Morning cool, mist like drizzle, then it chucked it down.
Luckily it almost stopped as I walked to the station catch a train, as I did not wish to lug an umbrella around Brighton all day.
Odd, no one at the station waiting for the Gatwick train. Had I got the times wrong?
I soon learnt why, Gatwick train cancelled.
Myself and a lady going to Gatwick caught the slow train, and I advised her to change at Redhill.
I warned her doubtful get there much earlier, but if wait for the next Gatwick train no guarantee it will turn up, it too could be cancelled.
No station announcement to advise of this, not denouncement on the train.
Wifi not working, usb power failed.
We arrived Gatwick five minuted before the next Gatwick train would ave arrived, assuming not cancelled, assuming on time.
Train to Brighton crowded, standing room only.
I arrived Brighton one hour late.
These days, no guarantee train will turn up, or even get home, network is in chaos
A few days ago, it was announced rail fare will rise in January just short of 3%. And when they do, we will be told rail network has improved to justify the hike in rail fares.
Pass by Blend & Brew, see no one I know, owner there, I carry on to Coffee at 33.
Lunch at Coffee at 33, followed by cappuccino and cake.
New beans came in a a dustbin. Bagged, I had a bag. Only roasted a few days ago.
Coffee at 33 were not at the Brighton Coffee Festival last Sunday. I learnt why, apart from staffing issues, £1000 for a stall. Blatant rip off. Would have to sell a lot of bags of coffee to recoup. Basically it would be written off. Written off for what?
Looked in Magazine Brighton then Pelicano.
Pelicano have sold all their cosies of Drift, the London edition. Worth having if can obtains a copy. I do not though recommend the London edition of Ambrosia, a grave appointment.
Looked in The Flour Pot. Their cakes look good, but looks can be deceptive. I have tried their cookies in the past, not good and a layer of saturated fat at tee base. The Flour Pot Restaurant on by the iSore the seafront the coffee undrinkable, though compared with the tacky bars and disgusting fish n chips outlets an improvement.
Looked in Iydea. Nothing I fancied. It is depressing it has gone downhill. It was somewhere I always looked forward to eating.
Brighton Bookshop next door has been sitting derelict for months, windows covered in graffiti. It was an excellent bookshop, always interesting books in the window. A pity it was not sold as a bookshop, but I understand the owner did not even try.
Looked in Infinity Foods, picked up a couple of scones.
I raised a=once again refusal to take back Faith in Nature 5 litre containers. I learnt why, even the shop does not send them back. They are not refiled, they are recycled, therefore why send back when can send for recycling in Brighton.
Dopes this mean everyone is being conned by Faith in Nature?
Infinity Foods Kitchen once again closing early, no tables and chairs outside. The excuse this time it was raining. Maybe it was first thing in the morning, but the streets were dry and everyone else had their tables and chairs outside. Once again claimed staffs shortages.
I asked of the canned water. Met with surliness to the point of rudeness, refusal to discus.
This is a workers coop. Why do the workers not know anything? They are acting a employees.
I looked in Bond Street, coffee shop for Horsham Coffee Roasters. Keep Cup for £3, plus free coffee. Same cups as they had at Brighton Coffee Festival. If there wa san offer there,m no mention of. They do not look like Keep Cups. Ilearnt made of bamboo, cf e-coffee but a fraction of the price. Must eb a new venture for Keep Cup.
If weassume a cappuccino for £3, taht isa Keep Cup fort a pund.
Ths eKeep Cups, same aplaied to e-coffee, are not as woudl expect, very solid and feel ,ike ceramic. What I do not like are the rubbery lids and surround.
S tgeste are brabded Horsham, good marketing.
Bu they are aslo envirnamantal raesons, they are pasing out takewa coffee cups.
Soemething I ahve been arguing for some time. Compstable cups, reasuable cups, a step in he righty direction. but address sympoms. WE need tod siciaathe take away coffee sdn encouarge sit and realx with coffee served in galsss or ceramic.
Tp Balckbird in The lkanes.
Once again ai notoce cars parked in the epdatraisnied streets. Onc ecar neatly runs me dpwn as it drives past. Whilst in Blackbird I notoce cars driving through at speed, not slwo as woudl expect in a pdrasainced area, and the delivery moroms on motorbikesa nd motor scottesr. Comaplete alck of enforcennt.
Ba;ckbird is busy, but once again clsoing ealy. Sunday is a day out for pople. Clsing early is to turn away bsuiensses. I observed many turned away.
It ried an ethiopian V60 ratsted in Turkey. It was ok, not exepntiona.
Walking down to the sea front, as pot two tarffoc wadens. Iask ythem to enforce the pedatraiasned arae. It neds not only enformcnet, barriersa t the entarnce. Either bollasrds ar a gat.
TYhe safrina gale blwoing
I try Twin Pines. I was too late last week.
Excelent capuccino. On shwo guest coffee.
Back to the seafront. Buta gale blwing.
Idebce walk back to the fishn chip shop where Iha dexcelelnt haddocka dn chips last week.
Only haddock with skin. No. Haddock withs kin is vile. And they rerfused to agtke thes kin off.
To P;elican. To late fora coffee.
Whilst teghre there a woaman walks in, claims to be from of the local shops, babbled abouta scan, but the more she babbled, the elss sesne she made, elast of all what the scam was. Maybe she was the sacam.
No ticket coimnh down, I go to the ticket office to buya ticket. So sow I thought Iwould miss my train.
Pizza of the pizza van outside. OK, not grat. I woudl not recommend. he only thing a=Icoudls ay, ebbter tahn the dsigusting burger van.
Woudl thetrre be a train from Gatwick to Raeding? Luckily yes.
Wif works, usb works, but no working toits.
Sometime after leaving Gatwick, heavy rain en route.
Lukcily I do not gewt wet as has stoped when I alight from the train.
Iam so tired, feels lkek midnight, when not long goem nine.
A evry tiring day.
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