Norman Road

July 4th Cupcakes! Celebrate our American friends contributions to world cuisine with some delish, home made, extraordinarily fine cupcakes.

Available from Plenty, St Leonard’s fab new provision shop, on the sea front, (a Nearly Norman),  who have teamed up with Bush Baby Bakes, who are the creators of cup cakes.

What would be better at the end of your BBQ, to round off that summer barby?

Bombarock George has moved into her own new premises at 46 Norman Road. At last you can just go straight in and sample the delights, enjoy the design, revel in the Bomba:

As well as the skull fabric furniture upholstery, there is the fine handworked rose leather, the exquisite kid’s bags with semi goth themes, and more.

Bombarock, 46 Norman Road, St Leonards on Sea. Call 07958 611910

And, thankfully art is here: at McCarrons this coming weekend is another open studio where Selina di Girolamo is showing her work, along with drawings by Jane Marriner.

And in McCarron’s itself Chris Steele has a fab exhibition of his local watercolours, which only opened a day or so ago, and there are some left..

(and in case you missed the opening night, hmmm, the most cupcaketastic tiny, but perfectly formed, and totally delish cupcakes were from Bush Baby Bakes.)

Helena Wojtczak, the force of nature behind Hastings Press, has won a Society of Authors award for her book, “Notable Sussex Women”. This is Helena’s third writing/publishing award, which by any standards, anywhere, is pretty damned cool.

(Helena is rubbing shoulders at the Society of Authors with luminaries such as Ruth Padel, Antonia Fraser and Terry Pratchett.)

Norman Road’s boutique hotel, Hastings House, has been given 5 stars and a Golden award, which, if you know it, is richly and rightly desreved. Because it is fab, as you can see from here.

(This has lead to a mention of Norman Road on American TV, no less.  Maybe not the John Stewart Show but well up market from Oprah…)

Please be patient! We’ve moved from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org. Doesn’t sound like much huh? But to some of us it is a step on the road to being the sine qua non of South Coast blog sites, and is really exciting, ya know.

Soon all the info will be back, the Normans, the Nearly Norms, Friends of Norm, Arty Norms, Hearty Norms, they’ll all be back; dancin’ yay Dancin’ in the streets.

Hello to Plenty, our new Nearly Norman provisioner of all things good in the grocery. Found on the sea front, next door to Kassa, along from Smiths, this is a great stopping place after you’ve shopped-till-you-need-a-breath-of-sea-air.
See side bar for link.

And those rumours: well, well, well. A wallpaper designer is moving on in, which is not only niche, but eclectic, and pretty damned cool too.

The wallpaper was top tomato to Admiral Benbow

And The Admiral Benbow, which used to be a pub of questionable delights, is being done up as a showroom and residence of another designer.
(The ‘Admiral Benbow’ is the name of the pub in Treasure Island, a book by Robert Louis Stevenson, based on St Leonards and Norman Road. Allegedly.)
More as it comes! Remember: you heard it here first so it’s bound to be wrong.

Oh! Hello Observer readers. Norman Road would salute you, but Observer readers might think that a bit odd, so just Hi!

From the most popular Home Brewing shop in East Sussex, nay, in the whole of Southern England, Norman Roads BUNG HO, come s a delightful tale of thrift, of recycling and perhaps of good old fashioned Englishness.

It seems that a certain Boris Johnson, a weighty panjandrum of further north, a mayor of some urban blight or other, received from his brother, 20 years ago, a Home Brew Beer kit.
Not knowing of the delights therein, he gave it back to his brother for his brother’s birthday. And got it back for his. And this kit has passed to and fro, from brother to brother for 20 years.

Obviously , and natch, this kit could not have been from BUNG HO, as it would have been put to it’s intended ambrosiacal use in the very first year, given the quality of the BUNG HO merchandise.

Well done to all you people who already know just how wonderful McCarrons is, because they have just won a Start Up Business 2009 Highly Commended award.

The prices are not going up.

(And there were lashings of Lemonade…)

Just look a here. Gigantic Rubic Cube cupboards, one solved and one unsolved.

Going on 3 foot (by 3 foot by 3 foot..), these amazing things are at SKYLON, now. Call 01424 445691, or check out their page for all details.