Today's idea - White Rabbit presents: ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? SECRETS!

Tonight, a furtive yet sumptuous evening of original story telling and performance in the White Rabbit's Candlelit Warren. The Basement: 'where edgy and interesting stuff goes off in Brighton.' Today part fifties tearoom, part deranged children's party invites you and a host of local writers to enjoy this month's theme of SECRETS with short stories and secrets in invisible ink. There are promises of free cakes, sweets and treats, and perhaps the plan is to fill up the audience until the stories become part of a carb-filled, sugar-high blurry food trip, in the way one reads Alice in Wonderland.

The Basement also promises a secret confession box for the airing of skeletons, and a side of dirty laundry.

"Grab a "Teapot Cocktail" from the bar, cross your heart, hope to die, and follow the bunny... down, down, down."

It starts at 7:30pm, and costs £6 for adults, and £4 for concessions. Find The Basement on the map here. (If you are a writer and have a short story to share with the audience, please e-mail Bernadette Russell: arryousittingcomfortably@live.com.)

Visit the 'War Stories' exhibition at Hove Museum

A bit of a press release today as I am somewhat unwell. This will be improved upon when I am not unwell.

Today Hove Museum and Art Gallery is running an exhibition entitled 'War Stories' - which has free entry - something that's always nice.

"War stories tells the story of the Home Front in Brighton and Hove during the Second World War, using photographs from the archive of the Brighton Herald Newspaper.
The images remind us many aspects of Wartime experience, including air raid precautions, evacuees, bomb damage, funding drives, troop parades and victory celebrations.

The exhibition also includes extracts from the Herald newspaper, such as new reports, editorial comments and readers' letters. These help tell the stories behind events and characters portrayed in the photographs. Sometimes dramatic, but often mundane, these show that local experiences of the war were often more complex and ambiguous than the photographs suggest."

The exhibition runs until the 31st of this month. Find directions & more info here