear the British / Nigerian historian / TV presenter talk about Empire, Colonialism, race, Brighton and Hove. Personally, I wasn't surprised or shocked to hear most of what he said as I've watched some of his excellent telly programmes and read his...

Unfortunately, I have to spend a lot of time on the M25 and just want to warn you all there's a horrendous pothole in the clockwise lefthand lane in the speed restricted section near J10 for the A3. It's just before the slip road joins after you've gone under the bridge. I've gone down it twice...