Author Archives: Diana in Chichester
Georgian Food and Wine Supper Club
A guest post from Cathy Warnock (newly arrived on Twitter as @CathyWarnock!). Following a tip from our friend Diana Morgan who found out about it via Twitter, six of us enjoyed Georgian food and wine at the Large Glass … Continue reading
Saira Khan speaks at social media event
Last week I attended the excellent event Social Media Magic, organised by Work Your Way magazine for working mums and the Londonmums network. I’m not a mum myself but I am a social media marketer and the event looked fun … Continue reading
Review of the Trooper Inn of Froxfield near Petersfield
I have grown to like Middle Eastern food more and more in recent years, dabbling in tagine cookery for want of any such eateries in my neck of the West Sussex woods. So when the Trooper Inn of Froxfield near … Continue reading
Plumbles and crumbles: a case study of the power of social media in helping a community food initiative
I’m a member of Transition Chichester, part of a network of local environment groups addressing the challenges we will all face because of peak oil. An element of this is looking at how we can increase the availability of local … Continue reading
It IS easy being green!
Kermit the frog has a lot to answer for. The title of his song about being a frog (“It’s not easy being green”) has been taken up by green “sceptics” who think it’s too much effort to adopt green habits, or … Continue reading
An inspiring talk by Joy Larkcom at West Dean Gardens
At the end of February I attended an inspiring talk by Joy Larkcom at West Dean Gardens near Chichester. Joy is the widely acknowledged guru of salad and oriental vegetable gardening and the huge range of salad leaves available nowadays, … Continue reading
My experiences at Silver Academy
In the run-up to being made redundant last September I started to consider self-employment. One recommended area to look at was Business Link, a government-run advisory service, sadly now due to be largely abolished under the cuts. I was intrigued … Continue reading
Careless talk on a train, and how I spoke out.
Yesterday I overheard a conversation featuring an outrageous comment, which I eventually decided I could not let go even though I don’t normally speak out. I was on the train to Guildford to attend an informal meeting of the Silver Academy … Continue reading
Review of Brasserie Blanc, Chichester
At 20:30 on a Monday evening this joint was almost packed, so that we could hardly hear the waitress or each other until we had tuned in to the noise level. The style of the restaurant is traditional but unfussy, … Continue reading
