June 11th

Another relaxed start saw us making an eggs benedict and taking things easy before we took a trip to lovely Lewes. The place is so beautiful and so damn close that I can’t quite work out why we’ve never been there before. It’s only down the road. It’s a great old town with a fair bit to see. The Harvey’s brewery is there for a start and there’s a funky little beer shop (sadly closed) that looked highly inviting and a great Harvey’s ale pub that we couldn’t frequent on account of having to drive and it being a little too early in the day to start drinking. There’s the original Bill’s food place too and I gotta say, it looked better than the newer one here in Brighton, I’d also imagine it’d be easier to get in to. The whole street is quaint in the way that only English villages can be and you can still see remnants of the old ways. Beth was taken by a wonderful old shop-front that still sported the original etched-glass sign ‘butter & creamery’. Brilliant. In fact I think her exact words were, “Let’s buy it, open a sweetshop and live upstairs.” You can see why I love her can’t you. There’s a merciful lack of a Starbucks or a Tesco (apparently it’s hidden away so as not to spoil the village) but there is a Waitrose, which immediately makes it a more habitable town in my view. Snob, moi? Hell yeah. They’ve even got a castle and two highly groovey looking churches, one with a spire straight out of a medieval documentary hosted by Tony Robinson and that bloke who gets all excited over Roman coins and stuff.
Naturally we looked in some estate agents’ windows and weighed up the pros & cons of a move out here. It’s a highly attractive proposition but maybe not just yet. I do so love living in Brighton and being near friends.
Back in Brighton we took our barbeque (the funky Muji one that looks like an executive attaché case and then transforms into a Barbie) and a crappy disposable one down to the beach where we cooked up sossies with Es, Neil & Katie. The sossies were grand, the company was lovely and I looked damn good with slightly singed eyebrows and a slightly smoked pallor.
That night Beth & I settled down to watch a fantastic episode of Doctor WHO and LOST. I had such a great weekend with my Beth, I’m so glad we’ve decided to allocate some of our time to us.

Tea drunk: 4
Properties mentally bought, decorated & lived in: 186 (The castle counts as 100)
Muji barbeques used: 0 (We used the crap disposable instead for some reason)