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 Witty artistic traffic bollards by Jenny Muncaster can be seen near Winchester Cathedral.  |
 The first warm day in a long, cold season and the picnic blanket is unfurled. |
 A day out at The Vyne, and English stately home |
 After learning how to make stripey pasta from Robert Thompson, I had a go myself at home. |
 We visit the Watercress Festival again with Gordon and Neil (holding sausage). For photos of our last visit, click HERE. |
 Some of the guys who are regular fixtures at the Watercress Festival. Interestingly I photographed these exact same men in 2010. |
 We returned to Brighton for the festival and the artists' open houses. The clock tower was festooned by Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen. To see photos from last year's festival, click HERE. |
 Our criterion for booking shows isn't necessarily 'male nudity', but it does seem to play a factor when seeing shows such as Between, and Return to Venice. We also saw Doug Segal's I Can Make You a Mentalist and the fastastic street spectacle of KompleXKapharnaüM's Figures Libres with its abseiling narrator and oh-so-French video projections. |
 Running concurrently with the festival is the amazing Artists' Open Houses, which lets the viewer peek into other people's gorgeous homes for free. We were delighted to return to Encounters at 12 Langdale Road, Hove, last year's winning house. We remembered eating homemade Latin American food there last year and found a similar buffet treat again this time. The real surprise, however, was the back garden side show where Copperdollar's Spidora and her ghoulish chum channeled the Mexican Day of the Dead through two-way mirrors, a web of fate, and clever video projections inside the tent.. |
 Other great artists' houses included the Ceramic House (above). |
 We bought a new Christmas ornament for our collection and saw some other cute sights before returning home. |
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