The hot weather lured us back to Brighton today, so we packed up the picnic blanket and headed to the beach. I started reading Kelly Cutrone's book If You Have to Cry Go Outside on the train. I hope it will turn me in to a type A business woman.

The East Pier is really cool too. We gambled some of our change away in the penny falls.

We stash all of our loose change in a jar near the door, so we brought it along today to gamble in the penny falls.

It got rather exciting at the end and we had a crowd of Japanese tourists gathered around to cheer us on, as the prizes were pushed tantalizingly close to the edge.

We hit it big in the end, winning a toy mobile phone and a pot of past-it's-best candy.

We then walked along the dark pier to see Ben Kweller but he'd been postponed until the next day.

Afterwards went for a walk along the pier.

Tom went on the roller coaster at the end of the pier to make up for the rides at Legoland.