Just a couple of little strolls this week. On Sunday I popped to Lidls in the afternoon via Chichester, but I came back through Rekendyke crossing Eglesfield Road, Marshall Wallis Road etc etc having walked down Frederick Street to see what is going on down at the bottom. Several properties waiting restoration or demolition by the looks of it. One must have been a butchers shop as the old tiles can still be seen - pigs grazing happily in the meadow or something like that. I hope these will be salvaged. You can also see a sign for Axelbands where a signboard has been taken away. Now there's a blast from the past.
Today, what with stormy weather warnings and instructions not to travel, Hadrians Wall along with most other things was out of the question. So I got kitted up in waterproofs and boots and headed for the beach! The sea was magnificent, tide roaring in, waves breaking over the pier. I was secretly hoping for masses of sea foam such as was seen at Marsden yesterday, but there wasn't any (could have been at Marsden I guess but not Sandhaven). A lone dog walker trundling his geriatric alsatian across the sand paused to point out a small black object on the sand. I thought it was a black plastic bag, but it turned out to be a puffin! The dog walker, who seemed to know about such things, said it was probably exhausted and probably a youngster and best to leave it alone, so that's what we did. I hope it rides out the storm and makes it back home.
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