Norman Road

Archive for the ‘Sussex’ Category

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.)

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.

Norman Road is featured in The Hastings Handbook, (quite rightly known as the very best guide on the South Coast), and within days, new visitors are discovering Norman Road delights.

Power of the Press!

Stop press: Monday 10th; People come all the way from Brighton to buy Dawg’s Treats after seeing them in the Hastings Handbook.