Friday Night

I think I've managed to encapsulate the typical English small town Friday night experience in five frames here. 1) Entertainment 2) Random drunken shouting 3) Violence 4) Embarrassing drunks 5) Regret, and the promise never to do it again. Then start at stage 1 again the following Friday.

Actually there is a stage 6) The kebab. And in Hastings, a stage 7) Waking up on the beach covered in seagull poo.

Beer and Music Festival

This is the week of the Hastings Beer and Music Festival, an annual event that happens in the park a block away from my back garden. I've never been to it myself, I just sit on my balcony each evening and listen. Besides I blew my music budget for the year on seeing the Pet Shop Boys at the O2 Arena last week.

It all kicks off on Thursday with the Hastings Proms, and then the beer and music occur on Friday and Saturday. The big marquee has started going up already - this photo was taken on Saturday afternoon.