Lianne Hall, who runs the Music Club at West Hill Hall and deals with all the bookings, is warmly welcomed back to Seven Dials after a 3 month writer-in-residency at an Arts Centre in Germany. Richard Ford, an ex-postie who used to live in Centurion Road and who normally delivers The Whistler, has been ill [...]
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SPOTTED ROUND THE DIALS
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Clifton Road, Kevin Freeman, Lianne Hall on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
SPOTTED NEAR THE DIALS
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Brighton & Hove Business Speed Networking, Kevin Freeman, Renaissance Design, Santa’s Tickly Tale on December 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I met Kevin Freeman at the Brighton & Hove Business Speed Networking show mentioned in the Oct/Nov edition and there was something about this stylish and gentle man that I wanted to find out more about. Kevin is the creative powerhouse behind Renaissance Design, a truly multi-talented Renaissance man, a dress, costume and installation designer. [...]
THE CAROLINE LUCAS TAPES
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Caroline Lucas, Green Party, Montpelier Crescent, MP, Parliament, St Ann’s Well Gardens, St Nicholas Church Green Spaces, Westminster on October 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Pizza Girl is on holiday this month but we have an exclusive and probing interview by 8-year-old Hermione Fisher-Gate of Guildford Road with our MP Caroline Lucas. Are the queues long at the Westminster canteen? Do they have vegan options of the day? I haven’t spent a great deal of time there so far – [...]
DAME HERMIONE LEIGHT-RANT
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Dame Hermione Leigh-Rant.Cafe Lyons, Guardian Cappuccino Index, Szechuan on August 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pizza Girl is currently away completing her regeneration of St Leonards-on-Sea. In this edition we welcome new West Hill Road resident and guest gossip writer, Dame Hermione Leigh-Rant D.F.L. Phew! What a special super, sizzling, sun-soaked summer it has been. Over in sweet little St Leonards-on-the Sea Pizza Girl and her house guest Biggins have [...]
SPOTTED ROUND THE DIALS
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Seven Dials, World Cup on August 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
We’re starting an occasional series, and we welcome your contributions to it. Send us images of things (objects, sights, people) that catch your eye round the Seven Dials, West Hill, or anywhere you live. During the World Cup, there were many manifestations of the Cross of St George, the most striking one of which I [...]
PAUL McCARTNEY IN THE WEST HILL TAPES
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
West Hill Community Association committee members Ray, David and Vinod had just left. It was a shame really because they would have gotten to meet Paul McCartney. Their early departure meant they were to miss the best party since my return from both St Leonards-by-the-Sea and my pilgrimage to Mecca. Casser Lucas had brought me [...]
PIZZA GIRL’S ST LEONARDS DIARY
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Biggins, Gordon Busbridge, Hastings, Pizza Girl, SEDA, St Leonards-on-Sea on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PG is presently NON DOM whilst on secondment to Hastings Borough Council where she is using her expertise and dynamism to support the regeneration of St Leonards by the Sea. Her trusty house guest Biggins, as usual, is at her side. March 11 Moving my third home to St Leonards by the Sea has probably, [...]
2010 WITH PIZZA GIRL
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Biggins, Caroline Lucas, Sarah Pacini, Seven Dials, Steve Coogan on January 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to Julia Roberts Brighton has become ‘Camden-locked’, a lampooning spoof parody of uber-trendy London lifestyle retail emporia. Hugh nodded and Biggins bellowed and guffawed in agreement. “That is why Hugh and I moved to the West Hill Dials because it’s so original, so individual, quirky and idiosyncratic. It reminds us of our days when we met in Notting Hill.” Hugh nodded in [...]
THE STRICTLY XMAS PIZZA GIRL EDITION
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Biggins, Bruno Toniolli, KFC, Len Goodman, Not The Nine O'Clock News, Pond’s Institute, Seven Dials on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of my all time favourite odours has to be the delicate pungency of a KFC. The allure of this tang has been known to draw me off course down to Western Road purely to inhale its intoxicating delights. Occasionally, far too occasionally for my liking, when the thermals are in the right direction, the [...]
THE GYLES BRANDRETH ATE MY HAMSTER EDITION
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Biggins, Billy Bragg, Caroline Lucas, George Clooney, Gordon Ramsay, Groucho Club, Gyles Brandreth, Nick Cave, North Laine, Sam Metcalfe, Seven Dials, Shami Chakrabatti, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, The Tin Drum, Tingley's, Tony Uden, Twitter, West Hill on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gyles Brandreth, Biggins and Gordon Ramsay were all staying with me at my West Hill duplex last weekend. It was the event of the Seven Dials summer anyone who was there will tell you how hilarious it was. Gordon had wanted some ideas for new TV projects in the US, Brandreth or ‘Bandwidth’ as Biggins [...]
PIZZA GIRL IN A EUROSTAR SAVELOY PARTY ADVENTURE
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Biggins, Brasier and Antcliffe, Brighton, Caroline Lucas, Eurostar, Melvyn Bragg, Pizza Girl, Saga, Stanislavski, West Hill on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A cut-out-and-keep Gossip and Grumble No 32 My Saveloy Party was probably, definitely, the event of the summer. Way beyond just A-list celebs, we had the whole alphabet there. It started, like all good parties, spontaneously, without planning and pretty unexpectedly. My long-term ‘house guest’ Biggins and I were travelling by Eurostar, returning from a [...]
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING AGAIN
Posted in 4 Gossips & Grumbles, tagged Biggins, champagne, credit crunch, UGG on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have had literally hundreds of emails thanking me for guest editing the last edition of this multi-award winning newspaper. In particular, the plaudits have been pouring in for my credit crunch busting tips. Many of you said that the article has already saved you thousands of pounds. I am incredibly touched and humbled that [...]
