It’s the same but different. Sort of more up to date in a retro way, more shiny-shiny. And it will, when Norman stops gawping at the new banner, do more things. Which might, or might not, float your boat or biff yer beachball.

If you are nice enough to have booked marked us, please change that bookmark.

Thank you, and Enjoy!

And those rumours: well, well, well. A wallpaper designer is moving on in, which is not only niche, but eclectic, and pretty damned cool too.

The wallpaper was top tomato to Admiral Benbow

And The Admiral Benbow, which used to be a pub of questionable delights, is being done up as a showroom and residence of another designer.
(The ‘Admiral Benbow’ is the name of the pub in Treasure Island, a book by Robert Louis Stevenson, based on St Leonards and Norman Road. Allegedly.)
More as it comes! Remember: you heard it here first so it’s bound to be wrong.

Oh! Hello Observer readers. Norman Road would salute you, but Observer readers might think that a bit odd, so just Hi!

It seems that a certain Boris Johnson, a weighty panjandrum of further north, a mayor of some urban blight or other, received from his brother, 20 years ago, a Home Brew Beer kit.
Not knowing of the delights therein, he gave it back to his brother for his brother’s birthday. And got it back for his. And this kit has passed to and fro, from brother to brother for 20 years.

Obviously , and natch, this kit could not have been from BUNG HO, as it would have been put to it’s intended ambrosiacal use in the very first year, given the quality of the BUNG HO merchandise.

The prices are not going up.

(And there were lashings of Lemonade…)

Going on 3 foot (by 3 foot by 3 foot..), these amazing things are at SKYLON, now. Call 01424 445691, or check out their page for all details.

Please have a look: Hastings House new site.

The site was designed and made by the dynamic design team: Fuga (A Nearly Norman.)

From last years’s Open Studios:

“Watercolour and Gouache illustrations of Hastings and St. Leonards celebrating the diversity of a special town that is rapidly changing. Annie Rae has exhibited in London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, New York, Tokyo and most recently Borne in Holland.”

See her at McCarron’s, 68 Norman Road. (details)

McCarron’s shopfront by Annie Rae, 2008.

The face on the square one must be at least two foot across. (It’s old, before metric was invented…)

A uniquely talented FON

The first in a long list of exemplary FONs is a ceramic sculpter, Anna Keiller.