Please vote in this poll (below) to help me decide if Donatello's Restaurant in Brighton is witty and knowing or simply shite. Prawn Cocktail - soggy prawns, probably defrosted under a worn tap, gloopy-snot sauce, limp lettuce Garlic Mushrooms - floating in vegetable oil, like turds in the med. Pizza -  half a pound of dehomoginised economy cheddar saturating the dough with oil And ...

Who would have thought it? there is a battle raging in the world of recycling. Firstly, at the start of this week,  a freecycle splinter group was formed GreenCycleSussex . This is the moderators from Brighton Freecycle going it alone. Then, some dude called Larry informed me that the original freecycle group is still going. So, who, what, why? It is ...

The Great Escape Diary - Day 2 It feels rather bizarre cooping onself in the dingey confines of the Arc on a grey afternoon to watch bands, at least at most other festivals you're in a field, here you're where you would be on a Thursday night, except not drunk and - in my case - clutching a much ...

Watch Your Language, Lady

Sunday Lunch at the Earth and Stars 26 Windsor Street, Brighton The perfect vegetarian Sunday lunch is a hard thing to achieve, but it seems the Earth and Stars have come incredibly close.  Plumping for a vegbox pie which arrived like a fortified castle, surrounded by seven different seasonal vegetables and drowned, generously in gravy, it was - ...

It had been building for some time, but it really came into focus one Sunday afternoon as I sat reading the Observer magazine in a moment of post-log-off relaxation. In it, Steve Coogan was pictured drinking tea from a polystyrene cup in the middle of a road, the inference being that this represented a moment of singular focus in his ...