21st
December 2017 (Thursday)
.... Mmmmm ... it has been mostly foggy,
in ‘Not so sunny Sussex’
today.... as you can
see from the first photo, taken at
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the Beachy Head restaurant this morning,
when ‘JB’ and I went down to Eastbourne to do Christmas shopping. Visibility was far better at sea level, so
much so that we saw a yacht bumbling along half a mile off Eastbourne.
In
the shopping Mall I bought a calendar;
the lassie serving me was happy to take a Scottish note, and in the
course of the transaction told me that she had toured all over Scotland as an Illusionists
Assistant; she had been ‘cut in half’
many times, including in St
Andrews. Not only that she was one of
the ‘Black and White Minstrels’ .... touring around the World. This was in fact, after they became the ‘plain’
Minstrels: black painted faces having been declared politically incorrect.
By
this time John and I were in need of food....we went into an Italian Restaurant
and settled for Panini’s. I ordered a
tuna one; it tasted braw but seriously
lacked any tuna flavour,.... this was
explained by the
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| Eastbourne. |
fact that it was buffalo.
Very tasty buffalo I might add. Shops are busy with excited bairns, and weary looking
parents and grandparents, all over the place. The
fact that we are in fact celebrating the birth of Jesus seems to have been
largely forgotten; apart from the
presents. ‘Presents’ have come a long
way since frankincense and myrrh, which explains the happy kids, and weary
patents.
From
the main part of the City we went out to Asda’s, and did some food shopping,
before going along to have a look at Pevensey beach. The fog had lifted a bit by this time, but
the sun never broke through; however, at
least it was brighter. We came home to
Uckfield by way of Herstmonzeux etc; all
in all an enjoyable outing in spite of
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| Eastbourne. |
the dull weather.
Nae
‘plan’ for tomorrow; the weather will
dictate what I do and the forecast is not encouraging. In fact we are forecast to have ‘dull and
overcast’ for the next few days.
