24th November 2013

24th November 2013.

Dear All,

We have been down to Hove this week for grandparent duties, travelling down Thursday after the walk and returning last night when the M25 was relatively clear so we got back in 2 hours 20 minutes.

Esther arrived Saturday afternoon and is covering until Mary-Ann and Andy return from a festival. On Friday morning we walked to Hove Museum then back via the beach. In the afternoon we drove to Shoreham-on-Sea which hosts a bizarre range of houseboats on a muddy inlet. There are allsorts of craft from concrete lighters to ex military cruisers all adapted for serious living with various degrees of completion. We drove as far as Shoreham Fort then to Worthing before returning.

 Museum Exhibits

Hove Seafront

Milk & Gingerbread men

 Hove Sands? 

  

                                                              Found some!

 Shoreham Ships

Saturday morning we walked to Hove Park which is a very smart public recreation area with just about everything: tennis courts, football pitches, kids play area, jogging and exercise track, climbing rocks, tea shop etc. In the afternoon we went back to the beach to build stone castles (very little sand!). Amélie helped by fetching “special” stones from 25 yards away – even though the beach is fairly well catered for stones.

Our Thursday walk started at Shillington in Bedfordshire and took in Wrest Park. It was a bit muddy but not too bad and dry overhead.

“Just Vegetating” week 7 covered “Potatoes” so again no shortage of eats at half time. The film this week was “The Stranger” an early Orson Wells thriller about chasing ex Nazis in America.

We looked after Jim Burr on Monday while Janet went shopping. He is really struggling and certainly no asset on a shopping expedition.

Love

Mike & Kate