30th
December 2017 (Saturday)
.... 11.00 Jings ... it feels like
summer in Sunny Sussex this morning, although we do have plenty clouds
scuttling over. It’s
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| The bottom of 'Tower Ride'. |
actually a
perfect ‘drying day’..... with a nice breeze and a temperature of 14c. My ‘plan’ was to stay in and shake orf the
cold, but if the weather stays like this I’ll have a walk ‘roond the block’ in
the afternoon.
20.00 I went out before lunch, stopped at Ray’s
the Barber’s, and had my hair cut by a bloke who had been at Merchiston in the
1980’s, went to Australia where he trained and worked as a technician, and is now
back in the UK cutting hair. I’m not
sure if having my hair cut was the best idea I’ve had; my heid is cauld now. The original intention was to leave the
hair cutting until next week.
From
the barber’s I bumbled my way down to Superdrug, at the bottom of the town, to
buy toothpaste. This is the second
time I’ve been down to the river, and back up the hill, in 24 hours. Today I stopped at ‘The Centre’ and had a
bowl of soup, lemon cheesecake, and a cuppa.
Twelve months ago I was struggling with ‘the hill’, that is Uckfield
High Street .... this time I’m coping.... I wouldn’t say ‘nae bother’; but it (Uckfield High Street) doesn’t seem as steep as it was last
year!
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| The former Post Office building. |
Last
night we went down to the Station Hotel, the hotel situated next to the old railway station. Inside I noticed that there was rough,
industrial type brickwork, and I couldn’t understand why it should thus, be
inside the hotel. After much thinking
I have reached the conclusion that the brickwork was once covered with plaster. The Station Hotel was badly damaged by flooding
in 2000 and the wet plaster removed leaving the brickwork exposed, and now a feature’.
However, I’ll ask Derek, a lifelong
resident of Uckfield; who will know
exactly what happened. The brickwork
when originally built was done knowing that it would be covered with
plaster.... it isn’t neat, finished brickwork.
From
the Station we walked up the High Street to the Bay of Bengal Restaurant for
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| Uckfield High Street. |
food. I really enjoy Indian food
now; I had Chicken Korma, but, next
time I might be more adventurous; having
sampled what some of the others in the company were having.
We’ve
had a nice day here ....not ‘Sunny all the time Sussex’ but we had our share of
the sunny spells that were going; and it
has been mild. We are forecast to get
some rain later tonight, which might have cleared away by tomorrow morning.
