It’s nice to see a promise kept. Open House Online promised to be back this year bigger, better and with even more throbbing parts. And here it is.
I’m back too, as The Outsider, to peek behind the front doors of a fraction of the Open Houses taking part, though I can’t promise my efforts will have improved as much as the facilities of the website.

This year they’re sending me on specific routes, visiting houses and looking at chosen art media, based on the new online mapping facility. The map of each route (not necessarily limited to one trail) will appear alongside each article and can be downloaded. And I’ll be getting to eat, too, as they want me stretch my talents even thinner by commenting on the occasional eatery along the way.

As a result, I’ve been having a look at the site’s new search facilities, and have been fascinated all over again by the impressive, if worrying, range of art which I can inspect this year. Pull down the list from “Select your art” and the very first heading is Anagram Works. Er… yes. Further searches reveal that these are uniquely the product of Jules Kent and on show at Ditchling Rise and Hanover Street . See, it’s clever, innit?
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