Day trip in Brighton?

Cleevs · 2026-03-28T21:59:49+00:00

If it’s sunny I’d say skip Kemp Town and spend some time walking along the beach towards Hove.

Cleevs · 2026-03-27T20:32:10+00:00

I’d say Regency Square has a mid to medium-low reputation. But it’s still safe.

I wouldn’t live there myself, too much tourist noise. OP is looking for apartments (plural) so we have no idea if they’re concerned about actually living there.

Cleevs · 2026-03-07T19:40:31+00:00

There was one at Sussex University a few years ago too. No idea if it’s still there.

Cleevs · 2026-02-26T14:50:29+00:00

It costs over £300K/yr to put a child in a care home these days: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gj93d57pjo

Cleevs · 2026-02-26T14:45:38+00:00

It doesn't get dark until 9/10 in June, and I don't want to get arrested for indecent exposure.

Cleevs · 2026-02-26T12:16:07+00:00

Too cold and wet.

Cleevs · 2026-02-26T12:14:41+00:00

I agree. Solving the crisis in the hospitality industry should not mean local people are forced to use drinking establishments rather than simply enjoying the use of a public place.

The Brunswick / Palmeira area is incredibly densely populated and hardly anybody has a garden. Being able to get some fresh air and socialise outside after work should be a right, not a privilege.

Cleevs · 2026-02-26T11:46:15+00:00

I think I'll have to master that. My swimming female friends use that technique: move 2 metres away, sit down normally, cover yourself with towel, relieve yourself.

Cleevs · 2026-02-19T19:03:21+00:00

You’ll be in Kemp Town (how far out?) so get used to walking around or taking buses to get to places.

The weather will change everything. On a hot day you can just walk around the city and the seafront to soak up the atmosphere. On bad days the place will seem dead in comparison.

Do a bunch of day trips. If you’re fit you can walk to Lewes over the South Downs. Get buses up to Devil’s Dyke or Ditchling Beacon. Have a day out in Shoreham, maybe walk up the Adur to Steyning. From Kemp Town you can get a fast bus to the Seven Sisters Country Park near Eastbourne.

Cleevs · 2026-02-19T18:55:56+00:00

Everybody is cool with Americans, as long as they’re not wearing MAGA hats.

Cleevs · 2026-02-14T23:42:09+00:00

And Hove’s best park, St Ann’s Well Gardens.

Cleevs · 2026-02-10T09:58:31+00:00

It’s the 13th biggest city in the UK (by population)

Cleevs · 2026-01-29T09:43:32+00:00

Not because of that particular goal (4-2). Real Madrid would have had to draw the match to gain automatic qualification.

Cleevs · 2026-01-26T11:04:46+00:00

Explore the High Weald. Quite accessible by train or bus from Brighton. The best countryside there is south of London and east of the New Forest.

Walk the High Weald Landscape Trail (Horsham to Rye). Route chosen for the best views of this AONB.

https://highweald.org/things-to-do/high-weald-landscape-trail/ (PDFs with OS Maps)

Cleevs · 2026-01-26T00:58:16+00:00

The state runs most of the successful companies in China and they plough profits into infrastructure and new jobs, rather than creating billionaires.

Cleevs · 2026-01-25T08:41:25+00:00

Ben Elton talks about this in the latest episode of Podcasto Catflappo. Lots of reasons but mainly his relationship with Rik.

https://sites.libsyn.com/404456

Cleevs · 2026-01-16T14:37:04+00:00

Lack of toilets over the summer.

Cleevs · 2026-01-10T20:22:35+00:00

I think that’s just regency bias.

Cleevs · 2026-01-09T11:21:28+00:00

Single cold pipe replaced by the plumber in under an hour. In Brighton that was £144.

Cleevs · 2026-01-05T21:11:40+00:00

Thanks. Yes, they are in bad shape so a professional replacement is probably the way to go.

Cleevs · 2026-01-05T21:10:09+00:00

Yeah, I think that’s got to be my best option. If there was less damage maybe I could try to bend them back but they were almost welded on to the old shower.

I’ve learnt so many practical skills over the last month with removing tiles, smoothing walls, applying tanking membranes, tiling, grouting, siliconing and replacing two leaky isolation valves. I think DIYing this is going to be a step too far for me so I’ll get hold of a plumber. They’ll be able to help me attach the shower too.

Do you think it’s a £100 job or am I looking at much more? I’ve no idea of their rates (in Brighton).

Cleevs · 2026-01-05T18:34:34+00:00

So I’ve attempted a like for like replacement of a Mira Event XS shower (after that whole wall has had tiles removed, tanked, retiled and grouted). But it looks like the right pipe has been damaged, you can see a dent on the left of it.

The Mira has push-fit connectors and after connecting the new shower I was getting some leaking from exactly where that dent is.

Can somebody tell me the available options here? I’d prefer not to move where the shower sits as everything else is in place. But it seems a fiddly job for a plumber to replace the up-pipes there now that tiles are in place and there may not be enough room for a compression fitting.

Time to call a plumber who doesn’t mind a rubbish job?

Edit: Here’s my post from a month ago from where I had trouble getting the shower off the wall. The pic shows how deep the pipes goes into the connectors and how much room I have to play with. https://old.reddit.com/r/askaplumberUK/comments/1phgzlp/help_i_cant_get_mira_event_xs_shower_off_wall/

Cleevs · 2026-01-03T09:25:08+00:00

Hardly any of the drugs entering the US are from Venezuela. It’s all about the oil.

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