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I've seen two different areas referred to by locals as Hollingbury. One I think of as more towards Hollingdean and one I think of as more towards Patcham. Not being a native of that area where are the centre and boundaries of Hollingbury?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2022/nov/01/david-squires-wins-for-small-guys-brighton-chelsea-graham-potter-football

So say the Grauniad https://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2021/jul/29/premier-league-transfer-target-club-summer-window Well should we?

Remarkable programme on BBC2 last night. A very moving story of abuse, fame,mental illness, addiction and love. Watch it.

I'm in Belgium for a few days this week. Any recommendations for beer and sightseeing?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44871578 BBC headline on their front page is that over policing contributes to fan tension. Well no shit.

On one of my infrequent visits back to Hove this morning I popped into Waitrose for some craft beer and a bag of organic rye flour. As i had yet to breakfast i stopped at the cafe for a decaff and muesli whereupon i was delighted to hear a mutlitude of languages. A large table of arabic speakers...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/27/football-quiz-name-the-player-or-manager-in-the-suit I got 13/20 edited to fix broken link

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-one-mans-bad-math-helped-ruin-decades-of-english-soccer/

Looking at BGs thread about meat and veg cafes got me thinking how few meals i eat that look like the sort of fare the English side of my family sat down to when i was a kid. I can remember my gran serving up meat and two veg at every dinner. Now whoever i visit, it's all pasta, or rice or...

I need to buy some beer for a family get together over Xmas. Where's a good place to buy real ale/ craft beer. Any local breweries have good shops. I need a reasonable amount so a choice other than bottles would be good too.

What does NSC put out on the table/tray/floor/trough to accompany their everyday meals? For me it's black pepper, a bottle of hot sauce and some home made pickeled chillies.

Oh mighty sage that is nsc. Where is a good area to find reasonable priced food suitable for me and the kids within a reasonable distance of the British Museum ( Bloomsbury) . The more exotic the better.

On TV I rely on the BBC mostly, but increasingly look at Al Jazeera for an alternative view.I've virtualy given up on print, 5 years ago I bought both local and national papers, now i look at online editions of the Guardian And Telegraph. If it's an international story I''l check out the...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10785963/Ukip-posterboy-suspended-after-claiming-Miliband-not-British.html Reminds me of this from the Simpsons

Just watching Murray's fantastic comeback in the tennis got me wondering who is the best sportsman or woman Britain has atm. I realise it's a bit sports personality of the year, but if you take into account form over a longer period and leave out the personality contest who would you have as...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22275280 A bit of good news to brighten up the day, though I'm sure people will find something in the report to get upset about.

For me anywhere past the downs is up north but THE North is anything North and West of a line that runs roughly from Norwich to Gloucester

What with the nutters on the right of the Tory party attacking their own leader, the fallout over lords reform and Clegg trying to shore up support for his party with popularist tax the rich proposals surely CMD, The Worst Chancellor in History and the rest of the chimps tea party will be on...

Here's an interesting little chart from the OECD Odd that the those on the right bang on about employment laws in this country holding us back.