LA

It was a lovely summer's day, clouds bubbled up and painted blobs against the background blue of the sky. The forecast was good, though deteriorating towards the end of the day. The Gorse Fox had no football again. In fact he was the only confirmed player this weekend - so it may have been a bit one-sided.

We headed across to LA to meet up with Urban-Cub and Ellie and then made our way down to the seafront for a walk in the sunshine. It was a perfect day for a stroll.

Holidaymakers were playing on the beaches and in the sea. One group were sitting on the sea wall, playing bingo! (Not the sort of thing we wish to encourage here in Sussex - the Gorse Fox expects they came from afar; here in Sussex readings from Shakespeare or maybe Kipling would be much more appropriate).

As we got to the mouth of the River Arun we turned and walked along the river bank. All along the bank there were kids and adults with their lines and buckets fishing for crabs - and hauling them in by the bucket load. They were too small to eat, so the Gorse Fox assumes that at the end of the day they would have been thrown back.

We bumped in to one of the Gorse Fox's friends from football and stopped for a chat. He and his wife have a place at Norfolk Gardens and like to make the most of the promenade (when he's not playing football or golf). They are about to decamp to their house in Spain for a couple of weeks so he won't be around this coming week.

We headed on to the Look & Sea Centre where we stopped for a cup of tea.

Ellie was starting to get a little fidgety so we didn't stop long - and the Gorse Fox can only chase her sun hat, as it blows off in the wind, so many times!

We did an about turn and headed back the way we had come. Our timing was spot-on. We got all the way home to Urban-Cub's just as Ellie was due for her next bottle. It had been a lovely few hours.

Now, as the Gorse Fox writes this he has a nice pork joint roasting in the oven. The smell in the kitchen is wonderful.