It looks like Brighton might be about to get a new landmark – a 600 foot high observation tower, called the Brighton i360 (are the architects Apple fans, perhaps?), on the seafront at the site of the West Pier, with a lift that can take 100 people at a time.
Well, you may be surprised, as Ruth very rarely contributes to this blog, but over the last 3-4 weeks we have been setting up a new blog and gallery for Ruth. It’s called Sew2Speak and is where she will be publishing photos of her patchwork and quilting and providing information on how she achieves the results that she does. There is still some work in progress, but we’re nearly there now.
I don’t know if this is a general phenomenon at the moment, but I’ve noticed that garages locally charge the highest prices for petrol and diesel on Friday afternoon, and the lowest prices on Monday morning. The differential can be as much as 6-8 cents. The price then goes up later in the day on Monday. Prices during the week seem to be being adjusted up to twice a day, as prices often vary between the early morning, evening and the following morning – differences of 3-4 cents are common, with prices generally higher in the evening than in the morning.
I haven’t seen this reported in the press, but it seems to me that prices are being optimised to be highest when most people need to tank; before making trips at the weekend or when they have more time – on the way home from work, rather than on the way to work.