Viva Brighton Issue #71 January 2019

BITS AND BOGS
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MAGAZINE OF THE MONTH: MAYDAY
Looking back, we have been
very lucky with our family
neighbours. They’ve all been
quirky but they have all been
good. The couple who painted
their front room without
dusting or wiping down the
woodwork so the paint simply
trapped flies underneath it?
They were great. Or the couple
who kept track of all the rubbish
we were throwing into our
newly hired skip and came and
transferred it all to their garage? They were
great, too.
Since we have been in Trafalgar Street, we have
had good neighbours, too. A big shout out to
Coffee@33, without which I can’t start the day.
But Bread and Milk, Trafalgar Wines, Fold, The
Dental Practice and Mange Tout all deserve a
shout, too. Our near neighbours have helped us
in ways big and small.
In these days of travel and social media, ‘neighbours’
takes on a different meaning, of course.
Some of my best friends are people who live
hundreds and thousands of miles
away. It doesn’t matter. I feel
close to them, we support each
other and we have plans in place
for upcoming visits. We are all
everyone’s neighbours now.
Mayday is a magazine for those
kind of neighbours. It’s the
kind of magazine that feels like
the transcript of a conversation
good people from very
different places might have if
they sat down to work out how
to preserve their global neighbourhood for the
future. The current issue ranges far and wide but
includes a look at coffee in different cultures, the
digital landscape, living simultaneously online
and off line, sustainable fashion, plus book recommendations
and a crossword. And that’s not
even the half of it.
Good neighbours support each other, put up
with each other and create security for us. It’s a
tough ask for a single magazine to do all those
things but Mayday is a good place to start.
Martin Skelton, Magazine Brighton
TOILET GRAFFITO #48
If you are going to do the antisocial thing and
write on the toilet wall, at least let it be an
uplifting read. Good news is hard to come by
lately but it seems that this cubicle is worth
seeking out. But where is it?
Last month’s answer: The Basketmakers Arms
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