Seaeagle's
Photo Album
Friends
& Furries
This is me!
I am the Manager of a bar and club in Hove, known as The Green House
Effect. The photo above was taken by an "unidentified" customer
during a wedding reception that we did at IDS..
Here
are some of my friends!
Nicky
 
Nicky
... smiling!
Nicky is my "bestest" friend - one of those people whom I
couldn't do without. Someone who is always ready to listen to the plight of
a poor defenseless computer engineer. Nicky was one of the better users we
have had at work. She is a chartered librarian, and now works as a
Community Librarian, in Wiltshire. The picture on the right was
taken on the trip boat that runs from Bradford-on-Avon on the Kennet & Avon Canal.
Salina
This is Sal. I
first met her when she arrived at Sussex University
as an undergrad. She was the friend of a friend (sort of thing). She
is Sussex
graduate and spent some time working with me behind the bar
at IDS.
Mandy
Mandy, (on the
left above with Becky) is one of the staff at The Portland. We got on really well whilst I worked
there, and she certainly has all the makings of an excellent member of
staff.
Railway
Children
Gerry,
Peter. Martin, Danny, ME,
my mum and Nicky, in St. Omer,
France
1993.
Most years I organize a works outing to France. Some of my mates from Amberley Museum , Gerry, Peter & Martin, come along
so they can go train spotting. The railway was used as a location for
View To A Kill , which was Roger
Moore's last Bond movie! Here we are enjoying a bag of chips whilst
we wait for the coach.
Martin (third
left) is a very good friend with whom I have shared a lot of good times, a
lot of beer (and lots & lots of Cheese and Onion sandwiches, but
that's another story).
Horsey
People
Sue, Rob and
David demonstrate how to relax after a hard day at a Horse Driving
Event. For more information on Horse Driving, and the Oaks Driving Club,
visit the Oaks Web Site
Mike
Mike, a good
friend and a useful coach driver! Mike worked for Brighton & Hove Bus & Coach Company until taking early
retirement recently. He is partly resposnible for me joining the company!
Bar
People
Here are a few
people I have the pleasure of either working with or serving, during my
times behind the bar.
Alan and
Andrew both worked at The Greenhouse Effect with me. Alan was my Head
Barman and Andrew my co-manager. Here we catch them following the
time honoured tradition at The Greenhouse. If someone points a camera in
your direction, act like a meerkat. There must a lot of party guests'
photographs with staff in the background doing this!
Another promotion
night loomed, for Archers Aqua, and John gets well into it by
claiming his free feather boa as his bewildered daughter stands back
and tries to disown him. You'd never believe he was into Amateur Dramatics
would you?
Alan adopts
"the" pose, or is it that he has just realized Ray (left)
has a live feather boa in his arms. The same promotion night and Ray
borrows someone's dog!
Les and Jean, good friends and ex-customers
from my University bar days.
Furries
Blackie is a
stray that wandered into our home and took over. He was a bit of a bully at
first but has become a bit of a chicken recently, hiding whenever the
door bell or phone rings. And he finds the best places to sleep:
Unfortunatley,
Blackie died in May 2004. However we are not catless. We now have Pepsi and
Coke:
Visit their own Kitten
Page for more
photographs and news.
This one could
quite easily fit in with the Bar Friends section above. Let me
introduce you to Ollie:
Ollie belongs
to Christine and Jim, who were customers of mine at the University. He is a
real "babe magnet" and is never short of someone to stroke
him.
Sadly
Missed
Sean Pilkington - Passed
away April 2004
Sean worked at
The Greenhouse Effect, and looked after the Nightclub as the Venue
Manager. Latterly he had just taken a job caring for children. His sudden
and tragic death was a shock to everyone who knew him.
The picture
above was taken at my leaving party in June 2003. He is enjoying “a night off”, being served instead of serving for once,
although Sean was always “on duty”. His attitude and nature were an
inspiration to me, always saying that you should look beyond tommorow but live for
today.
I still
regularly pass the Greenhouse and still look for him sitting outside with a
Vodka, Lime, and Soda. He isn’t there of
course, but I am sure that he is watching the rest of us with his usual
smile.
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