A Place Called Providence

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We’re a FON member here at Providence Towers. That means we joined the FONEROS and got a cute little wireless router for free. Then we plugged it into our ordinary wifi router, turned it on and offered the world wireless access outside our windows. The FON router creates two networks, a private one that [...]

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Our new coffee shop opened today - mostly. We went up for a cup (Graeme was the first ‘repeat’ customer) and met the crew. It’s early days for them. They had a lot of cakes, not enough seats and no wi-fi. But they pledge wi-fi soon and we’re going to go help them out [...]

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The Costa website lauds their coffee:
Costa Coffee
Some people would call our pursuit of the perfect cup of coffee an obsession. Do we care? No, because nothing less will do. Our Italian Master Roasters (the only three in the UK) spend their lives selecting the finest beans and roasting them to perfection. To prepare our coffee [...]

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So the holy BBC came to our neck of the woods to record Question Time
in our wonderful church. They parked their big lorries all around our
little turning, and we didn’t mind. They parked their security guy’s
camper on the church parking place and why would we care. But next
morning they parked a fucking great 4WD lump [...]

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The BBC are recording Question Time next door in St. Bartholomew’s today.

Pity we don’t have tickets. We’ll try and blag our way in later. There’s got to be a press pass or some useful credentials lying around here somewhere.

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We call the part of Brighton that we work in BLONE - Between London rd and New England quarter. You know, like New York’s Tribeca (Triangle Below Canal Street) or Soho (South of Houston), but without New York. Or a good word. In fact it sounds like Baloney, which just about sums this part [...]

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This sticker is on the signpost outside our door - but what does it mean? Only 20 bikes on this post? Bikes limited to 20 miles per hour? Only 20 inch wheel bikes allowed? It’s a mystery sign and I wish they’d stop putting them up. Anyone?

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To talk about A Place Called Providence out there, please tag stuff with apcp. Photos will show up in the flickr feed down there on the right somewhere.

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So the holy BBC comes to our neck of the woods to record Question Time in our wonderful church. They park their big lorries all around our little turning, and we don’t mind. They park their security guy’s camper on the church parking place and why would we care. But this morning they parked a [...]

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