Day 3

Of Blogvember.

Not needed for work today, so had a quick look at the sea (Hove end), then back to sorting stuff for Etsy. These pictures were actually taken in mid October, hence the startlingly blue skies (and lack of pebbles – which are all over the place today.) The statue is relatively new. It’s called ‘Flight of the Langoustine’, by a Brighton sculptor Pierre Diamantopoulo and has only been on the Hove plinth for a month or so. I love the energy of the thing – life size human figures, escaping into the air through a metal grid. It was apparently inspired by a discarded lobster pot.

I have heard mutterings about the £135K it is said to have cost and I suppose the timing is unfortunate right now but it is a major piece of bronze which must have been commissioned years ago – so much work involved.

I seem to have slept through the remains of storm Ciaran last night, which is not like me. But there does seem to have been more damage in Brighton than I quite realised – the roof of the big Boots by the clocktower became unsafe, so that the whole of North Street (major thoroughfare) had to be closed, which then meant re-routing the buses along the seafront – which cannot have pleased the drivers. There were several shops closed/opening late in the centre this morning while they dealt with leaks – in one case there was water coming down through three empty flats above the shop. The built environment in our city does have its downside – so much of it is old – elegant and beautiful, but what one builder described to me as ‘Victorian spec. jerry building.’ I think he was exasperated, dealing with the notorious Brighton Bungaroosh!