I don't really see this as a shop, it's more of a playground - you just have to give them money to…read moretake the toys away with you. I've been spinning and building Poi for about 5-6 years and always come down here to get any supplies I need. I also like that every time I come down here I end up seeing a new gizmo or performance toy to think about trying to learn. Sadly, right now I don't have the tie to branch out, but it's always good to stay abreast of these things. The staff are absolute legends here and go above and beyond to help you or offer suggestions. They also sell a lot of training videos which I wish I had when I was starting out. Prices are reasonable for the items and they also have a range of long boards for sale. Certainly a great shop to stop by to pick up something to play with over the summer and get you out into the sunshine.

To juggle or not to juggle?…read more You might assume there wouldn't be enough jugglers to justify opening a juggling shop but Oddballs have been supplying aspiring circus performers for over 25 years now. Their original flagship store in the North Laines is a jugglers wet dream as they stock a wide selection of juggling balls, rings, sticks, clubs and bar flares. For those that have perfected their juggling and fancy trying something else, they have diablos, poi spinners, devil sticks, knives, spinning plates, hacky sacks, stilts, walking ladders and uni cycles. For the uninitiated - like me - there's also hula hoops and advanced yo yo's!

Excellent, great choice, staff know their stock and work with you well, shop well layed out and…read moreeasy to get around

Steyning is one of Sussex's many beautiful rural towns. It's a fantastic day trip out of town for…read morethe more explorative Brightonian as it's packed with all of the little features that you could want from a rural town experience. It has a fantastic selection of pubs such as the modern almost metro feeling "White Horse" and my personal favourite pub lunch venue "the star Inn". It also has a fantastic museum offering a little insight into how this historic (over a thousand years old) port/market town came to be. Its' high street is a lazy and picturesque wander with a fine selection of tea rooms and hobby shops and the surrounding area makes for some excellent countryside walking. There's one thing about Steyning that sometimes bothers me though. To paraphrase Mike Skinner "you're fit but my gosh don't you know it". As a first time visitor to Steyning I was over whelmed by all the great things it seemed to have to offer in terms of the rural Sussex experience. In recent years though I've come to find that it's a bit like a countryside theme park, the whole town seems to be a little too self aware and prepared to capitalize on all of its' assets. Perhaps this is the result of it being so accessible from London. The result being that it's not just owned be people who made their money in "the square Mile" but visited by people desperate to spend a day out of it. All this aside though it still retains a great deal of character and is a brilliant destination for those of us who just need a day out of the hustle of Brighton.

Just when I think that the digital age has overwhelmed our whole culture with eReaders taking over…read morefrom real books and LEGO migrating onto the computer, it's heartening to see a shop like Dorking models. No, they don't deal with models of the catwalk or editorial variety but are a wonderful throwback to the days of kids making things.They stock different kinds of models but the ones evoking the strongest memories for me are the Airfix models where I struggled to make sense of the flimsy instructions, sandpapered the plastic parts to perfection, glued them together before painstakingly painting them. Happy days indeed. They also stock parts for model railways though they don't have the largest selection in the shop. Their window displays are also quite impressive with one of a behemoth of a rail-transported German World War 2 artillery gun.