Thick fog... with frost ......

23rd January 2017 (Monday) ....09.30      Oh dear ..... there’s a blanket of thick fog over Uckfield, and the Southeast of England,.... the fog, combined with

Fog on the road to Brighton

frost is making driving condition hazardous.    I’m hoping that it will start to clear when the sun gets going.fired up..... “JB” and I are going down to Brighton  today!

22.30     On the way to Brighton, ‘John Boy’, alias “JB” and I drove over a ‘down’, at the top of which we were above the fog, and for a few minutes we were under a ‘bloo’ sky and in bright sunshine:   that was the only sunshine we enjoyed all day.    Everywhere else we were enveloped in the heavy fog.... especially on the coast at Brighton!      That said we enjoyed the day out, but, with it being cold as well as foggy, we didn’t walk around much.... apart a daunder out to see the sea wall at Brighton Marina.     The sea wall

The only sunshine we experienced today.

was a “darker shade of fog”, and very hard to actually see.

There’s a “Frankie and  Benny’s”, New York Italian style Restaurant at the Marina .... and this is where we had lunch.     I had Cajun chicken with pasta and bacon etc, “JB” had a genuine NY burger.    The Waiter assured us that this was genuine real Italian New Yorkers grub.     I have to say that I really enjoyed the chicken .... and “JB” his burger;   we both cleared our plates.    For sweet, (we skipped the ‘starter’ course) I had a cinnamon waffle with ice cream.    The waffle turned out to be a tough little blighter, but I have a good set o’ teeth, and managed to sort it out .... and everything that came with it.   The waiter assured me that all “Italian American New Yorker's” eat cinnamon waffles;   and have good teeth!    This is the second time I’ve been in the Brighton Marina “Frankie and Benny’s”, having been there with Michael and Janice a few years ago..... and both

Frost on trees

times have been most enjoyable experiences!    

We came home by way of Lewes, our thinking being that there might be sunshine at the top of the hill.    There wasn’t .... any sunshine at the top of the Lewes ‘hill’:  and  the ‘Lewes Hill’ is a steeper version of the Uckfield one.    We didn’t ‘moor up’ in Lewes, which was the original ‘plan’, had it been sunny .... only stopping once, to get a photograph of  frost on the trees (and at traffic lights),  before we reached “No1”.

Janice’s sister Pauline, and her husband Geoff arrived bearing ‘gifts’, including the most huge sponge cake I have ever seen... or sunk teeth into;   and it was scrumptious;   still is, as there is some left for tomorrow.

There has hardly being any wind for the past few days, and this has resulted in high

Brighton Marina.

pollution levels around the Southeast, especially parts of London.    I had noticed this, and having had to use my ‘reliever inhaler’ more often..... which is what is being recommended.

I have ‘nae plan’ for tomorrow .... apart from taking a daunder ‘downtown’ in the morning.

Photographs :  Top – on the road to Brighton, Next – sunshine and blue sky, the only bit we experienced all day, Next –frost on trees,  and Bottom – Brighton Marina.