Weather forecast
The temperature’s rising. Slip, slop and slap as the intermittent clouds in the sky burn off by the weekend, and the sun warms the air to as high as 25 degrees centigrade. Nice camping weather, too, as minimum temperatures are unlikely to drop below 14. Then, as the week starts, it all gets unsettled again, with a high probability of rain. Click here for BBC local 5-day forecast

Train News
Is again excellent. National Rail Enquiries inform us that there will be no engineering works affecting Lewes Station for at least the next two weeks.

Radio and TV
TV Movie Highlight
Grease (Sat 9th June, 5.55pm, ITV). It’s automatic, it’s systematic, it’s hydromatic… it’s one of the hits of the seventies, which still bears watching for anyone who had to sit through number one after number one on Top of the Pops. Soon to be banned, if the anti-smoking lobby have anything to do with it. It’s supreme, the chicks’ll cream…
This week’s Private Passions (Sunday 10th, 12 noon, Radio 3) features Gyles Brandreth, good at Scrabble, bad at jumpers, a lover of Liszt and Gilbert and Sullivan.

Sites-we-like:
Poetry Daily. A new poem every day from well and lesser established poets, both in their native English and translated from other languages. A good way to get your brain into gear in the morning.
www.poems.com